Mariano Rivera Highlights

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Mariano collapses on mound as Aaron Boone rounds the bases, ALCS Game 7, 10/16/03, ap





Above, someone from the team joins Rivera ap, via nyyfans

Below, Rivera's team mates carry him after the game. With 3 innings in a tie game, he was the winning pitcher. He was also ALCS MVP.

• Winning pitcher: Mariano Rivera.

• ALCS MVP: Mariano Rivera.

ESPN failed to mention either of these facts in a 1 hour highlight show of 2003 Game 7 ALCS, Red Sox-Yankees that aired in Sept. 2008.

• What else is new?

10/16/2003, "Mariano Rivera is carried off the field by his teammates after the Yankees' win over the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS," ap

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Photo below from MassLive:














10/16/2003, "Yankees' Mariano Rivera celebrates with teammates after the Yankee won game 7 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium in New York on Thursday, October 16, 2003. STAFF PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER EVANS," from Mass Live


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• Below, Rivera at 2006 All Star game, 7/11/06. Final score 3-2.

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• photo si.com

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Mo prepares to move from the pen to the hill.

Mariano Rivera with the easy arm action.

Mo signing for fans thanks again to You Tube , or these moments would be lost forever. You sure as hell won't see them on the YES Network. Maybe you would on SNY--they appreciate Mo.

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"The most valuable Yankee of all time." Mike Lupica, Sunday, 8/13/06

"You watched Mo Rivera cough one up the other night as he does maybe once a month, and were reminded again that he might not just be the most valuable Yankee of the Joe Torre era,

• but perhaps the most valuable Yankee of all time.

He does not make the most money on the Yankees, or even close.

He is not the most famous of them.

Just the best of them, after all these years.

He is the one player on his team better at what he does than any others are at what they do.

• Of all the money players in the history of sports, and that means all sports, Mo Rivera has failed less in big spots than anybody else you can mention.

Think about that.

He has had his failures, you bet.

Some of them turned out to be monumental, like Game 7 of the 2001 World Series and Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS against the Red Sox.

But more than the manager, more than Jeter, he has done the most to make this time in Yankee history special.

• He is the one who makes us believe the championship teams of the Torre era were better than they actually were.

• The quietest one of all, then, one of the quietest Yankees of them all,

• has been the most important.

Sometimes it takes a ninth inning belonging to the other guys to make you appreciate him all over again.

Mo Rivera can't go on forever.

• This may be the last season we see him close to being his best.

• Appreciate him for as long as this lasts, just because nothing like this will ever happen again in baseball.
  

• His streak of power relief pitching, excellence in power relief pitching, is as impressive as Cal Ripken's consecutive games played streak."
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• NY Daily News, "It's Time to Face the Truth," (article begins talking about Paul LoDuca, part about Rivera starts mid-page).
  
• photo 2006 All Star game from si.com
  



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With Sandman accompaniment, Mr. Mariano Rivera slide show tribute.

Fans cheering Mariano at Yankee Stadium, with announcer.

You never see this on tv-- Thanks to You Tube, this shot hasn't been lost forever.

Mo stretching and laughing.

1. Here's Mo striking out David Ortiz.