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Clutch: Having the ability to perform well in difficult situations. Vivid examples include Derek Jeter turning into an option quarterback to save Game 3, and perhaps the Division Series, for the Yankees. “Clutch” can also be understood in terms of anything Curt Schilling (2-0, 18 IP, 3 ER, 9 H) has done with a baseball in the last week. Significant because “being clutch” is a necessary ingredient to postseason success...
...Yankees have Clemens and Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams, who are at least in the same Q-rating ballpark as Rodriguez and Griffey, but for the most part they're a team (if a deep and well-paid one) of hard-working below-the-fold-ers who happen to add up to championship after championship. After championship...
...Plays host at a dinner at the White House for Derek Jeter, Tom Glavine, Cal Ripken, Yankees manager Joe Torre and others; for dessert he serves cookies shaped like hot dogs and miniature containers of french fries...
Last year, everyone in Red Sox Nation knew the team was doomed after Sports Illustrated put Pedro on its cover, predicting the long-tortured club would win its first World Series since World War I. This year, a smug Derek Jeter and his fat cat Yankees are the beneficiaries of SI's cover jinx. Even though Nomar will have surgery this week for a wrist injury that flared up after he appeared in the buff on a SI cover in February, the Yankees will ultimately feel SI's wrath...
...Alex Rodriguez, SS, Rangers: Even if he doesn't win it, he can buy the trophy from whomever does 2. Derek Jeter, SS, Yankees: Does everything magnificently except clear the yard. Like Steinbrenner cares 3. Pedro Martinez, P, Red Sox: He's the guy every GM would start a team with, yet writers won't vote...