Apr
12
Ten years of The End of Mariano Rivera
ByOnly three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and people saying Mariano Rivera is finished every time he blows a save. We heard it last week, we’ll hear it again at some point this summer, and as Deadspin points out, we’ve been hearing it for ten years. They chronicled the history of the “Mo is done” article, something that dates all the way back to 2002. It gets RAB’s highest recommendation, make sure you check it out.
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He’s done when he says he’s done.
Great to read all pieces openly wondering about his demise.
You’re right; he’ll get that treatment, like Bernie, Posada, and Jeter one day.
Funny that it is mostly a who’s who of bad beat writers. Sad to see Joel Sherman in that mix.
I was a bit disappointed to see him in there too.
Sherman’s a great reporter and a pretty poor analyst who tends to doom-and-gloom. Doesn’t surprise me that he’s on that list at all.
Here is my favorite:
After a summary of 7 years speculating about Mo being done, Sherman seems to have completely forgotten all of it…
sherman also is a writer who hopes to get readers through this kind of writing…the fact that someone’s reading a year-old article of his is pretty awesome. also, none of what sherman said was wrong; there’s going to come a day when mo is no longer new york’s closer.
Plus 1
Nothing to disrespect here, or respect. Sherman was simply a man forced to write somethign in which he didn’t believe, simply to fill space.
Wow, that’s a compilation of pieces by most of the worst Yankees beat writers.
It’s like, though they watch 162 games a year, they’ve forgotten that baseball isn’t played by robots.
Great comment at Deadspin from El Guapo:
Tinker McWillington, New York Times, March 29, 1878
Zounds! Who do the Red Stockings believe they are fooling, sending Mr. Jamie Moyer to the mound of pitching on to-day’s game? He has allowed more than a half-dozen “runs” to be plated in the last fortnight!
No Bill Madden article lamenting the Yankees not acquiring Felix Fermin back in ’86?
’96, whoops.
Andrew Marshand leads it off appropriately
Anyone else notice that 2008 is the only year that’s not represented on there? It’s almost as if they were too busy writing a million articles about someone else that year…
Happy Anniversary to piss poor prognosticating!
It really is amazing how durable Mariano turned out to be. As those articles pointed out, he has had his troubles with injuries and bad streaks over the years, just like any pitcher really. But he’s gotten better! It’s like we’ve been predicting his demise so that when it did happen it wouldn’t hurt so bad. Or maybe these guys are just lazy beat writers with crappy long term memory.
“the New York City Blown Save Lead” – Mike Lupica
RAB should use that stat more often.
After April, isn’t easier to just call it “The New York Mets Closer”?
No the Mess would have to have a lead in games to have a real closer.
The best one of the whole group is the one where they say the Yankees need to look to getting the next great closer, Eric Gagne
Eric Gagne got his greatness by cheating.
The interesting fact was that these “predictions” came mostly from the Hall of Shame columnists. But, I was surprised to see Fiensand and Sherman.