Them's Fightin' Words!

I don't know about the rest of you, but after watching last night's stutter-stop offense and walkoff loss, I'm about ready to bust some heads. And what's better in that frame of mind than more fuel to the fire? Especially Yankees-flavored fuel?

The fuel in question: Jorge Posada is still pissed at Pedro Martinez for the Zimmer Incident. And continues to want to drag it out and talk about it.

"I thought he was going to hit me in the head with a bat after we had the fight and he pushed Don Zimmer," Posada said. "It was ridiculous. I mean, he throws at Karim Garcia because he's losing the game. I mean, there's no class."
Pedro is not going to let that go, and points out that Posada apparently told some kind of seriously insulting Yo Mama joke:
"When I pointed to the head, it wasn't precisely to tell him that I wanted to hit him in the head," Martinez said. "Nah. He's a human being, he has a family, and I'm a professional. [The pointing to the head] was because he cursed my mom. I was telling him, 'I'll remember that.' "

Martinez said Posada should have known better than to insult a fellow Latin's mother.

"He knows - he's Latin, as much as he pretends to be American, he's Latin - that cursing your mom in Latin America will get you into a fight," Martinez said. "That's something I would never do to his mom, because she doesn't play. She's not on the field. She's someone you admire and respect, and I didn't like that."

Fight! Fight! Fight!





Comments (6)

[ mhcranberry ] says:
on September 17, 2008 2:38 PM

Oh man. That was such an image.

I still love to read about Pedro and his awesomeness. I miss him... not necessarily wishing he was still with us, because HOLY DL TIME BATMAN, but I love him just the same.



[ Piney61 ] says:
on September 17, 2008 2:50 PM

God do I love Pedro Martinez so much. For some reason I can imagine him on Project Runway as one of those bitchy gay guys...except he isn't gay....I think.

Also, looks like McCarver was wrong because McCarver was like "He's telling him he's gonna hit him in the head with a pitch!" which seriously was not the truth.



[ Liza ] says:
on September 17, 2008 4:47 PM

I remember reading somewhere that Pedro only went at Zimmer because he thought Zimmer was going for his pitching arm. He said it was more self-defensive instinct than anything.



[ NHgal ] says:
on September 17, 2008 7:38 PM

posada just can't handle that the yankees aren't going to make the playoffs for the first time in recent history :D



[ Lins ] says:
on September 17, 2008 8:57 PM

ahaha wow posada wow.

I love Pedro's response so much



[ Adam ] says:
on September 20, 2008 4:53 PM

theres a video somewhere on youtube where Pedro has comments toward Karim Garcia...something along the lines of "Karim Garcia? who are you?"




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