Coco Shows Some Fire

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Baseball Today: Thursday, June 5
Published 6/5/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... WORKED UP ABOUT SOMETHING . . . The juices were flowing last night not over the change in standings, but over a couple of plays at second base involving Coco Crisp that resulted in a clearly profane, on-field shouting match between Crisp (in the dugout) and Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon (on the mound for a pitching change). McAdam has the details of the incidents, which left Crisp with a bruised thumb and an angry disposition. (You can see video of it all at the blogs Sox & Dawgs and Bugs And Cranks.) The Rays weren't too happy, ...

Sox and Dawgs: Coco Crisp Shows Some Fire (Video)
Published 6/5/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Sox and Dawgs: Coco Crisp Shows Some Fire (Video) Tic for Tac...Halitophobia running wild! During last night’s game between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays, Coco Crisp tried to steal second base in the 6th inning. When he tried to slide into second, Rays shortstop Jason Bartlett put his knee down in front of the bag, which is a no-no since someone can get seriously hurt. So in the 8th inning when Coco tried to steal second again, he took matters into his own hands and took out second baseman Akinori Iwamura with a hard slide. Then during a pitching change, Coco and Rays ...

Coco's not down with that 'shady' stuff, yo
Published 6/5/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... , as he contributed a 2-for-2 night with one RBI, one stolen base -- and a slide that'll be talked about for days. The slide, as you can see in the photo above, wasn't pretty. In fact, it was downright gritty, and to a baseball outsider, plenty questionable. Baseball guys will tell you that Jason Bartlett brought this on the Rays by dropping his knee near Crisp as he stole second base -- an breach of baseball etiquette and basic safety. But seriously, ouch. Sox ...

Sox Drawer: Coco's cock knock causing a stir
Published 6/5/2008 by J Rose (noreply@blogger.com) at Curt's Bloody Sock
During last night's 5-1 Red Sox win over Tampa Bay Coco Crisp blasted Akinori Iwamura in the package in retaliation for a cheap play Jason Bartlett had pulled on the Sox ceterfielder a few innings earlier. There is video of the incident on both Bugs & Cranks and Sox & Dawgs, the latter featuring Coco's comments after the game regarding the incident. The background of the situation goes like this: in the sixth inning of the game, with Coco on first after an ...