00:00You lose another series, and you cannot – it doesn't matter what you do.
00:08You put up two runs, and you're unable to win that game.
00:14You come back yesterday, and you're scoring – at least you're scoring six runs.
00:21And you can't – you have nobody that's available bullpen innings-wise,
00:27nine games into the baseball season, so you got a guy who's making his first Major League start
00:33who makes one mistake.
00:34That one mistake is a home run, and you're – they just are finding ways to lose
00:39in multiple different ways to lose baseball games.
00:43And I don't – I don't know when it's going to get better.
00:46I don't know because through nine games, this is tied for the worst nine-game start
00:51in franchise history.
00:53That's how bad they are right now.
00:55Yeah.
00:55Yeah.
00:55I mean, they are doing things that they haven't done since the late 90s.
01:02You know, they have the same amount of losses when it's – when they have scored
01:09two or less runs.
01:11Last time that happened was 1998, I believe.
01:15They just are – and it's every part of the – other than Willier Abreu.
01:21That's it.
01:21There is not a single thing that is positive, and I guess I'll give it to Garrett Crochet.
01:29Other than that, there's not a thing that's positive on this baseball team.
01:33And that was – and that's the – like, that's the thing that when you were going into the season,
01:37they talked about the bullpen and how good that was.
01:40They talked – you know, they were very high on their starting pitching.
01:43You know, they felt very good in Aroldis Chapman as the closer.
01:47They were excited about the young athletic talent that they had, and they were going to put the ball in
01:52play.
01:52Maybe they didn't hit the long ball, but it was about putting the ball in play and being able to
01:56score runs in other ways.
01:57And it just seems like, you know, just the whole beginning of the season, none of that stuff that they
02:03told us
02:04that they were going to do, they're able to do.
02:07And I guess it comes down to, like, we're going to obviously get into the playing pie of, you know,
02:13why this team is the way it is, you know, a large portion of it.
02:17Is it the players? Is it the manager?
02:19It's embarrassing.
02:20Is it Breslow and, you know, the additions of what you didn't add?
02:24So I think that's going to be the biggest thing moving forward, especially if they're not able to turn it
02:28around.
02:29Yeah, I think it was not a great sign yesterday that they already had Breslow on the broadcast doing damage
02:34control.
02:35I was like, it's not even April, like, 7th, and we already have the president of the baseball team sitting
02:40there
02:40trying to defend the offseason.
02:42Good morning.
02:44Twitch chat wants to know if Brad Stevens can coach baseball.
02:46And I think that's a good idea.
02:49It should at least be explored since he's being explored for, like, every other GM job in the NBA.
02:54See if we get Jay with a pitcher hit or something.
02:56I mean, Celtics are fine.
02:58Yeah.
02:59You know, Red Sox are a disaster, and I don't know if it's a Hillman jinx, but the Bruins are
03:04now falling apart.
03:05Yeah, I think we might have jinxed them.
03:07That overtime period yesterday was not pleasant on the part of the Boston Bruins.
03:13Yeah, I think the jinx is in because when we had Judd on and they, you know, were talking about
03:17the four-game stretch.
03:18Oh, yeah.
03:19They were cruising on the playoffs.
03:21It's like, yeah, they're going to roll right in.
03:23They're playing unbelievable.
03:24They'd have won six of seven.
03:25Yeah.
03:26Now they've lost three in a row.
03:27Granted, we got the point in overtime yesterday.
03:29We'll take that.
03:30But that was, I mean, the posture knock penalty there.
03:32He was so gassed.
03:34I mean, I guess that's the sacrifice you make when you put him out there for two and a half
03:37minutes in an overtime period.
03:38But, like, he was just, like, grabbing the guys.
03:40Like, please don't get a breakaway.
03:42It was a full.
03:42It was a hook.
03:43It was like five different hooks to make sure that he got the call.
03:46And the guys still got the breakaway.
03:48Are we going to get to, by any chance, are we going to get to David Pasternak postgame during they
03:53said it?
03:54Yeah, we definitely can, Greg.
03:55Okay.
03:56Shyam, who was more gassed yesterday, Pasternak or Greg after his second Easter dinner?
04:01Oh, that's a good question.
04:02The second dinner, I just had a Caesar salad.
04:06That's it.
04:06Oh, good.
04:06That was it.
04:07And no protein on it.
04:08All right.
04:09No dessert?
04:10No, no, no dessert.
04:12No Easter candy?
04:12I had dessert at the first Easter.
04:15Ooh.
04:16But I did.
04:19I had.
04:22We had our second dinner.
04:24Me, Jan, and the kids at Granite Lynx.
04:27And they cannot wait for the first ever full field Numbnuts Invitational on June 22nd, Curtis.
04:36They are very excited about it over there.
04:38The Lynx?
04:39My dad has never been more excited in his life to golf in a tournament named after his son, Numbnuts.
04:43So I think he's going to try and play.
04:45Wait a minute.
04:45Are we getting John Curtis a full force?
04:48Really?
04:48Okay.
04:48That's what he says.
04:49All right.
04:50Okay.
04:50I can't wait.
04:52I can't wait.
04:52Well, we have a lot to get to this morning, including our leads coming up in about 10 minutes.
04:58They said it, as I just mentioned, at 720.
05:01That will include what Roman Anthony said about the performance of his baseball team this weekend.
05:09And I, as you might imagine, I like the leadership that I think...
05:15How's the umpire doing?
05:17I think that that's what he said.
05:19All right.
05:20Yeah.
05:20Still on the Mago train where Rome wasn't built in a day, right?
05:23I'm still...
05:23Right, right.
05:24I'm still riding that train.
05:24It's not his fault.
05:25No, no, no, no.
05:26I'm just, you know, still riding that train.
05:28We talked about that.
05:29And it's got to be tough for a young kid like that.
05:31You know, so many expectations the beginning of the season.
05:34And then you're, you know, you get off and you're struggling a little bit.
05:37Now you try to got to be, you know, a vocal leader and trying to get...
05:40I mean, that part of it aside, which we'll hear at 720, I mean, I think if you want to
05:47be...
05:48If you want to be concerned, you can be concerned that they have a real issue with half of his
05:53game,
05:54which is the part in which he needs to be able to throw the ball from the outfield to home
06:00plate.
06:00So I, you know, I don't understand.
06:04He's young, though.
06:04I think we might have, like, he's a young kid.
06:07And I think, you know, Lou...
06:08And I remember hearing Lou on the broadcast, him and Malar talking about it.
06:12It's like, we might have put so much pressure and high expectations on him.
06:17Is that fair?
06:18Like, I don't know.
06:19I'm asking the question of the world.
06:21I know I carry water for him at all times.
06:25But, like, what's the pressure?
06:27Like, I mean, it's not like you wrote him a, you know, a 10-year, you know, $230 million check.
06:35Like, I don't know.
06:36I mean, I just...
06:38To a guy on that, I mean, at this point, Sedan Raffaella making stupid errors when it comes to running
06:47the bases is ludicrous to me.
06:50Like, I don't understand what's going on with nearly everybody on that baseball team.
06:57I would say that you did put a little pressure on Roman, once again, by removing guys like Devers, guys
07:04like Bregman, where you had that veteran presence.
07:09And then, in their absence, you have veterans like Trevor Story, who's supposed to be, I guess, the leader of
07:17this entire clubhouse.
07:18To your point, Sedan Raffaella, who's a vet at this point.
07:21Like, they are making these dumb mistakes at this point.
07:24Almost every game, you have at least one of these.
07:26No, like, I think you're right.
07:28Dumb mistakes are on the manager, right?
07:30Yeah.
07:31And not having them focused.
07:32Or dumb mistakes are on a coach.
07:34And when you start to look at some of those things of, like, are they focused?
07:40Are they aware of whatever the situation is, right?
07:42Are they not being talked to about certain things?
07:46What we want to do if we get into these situations, right?
07:49And Wiggs, you go back to that benching of Narvaez.
07:52Like, that's kind of a panic move for me.
07:54Like, you're already trying to send a message in the first week of the season.
07:58And then, what do you do now if you lose two out of three to the Padres?
08:01And I think this is going to be the storyline.
08:04It's not, maybe it's not fair.
08:06But how many losses does this team need to accumulate in close games before the manager is discussed as potentially
08:12the problem?
08:13Yeah.
08:13And I know that's crazy.
08:14Yeah, I think early on in the season, if your catcher is arriving a half an hour late to a
08:24meeting with the manager and the ace, when you're on the road, then there may be an issue with guys
08:35that are taking things a little less seriously than they could be.
08:38Right.
08:38And, like, I wouldn't necessarily put that on the manager.
08:43I would then...
08:44You put it on the player.
08:45I'd put that on the player, right?
08:46Well, partly, but who's setting the standard?
08:48No, no, I agree.
08:49I would agree with you, right?
08:51But I would think that, I guess, maybe, you know, in spring training, there was a certain standard that was
08:58set, right?
08:59So, if you have a guy that you feel like Narvaez, we look at, is somebody who should be in
09:04a leadership role, who caught a lot of innings last year, he had new expectations of him, was to be
09:11in a leadership role.
09:12If he's showing up to a meeting 30 minutes late, that's on player.
09:16Then the manager has to make sure he does what he needs to do to punish this play to show
09:21the rest of the clubhouse that, hey, we're not going to, this is not the standard we're setting, which I
09:25think Cora did a good job of, which was sitting him.
09:28All right, well, we have, as I say all the time, we have a lot to talk about this morning.
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