Post is after the jump since wordpress is acting up:
Hey here’s a good idea! Let’s start the game an hour earlier tonight so the fans can catch the beginning of game one of the NBA finals! Isn’t that big of us? We aren’t at all jealous that the Celtics are getting more press than we are right now. We’re just here to win!
Twenty minutes to ten. That’s when it ended. Almost an hour into game one. That plan worked out well didn’t it? (Guess the Sox wanted to make sure that they got some proper attention tonight!)
I missed ‘the fight’. I was at work and listened to it on the radio live (watched it repeatedly on dvr). So my reactions were delayed.
(Coco is on NESN right now. Couple of scrapes on his face, but he looks pretty good. He’s still trash-talking. People scratching him and pulling his hair “like little girls”. Said it more than once. I believe I love Mr. Crisp. This is the best post-game interview I’ve seen in years.)
See, here’s the thing. I’m with Coco. Bartlett put down the knee and Coco retaliated by sliding in hard. Should have been over then but everyone knew it wouldn’t be. I don’ t think Tampa Bay needed to retaliate, but they did. So I understand why Coco went out of there after Shields.
Also, I was initially on the fence about Jonny Gomes. I like that he feels like he’s the team’s defender. I do. He’s obviously a good teammate who has his fellow teammate’s back. This is a good way to be. (I’m not on the fence any more.)
But, Jonny Gomes, Carl Crawford and Akinori Iwamura all got in cheap shots. No one is “defending” a teammate when your catcher has a guy pinned to the ground and you all come in behind him throwing punches (or trying to scratch and pull hair if Coco is to be believed). Face these guys like men…face to face…none of this hitting someone while they’re down shit. (I have no issue with Navarro. He’s a catcher, he was defending his pitcher. Fine. But his teammates should have looked somewhere else for a fight instead of waiting for Navarro to have Coco pinned down. S’all I’m saying.
I suppose, though, what really shone through tonight was that the Rays are out of their league. The baseball world knows that Coco is going to get hit, but did ANYONE think it would happen at Coco’s first at-bat? Is the team so single-minded that all they cared about was getting revenge? Did it occur to NO ONE that by throwing at Coco, they were risking getting their starting pitcher thrown from the game? I mean how stupid could Joe Maddon possibly be?
Start a fight and lose the game. That’s a brilliant game plan there, Joe.
Crabcakes pitched well. No one will remember this because of the fight. Scratch that. Because of the FIGHTS.
WTF Youk and Manny?
Listen, I don’t pretend for a minute that it’s all sunshine and lollipops in that clubhouse. 25 men with ego and testosterone to spare…there will be plenty of pissing contests I’m sure. But what possesses them to be stupid enough to do shit like that out in the open in front of the world? NESN caught it on tape. Plenty of fans who were there saw something going on. Put your dicks back in your pants and cut the shit, fellas.
Watching replays of the brawl and it looks like there were more peacemakers than fighters on the Red Sox tonight. That pleases me. Seeing my man Mike Timlin in the midst of it all and then come out and pitch was pretty cool too. 🙂
Jacoby and Manny both left games with boo-boos. I’m calling them boo-boos because I’d rather not think of them as anything serious.
Sox have won 13 straight at Fenway and lead the AL East. Let’s hope the winning ways continue without drawing any more blood.
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