Greetings from the sports desk located somewhere below decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState. As you can tell, Sammy the Shark and Karl the Kraken are working far too hard tonight to help write anything, so it’s lil’ ol’ me again.
Did you know the Major League Baseball season is already underway? It’s true, with the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers playing two games in Seoul, South Korea, on March 20 and 21 that count in the standings. After the first game, the Dodgers sit alone atop the National League West following a 5-3 win in which newly acquired Shohei Ohtani collected two singles and an RBI. Unfortunately, Ohtani has now collected more attention than even the highest profile player in the game can desire, and not of the good kind.
Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, has been fired by the Dodgers amid an investigation into wire transfers of some $4.5 million…
