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They lack swagger, and they can’t score more than 3 runs per game, yet the Red Sox are in the playoff hunt.
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00:00The Sox found a way to win while still not scoring over three runs.
00:03But two of those runs, courtesy of a Wilson Contreras dong there in the fifth.
00:08Who's legit good.
00:09You will at least acknowledge that.
00:10Him and Wiler Abreu, you're not going to hear me talk any trash on either one of them.
00:13Both of those guys.
00:14I think Contreras, is he leading the team with 10 home runs?
00:1710 home runs.
00:18Yep.
00:18All right.
00:19841 OPS, which is all-star caliber.
00:21Doesn't sound.
00:22Best defensive first baseman in baseball by the numbers, by the defensive numbers.
00:26And he's got a little.
00:27This is the last time that's happened.
00:28Yeah.
00:28I know.
00:29They haven't had.
00:29Tristan Casas?
00:31Please, don't get me started on Casas.
00:33But you know what?
00:34He's been a nice little.
00:35Hey, give Breslau credit.
00:37There you go.
00:37Good little off-season pickup.
00:38Great pickup.
00:39And he's kind of full of pee and vinegar.
00:41You know?
00:41A little attitude.
00:42He does have a little attitude, which obviously is something.
00:44This team just needs some sort of any kind of personality, energy, whatever it takes,
00:50just to get them out of this muck and this mire.
00:51When they do have Chapman in the bullpen, he's got a little swagger.
00:54You know, he stares guys down.
00:55They have a couple pieces of swagger.
00:57It's spread throughout.
00:58You know, I like Slayton.
01:00He's like a Texan.
01:01He's got a little seventh-inning swagger.
01:03Love that.
01:03Love that.
01:04Yeah.
01:04And Tully's got a little bit, too.
01:06Tully?
01:06Yeah.
01:07All right.
01:07I guess there's a little bit in there, but they've just, you know.
01:09Just what about the other eight hitters on the lineup?
01:12That's got some work to do.
01:12They're two games out of the wild card.
01:14It's unbelievable.
01:15I know.
01:15And it's sad because I hate that that's a thing because they're going to sit on their
01:20hands, and they're not going to do anything, and they're going to use it as an excuse.
01:23And what was that stat that we had yesterday that if they had just hit for average?
01:28Average runs per game.
01:29Average runs per games.
01:30They would be first place?
01:31In Major League Baseball, they would be first place.
01:34If they scored the league average, which is four and a half runs a game, and if they even
01:38met that threshold, they'd be the best team in baseball.
01:41Now, don't you think, though, that Breslow has to look at his pitching?
01:45He's got to love it because he loves pitching.
01:47Sonny Gray, Ranger Suarez, and if Crochet's healthy, you have three, like, Cy Young candidates
01:52on a team.
01:54Isn't it not malpractice to not go out and do something for the offense to help this
01:58team get to the next level?
01:59Because all they need is one guy that can hit home runs, and you are a World Series
02:03contender.
02:04It's malpractice to make me sit through crap games.
02:07I want to be entertained.
02:09Yes, make a move.
02:10I don't think having one bat in here is enough.
02:14You're going to need a lot.
02:15If you get Jordan Alvarez, as JP Richardi told us last week, and you put him right in the
02:19middle of this lineup, don't you think they contend with the Yankees?
02:23Then you have your Aaron Judge, and Contreras is your Ben Rice, and your pitching staff's
02:27better because Max Freed just got hurt.
02:29I mean, it's a big if, but you've got to pull off something here.
02:33This team is too good pitching-wise to have this lineup every night.
02:37Well, I mean, listen, there is a chance where you bring in a big bat like that, Roman Anthony
02:41comes back as healthy and delivers on the promise that we all thought he was going to
02:44be, which, once again, I've said the entire time is not fair to put everything on his shoulders.
02:48So having a guy who could carry this team like Jordan Alvarez, sure, yeah, hell yeah,
02:54I'm all about that.
02:55Maybe, just maybe, they might be able to do something, make the playoffs, and who knows
02:59what will happen then.
03:00But, I mean, they got a long way to go, Ken.
03:03But they traded for...
03:03Their offense is historically bad.
03:05I get it.
03:06But they traded for Sonny Gray.
03:07He's 36.
03:08Like, why would you make that move if you weren't all in on this season?
03:12So you are.
03:13It's a good trade.
03:14It's another Breslow move.
03:15I mean, these two guys they got from St. Louis, maybe it's going back to Missouri,
03:18Kansas City last night, close to the heartland.
03:20They're playing well, but those are two good moves.
03:23He just didn't finish the job.
03:24Finished the job.
03:25Yeah.
03:26It was cool to see good pitching finally get rewarded last night.
03:28Like, that was cool, because Sonny Gray got out there, what, one run on five hits,
03:33six-plus innings, struck out like nine, too.
03:36Struck out nine, looked good.
03:36He had a great, awkward exchange with Alex Spear in the postgame.
03:39I don't know if you care to hear this.
03:40Well, Alex Spear's awkward anyway.
03:41Well, yeah, but Sonny Gray is such a weird dude.
03:43Is there anything, like, stranger than when he's in the booth at Nessun?
03:46I don't think they've done that in a while, but Alex Spear gets up there and just stats
03:49him to death, and I think it probably makes him fall asleep.
03:51Okay, so here's Spear with Sonny Gray, if you wouldn't mind.
03:53Yeah, I struck more people out tonight, which was nice.
03:56Anything you're seeing in terms of those strikes?
03:58Like, obviously, a bunch of the swings and misses tonight were on the sweeper, a couple
04:01on the curveball.
04:02Is it just, like, executing spin better, or is it how you're tunneling?
04:06Um, just, um, just, um.
04:13Dude, been there.
04:15Just, uh, maybe turn, I don't know.
04:17I don't know.
04:18I do know.
04:20But, um, yeah.
04:22Yeah.
04:22You just wanted to go, like, shut up, nerd.
04:26I mean, he threw a spin.
04:28He threw a lot of things in there.
04:29Tunneling.
04:29He was tunneling.
04:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:31Like, I lost the words.
04:33Didn't know what to say.
04:34How do I respond to that?
04:35Is that when, you know, a reporter is just trying to flex on how much he knows about the
04:39sport?
04:40A little bit.
04:40Yeah, I think a little bit.
04:41Yeah.
04:41And listen, Alex Spear, you know, I'm not going to knock his writing, but it's the nerdiest
04:45stuff.
04:45I don't read his articles because it just makes my head explode.
04:48He gets so nerdy.
04:50I bathe those.
04:50I know you do.
04:51And it's written for you.
04:52Sonny Gary tapped him on the head and walked away after that.
04:55That's a question.
04:56Obviously, a bunch of the swings and misses tonight were on the sweeper.
04:58A couple on the curveball.
05:00Is it just, like, executing spin better, or is it how you're tunneling?
05:04Tunneling.
05:05How you're tunneling.
05:07That's what threw him off.
05:08He's probably like, what the hell is he talking about?
05:11That's not a good open-ended question.
05:12He's got to leave it more vague.
05:13You can't give him an either or.
05:14That's him saying, I know all about baseball.
05:17I might look like a nerd.
05:18I might have not ever been on the team or played.
05:21But, my God, I've read every George Will book that's ever been written.
05:24I watched Ken Burns baseball 15 times.
05:26And I've got a tattoo of your stats on my ass crack.
05:31That is a dude just flexing and trying to impress the guy.
05:35Listen, Alex Spear seems like a nice guy.
05:37But his writing is not for me.
05:39He's too in-depth.
05:40He's too nerdy.
05:42Sometimes you just got to look at it.
05:43That's the game now, brother.
05:45Especially with Bresblot.
05:46And Catherine Veritek's going after him.
05:47Smartest guy in baseball.
05:48Oh, how about that?
05:49On social media.
05:50That was great.
05:50I mean, if you're going to take your shot, you better hope you're right.
05:54You better hope they don't turn it around.
05:56Because they'll be throwing that back in your face.
05:58So, she was calculated when she did that.
06:00And I thought that was an interesting tweet.
06:02We should probably get to that sometime today, too.
06:04No question.
06:05And, by the way, even Jaron Duran sucked.
06:08But still found a way to contribute last night.
06:09Going 0 for 5, which is as his style is.
06:12But notching an RBI.
06:14So, there you go.
06:15And they got two, like, Worcester guys that I covered when I was out there for some games.
06:19Sogard, who I like.
06:20He laid a bunt down.
06:21I love Sogard.
06:21Come on.
06:22Mickey Gasper, who looks like Mario Brothers.
06:24Like, he's got good at bats.
06:25He has hits in six or seven games he started.
06:27I would just ride these guys.
06:29You got a little character there.
06:30Just good at bats.
06:31Are you kidding me?
06:32What took him so long to bring up Sogard?
06:34Right.
06:34I mean, you know.
06:35Durbin.
06:36Durbin.
06:36They give him every opportunity they could, man.
06:40Dude, Gasper's hitting .333 right now.
06:42Are you kidding me?
06:43Absolutely.
06:44Sogard's just a solid player, too.
06:45Right.
06:46Just nothing sexy.
06:47You don't notice him that much.
06:48Just gets the job done.
06:48Diving catch last night.
06:49Even Yoshida threw a guy out.
06:50How about that?
06:50I know the Royals stick.
06:51I'm overblowing this game.
06:52But still, I get excited.
06:54One win is all it takes.
06:55You know, I'm back in.
06:58Hey, let me ask you about the inside cutter of the driveline with the lift velocity of
07:02air-laden swallow.
07:04Executing spin better, or is it how you're tunneling?
07:06Shut up, nerd!
07:07How you're tunneling.
07:08Just pump in the locker.
07:09Tunneling.
07:10Yeah, GBT that.
07:12That, by the way, great response.
07:14That was a great response by him.
07:15Just be like, dude, what do you want me to say?
07:19Just, uh, just, um, just, uh, maybe, I don't know.
07:26Can I just, Sonny would have been within his rights to say, Alex, I don't know what you're
07:31talking about.
07:32Can you ask it again in a different way, please?
07:35Because I'm not sure what you're asking me.
07:37Like, he would have been within his rights to do that.
07:38But he just was very nice, I thought, almost kind of made himself, you know, look the fool
07:43just to save Alex's butt there.
07:46Baseball really is, right now, in the middle of a battle between the field guys and the
07:52numbers guys.
07:52And to be quite honest, the numbers guys suck the fun out of baseball.
07:56But no, on social media, you tunneling is just, it's a couple of pitches that come out
08:00of the same place in the hand.
08:02And haven't you seen those social media graphics where you see a guy's and the balls go two
08:05different ways?
08:06Those are cool.
08:06But he threw like 15 terms at him in one question.
08:09It's like, geez, just ask me, act like a normal human being.
08:13Who wants, by the way, who wanted to know the answer to that question?
08:16Like, if you work for the media, you're supposed to ask questions that the people who read your
08:19paper want to know.
08:20That's a good question.
08:20There you go.
08:21Now, that's the point.
08:22Well, no, he's asked them, why are you striking more guys out?
08:24No, no, no.
08:25That question.
08:26Who wanted to know the answer to that question?
08:27No one.
08:27That was the question.
08:28Everyone knows what strikeouts are.
08:30Nobody listening knows what the hell tunneling means.
08:33Nobody.
08:33That's, come on.
08:34Executing spin better or is it how you're tunneling?
08:36That's a flex, bro.
08:38Sure.
08:38That's a flex.
08:39That was him trying to just show off to the jock.
08:42Okay.
08:42Get back to the original question you brought up, Ken.
08:45Yeah.
08:45I think Breslow, it is a, to me, it is a foregone conclusion they do something at the
08:50trade deadline because Breslow's ass is on the line and he put it on the line.
08:54There you go.
08:55So he has to do something at the trade deadline.
08:58Has to.
08:58Did somebody say tunneling?
08:59I'm a bottom thief.
09:00Oh, no.
09:01That's all.
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