But wait, the Sox were villains when Pedro made the same kind of comments. Here's your timeline, when it begins is irrelevant, but this is the coming chain of events:
-at some point, someone will call Mo out for the points made here
-this ice breaker will open a series (not many but not few) articles critical of Rivera
-he'll sign elsewhere
-blame will shift (press and fans) to the Yankees and how they did a "hatchet job" in the papers to send him off
-everyone wakes up, and it's nothing but puff pieces in the press
Happened with Pedro, some of it happened with Damon, and nitwits like 26 thought it was exemplary of how the Sox treat their "heroes". Such things would "never" happen with the saintly Yankees.
Personally, I agree with what most of you are saying now, about how Mo needs to STFU, and if a team wants the year to evaluate the player, then that's how it is. At the same time, you have to understand Mo's POV. If they are going to evaluate him, then he can evaluate them, and that's all he's doing. No preferential treatment from them, none from him. Tit for tat. Even, Steven. All that said, I'm loving it. Loving it for no reason other than the thought of people like 26 realizing the glass house they built out of Yankee "class" doesn't provide much shelter in a wind storm and the debris is flying around.