Caller Bob wrote:
This bum had 1 good season
Okay, Bob. He was an All-Star several times, won ROY and MVP in different seasons and was in the top ten in MVP voting a couple other times. He's a career .300 hitter or very close and he won multiple Gold Gloves. What the hell are you talking about? Here's a story about Pedroia that Pat Murphy who coached him in college told a mutual friend of ours. Murph said that Pedroia was the kind of guy who played better angry. So ASU was playing a game- I think it was against LSU, but that's not important- and Murph walked over to Pedroia and said something like, "Did you hear what that shortstop was saying about you? They're over there laughing at you. He told the second baseman he thought you were a batboy. He called you a fucking midget." So Pedroia comes up to bat and lashes a double and slides hard into second as the shortstop was taking the throw. He pops up and starts screaming at the top his lungs in the shortstop's face, "MIDGET, HUH? HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS MIDGET NOW, MOTHERFUCKER???" And the shortstop is looking at Pedroia as if he's lost his mind. He never called him a midget. He never said a word about him. Murph just made that shit up.