Comments on: Brother From Another Planet

By: Dimelo

Dimelo — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:03:21 +0000

Wow, that was awesome to read. I love Pinto’s analytical mind, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed Pinto being biased. It’s just: here are the facts, like them or not, they don’t lie.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:28:23 +0000

5) I especially like the one on the outside corner.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:32:49 +0000

Oh yeah, and he can field, too.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:31:42 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the most beautiful thing in all of baseball (and I’m including a Cano liner to the gap in left as well as his pivots) is a backwards K from Mo. Particularly a backdoor backwards K.

I mean, my God.

By: wsporter

wsporter — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:09:11 +0000

With Mo: you can’t define it or capture it. He simply does it. Shattered ash translated from the length and shape of his arm and fingers intersecting the depth of his thoughts. I shake my head as I do when I feel genius.

By: rbj

rbj — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:05:31 +0000

Mo.

It’s not just the pitch, it’s the serenity Mo has about him.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:19:30 +0000

Ditto!

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:17:03 +0000

Not just because of the one pitch, but because of all the thoughts it creates.

For example: could Rivera pitch until he was 50 by adding a changeup? (I know we always break out in cheers when he uses a changeup a couple of times every spring.) Or would using something other than the cutter “ruin” the cutter? He did mix in a fastball not all that long ago, without that harming the cutter. Could he do it with a changeup?

I just feel privileged to watch him.