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Hey Pedro Martinez, Stick To Baseball Instead Of Smearing Yanks' Fans
LAST NIGHT THE YANKEES TOOK A TWO GAME LEAD OVER the Phillies with the help of the post-season's most seasoned pitcher, Andy Pettitte, who even got base hit and an RBI to tie the score in the fifth inning!
Final Score: Yanks 8, Phils 5. With Yanks ace CC Sabathia on the mound tonight, I predict the Yankees with take a three games to one lead.
For the sake of Pedro Martinez, I hope Philadelphians behave themselves.
On Thursday night, the Yankees evened up the 2009 World Series at a game a piece by squeaking out the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 and handing a loss to their old rival, righty pitcher Martinez.
After the game, the oft-contemptible Martinez took a wide swipe at Yankees fans. No doubt this was his immature way of dealing with the loss.
Apparently Pedro had been heckled by a foul-mouthed Yankee fan who was spitting out expletives in front of his own daughter. Pedro took it upon himself to chastise the man.
That's fine, Pedro. Good for you. But, later on during a post-game press conference, you made it sound like this one obnoxious fan represents all Yankee fans!
Pedro's beef: "It's a new Yankee Stadium, but the fans remain the fans…like I remember one guy sitting right in front, in the front row, with his daughter… He had his daughter in one arm and a cup of beer in the other hand and saying all kinds of nasty stuff. I just told him, 'Your daughter is right beside you. It's a little girl. It’s a shame you’re saying all these things.'
"I had to stop and tell him because I'm a father myself, and God, how can you be so dumb to do those kinds of things in front of your child? What kind of example are you setting?"
Hello? There are approximately 19 million people in the Greater New York Metropolitian Area alone. We are an insurmountably diverse group, hailing from an immense variety of upbringings and cultural and financial backgrounds. For Martinez to single out this one schmuck at a press conference is ridiculous.
Why do it? Because he's smug, not man enough to just talk about the game itself and the fact that he lost, that's why.
I suppose the crowds at Philadelphia sporting events are much more wary of watching their mouths around minors then? Not so.
Two years ago when the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers met with the Washington Capitals in the first round of the playoffs, it was evident that Flyers fans weren't too fond of Capital's left wing Alexander Ovechkin. You could clearly hear, on live national television, Flyers' fans chanting "F**k Ovechkin! F**k Ovechkin!"
I'm pretty sure this rowdy bunch hadn't thought twice about the fact that there were kids in the arena.
Word out on the street this, Philledelphia fans do this kind of thing all the time. So, Pedro, it's fine if you want to tell one man to watch his mouth around his daughter, but don't group him in with the rest of us classy Yankee fans!
Peter Lawrence bustles down Broadway in an Empire state of mind. You can email him at PLawrenceNYC@gmail.com.
Comments
Pedro has every right to talk about what he experienced; and others can say the same about what happens to them in Philadelphia or Boston. Don't take it so personally. I don't think he was 'smearing' the whole city.
Posted by: meg | November 3, 2009 01:24 PM
Cut the guy some slack...he's referring to his own personal experiences at Yankee Stadium...how it hasn't changed since he has been on the Red Sox...fans have always been very negative towards Pedro, and for him to state this is not immature of him. Grow up, and stop wasting your breath on him...he has the microphone, and you don't...God knows what you would say about the man if you were up there instead of him...Let's just be glad things are the way they are...
Posted by: AJ | November 1, 2009 05:24 PM