So MLB Network has these World Series summaries by year, and they're always interesting. Of course, I like seeing the Yankee ones. Today, they had 1996. I may have said this on this blog before, but I totally remember watching the games, even though I was 9. It was pretty upsetting to see the Yankees lose the first two games at the Stadium in embarrassing fashion, with them getting absolutely destroyed in one game and shut out in another. With the series heading to Atlanta for the next three, pretty much everyone wrote the Yankees off. But they showed remarkable resiliency, behind a David Cone pitching gem in Game 3, a miraculous comeback from being down 6-0 in Game 4, and a positively brilliant performance by Andy Pettitte in Game 5. They won Game 6 and the series in the Stadium, and I can still remember how freaking exciting it was. :)
AAAAANYWAY the point I was trying to make here was, at one point, they showed Mariano Rivera, who was barely a rookie at that time, and the setup man for John Wetteland, who had a really dirty hat. Mariano pitched, and struck some guys out... AND HE FIST PUMPED!!!! REALLY VIGOROUSLY!!!! LIKE JOBA!!!! I was cracking up!
Speaking of the '96 Yankees, I have some advice from Mariano Duncan to this year's version of the squad: "We play today, we win today. 'Das it."
