"Don't disrespect your daddy like that"; "We stay rent free" - Yankees fans roast Red Sox legend Pedro Martinez for mocking Bronx Bombers

Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez attracted new attention at the MLB Awards this week after taking a playful jab at the Yankees during a live segment on stage.

Martinez broke into an exaggerated chant of "Oh, Yankees lose," while calling out former rivals and friends in the audience, including CC Sabathia, in a moment that echoed the long-running tension between the two franchises.

The clip quickly circulated online and was met with immediate backlash from Yankees fans.

"Cringe alert. We stay rent free," one fan wrote. "Don’t disrespect your daddy like that," another fan said. "My history’s a little fuzzy but I believe the Yankees eliminated the Red Sox this year," one fan commented. "huge Pedro fan (as a player) but this is cringe as hell," another fan tweeted. "Is he drunk ? What the f**k did he say?," one fan wrote. "I'm not yankees fans but this is embarrassing. it is official event, why they allow this lol," another fan wrote.

Martinez details Ohtani’s greatness and the origins of his "Ding Dong Johnson" call

At the MLB Awards in Las Vegas, Pedro Martinez opened up about what it was like to witness one of Shohei Ohtani’s most dominant performances from the broadcast booth and shared how his now-famous "Ding Dong Johnson" home run call came to be.

"Unreal," Martinez said when asked about calling the game in which Ohtani struck out 10, threw six scoreless innings, and homered three times.

"I was like a kid in a candy store. Ohtani does things we never imagined. Every game has its own DNA, and he’s one of the reasons something different seems to happen every single night."

Martinez also said fans should see Ohtani any time he takes the field since no two games are the same.

He mentioned how "Ding Dong Johnson" came to his broadcast lexicon (thanks, Dodgers, for marking the place where one of Ohtani's longest home runs landed).

"It came from one of my coaches early in my career," Martinez said. "When you hit the ball, there’s the whack… then the ding… and then I just called it Johnson. ‘Ding Dong Johnson.’ My colleagues liked it, fans liked it, and it stuck. Now, when someone really gets into one, that’s what comes out."

The Hall of Famer said the expression was never meant to be anything more than a light, energetic call, but it has since grown into one of the most recognizable phrases in baseball broadcasts.

Edited by Shubham Soni