00:00And how much do you look at Cora like right now and how much more do you think you start
00:05to look at him for the specific deficiencies that you see defensively and with the way the team is playing
00:11outside of just the individual performances, the pitching and the hitting when it comes to the on-field play and
00:17the errors that are being committed?
00:19Well, yeah, and it's been years now where the defense hasn't really been up to par. And he said in
00:24spring training, you know, the errors drive me crazy. And that's something that I think we're going to get fixed.
00:28And they still aren't getting fixed. And they're not, you know, a lot of these aren't like, I don't know
00:32that there's ever a good error, but there aren't a lot of like, oh, I understand that one. You know,
00:36some of them are just brutal fundamentally. So I do think at a certain point you look back at the
00:41manager, but I also think ownership loves him. And I think that Cora, you know, has quite a bit of
00:47leash.
00:48Well, I mean, maybe it's time to fire Craig Breslau. I mean, after all, he's been there just about as
00:54long as Bloom has, right?
00:56He has been, but think about how unattractive that job was when Breslau took it. And if Breslau now gets
01:02axed at this point, then I think that you're making that job look even less attractive when they had a
01:06hard time filling it last time.
01:08So that's what the Red Sox do, though. They fire GMs. I mean, Halloran had it for a while. Technically,
01:13he's gone. I mean, it's this is what the Red Sox do.
01:16They fire general managers in lieu of firing Alex Cora. This is how it works.
01:20I mean, it's crazy if you go back and look at the track record for how long these guys actually
01:24stay around in that role where it's, you know, feels like three or four years over and over and over
01:28again.
01:28But I don't know at some point if they're going to give somebody actual leeway with it.
01:33And I mean, maybe it's Breslau, but I just don't know how much longer they can make that job look
01:38worse and worse for people on the outside.
01:39Right. If it's a job that you seem destined to fail at, at a high profile, a high profile failure,
01:47then, yeah, obviously that's something qualified candidates might want to shy away from.
01:52A bunch of them, more to Chris's point, I mean, what's his name? Breslau was like their eighth choice.
01:59No, yeah, absolutely.
02:01And if you look at like, if you look at some of the previous guys, they ended up getting fired
02:06after doing what ownership wanted them to do, where Don Browski was spend a bunch of money, win a championship,
02:11you know, build a juggernaut.
02:11And he gets fired because the roster looks worse after a year.
02:15They're spending too much.
02:16Then with Heimblum, it's OK, come in, rebuild the farm system.
02:19They're going to make him trade Mookie bets, but it's going to, you know, they're going to give him a
02:22long runway to rebuild.
02:24And then, you know, he gets axed as their like farm system is better and they're rebuilding.
02:29So I don't know.
02:30I think that the ownership group has moved the goalpost a lot on these GMs, president of baseball operations, chief
02:36baseball officer, whatever you want to call any of them.
02:39But I think they move the goalpost on them a lot.
02:41And I think external candidates see that and they're like, I don't know.
02:44So, yeah, if they let Breslow go right now, I think that job looks almost as bad as it has
02:49ever.
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