Craig already wrote about Carl Crawford’s return to Tampa Bay being like seeing an ex-girlfriend at a party, but it’s also worth noting that many of his ex-boyfriends didn’t treat Crawford all that well.
There was a solid amount of booing as he stepped to the plate for the first time, although eventually the rest of the crowd drowned it out with cheers and applause.
And as Crawford told reporters after the game, the crowd around him in left field was particularly harsh, calling him a traitor for leaving the Rays and mocking his poor numbers with the Red Sox.
Before the game Crawford was asked to compare his time in Tampa Bay with his early impression of Boston and replied:
It’s all baseball. But it’s a little different. It’s more a younger team [in Tampa], so it was more like party central all the time. [In Boston] it’s a little more calmer, a little more conservative. That’s probably the biggest difference.
That and about $100 million in payroll.
