{"id":3403,"date":"2010-07-06T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:32:05","slug":"mariano-rivera-how-he-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"Great article &#8211; Mariano Rivera: How he does it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Magazine section this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>AND, the online edition has a great two and a half minute video of Rivera&#39;s signature pitch &#8211; the cut fastball (the &quot;cutter&quot;). A great video, which even a non-baseball fan would likely find fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/04\/magazine\/04Rivera-t.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">Mariano Rivera, King of the Closers<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>A-Rod gathered his thoughts. Rivera, he said, was \u201cthe greatest closer of all time\u201d and \u201ceven a better human being and a great leader.\u201d Rivera was a force in the locker room. \u201cThere\u2019s been a number of times that he\u2019s stood up and said something that was profound and important.\u201d Could he recall any specific instances? No, A-Rod said; that would be private. Here, perhaps, was further proof that Rivera\u2019s example was difficult to follow for people not constituted like himself. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Magazine section this past weekend. AND, the online edition has a great two and a half minute video of Rivera&#39;s signature pitch &#8211; the cut fastball (the &quot;cutter&quot;). A great video, which even a non-baseball fan would likely find fascinating. Mariano Rivera, King of the Closers A-Rod gathered his thoughts. Rivera, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}