{"id":7763,"date":"2013-09-30T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2013-09-30T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:33:40","slug":"mariano-rivera-a-moving-last-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7763","title":{"rendered":"Mariano Rivera: a moving last appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rivera’s last Yankee Apperance. Photo Jim McIsaac\/Long Island Newsday.<\/p><\/div>\n

As cool and awesomely thought out as it was for the Yankees to get\u00a0Metallica<\/em> to perform a live version<\/a> of\u00a0Mariano Rivera<\/strong>‘s signature walk-on song Enter Sandman<\/em> <\/strong>earlier this week, this was even cooler;\u00a0Derek Jeter<\/strong> and\u00a0Andy Pettitte<\/strong> coming out to pull him<\/a> from his last home game. \u00a0The 5 minute ovation was great, but I gotta admit this video is pretty moving. \u00a0You’re not a baseball fan if you’re not a least a little choked up here.<\/p>\n

A legend moves on. \u00a0The greatest reliever by any measure (opinion or stats) will set the bar pretty high going forward for any hall-of-fame calibre closer to achieve once he’s enshrined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  As cool and awesomely thought out as it was for the Yankees to get\u00a0Metallica to perform a live version of\u00a0Mariano Rivera‘s signature walk-on song Enter Sandman earlier this week, this was even cooler;\u00a0Derek Jeter and\u00a0Andy Pettitte coming out to pull him from his last home game. \u00a0The 5 minute ovation was great, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1390,3],"tags":[704,354,171],"class_list":["post-7763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hall-of-fame","category-mlbpitching","tag-andy-pettitte","tag-derek-jeter","tag-mariano-rivera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}