If you watched any Braves game the last few months, you’ve probably seen two things happen, Austin Riley doing something awesome and a Braves broadcaster calling him by his new nickname: MVP Candidate Austin Riley. The nickname has become so prevalent that it’s actually started a discourse about how viable a possibility this is. Can Austin Riley win the NL MVP?
Now something you need to understand about baseball, and really all sports, is there are two distinct levels of discourse, local and national. Local beat writers, local reporters, local sports talk radio and even local broadcasters operate from a zoomed-in perspective.