Don't Fit Him for a Coach's Uniform Just Yet...
Tino Martinez appears headed for ESPN:
Tino Martinez is ready to stop playing baseball and start talking about it. Martinez, 38, is expected to soon join ESPN as an in-studio analyst, apparently ending a 16-season major-league career that included four World Series rings with the Yankees and a 2004 season with his hometown Devil Rays. The deal is not final, but ESPN senior publicist Nate Smeltz confirmed Thursday: "We're in discussions with Tino." Martinez went back last year to the Yankees, but they declined his 2006 option and he had only limited interest in playing elsewhere. If done, he'll finish with a .271 average, 339 homers and 1,271 RBIs.
My guess? This is probably just so that they have someone who will go ballistic when Gammons and Ravitch and the rest of the ESPNESN Sox lovers start bashing on the boys from the Bronx.
posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 4:25 PM
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eh, he won't go ballistic... he'll just do his flash-of-annoyance, scrunched-eyebrow thing and get a little snippy, then do a little shrug and a self-conscious, not-really-apologetic fake half-laugh at the end.
not that i've spent entirely too much of my life watching him :D
Oh I don't think he'll go ballistic, I just think ESPNESN is attempting to set him up.
If they wanted real fireworks they should have hired Leyritz.
or lou
I'd pay a lot of money to see Lou flip out and choke the living shit out of Dibble and Brantley with one hand each.
I'll split the bill with you.
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