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Those brawling Red Sox


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Posted by: I Are Baboon

LOL

Nice to see Julian Tavarez doesn't take any shit.

'course, he isn't doing too good in that last pic...




















Posted by: Goodfella9783

Nice, when was this?


Posted by: I Are Baboon

That was yesterday. Apparently, Tavarez took exception to Gathwright hitting his knee.


Posted by: Flex

I read a bunch of different stories on it (you know how the smallest thing in the world happens, and the sports world makes a huge deal out of it), and it seems like Tavarez was just being a straight asshole.

He was stepping on Gathright's arm, and Gathright obviously wasn't happy, and tried to get his arm out, and Tavarez wouldn't move. Tavarez said afterwards "he looked like he was gonna punch me. In this world, whoever punches first usually wins, so i hit first."

great. now we got this guy on our team.


Posted by: soxmuscle

Tavarez was completely wrong in this instance, but I do enjoy watching a player who plays with as much intensity in an exhibition game as he would in a World Series game.

'Rudy-like,' if you will.

He'll serve his suspension and this will be over and done with. Just be thankful that Papelbon, who broke up the scrum, wasn't hurt.


Posted by: fufu

what a loser.


Posted by: I Are Baboon

No doubt Tavarez was completely wrong here. Keep in mind this is the same clown who broke his hand during the playoffs last year by punching the dugout phone. A bit of head case for sure.

Boston is going to eat him alive.


Posted by: Dale Mabry

What they needed was Don Zimmer to come in and fall to the ground.




Posted by: I Are Baboon

It was really sad to see Zimmer trip on his shoelace like that.


Posted by: cappo5150

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Originally Posted by I Are Baboon




haha what kind of punch is that? Its more like a closed fist bitch slap.


Posted by: I Are Baboon

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Originally Posted by cappo5150
haha what kind of punch is that? Its more like a closed fist bitch slap.
Dude, it's a baseball fight. That's about as hard core as it gets.


Posted by: Scott17

LOL too much.

I was at the Sox vs. Yanks game when Varitek and Arod got into a brawl. Good stuff.




Posted by: min0 lee

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Originally Posted by cappo5150
haha what kind of punch is that? Its more like a closed fist bitch slap.
That's what I said, I guess it was a combo punch and poke your eye out grip.


Poor Zimmer, I wanted to kill Pedro for that.


Posted by: min0 lee

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Originally Posted by Scott17
LOL too much.

I was at the Sox vs. Yanks game when Varitek and Arod got into a brawl. Good stuff.

He must have ruined Arods makeup.


Posted by: min0 lee

And a pitcher at that.


Posted by: min0 lee

NEW YORK (AP) -- Boston Red Sox reliever Julian Tavarez was suspended for 10 days and fined Thursday for his role in a brawl this week.
Bob Watson, baseball's vice president in charge of discipline, cited Tavarez for "violent and unsportsmanlike actions" during Monday's game against the Devil Rays. Tavarez punched Tampa Bay's Joey Gathright lightly on the jaw after a play at home plate.
The penalty would start next Monday, when Boston plays its season opener, unless the players' association appeals.
"I'm a little surprised," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said in Fort Myers, Fla. "I know they didn't have video so I'm not sure what they're going on. ... It seems like a lot."

Boston general manager Theo Epstein said he didn't know if the suspension would be appealed.

Tavarez is with his seventh team in eight years and has been suspended four times, starting in May 1996 when he threw a pitch behind Milwaukee's Mike Matheny, sparking a brawl. Tavarez was suspended for three games.
He was suspended for five games and fined $1,000 after a spring training melee in 2001 when San Francisco's Russ Davis charged the mound after striking out because he thought Tavarez, then with the Chicago Cubs, had shown him up.
Tavarez was fined $10,000 by the commissioner's office in October 2004 for throwing a pitch over the head of Houston's Jeff Bagwell in Game 4 of the NL championship series. Earlier that season, he was suspended for eight days for applying a foreign substance to balls while pitching.
Francona thinks Tavarez's history probably was a factor in the length of the suspension.
"It sure seems like it because that's a pretty stiff penalty," Francona said.


Posted by: fufu

What Tavarez on the Cardinals in 2004?


Posted by: min0 lee

He played for them in '04 and in '05.


Posted by: Scott17

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Originally Posted by min0 lee
He must have ruined Arods makeup.
No, good thing the Rodman keeps a makeup case in the dugout. He was back to his pretty boy self by the next inning.



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