Without screams, pirouettes, jabs at the sky, dropping to the knees, or even posing with a plaque, the media is taken out of its game.

Jose Molina congratulates Mariano Rivera on career total save stat 513, 479 th in regular season. Mariano, as the photo indicates, is polite, but not interested in the regular season total save stat

• and would rather his team were winning. This simple philosophy takes the game away from the media.

They have invested millions to manipulate this phony stat. It's of course misleading in the extreme to make a hierarchy around the regular season save stat (which isn't even quantified today as Jerome Holtzman originated) and try to fix Rivera in it. Rivera in effect says thanks but no thanks, have a nice day, but I'm about something different. ap photo

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