“I think in every aspect, the way you guys have used me and abused me since I’ve been coming to [Yankee] Stadium,” he responded. “I remember quotes in the paper, ‘Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.’ The man? None of you have ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what I’m all about as a man. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things and have written so many things [about me].”
After Cliff Lee shut the Yankees down on six hits and an unearned run in a complete-Game 1 effort, Martinez stood his ground and declined to talk any further.
“Good bye and good luck,” he said, before prancing out the clubhouse door.
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