#Mariano Rivera

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Mariano Rivera

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Before I turned the game off, I was blessed to see Mariano Rivera doing an interview in the booth with Michael Kay and Paul O'Neil for the YES network. Mariano is the best closer who has ever played the game for any team at any time, anywhere. He was phenomenal. He is, also, the only player to be unanimously voted into the Hall of Fame. He was something special, that's for sure. He is a charming and talented man with a great personality and a great sense of humor. It was great to see him!! Let's go Yankees!!!!!

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New Yankee Stadium

So as I wrote about in the first part of my Yankee Stadium blog about the old Stadium, which you can find here, I’m back now to tell ya all about New Yankee Stadium. Unlike the other building, this one was only opened in 2009, so I clearly won’t have all the back history to tell ya about this one. New Yankee Stadium After 85 years in the last building, it was decided that it was time to bid the…

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For example, on October 15, 1991, the Fly's Eye cosmic ray detector, in the Utah desert, measured a particle streaking across the sky with an energy equivalent to 30 billion proton masses. That's almost as much energy in a single subatomic particle as in a Mariano Rivera fastball, and is about 100 million times the size of the particle energies that will be produced by the Large Hadron Collider.⁶

6. From the viewpoint of energetics, therefore, cosmic rays provide a naturally occurring accelerator that is far more powerful than any we have or will construct in the foreseeable future. The drawback is that although the particles in cosmic rays can have extremely high energies, we have no control over what slams into what – when it comes to cosmic ray collisions, we are passive observers. Furthermore, the number of cosmic ray particles with a given energy drops quickly as the energy level increases. While about 10 billion cosmic ray particles with an energy equivalent to the mass of a proton (about one-thousandth of the design capacity of the Large Hadron Collider) strike each square kilometer of earth's surface every second (and quite a few pass through your body every second as well), only about one of the most energetic particles (about 100 billion times the mass of a proton) would strike a given square kilometer of earth's surface each century. Finally, accelerators can slam particles together by making them move quickly, in opposite directions, thereby creating a large center of mass energy. Cosmic ray particles, by contrast, slam into the relatively slow moving particles in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, these drawbacks are not insurmountable. Over the course of many decades, experimenters have learned quite a lot from studying the more plentiful, lower-energy cosmic ray data, and, to deal with the paucity of high-energy collisions, experimenters have built huge arrays of detectors to catch as many particles as possible.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

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Mariano 🥰

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Mariano Rivera makes his final entrance as a player in the MLB.

ENTER SANDMAN!!

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my favorite baseball game (15 april 2007)

below is something i wrote in 2012 to commemorate my favorite baseball game.

This was inspired by a thread on Myspace about how awesome Mariano Rivera is, even though he's kind of old. Whenever the-last-remaining-#42 is mentioned, just one game comes to mind, one glorious game in April.

I wrote this little ditty and posted it in that thread, but decided that here would be a good, permanent home for it.

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I will tell you about my favorite Mariano Rivera outing. I invite you all to share your own.

Over a year ago in the bright sunlight of the Oakland Coliseum, it’s a day game in April, and the date is Sunday the 15th.

The attendance is 35,077, the same it’s been for the whole series – a sellout crowd (in more ways than one). The Yankees are in town. More than just the famed Mariano Rivera is wearing the number 42.

Rich Harden is pitching.

A two-run first inning had put the A's up early, but their bats were unable to produce the rest of the game.

Goose eggs for both teams until the seventh inning, where after two pitches to Alex Rodriguez (a strike and a ball) Jason Kendall trots out to the mound in all his veteran glory and is joined by home plate umpire Laz Diaz and then the pitching coach, manager, and trainer.

Meanwhile, Rodriguez gets treatment of his own for a bloody nose.

Rich shakes his head at Larry Davis and speaks some in his Canadian tongue, which he slips into in moments of frustration and pain. (Davis, of course, is well-versed in Canadian after spending so much time with the oft-injured pitcher.)

Rich shrugs, nods, and smirks at manager Bob Geren, who is not so familiar with Canadian and steps off the mound to allow Rich to throw some pitches. Rich throws one high and windmills his shoulder. He insists upon staying in the game and Geren, lulled into a false sense of security by the Canadian's charm and gentle smirk, lets him stay in.

Rodriguez, bloody nose taken care of, steps into the box. He works a double off Rich and Geren heads back to the mound and takes the ball from that tricky Canadian. He is done for the day, done for the week, and done for most of the season.

Joe Kennedy (may he rest in peace) enters the game to face Jason Giambi (who is being heartily booed by the Oakland faithful). His first pitch ends up in right field and there are runners on the corners with no outs, Jorge Posada up to the plate. He scorches a double down the left field line on the 9th pitch of the at-bat, scoring Rodriguez and sending Giambi, not exactly fleet of foot, to third. Rich's run has scored and the lead is hanging on by a thread with men on second and third and no outs. The sun beats down on Joe's fair skin and the temperature rises.

Giambi scores on a sacrifice fly by Robinson Cano and it’s a tie ballgame. It’s 2-2 and Rich’s win is gone. Joe has blown the save and with one out and a runner on third he can only hope to get back into the dugout without giving up another run.

Kiko Calero is up in the bullpen.

The Yankees take the lead on a sac fly from Melky Cabrera and Joe keeps sweating. Doug Mientkiewicz strikes out trying to check his swing and the inning is over.

But in the 8th, Joe gives up another run to make it 4-2, Yankees. Kiko comes in to finish of the inning and Jay Marshall pitches a scoreless 9th.

Athletics fans shake their heads when Mariano Rivera steps in, that number 42 on his back making them wince, thinking of their broken starter on this Jackie Robinson Day (not to mention the closer’s impeccable stats and spotless baseball reputation).

Eric Chavez grounds out on the first pitch of his at bat and A’s fans sigh.

Bobby Crosby hits a fly ball to right field, giving the A’s fans a brief rush of “Maybe, could he possibly …?” before it lands in Bobby Abreu’s glove. The A’s fans either sit down to wait out the last out or walk up the aisles to beat the traffic home.

Todd Walker (who else remembered he had a stint with the A’s in 2007?) slaps a basehit to left field and some of those fans walking out slide into a seat, just in case.

Jason Kendall is at bat and as he is swinging through a pitch Todd takes second base on defensive indifference. Jason takes on a 3-1 count and the umpire calls a strike. Geren hollers from the A’s dugout and A’s fans make themselves known. “Are ya crazy, blue? That was a mile high! Who’s payin’ your salary -- Steinbrenner?”

Marco Scutaro is on deck, taking his swings and waiting for the moment he was born for.

Jason fouls off the next pitch and the pitch after that and the one after that goes off his ankle. He’s a hard-nosed gamer not afraid to get dirty, but that’s not what he’s getting paid to do as an Oakland Athletic; he’s getting paid to get on base.

Jason steps back in and waves his bat and takes a pitch high and at his hands. As he takes his base the remaining A’s fans get to their feet – the winning run is at the plate and it’s Marco Scutaro holding the bat!

Posada walks out to the mound and pats Rivera on the back. Maybe he’s saying what to throw next, maybe he’s talking about what Marco’s weaknesses are, and maybe he’s just telling him a joke. Whatever it is, Marco waits patiently, prepared.

Batting ninth in this game Marco has struck out twice and grounded to short, hardly anyone’s best hope in this kind of situation, but all of Oakland remembers his magical doubles and how the stadium shook with their shouts of his name last October, the team clean and crisp and finally finally winning.

Rivera paints the black for a called strike and Marco steps back, appraising the opposing pitcher. He bows his head, adjusts his helmet, and eyes his bat as if to say, “You got a hit in you? Please, jus’ don’ strike out.” He spits in the dirt and steps back in, tapping the ground with his bat and digging in with his cleats. Marco pulls the next pitch foul and the crowd is so full of Yankees fans that hardly a sound goes up in hope. Marco steps out of the box and applies more pine tar to his bat.

It’s the bottom of the ninth. There are two outs. Todd Walker is on second, Jason Kendall is on first, the score is 4-2 favoring the visitors and Marco stands in with an 0-2 count. The crowd gets loud, Yankees fans cheering for a strike and Oakland fans just wanting to get another man on for Bradley. They dare not hope for more. Their tender hearts are already hurting from the loss of their short right-handed power pitcher.

The runners take their leads off their respective bases.

Rivera leans in, gets his sign, then straightens up.

Marco peers out intently from under the brim of his batting helmet and the ball is on its way.

Marco makes contact to left field, it’s high, it’s away, it’s heading towards the foul pole --

“If it’s fair, it’s ------ GONE! THE A’S WIN IT! SCUTARO WINS IT! Celebrate -- Oakland A’s, are you kidding me?”

Marco rounds the bases after Todd and Jason, rushing to meet the clutch of his teammates surrounding home plate, smiles splashed across their faces and the A’s fans, out-cheering the Yankees fans for once, shouting his name --

“MAR-CO! SCU-TA-RO!”

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Rivera left Oakland that April 15th, still looking for his first save of the 2007 season.

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Elucidate the life and significance of Mariano Rivera as an inspirational figure.

Mariano Rivera is a seasoned sales professional with a remarkable journey of perseverance and growth. His extensive experience in sales, including training and supervising teams in a variety of international markets, has earned him widespread recognition. He encouraged others to keep going even when things got tough. To channel his love of public speaking, he founded "Books for the Soul," a platform promoting literature's life-changing potential. He reached a new height in 2023 with the release of his book "Resilience: The Power Within to Overcome Adversity and Depression," which encouraged people to tap into their own inner resources in times of hardship. Mariano Rivera is a role model in the field of self-discovery because of his commitment to self-improvement and his ability to inspire others through his writing.

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Official Trailer For IT AIN'T OVER | Yogi Berra Documentary

Sony Pictures Classics has released this official trailer for IT AIN’T OVER documentary. Directed by: Sean Mullen Featuring Interviews With:​ Billy Crystal, Bob Costas, Vin Scully, Derek Jeter, Joe Torre, Mariano Rivera, Joe Girardi, Ron Guidry, Willie Randolph, Don Mattingly, Tony Kubek, Bobby Richardson, Suzyn Waldman, and Lindsay Berra  IT AIN’T OVER is an intimate portrait of Lawrence Peter…

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Mariano Rivera

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I only know this song because it was Mariano Rivera's entrance music.

Metallica even preformed it live at Yankee Stadium:

12 Days of Halloween Music (Day Three)

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Say your prayers, little one, don't forget, my son To include everyone I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin 'Til the Sandman, he comes Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land Something's wrong, shut the light, heavy thoughts tonight And they aren't of Snow White Dreams of war, dreams of liars, dreams of dragons' fire And of things that will bite, yeah Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land Yeah Now, I lay me down to sleep (Now, I lay me down to sleep) Pray the Lord my soul to keep (Pray the Lord my soul to keep) If I die before I wake (If I die before I wake) Pray the Lord my soul to take (Pray the Lord my soul to take) Hush little baby, don't say a word And never mind that noise you heard It's just the beasts under your bed In your closet, in your head Exit light Enter night Grain of sand Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land (Yeah, haha haha) Oh, yeah-yeah, yo-oh We're off to never-never land Take my hand We're off to never-never land Take my hand We're off to never-never land We're off to never-never land We're off to never-never land We're off to never-never land

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Calypso is representing all of us fanfiction and reading lovers with 'Not Sorry For Loving You.'

Jorge and Barbara ate with this song. Left no crumbs. Not even a trace. I'll be vibing in my introvert hole with this song on repeat for the next week. Good day.