Opinion | Corbin Smith: 'God bless the sportswriter who stared down overwhelming groupthink to deny Jeter the perfection he had been granted his entire career.' - NBCNewsTHINK
. Why did he murder the cool fish statue? Though he offered a business-related rationale, at heart it seems like it just didn't broadcast the bland, inoffensive, professional vision of baseball that Jeter served up his entire career.
He almost never got injured. And he even managed to be one of the five or so conventionally handsome baseball players who come along every generation. And so, God bless this thus-far-anonymous sportswriter who was apparently devoted to denying Jeter the perfection that had been granted to him his entire career. Why did he do it? Who knows! Maybe the writer was operating off the same playbook I have been using here: doing their part to let history know that there were people who knew the truth of Jeets being plainly overrated.
Maybe Jeter blew the writer off in the locker room, once upon a time, and this is a petty act of revenge, the last bitter swipe of an ink-stained wretch operating in a crumbling industry. Maybe they’re a Red Sox writer, and want to show off for their drinking buddies. But it doesn’t matter why. What matters is that this hero stared into the face of overwhelming groupthink about Jeter to inform the ages that somewhere, out there, was a powerful pedant, a true stickler willing to call bull on the myth, to let anyone who was looking know that it didn’t matter if Jeter was great, he was still overrated, and didn’t deserve an unblemished ride into the hallowed halls of baseball greatness.
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