seems like there has been a lot of professional athletes with acl tears the last few months.

We won’t see Mo pitch tonight. Or tomorrow. Or the day after that, or next week, or next month…no Mariano. Every day this season he will fail to turn up on the mound and we’ll have to watch him not showing up, like Imelda Marcos watching the Beatles not show up.

Impotent rage.

I really hope he comes back. This is not a way to end things. Better to end it on the mound leaving it on your own terms like Mussina rather than crumpled on the warning track in KC during pre game warmups. But Mo may feel differently.

From what I’ve read, a high qualtiy rehab is very difficult. That this effects the entire lower half… and hammys and other muscles take a hit and also have to be rehabed.

We will need to wait for the entire process of testing, diagnosis and prognosis.

Mo is great… but he is 42.
He will literally need a ‘Godlike’ motivation to come back.

we were all sort of preparing ourselves for this being mo’s last year, but to have it just abruptly end like that so suddenly, so shitty, so unlike mo – there is no poetry to it, no gracefulness, no quiet glory – just feels so empty.

Crushing as a fan. And I’m sure it’s devastating to his teammates. Am so not interested in how the team does this year.

I’m in disbelief. My entire baseball watching summer was ruined on a night in Kansas City, on May 3rd, 2012.

This is the second biggest adversarial position a team can come back from, losing the heart and soul of your team. The player who will make you feel calm, who will always make you feel as if it is all alright. Even in defeat. He was a once in a lifetime player. Sofa king sad right now.

Btw, I better not hear someone in the mass media question the decision of letting Mo shag fly balls. I just might go apeshit.

When Munson died, it was the same thing. Loss. Emptyness. Watching that infamous game after his death, about to lose, until Murcer drove in the tying and winning runs late in the game. Feeling elated that BOBBY DID IT! and feeling the loss of Munson all the more. I remeber I was crying with both joy… and loss.

And now Mo. Certainly not the tragedy of Munson. Not the death of an entire era, like when Mickey was no longer playing. But the feeling of great loss will be there, especially for younger fans who didn’t experience Mickey and Thurman.

This loss transcends the game. Everytime the ninth rolls around, and we relish seeing Mo come in, the natural order of things… and then it will hit us. Mo is not here. Winning or losing will be pushed to the background. This loss will transcend the game.

We were all preparing ourselves for Mo’s retirement. Feeling sad, but relishing every last save, every last appearance, the ovations Mo would get, the love that would pour out.

I think for a long time, there will be an incompleteness to every Yankee game.

I think for a long time, we wil be wondering….
Where is Mo?

My son staves off the probable in favor of grandeur and optimism. Down 9 runs with only 3 outs remaining? He’ll concoct a neat scheme with 7 walks, 2 grand slams, and an inside-the-parker to put the Yankees ahead. It’s ridiculous but it’s cute. Welp, The little kid in me just wants Mo to get better and pitch another 2 seasons. Pleeease??