00:00Keith, we've asked periodically, are the Red Sox going to turn the corner?
00:03We can probably stop asking that with this team.
00:05It's too depressing.
00:06At this point in time, they just feel like what they are.
00:11They're just a team treading water.
00:14Maybe when the bats decide to wake up, they can win a baseball game.
00:17Maybe if their pitcher goes six innings, they can win a baseball game.
00:20I'll go, Sonny Grave did not do that yesterday.
00:22He did not.
00:23No, they bucked the trend.
00:24So for the first time this year, that trend was, as you said, bucked.
00:27But they just feel like a team that's treading water and going nowhere
00:31and just kind of, you know, bobbing around from day to day
00:35until something significant happens.
00:38I think that's what we're all kind of waiting for with this team.
00:40Yeah, it's just, it's been, what are we now, 22 games into the season
00:45and most of their starting pitchers have had,
00:48maybe all their starting pitchers have had more bad games than good ones
00:51with maybe the exception of Connelly early.
00:53Like it's just, that part has been really bad.
00:55The lineup is not good.
00:57They've tried a million different variations of the lineup.
01:00It's struggled all over the place.
01:01They're not great in the field.
01:03They don't run the bases particularly well.
01:05You're once again kind of grasping for straws when you're trying to come up
01:07with like, what do they do well?
01:08What's their strength?
01:09What's their calling card?
01:10I can't really find any of it.
01:12And I think the most demoralizing thing to me now,
01:16and maybe it's kind of changed as the season has gone,
01:18but as of right now, it's got to be Garrett Crochet
01:22because out of all the different variations you had on the team
01:25and like where they could go, are they better, worse, the same from last year?
01:29I thought they'd be slightly better despite the lack of a power bat.
01:33I thought they would be overall slightly better,
01:35but one of the things I absolutely needed for that to be the case
01:39was another year of Garrett Crochet like we saw last year.
01:43So you're even more concerned about Crochet than I am.
01:46Yeah.
01:46Because you have to be on some level worried about the way he's looked,
01:50and it's really three bad starts in five,
01:52which I think he had four or five bad starts,
01:55depending on what your grade is or definition of a bad start,
01:58all of last year, in like 32 starts, he had four or five bad ones.
02:02So we're kind of closing in on that number now?
02:06Yeah, like, so like, we're not even at the end of April yet.
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