“I’ve said this as long as I can remember: Roy was a very normal person with a very exceptionally amazing job,” she said. “And so many of the guys that I’ve known in my life through baseball, they work so hard to hide that. That’s all I wanted to say there — real people doing really great things.”Her speech followed Mussina’s and preceded those of Baines, Martinez, Smith and Rivera — the closer again, naturally. “All that stuff about that person who should have been there and now is not — it’s hard to understand,” Rivera said. “Most of the stuff I saw was just personality stuff, like him just being stupid,” he said, to laughs.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2019 00:22 UTC