00:00Have you checked on the mental and or the physical condition of Garrett Crochet this morning?
00:06No, no, no. He served up batting practice yesterday.
00:09I am... My lord.
00:12What happened?
00:14What happened to Garrett Crochet?
00:20You're, like, literally one of the two things that you could...
00:25The lonely two things that you could count on.
00:27Yeah.
00:28On the Boston Red Sox, the arm of Garrett Crochet.
00:32He looked like he was shy. I'm trying to throw spirals last night.
00:38Yeah.
00:38And then you throw in... I don't know what the odd attempt by Trevor Story was to flip the...
00:47I don't know what he was thinking on that one.
00:49The ball in the mid-flip to second base is, like...
00:53I mean, can we stop with the cute antics?
00:56No.
00:56Just, like, grab the baseball out of your glove and throw it to the...
01:01Like, we don't need the flip.
01:02How about you just eat it in that situation?
01:05Just say, you know what?
01:06I'm spun around here.
01:07Let me just eat this one up.
01:09It's... I mean, the numbers.
01:11What... He did not even get out of the second last night, Chris.
01:14No.
01:151.2 innings pitched last night.
01:18One and two-thirds.
01:19And, I don't know, he's throwing, like, 71 miles an hour.
01:24Like, whatever the number was.
01:26Does it concern you?
01:27Or is it, like...
01:28No, I actually thought it was a great night.
01:30I thought you did well.
01:31No, no, no.
01:32I mean, but...
01:33Because he had another shaky start.
01:36This wasn't shaky.
01:37This was a collapse.
01:38No, I know that.
01:38But what I'm saying, he's had two...
01:40Like, he had one collapse and a shaky start.
01:42Does it concern you that you got a Cy Young winner that doesn't look...
01:48He's not on par like he kind of was when we saw him early last year?
01:51Yeah, if you're not concerned, you're in a coma right now.
01:54Yeah.
01:55That's what I asked you.
01:56Yeah.
01:56He looked terrible.
01:58It was actually, like...
01:59At first, it was like, wow, okay.
02:01And then it got kind of funny, where you were like, how long...
02:03Okay, he's going to turn this around.
02:05And then it was just sad.
02:07Because they kept him out there.
02:09And you're like, oh, yeah, it's only the second inning.
02:12Yeah.
02:13Because you don't want to probably get...
02:14In that point, they were talking about it.
02:16I was listening to Will.
02:18Will, and I don't know if it was Brooksy, I don't know who was on the...
02:22Lenny DiNardo.
02:23Lenny DiNardo.
02:23And he was talking about, you know, sometimes when you're in those situations as a pitcher,
02:29they just, you know, leave you in there because they don't want you to...
02:32They don't want to go to the bullpen too early, knowing that the game's probably out of reach
02:36when it's, you know, 10-0 at this point in time.
02:39I know.
02:40When it's 11.
02:40You just become the sacrificial lamb.
02:42Yeah.
02:42That's honestly what Wakefield was...
02:43That was before the home run.
02:44When it's 11-0 after two.
02:46Yes.
02:46What, Curtis?
02:47No, that's what Wakefield was so helpful for, for all those years.
02:49Like, you had to start like that, Wakefield could come in, eat six innings, and he'd be
02:53fine.
02:53But that was awful.
02:55Yes, Wiggy, I'm concerned.
02:56Okay.
02:57And I'm concerned because he had reached...
02:59I think last year was the most innings he's thrown in the season, if I'm not mistaken.
03:03And then you follow that up with, he's had one great start, one okay start, and two
03:09meh.
03:10And if this team wants to be anything, he has to be great.
03:13If he's not good, we might as well get into, you know, Elliott Wolfe's press conference
03:19because they are cooked.
03:21Yeah, you would think, because that's in the everybody...
03:24I think we were talking to Alex Corr, spring training, and he talked about how when you
03:29have an ace like Garrett Crochet, it just makes everything so easier for your team.
03:35That's why I asked the question from, you know, the four outings that he's had this
03:39season.
03:40Or is it one of those things you chalk up and say, you know what, he'll be fine.
03:44You know what I mean?
03:44It's Garrett Crochet, he'll be fine.
03:45I expect him to be who he is.
03:48Or do you kind of start to say like, all right, last year was great.
03:51Is he going to be the same guy we saw last year?
03:54Or is this concerning that he might not be that guy?
03:58Yeah, I mean, if he's not somewhat close to what he was last year, then you're in a whole
04:05lot of trouble.
04:06Like, there is a positive.
04:09A 413 texter was able to get Trevor Story, they were live betting, and they were able
04:16to get Trevor Story K at plus 225 after the error.
04:21And it hit.
04:22And it paid.
04:23So you can always wager it that way.
04:25Yeah.
04:27It's one way to look at it.
04:28It's only the first game, so the Red Sox, generally the last two series, I want to say, they give
04:32up the first game and then win the next two.
04:34And get those bets in while you can before they take them away.
04:38You know what the darkest moment of the game last night was?
04:41What was that?
04:42When Jaron Duran hit the home run and put on the wally head, and they were down by 10 plus
04:47runs, and he just sat in the dugout and didn't take the wally head off, and they kept going
04:53back to him and he was just, like, staring straight ahead with the wally head on.
04:56It was like, this feels cursed.
05:00They might want to try a new home run, Sully.
05:03Get rid of the wally.
05:04I was thinking of Curtis.
05:06I was like, the wally head was a bad look before, but now it's just dark.
05:10Even while he's depressed.
05:11Dark night.
05:12Yeah, I honestly, it is, I don't understand if Cora is running things.
05:16By the way, Cora hears everything.
05:20I know.
05:21Are we going to get to that during the set?
05:23I guess we could get to the, we should get to it.
05:26I, Alex Cora is, appears to be expressing some, I don't know if it's fake outrage or
05:34he's, but he's, but he's upset that somebody is calling him out for being honest about the
05:39current situation in Major League Baseball.
05:41But I mean, you cannot get enraged at Ken Rosenthal when you worked at ESPN for a year
05:47and you've worked in this business and you're talking to him on the day of a game on Saturday.
05:51It's not shooting the breeze.
05:53Like he's going to bring up what you talked about.
05:56That's the entire point of the meeting.
05:58Yeah.
05:59And when he talks about how the young guys get these big deals, of course, he's talking
06:03about the Red Sox.
06:05Well, yeah.
06:06And, and he, you know, the explanation was lengthy, but he's acknowledging what, what
06:13Curtis, what you and others have been criticizing the Red Sox for.
06:18And he's acknowledging that they're doing business in a different way than they did business ever
06:24before.
06:25So I don't know why he's pissed off about it.
06:28I don't know why he's pissed off if people are like taking it back and going, all right.
06:34So I, so at least Alex Cora is saying what we've all been saying, which is that you get
06:40a bunch of young guys and you get them on their rookie deals and you hang on to them
06:45until they want big money.
06:46And, and that's the way, that's the, the way you run your team financially, not with
06:53the intention of winning a world series.
06:55So the only, the only explanation I could think of, like why it rubbed Cora the wrong
07:00way, and this is climbing inside his head is that he thinks that it, that it looks like
07:05he was calling the younger guys bratty, like that they, their motivation is different
07:10when they get the extension very early and that's a different dynamic in the clubhouse.
07:15But again, it's like to Curtis's point, you're talking to an MLB insider on the record.
07:21So if you don't want it out there that that's your perspective, then don't share it.
07:25Right.
07:26Keep it to yourself.
07:27Tell your wife when you get home.
07:29The other thing though, is it's like, in my view, if he has a good relationship with
07:34Breslau, the reaction isn't what it was.
07:37It's not this like enraged public ridicule of Ken Rosenthal for taking him out of context
07:43or whatever.
07:43Like you just text Craig Breslau and just like, yeah, man, this is what I meant.
07:47Like Cora has said he wants to be a GM, correct?
07:50Yes.
07:51So if he's publicly on the record criticizing how they were approaching the roster building,
07:57how else would you take it if you're Craig Breslau?
08:00And it also is him bitching about not having Bregman without mentioning Bregman.
08:05Correct.
08:06Yeah.
08:06Because you give these guys these deals where they're no longer have the urgency that they
08:11need to play well to get some sort of generational wealth.
08:14That's already been done.
08:15Roman Anthony's family, his kids, kids, and their kids don't have to work.
08:18But isn't he like, really like, if you take it that way, shouldn't the players be the
08:24ones that he's kind of like calling out and saying when you get your money, like the Roman
08:28Anthony's, the, you know, Christian Campbell's, the Brian Bale's of the world.
08:35That's what he has his shorts and a bunch over is that he doesn't want it to be taken as
08:43criticizing this team.
08:46And, you know, essentially he's saying you get the result you get is this is the result
08:52you end up getting when you got a bunch of young guys that are, that are on these, on
08:57these deals and that you don't have superstars.
08:59And so I, and yeah, I, I would, I would imagine that people are going to look and go, wow,
09:05he's taught, he's talking about this team and he's talking about the state of major league
09:09baseball, both of them.
09:11I mean, I don't know what, I don't know what he expects.
09:13So.
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