SAY IT AINT MO!!!!

As a life long Yankee fan and someone that views baseball as his "A, Number 1 Sport", I want to say how sickening this is.  The games all time best reliever/Closer shouldn't go out like this. A smart Friend posted something today and I will back him.  MO, I hope you come back.  WE know you have the will to come back.  But come back if you want to.  You don't owe the Yankees or us as fans anything.  You have been a professional, smart and one of the most durable players we have ever had. If you feel the need to have it end different, then please do. Mo said when he signed his last contract "GOD WILL TELL ME WHEN IT"S TIME TO STOP PLAYING BASEBALL", well I wish he could have waited until the off season to let Mo know it was time to hang it up because I would have loved to see him go out the way he should... making the last out in the World Series, just like he has done 5 times before. 

Now it starts already.  Panic, disarray and an all out scramble to decide who the new closer is.  Obvious choice is Robertson. The air-apparent to the role has not given up a run all year and is showing no signs of slowing down.  When asked about it thought, D-Rob said "I don't know if I'm ready to be the closer yet."  Now, I know he's still in shock that this happened (we all area) and wasn't expecting to mentally prepare for this role until the off season (even Mo had that), but D-Rob you need to man up.  We need you.  Now more then ever.  Please find that something that the great closers have deep down.  Something that they turn on when the game is on the line that makes then hear and know nothing except it is time to get that save.

I heard the debate about putting Soriano in the closer role and it's not a bad one. Reason are:

• He stinks as a 7thin inning guy and stunk as a 8th inning guy (hence why Robertson got the opportunity in the first place)
• His best role was when he was a closer even if it was in front of 10,000 fans a night and not 50,000
• Your paying him 11.5 million a year for this and next year
• It gives Robertson the Mental time he needs to prepare for the Role
• If he fails, so what, he goes back to the 8th or 7th inning, if Robertson Fails, then what? We're Really Screwed

It's hard for me to say that it shouldn't be D-Rob but I see the argument for Soriano too.  Especially if life for the Yankees play out as so:

• Hugh's Can't find any consistency as a starter and we need to put him back in the bullpen.  Now he is the 7th inning guy
• Joba and his freakish recovery ability comes back and is ready to help out in the bullpen as well
• Soriano can now be Moved for some Starting Pitching or a Position player later in the season with a Chamberlin,Hughs,Robertson final 3 giving Robertson enough time to mentally grasp the fact he is the man and has to be the man.

Who knows. Jeremy Lin tore his ACL and was out 4 months... Shumpert tore it and is out 6 to 8 months... No one has said how long Derek Rose is going to be out with his and Terrel Suggs is out most of if not all of the next season with the same injury.... You just don't know.  What I do know is the Advantage the Yankees have had for almost 20 years over every team in baseball is now gone.  No one was Mo and no one will be Mo. 

You watch Legends Pitch and Play and sometime don't realize or appreciate it until it is gone.  Thanks for everything Mo.  Hope you have a speedy recovery and I hope to see you pitching in Pinstripes again... But if not that's OK too..   GOTTA GO TO MO!