This is the dumbest take I have ever read, and I can only assume it was sarcastic.

yeah man the pats were totally gonna coast through this game until some dumb columnist brought up the double murderer they used to employ now they’ll probly try.

You’re referring to the NYJ franchise correct?

I don’t think Boston is the big problem. I think Sports Radio in general is the culprit. The entire industry is modeled on artificial conflict and outrage to get listeners. It’s always going to be odious at its core, no matter what city it originates from.

Small sample size = You have no idea.

They’re also the same people who believe Jeter was some kind of defensive wunderkind because he made that one play in the playoffs to nail (a safe, by the way) Jeremy Giambi at the plate and the one other play where he dove into the stands and busted up his chin while making a spectacular catch. The reality is he was…

WAR is the stat that says if you play center field for ten years instead of right field for ten years the difference is 95WAR. 95WAR being a Hall of Fame career.

OPS+ = PRO+ = 100 * ( OBP/lgOBP + SLG/lgSLG - 1)/BPF

That .402 OBP by the way? Better than Gwynn, better than DiMaggio, better than Carew, better than a lot of guys who got on base often, who didn’t deposit 600 balls in the seat to boot.

Problem for these guys hooked on clutchiness is that they define it much like Potter Stewart defined porn: “I know it when I see it.” Therefore, even though Jeter’s postseason numbers and Rodriguez’s postseason numbers only slightly deviated from their career numbers, Jeter was clutch and A-Rod wasn’t.

Math is hard…

Stats were cheap, relatively, but he still crushed it. And his career Adjusted OPS+* of 147 puts him in the top 50 all-time, tied with Edgar, Stargell, Schmidt, McCovey and ahead of guys like Chipper, Vlad, Griffey, Reggie Jackson, George Brett, etc. If he wasn’t the best player on this team, it’s only because he…

And in order to prove how much he believes in clutch hitting, he didn’t vote for Jim Thome, the all-time leader in walk-off homers.

Quick quiz: is Jeter’s BA higher in the regular season or the postseason? What about his OBP? What was his average in the series where he got the nickname Mr. November?

Here’s the breakdown of what war is. It’s interesting in the same way that reading a lawsuit is interesting. https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/war_explained_position.shtml

Pretty hot take to say he was “very good once in a while, considering his run of:

OPS+ is Onbase Plus Slugging (OPS) adjusted for league and park (the + part). It’s literally telling you the thing you’re complaining advanced stats don’t tell you about guys like Thome.

This became clear when number-crunchers began touting the incredible notion that there is no such thing as a clutch hitter.

I don’t know - Career 147 OPS+, only had two years after age 22 below 117. That’s pretty consistently great.

A writer from, I think, St. Louis came up with a simple solution to all this about 5 years ago.

“They’re often cranky or self-righteous or defensive, and yet they can be weirdly charming”