Mariano Rivera Highlights

• (NY Times): "“You leave these playoffs with a lot of things,”

said Dennis Eckersley, a Hall of Fame closer. “The Yankees winning and what happened with A-Rod.

• But the one thing that comes out of it for me is Rivera.
  
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• Rivera is the difference.”...

Rivera is not just pitching at an advanced age, but he is also dominating....“If I could do it at that age and

• I didn’t have half the stuff that he has, I don’t see why he couldn’t do it at that age,” Eckersley said.

• “I never had that dominant pitch that he has. I mean, who does?” "...

"Rivera, Nearing 40, Wants to Play 5 More Seasons," by Jack Curry, NY Times, 11/5/09

Labels: Eckersley--Rivera is the difference.