Felger and Mazz react to the Red Sox winning three of a four-game series at New York, jumping the Yankees in MLB's Wild Card race.
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00:00Hi, Maz. Hi, Murray. Good you. Hello. Sox take three or four from the Yankees over the weekend,
00:04but what was the story? The Yankees dropped three or four to the Red Sox over the weekend.
00:08That would be the story. Is that fair to the Red Sox? Sure it is. Sure it is. I mean, look,
00:13they played a good series. Don't get me wrong, but I think you can look at this from both sides.
00:17I don't think it's unreasonable to do that. Do you realize that early in the year after 55 games,
00:22the Yankees were 35 and 20, 35 and 20. That team was playing well. And the team that showed up
00:29for New York over the four days, over the weekend, that team looked like the Red Sox looked early in
00:35the year, unable to make a throw, unable to field a ground ball, balking people over, throwing pitches
00:42out of the strike zone, just ineptitude across the board. So I would doubt the amazing thing to me
00:49after all of that is that they're basically tied now in the wildcard standings. It felt to me like
00:56with the way the weekend went, the Red Sox had completely opened it up and pulled ahead of
01:01the Yankees. And that was it. And they're only tied now, which brings me to last night's game.
01:06That's kind of a big loss. And the problem with losing the finale in a four game series,
01:12when you have a chance to sweep is that everybody comes out of it and says, well,
01:17they took three to four. That's pretty good. And I agree. It is. Except that that last game,
01:24major swing game, major, you win it, you're two up. Instead, you're tied with a team whose ass you
01:34just kicked for the large majority of the weekend. And I thought, I couldn't help but let, I know I'm
01:41throwing a lot at you. I couldn't help but look at that game last night and say, can you imagine if
01:45Joe Ryan had pitched this game instead of Dustin May? So would you, wouldn't you have felt a little
01:51bit better going in and probably coming out? So the most recent thing was a loss, but you come
01:55out of that with a bad taste in your mouth from last night. Yeah. From last night, the weekend was
02:00positive. You know, four days you get three, but I also didn't expect to win the first three or Red
02:07Sox to win the first three. Yeah. Didn't you at best think they were going to split going in? Yeah.
02:12But again, then you go into last night and you get a chance to get all four and really stick it to
02:17them. No, you could have gone in. You could have left there last night, having gone in down to
02:22and come out up to. And look, now you're tied. So you made up ground and I'm not telling you that's
02:28bad. I'm just telling you, boy, it would have been good to get that last. Oh, of course. But
02:32overall, I think it was a really good weekend for them. If nothing else, they've, if they didn't do
02:35it already with the prior sweep when they were here, they've planted a real seed of doubt in the
02:40Yankees collective heads that the Yankees can't beat the Red Sox. Like even watching them before the
02:45humiliating game for the New York on Saturday, the, the, the gem pitched by Bay on Friday night,
02:50watching that, it feels like just the Yankees are tight and stupid when they play the Red Sox,
02:55like more than they're tight and stupid against anybody else. Unless that team's hitting a million
02:58home runs, seemingly they can't win games, but against the Red Sox, to me, it's like,
03:03it's like bizarro watching that series for me. Like growing up watching the Red Sox against the
03:07Yankees, it always felt like the Red Sox are going to do something stupid to F things up. Now it feels
03:11like the shoe's on the other foot watching these two teams play each other. So I think a lot of the,
03:15I think the people that follow the Yankees would tell you, this is who they are. Really? Yeah.
03:18Well, that's what I, so I even watched them closely, but that is my takeaway that my complaint about
03:25the Red Sox is that they don't know how to play baseball. The Yankees are even worse. It feels
03:29like if that's how they play, I mean, I don't know where they rank in errors. I do know that they lead
03:34the majors in home runs. So they entered Sunday and I don't know where I clipped this from, but I
03:39obviously clipped it from somewhere. They entered Sunday, having scored 48.6% of their runs via the
03:45home run. Yep. So over a half, you know, and I say over half, almost half their runs
03:49are long balls. So they don't play baseball. No, they're softball. And they've been this way for
03:56a while. Now last year was a little bit better. It was a little more balanced, but they've been
04:01this way for a while now. They're just a slug away. And you know, you, you go in there and throw a bad
04:07right-handed pitcher. You're going to get beat. Forgive me for not knowing, but that's, that's
04:11atrocious. I mean, for all the grief we give the Red Sox and I stand by it. I don't know
04:17if they're, they know how to play baseball. They have some good players, but the actual
04:22game of baseball has fallen off around the league apparently, but certainly it feels like
04:27with the Red Sox, the Yankees are worse. Yes. So that I, I don't mean to take away from
04:32the Red Sox, but that was striking to me that they must have the same, you know, organizational
04:38up and down the, the organization, the rot in terms of fundamentals that you have that
04:44a lot of the sport has. They're even worse. And maybe it's their stupid ballpark, you
04:47know, drag tempts them into that. Cause all you got to do is hit 340 foot fly balls to
04:53not even that far right field and you're hitting home runs. So it's really all about just put
04:57the, put the ball in the air and they don't know how to do anything else. My goodness.
05:01Some of that was bad. Yeah, no, really again, like fundamentally think of all the mistakes
05:05they made in that series. And the one that got me more than anything was the box. Like,
05:11did you see the one on Saturday? Is this where he threw the first base? Yeah. No one was there.
05:14Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you see that one? Now, again, it's a rookie pitcher. Blackburn's his
05:19last name. I think it's Pete. It's Paul Murray. I'm joking. Okay. So the, uh, he, uh, has a
05:26runner on. He's clearly crapping his pants on the mound. Okay. They got the fact that he's in
05:31the game tells you that, you know, they're just going to burn the arm because you know,
05:35they're going to lose the game and that's the end of it. He throws over to first base
05:39and rice is standing 10 feet off the bag and behind the runner behind the runner. Yeah.
05:44He's not even close. And everybody's looking, the announcers are looking at it and they're
05:49going, what the hell is this? What's he doing? Was the night before it was a high leverage
05:52situation. I can't remember who's on the mound, but you get the tying run in the six
05:57because he's the, whoever it was stepped off the rubber for the third time and gave
06:02you second base. And that's when Roman Anthony hit the RBI single to left, uh, to the left
06:06side of second base there on Friday night. They don't, the Yanks don't know how to play.
06:10They don't. It's crazy. No, they're completely idiotic. Again, they make the Red Sox look like
06:14geniuses. So, so as I said, the other day, there were, there were really two competitions
06:20going on this weekend. One was for the lead wildcard spot in the American league, which the Red
06:26Sox now possessed by a half game, although they're even in the last column, but they're
06:30a half game up. The other is for the title of stupidest team, maybe in the entire American
06:37league. Yankees win by a runaway. Landslide, landslide, not even close. Landslide, complete
06:44total stupidity. If that were in Boston, if that was the Red Sox and that series were played
06:51here and they lost three out of four, we'd be calling for the manager's head today.
06:55And they have been for three years down there. How does it not? Boy, that organization must
07:00have is changed. It's just, I mean, the old man's got to be rolling in his grave. My
07:04God, it was just watching play or not play as the case may be. Inept. Inept. And look,
07:10the Red Sox took advantage of it. The biggest thing that they did was they pitched pretty
07:14well in the series. Everybody until Dustin May basically had done their jobs. But I also
07:20don't think it's all that hard to shut down the Yankees. Like, and I'm not dumping on the
07:24Red Sox pitchers. Crochet is Crochet. Crochet is legit.
07:28Baio hasn't been legit.
07:29Baio was excellent in that game.
07:30Baio hasn't been good.
07:31Yeah, Baio's been good. In fact, he owns them.
07:34Yeah, he's been, he's been, he was really good. I was impressed by that game. In fact,
07:38I would argue that that was the biggest positive coming out of the weekend was
07:41Baio's performance. Since I think it's like the last 10 starts, he's actually got a better
07:47ERA than Crochet does over that period of time. Something in that window. I got to go back
07:51and look it up. It's like eight starts, 10 starts, something like that.
07:54I won't say that. I'm totally surprised. I've always felt he's had ceiling.
07:57He's got stuff. I mean, the stuff is there. It's always been there. And it feels like he's
08:02starting to equalize emotionally and he doesn't get as rattled as he used to. He's got much
08:07better control, command of his pitches. That was probably the biggest positive development
08:12of the weekend. And the Red Sox did. They pitched well. But all you got to really do is keep
08:17the ball out of right field and Yankee stadium. That's really it. And if you do that, you're
08:22going to beat them because they're stupid. The Yankees are freaking stupid. You're more
08:27heartened by Baio or concerned by May and say Bueller? I would, Bueller to me forget. I've
08:33written him off. Both those guys. Like, are you going to see him in the playoffs? Yeah. No,
08:37no, I don't think so. There's a chance if Bueller catches fire. May's going to be in the
08:43bullpen. You think May's going to be over Bueller? I think they'll both be in the bullpen.
08:47Well, they're probably, yeah. No, no. I was going to say if Bueller catches fire, you could
08:51see him in a relief roll. And I could see him in theory being okay at that. If he's just got
08:56to come in for an inning and air it out. Well, but now that I say that, who's, if you have four
09:00starters, who's four? So right now, I don't know that they have one. It can't be Bueller. No.
09:06They're going to use Bernardino as an opener, apparently. Tonight. Tonight, but I'm saying,
09:10you know, you need a solid starter. ALCS, you need four starters. Yeah. So right now, to me,
09:15they still really only have three. And so again, I like, I go back to the trade deadline
09:20at a time like this, because I look at it and say, man, if they had one more guy. Oh,
09:23yeah. No, they like one more legit guy. But don't you think this Bueller thing is just
09:27temporary? They're going to go back to him. I don't know. Nope. Nope. I don't worry.
09:32I don't. I think that when, so then who, I don't know. I mean, I don't, I, you know,
09:38I pitch make, and they going to be the guy last night. I mean, I think, I think they'll
09:43keep going with him just because he's here, but he's not it. He's a mess. Have you seen
09:49him? His body language is horrendous. His gesticulations. Maybe it was the first thing.
09:54The second, you see the arm exercise, he was coming off the mound like this. Yeah. I'm doing,
09:58I'm like, I'm sort of waving my arm. He was doing this weird sort of arm stuff. He's
10:02crapping his pants out there. You can see it. It's hard to watch. I meant to look this up,
10:06and I haven't looked it up yet. I want to see what his career numbers are at Yankee
10:09Stadium. I don't know how many times he's pitched there. Maybe that was the first. I
10:12have no idea, but he looked intimidated on that mound and take a good look at his
10:18eyes. They are freaking tiny. He's got tiny little snake eyes. Well, that's not his
10:23fault. That's just how God made him. No, no, no. I understand that, but they make
10:25him look afraid. Like take a good look at him. When you look at him, he can't help the
10:31eye thing. It's just how he pitches. And I think the gesticulations and the facial
10:36expressions and all of that should give you just a little pause. I'm just
10:40telling you how I feel. I look at the guy and I say, deer in headlights, terrified.
10:46He is terrified. He's got horrible body language. He should never get the ball
10:51against a good team again, no matter where he pitches.
10:54So.
10:56So.
10:59So.