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00:00you guys are warriors out here well it was very cold this morning you've been here you've been
00:04here for weeks so you understand i is it has it been freezing in the morning is that the no
00:09no
00:09this was an aberration there was nothing like this i don't know what you guys did
00:14i think what you did basically is get free socks out of it right yes yes well they're
00:19they're you think of everything these are the official red these are these are the red socks
00:24these are the there's nothing more official than these well and you know they didn't cost anybody
00:29any money because they have veritech's name on them so it's basically a re-gift is what it is
00:35i mean the only thing better would have been shillings i mean does the host of baseball isn't
00:41boring have a pair of these puppies probably not no no probably not journalistic integrity doesn't
00:47allow me to take socks as a man who loves the game can you tell me why we were talking
00:53about this
00:54briefly earlier so you have nine challenges or whatever yesterday abs wise why why not every
01:04why not just use it on every single pitch it's first of all it's not clunky at all on the
01:09broadcast
01:09like i love fast it's fast yeah it's the it's technology it's like why not just go no disrespect to
01:18the umps to the human element but that's exactly what it is is that they don't want to disrespect
01:23it's the hardos like you like the purists no no is it no is that what it is is it
01:29hold on hold on
01:29hold on you know what i'm doing right now i'm tapping my head to get to give you a review
01:33of that
01:34that comment no okay so you're from but but is it the old school purists who won't who won't well
01:40i
01:40think it's i think it's the old school umpire union i think it's the the the people in baseball who
01:45who don't want to dive in it's it's every time we make a rule change everyone freaks out about it
01:51but almost every single time it's a good one the pitch clock you know there has been some stupid
01:56ones there's like the not taking ortiz said this for instance remember when they said you can't you
02:02can't take both feet out of the batter's box you have to leave one in and he sat on the
02:06bench down
02:07here and flipped out he was so mad and then he get to the end of the year and said
02:12it was the best
02:12thing that ever happened to me because i just thought about the next pitch so we have most of
02:17these rules are like okay that makes a lot of sense including yesterday yesterday was a perfect
02:21example i'm not arguing what you're saying it's science right it's math it's science if it's right
02:27it's right but the problem it's so easy it's like literally and i love there and the viewer you know
02:33i
02:33love the game on the radio obviously um but the but the viewer it's literally happening right in front of
02:40you and there's no debating it there's no questioning it it's right there and and for
02:46the people in the stands there is that build up that like oh yes he's right or he's wrong yeah
02:53but
02:53it's funny because the umpire yesterday got like three wrong in a row wrong yeah right wrong like one of
03:02them was in naples like it was and then you go to the replay that using technology and it's straight
03:10down the pipe and that's that's the thing i wonder greg is that you know the umpires they're going to
03:15start you would like to think that they make them better but there's also that element of second
03:20guessing themselves all the time so there's that part of it as well but to come back to your original
03:24point no i i totally agree if if you can do it you can have an umpire who's regulating all
03:30of it
03:30that's fine but it's not it's like a lot of things it takes baseball forever to get to that
03:35point do you think that we can have the hologram up i don't even be like let's embrace technology
03:41fully like we know it's so weird greg you're yelling about the demise of society because of
03:46robots in this case only in this case only i don't want anybody put out of work i don't want
03:51except for umpires except for umps i don't i don't but i'm sure people do man bradboe with the game
03:59like does it change for hitters and let's say batters because like you know like certain umpires
04:05you start to know what their strike zone looks like so maybe it might be a little bit an advantage
04:10for a hitter when he knows like who the umpire is and where the strike zone is i think wiki
04:14the
04:14biggest thing for the hitters is going to be earning the right to do it and so in other words
04:19the other day in uh when they were playing in minnesota you had wilson contraria's do it
04:24successful boom then you have sedan rafael and we're thinking if ever a guy is probably going to
04:29get it wrong it's going to be this and sure enough he gets it wrong yeah they're going to track
04:33this
04:33stuff so they so when it gets to that point where you say oh should you or shouldn't you well
04:39you
04:39haven't earned the right to do it because you're 0 for 10 in doing it i think that's the biggest
04:44thing
04:44if you're good at it great super right but uh i think in a lot of the stuff we're seeing
04:49now
04:49it's all the beginning of the game because these are the main players typically you're going to see
04:54it all at the end of the game too oh my this whole springtime abs system but this is like
04:59this is this
05:00is where we've landed i'm fascinated by it because it's an easy fix to something that people have
05:08complained about it's the biggest thing greg is fast right it's fast yeah it's like i it's just
05:14it's right there in front of you and it's it's one area where you have a head up you have
05:19an
05:19advantage over the nfl because i think while the nfl has been growing and being amazing with ratings
05:25and the product is phenomenal the officiating in the nfl almost ruins it and the the way that unless
05:31you're a chiefs fan right that's true uh it's the way that they could do this to rapidly change
05:36clear wrongs would be a great benefit and chris i go i thought about the past interference that
05:41year that they were trying to give challenges for past interference right and i think what that did
05:47was make the the refs say okay if we don't get it right we're just gonna go to the review
05:51it made
05:52the refereeing worse right i think in this case it will make the the umpiring better because they're
05:58going to be held accountable and they don't want to be embarrassed right in front of the whole crowd
06:01like that guy was yesterday right how has anybody done a wellness check on on him i mean between
06:09between yesterday it was a terrible like what a five-hour game whatever but between will you
06:14bray you breaking his bat in the check swing and and the abs chaos i mean at least that's what
06:19spring
06:19training is all about he was great on the show this morning that's the first time we've had him on
06:23who's that will you oh he's great he's awesome yeah yeah you know he's and i know it's it's a
06:29cliche thing to say but i i do give him a ton of credit for speaking english in these interviews
06:34because you know devers nice guy devers a nice guy but he spoke english and we're just sort of
06:40sort of just like well just do it here you know it because the question is asked oh yeah yeah
06:44and
06:45there's no trip well not the no part but there's no translation necessary on the question when it's
06:50asked sometimes no with players i'm talking in general but then that yeah they they answer i i
06:56understand that i and that's something he wanted to do yeah yeah yeah yeah so i'm glad you had him
07:01on because he is he is a good guy and he's also we did talk to him with it well
07:05about the broken
07:05bad thing and it's it's it's not easy man it's not easy but now that he's done it he'll do
07:10it all
07:11the time good for him i think that little thing shows you a lot about the character of a guy
07:16all
07:16right so 30 of brave bombs oh you're predicting the overrun that's what he said he was gonna get for
07:22me oh really yeah i said can you get 30 he's like he's gonna hit the bat cage i tell
07:27you what
07:27you cut out the sugar you cut out the soda anything can happen right he said he was gonna get
07:3130
07:31so no but no that's been the biggest question because everybody wants to know yeah baseball
07:37is i heard veritek crap all over you yeah yeah yeah but that's what baseball is right baseball is
07:42k's and home runs right yeah so that's what the fans like but that's chicks dig the long
07:47but that's what the teams are built for when you look at it think about the think about the
07:51the uh the division alone you got judge you've got guerrero you got now alonzo right red sox
08:02who's that guy and they always had that guy whether it was manny whether it was big poppy
08:07whether it was devis for the time that that he was but you always had
08:13so it's a couple things where you know you look at toronto for instance and they were the ultimate
08:17we don't swing and miss we put the ball in play good for them but i will say this the
08:22thing i can't
08:23get past is that breslow in the suite up in vegas at the gm meetings he just finds the two
08:28things that
08:28we need heading into this off season is a starting pitcher to go alongside crochet and a guy who's going
08:34to hit a lot of home runs and so when you say that right when you're articulating that say this
08:39is
08:39what we think that we need right and you don't get them and you have to pivot this way and
08:44maybe
08:44it works but all i know is that when they went to the off season after studying the entire team
08:49they
08:49said this is what we need and and then they don't get it i mean they just didn't get it
08:54so all right
08:55well it might work but you did not do what you set out to do right explain to me the
09:01the offer that
09:02was nowhere near what alonzo got what's the point of doing it i chris like i everyone focuses on
09:07bregman i'm like alonzo was the guy because if you said to me what was it five years i think
09:13165
09:14it wasn't even 165 i think it was like 150 155 his wife's from massachusetts i mean that's not the
09:19be
09:19all end all but you can't tell me that if you make the same offer to alonzo to come to
09:24boston red
09:25socks over the baltimore orios that he's not coming here and wilson cotreras by the way he's he's a great
09:30addition a great guy to a clubhouse that needs that type of guy but still alonzo was a perfect
09:37fit for what you needed and and then you know the bregman thing is the bregman you're right five 155
09:42yeah that's what god don't ever question my instincts never again never again yeah but yeah
09:47it's really just it's really just about an attempt at redefining the numbers that are going to be paid
09:55the guys well no what they do what they do is they go off of models and this you're never
10:00as
10:00someone said you're never going to win a big free agent war when you go off your models the models
10:04and this is what he's worth and we aren't going to we aren't going to get into the uncomfortable world
10:09of what it takes and bregman was the perfect example of this you knew going into free agency this is
10:14what
10:15this is the world that we have to get alex bregman however it happens it happens but it is free
10:20agency
10:21and we have to get uncomfortable but they just won't come off their models it's not like the
10:25old days of the red sox the old days if they wanted a guy other than mark deshera they always
10:31got the guy gonzalez david price yeah you go through when they had an off season where they needed to
10:37over correct for losing gluster or for whatever it was done and it was done quickly yeah but it seems
10:43like the crazy part about is okay i'll give you the bregman i don't think he's worth five years 175
10:49but
10:49when you look at the alonzo that is a deal that i don't think you have to go above and
10:55beyond for
10:55a guy well i i agree with the alonzo part but with the bregman thing it's yeah okay maybe he's
11:01not
11:02worth five at 175 but if he's your plan a that's what you have to do like if he's a
11:08plan because what
11:08did they do after they didn't get him they were like scrambling about pivoting to ranger suarez yeah
11:14because they they doubted that he had the option elsewhere well that's that's that's that's a
11:21miscalculation strategy that's a good point and that's hubris and that's well they missed the
11:26market on that one that's zach scott who used to work with the red sox with the mets gm for
11:31a little
11:31bit he said this he's like scott will what scott will boost up the guy's value scott boris he'll say
11:37hey you know what we want this but he'll never lie about an offer and like that's a guy who
11:43went through
11:43this so he'll never so to to think that that was the case then that's a huge miscalculation yeah well
11:49it is yeah how is that i feel like like craig breslow you know got the offer and was you
11:56know
11:56was like this does not compute uh like and was i was unable to get unable to get past that
12:05from the
12:05analytics uh metrics side of things which is frustrating but how is the market like so like
12:12off where you get bregman at 175 and then you get boba shed at what 120 yeah well because he's
12:2027 years
12:21old right yeah we cannot we cannot enter 175 into the algorithm does not compute i mean wouldn't that
12:28have been a good plan b yes but again it's it's it's they just windows coming ma'am i am
12:37sorry
12:37we are going to need we are going to need an immediate reset we cannot print the newspaper in taunton
12:49that number is ridiculously high does not compute can you guys do the ken leard home run call in the
12:57computer voice yeah all right all right well it's great to see you guys are you gonna go boating with
13:05us today i don't think boating today no yeah thank you for the invitation yeah three hour three hour
13:12tour is stuck in my head well the weather is i think it's gonna be 70 which is not so
13:17bad all right we got
13:18no sleep because we got in late and i was trying to move it uh maybe till tomorrow but yeah
13:25the
13:26everything's all like the catering was being delivered to the hinkley so i can't interrupt
13:30that again the schlade myers compared to complain about the same thing yeah it's really gonna be a
13:35two-minute yachting tour hey you're having the event tonight all right correct yeah you're gonna come
13:40yeah let's do it iron five to seven tonight talk baseball yeah with rob let's go yeah let's go
13:46because i got some i got a good baseball question i want to ask you all right yeah well to
13:50give me
13:51some insight on it because no one will ever answer the contract thing when i ask them about if you
13:56don't measure your pop time before you leave here as a catcher you know we aren't fried
14:05as long as i got some good uh compression sleeves for my knees he has a lot of accolades
14:15on jeff blue yesterday the flight attendant told me that wiggy is in the mile high club
14:22but not for what you might think okay it's just because of the what he what he ingests before he
14:27flies he's a mile high at takeoff he's in the anxiety you don't have to sell it to me
14:37all right rob radford see you guys
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