Comments on: Pedro Martinez “I never considered myself a great player”

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:00:46 +0000

There was a frequent commenter, now banned from the site for various reasons, who went by the handle “Halladaysbicepts.” “American of African Descent’s” comment above was referring to him.

By: hitdog042

hitdog042 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:37:29 +0000

What’s a bicepts? Seriously. It’s bicep.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:02:54 +0000

Note to self: remember to never request scouting advice from pisano as he is clearly not at all qualified.

By: American of African Descent

American of African Descent — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:09:18 +0000

This award mathieug79 mentioned is more formally known as the “Bicepts Award.”

By: indaburg

indaburg — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:27:07 +0000

Being angry at this post is like being angry at a retarded child. You can’t be. You just smile, nod, pat his head, and move on.

By: hammyofdoom

hammyofdoom — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:24:42 +0000

I want to be mad at this post, but I cant. If you are even pretending that Pedro isnt a hall-of-famer that had 2-3 of the best pitching seasons ever then I can only be impressed at the sheer level of trolling or of self delusion. Its remarkable really

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:22:56 +0000

dirtyharry and bozosforall almost seem like the same guy, although dirtyharry isn’t QUITE as nasty.

Bozos has a hatred for anything associated with the city of Boston that borders on homicidal.

He must’ve had a girlfriend (or boyfriend) that cheated on him with a Bostonite.

By: pisano

pisano — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:14:06 +0000

…..and neither did I.

By: buggieowens

buggieowens — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:08:33 +0000

dammit…I hit cancel reply but not fast enough to catch my typo. I officially ban myself for 24 hours.

By: buggieowens

buggieowens — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:07:15 +0000

wow…I would have thought that award does to “bozosforall.”

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:41:29 +0000

Kinda game that makes you think about how different history would have been without the juice. We wouldn’t have had a game like this from Clemens at 37 for sure.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:38:12 +0000

I know you would like to think that Pedro started his historic run with the Red Sox, but he did win the Cy Young the year he left Montreal with a pretty good 17-8 record, 1.90 ERA and he led the league with 13 complete games. He threw 241 innings and K’d 305. He was pretty much a beast from 97-03

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:27:33 +0000

That’s okay, he’s never considered himself a great commenter.

By: mathieug79

mathieug79 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:21:06 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemens, The award for the “username” with the most Negative posts this year goes to ….dirtyharry1971. He was also nominated for the most thumb down award.

By: sandwiches4ever

sandwiches4ever — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:15:11 +0000

Even as a Yankee fan, I can appreciate Pedro's greatness. I remember the classic Sunday night Clemens-Pedro duel, back in 2000. What a game that was.

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:06:28 +0000

This comment is repulsively stupid even by your normally-abysmal, hateful standards.

By: sabatimus

sabatimus — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:04:28 +0000

A lot of very talented people don’t believe they’re that good at what they do (except Muhammad Ali)–perhaps perfectionism is in the mix, but this can be what helps people to strive to be better and work harder.

By: bigleagues

bigleagues — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:02:42 +0000

I’m just glad he came back home. It’s nice having our “Daddy” back!

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:57:43 +0000

Nope. It should read…
“Rickey has always thought Rickey was a great player.”

By: hushbrother

hushbrother — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:45:33 +0000

THE greatest. There is no way anyone could have been more dominant than Pedro in ’99 and ’00. Not Koufax, not Gibson, not even Old Hoss Radbourn.

Pedro’s historic run began, I think, with this game (which I was at):

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS199905070.shtml

The narrative leading up to this series against the Angels was “Mo Vaughn returns to face his old team!” By the third inning that had changed to “Holy crap Pedro is mowing them down!” 8 innings, no runs, 15 strikeouts, no walks. For the next two years, this would pretty much be a typical Pedro pitching line.

By: flosox

flosox — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:37:31 +0000

Flat out nasty on the mound! Tuned in every 5th day…

By: Darkoestrada

Darkoestrada — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:26:49 +0000

Given the era, I had always considered him the best of all time. Maybe not the longevity of some of the other greats but at his peak he was as dominant as anyone.

By: nategearhart

nategearhart — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:23:38 +0000

Then you’re pretty bad at watching baseball.

By: tmohr

tmohr — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:22:42 +0000

That should read “Rickey never considered himself a great player.”

By: dcfan4life

dcfan4life — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:19:45 +0000

I dunno. His desire to prove a point in that memorable 1999 all-star game where he struck out 5/6 batters he faced including larkin, walker, sosa, mcgwire and bagwell sure seemed like to me he wanted to show he was better than those guys, even without the steroid cloud. You have to have amazing confidence in your ability as a superstar talent to go into a game against that lineup like that.

By: js20011041

js20011041 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:10:06 +0000

Alfredo Aceves nods at your comment approvingly.

By: csndrew

csndrew — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:09:54 +0000

Rickey Henderson: “I never considered myself not a great player.”

By: chacochicken

chacochicken — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:08:35 +0000

What’s Roger Clemens’s take on Pedro? Has he made a statement yet?

By: seahawks80

seahawks80 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:08:10 +0000

This is surprising, most average players feel they are better than they really are

By: dirtyharry1971

dirtyharry1971 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:06:14 +0000

Thats good pedro i never did either