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Discuss “A-Rod is clutch? Not so fast, my friend”

Alex Rodriguez’s torrid start to the Major League Baseball season has given him the league lead in home runs and runs batted in, on top of hitting two game-winning walk-off home runs. Rodriguez is the first player in American League history to hit 10 home runs in his club’s first 14 games. The New York Yankees’ third baseman brings up the much-debatable and controversial topic of whether or not athletes have the innate ability of being clutch.

I hate to burst your bubble, but clutch abilities don’t exist. Rodriguez could hit four more walk-off home runs next week and I still wouldn’t change my story. With the Yankees down by three runs, he could turn an unassisted triple play in the top half of the ninth and then hit a walk-off game-winning...

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