00:00I think their biggest, like, deep-rooted issue is ownership.
00:02And I think it has been ever since they shoved Dombrowski out the door.
00:05No, no.
00:06So, like, deep-rooted.
00:07Like, what's not functional about the organization?
00:10It was shoving Dombrowski out the door because Cora, Cora,
00:14because John Henry, rather, didn't want a top payroll anymore.
00:17They had the top payroll in 2018.
00:19That was only eight years ago.
00:20It's not eons and decades ago.
00:22It was only eight years ago.
00:23They had the top payroll.
00:24He didn't want to keep paying it.
00:25He looked at Tampa Bay constantly winning 90 games or whatever it was.
00:29Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29He looked at them and said, well, they're making the playoffs every year.
00:32Why am I paying the most in baseball?
00:34I shouldn't need to do that.
00:35We're smarter than everybody else.
00:37And it turns out, once they started trimming payroll,
00:40they really haven't been competitive.
00:41They'll make the playoffs here and there, just like everybody.
00:442001, they snuck in on the last day of the year
00:46and even made a run all the way to the ALCS.
00:48They were back in last year.
00:50So, ownership is, like, to be representative of deep-rooted issues with the Red Sox.
00:56The lack of spending is representative of that.
00:58And that's how you wind up with your 13th choice at GM in my guy, Craig Breslow.
01:04So, like, all of that, firing these guys, shoving Dombrowski out, not spending.
01:08Guys don't want to work here.
01:10That's how you get Breslow in the first place.
01:13But then why are they starting so poorly?
01:15Honestly, I do think Breslow and Henry are separate from that,
01:18and that is where I look at uniform personnel, meaning players, meaning the manager.
01:23This guy, Hudson, is the one who apparently is working with Roman Anthony on his throws.
01:27How's that going?
01:28He's the guy who lost him a playoff game and series last year
01:30because he can't wave people in from third base.
01:32So, like, you want a sacrificial lamb and something that probably won't change much,
01:37but would make me feel good today?
01:38Fire that guy.
01:39Like, I get that guy the hell out of there.
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