BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN’s early season baseball schedule will be the Sho Show. Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers will be featured on two of ESPN’s first three […]
In the days leading up to the Dodgers’ historic $700 million signing of Shohei Ohtani, baseball’s hot stove season had been in the grips of a cold snap, as uncertainty over the future of the RSN model seemed to keep GMs in a state of suspended animation. As it happens, Ohtani’s blockbuster payday wouldn’t have been possible without the club’s wildly lucrative local-TV business, an irony that only serves to accentuate the magnitude of the chasm separating the haves from the have-nots. (Ashley Landis/AP)