if MMQB came into my house I might have to shoot himPeter King on Pedro: "It's times like these when I wish Pedro Martinez would just shut up, put cotton in his ears, not read the papers, and just pitch." Peter, you're just so damn wrong about this one. I was listening to WEEI when it was announced that Pedro wasn't going to start on due to "flu-like symptoms", and Glenn Ordway ought to be ashamed of himself. For all the bitching and moaning about the Media in this town, never were the players more right than when Ordway, Shepperd and the rest of the dead weight that day were questioning Pedro's heart. Michael Felger, typically a strong Pedro supporter, must have gone temporarily insane to demand that Pedro 'show-up and pitch throught it.' Of course, Shank Shaughnessy had the stupidest comments of all on his radio show: The guy might have been sick, we have to take that on faith that he was sick, but there's certainly reason to be suspicious of some of these guys right now and he's one of them. He blows off the team picture, he's been hypersensitive this year, he's lugging around 9 wins on August 22nd which is hardly Cy Young caliber. I'm sick of him, you know? He's a great pitcher when he's on. He's become 3/4 of a pitcher that you cannot count on anymore. It's unfortunate that he got sick so we hope he gets well, how's that. But I think as many have said, you got to be near-death-bed to be not pitching that game last night under the circumstances.Suspicious Shank? Suspicious of who? As Michael Felger normally would tell you, Pedro Martinez is the grittiest DirtDog of them all. No one has more desire to compete and perform than Pedro Martinez. So Peter, when the media says stupid things like "Pedro is calling is sick because he's a-scared", and the fans totally forget what Pedro did for us by coming out of the bullpen with his arm falling off in Game 5 of the '99 ALDS and embarassing the Indians with junk, then he has every right to question the sanity of Beantown. |
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