Frayed Knot wrote: S.A.S. is merely doing what every other ESPN "personality" does which is to find a way to tell everyone how baseball gets it wrong, and in this case he's saying that it hurts the sport when the hot new thing in town doesn't speak English well enough to 'connect' with fans. For a guy like Smith, whose main focus is the star-driven entity that is the NBA, 'star power' is the lens through which he's going to see things. When he's not a hyper-obnoxious vociferous fan of the basketball team for which he roots, SAS generally views everything through the prism of race. In this case it wasn't even his race. Later