Mariano Rivera Highlights

6/10/24,  “Pitching lessons from the great @MarianoRivera!! #yankees #mlb,” AROD twitter, via Pinstripe Alley

 

 Above, Yankee Stadium, 6/10/2024, AROD twitter

From Pinstripe Alley, 6/16/24: 

“Mo teaches A-Rod the cutter”

Both Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez were at Yankee Stadium last weekend [Fri. 6/7/24-Sun., 6/9/24] for the team’s much anticipated matchup with the Los Angeles Dodgers. While there, A-Rod met up with his former teammate and got him to record a video on how to throw the cutter. Rather interestingly, Rivera says that most pitchers who we say through cutters are actually throwing sliders, because they’re not releasing it like a fastball.

He also showed how he threw a sinker, taught to him by Mel Stottlemyer.”

 

 

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"Mariano Rivera's Mechanics (1st Save & Final Save)." 1/11/2024, Pitching Ninja twitter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“I’ve been trying for the last couple of months to make an appointment,” Ralph Davis, a 69-year-old semiretired sanitation worker, told The Post at 8:15 a.m., saying he heard about the site on the “Michael Kay Show.”"

Mariano speaks from about 7:22-8:34. Mo wore a mask, removed it for the minute he spoke, then slipped it back on.

Fri., February 5, 2021 - "Earlier today, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New York Yankees President Randy Levine, New York Yankees Manager Aaron Boone and Mariano Rivera announced the opening of the mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx."

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Added: Fri., 2/5/21, Long lines at Yankee Stadium to get vaccine 

Screen shot, Yankee Stadium, Ruptly tv, You Tube. Ruptly tv is based in Berlin, Germany, was founded in 2013 and is a division of television news network RT (Russia Today)

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2/9/21, "Yankee stadium hosting mass vaccination site in the Bronx," Legislative Gazette, Ariana Jimenez

"Opening day at the Stadium in the Bronx came early this year.

The mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium is now open, providing up to 15,000 appointments for Bronx residents in an area that is grappling with the highest COVID-19 positivity rate in the five boroughs.

According to news reports, 13,000 appointments had been reserved by the time the site opened on Friday, Feb. 5.

"This effort to open the vaccination site was coordinated with SOMOS Community Care, a network of 25,000 physicians across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, the National Guard, New York City, and the New York Yankees....

Yankees President Randy Levine joined Cuomo at the Stadium on Friday, along with Yankees Manager Aaron Boone and Hall-of-Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera.

“I consider this my house,” Rivera said Friday. “I used to pitch here and save games, now this is about saving lives.This is greater than baseball. We’re talking about thousands and millions of people, and I walk around people there getting the vaccine, and I see so many smiles on faces, that’s what it’s all about. Hope is the name of the game right now.”

The mass vaccination campaign at Yankee Stadium will run from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. seven days a week. Appointments are required to receive vaccination and it is exclusive for Bronx residents who are qualified Phase 1a and 1b New Yorkers.

Bronxites who qualify are allowed to make their appointment by calling 1-833-SOMOSNY (766-6769), or visiting somosvaccinations.com."

 

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2/8/21, "Metallica Perform “Enter Sandman” on Super Bowl Edition of Colbert," Consequence of Sound, Spencer Kaufman

"The metal icons rock out against a backdrop that captured their recent concert history." 

"Metallica rocked a special Super Bowl edition of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Sunday night. The heavy metal titans offered up a rousing rendition of “Enter Sandman”, set against a special backdrop that paid homage to the band’s recent concert history.

Entering their 40th year as a band, Metallica sounded as strong as ever on the late-night performance, with frontman James Hetfield delivering a powerful vocal. The metal icons played in front of a stack of speaker cabinets from various tours and special concerts of the past 20 years, including shows at Yankee Stadium (“Mariano Rivera Day”) [on Sept. 22, 2013], Oracle Park (San Francisco Giants “Metallica Night”), and the band’s own 2013 Orion Music + More Festival in Detroit, among others.

The pandemic forced Metallica off the road in 2020, but the metal legends still made the most of the year. After entering rehab in late 2019 to deal with addiction issues, a healthy-looking Hetfield returned to the band for a series of special gigs. Over the summer, Metallica filmed a concert for a one-night screening at drive-in theaters across North America, and rocked a mini-set on The Howard Stern Show. In November, they played a livestream concert that benefitted the band’s All Within My Hands Foundation.

In addition, Metallica have been working on the follow-up album to 2016’s Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. However, drummer Lars Ulrich recently said the writing sessions are moving at a rather slow pace.

As of now, the only 2021 shows Metallica have scheduled are two headlining nights at the Aftershock festival, October 8th and 10th in Sacramento, California.

Metallica’s performance of “Enter Sandman” on Colbert followed the recent unveiling of a commercial for Ford’s new F-150 Raptor that features the iconic song. Watch the late-night gig and the Ford commercial below [now private]."

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Nov. 6, 2009, "Another measure of Mo's brilliance," Rob Neyer, ESPN.com

 

 

"As I continue to marvel at Mariano Rivera's postseason career, my friend Mark Armour sent me this:

 

Rivera: One way to look at Mo's post-season career is to prorate it to a singular regular season. The Yankees have played 140 postseason games during Mo's career, [as of 11/6/2009] going 89-51 and winning 20 of 29 series. Prorating Rivera (and the Yankees) from 140 games to 162 games, the Yankees have had this guy sitting in their bullpen for 14 Octobers:

Games: 102

Innings: 154

ERA: 0.74

Record: 9-1

Saves: 45

Mariano Rivera has never won a Cy Young Award; he's finished twice once, and third three times. He's never won an MVP award, with his best finishes a couple of ninths (in both 2004 and '5). I won't argue that he deserves to have done better. That's just the nature of  21st century relief pitching: they don't pitch enough innings to rank among the very most valuable players.

But what if you had a relief pitcher who threw 154 innings with a sub-1.00 ERA? That would get your (and the award voters') attention, wouldn't it? I doubt if Rivera has been the Yankees' most valuable player over the last 14 years. That would almost certainly be Derek Jeter, with Bernie Williams being a part of the conversation as well.

I do suspect that Rivera has been the Yankees' most valuable postseason player, though, because you have to figure he's been roughly twice as valuable in the postseason as in the regular season.

It's probably worth mentioning that it's not only Rivera's value that grows in the postseason. The same is true of great starting pitchers, who typically will throw a significantly higher percentage of their teams' innings in the postseason than in the regular season. For example, in 2001, Curt Schilling threw 18 percent of the Diamondbacks' regular-season innings, but 31 percent of his team's postseason innings. With a 1.12 ERA. Try prorating that.

Of course, Rivera's been doing it for a long time and nearly all of his innings have come in high-leverage situations. Purely in terms of increasing his teams' chances of winning, he must be the most valuable pitcher in postseason history, and that might be true even if we adjust for the expanded postseason format. I'm still waiting for that analysis, though."...

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7/23/20, “Trump, Mariano Rivera mark Opening Day at White House," AP, Kevin Freking, Washington





“President Donald Trump recruited Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera to help mark baseball’s opening day with a group of Little League players at the White House on Thursday.

Trump said the return of sports was “a tremendous thing psychologically for our country” in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.”…

[Ed. note: This is not correct. Per CDC published data (on chart) Covid epidemic no longer exists in the US as of 7/3/20. To see this chart on CDC website, scroll to near end of page: “Mortality surveillance.” Thus, the US is no longer “in the midst” of a pandemic.]

(continuing): “Rivera made a surprise appearance at Trump’s late afternoon virus briefing. The president said the two of them would be heading outside to see “some beautiful young Little Leaguers outside with a great future ahead of them. They’re already practicing on the front lawn of the White House.”

Rivera, the former New York Yankees relief pitcher and a Trump supporter, looked on as the president announced he was canceling the Florida portion of the Republican National Convention next month due to the coronavirus.

After the briefing, the two joined a group of about 15 young players who were playing catch on the South Lawn. One of the players gave the president and Rivera a glove and ball, and they soon joined in. “There was nobody like Mariano,” Trump said as the two tossed the baseball back and forth.

A reporter noted that Washington Nationals left fielder Juan Soto has tested positive for Covid-19 and asked Trump if he was worried about the players coming back too quickly. Trump said he was not. “They’re going to be able to take care of it,” Trump said.

After the round of catch, Trump, Rivera and the Little League players and their coaches took a team photo.

Trump praised Rivera’s work with children and his records as a closer for the president’s favorite team. He has previously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rivera.

Rivera’s old team was in Washington to open up Major League Baseball’s abbreviated season Thursday night against the defending champion Nationals. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, threw out the ceremonial opening pitch.

Trump, for his part, said he’d been invited to toss out the opening pitch on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium. The president praised Major League Baseball for moving forward.

“I think Major League Baseball is setting an example by playing to empty stadiums. And so are other sports,” Trump said, mentioning football and golf, among others. “We want to get back to normal. The key is to get back to normal.”” All images above from AP



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Above, 11/16/19, Chazz Palminteri among guests at Marina Del Rey in Bronx, New York in support of Mariano Rivera learning center.

11/29/19, "Yankees legend Rivera to open learning center in New Rochelle," Bronx Times, Steven Goodstein, photo by Aracelis Batista

"Some of the Special Guests present were David Cone, Bobby Valentine, Carol Alt, Bernie Williams, Tracy Morgan, Daryl Strawberry, Chazz Palminteri, Tony Lo Bianco, Sal "The Voice" Valentinetti , Steve Schirripa and many Friars who all came together for the event which was held at Marina Del Rey in the Bronx home borough of the New York Yankees."

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