The shows that feature limited numbers of people arguing and drawing delicious salaries on ESPN, FS1 and other national outlets have this, and only this, to say about baseball:
The major leagues do a very poor job of promoting their best players.
This weekly conversation usually takes place on a Tuesday, and lately has been three minutes squeezed between the daily 10-minute segments on whether the blinking will be done by Aaron Rodgers or the Packers in the Green Bay showdown, and where Ben Simmons, who couldn't beat your 12-year-old grandkid in a game of H-O-R-S-E, will land when traded by the 76ers.
Thus: The bellowers with the entire sports mural at their disposal offer the slightest dab to baseball on rare occasions, that being to ask loudly, "Why doesn't baseball get more publicity?''
There was a tweak to this discussion last week when Stephen Argue Smith, known to his admirers simply as "Stephen A.,'' took time to discredit Shohei Ohtani's appeal since he uses an interpreter for interviews.
Mr. Smith quadrupled-down on this for several minutes, to the point ESPN felt the need to issue a non-apology apology statement from him.
By then, Argue was probably relaxed at home, bemused at the reaction and how envious former foil Skip Bayless had to be over there at Fox, stuck with a "LeBron's overrated'' schtick that has become meaningless.
As for Ohtani, no interpreter is required to absorb this as truth: