00:00All right, you know what? I wasn't that annoyed about the no one thought we could do it thing until I heard the cut.
00:04I didn't hear it. I didn't hear it. I just read it.
00:07Oh, it's actually worse.
00:08I didn't hear it.
00:09It is the cut's worse.
00:10He's swearing. He's like, Alex, do you want me to give it to you again?
00:16Not only did not no one think you were going to do it, most people thought you were going to do it.
00:22Most people, frankly, had you going further than this.
00:24But, as Pete Abe tells us in the Boston Globe, and I just had this. Hold on. Stand by.
00:33Well, we'll start with the Globe.
00:35The Globe itself, they pulled all six of their baseball writers.
00:39All six had the Red Sox making the postseason with two of the six, having them advance to the ALCS.
00:47Even Shaughnessy picked them to go to the playoffs.
00:50Alex, not only did not no one pick you, Shaughnessy picked you.
00:54Shaughnessy, like a Grim Reaper himself.
00:58ESPN pulled a panel of 28 of its writers and broadcasters.
01:0213 selected the Sox to win the division.
01:06Even Shaughnessy.
01:08Ten others had the Sox as a wildcard team.
01:1123 of the 28 had them in the postseason from ESPN.
01:15The Athletic asked 33 of its staffers for predictions.
01:19Nine selected the Sox as the AL champions going to the World Series.
01:24A third of them.
01:25Take that, Beatle.
01:29Your Bible, Fangraphs, had the Red Sox winning the division.
01:34Fangraphs had the Sox winning the East.
01:36You underachieved, Alex.
01:38Good God.
01:40My problem is with you.
01:41No, my problem is with that tone.
01:43God, that tone.
01:45Dude, if you want to sell it, do it with a wink.
01:48A wink and a nod.
01:49You're going to be that defiant when you're just that wrong?
01:51You're just making that up?
01:53Since when did the media become the enemy in this particular endeavor?
01:57He's been bitching about ownership and management for the last four years.
02:01Now everyone else doubted him?
02:02Good God.
02:03Good God.
