DRAWING on OBSERVATIONS

Ball point pen on today’s newsprint

What we’ve known all along, is now official. Mariano Rivera is the best closer that ever played baseball.

Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

The Yankees opened a new Stadium on Thursday. The house that Ruth built now stands empty across the street as the current crop of Yankees hope to build a winning tradition in their new digs. It was fitting that perhaps the greatest closer/relief pitcher of all time, Mariano Rivera, recorded the first ever save at the new stadium on Friday April 17th.