00:00I mean, talk about taking all the goodwill built up from last season,
00:03the playoff appearance, the Roman Anthony season and extension,
00:07the Garrett Crochet season and extension.
00:10There was like a lot of hype.
00:11And that's the other reason why this hurts so much for Red Sox fans
00:15is because you sort of teased us a bit with where the team could be,
00:20where it was going.
00:21It wasn't like another last place finish,
00:24and then we're all just kind of miserable and mad and whatever.
00:26It's like, oh, the team actually could be good.
00:28Oh, the team's actually kind of close to competing.
00:30The freaking Blue Jays were in the World Series.
00:32They're that far away from the Blue Jays?
00:34No.
00:34No?
00:34I mean, they weren't.
00:35They weren't.
00:36After the offseason, they are.
00:37It feels like it.
00:38They haven't signed a free agent.
00:39That's correct.
00:40They've not signed a free agent,
00:41and they're not going to if this is how they go about negotiating.
00:46And this is a guy that, as far as I'm concerned,
00:48wanted to be on the Red Sox.
00:49He chose the Red Sox last year out of all the options.
00:52He was a free agent a year ago.
00:54He loves the guys on the team.
00:57He loves the manager.
00:58The fans love him.
01:00I thought it would be an easy, like they should be a contender.
01:03All those things are there.
01:04You've got to pay them.
01:05You've got to pay them.
01:06And they're like, oh, yeah, we were going to.
01:07Were you this century?
01:09Or were you going to pay him 13, 14 years from now like he's Bobby Bonilla?
01:12So this, to me, feels like a real combo of Breslow and Henry.
01:17Yesterday, I'm like, when you lose out on a free agent and you don't offer the most money
01:23and there are deferrals and maybe a no trade clause is more the GM or chief baseball officer
01:28than the owner, or maybe not.
01:30Maybe John Henry wants to be able to get out of any deal whenever he can.
01:34That was my stance yesterday.
01:35After hearing AJ Pierzynski, like Bregman and his camp, Boris, come back and say, well,
01:42we have other offers.
01:43And they go, we don't believe you?
01:45And then they're like, good luck.
01:47Go get something else.
01:48And then at the last second, you're trying to scramble and throw money at him.
01:52That, to me, sounds more like Breslow.
01:55Now, why would you think he has no other offers?
01:57I mean, it's so dumb.
01:58I have no idea.
