The Gardner myth builds

We've been waiting patiently for the Gardner myth to at last take off, but in spite of seeing-eye game winning hit against the Red Sox, it hasn't. This is thanks to his relatively feeble performance to date, which even the eager to embrace NYYFans have noticed.

However, during a casual browse through old Abraham blog entries, we came across numerous explosions of praise for a player who is batting .129 without any extra base hits in 31 at bats. Amidst the undeserved accolades was one especially groveling touch: in the Yanks victory over the Sox on July 5th, Abraham credits a game-winning RBI to Gardner for his sacrifice fly in the 6th inning. Not only is the game-winning RBI a meaningless stat -- so much so that it has actually been dropped as an official statistic -- but Abraham was wrong. The game-winning RBI in fact belonged to Melky Cabrera for his first inning single. (Meaningless stat, you see.)

When a poster pointed this out to Abraham, he promptly did the right thing and edited his original entry. We wonder if Abraham will delete some of his more glowing praise from past posts if Gardner continues to prove incapable of hitting major league pitching.
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