{"id":69271,"date":"2013-07-14T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=69271"},"modified":"2015-11-07T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T13:01:40","slug":"i-dont-think-many-people-have-figured-him-out-at-all-raul-ibanez-on-mariano-rivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=69271","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don\u2019t think many people have figured him out at all.\u201d &#8211; Raul Ibanez on Mariano Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/mlb\/story\/mariano-rivera-foes-pour-out-love-respect-for-retiring-new-york-yankee-legend-all-star-game-071313\" target=\"_blank\">Wonderful piece on legendary soon-to-retire pitcher Mariano Rivera<\/a>, from the perspective of those who have faced him down.  Great stories.  I love Bill Mueller&#8217;s one comment (and boy do I remember that hit):  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rivera has appeared in 96 postseason games, and it speaks to his brilliance that we mostly remember those stunning occasions when he didn\u2019t record the final out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why you\u2019re talking to me,\u201d Mueller acknowledged. \u201cIt is shocking. That\u2019s how dominant he\u2019s been over the years, especially in the playoffs. He\u2019s one of the most special guys in the history of the game.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love great pitchers.  It seems to me they have the secret to &#8230; something.  They know stuff we don&#8217;t.  They see the world in ways we can&#8217;t imagine.  Even professional baseball players, who are all thoroughbreds in their own given field, seem in awe of Rivera.  He&#8217;s on another level.  Love it.  <\/p>\n<p>And the last anecdote brought tears to my eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful piece on legendary soon-to-retire pitcher Mariano Rivera, from the perspective of those who have faced him down. Great stories. I love Bill Mueller&#8217;s one comment (and boy do I remember that hit): Rivera has appeared in 96 postseason games, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=69271\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109850,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69271\/revisions\/109850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}