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.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. |