How do you explain this?

No, you're absolutely right, and you don't have to have grown up in Tennessee to have her not only be someone that you heard on the radio, but Dolly Parton was an entire lifestyle.

I mean, you went to the amusement park, you saw her on television, you listened to the music year after year, decade after decade.

I have been taken by this outpouring as well.

When I woke up today, I turned on CNN, and they were doing wall-to-wall Dolly coverage as they had been when I turned it off the night before, last night.

In the afternoon when they first announced it, they pretty much dropped, and a lot of news places dropped everything to do this.

And, you know, I think she might be one of the last that we will have this.

Poor people have much of a chance, right? It's hard to overstate just really how much this woman managed to do.

All of which begs the question, have we seen or will we see another fairytale rise like that of Mark the Bird Fidrich in our lifetime? What about Los Angeles Dodgers two-way starter Shohei Ohtani, a four-time MVP? Syracuse's Thompson isn't so sure.

He's playing a different role.

He's much more courtly.

He's much more dignified.

But he is really attractive.

He's got that, you know, friendly sort of face.

The fact that he is when he is interviewed, he's still interviewed in his native tongue with a with an interpreter.

What Ohtani lacks, says Thompson, is a sense of relatability and fun that Fidrich brought to the game, particularly given the rise of money in baseball, even in the mid-70s with the onset of free agency and big business.