Why do national media outlets continuously provide us with stupid “post season stats” in an attempt to keep our interest in baseball? Watching SportsCenter as the weekend defined itself led me to wonder why ESPN needed to provide it’s watchers with Mariano Rivera saves stats, when it could have been giving us more intriguing, possibly Yankees-Phillies stats instead.

So, we’ve all been informed that Rivera is the all time post-season saves leader, now that he closed out the game against Los Angeles

in order to earn the Yankees’ spot in the World Series. With 37 saves, Rivera puts his name in history, distinguishing himself against nobody, mainly because, unless you have played with the Yankees all your career, you have no chance to match such a record.

This is the part I don’t get. The Yankees find themselves playing late into October more than any other team because they spend the money to acquire players, as well as keep talent, so that the regular season is hardly the end of the year. So why should anybody be surprised, much less impressed, when Rivera demolishes the record for most saves in the post-season? Did anybody expect anything less?

At this point, I’m pretty sure the Yankees should hold all of the records in the post-season. Seriously, considering they have more playoff appearances than any other team, it should be embarrassing if they don’t hold the record for every stupid stat possible. Who holds the record for the most runs scored in the post season? Oh wait, that would be Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees. Who has the lowest post-season ERA? Surprise, it’s Mariano Rivera! Most playoff homeruns? That would be longtime Yankee, Bernie Williams.

So why do people think that more records are impressive? If any other team in the league had spent as much time in the post-season as the Yankees, one would have to assume that several players throughout the history of that team would hold records as well. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, considering the Yankees have worked hard enough to put themselves in the position to hold possession over those records, but that’s not the point. The fact is, nobody cares anymore when a post-season record is broken by a player wearing pinstripes.

Also, “Is it Yanks? Thanks!” is the stupidest headline I’ve ever read.

The end.