Mariano Rivera set the bar pretty high in 2013 when Andy
Pettitte and Derek Jeter took him out of his final game in the Bronx by sobbing
on the mound in Andy’s arms. I think we all hoped and halfway expected Jeter to
cry during his last trip to the Bronx but he didn’t, and neither did I.
If the Yankees had taken him out the way they had planned
with a parade around the field and players like Bernie Williams, Tino Martinez,
Joe Torre, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte, Rivera, etc. I think I would have sobbed
like a baby and I think Derek would have to. Instead Derek went out the way
Derek wanted to go out, playing a full nine innings, being the hero, and
winning the game.
It’s hard to cry after you get so emotionally pumped up
after a walk off victory. A victory that I halfway take credit for as when the
bottom of the 8th started I predicted on Twitter that David
Robertson would blow the save so that Jeter could walk off. I have been known
as the “Yankee Wizard” on Twitter in recent weeks due to predicting almost
everything but the winning lottery numbers and Thursday night was no different.
It truly amazes me that Jeter continues to one up himself and it amazes me even
more than we haven’t come to expect it yet.
I didn’t cry Thursday night and neither did Jeter but I
truly think that will be a totally different story tomorrow when his season and
his career ends after 20 great and magical seasons. Well, at least one of us
will cry and I’m not afraid to admit it.
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