Mariano Rivera
 

Sucks.

Ugetha Urbina is available :)

Are the Red Sox now Rivera's Daddy? ;)

Who's your daddy!!!!

Nice to see A-Fraud's error opened it up for us :D

It's the first three games of the season I know, but it was intensely frustrating to see the Sox had 11 hits, the Yanks 3, and we were TIED... Bleah. Especially since five or six of us had MLB Gameday on our monitors :D

4 blown saves for Rivera in a row.
(pause)
Dayumn.

DAMN!!!!

I'd like nothing more than for Rivera to suddenly turn into Ron Davis (Minnesota portion of career).

Best 2 closers in baseball right now --

Many dumbasses (especially the media type) think: 1) Gagne 2) Rivera

The REAL answer: 1) Lidge 2) K-Rod

If healthy, I don't see how you can't include Gagne. But, man, did K-Rod look filthy last night.

I agree... he may be hurt, but Gagne is DEFINETLY up there. I'd have to put him as my #1. K-Rod looked good, but lets see how he does the whole year. Lidge is definetly up there as well.

Foulke doesn't throw that hard, but he's one of the best.

So, the series is over now, right? I can start going to sports web sites again?

Till they play the Sox Home Opener on the weekend :D

I heart you... :)

Just posted by Bill Simmons (not really funny, but real mean):

Man, I wonder how snooty he would have been had they actually won more than 1 game of this series...

By the way, I think there's too much mocking of Rivera and not enough mocking of A-Fraud :D

I vehemently disagree. A-Rod has never done anything to hurt the Red Sox, whereas Rivera has. (See 2003 ALCS.)

Rivera was the key player on the latest Yankee dynasty. He was invincible. His failures are cause for great rejoicing.

But Rivera is class while A-Rod is, well, not.

And it's not very likely that he's completely through, meaning those comments from Simmons have a chance to bite him in the ass by the end of this year. If all this happened last year, and Simmons wanted to make fun of Rivera, fine, 2004 is 2004 and when the Sox won, they had the last laugh. But now, we're in 2005, and if Rivera exacts revenge at the end of the year, there's no stammering, "but..but...but...we won it all last year!" That's was last year.

Sheesh, Simmons, haven't you learned a thing from the Patriots?!?! Even Theo is spouting the Belicheck mantra.

That is a good point.

A-Rod really took the blame after the game. From the sounds of it he was just sitting at his locker repeating I blew it for him. Basically, Mo didn't have his best control today (plus the ump was calling a terrible game all day). He's getting older, so a decline is to be expected, but I think he'll be fine.

I hate the Yankees (and the Sox), but Bill Simmons is the biggest fucking jackass in the universe. He knows nothing about sports (outside of New England), thinks he's a comic-genius (which is nauseating), and buys into his own hype (which is the worst thing a writer can do, imo). I just generally despise the guy. I had nothing against the Sox or Patriots.....until I read Simmons a few times. That's when I realized how hideously over-rated and irritating the city of Boston and their fans are.

I mean, of course I hate New York, but I hate them in a more faceless, emotionless, juggernaught way. I dislike them in the same way that I dislike Sean Penn. I know that makes no sense, but it does to me. I hate Boston in a different way. I hate them in the same way I hate Julia Roberts and Halle Berry. I don't know how else to explain that either. Just think Academy awards.

Well, that was inarticulate. Oh well.

That's alot of hate.

Thanks for sharing.

I used the word "hate" a lot. I guess it's a kinder, gentler hate than the hate I feel for the fact that I have to go pick up dog-crap in th back yard when my wife gets home from work.

Don't deny your hate, young padawan.

If anyone is to mock it's Kevin Millar. How the f*ck do you get a cramp in baseball. Guy runs what for 5 seconds a game.

i've stopped reading Simmons a while ago. not cause of the sports stuff, but cause i don't like people who are fake. he wants you to believe that he has this wealth of knowledge of all things pop culture.

yeah right, like he's not up at night surfing the net looking for the most obscure movie reference to insert into his columns, then try to pass it off like it was stream of consciousness. he's lame. i hate to break it to him, but anyone who knows so much about complete nonsense and can remember every scene in every movie is either a farce or is one of the biggest nerds of the post-Industrial Age. he can't have it both ways. can't be "hey, look at me, i remember [insert B level actor's name here] was in [insert obscure movie title here], i'm so cool."

he's a farce.

I've always suspected that if Rivera lost just a couple inches off his fastball, that he would start getting blasted like a Taliban training camp. He only has the one pitch, plus location, but he doesn't miss a lot of bats. He's been great, but I think he's on a slim margin.

Damn... CHEAP shot from today's Daily Quickie.

If I may be so bold as to steal a (purported) quote from WWII, I'd think Admiral Yamamoto's words are ringing through my head.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

Hey Schmidty I don't care for Simmons homerism either but I got a couple of questions for you. Have you ever been to Boston? Haveyou ever lived in Massachusetts area? Have you ever known any one personally from Boston? If not you shouldn't IMHO, judge everyone like 5 million people jsut because of a couple of "jackasses".

I think he gave into the anger and hate a long time ago. Now he's suffering in Bellingham, WA.

That would be pretty cool... if every one of his pitches travelled 60 feet, 4 inches and then just hovered there. It would be like t-ball.

Who is K-Rod?

Anaheim reliever. Throws an insane slider.

I think he needs to pitch better in the playoffs before he gets ranked up there as the top reliever.

To add to what has been said already, his real name is Francisco Rodriguez. He had a lot of strikeouts in the Angels 2002 run to the World Series, and got the silly ass nickname.

Should have been F-Rod. What about if another reliever who throws a lot of strikeouts with the last name as Rodriguez comes up?

KKK-Rod?

Honestly, after all Mo has done for the Yankees, the fact he was booed is beyond reality. Doesn't anyone in New York remember that he was hurt this spring, AND that had A-Rod fielded that ground ball that it would have been a forgotten bump.

I think you guys need to recognize Joe Nathan as one of the best closers, sure it was only one year but 29 straight and 46 outa 49 or sumthing like that...he was insane for a while...

He had a lot of balls to call the victory over the amazing Colts too.

Im confused....