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Regardless of weather or not you love or hate the Yankees. If you have a love for the game of Baseball you have respect for iconic figures of the game past present.

Last night while shagging batting practice fly balls in the out field Mariano Rivera, The greatest closer in baseball history with 608 saves, tore the ACL in his right knee. In what has been hinted as possibly his last season you expect to see the respected and great Rivera have another great season to end his Hall of Fame career. Instead of that a tear of the ACL may not only end his season but his career, striping him of the moment he deserves, and the fans like myself anticipate to watch baseball history unfold.

For fans my age and older it has amazing to watch Rivera pitch for 18 years, for one team, compiling all 608 saves.

It's a complete shame that this hero of a generation of baseball fans appears to have been stripped of a proper send off. Yankee fans will remember the feeling of knowing the win was in the bag when Rivera trotted out in the ninth. Fans of opposing teams will remember hoping for a couple of broken bat bloop singles to try to squeak one out.

It's a shame for a hero to go out this way