00:00And then you're going to ruin Meyer and Anthony.
00:03They've ruined Christian Campbell, too,
00:05and that may be something you can actually put on Cora.
00:07You remember how he was slumping at the beginning of last season
00:10and Cora was hitting him fourth,
00:11and they were moving him around from second to left to center.
00:14This kid's just trying to get his feet wet,
00:17and he spun into a ditch offensively and defensively.
00:19You can blame that on Cora.
00:20I haven't seen him since.
00:21But he was handed three kids.
00:23Sure.
00:24And he was saying, play him, and they have too many outfielders,
00:27and they have a guy playing shortstop.
00:30So Meyer's whole deal was that he was supposed to be
00:32your shortstop of the future,
00:34and they don't even put him at shortstop.
00:37I mean, what's Cora supposed to do?
00:38Look, fine, fire Cora all you want.
00:41I just don't understand why you make a managerial change in April.
00:46You had all year to make a managerial change.
00:49It's unprecedented with the Red Sox, too.
00:51Would you put any of this on the fact that it comes on the heels
00:56of being swept by the Yankees and how embarrassing and galling that was
01:01to ownership?
01:02I'm sure that's part of it.
01:03I mean, the timing, sure.
01:04I mean, you would think that that –
01:05And it's not that knee-jerk.
01:07It's not, you know, A causing B.
01:10But if you're ever going to make an emotional decision
01:13that doesn't have a lot of basis and logic,
01:16it's going to come after a series like that.
01:19Sure, I guess.
01:20Yes, but that goes against the whole analytical, scientific, you know,
01:24not being emotional perspective.
01:27So, no, it all counters each other.
01:30Like, if you're going to play the game that everything is so locked down
01:34and you're working at such a scientific level of understanding of baseball
01:39and then you fire your manager in April, well, if you're so great at this,
01:44why didn't you see this coming?
01:46And, well, you can't tell how a team's going to play.
01:49Well, you're supposed to – they'd give them through April.
01:53Like, if you are firing them based on Roman Anthony's having 83 at-bats,
02:01what did you learn in these 83 at-bats that you didn't know before?
02:06It's asinine.
02:08They traded Devers and that was – everything is they traded Devers.
02:15They traded Devers.
02:16They traded Devers.
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