Get Johnny Gomes!!!
Dan:
The Sox and Rays just had their fight . . .
- With Navarro pinning Coco Crisp down, Johnny Gomes runs over and starts reigning down haymakers on Coco. The Sox need to throw at Gomes' head every time they see him this season. That was outrageous. He needs to be suspended and fined . . . but he also needs to take one off the helmet. I know that's pretty serious, but it is certainly justified after that.
- Sure, Coco should have just gone to first. No doubt. But Gomes' sucker punches were nuts.
- Coco's dad was a boxer. You could see that. Beautiful how he slid away from Shields' right and came back with a counterpunch. Didn't land, but nice technique.
- Just saw the replays with Crawford punching Coco while Navarro, Gomes and Crawford where all on him. Instead of stopping the fight, they dropped bombs with three guys on one. Crawford needs to take a fastball in the kisser.
- Yes, I am less than rational right now, and I think my wife has stopped talking to me.
I see we're somewhat on the same page about Gomes, who ran in from right field to lay a lame shove on Shelley Duncan for his spikes-up slide on Iwamura back in ST. The guy can't handle matters well on his own, so relies on the nerve of teammates to get his work in brawls in. I caught some of the brawl, and it was ugly. I'm particularly unimpressed with Maddon, who likes to have his cake and complain about it too in on-field altercations. The Rays quite frankly have a bad history of generating rancor with other teams, and it's starting to bite them in the @$$. Lots of suspensions coming, no doubt.
On a brighter note, the Celtics took Game 1, and there was much rejoicing! I only caught the fourth quarter because I had to bring my daughter to the emergency room for fear of a broken nose (thrown softball in the face past a base runner--both way too close). All the worse because she was in the midst of a great game--lacing a single off a flame-thrower, making great outs, backing up plays all over the outfield. My daughter's a ball player. She's thankfully fine, as are Pierce and the Celtics. They out-hustled the Lakers last night. Great to see Pierce return and play well, hitting 3's and shutting down Kobe. I was more than primed for the game from ESPN Classics replaying Games 4 and 7 from the classic 1984 Finals yesterday. Bird was a beast, Parish bounced back from being outplayed in the first three games, and I got goose bumps listening to the Garden crowd--right on top of the action, a sauna, and salivating for a title. Yep, the Celtics are back in the Finals. Good times.
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