Welcome to Boston, Covelli
Anyone remember Carvelli on "Welcome Back, Kotter"? He always had his little sidekick Murray with him who would repeat everything he said. His character has been running through my mind ever since I found out Coco Crisp’s real name.
I love it. Covelli. 
It’ll sound great chanting it from the bleachers.
According to reports: Crisp, 29-year-old righthander David Riske, and 27-year-old switch-hitting catcher Josh Bard are coming to Boston. The Sox’ top 
prospect, 22-year-old Andy Marte, is headed to Cleveland, along with Mota, 25-year-old catcher Kelly Shoppach, cash considerations, and a player
to be named or further cash considerations.
This is definitely something I can live with. It would have been nice to not lose Marte, but we never really ‘had’ him anyway, so good luck to him in Cleveland. I was never big on the Shoppach bandwagon, so I’m not lamenting his loss. And Mota, well we didn’t really ever want him to begin with, he just tagged along with Beckett.
The cash doesn’t bother me either. It’s the "player to be named later" that gets me worried. Normally, they throw any old player in there, but I don’t think Cleveland will go for that. I’m hoping they just settle for having some more money thrown at them instead of a PTBNL, but I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.
Good for Theo for pulling this off without dealing Manny Delcarmen. He’s local, quite sweet and has loads of potential. Not someone I was very happy about the team ditching.
So, as long as old Bud agrees to it, all is well in the Nation tonight.
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In my opinion, Boston got the better of the deal as of today.In the future we’ll see.
As of right now Coco is better than Marte, Riske is better than Mota. on the 2 catchers…well I dont know
anything about Stoppach, Bard
is a ok defensive catcher, but not much of a stick.
Stoppach wont see much playing time in Cleveland, because we already have the best offensive catcher in baseball. So Boston fans dont complain about the deal. Coco’s offensive stats were every bit as good as Damons
& he’s better in the field & he’s only 26 he just only going to get better.
As for this Peter dude on here, I’m not the one that send you an e-mail, it was you. So with that in tack, you don’t know me therefore how well can you judge me? Sorry.
Saw this on mlb.colm this morning:
“I’ve got to give all the credit in the world to Jed and the rest of the guys in the office,” Epstein said. “The deal was obviously more than two or three days in the making. It was something that went on virtually the whole offseason, and we really have been tracking Coco Crisp for a year and a half now.”
If the Red Sox have been tracking Crisp for a year and a half, were they ever really serious about wanting to re-sign Damon?
During Spring Training of 2005, Johnny’s dad was in Ft Myers telling anyone who would listen that when Johnny’s contract was up there was no way he was going to take a ‘discount’ to stay in Boston. Johnny never made any bones about letting people know he was looking foward to enjoying his free agent status come the end of the season. So, contrary to what folks like snare seem to think, Theo is one who likes to have a backup plan if he can.
“lol, Cyn, you should be the spokesperson for the Red Sox.”
Nah, that wouldn’t work out too well. I just tire easily of the “it’s always the FO’s fault for everything” line that they try to pass off around here.