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Tuesday, August 26, 2003

does the Afro feed on the brain? 


Shank does it again it today's Globe:
Careful, Red Sox fans. I think a couple of you who were at Fenway Park yesterday did not get out of your seats and applaud when Pedro Martinez came off after his sixth and final inning of work. The little guy might think that's disrespectful. It might make him leave town after he collects his $17.5 million next year. And that would be the end of the baseball world as we know it.

Time for New England to cowboy up and make Pedro feel welcome. There's still time to make him like us. But it's going to take a concentrated effort.

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And let the word go forth to the people at sports radio: No more hosts saying that Pedro should have pitched when he was sick. No more callers questioning Pedro's injuries or illnesses. Callers from now on will be screened to make sure they aren't going to say anything to offend the ace. We don't want Pedro to leave Boston, no sir.

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Too bad something went wrong along the way. Too bad he got it in his head that we don't respect him. Too bad he wants to leave.
How dare anybody question Pedro Martinez's desire to pitch? Isn't it just rumoer-mongering to carry on a radio program which, without a single fact to back your theory, does nothing but speculate that maybe Pedro called in sick because he is PMS-ing because media won't let up that he missed the team photo? Of all the childish and ridiculous things that get said in the Boston Media, to suggest that Pedro was faking an illness to get the heat off of his back for missing the team photo was just asinine.

Pedro has every right to be pissed off at the culture of negativity in this town. Where else but Boston could the radio flapping-heads resolve themselves to hoping that Manny Ramirez's mother actually is very sick, so that we can be sure he isn't lying to the ballclub.
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