Perspective Regarding Clayton Kershaw and the Media

The sports media and in particular, “Sports Illustrated,” have routinely over rated LA Dodgers’ pitcher Clayton Kershaw. They are sorely lacking in perspective.

Sports Illustrated runs a “comments” section, but they do not print any that criticize their exalted treatment of Kershaw. Not one person disagrees with their gushing for Kershaw?

I am not one prone to criticizing athletes, as I cringe at the unfair criticism directed toward those who committed physical bad plays, even mental bad plays, at so called critical junctures of athletic contests.

Yet Kershaw, and especially his supporters, who dare compare him with previous pitching greats who pitched full games and excelled rather than failed in big games, can use some perspective.

Right now Kershaw is among the worst offenders of “regular season greatness” to post season failures in history.

We live in a world that has far bigger problems. One of the bigger problems is a media that is out of whack.

That carries over to the so called “toy department” of sports, the unfair, overwhelmingly positive perspective regarding Kershaw the latest example.