"YES Network wants me to die"

Well, I had heard rumors, but now it seems, in the words of Dick Cheney, "pretty well confirmed": Petey Martinez has lost his mind. At least that's the conclusion you come to when you see, via the Utility Infielder, this story.

NEW YORK -- Pedro Martinez already had a complex about people thinking he is the most hated man in New York.

Now, after hearing that commentators on the Yankees' YES Network reported that an ailing back may have contributed to yesterday's awful performance, he seems to have developed a complex about them, too.

"YES Network wants me to die," he said.

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Oh, and the YES announcers who surmised back trouble? Martinez seemed surprised about it, but he never denied he was hurting. He simply told reporters, "Go ask them."

If the Yankees hurt him again on Friday night, there may be a rubber room in his future.