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Apr 14, 2021 Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. There was a point last year when it was easy to feel that Shohei Ohtani was simply a good baseball player. Of course, “a good baseball player” is not a bad thing, no matter the context. But it could have felt like a bit of a letdown here. It was a revision of the old conventional wisdom on Ohtani—which was that he was a unicorn, a miracle, a revelation unto himself.

(Article by Bob McManus republished from NYPost.com) The story described a high state of angst among east siders resulting from sustained “gunfire and car crashes” caused in turn by “the combined impact of the pandemic and the recession that have battered the country.” No doubt this is true, as far as it goes. But it doesn’t go nearly far enough. The auto accidents are described in some detail (“cars have crashed into a corner grocery store, a home and a beloved local diner”), but the gunplay gets short shrift. “The Cleveland police reported six homicides in one 24-hour peri...