Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Interesting. This runs counter to my interpretation of everything he has said since spring training. Of course I’ve been wrong may times before trying to read between the lines - just ask my wife. Nevertheless, this is the most uplifting thing I’ve read today.

Great news!

I sincerely doubt he was coming back next year if this hadn’t happened, but I am happy to hear he wants to try a comeback.

How much do you think he’ll be looking for, salary-wise?

He’ll probably ask for $20M.  Can’t he make the case that he’s at least twice as good as Soriano?

I suppose he may give a discount if he feels guilty about missing a large chunk of 2012.

[3] - I read that as

1) At the beginning of the year Mo told friends he would be coming back in 2013.
2) Because of #1, Reggie thinks he will be try to make a comeback from the injury.

Not the way you took it.

I can’t see Mo letting a freak injury end his career. He’ll come back because he wants to end his career on his terms, not on his knee’s terms.

Knowing that we may see Mo pitch again makes me feel a little better. What would really make me feel better is a win tonight - which means CC has to pitch a shutout. Hopefully he doesn’t hurt himself doing that.

This story has seriously helped a crappy 24 hours feel much better.  I was optimistic before this that Mo would want to come back.  But, this is encouraging.

I can’t see Mo letting a freak injury end his career. He’ll come back because he wants to end his career on his terms, not on his knee’s terms.

You know, Mo is 42.  Most 42 year olds would kill to be able to go out not on the top of their game but pretty damn close, even if it did mean going because of a freak injury.  Most 42 year olds leave the game because no one is willing to pay them at all for their services. 

If this is it for Mo, instead of thinking about the bad over how it ended, I’m going to think about that and about how he went out doing something he loved, shagging fly balls.  If this is it, it really isn’t a bad way to go out.  If that’s what he wants so be it.  There is something cool about going out this way instead of trying a comeback next year where he can’t drive off his knee and looks like any other 42 year old (I’m looking at you Trevor Hoffman).

http://twitter.com/#!/BryanHoch/status/198515605396140032

Then again there is no shame in playing the game you love until you just can’t play it anymore.  I always respected the hell out of Rickey for doing that.  If that’s what Mo wants God bless him.

Yep.  I’ve always said that if I was a player they’d have to rip the uniform off my back.  Glad to hear Mo’s going to try and come back from this.

Does a player EVER leave on his own terms?  Even when a player leaves w/ something left in the tank (Pettitte 1.0) it’s still because age is creeping up.  Jim Brown and Ricky Williams are the only examples I can think of, and obviously Ricky had to come back.

Barry Sanders.

Moose

Yeah, Sanders is a prime example.

Andy Pettite.  Until he remembered how much he hated his wife and kids.

John Elway.

Mussina, definitely. Said he was retiring, pitched well, fans wanted him back, retired anyway.

If this is it for Mo, instead of thinking about the bad over how it ended, I’m going to think about that and about how he went out doing something he loved, shagging fly balls

Pretty much verbatim from Mo himself in the video that nobody can bring themselves to watch.

Ha, came back here b/c i remembered Sanders.  Good call.  Disagree on Moose.  Yeah, he had a great year, but he still knew that his projection was going to be low.  It’s not like he left a lot of career on the table.

[20] What he left on the table may be the difference between the HOF and falling short.

[20] And 10 million shekels.