Be nice to my Yankees. The son of Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer/reliever in the history of the universe is going to enroll at QU this fall. He is “the best that is, the best that ever was and the best that ever will be” (with apologies for ripping off language from The Natural). Just in case the younger Rivera, when taking time from his studies, his Pentecostal worship, and his baseball duties, may review this column of this idiot Mike Lewis, I have responded at my customary length in The Quad News. Whether they publish my response remains to be seen.
I would be the last person on FR to insult the Yankees, as watching them kick sniveling Red Sox ass is one of my great joys in life. The ‘78 playoff game is my favorite childhood memory. And for the past three seasons I have been instructing my LL teams to watch Rivera, because they won’t ever see another like him. Mo Jr. graduated from Iona Prep, where two of my brothers went. At Fordham Prep, we may not have had Mo’s kid, but we did have Frankie Frisch (”The Fordham Flash”), Vin Sculley, and George Stirnweiss. BTW, we also had John L. Lahey ‘64 - President of Quinnipiac University. Go Rams!