The East York, Ont. native has turned into a whipping boy for Canadian fans and experienced a first-hand account of the backlash Wednesday, getting booed in all three of his plate appearances from a strong Blue Jays contingent at his home park, McKechnie Field.
“They are booing me because they care. I’m sure if they saw me at dinner or something, they would want to come and shake my hand,” said Martin, who signed a two-year, US$17-million deal with the Pirates in the off-season.
“It’s just part of the game. It’s the same line every time — something about shortstop coming from the stands. I think it’s funny.
“Everybody is going to feel foolish for booing me, that’s what’s going to happen. That’s my prediction,” Martin said with a chuckle.
Canadian fans were not the only ones Martin caught flak from regarding his decision to skip the event. Fellow countrymen Justin Morneau and Brett Lawrie also voiced their displeasure. Lawrie took issue with Martin withdrawing from the event less than two weeks before it started because he could not play shortstop, calling Martin’s decision for skipping “weak.”
Martin, however, is not interested in getting into a war of words with the Blue Jays third baseman.
“He’s just a young kid voicing his opinion,” Martin said. “I’m just going to keep it at that. I respect his opinion, it doesn¹t bother me. Same thing with Justin. I did not feel ready to go out there and compete. It¹s not that I don’t want to represent Canada. People are crazy if they think that because that’s just not who I am.”
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1. CFBF Hates Hyphens Posted: March 15, 2013 at 10:44 PM (#4389300)He's Canadian. He's always level-headed and polite.
Wait, no, Canadians always are getting into brawls.
I can't keep my stereotypes straight.
Good thing the USA provides a wide buffer, otherwise those crazy Canucks would be on their 4th Mexican War.
But if they let me play a position I've never played before, I would have been ready to go out there and compete...
FYP.
Okay, I'm genuinely curious: how the heck did these superscript 1's end up where apostrophes were supposed to go? Did the author hand-write Martin's quotes and feed them into a character recognition program, at which point the computer misread them and the author failed to notice the error?
I'm too cheap to buy Office, so for almost 10 years now I've been writing papers on whatever free knock-off version of Office I have, and then using a library computer to convert to Word. The process occasionally spits out all sorts of ridiculous changes that make no sense...though I have never seen the superscript for apostrophe game.
EDIT: It's also interesting to note (or maybe it isn't) that Chris Robinson, the catcher Canada ended up using instead of Martin, was one of their better players of the tournament.
Yeah I use Open Office at the moment. It works a lot better than other programs I've used in the past, but it still spits out random footnotes that are superscripted, or turns the occasional quotation mark into a dollar sign or something when you convert it to Word.
Hasn't Open/LibreOffice handled that fine or a long time? Personally I have no qualms about pirating MS Office or anything MS really, for obvious reasons.They're richer than you so it's OK to steal from them?
They're an anti-trust lawyer's wet dream, so it's OK to steal from them.
The telling part of your rationalizations is that you fail to recognize that you help perpetuate their market position by pirating their software, if you had been in it for the principles you wouldn't have touched it with a ten-foot pole.
I see many of you have adopted the endearing practice
of writing all the way across the screen, forcing
others to scroll left and right to try to make sense
of the discussion. That'll learn 'em!
the first of which was last Sunday. So by the time he was ready to start catching the Canucks were already
on their way out the door.
Friends. I cut and pasted jyjjy's comment as a quote. Added nothing, subtracted nothing. I'm not sure why the page got wider. I find that annoying as well, but I would venture a guess that it's a BBTF issue. Nulls and carriage returns, or lack of therein, shouldn't do this to a page.
It's not a site issue, but a clumsy fingers issue :-)
In your defense, "code" is unusably shitty and shouldn't be there. Clever people use <pre></pre>
I'm not saying it's a moral failing, but if you'd otherwise have bought the product then it is a lost sale for Microsoft.
edit: Aww, the p tag doesn't work. So much for that joke.
I searched the web (on my mac) and found lots of programs that would read an encryted version from my copy of Windows and unencrypt it to make it usable , but my Dell doesn't have wifi, my mac doesn't have any disk drive, and I don't have an ethernet cable anymore, so I couldn't figure out how to get one of the programs on the PC.
I found other directions that gave me three (!) unique serial numbers in files on my Dell PC, but all were declared invalid by MSFT. Finally, after a few hours of my life wasted, I found the original ID on a sticker still on the PC (thank god), in a location that wasn't apparent.
Another 15 minutes and I pirate, and without an ounce of guilt, but with a great deal of angry self justification.
Ok, I'll say this really slowly.
Either fix the width problem,
or STOP WRITING SENTENCES THAT GO ACROSS
THE ENTIRE SCREEN.
Thank you.
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