Jones & Keefe: Rob Bradford on the Red Sox's ongoing identity crisis

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00:00This series with the Yankees, obviously, even if the Red Sox sweep them,

00:05they're going to be under .500.

00:06But even just a series win against New York,

00:10could that be enough to sort of light a little bit of a fire?

00:14Or do you feel like 64 games, we know what this team is?

00:19No, we have no idea what this team is.

00:20That's a problem, isn't it?

00:22I mean, we have no idea.

00:24Well, they kind of stink.

00:26I mean, I feel like we kind of have some idea.

00:27I'm afraid we do know.

00:29We might know what they are this week.

00:31Well, what we think is that they're not very good,

00:33and they're a team that's four games under .500.

00:36But, yeah, I mean, it can change the narrative.

00:38I don't know if it should, but it can change.

00:41It's like, you know, oh, you hit a .308-foot home run to walk it off.

00:45Should that change the narrative?

00:47I don't know.

00:47Like, probably not.

00:49And I don't think a lot of people are.

00:51But you've got to beat good teams.

00:53I mean, their schedule was so soft, and then you get into these games.

00:56And even, you know, against the White Sox and Angels,

00:58you aren't taking care of business.

01:00If you can take care of business, like win a series against the Yankees, yeah.

01:04I mean, I think that's an enormous step in the right direction.

01:06But the bigger thing is that you just have to, like, have guys play better, man.

01:10Like, you have to be a better baseball team.

01:13You have to manage the game in a better way.

01:17You have to do all this stuff better.

01:19You have to find what you are.

01:20Because right now, and this is what Breslow said that was true,

01:23they have no idea what they are.

01:25Forget about results.

01:26Like, they have no idea what their identity is.

01:28And at this point in the year, you should have that identity.