Pedro Martinez claims the Yankees cheated in the 2004 ALCS

Pedro Martinez is loved in Boston, as he should be. He was a key member of the 2004 Red Sox World Series team – the same team that broke the curse, coming back from three games down against the New York Yankees in the ALCS. Once Boston overcame that advantage, a World Series game against the St. Louis Cardinals felt like a piece of cake.

However, beating the Yankees wasn’t enough for Boston. Since then, they’ve won several titles and made at least two well-known documentaries about the ’04 team since then. Curt Schilling’s so-called bloody sock sits in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, likely covered in ketchup.

There is so much documentation of the Sox’ impressive comeback to beat the Yankees. Still, that’s not enough for Boston. Instead, Red Sox legends now claim that the Yankees tried to win a title in 2004 thanks to secret microphones hidden in the clubhouse! Yes, seriously.

“I remember before the game I just went up to the ceiling of the clubhouse and pulled out a microphone. I think it was a little device that relayed our conversations,” Pedro Martinez said.

Martinez, who once called the Yankees his father, now claims they cheated all the time. To make matters worse, the least trustworthy man in baseball supported him. Yes, I’m talking about Schilling.

“I know the difference between a microphone and no microphone, and this was a lapel microphone. And it was attached to the same thing that you (the filmmakers) have, a little red box with a red light on,” Schilling said.

Schilling doesn’t know the difference between a dictator and a presidential candidate, so I have a hard time believing he found a hot microphone in his clubhouse, let alone one the Yankees used to record Boston’s calls.

Former Yankees manager Joe Torre was quick to shoot Martinez and Schilling for their documentary filming, and rightly so. The Red Sox deserve credit for their incredible performance, but it’s strange to throw extra dirt on the Yankees’ grave just because they reached the World Series this season.

“(Expletive). I say it didn’t happen,” Torre said. “And when it did happen, it wasn’t us who got the benefit of a microphone, it was someone else.”

Yes, hard pass! Call me crazy, but MLB often records clubhouse conversations for their own benefit, whether it’s information they can add to the website or future multimedia capabilities!

I find it hard to believe that the Yankees cheated in that series considering they took a monumental lead in that series. When New York tried that technique, they failed miserably.