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remindmeofthe) wrote2004-12-19 10:15 am
remindmeofthe) wrote2004-12-19 10:15 am
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Also, I really need to stop following the Pedro story. It's just pissing me off. Because god forbid he should leave with a little grace and dignity. Heaven forfend that he should just let things lie.
Notour Petey. Oh no. He has to attack the Red Sox ownership, attack the management, demand to know where his prima donna reputation came from (way to have a modicum of self-awareness there, dude), and then he tops it all off by slagging on Schilling for, as far as I can tell, getting attention even though he's older than Pedro, and just generally kills every chance that we might eventually get over his departure and remember him with fondness instead of bitterness.
The response of the organization has pretty much been, ". . . yeah. Uh, we have better things to worry about, because we have moved on. Pedro might wanna try that."
Schilling, however, seems genuinely hurt and confused by Pedro's snotty remarks about him. To be quasi-fair, Pedro was fed some highly spun version of Schilling's remarks by the New York media, so he probably thinks that Schill was being nasty, but his response - including such gems as "I'm way over Schilling as a pitcher" - was flat-out childish and uncalled for. Not that I'm biased or anything.
So, yeah. You suck, Pedro, and I hate you, and I might forgive you someday for leaving and even for the classless manner in which you did it (keeping the Sox dangling to get as much money as possible out of someone else, then turning around and declaring yourself heartbroken and unloved), but I'll never forgive you for dragging everyone through the mud and spitting on your former team - and, by proxy, your former fans - in the process. I'm almost sorry that I've already granted A-Rod the title of Princess, because damn, would it look good on you.
(See why I need to stop following this? Hoedogg was right, it's not worth the energy, but I just can't seem to let it go. If I stop reading about it, and never again cave in to the temptation to buy a copy of the Boston Herald because it has Sad Curt on the cover, I might be able to move on.)
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The response of the organization has pretty much been, ". . . yeah. Uh, we have better things to worry about, because we have moved on. Pedro might wanna try that."
Schilling, however, seems genuinely hurt and confused by Pedro's snotty remarks about him. To be quasi-fair, Pedro was fed some highly spun version of Schilling's remarks by the New York media, so he probably thinks that Schill was being nasty, but his response - including such gems as "I'm way over Schilling as a pitcher" - was flat-out childish and uncalled for. Not that I'm biased or anything.
So, yeah. You suck, Pedro, and I hate you, and I might forgive you someday for leaving and even for the classless manner in which you did it (keeping the Sox dangling to get as much money as possible out of someone else, then turning around and declaring yourself heartbroken and unloved), but I'll never forgive you for dragging everyone through the mud and spitting on your former team - and, by proxy, your former fans - in the process. I'm almost sorry that I've already granted A-Rod the title of Princess, because damn, would it look good on you.
(See why I need to stop following this? Hoedogg was right, it's not worth the energy, but I just can't seem to let it go. If I stop reading about it, and never again cave in to the temptation to buy a copy of the Boston Herald because it has Sad Curt on the cover, I might be able to move on.)