Tag: Pedro Martinez

Pedro Martinez compares the Yankees to ‘chihuahuas’ after 1-hit loss to Braves

Woof.

It’s no secret that former Boston Red Sox hurler Pedro Martinez wasn’t a huge fan of the New York Yankees back in the day — and when he’s been on the air after his career, he’s trolled their fans.

That happened again on Tuesday night when the Yanks could only eke out one measly hit against the Atlanta Braves. And on TBS, after the game, Martinez had this to say: “I remember watching the Yankees early in the season, and when they were going well, they looked, like, so confident. It was like watching a bulldog beat up on a chihuahua when they were playing those teams. And Now, they look like the chihuahuas to any other team, especially a good team like the Atlanta Braves. It looks like no match.”

Oof. Or, should I say, woof.

Pedro Martinez hilariously trolled the Yankees and their fans after the Astros swept the ALCS

“Who is your daddy now!?”

The Houston Astros completed their sweep of the New York Yankees on Sunday night, winning a soggy Game 4, 6-5, to advance to the World Series for the second straight year.

The Yankees had high hopes this year of going to their first World Series since 2009 but those hopes came crashing down against an Astros team that had no problems at all with Aaron Judge and Co.

Immediately after last night’s game an old friend of the Yankees – former Red Sox star Pedro Martinez – had some fun on TBS’ postgame show trolling the team and its fans by asking them a question that he heard many times from them during his career – who’s their daddy?

This was fun:

Yankees fans, of course, chanted that at Pedro many times in his career after he said following one loss to New York that the Yankees were his daddy.

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Pedro Martinez found something Shaq is worse at than free throws: batting practice

Swing and a miss and a miss and a miss

It was only about a week ago the Inside the NBA crew invited their TBS baseball counterparts over to Studio J to help Kenny Smith demonstrate a play live on air.

The fun little crossover event took an even more entertaining turn when that play resulted in Curtis Granderson scoring a bucket on Shaquille O’Neal—much to the absolute dismay of the Big Diesel.

Well, it was only fair the TBS crew invite Shaq over to their studio and offer him a shot at redemption with a little batting practice. The only slight problem, as pretty much anyone who has played the sport will tell you, is that hitting a baseball is very, very hard.

It’s even harder when the man throwing that baseball is Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez.

Needless to say, it did not go well for Shaq.

Oh dear.

What an unenviable position for Lauren Shehadi, too, having to give little league instructions to one of the greatest athletes ever. It’s not like Pedro was even throwing heaters. He was just lobbing them over the plate so Shaq could make contact.

Martinez even joked the only way O’Neal is getting on base is by leaning into a ball.

Then again, Pedro might want to be careful with his words. All it takes is one swing for Shaq to demolish a pitch and leave Martinez’s ego bruised forever. Kind of like what Granderson did to Shaq last week.