If David Ortiz was the MVP on Saturday morning, then Mike Vaccaro must be changing his vote to Alex Rodriguez after Rodriguez goes 4-for-5 with a homer.
Herein lies the problem. If, as Vaccaro states, "there's little doubt that Alex Rodriguez is a better baseball player than David Ortiz," then there's little doubt that Alex Rodriguez is more valuable than David Ortiz. We're talking about their respective abilities to play baseball when we're discussing the MVP award.
Stop thinking so hard. Stop constructing bizarre arguments to tear down Yankee candidates.
Good = value. Better = more value. Best = most value.
Since the Yankees clinched the division on Saturday afternoon, I'm sure Dan Graziano is back on the bandwagon.
But what game was he watching on Friday night? What team has he been watching all season?
While Graziano seems to think Friday night was the worst loss of the season, it seemd kind of par for the course.
"This team that showed up here last night, it had trouble picking up infield grounders. This team made bad judgments and throwing errors. Left runners in scoring position in two crucial innings."
Jason Giambi made a throwing error? The Yankees made mental mistakes? Luis Sojo goofed up?
Shocking.
The Yankees lost 5-3 to the World Champs in their own ballpark. They lost to David Wells, a noted big game pitcher who has won something like 16 of his last 17 at Fenway. The Yankees didn't even give up 17 runs -- they kept it close and only lost by 2.
Graziano apparently couldn't imagine such a scenario, no matter how much "we" strained his brain:
"Looked like some other team. Some nervous team. A team that appears, all of a sudden and for no reason we could have foreseen, worried."
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