Mariano is Baseballs all time save leader

Mariano is Baseballs all time save leader. Let that sink in, Mariano Rivera now at the age of 41 has acheived his 42 save of the year and become baseballs all time save leader with 602 saves. Its very frustrating for me because I was supposed to be at today's game but I had a last second meeting this morning and couldn't go. For awhile it looked like AJ would pitch well enough that he Mariano Rivera would not be necessary as the Yankees were up 5-0 after the 3rd inning and Burnett had struck out 7. Then he had a shaky 4th but got through it with giving up one run on a homerun. Then in the 5th the wheels came off and Burnett gave up 3 straight hits including a home run to Michael Cuddyer and was yanked for Corey Wade who loaded the bases and gave up one run on a ground out before striking out the next two batters. The Yankees tagged on another run on an A-Rods single and Granderson hustling in from second. The Twins twice threatened in the 6th but Logan retired the lefty and it was cruise control from there. The only threat to 602 saves for Mariano was the Yankee offense but Nick Swisher's GDP ended that threat. Mariano Rivera came in and his first two pitches were bad, but after that it was vintage Mo with a ground out and a fly out, then we all gathered around the TV as Mariano got called strike, a foul ball before having a perfect cutter on the outside corner to strike out Chris Parmelee looking. It was picture perfect ending in the same way that Derek Jeter's home run 3,000th hit was.

The only question now is where will Mariano be ranked all-time in the greatest Yankees. Sliding into home ripped Kevin Kernan here for ranking Mariano 5th all time behind Ruth, Gehrig,  DiMaggio and Jeter. Sliding into home is right though; Mariano is the Greatest closer of all-time and nobody will ever be as good as Mo is, but he is in my mind 8th alltime in the list of the greatest Yankees  ranking behind with the top ten looking like this:
1. Babe Ruth
2. Lou gehrig
3.Mickey Mantle
4. Joe DiMaggio
5. Derek Jeter
6. Yogi Berra
7. Whitey Ford
8. Mariano Rivera
9. Bill Dickey
10. Jorge Posada
The best part is Mo will be around for another year at least and we all need to make sure we get out and see Mariano while he is still here. I got to see him get the save against the Mariners on July 26, 2011 and his entrance to Enter Sandman was epic especially for a Metal head like me. However I will always regret not going to today's game, but I had a friend who had tickets to the game where Derek Jeter hit his 3,000th so I guess now we are even. In case you missed it here it is: