Child's Play

In a performance that was video game fantasy, this was not a breaking of the 50-50 barrier but more like a bird's eye view of the first man walking on the moon. Shohei Ohtani took all the complexity, all the uncertainty out of the undertaking and put Abner Doubleday on notice that the game he (or Mr. Cartwright ) invented was indeed but child's play.

Six hits, three home runs, seventeen total bases, two stolen bases, a statistician's perfect game. If the contest had continued further, no doubt Mr. Ohtani could have decided to run for higher office and been elected Governor of California by the evening's denouement.

It turns out the $700 million dollar man may well have been a steal.

And imagine what he could do with two good arms. Babe Ruth but an asterisk, an overweight relic from a century past.

Even as a die hard (the hardest) Bomber fan for nearly seven decades, bleeding Yankee pinstripes and revering the exploits of Mr. Judge, this morning I must tip my cap to a man who just made  impossible look simple. 

Not 50-50. 100 percent incredible.