Pedro Martinez takes aim at Yankees' regression literally one minute after first pitch

Nobody has higher expectations or voices their frustrations with the Yankees louder than Yankee fans. After reading Pedro Martinez's Twitter feed during the Yankees' second game with the Seattle Mariners this week, it seems like he might be one of us?

Martinez live-tweeted the contest — an eventual dominant showing from Max Fried and a seamless 5-0 win — but got things started on an odd foot.

First pitch came at 9:40 PM EST. At 9:41 PM EST, Martinez tweeted the following:

This, of course, begs several questions.

Pedro Martinez's oddly-timed Yankees tweet shows a strange layer of disrespect

Question for Pedro: Were the Yankees actually a "totally dominant" team last year? Or are you just claiming they were now to push a weird narrative less than five games into the season (a game they won in shutout fashion about two hours and 26 minutes after Pedro's tweet).

What happened to tipping your cap and calling the Yankees your daddy? Pedro's always been reverential of the Yanks in the past, even when they didn't deserve it. What gives with this post? Was it scheduled for Opening Day, or on one of Ryan Weathers' many spring training blowups? This hardly struck the expected tone for Fried's second straight dominant outing.

The Yankees are off to an excellent tone-setting start this year, but they haven't been "totally dominant" with any consistency since April and May 2024 (or potentially even the first half of 2022, if you'd like to get technical). They're always good, sometimes great, never pristine. It's been that way since 2010. The last time they were dominant in the way that America both loathes and fears was ... 2009, with Martinez on the mound watching Hideki Matsui's repeated stings ruin his championship bubble. Maybe this was meant to be posted 17 years ago?

Martinez isn't the only one who can't draw any definitive conclusion from the first four games of a nascent regular season, but the issue isn't that he doesn't think the 2026 Yankees are dominant. It's that he believes they've slipped from last year's dominant standard, and I don't think you'll meet any fan who watched the Devin Williams/Carlos Carrasco Yankees and thought, "Yup. This ... this is as good as it gets."

It's just more of the same with the people who have it out for the Yankees. And they'll never realize that Yankees fans will always be on top of it and know so much more than they do.