BRONX CHEER BACK AT YA, by Mike Vaccaro
".....those who see falling skies and gloomy times ahead because Rivera has committed the unpardonable sin of breaking slow from the gate"
This is not about Mariano "breaking slow from the gate." It's about (perhaps) the biggest blown save in Yankee history in game 4 of the ALCS last Oct., and about blowing four straight saves to the hated Red Sox. This year's slow start was just the last straw -- the boo-birds were bound to vent. Mo (and people like Vaccaro) should take note of Jeter's words from last April (during the worst slump of his career) -- "If I were in the stands I'd have booed me too."
Yep.
2 blown saves in a row to the Bosox is an anomoly; 4 blown saves in a row -- on the heels of the two that would have closed out a series is a trend.
Mo deserves to be booed, plain and simple. The guy is killin' us. And yes, he ought to take a cue from Jeets reaction last April.