When you’re a sports fan, you’ve always got a player on your team who just irrationally annoys you. It’s not that they’re a bad person. It’s not that they’re even a bad player, necessarily. But for one reason or another, you inherently don’t trust them in a big situation and only expect the worst when you see them.
For me, Jacob Webb is one such player. It’s easy to pinpoint the root cause. In 2023, I was in attendance at Camden Yards at Game 2 of the Division Series when Webb, summoned into a bases-loaded situation in the top of the third, coughed up a mammoth grand slam to the Rangers’ Mitch Garver.