As I believe someone else mentioned, the crazy thing is that it is basically either good news or terrible news. There’s not much leeway here. Please, please please be good news.

EDITED TO ADD: I actually hadn’t seen the video when I made my comment. Now that I have…yeah…well…that looks pretty damn awful.

Rivera out or not, the Rays are running away in this division.

Rivera out for the season

Yep, torn ACL.

Awesome.

What a horrible way to end his career.

I don’t care about baseball anymore.

What a horrible way to end his career.

You don’t think he’ll give it another try next season, go out on his own terms?

I’m really trying to be Captain Brightside over here. Late game innings from the BP is the very least of this teams problems right? RIGHT?

OTF, I reserve my space in the caravan.  Remind me in about 4 years, please.
 
Well, this season went to hell in a handbasket faster than Teix can kill a rally.

Remember where you were at this moment, boys and girls.

Second thought, best not. Just try to drink it away.

Late game innings from the BP is the very least of this teams problems right? RIGHT?

Yeah.  I mean on paper we’re maybe talking a win or two at the most.  I’m just pissed that I may never see Mo on the mound again.  It’s going to make this season a lot less enjoyable.

[7] - At his age?  I doubt it. I hope he does, and if he tries it I’d never doubt him but he said he was done after this year. Coming back from this is going to make playing next year much harder than he thought. He has the saves record. I wouldn’t put money on it.

Yeah.  I mean on paper we’re maybe talking a win or two at the most.  I’m just pissed that I may never see Mo on the mound again.  It’s going to make this season a lot less enjoyable.

Oh yeah, as soon as I saw the injury I was already rationalizing it away (Hughes to the pen to take Robertson’s slack and Robertson takes over from Mo pretty damn well), but there’s how this affects the Yankees chances of winning and there’s “OH MY FUCKING CHRIST, MO MIGHT NEVER PITCH AGAIN!”

The latter thought takes up all my mind right now.

This sucks.  I’ll give it a week or so, but I’m on the cusp of writing off this season.

Really, there are only two reasons to watch this team right now.  Jeter and Granderson at the top of the lineup, and seeing what Robertson does now as the closer.  I find the rest of the team as currently constituted dull and uninteresting, although that’ll change when Gardner gets back I guess.

Terrible.  I will absolutely not watch the video.

Terrible.

Maybe I should just stop paying attention for the year…...can I do it?  I’d like to….

Swish and Gardner injured. Bench “depth” consists of Iguana, Jones, Nunez. Teix is a gaping black hole in the lineup.

You know who would have been better to hang on to ?

Shelley Duncan, that’s who.

[11] When put in that context… a wee bit of moisture can be found in my right eye. Captain Brightside says Mrs. Lidle and Mrs. Munson scoff at our selfish whinings. It could be worse. Brians last sentence pretty much sums up Petty Officer Mo lovers real feelings.

Just received my Yankees ticket package in the mail today. First time ever getting one of these. Maybe I can trade them straight up for Red Bulls tickets.

Have a feeling we were going nowhere slowly in any case

Is Aceves available?

[9] Pete called shotgun.  This may be a very large crew. I still have my CDL but I’ll not be driving once we get to Doubleday Field.

What a disaster.  Poor Mo.

Ugh, worst. season. ever. And its only the start of May.

He is going back to NYC to be evaluated by the Yankee doctors so they will probably amputate his arm by mistake by this time tomorrow.

This is Mariano we’re talking about. I refuse to believe he’s done playing baseball after this. Refuse.

Hopefully he can talk to Andy and learn about how retirement sucks hard.

He is going back to NYC to be evaluated by the Yankee doctors so they will probably amputate his arm by mistake by this time tomorrow.

Yeah, I love the idea of re-evaluating it. It’s a freakin’ torn ACL! What do you need to evaluate?

[12] When did Mo say he was done after the season? I thought he more or less hinted at it.

this season is one big pile of suck.

A-Rod, Tex, Iguanez, Nunez, Hughes, Garcia just a poor old team.

I’m not as broken up about Mo. Yes, the way he should have ended his career was notching a save, preferably in a W.S. clincher, but that ain’t gonna happen with this team.

Nope, I think Mo will announce his retirement before the season is over.

Tomorrow we need to pick a song for Robertson.  I think I’m going to cry myself to sleep now.  Please come back, Mo.

Fuck TS Eliot. May is the cruelest month.

Ash. Even the whiskey tastes like ash.

You guys are crazy.  Mo is Mo.  He’ll just pitch with his left arm, or use the force, or something.

This certainly is lousy news.

Maybe this is denial, but I’ll worry about Mo never pitching again when he tells us he’s never pitching again.

And it really shouldn’t be the death sentence on the season.  I’m with Old thurm in [8], the bullpen is deep enough and if Girardi has a strength it’s developing new relievers mid-season.  Gardner and Swisher will be back soon, Tex and Cano have got to improve, and soon Pettitte will make his triumphant return.  Drown your sorrows tonight and then BUCK UP PEOPLE!  Mo wouldn’t want to hear all this negativity!

I’m trying to work out something with Jesus and God in it and all I can think of is that we might never see Mariano pitch again.

This sucks.

A-Rod has an .OBP over .370 and had a hell of an AB against a guy throwing absolute smoke in the ninth. Don’t give up yet. But yeah, it’s been a horrible season so far.

Mo’s comments after the game.

I couldn’t watch that all the way through.

Well, it sounds like Mo is in fact worried if he’ll ever pitch again:

http://bombersbeat.mlblogs.com/2012/05/04/his-season-likely-over-mariano-rivera-unsure-if-he-will-pitch-again/

Well, it sounds like Mo is in fact worried if he’ll ever pitch again:

http://bombersbeat.mlblogs.com/2012/05/04/his-season-likely-over-mariano-rivera-unsure-if-he-will-pitch-again/

Oh, of course he has to be worried about that. He’s 42 and he just suffered a major injury. He certainly has to wonder if he’ll be ABLE to pitch again. But I think his worry suggests to me that he plans on pitching again if he CAN.

This season will be a lot less fun. I hope he reconsiders his decision to retire, and gets healthy and pitches again next season.

The only way this man should end his career is by sending a perfect cutter, breaking a bat, or record a strikeout, and then walk-off the field after he has exchanged handshakes with everyone with his trademark smile.

This is post number 42. Hopefully this becomes prophetic for the last No. 42 of baseball.

Christ, I’ve never seen a group of reporters so uncomfortable as in that interview. That had to be brutal in there to stun that many NY beat guys.

I think there should be another banner up above the site: it has been 13 hours 7 minutes and 26 seconds since Mariano Rivera tore his ACL

Woke up this morning to learn that the last shred of my youth has been snuffed out, ignonimously, and in Kansas City no less.  So long as Mo was Mo, I remained a young man.  The first thought that came to my mind when I read it was of Switch in the Matrix, just before Cipher pulls the plug on her back in reality.  “Not like this, not like this.”  It’s so unintentionally cheesy for all her earnestness, and every time I see it I wait for it and laugh out loud.  But now my imagination has tied it to Mo’s career.  And it’s not so funny anymore.

Someone over at fangraphs said it well and true: “Yankees traded away Jesus, and now God goes down.”