A bit of insight into Mariano Rivera and what makes him tick.

"The fallacy is that you're searching for a theory in a pile of data, rather than forming a theory and running an experiment to support or disprove it."

But he would, in fact, turn to answer the questions because Rivera by nature is as direct — and minimalist — with words as he is with a pitching motion aptly described by Curtis Granderson, the Yankees’ center fielder, as “calm violence.”