Epic Fight.

If Shields lands that 100mph fastball punch to Coco, he's out cold. Coco dodges, jabs Shields back, navarro takes down Coco, Shields piles on punches.

Best fight of the year so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikTlkRqPvuc

Better quality

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200806052847574

click second video at bottom

[Edited on June 6, 2008 at 10:58 AM. Reason : .]

6/6/2008 10:56:56 AM

The only thing that would have made this better is somehow incorporating Frank Robinson in the brawl.

A+ basebrawl though...

6/6/2008 11:06:58 AM

From the one angle it looks like Coco is getting drilled by the guy with the Tomahawk punches but when you see it from the other angle its not as bad.

6/6/2008 11:19:56 AM

6/6/2008 11:43:16 AM

the only better brawl I've seen in my lifetime is the Don Zimmer getting rolled one.

That one was good for plenty of laughs.

6/6/2008 11:45:37 AM

^^props to the guy who snapped that shot



and if shields would have landed that punch i think coco might have wound up in the hospital

[Edited on June 6, 2008 at 11:50 AM. Reason : adg]

6/6/2008 11:47:57 AM

yes, that's pulitzer qualtiy

6/6/2008 11:48:49 AM

the BEST brawl is the one where the dude side-kicks the catcher before charging the mound. that's fucking hilarious.

6/6/2008 11:49:01 AM

Coco shouldve just headbutted Shields, he is reared back perfectly in that picture

6/6/2008 11:51:44 AM

This wouldn't happen if they fought like hockey...one on one...you'd think twice about chucking the ball at a guy if you knew you'd have to back it up...

6/6/2008 11:52:17 AM

^ Pretty sure he looks like he's backing it up just fine.

6/6/2008 11:54:09 AM

^did you watch the video? after seeing that haymaker, i'm pretty sure that Shields was ready to back it up.

6/6/2008 11:54:30 AM

yeah props to shields. He could've run away like a little bitch. Nah, he stood in there like a man.

6/6/2008 11:55:31 AM

6/6/2008 12:07:28 PM

Shields shouldve kept his hands down until Coco got closer so he didnt know what was coming, he put up his dukes as soon as Coco started charging

6/6/2008 12:16:02 PM

coco is a dipshit, who the hell is gonna play CF for the sox now

6/6/2008 12:30:47 PM

wow... when that's a "good brawl," somethings fucked up. I think there was a total of what, 8 punches thrown btw everyone?

6/6/2008 12:48:48 PM

shields threw one prayer, then crisp got tackeld as he counter punched...i'd take crisp in that fight...

6/6/2008 12:49:32 PM

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"coco is a dipshit, who the hell is gonna play CF for the sox now"

Ummm... Ellsbury? I don't think he is going to miss any time.

^^ most are just token walks out to the center of the diamond... there were some haymakers thrown in this one and some nice cheap shots...

[Edited on June 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM. Reason : x]

6/6/2008 12:50:50 PM

i know, but it's still bullshit. even an NBA "fight" is better

6/6/2008 1:17:14 PM

Sorry Coco didn't charge into the stands and starting beating people up...

6/6/2008 1:20:28 PM

we watched it a couple times as it happened live

NESN showed it in slow mo and 3-4 rays were definitely getting a few good punches in on him while the catcher was holding him down

6/6/2008 1:22:04 PM

Short compilation of brawls, sure there are more. Check out Sele at :50, the Badger at 2:00, and an insane goalie jump at 2:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05kcNILlNnQ&feature=related

6/6/2008 1:34:03 PM

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=1042980

6/6/2008 1:38:40 PM

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"Sorry Coco didn't charge into the stands and starting beating people up... "

neither did any players in the Knicks Nuggets brawl a couple years ago, but that was "another black eye the NBA needed to recover from" whereas this is "just part of the game"

double standard like a motherfucker

6/6/2008 3:02:14 PM

MLB will suspend Kazmir, Upton, Shields, Navarro, Garza, Bartlett, Longoria, and Percival from the D-Rays for 15 games

For the Red Sox, they'll give Rich Garces a 5 game suspension

6/6/2008 3:08:40 PM

i wish they'd suspend Kazmir cause I'm going against him in fantasy, but now I realize you just mean AMURICA'S TEAM the red sox will get off light

6/6/2008 3:09:46 PM

hahah... El Guapo.

6/6/2008 3:10:29 PM

Nobody has mentioned the video of Youklis and Manny a little later that game. Imma try to find it now, Manny bitch-slapped Youklis and they went at it.

Video is here http://soxanddawgs.com/?p=4459 . Seems like Youklis may have said something to Manny about not coming out of the dugout during the brawl.

[Edited on June 6, 2008 at 3:17 PM. Reason : a]

6/6/2008 3:13:01 PM

that was just manny being manny





and crisp being coco

6/6/2008 3:19:15 PM

DAmn 31 got some good licks in if he landed any of those.

6/6/2008 4:13:47 PM

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"yeah props to shields. He could've run away like a little bitch. Nah, he stood in there like a man."

why the fuck would he run away when he's got 4 inches and 30 pounds on that guy?

6/6/2008 4:21:41 PM

Wow I didn't realize that Gomes came from the dugout. He must have been shot out of a cannon.

6/6/2008 4:39:48 PM

just saw it on jim rome. how the fuck you gonna try to pull a man's hair when he's on the ground. lol. and it was funny when he blatantly tried to bowl over the shortstop or 2nd basemen at 2nd. surprised all hell didn't break loose then.

6/6/2008 4:42:40 PM

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"and an insane goalie jump at 2:30"

Ah, Neil Little. 214 career PIMs as a goalie, including 10 in his only full NHL game.

He had his chest protector rigged so that he could free the padding on his punching arm from the chest plate by hitting a quick-release connector.

6/6/2008 4:42:53 PM

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" Three Red Sox players have been suspended by Major League Baseball for their roles in last night's brawl against the Tampa Bay Rays. Coco Crisp has been suspended for 7 games, Jon Lester for 5 games, and Sean Casey for 3 games. James Shields was suspended for six games, Jonny Gomes and Edwin Jackson for five each, Carl Crawford for four games and Akinori Iwamura for three."

6/6/2008 6:33:15 PM

The Crisp and Shields suspensions are about right, though I thought Crisp might have gotten 8 or 9 games.

Crawford and Gomes should have gotten at least 7 for throwing cheap shots.

I honestly don't know why Lester got 5 games, he has never had great control. If thats the case than you could start suspending lots of pitchers for hit batsmen.

I am guessing Casey did the same thing as Gomes. Crisp is just insurance until Brandon Moss is ready. I am sure all suspensions will be appealed and reduced at least one game on all sides.

6/6/2008 6:42:51 PM

How are they gonna suspend the pitcher when all he did was defend himself against some asshole trying to assault him? Personally I think the batter should be arrested and charged with assault as well.

6/6/2008 7:08:42 PM

lol. he was beating on the guy with his team holding him on the ground and pulling his hair.

6/6/2008 7:11:07 PM

^^ pitcher meant to hit him.

6/6/2008 7:31:37 PM

don't forget there was beef in the game the night before this happened. both sides were probably warned before this game.

dont know all the specifics, but coco got blocked in a slide to second, which he thought was bush league, then the next time he was on first, he went to second with a really hard slide.

6/6/2008 8:47:41 PM

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"double standard like a motherfucker"

haha, INORITE

who can forget these:

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"In May 2000, 19 members of the Dodgers -- 17 players and two coaches -- were suspended after they climbed into the stands at Wrigley Field after a fan allegedly stole catcher Chad Kreuter's hat."

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"The Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers disagreed over who's to blame for an altercation in the stands that led to the arrest of Rangers reliever Frank Francisco after he threw a chair that hit a woman and broke her nose."

6/6/2008 11:26:59 PM

Double standard? It's 2 different organizations, they can dole out suspensions as they see fit.

6/7/2008 12:10:59 AM

not about how each league gives out suspensions...about how the media spins each one

6/7/2008 1:33:17 AM

I think in the NBA, you see a lot more bitch moves... Rodman kicking a camerama... a cameraman? Artest going apeshit crazy on a fan, etc.

In baseball, it's largely kept on the field, man to man (although, there are exceptions as cited above). I mean, Getting a 90mph fastball thrown at your face is infinitely more likely to cause serious injury than lobbing a basketball at 5 mph towards your face, which explains the response of people getting really pissed off and charging the mound, especially on intentional hits.

There's zero reason to get in a fight on the basketball court. Especially with the fans.

6/7/2008 10:09:42 AM

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"not about how each league gives out suspensions...about how the media spins each one"

Yeah, 19 Dodgers went into the stands. I think that's slightly more than the Pistons-Pacers brawl. Where was the media outrage?

6/7/2008 10:41:03 AM

there was a fight from the early to mid 80s that I remember seeing just once... a batter got hit, didnt do anything, went to first. Next batter flied out to end the inning. The guy that got hit was running to second, saw the ball was caught, and then headed straight to the mound and he and the pitcher beat the living fuck out of each other.


No idea who it was, what teams, or even if it was MLB or minor leagues, but it was fucking crazy if anyone can find it.

6/7/2008 1:33:03 PM

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"Yeah, 19 Dodgers went into the stands. I think that's slightly more than the Pistons-Pacers brawl. Where was the media outrage?"

Uh, maybe that is because they didn't go in to the stands randomly throwing haymakers at people who had NOTHING to do with the altercation in the first place... there may be a double standard, but stop being a dumbass... You don't honestly think that the outrage was based on the fact that Artest/Jackson went in to the stands, do you? It's because they started pummeling anyone they could see...

**** And the A's-Rangers thing got MAJOR, MAJOR media publicity...

[Edited on June 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM. Reason : x]

6/7/2008 1:57:04 PM