00:00If there were only one word, what would, what would, what would, what more Haley's sounds?
00:05Anemic.
00:07Anemic.
00:08Anemic.
00:08Okay.
00:09But that, that, that kind of gives them the excuse of, of suffering from some sort of an illness.
00:15That's fair.
00:16Well, I was listening to the replay on the way in.
00:18Can I ask Greggy a quick question about anemic and like genetic things?
00:22Do you think it's just random that your boys are really tall and strong?
00:27Is this going back to yesterday when I talked about how some of that.
00:29Genetics?
00:30Yeah.
00:30Fat people are born fat.
00:31Right.
00:31No, I, no, I, no, I get my, you know, one of my boys is really tall.
00:35The other one's, you know, a little bit taller than average.
00:39I'd say six feet, six, you know, one-ish.
00:42What's Jermaine Jr.?
00:43He's like six, three, six, four in that world.
00:46Where'd that come from?
00:47Right.
00:47Oh, that comes from me.
00:48Exactly.
00:49But guess what?
00:50My dad wasn't big and neither was my mother.
00:53Well, it's, you know, like.
00:54What was the genetics?
00:54Genetics aren't always one for one.
00:56My grandfather was really short and my grandmother was short.
00:59Right.
01:00Too short Italians.
01:01Yeah.
01:01James is going to be six, six.
01:02So, I mean, it's probably from his uncle.
01:04You know, and I, and I get it's, you know, the height, hair color.
01:07Wait.
01:07Yeah.
01:07I get that's genetics, but don't give me the fatness being genetics.
01:11I mean, Brees would have been an SEC All-American if it wasn't for his dad.
01:15Well, honestly, it was his last name.
01:18Right.
01:18If his last name were Wiggins or Foyay, then he could have played D1 ball.
01:24We don't have time for that because our baseball team is in disarray.
01:30Yeah.
01:31They need some genetic help.
01:33Is it just, is it torture when you see Schwarbs back at your ballpark and you are told that
01:42there was zero effort made to even approach the man about whether or not he wanted to
01:49return to a place where he was beloved, Curtis?
01:52I mean, torture, torture was yesterday, all these Philly fans in the back bay and they
01:58were like, oh, go Phils.
02:01No, I mean, it's just, this is where they are.
02:04Dave Dombrowski has this really bad quality where he wants to win.
02:07Yeah.
02:08And the Red Sox want to punish their consumers.
02:12And I watched that yesterday and I see it.
02:15It's just so pathetic.
02:17And honestly, I'm happy Cora didn't take that gig because that would have sort of overshadowed
02:22and brought this huge sort of media storm to something that would have blurred the reality.
02:29That is, they suck.
02:31And it's like one run, the Phillies went up to nothing.
02:37I was like, okay, you know, is Matlock on?
02:39You know, what are we doing today?
02:41Curtis, I don't know if you caught it, but it got to a point where Williur Breyu, you
02:45know, looks like he just has a complete dong out there.
02:49And then it's like immediately when it's caught, everybody's like, well, 29 out of 30 parks.
02:55That's a home run.
02:56And it's like, so now we're blaming Fenway Park.
02:58Well, and it literally required 16 pitches from Zach Wheeler to get through the first,
03:06to get the Red Sox done in the first three innings last night.
03:09Do you remember, though, the ineptitude of the Mac Jones offense?
03:11Remember the Browns came in and the Patriots score a touchdown?
03:16You're like, okay, who do they got next week?
03:18Because you knew the offense of the opposing team or your team was not going to be able
03:25to go punch for punch within any offense that was decent.
03:27They couldn't score more than like 14 points.
03:30Right.
03:30Yeah.
03:31So you're like, it's just, and I don't know, 37,000 people there last night, you know, game
03:38was over in two hours and 29 minutes.
03:39I guess it's not, you know, prolonged agony, but I, what are they going to do?
03:44I saw, you know, the trout stuff coming up, like wake me up if that happens.
03:50No, that ain't happened.
03:51I think they have a built-in excuse and I think they're going to ride that built-in.
03:55The question, what's a built-in excuse?
03:57Yeah, we fired our manager at the beginning of the season.
03:59You fired the manager and everybody on the staff, basically.
04:04Right.
04:04So as to save the season, that's not an excuse.
04:08Well, I don't necessarily know if that's to save the season.
04:10That's what they said.
04:11Well, that's what they say.
04:12But sometimes, you know, from being around that when you fire the manager or you fire
04:17the coach, it's almost like we're throwing in the towel on the season because that guy,
04:24Tracy's probably not going to be the guy next year and it's going to be waiting until we
04:27get our guy in there.
04:29It doesn't, to me, it doesn't matter.
04:31You dramatically fired your manager a month into the season.
04:36And so there better be some result that's different.
04:41And there's not, there absolutely is not.
04:47They stink, but they don't stink as bad as they did when they had core.
04:49These people who are talking about, well, you know, they're only two games out of the
04:56wild card.
04:57It's like, thank God the rest of the American League is not so hot right now.
05:05That's why that's happening.
05:06And you're not getting any better when it comes to hitting the baseball and advancing runners.
05:13What did they leave?
05:14What did they leave?
05:15Two guys on?
05:16Yeah, they had first and second and the bottom of the ninth, one out.
05:19Sedan was chasing high heat and then Meyer grounded into, I mean, he just grounded a second.
05:24Wiggy, are they still in it?
05:26Technically, they are.
05:28Technically, they still got a heartbeat.
05:31I love driveline.
05:33I really, I think, you know, what a great plan.
05:35What an unbelievable dysfunctional mess of an organization.
05:39And it's true, they're not going to play next year anyway.
05:42So I don't know.
05:43Maybe this has been the plan all along.
05:45Anybody else happen to catch Brezbot with Tom Caron last night during the game?
05:50No.
05:51I texted you guys about then the follow-up of how Tim Healy, I believe from the Globe,
05:57tweeted something about how Roman Anthony was approaching other players in the clubhouse
06:02with a brace on his wrist.
06:04Yeah.
06:04So, not only that, but Tom Caron, God love him, asked him again about Jason Veritek.
06:13It's a minor thing.
06:15I'm clearly biased by my opinion on the thing, so I'll say that up front.
06:20But you get another word salad answer from Craig Breslow because they refuse to be honest.
06:29Like, just be honest and say, listen, Jason Veritek is pissed at us and won't talk to us.
06:37So, like, what is the point of floating, continually floating out there that there's a role for him around here
06:46in the organization?
06:48Greg, because it's emblematic of how they're doing things.
06:50They face nothing head-on.
06:52They are disingenuous with their consumer.
06:56They think that all they need is time and everything, like any other algorithm, will organize in the way they
07:01think it should.
07:03And so, the reason it bothers you is that, obviously, you're friends with the guy,
07:07but everybody in this listening audience likes Jason Veritek.
07:11And if you're going to, it's sort of like when Patino fired Red.
07:15Like, it's not like Red Auerbach had a huge role at the time.
07:17It's that if you're that big of an a-hole that doesn't understand this place, it's not going to work.
07:21Well, and then it makes Veritek, they don't want to say that,
07:24because then it makes Veritek look bad.
07:26They don't want to say, oh, he's pissed at us because he was in the wrong foxhole.
07:31That's what they'll say.
07:32Like, he wasn't on board.
07:33They'll never say that.
07:35That's my point.
07:35They wouldn't be that transparent.
07:36Right, that's my point.
07:37So, they'll always make it seem like he's always got a home here.
07:40Because if you're like, oh, he's pissed at us, then they're going to be like, well, why is he pissed
07:44at you guys?
07:45And you can't say, well, he was in the wrong foxhole.
07:48He didn't believe in what we were doing.
07:49He's pissed at you because you went and assembled a roster.
07:53Right.
07:54Based on analytics only.
07:56Right.
07:57Not based in any way, shape, or form about what kind of baseball people you're putting on the team
08:05and how that is going to affect the clubhouse.
08:07Right.
08:07The vibe of the clubhouse.
08:09And ironically, based on not getting on base, I guess, is the plan.
08:13Right.
08:14And you didn't listen to any of the actual baseball people that have been doing it for a long time
08:21and have some understanding of what it takes to put a team together that actually gels.
08:27Not a team that looks good when you feed it into some kind of computer.
08:34Right.
08:34But that's the direction Bresbott wants to go in.
08:37It's no different when we talked about Mac, because Curtis brought up Mac Jones, when Bill Belichick decided to hire
08:45a defensive coordinator to be an offensive coordinator.
08:48And you're like, what are you doing?
08:50And even though it's not right, if you go against the grain, you ultimately become you're in the wrong house.
08:58You're in the doghouse.
08:59And I think that Veritek's probably right about the analytics and all that other stuff.
09:05But Bresbott is like, this is the direction I'm going in.
09:08You're either on board or you're not.
09:10But the lineup is trash.
09:12Yeah, I agree with everything.
09:13Okay, just to be clear.
09:15Yeah, I agree.
09:15But this is the direction he's going in.
09:17It's absolute trash.
09:18So you either go with the current or you swim against it.
09:21I swim against this.
09:23Well, if you swim against the current, generally, nine times out of ten, you're getting thrown off.
09:28You're in a riptide.
09:29Yeah, exactly.
09:30Curtis makes a good point, though, about the looming lockout.
09:33Like, are they just going along with this stuff that's cheap with Craig Breslow until the lockout hits and then
09:40resolves?
09:41Or is this actually how they're going to play it out when the lockout happens and then they come out
09:46of the lockout?
09:47Like, is this actually the long, long-term plan to hand over this much power to Breslow because it's like
09:54a good business decision from their perspective?
09:56No, because I think they – Heim Blum was the same guy.
10:00And guess what?
10:00They moved on from him.
10:02Right, because people didn't like their plan.
10:03So they said, look, we're going to have a new shiny person to operate the exact same plan.
10:07Right, so if it doesn't work out with Breslow, I think that's a great question that you're asking, Mago, is
10:12what does it look like after the lockout if Breslow is still performing at this level?
10:18As gross as it is, isn't it better if they're just punting on this season and then they'll get back
10:24to some semblance of Red Sox baseball after the lockout rather than saying, no, this is the way that we're
10:30going to do things for the next 10 years?
10:31I hate to say I told you so, but I said there's no way the guy that is leading the
10:37charge into a lockout is going to be spending like crazy in advance.
10:42Who's that guy?
10:43John Henry.
10:43John Henry.
10:44John Henry.
10:46That's who I blame for everything.
10:48I mean, Julie had a great video.
10:49I hope we've all seen it.
10:50Yes.
10:51But I think Mago's point is spot on.
10:54It's more about whether he was preparing for this or he's doing it.
10:57It's more about what happens with the CBA, the negotiations between the owners and the players association and what it
11:06looks like after the lockout on what John Henry is then doing with this organization.
11:12If he's kind of doing the same thing and we know what the money and the financials look like, then
11:18you're like, oh, damn, this is what the new Red Sox is going to be.
11:21So you believe it is some kind of an evil plot by John Henry.
11:27He is fooling the entire rest of Major League Baseball into spending nothing.
11:32No.
11:32And then he's going to come out.
11:33He's going to come out of the lockout and spend like Elon Musk.
11:40No, I didn't say he's going to spend.
11:42This might be that he we know that he probably wants this the way, you know, he might be leading
11:47the charge, but he's probably got, you know, what?
11:50How many teams in Major League Baseball?
11:5130.
11:52So he's probably got about 15 of them that are on the same page that financially are with him.
11:58And then there's like four or five teams, the Mets, the Dodgers.
12:01And well, the Blue Jays spend 70 million more than you.
12:04Yeah.
12:04And they're basically right next to you.
12:0630 teams in Major League Baseball and you are ranked 29th when it comes to home runs that you have.
12:14No, that's true.
12:14This season.
12:15And Schwerbs has hit 16 of them already.
12:18Yeah.
12:18I think you as an entire team have hit 19 of them.
12:22And Schwerbs, Schwerbs, Kyle from Waltham has hit 16 of them on the season.
12:28The Boston Red Sox have played 41 games.
12:30They have scored 157 runs.
12:32The Texas Rangers have scored 156, but they've played 42.
12:37So by the end of today, you will have the fewest runs in Major League Baseball in a park that
12:43one would think would be impossible to do that in.
12:46Is it too early for the Hardo of the Day Award?
12:50Never too early for that.
12:51Hardo of the Day.
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