Warszawski: Grizzlies’ pregame hitting show goes unseen by Fresno fans

Enter the Warzone, behind in the count and swinging away.

▪ The Grizzlies typically take batting practice around 4 p.m., two hours before the Chukchansi Park gates open at 6.

Shame, because fans are missing quite a show.

▪ Since Carlos Correa joined the Grizzlies, he, Jon Singleton and Domingo Santana have been hitting in the same group during BP.

Pity those poor baseballs.

▪ After Correa gets done scalding line drives all over the outfield, Singleton and Santana take aim for real estate beyond the fence.

“I go before them,” the 20-year-old phenom says with a grin.

▪ Not since Tim Lincecum was alternating 96 mph heaters with knee-buckling benders have the Grizzlies seen a player that oozes talent like Correa.

The kid is that special.

▪ Planned to write a column on How to Eat a Frankenslice (the Grizzlies’ hot-dog-in-a-pizza-slice concoction), but the line was way too scary.

▪ It’s not just that Steph Curry makes so many 3-pointers. It’s that he makes so many 3-pointers no one else is brave enough to attempt.

Glad to see he wasn’t seriously hurt after that nasty fall.

▪ After some hack columnist in Fresno called Andrew Bogut “a nonfactor” on offense, the Warriors center scored 26 points in the next two games.

Happy to be of service, Coach Kerr.

▪ Cavs guard Matthew Dellavedova sure was a cuter story before he started taking opponents out at the knees.

▪ At some point in the distant future the Warriors and Cavs will play Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

Hurry up already, before the rest of America loses interest.

▪ One positive about going more than a week without NBA playoff games: It gives us time to catch up with the NHL’s.

▪ Looks like a two-horse race in the National League West between the Dodgers and Giants while the Padres (our pick) look like they went under the gelding knife.

▪ After Casey McGehee accounted for more double plays (12) than RBIs (nine), it’s no surprise the Giants pulled the plug on the former Bulldog.

What’s surprising is how soon they did it — and their willingness to eat most of his remaining $4.5 million salary.

▪ The A’s are off to such a poor start that any player could be traded at a moment’s notice.

Which is exactly the same as when they’re winning.

▪ Another Fresno State baseball season has come and gone.

Where it did go? Not to the NCAAs. Again.

▪ Coach Mike Batesole sure sounds happy with finishing third in a weak Mountain West conference. My how standards have tumbled.

▪ Weak conference? The NCAA committee sure seemed to think so when it gave the thumb to 41-win Nevada.

▪ Congratulations to the Fresno Pacific baseball team for winning its second straight NCCAA national title.

What’s an extra “C” between friends?

▪ Together the Pac-12, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC amassed nearly $1.27 billion in revenues during the 2013-14 fiscal year — nearly a 60% increase over their combined $798 million in 2010-11.

Remember that the next time someone moans about how college athletes are pampered.

▪ Pitchers who get busted for using pine tar and spray-on sunscreen should just use products that are made in the USA.

That way, no “foreign substance.”

▪ For no particular reason: Pedro Feliz

▪ Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game suspension won’t be heard by next week’s deadline.

Which kind of takes the air out of this story.

▪ The suspension the NFL gave Brady for deflating a football was twice as long as the one it originally gave Ray Rice for coldcocking his wife.

Like having scales of justice with William “The Refrigerator” Perry on one side and Morten Andersen on the other.

This story was originally published May 25, 2015 at 8:16 PM with the headline "Warszawski: Grizzlies’ pregame hitting show goes unseen by Fresno fans."