00:00is just pathetic and you know what's interesting like nobody really fought back on the Trevor
00:06Story's revitalized renaissance leadership role on the team yeah yeah like what the hell was
00:11everybody obsessed with Trevor Story for he had one decent year he's been overpaid and unable to
00:17play in every other season and yet they decided the second Bregman wouldn't get the no trade clause
00:23that Trevor Story was better than Bregman he was a better leader he's a better defender he's gonna
00:29hit more home runs and it's like no nope and nope listen I I was mocked and ridiculed when I
00:36suggested that that Bregman is worth what he wants because of what he provides from a veteran leader
00:44perspective and I somebody may I think Mego made the point yesterday maybe Roman Anthony misses Alex
00:52Bregman maybe young guys on that baseball team miss Alex Bregman may I mean I doesn't that say
00:58a lot about your manager doesn't I mean I mean we we sat here and we ridiculed Courtney for her
01:05uh her take on on Omar and Swayman about how a professional athlete needs another professional
01:16athlete to be as binky yeah you're talking about grown men well 21 year olds but yeah I mean other
01:23than Roman Anthony I mean I mean who's the young one the rest of them Marcelo Meyer is the same
01:28age
01:28like I mean Greg it's like oh so we're given so Roman Anthony can't hit because of Bregman not being
01:35here I mean Roman Anthony will tell you and did tell you during the WBC like he talked he talked
01:43a ton
01:43about Bregman he talked about Bryce Harper and how helpful Bryce Harper was during the WBC to him I don't
01:50know doesn't that concern you does that concern you that you're it concerns me that the the that
01:57the when they knew the effect that it had had on guys last season I believe I just think it's
02:04a
02:04poorly it through six games the the team is just I don't know it's like it doesn't have a real
02:10strength
02:10we thought the starting pitching was the strength and it's been nowhere near what we expected
02:14and to me like the manager in baseball is almost entirely mental it's not especially with the
02:21analytics now it's basically a you know Pythagorean theorem so the fact that these guys for whatever
02:28reason I saw somebody reporting that Roman Anthony at the home run and people barely stood up in the
02:33dugout like there was this malaise around it yeah which was you know a pretty big moment for the kid
02:39and I just like Wiggy has brought up Cora many times yeah and I believe that right now
02:48this season is more on Cora than it is on anybody else because while Breslow had a crappy offseason
02:55they could have done more they are not a team that should be losing five straight especially when
03:00you have Garrett Crochet and you're playing teams that you're better than oh I I'm a great point and I
03:06great point from Wiggy he says it all the time so I gotta listen and I am interested to hear
03:12what
03:12you think this morning what who is this on this dismal start to the season and it may very well
03:19be on
03:20Alex Cora I mean I I don't know I put it on the players is the manager supposed to be
03:25aware when uh when
03:28there's a third strike uh on a batter that is uh posing your baseball team or is is that something
03:35that the manager is not aware of should be they should have one of them little things that you
03:39every time somebody went in the club the ump counter he's just like all right click click and you can
03:43then look down and go okay wait a second here is there any doubt is there any doubt that in
03:47a
03:47cost-cutting move John Henry would hire a robot as the manager uh he might save himself some money
03:54an AI guy oh my god Curtis you say that there's no part of this team that is a strength
03:59yeah there's
04:00no part of this team that's competent right now honestly I was talking to my husband about it last
04:07night it's not even like what does this team do well like what does this team do baseline because when
04:12crochet can't pitch yeah then you're looking at okay maybe Connelly early this kid you're looking at
04:19him that's the rest of the rotation does not look good and then maybe a role does Chapman like you
04:26can't hit you have Trevor Story committing an error defensively like that's supposed to be the thing
04:32that he does I I am curious Curtis when you say that people were immediately turning to story as being
04:38kind of like a Bregman replacement yes I got to be honest like I didn't hear that so maybe that
04:43was
04:43from fans I did hear just doing the weekend shows talking about hey nobody's going to be able to put
04:49up 30 home runs on this team just from a statistical prediction point and callers calling in and saying
04:55well Trevor Story why not him and I'm like he's predicted to have I don't know 18 17 like I
05:01don't
05:01everybody just looks at it and thinks like oh well he did 25 last year so he'll be able to
05:06do like 30
05:07is that what you're saying no no I think Curtis is I don't want to speak for Curtis but I
05:12was can I get
05:13half of your pay then it's it's it's not that much okay is is talking about the leadership void
05:18I think yeah I mean when we were down there that was a big thing like it might have been
05:23Jason
05:23Veritek it might it may have been Alex Cora so it might have been it might have been Breslau
05:28Bresba somebody told us that they believe Trevor Story is ready to step into that role to that that
05:34veteran leader role Jen McCaffrey in the athletic in February did a story on Trevor Story being ready to
05:40fill the leadership void when he chose to stay in Boston and there was a story that Cora told us
05:44that is quoted in the piece where I think he told her that Trevor Story came into the office
05:49right after the season when the Yankees won the wild card and he said hey man I'm going nowhere
05:55and that was sort of the beginning of the offseason of Trevor Story being the guy that wanted to stay
06:01as opposed to the guy that opted out to leave well maybe he was saying it in a different way
06:05than
06:05Cora took it like where am I going nowhere not first base here is a 781 text good morning and
06:13hello to those of you who are going to I will preemptively say hello and thank you to those
06:18of you who might be texting the show on the Subaru of New England text line anytime over the next
06:24four
06:24hours and the texter says Greg stop making excuses for Roman Anthony I am not making excuses for Roman
06:30Anthony okay um he he he he finally hit one out of the ballpark yesterday whatever he has struggled
06:37I um but I believe and Wiggy uh maybe correctly calling me out but I believe that that a guy
06:46like
06:46that who is a younger guy benefits from the perspective of somebody like Alex Bregman so I
06:53don't they have a guy by the name of Jason Veritek who's in that clubhouse with those guys all day
07:00long I
07:00and listen I'm not gonna say the the Roman Empire has fallen oh dear I mean I won't say that
07:06just yet
07:07is that a historical reference from coach Wiggins I mean Rome wasn't built in a day I like that one
07:13see that's maybe and Lou said it I can't remember what game it was it was you know early in
07:18the season
07:18on the broadcast him and Kevin Malah where they're like you know there are a lot of high there's high
07:24expectations on the kid but give him some time you know and I'm not using that as an excuse because
07:30he was lights out in the world baseball classic but that's what we talked about that I guess that's
07:35what I talked about before the season started yeah you're great in the world baseball classic but if
07:40you don't start off on the right foot people are gonna look at what you do here rather than what
07:45you do there because this is more important for people around here in Boston or Red Sox fans than
07:51the world baseball classic and if you're telling me I get it you're 21 years old you you learned
07:56from Bregman but if you're telling me you still need a guy in the clubhouse to hold your hand
08:01after Bregman kind of showed you the way that concerns me as somebody who's been in a locker room
08:08before yeah I great point I feel like it's also this is the danger you take on or the risk
08:15you assume
08:15when you don't spend more in terms of known commodities in power bats which we've gone over a million times
08:22yeah because you're relying Roman Anthony played how many games last year he missed a you know a
08:27month and so Marcelo Meyer was missing games like baseball's really hard it and it's so much of it
08:34is just your ability to get on the field for 150 games a year and I don't know if Roman
08:38Anthony can
08:39do that I mean we presume he can but I Meyer but also like just the team just is listless
08:45like there's
08:45just dead as a doornail how hard is it though to be aware of the pitch count just just I'm
08:51just
08:51wondering not that hard not that hard no all right good well four balls you get to first base
08:57yeah three you strike out and then you can hit the ball you know at any point in time in
09:03there
09:03is there anybody what the the captain uh Andrew Bailey anybody on the staff that is aware of the
09:10pitch count I don't know that's the only question that I would ask at some point maybe we sent
09:15chime down that he's the baseball guy now right
09:17right
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