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If you want easy clicks from a content standpoint, here is something to try. Find any random Derek Jeter defensive highlight and put between quotations a sarcastic statement as innocuous as “Derek Jeter wasn’t a good shortstop.” Tweet that out.

The results are absolute insanity, which break down into barbaric Twitter spats as if we’re talking about Medicare for All or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Just look at the comments section of each of these posts when I did it.

“Derek Jeter wasn’t a good shortstop.” pic.twitter.com/jWatNFnISz

“The flip play was one play.