Coco Crisp charged with DUI

Coco Crisp/Courtesy: abc15.com-scottsdale police

We'll hold off the jokes. For now.

Oakland A's outfielder Coco Crisp (his real name is Covelli), was arrested and booked in the Scottsdale, Arizona jail early Wednesday morning after police pulled him over on a traffic stop.

Crisp was in the area because his team's Spring Training home is there.

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The team released a statement on their hard to boot up website about Crisp, who was only able to play in 75 games for the A's last season.

"Coco Crisp was arrested and detained early this morning under the suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. He was released from the City of Scottsdale jail this morning and arrived at Phoenix Municipal Stadium on tome for team pre-game drills. The A's are aware of the situation and take such matter seriously. The team and Coco will have no further comment until further details are available"


We suspect this may be the beginning of the end for Mr. Crisp, who has underachieved in his tenure with the A's. Sure, he did steal 32 bases last season in 75 games. but this is generally the type of thing that causes long term issues. We'll see how it goes.

In the meantime, it's really hard to look at "Coco's" name and not think of this commercial from my childhood. Sorry if it offends anyone, it's not meant that way:

Bank Shot

Check this out. Thursday in Cleveland, the Indians are tied with the Kansas City Royals in the bottom of the 10th inning. There are runners on 1st and 2nd, nobody is out. The Indians Shin-Soo Choo (Guzundheit) at the plate and he hits a shot up the middle. As we all know, strange things involving animals, birds and sometimes insects seem to happen at the Jake. The video will tell the rest of the story.

Video Courtesy: You Tube



I'm not sure exactly which part was the funniest; Watching the Seagull, the fact that it was the cookie monster, Coco Crisp in Centerfield or that the batter's name was Shin-Soo Choo. I guess it was a better outcome then when Randy Johnson exploded a bird with a pitch...isn't it?


Video Courtesy: You Tube with apologies for the lack of audio, it's still pretty damn funny to watch though.

Koo-Koo For CoCo Crisp...

OK, shoot me later for the cheesy title, but it is unerringly appropriate. BoSox outfielder Crisp has been a loose cannon over the last two days, and finally went snap, crackle, pop against Tampa Bay pitcher James Shields.

(Photo courtesy Michael Dwyer, AP, June 5, 2008)

Nice photo – for a print photographer. (insert photog joke here).

See, what had happened was...

Crisp came into Thursday’s game looking for a fight anyway. Crisp jammed his thumb on shortstop Jason Bartlett’s knee during a stolen base headfirst slide into second base Wednesday night. A few innings later, Crisp retaliated by wiping out Rays’ second baseman Akinori Iwamura – causing words between Crisp and Rays' manager Joe Maddon.

After the game, Crisp said something to the effect of, “They’re mad at me? Well, we’ll see who shows they’re mad at me.”

Ultimatums shouldn’t be thrown down to people who thrown 90mph BB’s at your head. Just my $0.02.

The ultimatum was answered when Shields plunked Dustin Pedroia in the very first inning of last night’s game. The sh*t really hit the proverbial fan when Shields beaned Crisp a short time later. Raise your hand if you didn’t see that coming. Anyone?

Then the benches cleared, people started swinging at each other (refer to above photo), and people were ejected (Crisp, Shields, and Rays’ outfielder Jonny Gomes). I gotta give props to Crisp for ducking out of the way of Shields’ out-of-control roundhouse swing...

But We’re Not Done...

Something else happened in the BoSox dugout, and I’m not sure why. Kevin Youkilis and Manny Ramirez got into a shouting match at one another, and had to be restrained. An Offspring song comes to mind here...”You gotta keep it separated!”

I have no idea why those two got into a battle of words, but I’m sure it was for something very trivial. Manny pointed at Kevin, Kevin shouted at Manny, Manny was escorted out of the dugout. Terry Francona said after the game that the “emotions were still running high after the brawl.”

Wait a minute, I thought they were fighting the Rays…not each other.

Anyway, baseball has always had the understood reaction of “You plunk my guy, I’m gonna plunk your guy.” It’s the nature of baseball. Chin music is a part of the game, like it or not.

But retaliating for a jammed thumb?

Dude, get a grip. You’re not Pete Rose.

If you can’t handle the slide, stay at first base.

I’m not usually this deep, just deep in it. Trust me.

--John V. Wood