Pedro Martinez Inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

“Yes, we don’t have the resources to be more educated”. But as you know from previous cases: ‘Why not Roger Clemens? Pedro, I got tears coming out when I saw Pedro talking because I know the man. I know everything that he went through in his career.

“The July 31 deadline is something we may want to revisit in the context of the revised playoff format”, Manfred said Wednesday. “Every once in a while you’re going to get one like me, that’s not afraid to face you guys, to tell you how educated or uneducated I am, how proud I am of becoming who I am”, Martinez said. These are the people I’m paying attention to. I hope we’re on the road to being a power. “Mr. Cowherd owes our players of Dominican origin, and Dominican people generally, an apology”. No, we are way up here. Pedro now belongs to the Hall of Fame.

But as all of them agreed upon looking out at the sights and sounds of the huge throng of some 40,000 fans that stretched all the way to the tree line at the back of the pasture, they were merely the warm-up acts for what was obviously going to be Pedro Martinez’s personal Dominican Republic holiday celebration.

Last year’s Hall of Fame class featured several different approaches.

While with the Yankees, Martin also developed his aptitude for carousing, chiefly with teammates Joe DiMaggio (until he retired), Whitey Ford, and Mickey Mantle. “We’ve moved on now”.

“At that moment, I got to really appreciate who the Bambino was and how good he was to the people and to society and to baseball”.

Pedro by Martinez and Michael Silverman chronicles the rise of this great player from “the mango tree to the top of the world” and is filled with inside dope, personal reflection, and at least one shocker: Martinez’s cheerful admission that he was always willing to drill a batter. “It was the most devastating time of my life”. Martinez’s ceremony delayed the start of the game against the Chicago White Sox by 18 minutes, the kind of delay, he said with a smile, he used to hate when he was playing. It is the epitome of upstate New York. Rodriguez certainly has the numbers for the Hall of Fame, but after he was suspended from baseball last year for performance-enhancing drug use, the odds are stacked.

The inside dope: Former ESPN personality Colin Cowherd is heading to Fox Sports 1, but let’s hope he has no part in the cable network’s baseball coverage after making an ignorant remark on his radio show while discussing the ability of the Marlins’ Dan Jennings to manage and act as general manager at the same time. “I love that. That’s what makes Boston unique”. I drove four hours to see his first start in the Bronx as a Met in 2005 (eight innings and a victory) and, as a reporter, was glad to see him through to the end by watching his final appearance with the Phillies in 2009’s World Series Game 6. I wanted to beat the best.

So stop and take a listen Sunday. Nomar Garciaparra delivered a message via video.

It could prove to be more powerful than any pitch he has ever thrown.

All of these things matter to Martinez, and that he happened to utter those words in Spanish does not in any way lessen their message.