Nice article in yesterday's NY Times. Rivera is so fluid and makes everything look sooo easy when he comes in for the save. He's wonderful to watch (unless you're rooting for the other team). And that cut fastball.
Besides getting his 500th save, he also got his first career RBI when the Mets closer walked him with the bases loaded Sunday night.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever see another Mariano Rivera,” Girardi said. “I really don’t believe we will.”
Since 1996, Yankees’ Rivera Has Made It Look as Easy as 1-2-3 – NYTimes.com
and here's his very fascinating Wikipedia entry. the Yanks signed Rivera out of Panama (where he had worked on a fishing boat) for $3,000. (Buy that scout a beer yacht.)
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