... wears Yankee pinstripes. I say that as a life long Red Sox fan who's suspicious of everything Yankees related. But the story of what pitcher Mariano Rivera does is nothing short of astonishing. It's perhaps the most inspirational sports story I've heard in ten years.
This is the sort of inspiration you remember from your childhood, before you become jaded and cynical from the repeated instances where your "heros" failed to live up to the hype. Rivera takes that cynicism and shatters it into a million shards. For once, the hype fails to live up to the man.
Via Chris Lynch.
3 comments:
It doesn't matter how you feel about the Yankees, that man has class.
Just shows a man isn't defined by what he does for a living.
That story is really something. It took me a long time to accept that Mariano is a better closer than Quisenberry (RIP) in his prime. I don't have the words, except to say the world needs more like Mariano Rivera.
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