Let us talk about unprecedented public events over this weekend because it was the best and the worst of all of us. On Friday night, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers put on an athletic performance beyond anything I have ever seen, and I covered sports full-time for six years, and continue to do so now and again. He did something that nobody alive ever had seen before because only Babe Ruth, while in the employ of the Boston Red Sox, ever came close to anything like it. He pitched six innings and struck out 10 Milwaukee Brewers. And he also hit three home runs, the second of which left Dodger Stadium—and, perhaps, Los Angeles County—entirely. Shirley Povich died in 1998 so, alas, there was nobody alive who could properly place these feats in context.

Then, on Saturday, seven millio

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