Troll Alert.

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Everyone knows that the best response to a troll is to ignore it until it goes away. It would have been best for David to follow that policy as charging Gregg was probably not terribly satisfying and now there's a suspension in his future. But it did liven up a dull game.

I don't totally understand what happened. But it seems that Kevin Gregg was frustrated with playing for a crappy team like the Orioles. He felt, somehow, that hitting David would reassert his right to pitch in Fenway Park--I'm pretty sure that that one's not in the Constitution: Where is that great Constitutional scholar, Luke Scott, when you need him? When he couldn't successfully accomplish that and had been told by the ump to knock it off, he decided to screech at David some more to get a reaction. I can't imagine what he said to David to piss him off that much. So punches were thrown and when the dust had settled Ortiz and Saltalamacchia were given a early evening and Josh Reddick was called out for abandoning his base (that has a very militaristic ring to it).

As for Josh Reddick, if that's the rule, then that's the rule. But Showalter is nearly as bad as Joe Girardi and his prissy little "We're playing this game under protest."

Also, Kevin Gregg is a moron and a terrible liar. Here's a free tip, cabbage: A good lie will be at least somewhat believable. No one, who isn't as apparently as dim you are, is going to believe that you threw those pitches with the intention of getting David to chase them; especially since, you know, while you're not a good pitcher, you're not that awful. And it's not believable that you yelled at him to run to first base because, if you look closely, David was running; it wasn't a sprint but that's pretty much as fast as he goes.