As fans of individual baseball teams, it’s easy to get swayed by local narratives. If all we’re consuming is the hype (or fodder) generated by local media, we might think these storylines are shared by all baseball fans and not just an insignificant, regionally-centered percentage (regardless of how large that region might be).
So when members of the collective Mets media propose Francisco Lindor as a legitimate National League Most Valuable Player candidate, a discerning fan might filter it out as propaganda:
- Surely it can’t be true, he looked unplayable over the first two weeks of the season.