Sox fans using Martinez as scapegoat
Pedro Martinez has spent the last five years of his life in the love/hate cauldron of Red Sox Nation.
Updated: August 25, 2003, 12:30 PM ET
By
Jim Baker
There are two sides to playing for one of the most
popular franchises in all of sport. On the positive
end of things is that they have more money than most
and will happily you give a nice slice of it if you
are of a certain talent level. What is more, people
will shout your name in the street, give you the
thumbs up and ask you to buss their wee babies --
provided things are going well. Which brings us to the
other side. When they're not going well, some people
will take time out of their busy lives and light up
the phones at sports talk radio stations to question
your integrity, heritage and right to walk the face of
the earth.
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Jim Baker is an author at Baseball Prospectus and a frequent contributor to Page 2. You can e-mail Jim at bottlebat@gmail.com.
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