If you don’t watch baseball and are too lazy to look up stats to back up your claims, maybe skip commenting on it all together because you add zero value to the conversation.

Yep. It’s all about team success and narrative. Jeter is supposedly super clutch (and his overall postseason slash line is actually slightly better than his career numbers), but he hit .148/.179./259 in the 2001 World Series as the Yankees lost to the D-Backs in 7 and .200/.333/.233 (compared to “choker” A-Rod’s…

Clutch does not exist. Jeter’s career postseason slash line is only marginally better than A-Rod’s - yet Jeter is considered to be the epitome of a clutch player while A-Rod is considered a choker. Jeter hit worse than A-Rod during the Yankees’ 2004 collapse against the Red Sox and hit .148/.179/.259 (!!) in the 2001…

It does not remove all the blame from Kershaw, but 8 of those 15 runs charged to him scored after he left the game. His bullpen has allowed 8 of 15 inherited runners to score since 2008. That’s pretty awful. Fangraphs did a write up on it today.

Fun fact: Peyton Manning’s passser rating goes from 96.5 in the regular season to 87.4 in the postseason.

If Corey Seager fields a fairly routine ground ball in the 7th, or Kershaw gets one of two probably-strike threes called against Harper, today we’re talking about how Kershaw struck out 11-12 and walked 1 on short rest. That’s why this is just a narrative.

No. Kershaw and pitchers like Kershaw (if there is such a thing) are the reason that teams reach the playoffs.

He just needs to give 110% and concentrate on the fundamentals.

What part of “NFL” did you not understand?

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My coworker was in the Navy and he always points out that people’s perception of the armed forces versus reality is always interesting. The super-buff, huge army guys? Those are dudes who are stateside and have time and resources to work-out. They are on base.

Please cheatedlions get back to what you’re good at and away from commenting

It works great for Army! 15 straight BCS titles and counting.

They have this new feature on Deadspin which allows you to scroll down and not have to click every article if you are not satisfied with the topic. You should check it out.

His response to the athletes busting him on “locker room talk”.