Posted on 09/27/2013 12:35:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The screen got blurry when Jeter and Petitte went out to the mound to go get him.
It’s rarer and rarer these days to see players spend their entire careers with one club.
however there was a game 6 and a game 7
In game 6 the Arizona Diamondbacks had 22 hits
a new World Series record
In Game 6 , the winning pitcher was Randy Johnson
In game 7 Curt Schilling was relieved by the game 7 winner, Randy Johnson
remember the most popular themed t shirt during the start of the run ?
No but I'll bet it was in those Taco Bell colors they wore back then.
no one EVER dominated like that
Right you are.
I used to think that ‘Goose’ Gossage was the Man,
until I saw Rivera...
a ghost image of Randy Johnson from the side in full windup and the t shirt said
It takes more than nine Yanks to whip this Johnson
I have been a lifelong Yankees fan. I am a Diamondbacks fan. The night that Luis Gonzalez hit Mario Rivera’s fast ball to win the 2001 World Series, I jumped up and down and and screamed and cheered and, and went nuts. But I felt bad for my Brother in Christ, Mr. Rivera. Mr. Rivera will be a difficult act to follow. A class act at that.
I still do....
THAT is an astounding number.
It was good to hear Bob Sheppard again. It was great to see #42 run to the mound. He got his outs, then Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte came to get him, and he hugged his longtime teammates. They walked off together, symbolically ending an era.
Mo was the last man in the dugout. He came out to the mound and scooped up a piece of dirt, holding it in his hands as he did his interview with Meredith Marakovits of YES.
As he has done throughout his career, he did it all with grace, class, and dignity. For that, he’ll be missed, as well as for the brilliant performances he gave over his 19-year career. If you’re a Yankee fan and the Yankees were up a run or two after 8, you knew the Sandman was coming and the ballgame was over. To maintain that degree of humility while displaying that level of excellence so consistently is remarkable, especially in this day and age.
Thank you, Mariano.
The Yankees’ YES Network ran comments form players on other teams. Great line from Alex Gordon, the young slugger from the Royals: “I wish he’d stick around so I could get a hit off him.”
When Bud Selig unilaterally retired #42 for Jackie in 1997, all the players, coaches, and managers then wearing 42 were allowed to keep it, but no team could issue #42. Mo is the last of them.
Which is why one of his favorite gifts that he has received is a rocking chair from the Twins, made entirely of broken bats. The Twins named it "The Chair of Broken Dreams".
Thank you, Mariano
Well said sir.
Well said...
I want Mariano Rivera to be the first baseball player to be voted unanimously into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA). And there’s a good chance it will happen: the mass media in general has really liked Rivera over the years.
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