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"It didn't hit me flush. I didn't see it, but I heard it," Crisp said of the ATV, which he moved away from the last instant to avoid a potentially serious injury. "Weird." As Seattle's third consecutive sellout crowd laughed, Crisp scrambled to his feet and playfully feigned anger. He cocked his arm as if he was going to throw his glove at his assailant. "I'm not an angry man," Crisp said. "It was an accident. I mean, I'm not going to run over and clothesline the guy." Bill Bavasi wanted to. Within two minutes of the mishap, Seattle's general manager sent an apology to Boston manager Terry Francona in the dugout. Francona missed the incident because he was using the clubhouse bathroom. "I told him we're taking care of it," Bavasi said after the game, referring to perhaps a now ex-employee. "I actually got a very kind message from Bill Bavasi," Francona said. "It would have been a horrible accident." Seattle manager John McLaren's laughing response, knowing Crisp was OK: "Is the moose hurt?"