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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 5056446, member: 181"] My Rivera comment was total joking. I was a Red Sox fan from the summer before I went to my first basketball game in the Field House to see Toby Kimball et al 60+ years ago. Semi-regrettably, I'd had my heart broken so many times that I'd pretty much given up following baseball by the time 2004 rolled around. So great was my loss aversion that I watched none of the ALCS 4 consecutive wins against the Yankees in real time. Doh. But honestly only sort of. The trauma was real, and times, people, and priorities change. But as to Rivera, I was shocked whenever he didn't close things out successfully. I regarded his saves as forgone conclusions like nobody else ever. While I didn't pay enough attention to test my opinion, he always struck me as a really good guy too. [/QUOTE]