00:00And Red Sox win another series.
00:02That's back-to-back series wins for the Boston Red Sox.
00:06Bale looked good.
00:07No baby Pedro, but he looked good, you know.
00:10He looked good as your starter, and then your starter pitch is kind of.
00:13Yeah, you actually got on Saturday six excellent innings from, of all people,
00:19Ranger Suarez.
00:20Yeah.
00:21That was another one.
00:22I have absolutely no idea what to think about this baseball team.
00:25No.
00:25I have no idea what to think about it.
00:28I have never seen Ken so down on the Sox as I did on Saturday morning
00:32when they had that Friday night loss in St. Louis.
00:35The way they lost, not, you know, Trevor Story hitting,
00:39Anthony never getting to the plate, Story being awful.
00:42Ken was down, but then they have back-to-back big games.
00:45Yep.
00:46And everybody else in the division thinks it's going in the wrong direction.
00:49What's New York on, like, four or five games losing straight?
00:52Yeah, but there's, yeah.
00:54Yankees and Mets have lost ten straight games combined.
00:56Yeah, so, I mean, the Yankees are going in the other direction.
00:59So, this is, you know, if you are going to start winning some series,
01:02this is a good time to start doing it.
01:05Yeah, I've never really been a big fan before,
01:07but it was nice seeing that historic repeat last night.
01:10It felt, you know, it just felt special seeing the Red Sox win two series in a round.
01:19Good swerve.
01:20They're right back.
01:21Only two games.
01:22They're only two games out.
01:23I mean, you think about that.
01:26We were ready to set this thing on fire.
01:28And now they go out to Minnesota and win.
01:30Who the hell knows?
01:31We talked about it earlier extensively, but do you feel better about Ranger Suarez?
01:37Um, I feel better, but I still want to see him and Bayo in their next couple of starts.
01:44And if they can continue to do what they did, then you feel pretty good.
01:48Because Crochet, Sonny Gray, Conley, Early, you're feeling pretty good about that.
01:53Yeah, I feel best about Wilson Contreras.
01:55Yeah.
01:56Because he's hitting the hell out of the ball.
01:57Then the Globe had a story about how he gave a big speech to everybody on Saturday after that brutal
02:03Friday loss, basically saying, like, you guys have no energy.
02:07And this looks completely different than the Red Sox team I saw when I was on the Cardinals last year.
02:13Okay.
02:14He could be a new leader in the clubhouse.
02:16Yeah.
02:16And so I was like, okay, we've been talking about this leadership void.
02:20It looks like somebody's stepping in and saying, we're not doing this night in, night out.
02:25This sucks.
02:26Stubbed my two this morning.
02:29Damn you, John Henry.
02:30Damn you.
02:32Red Sox win a series.
02:35You could talk to Jones and Keefe about all of that coming up.
02:38By the way, on the Red Sox, 7-8-1 text during the break.
02:42I'll read it verbatim.
02:44Greg, no wiggy correction on Sox payroll after the news this weekend.
02:50Oh, that's right.
02:51I know.
02:52I did not.
02:53I mean.
02:54What's that?
02:55Oh, you're talking about the Mass Live thing?
02:57Yeah.
02:57No, AP.
02:58I go to Spoltrack.
03:00That's right there.
03:02I mean, the Red Sox.
03:03Cash spending.
03:04Opening day.
03:05They're not.
03:06Opening day, they were not a top 10 payroll in Major League Baseball.
03:09Well, you got to add the CBT in there.
03:11When you say that you don't believe the Mass Live thing, did you check the byline?
03:16Was that the Mass Live?
03:18Yeah.
03:18Is that where the story came from?
03:19About not cracking the top 10?
03:21No, I don't know.
03:22I don't even know where to find Mass Live.
03:24Well, you just said the Mass Live thing.
03:25I only said it because your husband works there.
03:27Yeah.
03:40I'm trying to give him a plug.
03:55There was something in there.
03:56What are you?
03:57Like, it's cash spent on the roster.
03:59They're 12.
03:59I'm just telling you.
04:00They're six.
04:01Go to Spoltrack.
04:01They're telling me about a story you didn't read.
04:03This is what it says.
04:04The steadiest cash spent on player payroll to open 2026, not the competitive balance tax
04:10where the Red Sox are higher.
04:12Bingo.
04:13What's that?
04:14The competitive balance.
04:16What was the last one?
04:17Tax.
04:18That's short for what?
04:19CBT.
04:20Appreciate that one.
04:20Or in your case, CTE.
04:22CBT.
04:23Right again.
04:24I always says he didn't read a story and he says, see, I'm right again.
04:28Well, I told you.
04:30Why do you always do whatever makes them look better?
04:32I'm just curious.
04:34You know, when a lot of people don't read the story, but they glaze over it quickly.
04:39Right.
04:39So I skimmed it.
04:40Yeah, I skimmed it.
04:41And that's where I saw the CBT.
04:42Did he glaze it?
04:43You certainly did.
04:44You were glazed.
04:45Was I right?
04:46Was that in the Mass Live?
04:48Yes, it was.
04:48Read that line again.
04:50So clearly, Christopher Curtis didn't read the article.
04:53The story was from the Associated Press.
04:55It was aggregated by her husband in Mass Live.
04:57That's where I saw it.
04:58Mass Live.
05:00So clearly, you didn't read the Associated Press one either.
05:02So why do you not say they're 12 and spend it?
05:04Just answer my question.
05:05Did you read the full story?
05:06Of course I did.
05:07It's about cash spent on the roster.
05:08It has nothing to do with the tax.
05:09So why, when I said the CBT, you act like you didn't know what that was?
05:12Competitive balance tax.
05:15Should they be, in your mind, the Boston Red Sox, the storied franchise that they are?
05:2212.
05:22Yes.
05:23That plays their, they play their Major League Baseball in Boston.
05:27That they do.
05:28In a major city.
05:29Yes, they are.
05:29Should they be in the top 10 when it comes to opening day payroll?
05:32I think they should be in the top five, where they've always been for so long.
05:36I mean, they were there for basically, how many years is John Henry holding the team?
05:4122, 23?
05:42So they were there for like 20 years.
05:44Okay, they're just not there now.
05:45Well, their model has changed, though.
05:47We've known this.
05:47They've told us that their financial model has changed on how they...
05:51Yeah, they should change it back.
05:52Well, yeah, they should.
05:54Oh, wow.
05:55All right.
05:55They should, but the problem is, there's too many bad contracts.
05:58It's like a guy who gets scorned by a couple women, he's afraid to get back into the dating
06:03world.
06:04And think about all the bad contracts they've thrown at people.
06:07Well, they just got out of a bad contract fully, completely, without any single dime.
06:11Well, that was the one, and I don't necessarily think that was a bad contract, because I think
06:16Devers was a good player, and I think Devers could hit.
06:18Bad contracts with David Price.
06:20Bye.
06:20Bye.
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