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He knows now he never should have gone there, knows now that signing that $142 million, seven-year contract was a mistake. He knows it now, and he admits now he knew it almost immediately.

Boston and Carl Crawford were a bad mix.

"I think that's the truth," Crawford said. "It just wasn't the right place for me at the end of my day. I didn't do my homework. Maybe they didn't, either.

"That smile turned upside down quick," Crawford said. "I think they want to see that in Boston. They love it when you're miserable.

"Burying people in the media, they think that makes a person play better. That media was the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life."

Crawford feels like he's already going forward, that he went forward the minute the Red Sox traded him.

"It's nice to have that feel, that free-spirit feel," he said. "I always had that [with the Rays]."

He never had it with the Red Sox.

"I feel like I've got a lot of baseball left," he said. "But over there, I felt like my career was almost over."

"I get it, I didn't perform," he said. "I got the money. I didn't perform. I gave them every reason."

But Crawford felt the Boston media jumped on every reason he gave them to criticize him.

"I took so much of a beating in Boston, I don't think anything could bother me anymore," he said. "They can say what they want -- that I'm the worst free agent ever -- and it won't get to me. But it bothered me the whole time there.

"Look how they treat [John] Lackey. Adrian [Gonzalez] hit 30 home runs (actually 27), and they talked about him not hitting home runs."

Crawford felt like he stopped smiling after one game of his Boston career, and didn't start again until he left.

"You have to tell everybody how much you like it, when you really don't like it," he said.

He didn't like Boston. He didn't like the media. He never should have gone there, and they never should have signed him.





류현진의 동료인 크로포드가 인터뷰에서 신나게 쏴댔네요. 젊고 소외받은 팀에서 언론이 시끄럽고 팬들이 극성맞은 팀으로 갈때 우려스럽긴 햇었는데 다저스 가더니만 신났나봅니다.  인종차별 건 빼고는 저정도 돈 받으니 감수해야할 비난이긴 한데 ㅎㅎ  

가볍게 정리하자면 보스턴 언론 너넨 정말 최악 최악 최악이야! 보스턴으로 난 가지 말았어야 했었어. 걔넨 날 신나게 까대면 내가 더 잘할 줄 아는 애들이야. 이보다 힘들 일은 없을거야. 머 이정도 되겠네요.  테오가 그답지 않게 툴좋은 외야수에 꽂혀서 이해할 수 없는 계약을 하더니만 자기는 컵스로 튀어버렸고 ㅎㅎ 

개막전에 못 나설거 같긴 한데 보스턴은 정말 고마울것 같아요. 다저스가 ㅎㅎ