Hey, Pedro was wrong. Nobody (except maybe Francona
) is gonna deny that. And he didn't even pitch all that badly, except for the 2nd inning.
As for Manny, I think the writers like to find anything they can and blow it up. Anybody who can say something bad about him after he obviously worked hard in game 1 isn't objective. And the crack about his vacation cruise is obviously sarcastic.
For some reason, Boston writers love to turn on Boston's sports stars and hammer them. Pedro gets frustrated and does something stupid, and on sports radio the next day, they're calling him the Dominican Diva. Wait, wasn't that Manny last year?
Rick Pitino did a lot of really bad things while he was with the Celtics, but he was right about one thing. The negativity in the Boston sports scene sucks.
Manny and Pedro have both been tremendous assests to the Red Sox, and both have let their professionalism slip at some point. Manny has gotten a lot better, I think, regardless of what the sports "reporters" think. We'll have to see about Pedro. He may already have decided that he's done in Boston, b/c they only picked up his option instead of giving him a new long-term deal.