Reggie Jackson on the Jets and Tom Brady:
This guy is an automatic Hall of Famer, making fun of him is like making fun of Mariano Rivera.What are you doing? What are you doing?
I love the idea of Mariano Rivera as a yardstick. He really is that good.
Meanwhile, in The New York Times, David Brooks quotes Reinhold Niebuhr:
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. … Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
This is a beautiful sentiment in a superb column, worth reading in parallel with columnist Conor Williams’ similar essay.
Yet having read all these articles in succession, I cannot help noting that for the Yankees, games must be saved by the final form of saves, which is Mariano Rivera.
