The four words were first spoken here on a bright spring afternoon at Camelback Ranch, my astonished syllables joining similar tones of amazement floating from every corner of a crowded press box.
“Are you kidding me?”
Down to his last pitch in his first spring training game as a Dodger, Shohei Ohtani had just launched a two-run home run.
“Are you kidding me?”
The crowd gasped in disbelief at the perfect timing and wondrous theater, the four words reverberating around the stadium like an anthem to the unimaginable.
“Are you kidding me?