Trevor Story continues to rake but rest of offense is struggling- Panic button?

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Are you officially worried?? Boston Red Sox lose pivotal series to _____ Athletics. Trevor Story continues to rake but rest of offense is struggling- Panic button?

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00:00well tell you what that patient is that patient is needs a transplant or is on life support i am

00:08uh i don't i don't know where to start on that yesterday the the you got costly errors

00:14you got after the second inning you can't put the bat on the baseball and you're you're putting

00:23yourself in a position where you have got you almost have to win out like i i like and i don't

00:30know how much confidence you have in this series i guess you have confidence tonight you got a uh

00:36three game set with the rays you got confidence tonight because of crochet but i i don't know

00:41how much confidence do you have this weekend curtis uh not much at all i'm officially worried are you

00:46oh my god they were a comeback win away from being swept in a must-win series against the a's

00:55at fenway park and my i i just like can we stop with the brian baio thing with like you know what

01:03pedro he's like the one napoleon dynamite that ran for president he's not like pedro martinez no no

01:09it is absurd like i it's first of all even if he was really good he wouldn't be pedro but then you

01:15have a start like that yesterday where you implode just awful oh that was the error is what killed

01:20them i mean when you look at that error run in the first problem yeah but i mean you know you've

01:24seen guys give up home he only he only gave up two runs that other that error that uh i think they

01:30might have credited him for the the throwing error from the third what's his name the third baseman

01:35who was that guy kunz what the hell is his name the third baseman who made the play

01:40i'm just everybody's drawing a blank who's the third was it bregman

01:46bregman plays third base yeah the throwing error in the second inning

01:51i don't know why i said kunz i don't either i don't know why i said kunz

01:58they have a guy named kurtz kurtz maybe that's who it is i don't know why i said kunz

02:02nick kurtz plays first base trevor's story yeah it was the third base it was the first baseman who

02:07made the error but it was a bad throw and i think they might have gave it to kurtz is that

02:12how you say his name malcolm kunz is a football player yeah i don't know why it's nick kurtz

02:16for the oakland or the athletics for the athletics no yes yes what am i thinking of him i don't know

02:23that's why we're all lost what strain did you use this morning this puppy ground to a halt before i

02:31could even get it going here this morning i i don't know what i have no idea what you're talking

02:35about and the trevor story had an error yesterday no the it was the second inning when the a's went

02:42up three to two all right never mind maybe i'm missing something here i think the second inning

02:49the red sox scored a run nobody's from the a scored a run in the second inning yesterday okay

02:54was it the third inning then i'm thinking about

02:57i was listening to it on the odyssey app kurtz could you rewind the app while we're while the show

03:04is going on for us and if we could go back to the part where i was discussing perhaps the fact

03:10that you have you got this series and you got you i mean you gotta you gotta win this series i don't

03:18know anybody who has a lot of confidence in them doing that but um and then you gotta you have you

03:25gotta do the same thing when it comes to toronto you gotta do the same thing when it comes to detroit

03:29right and you may end up you may end up needing garrett crochet the on on short rest the last

03:37game of the season in order to secure the wild card because the guardians are that's a team that's on

03:44fire and they're only they're only a game and a half back they've won 12 of their last 13 i think

03:49and i don't think you're gonna get anybody on short rest like curtis was talking with craig

03:52breslow yesterday and he said he wants to make sure that the rest continues to be pretty standard

03:56well you're gonna have to have garrett gush i mean if you have to win that last game of the season

04:00you're gonna have to have you're gonna need him and he said they weren't backed into a corner

04:03yeah so i i mean i don't i don't know what do you guys think the chances are if toley shaves the

04:08stash you think that would be a good you know how slump busters yeah my big time let big stash go

04:13do they have slump busters in other sports or is it just baseball i never heard of in other sports

04:18yeah i think it's just baseball i've never heard of in other sports you never know um but yeah

04:22yeah i mean you got uh kyle harrison going tomorrow and then you get connelly early on sunday so i

04:31you know uh breslow said they liked way early's been pitching though so they i mean hopefully that's

04:37another positive give him 82 pitches in his next start if this i i know that lou was bothered by jones

04:44on social media about how jones said if this team implodes and misses the playoffs core is going to be

04:50on the chopping block but once it's easy to say in a practice like in an uh a theoretical way

04:58that he won't be in trouble but if they miss the playoffs the emotion everything you're talking

05:04about is going to be ratcheted up by a thousand and it's going to be impossible for core to escape

05:10another second half swoon the red sox despite the trade whatever they are a far more talented

05:16baseball team than the guardians they this should not be a game out in the lost column with nine

05:21games to go and if they don't make the playoffs it would be i think uh improper business operation

05:29if they didn't reevaluate the manager because what else is his job and that's the other thing

05:33yesterday it's like he met core a masterful job with the bullpen to uh not yesterday the day before

05:38and everybody on social media is like that's my manager anybody bitching now and then yesterday

05:43it's crickets no i mean he pinch hit i think it was four consecutive guys to end that game yesterday

05:50here's another question for you if will your abreu curtis is 86 or whatever they're whatever they're

05:58saying is why why can't alex cora pinch hit pinch hit him in a game yesterday like i like why i don't

06:06that's a great question that's a good that's a good point i mean you're trying it it's coming down to

06:12the wire here right you're trying to win baseball games like there's nobody other than trevor story

06:18who's been hitting the ball as is you got trevor story has 25 home runs uh you've you know maybe

06:27you know maybe bregman has i don't know how 16 or 17 maybe and then that's it when it comes you're

06:35up against these teams that you got guys that are you know hitting their 30th off you yesterday

06:41there's five guys that got 20 home runs it's just in many cases like devers has over 30 yeah

06:49devers you i mean when it comes to bats devers anthony and abreu like you've been without those

06:56bats for a considerable amount of time on this baseball team and we have no idea when abreu is

07:01coming back like zero and he's 86 it might be 86.5 by this morning i i have i have no idea but

07:08uh anyway what i mean honestly if the red sox miss the playoffs what we're talking about is is there is

07:16going to be an eruption because i think there's a ton of people that are still thinking they're

07:21going to win like they have they're not going to go nuts until they actually miss the playoffs

07:24but this this will be one of the big squanders in the history of the red sox well i mean it was

07:29two it was two weeks ago that you had a five game lead right uh and now cleveland's a game and a half

07:37behind it for the last spot so see you later cora they don't make it yep i you think so it all falls

07:42on it falls on him and breslow you know and breslow for maybe not maybe but for breslow not being as

07:52aggressive during the trade deadline to maybe add to this team add some depth because i think they're

07:58going to have a built-in excuse when it comes to losing roman anthony and i every time i bring that

08:04up there's people who go what's the big deal about roman anthony like i it just sucked the air out of the

08:12room it uh it was a bat that you could count on it was you already got you got rid of devers bat

08:18willier abreu was out of the lineup and has been out of the lineup for a long time like i i just i i'm

08:26not disagreeing with you on changes that should be made if they don't make the playoffs but i think

08:32they have that built-in excuse that yeah i think you're just horned up by the roman anthony run that

08:37he was on and that's what because they still and i heard jones and keith talking about this they still

08:42have plenty of talent like bregman's an all-star has not been good for the last month right but

08:49that's so that it's so you have to put do you have to put the red socks and their inability to score

08:56runs on the guys that are out there bregman's an all-star trevor story's having an amazing year

09:01jaron duran is a guy last year that people talked about an nvp candidate so losing roman anthony

09:08jaron duran has been fine he's been right but losing above average losing losing roman anthony

09:14is not like losing um manny or big poppy especially when you came into the season and all eyes were on

09:22alex bregman like that was the guy that we talked about both a leader on the field off the field like

09:26he was supposed to be what all the pressure was on to take this red socks one good thing is you don't

09:31have to worry about him opting out right well no he will still believe me boris will find a way

09:35but i i would just go back to two things one when breslow was on when we were asking every week when

09:41roman anthony was going to be called up and he said we don't want to have to rely on him remember that

09:47i don't want to put all the pressure on him and secondly let's just go speaking for myself i don't

09:52think it's an excuse that'll work on the fans do you guys think that the red socks fan base will say

09:57no it's okay we missed the playoffs roman anthony got hurt no yeah no i agree with you and it might be

10:01true greg like you you might be being it's it's something that actually is the case however i don't

10:07think the fan base is going to be able to accept that it's going to fall on core and him imploding

10:13again in another september uh or his teams and then it's going to fall on curtis has been right and

10:19and rightfully so so he said this it's going to fall on fans going well brez you could have brought in a bat

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