There is a persistent belief that athletes who play in New York have certain advantages over those who play in Kansas City, say, or Pittsburgh.
This is a hoary old argument born in the days when physical proximity to Madison Avenue mattered, when the New York media was uber-influential in setting the national sporting agenda.
It is true that Ted Williams was twice clearly robbed of the MVP Award and both of those times a Yankee won it, Joe Gordon in ’42 and Joe DiMaggio in ’47, and you could certainly make a case that Williams’ .406 in 1941 could have trumped DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak in the MVP race, but even Williams admitted that had more to do with going out of his way to alienate and agitate the voting body than geography.
Jalen Brunson’s brilliance has flown under the radar this season, perhaps because of where it’s taking place.And with a late push by the Nets’ Mikal Bridges, Brunson is now probably fourth in line for Most Improved — a silly award, but if they’re going to give it out how can Brunson not be the clear-cut choice, or at least a co-favorite with Utah’s Lauri Markkanen?
After all, as impossible as this sounds for those of us who saw the entirety of his career, ask some of your baseball-fan friends in the flyover states or out on the West Coast how they view Derek Jeter. As often as not it comes back this way: “Great. But if he played in Cincinnati he wouldn’t have been considered an immortal. And he sure wouldn’t have come one vote shy of unanimous for the Hall of Fame.” Ludicrous? It should be.when he finished 14 votes behind Justin Morneau for AL MVP.
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