Every time a media fallacy is exposed, I think, “Maybe this will be the time they get it!”

I hope it’s a teachable moment, to borrow a phrase from my days as an educator, and that sports journalists will recognize the mistakes of their past and learn not to repeat them.

And every time, I’m disappointed.

So now A-Rod is not unclutch anymore. He’s a certified playoff stud, a man who richly deserves the centaur painting he has hanging over his bed. It’s appropriate; he’s that much of a beast.

But you know who is unclutch?

Why, it’s Mark Teixeira of course. The inimitable John Harper:

Let’s be honest, Mark Teixeira is floundering at the plate in his first postseason the way A-Rod did in his pinstriped past. And while the Yankees have survived Teixeira’s struggles so far, you have to ask:

Can they really win a championship with their No. 3 hitter seemingly blinded by the bright lights of October/November?

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Sorry.

Harper adds brilliant baseball-player quotes from Teixeira that include, “Sometimes you get hits, sometimes you don’t” and mentions that Teixeira — shockingly! — wasn’t doing much to divulge his mental state to the press.

I don’t even feel like finishing. Sample size. Sample size. Sample size.

Mark Teixeira is a Major League Baseball player, and a very good one. He’s enduring a slump that happens to be amplified by a set of short playoff series. Last year — LAST YEAR! — in the bright lights of postseason baseball, he hit .467 with a .550 OBP in the Angels’ ALDS loss to the Sox.

He might actually be the “new A-Rod,” as Harper suggests. He’s just not the new A-Rod for any of the reasons Harper thinks.