Girardi announced it after he was taken off field during pregame. he got tripped up shagging flies in outfield.

the end for the greatest closer ever?

 

Originally Posted by skeeze666

Saw someone post "Darwin Award nominee: The guy who let Mariano shag fly balls"

Just saw jeter say that he does this every day and has been doing it for 20 years.

Freak accident. I hate it when people expect pro athletes to never move so they dont get hurt. Just as dumb as the people trying to blame the nulls coach for D Roses injury.

except that doesnt change the fact that its really dumb to have your star who has been injury hobbled nonstop all season in a game youre up 12 with one minute left

I've been saving my 5000th post, and didn't know what I was going to do with it, but as a die-hard bomber fan, this is as good a place as any. I'm confident in Robertson by now, but if I have to guess, I'd say this was the end for Rivera. If he does return, he won't be the same, and we'll have already chosen another closer (hopefully D. Robertson does as well taking over as Rivera did for Wetteland).











Go get 'em, kid....

 

Originally Posted by TMLMS13

Most overrated player of all time

How is he overrated? He's the best closer ever and has been a pillar to the success of the Yankees in recent history. The guy has been lights out during his career...too bad his lights are now out. It's really unfortunate seeing his career end like that. Not that I wanted him to end with a championship or anything bc I very much hate the Yankees, but he deserved a better ending.

I'm a Red Sox fan and hate the fucking Yankees to the core, but Rivera's been the goods and a class act all the way. He deserved better. Give me Mo over the likes of Eckersley or Papelbon, where every save means an orgasm, as though it were the clinching game of the World Series. That gets damned tiresome after a while.

Mo, you've been the best for fifteen years and I hope you come back, though it didn't look realistic even without this injury. You deserved to go out your way-the batter knows what's coming and he still can't hit it. Here's to the best ever.

 

Originally Posted by TMLMS13

Most overrated player of all time

fuck u faggot

 

Originally Posted by warden

this is what happens when you try to cram a 162 game season into such a short time frame

wp

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

Just saw jeter say that he does this every day and has been doing it for 20 years.

Freak accident. I hate it when people expect pro athletes to never move so they dont get hurt. Just as dumb as the people trying to blame the nulls coach for D Roses injury.

all of this

that is a really dumb point you just made.

I bet my friend a cocktail he'd have an ERA of at least 2.25 this season and he finished at 2.16. Why does everything bad happen to me.

 

Originally Posted by warden

this is what happens when you try to cram a 162 game season into such a short time frame

^Awesome.

GG to the greatest reliever ever, one of the top 2-3 pitchers of all time imo, and the single greatest pitch of all time. 20 years of tipping his own pitches to hitters and they still couldn't figure it out. "Hey guy, here comes a cutter. And another. And another. Good luck."

I'm beyond saddened by this. If Mo's legacy has ended, not by a great last day at the stadium and him saying goodbye to the fans, but by him clutching his knee in agony while being carted off in KC, it's just not right...

 

Originally Posted by hushpuckena

This is a bunch of horseshit-Rivera's mainly a one-pitch pitcher and they don't make good starters.

I'll take a top 25 starter over Rivera in his prime. Use the he has all those saves argument you want all day long you will never convince me. They are 100% based on the rest of the team producing that opportunity.

I will choose to remember him as the guy that blew game 7 of the world series and blew the 2004 ALCS 2x.

Is Mo the 2nd or 3rd best pitcher of all-time? Well, no. But he's such an enigma, I think he can easily be underrated by baseball nerds intent on disparaging the closer position. Mo is 2nd in career WAR for active pitchers behind only Roy Halladay (58 wins above replacement). That doesn't include his pretty surreal postseason record, with a 0.70 ERA in 141 innings.

A player who consistently puts up 4 WAR each season for 15 years and dominates every postseason is a sure-fire hall of famer, regardless of what position he plays.