Get Well Soon Mariano Rivera from Mariners Nation

May 4, 2012 by Jeff Engels · Leave a Comment

I vaguely recall seeing the young Rivera pictured above for the first time during the 1995 playoff series with the Yankees. Rivera did not become the closer for the Yankees till 1996 but he did see action in games 2,3 and 5 of that thrilling playoff match-up that was perhaps the highlight of my many […]

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Bryce Harper Gets It

April 6, 2011 by Austin Gisriel · 2 Comments

Bryce Harper is not only extremely talented, he gets it. For the rest of us, our talent ran out at some point, whether it was Little League or high school or college or even the minor leagues. If the game abandoned us, however, we never abandoned it; and so we talk about it and write […]

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