1. In Wednesday's Traina Thoughts, I took shots at Major League Baseball for making Opening Day as unspecial (if that's even a word) as possible. I went after MLB even harder about starting the 2024 season with two teams whose game aired at 3 a.m. local time and being horrible at marketing the sport on this week's SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast.
Well, a miracle has happened. Baseball has stolen the spotlight from the first day of the NCAA tournament. Of course, this happened because Shohei Ohtani, who just signed a $700 million contract with the Dodgers in the offseason, is tied up in some sort of gambling scandal.
The details of the story are still changing and a lot is still unknown and Ohtani hasn't been accused of anything and he may very well be guilty of absolutely nothing, but he is involved.
