What the hell happened to the Red Sox organization?

Mariano Rivera is recognized as probably the greatest closer in baseball. He is a highly respected and well-liked man who works his craft with true skill and sportsmanship. No one has a bad thing to say about Mo.

During spring training, he announced that this would be his last year pitching in the major leagues. During his announcement, he asked that each team make some time for him to meet with the non-baseball people in each park because he wanted to say thank you to people like the grounds keepers, the food vendors, the security people, etc...

When the season started, the teams obliged him by scheduling meetings with people before the first game where the Yankees were at their respective parks. They even went a little further and each team put together a tribute/gift for Mariano before the last game where the Yankees where at their respective park.

I'm pretty sure the best gift he got was from the Twins.

Mo' is known as a broken bat pitcher because he threw the ball a bit inside and so hard that when the batter made contact, the bat usually shattered. The Twins put some thought into their gift, took a bunch of broken bats and put them together in the form of a rocking chair. They called it the Chair of Broken Dreams.

Last night was the last regular season game between the Yankees and the Red Sox and the Red Sox did their tribute/gift thing.

I don't know who planned the gifts but they sucked.

They gave him a shitty painting of himself (didn't even look like him), a piece of the score board with his number on it, a crappy blue chair from the stands and the old pitching rubber from the bull pen.

That must have cost them all of $200.00....

I don't know who planned the tribute but it sucked.

They played the scene of him stepping out onto the field at the start of the 2005 season. For those of you that don't know, he gave up a home run to the Red Sox at the end of the 2004 season that pretty much got them into the World Series. At the start of the 2005 season, during the ring ceremony where the Red Sox received their World Series rings, the Boston fans gave Mariano a standing ovation when he walked on to the field.

So the tribute the Red Sox put together for him was basically a video of him losing.

Way to rub salt in the wound....

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If I lived in Boston, I'd vote for this guy. Whoever designed that building should be dragged from their bed and dipped in pig snot.

North or South, it doesn't matter. Those Koreans are all krazy.

Key phrase in this story: "...soaked in bear saliva that reeked of fish."