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This was Sunday for Pedro Martinez, in front of his family and everyone watching back in the Dominican Republic, showing the world what he grew into and how others could do the same, digging into the deepest reservoirs of himself to imbue others with the sense that even the poorest kid could find himself here, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, his face on a plaque alongside the finest players in the sport, forever a part of the game. It was fortuitous, then, that Colin Cowherd happened to pick this week for his radio-broadcast jeremiad on the intelligence of Dominicans equating to baseball not being a complex sport. All of these things matter to Martinez, and that he happened to utter those words in Spanish does not in any way lessen their message.