On Monday, NY Post writer John Mazor earned his idiot card and managed to bring a handful of New Yorkers with him. It's actually unclear and unlikely that this is the first truly idiotic work of journalism produced by Mr. Mazor, but based upon its utter stupidy, this should hardly be his last.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! appeared in the Post on Monday in response to a scientific study on fielding conducted by researches at the University of Pennsylvania. The study pointed out what everyone who knows anything about statistics and fielding already knows. Derek Jeter is not a very good fielder.

According to the fielding bible, who uses a firm that watches tape of every single play of every season and evaluates fielding based upon what type of plays a players peers are capable of making and how often they make such a play, Derek Jeter is the worst fielding shortstop from 2005-2007. Luckily for Jeter, Hanley Ramirez has emerged as a terrible fielding shortstop and for 2007 is actually slightly worse than Jeter. Nonetheless, it is widely known among people who like facts and not conjecture that Derek Jeter is not very good at fielding. So, when the University of Pennsylvania study claimed that Alex Rodriguez was actually a better shortstop than Derek Jeter, no one should have been surprised. Yet they where. (more…)

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