{"id":3946,"date":"2008-03-09T17:21:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:27:33","slug":"great-article-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Great article on the inner life of Mariano Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankee closer and future Hall of Famer. In today&#8217;s <strong>NY Times.<\/strong> How to conduct oneself when you&#8217;re a superstar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/09\/sports\/baseball\/09rivera.html?pagewanted=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\"><strong>Rivera\u2019s a Closer With an Open Heart &#8211; New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Over and over, Veras used the word dream to describe how it felt to be teammates and friends with his idol. They talk shop, about Veras\u2019s staying tall in his delivery, or gripping his pitches, or attacking certain lineups. They also talk about life, and the responsibilities of being in the majors. <\/p>\n<p>Even now, in his third season with the Yankees, Veras seems amazed that Rivera cares so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to find people like that,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we appreciate everything he does, because if you\u2019re 20-something and he\u2019s 30-something, he doesn\u2019t want to be my baby sitter. But he can say, \u2018Don\u2019t do this; that\u2019s bad.\u2019 It just takes a couple of seconds, but some guys think it\u2019s hard to say. So when you find people like that that can teach you the right way, it\u2019s awesome. It\u2019s unbelievable to find people like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would be unbelievable, except that Chico Heron made it real. For the best $3,000 the Yankees ever spent, Heron found an extraordinary talent in Rivera, who learned from him the value of community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankee closer and future Hall of Famer. In today&#8217;s NY Times. How to conduct oneself when you&#8217;re a superstar. Rivera\u2019s a Closer With an Open Heart &#8211; New York Times Over and over, Veras used the word dream to describe how it felt to be teammates and friends with his idol. They talk shop, [&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-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","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=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6834,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}