00:00At least the Sox won.
00:01That is true.
00:02They won a one-run game.
00:04They did.
00:05We've been begging for that.
00:06You called it, Meggo.
00:07Crochet.
00:08Yeah, you called it.
00:09Shyam had them losing by four, right?
00:12I think that was...
00:13I sure did.
00:14Glad the Sox proved me wrong.
00:16They made you a little bit nervous there towards the end.
00:18It felt in play.
00:19Yeah.
00:20It did.
00:22Crochet, he was kind of cruising towards the end a little bit.
00:25He looked a little gassed at the end.
00:27It was one of those games where you're like, all right.
00:29Listen, you peel off another seven wins in a row.
00:31You're right back in this thing, Curtis.
00:33I mean, Cora told us Crochet is the game changer.
00:37He can stop everything.
00:38But this feels like a very small margin for error season.
00:44And it's just going to be exhausting.
00:46Like, I'm waiting for a mistake.
00:48That's how I'm watching these games.
00:49But, hey, that was a huge Wiggy must win.
00:52And they won it.
00:53Now they've got to go today.
00:54Make it back-to-back wins at home.
00:56So you can each salvage a series win in the first month of the season.
01:01Well, as Mr. Baseball, Len Laird, said to me yesterday,
01:0510 games in the Major League Baseball season is essentially one game in the national football.
01:11Correction.
01:12Garrett Crochet, correction.
01:13It's the two guys you've got.
01:15You and Willier Abreu.
01:17That's it.
01:17That's about it.
01:18Yeah.
01:19Not 26.
01:20No.
01:20I like the answer.
01:21Yeah, I mean, he seems like he's one of those, you know, we always talk about leaders in the clubhouse.
01:27And I get it.
01:27It's probably different for pitchers and positional players.
01:30But he seems like a guy in that clubhouse that is a leader that, you know, he'll say things and
01:35guys will listen to.
01:36Yeah, he said he's heard it before.
01:38Is he talking about with the White Sox?
01:41I was wondering that same thing.
01:43Or did he mean he heard it at times last season here?
01:46I don't know.
01:47Correct me if you guys have heard it before.
01:50But the back-to-back games with the sell-the-team chants, I feel like that's kind of unprecedented in
01:57recent years with the Red Sox.
01:59Oh, yeah.
02:00So he's talking about hearing that with the White Sox, in which case I'd say that's not really the tier
02:06that you want to be in if you're the Boston Red Sox.
02:08Like, you don't want to be, oh, there they are with the sell-the-team chants again.
02:13Oh, we're so used to that.
02:15Don't get there.
02:16No.
02:16I mean, does that go away if we actually heard from John Henry?
02:23Like, if John Henry sat down and talked to somebody and said, hey, I know there's, you know, I hear
02:30these chants.
02:31This is what's going on.
02:32We love this baseball team.
02:35We, you know.
02:36We're disappointed.
02:38We're extremely disappointed.
02:39How about we care?
02:41Yeah.
02:42It would definitely go away.
02:43People would then be like, oh, okay.
02:45Like, you know, especially if Mago said, like, we care, we're disappointed.
02:48But I guess his thing is.
02:49It's not about what he says.
02:50It's about what he does.
02:53I don't care what he says, honestly.
02:55I mean, he didn't talk in 2018.
02:56It was the best team of my life.
02:58Following it was a blast.
03:00It's not about that.
03:01It's about what you do and how invested you are.
03:04And the way in which he was depicted in the immediate aftermath of that chant or during it, sell the
03:11team.
03:11He looks and acts so above it, so detached, so sort of mocking that that would even be thought of
03:20in someone's brain that he should sell the team.
03:22He is obsessed with what he has done and thinks he should be treated well no matter what he does
03:28going forward.
03:29And I just feel like that that list of accomplishments at the home opener was the greatest and latest example
03:35of a guy that doesn't get why people are mad.
03:37You would remember most likely because you are the Red Sox savant.
03:42Was it Terry Francona who talked about this ownership group and said they don't love baseball, essentially?
03:50It's not in their blood.
03:51It's not in their blood.
03:53Right.
03:53It's a toy for them.
03:54Yeah.
03:55Yeah.
03:56And candidly, like, I think most owners, it's a toy.
03:59Right.
04:00But what I don't understand is, I know it's called Fenway Sports Group and they're not going to sell the
04:06team.
04:06But if you need a salary cap to think that this is going to be a good investment, then why'd
04:12you buy it in the first place?
04:14Why didn't you buy it somewhere else where they don't have the payroll and it would be beneficial to them
04:18to have a salary cap?
04:20I just feel like you sit back and it's like, it's, I don't care what Crochet says.
04:24He's not going to say his owner sucks.
04:26Like, you just got a big extension last year.
04:28But it is, this is the, the fans have now been liberated by Barstool to make this their feeling.
04:35That there's a lot of people quietly thought this, but when Portnoy started selling the shirts and it became this
04:40organic rant or chant, I think that there's a lot of fans that view it as incredibly frustrating.
04:46That they're charged the highest ticket prices and the group that owns the team has changed and they act like
04:51they haven't.
04:51Yeah, and I think the biggest thing when you start to kind of look at it, he's probably like, well,
04:57you know, we spent all that money in the past.
04:59We were able to do it, but business models changing and we'd rather not be north of 300 million for
05:06payrolls.
05:06We'd rather a salary cap because guess what?
05:08It puts more money in our pocket because we do make a ton of money and it's a way for
05:13us to kind of control on how much spending we have to do.
05:18No, but if they have a salary cap, we, none of us think they're going to sell.
05:22No.
05:23So I, okay.
05:24So do the chance and the t-shirts at least influence them to spend differently or are they so far
05:32removed the way that John Henry looks that they're like, no, we just know better about how we're going to
05:35do this.
05:36Because I think what they'll say is we spend, but we might not be, you know, their biggest thing is
05:43whether you'll forget about the argument of your sixth or twelfth spending.
05:48They'll say we're spending north of 250, 60 million.
05:53Yes, we're not up to 300 million like Yankees and Mets and some of these other teams, the Dodgers, but
05:59we spend a lot.
06:00We're not the Milwaukee Brewers who are spending 137.
06:05So that's what they'll say.
06:07Right.
06:07I don't really, I mean, they're just spin everything.
06:09I mean, I feel like that if you are John Henry and you hear that chant, you have two options.
06:13You can say, wow, I got to look in the mirror or you can scoff.
06:16And he scoffed and that fits perfectly in line with who he is.
06:18And he keeps it moving.
06:20Then he goes to his bank account and he smiles.
06:22But you always said, who's doubting that he has a big bank account?
06:25No, no, no.
06:25But because you said like people are like sell the team and you don't think that hurt his feelings sitting
06:30there at Fenway Park.
06:31I think he I think he was butthurt a little bit, but he's probably you know what he's probably like
06:35his face.
06:36Yeah, but you know what he's probably was like his husband said that his wrestling made him look fat.
06:40You know what he's probably thinking in his mind, which I would be thinking you damn ungrateful son of a
06:47bitches.
06:48You see these four World Series, you know, banners that hang from Fenway Park.
06:53Look, that's because of what we did our ownership.
06:57Yeah, they want that owner back.
06:58Yeah, but he's like, guess what?
07:00That's because of the people that at Fenway Park, the people that spend the money.
07:03That's why they win, because without the fan, they have no money to pay for the players.
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