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In Praise of Mariano Rivera on 20/9/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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What most people are saluting at this historic moment is this man's save total. But what we prefer to salute is the astonishing career that produced all those saves. And friends, there has never been another career like it. Jayson Stark(via ESPN.com) , with a slew of easy-to-follow statistical evidence to back up Mariano Rivera's incomparable dominance.

DON'T MISS: SI's Joe Posnanski on "the meaning of 600 saves." (Tipped last week on Quickish when it was first published, naturally.)

WATCH: via MLB.com, the record-setting save.
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Mariano Rivera Gets Ready for Goodbye on 10/3/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
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At the mouth of the room while almost no one was looking he whispered to no one in particular, "Wow," and maybe we can read something into Mariano Rivera's Saturday morning wow. Maybe there's meaning stuffed into the "o" and tucked into the "w's." Maybe his awe at the hubbub of his retirement press conference encapsulates his posture of gratefulness. Chuck Culpepper(via SportsOnEarth.com)
In Praise of Mariano Rivera on 8/3/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The delicate balance of perfection and failure is Rivera's greatest legacy, one he will try to parlay into one last season of excellence. He still hasn't thrown a pitch in a game this spring, his right knee just now nearing ready for in-game action after the anterior cruciate ligament inside of it gave on a warning track during batting practice last May. Rivera, now 43, wasn't going out like that, a crumbled mess in Kansas City. He wanted it his way. Jeff Passan(via Yahoo Sports)

MORE: "Among the many great Mariano Rivera stats: 141 innings in the postseason, and he's allowed just two homers -- none in his last 57 games... You could have a pretty healthy debate about whether Rivera or M.Jordan has been the best postseason performer in U.S. pro sports history... To review Rivera's postseason numbers: 0.70 ERA in 141 innings (two full seasons for a reliever), over 96 games." (ESPN.com's Buster Olney, via Twitter)

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