00:00What a wild weekend it was for Boston Red Sox fans making some pretty drastic moves within their club.
00:07In fact, not just firing their manager, but firing all of the folks that were his friends and obviously very
00:14close to him.
00:14If you want to read between the lines, that's why that happened.
00:17I mean, you're not going to fire the whole staff unless they're all aligned with Alex Cora.
00:21So he is out.
00:23They did win yesterday.
00:25I'm still confused on the messaging.
00:29I'm aware, Aram, that, you know, Breslow's going to take a lot of heat and John Henry's going to take
00:33a lot of heat and Kennedy's going to take a lot of heat.
00:35But do you do you think honestly, like this is my real question here.
00:39Do you think with the staff that's coming up and the kids that they have that they could make this
00:45a punt season?
00:46I know they're saying that they're going to go for it and everything like that.
00:49But do you but in a few weeks from now, if they're still as far down as they are, could
00:53they just look at this thing and say, you know what?
00:56But because from Breslow's point of view, that probably would be his best call, right?
00:59Hey, look, it's just not happening now.
01:01Give me another year to figure it out, right?
01:02Like, I don't know.
01:03I think that it could trend that way.
01:06That's the hardest part, because for me, I go back and forth.
01:10I was thinking about that all evening, even after we recorded the show, which is just like, why would you
01:14fire somebody, you know, fire the entire staff this early?
01:17Then if you're not, you know, kind of trying to salvage the season, see what you can do here.
01:21And obviously the team is on the pitching side, especially talented enough to hang around.
01:24And you still have a couple of solid bats and guys that you figure should perform better.
01:29But at the same time, with the whole staff cleaning house, some of the dysfunction that we kind of sense
01:33from the outside looking in, you wonder how this is going to get right.
01:37And you also look at the infield side of things like this was a flawed roster going into the year.
01:40This was a team that really needed Alex Bregman, pushed hard for Alex Bregman, ended up letting certain things get
01:47in the way of them keeping Alex Bregman, and then pivoted to a pitcher on the other side of 30
01:52that they didn't really need in Ranger Suarez.
01:54So there's still some very obvious needs that they have.
01:57And I feel like from the Breslau perspective, it probably behooves him as long as they give him a little
02:03bit more runway to say, hey, we got it a little bit wrong this year.
02:06We didn't have the right guys in charge as well.
02:08Let's hire the right guys in charge.
02:09Let me reshuffle the pieces here and watch the roster I'm going to put together moving forward.
02:15I think that's his best course of action is doing that for himself.
02:21I mean, sending the message right now that they're going to fight and this is the change to compete.
02:25I'm not saying that they're lying.
02:27I think that they truly do believe that.
02:29But I think that that could change pretty quickly and the Red Sox could play toward the future.
02:33Mets and Phillies may have to do the same thing, by the way, here, because both teams are 9 and
02:3819.
02:38And both teams really showing nothing to me.
02:41I don't know how they dig out of this.
02:43Yes.
02:44Can they dig out of it and finish 500 on the season?
02:46Absolutely.
02:47But it's not early when you're 10 games under 500.
02:51I mean, just think about this.
02:53If both teams play 10 games over 500 ball the rest of the season around, that would be fantastic for
02:59both teams.
03:00And that would only get them to 500.
03:03So I don't know that either team is trending in the right direction.
03:07And from the Mets perspective, maybe a little bit worse because they're just not hitting at all.
03:12Like, I still think Philly is going to get it going somewhat.
03:14But the Mets, I'm really worried about.
03:16It's getting late early for both of them.
03:18I mean, they're both seven games out of a playoff spot.
03:21So you mentioned just to play 10 games over 500 the rest of the way.
03:24They've got to play seven games better than, you know, all the teams ahead of them.
03:28And presumably, you know, some pretty good wildcard teams.
03:30It seems like right now the Braves are only going to get better.
03:33I'm sure there'll be some aspects of regression for them.
03:36But they also have players off the IL potentially coming back to help them.
03:40They also have young arms getting called up that look great.
03:42So it almost feels like this early, which is crazy to say, the ship has sailed on the division being
03:47that far out.
03:48And now you're really looking at the wildcard where you've got to fight with a lot of really good teams
03:51in the National League.
03:52I don't know which team I'm more concerned with because I think the Phillies, like you look at the back
03:56half of that lineup.
03:58There's not a lot of guys that I have very much confidence in being league average hitters.
04:01But then you look at the Mets.
04:03Maybe there's some guys on paper I feel better about.
04:05But if you watch that team, it is lifeless, top to bottom.
04:09It has just been atrocious.
04:11And then their pitching situation is very fascinating as well.
04:14So I don't know because I feel like these are two teams that are forcibly need to be in win
04:20now mode and almost have to sync with the ship there.
04:22But at the same time, you have to look at the long-term vision here and say you don't want
04:27to set your franchise back a half decade by continuing to go all in on teams that really don't have
04:33a chance here.
04:33But I think with the Phillies in particular, how do you do that with Schwarber, with Harper, with Turner?
04:40What kind of message does that send?
04:42And you know that those guys are going to want the opportunity to try to claw back into it.
04:45Wheeler as well, right?
04:47Until the very, very end.
04:49Until they're mathematically eliminated.
04:50Yeah.
04:51To me, the Phillies at some point are going to get hot and start winning.
04:53But the Mets, there's been nothing to indicate that.
04:56And they don't have Lindor.
04:58Senga and Minaya are like zeros.
05:00So, like, I mean, I don't know.
05:01I mean, I just, I think it's crazy to think that the three teams we just talked about, Boston, New
05:06York, and Philadelphia, all out of it in May.
05:08But we're getting close.
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