This week, I was interviewed on a local Fox station about the latest media “outrage,” ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith’s ill-advised comments on baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani.

Stephen asserted that in what is traditionally known as “America’s Pastime,” we need players who can at least speak English. He argued that because Ohtani prefers to use a translator for all interviews, he shouldn’t be a standard-bearer for the sport — even if he has attained a level of skill not seen since Babe Ruth.