OT: congrats to mariano rivera

[hunterdutchess]

Originally Posted by vintagecpa

What an amazing career. Being a fan that enjoys rooting against the Yankees, my two favorite moments were the blown saves of the Colorado-NY game 7 and the Boston-NY game 4 in the ALCS that Boston came back from the 0-3 deficit. He seemed to save every other game however.

Don't forget the biggest choke job of all time IMO, after September 11th 01 he had a chance to close out the Diamond Backs and bring a championship to N.Y. but could not seal the deal.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by hunterdutchess

Don't forget the biggest choke job of all time IMO, after September 11th 01 he had a chance to close out the Diamond Backs and bring a championship to N.Y. but could not seal the deal.

"Choke job" indicates he wilted under the pressure, instead of being merely human.

0.71 ERA in 94 playoff appearances against the best teams in baseball.

How many of those 0.71 runs was the product of broken bat hits and flares off the end of the bat?

[vintagecpa]

Originally Posted by hunterdutchess

Don't forget the biggest choke job of all time IMO, after September 11th 01 he had a chance to close out the Diamond Backs and bring a championship to N.Y. but could not seal the deal.

I stand corrected. It was Arizona, not Colorado. Hard to keep track of all these expansion teams.

[pitchernut]

and whats truly amazing (at least to me) is that he did this with basically one pitch