Andy Martino is a Race-Baiting Coward

     The Toy Department launched 12 days ago as a result of Jarvis and myself being absolutely fed up with the lack of professionalism, ethics, and class coming from the local beat writers.  We were reading columns, tweets, and listening to talk radio that was frustrating us more and more everyday.  The negativity hemorrhaging from the opinions of these third-rate hacks was sickening to local sports fans, like ourselves.  And then this straw broke the camel's back.

     This isn't by any means a new story, but I thought with the home opener approaching, it may be a relevant time to revisit the disreputable trash written by Andy Martino, as well as his other shortcomings.  

      In this column entitled "Castillo's Woes Run Skin Deep," Andy Martino does about as good a job writing an editorial filled with legitimate substance, as he does growing a beard.  He starts off this abomination by citing Luis Castillo's 2009 statistics, or at least part of them.  He mentions Castillo's .302 batting average, but fails to include his 40 RBI and his whopping 16 extra base hits.  And what about his 2010 stats?  Why would Martino mention them?  They were God-awful, and clearly justified a barrage of boos from the Citi Field faithful.

     But to what did Martino attribute the boos?...  His .235 batting average in 2010?  No...  How about his 17 RBI?  Nope...  OK, I got it.  what about the fact that this player was making over $6 mil and not even coming close to being worth his awful contract?  Wrong again...

     Andy Martino suggested that Luis Castillo was treated poorly by the fans, not due to the fact that he was significantly underachieving, but because Mets fans are racist.

     That's right, the fans that embraced Pedro Martinez (Dominican, like Castillo) as the Metropolitan's savior... the crowd that loudly chants "Jose Jose-Jose-Jose..." in high praise of Jose Reyes (also Dominican), are a bunch of racists, according to Martino.

     Martino referred to Castillo as "one of the toughest and most passionate Mets" and doesn't seem to understand how he could be so unpopular.

     Toughest?  Remember when he got hurt falling down the dugout steps, idiot?  And I'll tell you why he's unpopular, other than consistently grounding into timely clutch double plays, and having as much defensive range as Marty Noble, Castillo will never be forgiven (or forgotten) for the most embarrassing play in Subway Series history!  You know exactly what it is, I need not mention it ever again.  That's why we booed him, you dope, no other reasons needed!  As Met fans, when it comes to our players, the only colors we see are blue and orange.

     Martino claimed in the Castillo situation, it's hard to ignore the race factor...  Well, I claim it never would have been a factor, if Martino never dreamed it up and put it in writing!

     This beat writer technique of making a story up with no evidence to support it needs to stop, and Martino is one of the biggest culprits.

     He has recently blocked The Toy Department on Twitter.  When asked why, he maturely responded with, "I block anything I want to, if the mood strikes. My twitter, my whims."  And then he cried to his mommy for a fresh tissue and his binky.  I guess he can't handle solid criticism.  Which is surprising to me considering how easily he can dish it out.

     You know the real reason Andy Martino took a shot at Met fans?  Because he's a Philidelphia Phillies fan!  That's right, that chess club geek has an agenda and is clearly not an objective journalist.  He's so tired of his trashy brethren (appropriately) being classified as the worst fans in sports, his only line of defense is to try and bash us.  Jerkoff!  


-Trip McFeely