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mlb.mlb.com - 17 days ago

'George, this one is for you'

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"The Boss" was home in Tampa, Fla., apparently watching the festivities on TV. > "I wish he was here," said Mariano Rivera, who closed the game, 7-3, against the Phillies that set a wild celebration in motion. Rivera added that he asked son Hank Steinbrenner "if he was here and Hank said, 'No.' ...

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weretheteamtobeat.com - 20 days ago

Interviewed during the double-dip

— weretheteamtobeat.com — Everyone's favorite blogger (you didn't know it was Hyperbole Monday around here?) was interviewed between the douple-dip yesterday and there's all kinds of good quotes in the interview. Here's some quotes from the article and there's even a video compilation to go with it. PHILADELPHIA — ... (more) Interviewed during the double-dip

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Mariano Rivera

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espn.go.com - 16 days ago

What makes Mo so great

— espn.go.com — In the wake of yet another brilliant postseason performance, Dave Allen looks at Mariano Rivera's pitches and goes a fair piece toward explaining just... (more) What makes Mo so great

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Mariano Rivera

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puristbleedspinstripes.com - 13 days ago

How Many Championships Is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part III

— puristbleedspinstripes.com — Please see Part I for acknowledgments. Let’s start with the 2009 postseason. We take the Magic Calculator Thingy and input the following: Innings pitched: 16. Fangraphs’ FIP: 2.28 Next, we go to Baseball Reference and click on the ‘postseason’ tab. We look at ... (more) How Many Championships Is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part III

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Yankees Win World Series
SportsFilter — ... of the New York Daily News . "Those without health insurance, who pay medical bills out of their dwindling savings. Those who trusted the pumped-up muscle of Wall Street, only to see it go as flaccid and tremulous as an unreliable old wrestler with bad habits." Team owner George Steinbrenner was not on hand , watching it from his home in Tampa. ...

Phillies Breakfast Links, November 5, 2009: Too Depressed to Eat Breakfast, Ma Edition
The Good Phight — ... I swear this was one of the first postgame links out there last night. But for crissakes, the lede that you take is that it's a damn shame there's no game 7 in Yankees Stadium, and this continues a 52-year drought of game 7s? Right there-RIGHT THERE-I tapped into the vein of deep Yankee Loathing from which I will never return. It just seems like this is what America would be like if the Nazis had won. Don't believe me? Then try  ...

Yankees Win No. 27, All is Right in The Baseball World
The Big Lead — After nine long years, sports fans nationwide can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the New York Yankees have returned to glory, winning their 27th World Championship. The lovable Hideki Matsui was named World Series MVP. For Yankee fans, the sequence of events in Game 6 that led to the crowning moment could not have gone down in more satisfying fashion. Andy Pettitte, the old reliable one who’s stepped up countless times, kept the Phillies at bay on short rest, allowing three runs over 5 2/3 innings. Mariano Rivera, the Richard Alpert of baseball, trotted onto the field with one out in the eighth and once again shut the door. And ...