Was Pedroia intentional?

I honestly don't think so. The Crisp one was without a doubt.

Pedroia wasn't intentional. Crisp definitely was - and it was in his lower leg. He is a little biyotch for charging the mound after that crap he pullled last night.

That was a nice beat down he got from just about the whole Rays team. Maybe Coco will think about sliding into second spikes up for one, and also charging the mound being a huge vagina that he is. Nice that he cried at the end, nice touch.

Why are some Sox fans saying the Crisp slide was provoked?

i missed the 1st 2 innings, so i just saw the fight, and i gotta say, the rays handled that in a classy, yet manly fashion.

shields tried to hit him in the ###, not the head. though surprised that that ##### crisp was charging, shields calmly removed his hat and proceeded to bring the haymaker. no pushing. no waiting for people to break it up. i love shields. since he threw a right, i'm very thankful he missed.
i also thought it was classy that they reserved all the ###-kicking for crisp. no bone to pick with the rest of the sox, just 2-4 guys (it's hard to tell) pummeling the one piece of #### that needed to be set straight. navarro had textbook body slam and gomes looked like he landed some nice shots. gomes is a good guy to have around for these situations.

i'm still shocked crisp would charge over that.

Nice to see Gomes jump in from the dugout and beat the #### out of Crisp. Crisp is a gigantic #####.

They are complaining that Bartlett blocked 2nd on Crisp's 1st SB last night. He did, but the way to solve that is to go feet first on the next slide and spike the guy in the leg. Crisp took the cheap way out and took it out on Iwamura instead. Everyone knew he was getting drilled tonight. If you get drilled in the leg, take it like a man because you'd be pissed if your guy didn't do the same for you.

baseball tonight just reported hat coco had a 19-1 record as a youth boxer. that explains the excellent move to avoid shields' haymaker.

Did that explain why he cried after? Do youth boxers do that after they lose?

link to my dooshiness? making fun of your inability to get laid doesn't count.

Can we change the thread title?

When's the last time you saw the sun, cliffless?

ahhh------burn

Crisp just needs to shut up....calling guys on the Rays little girls in the postgame. He knew it was coming. Be a man and take your base.

@ everyone getting worked up over this

I don't blame Coco for the spikes up slide... I do think he was a ##### for charging the mound as sheilds hit him in the leg.
I do think a couple guys on the rays are homos for piling 4-5 on one guy and scratching and pulling hair and ####. Coco calling them out postgame was pretty bush league but I do think it was gay of em.

BOTTOM LINE: Coco should have just taken first then stole second.


Oh and just checking in for the first time this season but big to the rays thus far this year. Heck of a young squad they've got. Playing some fantastic baseball. Have been rootin for em for years now... glad to see em finally putting some good games together.

Crisp should've waited until he had the opportunity to slide through bartlett. they play 12 more times this year, the opportunity will be there. what he did to Iwamura (as well as what Bartlett did to him) was bush league.

you'd think that fans of the team that actualy won the WS last year wouldn't get worked up over something so petty

nah, im a fan of the team that ACTUALLY has the best record in the majors. but the rays gotta be my favorite AL team....

Does the Beckham pick make Brignac trade bait for '08? Does he have any value?

check out this great picture of Sheilds throwing a haymaker at Crisp.

Awesome...I think there was some intent to do damage there on Shields part...

wish he woulda landed that... i hate coco, what a smug bastard

coco saw that coming a mile away, shields is a hack... coco was trained in boxing by his pop

Was at the game last night, awesome game. Love a good brawl. Hilarious that all the Rays jumped on top of crisp and hit him while he was being pinned down

On ESPN, Rome was brutal on Crisp...and has obviously become a Rays fan.

It didn't look like Navarro was doing anything. It was like he was shielding Crisp after he was on the ground.

at Gomes scratching and pulling hair. Of course he jumps on Crisp after he is pinned down. Who was the player who looked like a little kid who also was slapping and scratching Crisp? Rays fans?

And big props to Shields. Too many times, pitchers back up, run to the side, or wait for the catcher or someone else to intercept. But Shields wanted to deliver some punishment. Equal props to Coco for avoiding the punch.

This is a better angle

It's great that you guys are finding the silving lining.

The other 99.9% of the world thinks the Sox and Crisp look like fools.

...and I will admit that the above has alot to do with "pulling for the little guy".

It's great to be the "little guy".

Not sure if you're talking about me but I stated above that Crisp was a jackass and should have taken his base and not charged the mound.

I also think the Rays are #####es for piling 6 guys on Crisp and pulling his hair.

Goes both ways

nothing like a warm june night in arlington, tx to get the bats going.

Too bad Shields didn't connect on Coco Crips. I would have loved to see that punk get the Robin Ventura treatment

lol, too bad Shields didn't have a clue how to fight

First rule of fighting is to be the first guy to throw a punch if the other guy is not expecting it.

Second rule is, if the other guy is expecting it, let him throw the firt punch.

Shields should have dodged Crisp and taken the offensive if he had a clue

Wilked, go away. Jesus. Nobody cares anymore.

On topic, I love Aybar's bat in the lineup. Guy has a beautiful swing. I think he's a better hitter than Floyd at this point, but I highly doubt they let him DH when Pena comes back.

That said, I hope he gets the regular 1B gig while Carlos is down. He's too good to be on the bench.

I was responding to the last poster, he obviously cares... Sorry it didn't do much for you dude...

Ditto. Aybar sticks around because he can play both corners as well as RF. Floyd's experience is too valuable to the young team right now. I was advocating for Gomes to be cut loose but after the fight, he sticks around. He can't hit, he can't field, but he has the attitude this team needs later in the season.

does anybody know what the chances really are of the rays keeping upton around long-term?
everytime i see him make an amazing catch in center, which is about once a game, i get a little depressed think that one day he'll likely be doing that for the yankees. i'm not sure how he ever ended up at 2nd. he looks like he was born to play centerfield.

this article's pretty funny about the garza-navarro squabble yesterday. when asked about it, the team may as just say, "mind your own ####### business"
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...jsp&c_id=tb

i'm not sure exactly what was going on, but i looked like they certainly got some signs mixed up.

Upton can't be a FA until December 2012. That's a long time from now and any number of things can happen. Even if he agreed to an extension now it would probably only buy out his arb years and then maybe 1 FA year - so 2013 or 14 at best.

I'm not worried about it now. Counting this year we have him for 5 more seasons.

Garza has a rep for being a ##### from time to time and yesterday was a classic example of it. He wanted to announce his presence with authority with his heater and Navarro was calling for a slider low and away.

longoria. aybar. navarro. back. to. back. to. back.

nice way to start a series that we really have to have.

Great win last night. Aybar for DH™

Watched all of it last night despite being sleep deprived of late. Nice beatdown since the Rays were 0-8 out there under Maddon.

Best thing is this is (very likely) their hardest roadie of the year and worst case they go 3-6 while traveling from one coast to the next and playing 2 of the 3 best teams in baseball. And they still have Kaz and Shields to close the trip out.

I'll be very happy with a 4-5 trip.

4-5 would be great. I said going in 5 wins would be the ultimate goal...but we may have done some things more valuable than a win.

Of course, that brawl will cost. When do we start serving suspensions with the important guys...CC, Aki, Shields? Big home stand coming up with FL and ChiC.

shields will probably start his after his start tonight. aki and cc start thurs. or friday, i think. i assume jackson started his today.

that game was really fun last night. i'm certainly on board with the "get aybar in the lineup everyday" campaign.

hopefully against the cubs. i cant wait for that series!

At least if you're going to get smoked, do it in Cali. I was more than happy to shut that game off after the first and get some sleep.

Frustrating loss today...but makes this weekend's series pretty big. The Marlins are playing well.