boston.com - 6/6/2008
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After tonight's game, Red Sox outfielder Coco Crisp spoke with reporters about the brawl with the Rays .
I was up there to hit so, I wasn't gonna be up there scared if I was gonna get hit [in] this at-bat, or next at-bat, or if I'm even going to get hit, Crisp said. So I was going up there to hopefully get a hit and they just decided it was right to hit me.
Crisp was asked to ...
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Coco to Rays: Pull My Hair Like a Little Girl, Why Don't Ya?
Surviving Grady —
... over seven after watching him bound outta the box, fist at the ready, to give James Shields what for. Honestly, I've taken great pleasure in watching the Sox push the Rays back down to earth the past couple days, as Maddon looks on helplessly through his hipster eyeware, and last night's brawl just confirmed what I'd first realized back when Gerald Williams charged Pedro Martinez at the Trop: With or without Piniella, these guys are a buncha douchebags. Coco had a few more choice words after the game: “I charged the mound. I feigned it like I was going to go ...
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Red Sox Roll
Boston Dirt Dogs —
... After that, people were trying to pull my hair like little girls. Instead of throwing some real punches or something like that..." -- 6.5.08, Coco Crisp, to reporters after the brawl game ...
Coco Crisp’s Flying Fists Of Fury
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... Note to Shawn Estes : James Shields’ successful plunking of Coco Crisp last night, is a textbook example of a pitcher standing up for a teammate. ...
Little Girls Take Offense to Crisp’s Comments
Empyreal Environs —
... In his post-game interview Crisp compared his fellow combatants to “little girls,” saying the Rays were “trying to scratch out my eyes” and “trying to pull my hair like little girls... [i]nstead of throwing some real punches or something like that�” ...
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bittenandbound.com 6/6/2008 — Boston Red Sox’s Coco Crisp was hit on the right hip by Tampa Bay Rays pitcher James Shields during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday night. Coco charged the mound, dodged a punch from Shields and landed a few of his own before being tackled to the ground by Tampa Bay catcher Dioner Navarro. A bench-clearing brawl between the Rays and the Red Sox ensued.
Coco to Rays: Pull My Hair Like a Little Girl, Why Don't Ya?
survivinggrady.com 6/6/2008 — Dude, did David Lynch script that f@#king Sox game ? Because that was one of the weirdest things I've seen in a long, long time. First we had Coco vs. Shields, which we kinda knew was coming after Joe Maddon, AKA World's Hippest Grandpa, called out ...
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Major League Baseball News 6/5/2008
If there was already some tension between center fielder Coco Crisp and the Tampa Bay Rays lingering from Wednesday's game, it reached a boiling point in the bottom of the second inning on Thursday. Crisp was hit on the right leg by a pitch from Rays ...
Fists fly for Rays, Sox at Fenway Park —
Major League Baseball News 6/6/2008
The Red Sox and the Rays won't see each other again until June 30. That might be a good thing. Lingering tension between center fielder Coco Crisp and the Tampa Bay Rays reached a boiling point on Thursday. Crisp was hit by a pitch from Rays starter ...
