Phillies vs. Yankees Game 6 World Series 2009 Predictions & Picks: Chants of “Who’s Your Daddy” will likely be a recurring theme, as the sports betting odds favorite (3-2) New York Yankees [-195 ML] will try to clinch their 27th World Series title against the betting underdog (2-3) Philadelphia Phillies [+182 ML] tonight in Game 6 from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. First pitch for Game 6 of the World Series 2009 Predictions & Picks is scheduled for 7:57 PM ET (4:57 PM PT) live on FOX. According to World Series 2009 Predictions & Picks experts at SportsBook.com, the OVER/UNDER for this Phillies vs. Yankees Game 6 has been officially totaled at a combined 9 runs scored tonight.
With so many outstanding players and so many memorable performances in this year’s World Series 2009 
Predictions & Picks, it’s almost easy to overlook the job that the man they call “MO” has done thus far. 40-year-old, Mariano Rivera, arguably the greatest closer of all-time — especially in the postseason (8-1, 0.75 ERA) with 11 WS saves, the most ever — will be waiting for his number to be called either in the 8th or in the 9th inning tonight.
In either case, if New York has the lead in the late going, and you hear Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” blasts through the Yankee Stadium speakers, the Bronx will erupt, as the world witnesses “the greatest entrance in baseball”. But haven’t you ever wondered what goes on through that man’s head, as he takes his patented jog from the bullpen to center stage, knowing the game hangs on every spin of his signature cutter?
The best way that I can describe what’s happening in Mo’s mind during that time, is sort of like that defining moment in the Matrix movie (“there is no spoon”)… there is no Game 7! "To me, the game's on the line," said Rivera, who enters this Game 6 with 526 career saves and 39 in the postseason (nice round number 40, if he can close out tonight). "And when you're there, you just don't think about tomorrow. You just want to win that game."
With many people making the argument, in recent years, that he’s finished and that his stuff isn’t what it used to be, I would say: Mariano has unquestionably been the MVP of the World Series 2009 Predictions & Picks! "You cannot replace youth," Rivera said. "You cannot replace that. But I think when you get older, you get more wiser. I wish when I was younger, I was this wise."
Some people simply don’t realize what they’re witnessing here. Being able to say, ‘I saw Babe Ruth do the many wonderful things he did’, or ‘I witnessed Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali in the prime of their careers’ are things that not everyone has enjoyed in their lifetime. Ladies and gentleman, all I’m trying to convey to you is that you’re presently watching the greatest closer to ever put on a uniform and to ever toe a mound! Please, don’t take it for granted… enjoy it while he’s still here.
"I don't think there's words that can describe how good he's been, not only for this year but for the 40 years he's been playing, it feels like," Joba Chamberlain recently stated. "Every time I turn on the TV in the postseason, it feels like I watch Mo get an out.
"Just to sit in the bullpen and watch him and talk to him, you realize why he's so good. He pays attention to every small detail, to a way a guy stands in the box to the way he does things early in the game."
Going into tonight’s World Series 2009 Game 6, Rivera has already made 11 postseason appearances in the playoffs. In the process, Mo has limited opponents to one run on nine hits, in his 14 1/3 innings of work. For those non-math majors, that’s a 0.63 ERA, and batters are hitting a ridiculous .176 whenever he has taken that stroll in these playoffs… I’m telling you, MVP!!!
"It's not a luxury every team has," Yankees captain and longtime teammate, Derek Jeter said. "There isn't a closer that's has ever played this game that you'd want to see in that position other than him. He comes around once in a lifetime."
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