00:00Red Sox begin the season with a W yesterday.
00:03Looked pretty good.
00:04I mean, I don't know if you had questions about Garrett Crochet
00:08and what was going on with him.
00:10I think those were answered yesterday.
00:13Meggo had the biggest questions on him because of his spring training.
00:16So did he answer your questions?
00:18Hell yeah, he did.
00:19Look, maybe he was just chilling in spring training
00:21because his ERA in spring training was above seven
00:24and he was awesome yesterday.
00:27He was the best part of the game.
00:28I mean, six scoreless innings.
00:30He was throwing 96, 97 for most of it.
00:35Got himself out of a jam.
00:37Was that in the second yesterday?
00:41I just, in general, you know, unbelievable.
00:46Speaking of getting out of jams, Gary Whitlock in there in the eighth.
00:52Your boy.
00:53Timely strikeouts.
00:55Timely strikeouts.
00:56Yes, yes.
00:56And that ABS thing, is it called ABS?
00:59Yes.
01:00AVS?
01:00ABS.
01:02ABS, yes.
01:03Okay.
01:04ABS.
01:05Yeah.
01:06That worked out for you really good.
01:07And the guy we had on the show yesterday is Judd, not Judd.
01:11Judd, Judd, Judd.
01:12Judd, yes.
01:12You know what I mean?
01:13So, yes.
01:13So, ABS.
01:14You liked it.
01:15That worked out perfectly for you.
01:17I mean...
01:17Roman Anthony, great challenge.
01:19The batter challenge.
01:20Yeah.
01:20You picked up two extra security runs.
01:23Yeah.
01:23Yeah.
01:23So, that was huge.
01:24Yeah.
01:25So, I mean, I...
01:28Listen, I don't want to...
01:29It's one game.
01:30Yeah.
01:30But it's better than starting with a loss.
01:34And it's a game in which, if the philosophy there is what some believe it to be, it's
01:42a game in which you scored three runs, and your pitching was great, and you won the ball
01:47game.
01:48It is one game, but I think, you know, if you're like a really...
01:53If you're a Red Sox fan, you look at the game, and I think, Megal, you had asked questions.
01:59The piece that you look at, you go, you got a legitimate ace.
02:03He proved it last year, and your expectations were he was going to be on par to do what
02:10he did last year, this year, and he looked good out the gates.
02:13Roman Anthony, you know, he looked good out the gates, but I think the biggest takeaway
02:17is Garrett Crochet and the fact that, and you've heard Brez Bart or Sam Kennedy or Cora
02:24talk about it, when you have a legitimate ace, it's just, it's a whole different, you
02:31know, look for your baseball team.
02:33Yeah, I think that they proved yesterday in the opening game that, like, everything
02:38that they have planned out can work, right?
02:41Like, the way that they think that they can lean on pitching and defense, use Meyer and
02:45kind of like a platoon system as the pinch hitter yesterday, like, oh, that's great.
02:50Right.
02:51My question going forward is, what does it look like when the other team scores seven
02:54runs?
02:55Like, then what do you do?
02:57Right.
02:57And that's just, that's just opening day, right?
02:59Like, you can't take anything away from a fantastic performance and ABS going their
03:03way yesterday.
03:04The question is, can they play that other way too?
03:06I think the philosophy and the theory is that the other team is not going to score those
03:13seven runs.
03:14That's, that's, if they think that's never going to happen this season.
03:17Well, it might happen, but I think their philosophy, like Greg is saying, I think they look at it
03:22like, yeah, that's going to happen, but that will be the outlier.
03:25They feel like their rotation and their bullpen is going to keep teams to, you know, three,
03:31four runs the game and where they feel like they can, they got enough athletes on our offense.
03:37You see, they played a little small ball yesterday.
03:39They got enough athletes that they can manufacture runs in other ways because they might not be
03:46that, that long ball team, you know, but their rotation is going to always keep them in games
03:51unless there's a couple of games where the guy's just getting shellacked.
03:54I don't know.
03:55After yesterday, I'm starting to think that it may not be such a wild take from Billy Lenny
04:00that we have a rematch Sox-Mets World Series.
04:03Like I, I might be on board with Billy Lenny.
04:06All right.
04:06Did the Mets do good yesterday?
04:08After one win.
04:08All right.
04:09After one win for my beloved Boston Red Sox.
04:11I love that.
04:12I haven't been following the Mets, but I'll make sure I try to keep my eye on them.
04:15Oh, don't.
04:15They won 11 to seven.
04:17All right.
04:17I'm pretty sure they got skeins out of the game in like the first two innings.
04:20Uh-oh.
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