00:00When is it fair to say that those of us who felt like this team
00:04would be better than last year were wrong?
00:07I think you could say it now.
00:09You could say it now?
00:11Well, yeah, because I think that we all thought
00:14that this was going to be completely different,
00:16especially in the beginning.
00:18Can they turn it around?
00:20Yeah, but do they look like they're going to be able to turn it around?
00:24Does this team look like it can go on a 4-5 game win streak?
00:27No.
00:28Right.
00:28And so they are bereft in every single part of the game.
00:33Right.
00:34Currently.
00:35But middle fingers lead the league.
00:36Yeah.
00:37When is it too early to say that the pitching is bad?
00:41Like not just that it's not as good as you thought it was going to be,
00:44but that it's bad.
00:45And where is Andrew Bailey?
00:46I think you could say it now.
00:47Well, first of all, you have to figure out what the deal is going to be
00:50with Crochet at his next start, which is Sunday, right?
00:53Sunday, right.
00:54Because I've heard a lot of people, Curtis, you would know better than I
00:56as a savant, just suggest that that was a tipping issue the other night.
01:01Okay.
01:01A tipping issue?
01:02Yeah.
01:02Like at a kiosk?
01:04No, tipping pitches.
01:06No, I'm sorry.
01:07Yeah.
01:07That was two miles per hour beneath what he's been throwing.
01:12I mean, maybe if it's tipping, isn't that one thing Cora's good at preventing?
01:16Like, doesn't he know that world?
01:18It's a good point.
01:19But you would think, Curtis, by Friday, if you – because you might believe
01:23it could be something physical.
01:25Right.
01:26That we would know that he's not going to be starting on Sunday.
01:29Oh, yeah.
01:29If he's still – if we don't know anything Friday, I would highly doubt that
01:32he'd be skipped and I'd be wrong that he's going to miss a start.
01:34Right.
01:35I mean, listen, Sonny Grace had three outings, right?
01:37Two of them stunk.
01:38Four outings.
01:39Four.
01:39Yes.
01:39Okay.
01:40Two and two or two and two?
01:42Two and two.
01:42Two and two.
01:43Yeah.
01:44Crochet's –
01:44I mean, they all gave you a pretty good outing the other day.
01:47Yeah, but that was his first good one.
01:49That was Swar's his first good one.
01:52Connelly Early has been – like, he's 50-50.
01:55He's been, I think, too good to – and the other one, they weren't, like, bad.
02:00Crochet was, you know, solid and then had this thing that just went the other way.
02:05Outside of the rotation, Weistert's been problematic at times.
02:08Yeah.
02:09Well, Texter says Lou always says Memorial Day.
02:13Is that true?
02:13Memorial Day weekend is when you can really determine.
02:15Okay.
02:16So let's just talk about the Bruins' third line.
02:19No, I think it's fine to talk.
02:21I just don't –
02:22They have definitely – well, they have definitely, through the first – how many games have they played?
02:2817.
02:2917 games.
02:30They – their pitching is well – how would you say – they're extremely underperforming.
02:38And that was the one area that we thought was going to be, you know, really good to good.
02:44But they are way underperforming.
02:47And I don't think any of us saw that coming.
02:50Hey, Craig.
02:51Your team sucks.
02:54They cannot hit.
02:56But last night, you had six guys in the lineup that were batting less than 200.
03:02You're also on track to hit 104 measly home runs.
03:06When last year, you had 186.
03:08You're ruining my summer.
03:14Yeah, but we knew they weren't going to hit home runs.
03:16Well, but we thought they'd be able to pitch.
03:18In the updated – ERA is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball.
03:23The Boston Red Sox currently rank 28th.
03:26Yeah, they're at the bottom.
03:275.27 stars ERA.
03:30Yeah, they are at the bottom.
03:31That could be worse, right?
03:32Yeah, they are at the bottom.
03:33Who's at the – who's 30?
03:35The Astros with a 6.6 ERA and then the Washington Nationals at 5.71.
03:41And Atlanta's number one.
03:43I don't know what Chris Sale is doing, but I think Atlanta right there.
03:46Atlanta's at the top of the league.
03:47They're third.
03:48Royals first, Yankees second, Braves third.
03:50Okay.
03:52Where do they rank opening day payroll?
03:55Carry the tune.
03:57I feel like there's a swath of Red Sox players that should be incorporated in dead weight today.
04:02Who's at the top of your list?
04:03The Durbinator seems pretty high up there.
04:06Trevor Story.
04:06Trevor Story's there.
04:07Jaron Duran seems kind of high up there a little bit.
04:10What about Andrew Bailey?
04:12Also seems high up there.
04:14I would say Sonny Gray might even be on the list now.
04:17He's encroaching on that list.
04:18So quite a few Red Sox guys right now that I would consider for dead weight.
04:23Contreras got hurt last night?
04:24Yeah, like his back or something.
04:26Like literally – there's two guys that are hitting the baseball.
04:29He and Willier Abreu.
04:30Yeah.
04:31How long is he out for?
04:33They didn't say he just left the game.
04:35They didn't really –
04:37Indefinite.
04:37Yeah, they didn't really say.
04:38They just said it was like back spasms or something.
04:41Something was going on with his back, so I don't know.
04:45Well –
04:46It hurts from carrying everybody?
04:47Is that what it is?
04:48Yeah, I mean he's –
04:49Yeah, I think there's like – right.
04:50There's probably three guys you look at and go, all right.
04:53You know, so Don Raphael, is he still on his 809 game hit streak?
04:56He was on something like that.
04:58But, yeah, to me it's their pitching because with their bats, their offense, like my expectations weren't very high offensively
05:07coming into the season.
05:10You thought they were going to at least hit the ball and advance runners, didn't you?
05:15I mean, yeah.
05:16I mean, I didn't expect that they were going to lead the major leagues in home runs.
05:21Right, but what's the biggest disappointment?
05:24Like that you go, wait, I did not expect this to happen to this team.
05:29Ken's Grand Slam call.
05:31I think it's the pitching.
05:32Like I knew there was going to be – when the manager said –
05:35I want to smile on that one.
05:37I would say the biggest disappointment for me is that Roman Anthony is not an everyday player at this point.
05:44And I expected after last season and the hype that he was going to be.
05:48And so I –
05:49All right.
05:50Because even when the manager's saying, all right, we're going to have to win games three to two,
05:54doesn't that tell you that they're not going to hit the ball a lot?
05:57Yes.
05:57They're not going to score a lot of runs?
05:58So for me, when I start to look at like the biggest disappointment for me for this team
06:03is the pitching because you were saying how you were going to be able to win a lot of games
06:08because of your pitching.
06:09And your pitching is awful.
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