perfidy

Pedro Martinez has told the Boston Herald that the Red Sox can keep his ring. His World Series ring, that is, the one that he helped us win. According to Pedro,

"I can live with the business part of it, not being able to afford me, or thinking I'm not that good, but I cannot understand the part where you mistreat my name, or mistreat what I did for the city of Boston because they have to build another image of me....

Oh, boo hoo you whiny little bitch. What part hurt worse? The adulation, or the idolatry? I dunno... was it being the sworn hero of Massachusetts' (surprisingly large and vibrant) Dominican population that got to you? Was it having a ballpark sell out every single start you made, rain or shine? Was it an entire region hanging breathless on every cut fastball as you set up and knocked down the best batters in the game? Was it an entire region's outcry at Grady Little -- not you -- Grady Little, when he kept you in too long? You're a little guy, you get tired. We get that. Or was it waking up one morning a World Series winner, checking your pants, and finding that despite doing everything you could, you still don't crap gold nuggets?

Or was it finding out that business is business? Je-sus. For a dude who has no problem throwing a 95-mph fastball at huge dudes' heads, he sure is a Polly Pissypants. New York can have his prima donna act.

[wik] The original Herald article (rather than the Post excerpt linked above) makes it more clear that Pedro was being baited into badmouthing Boston, and that much of his ire is reserved for the Boston sports press. That's fair; they suck. But Pedro doesn't stop there, and lets himself get goaded into saying how much the fans suck too. Not cool, dude. Not cool like jheri-curl is not cool.