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Coco Crisp Just Wants to Play

One must feel for Coco Crisp. After slumping in last season's playoffs, the Boston center fielder spent most of the World Series on the bench, ceding his spot in the lineup and fielding duties to darling wonderkid Jacoby Ellsbury. (If you remember, part of the time on the bench he spent talking about Taco Bell with Royce...

I Want to Watch Baseball, Not a Three-Hour Taco Bell Commercial

I've always secretly suspected that Fox has been slowly trying to destroy baseball telecasts since they took over the playoff broadcasts a few years ago. Their lead broadcast team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver is full of trite cliches and hollow statements that never offer any actual insight. Their radar gun bursts into...

Royce Clayton and Coco Crisp's Unscripted Conversation About Fast Food

In case you were curious, that was 100%, entirely completely spontaneous. Darren Rovell noted how it seemed to be staged, but a Fox spokeman quickly responded to let him know that it wasn't. From SportsBiz:He said that the conversation between the two players about the Taco Bell promotion was not rehearsed or set up by the...

Royce Clayton Loves a Pennant Race

Just a few weeks ago, 2007 was looking like a bust for Royce Clayton. He started off the season as the Blue Jays' starting shortstop, then lost his everyday gig to John McDonald, and had to languish on the bench until eventually getting released by Toronto. But how quickly things change. Clayton got snapped up by the...

Wayne Krivsky Gets a Vote of Confidence

This off-season, the NL Central could be looking to replace as many as two-thirds of its six general managers. Tim Purpura and Dave Littlefield are definitely in trouble in Houston and Pittsburgh and Walt Jocketty's contract is up in St. Louis. The fourth member of the quartet is Cincy's Wayne Krivsky, who's been rumored...