00:00My Red Sox are back, Curtis.
00:03That's a sweep if you're keeping track, Curtis.
00:07If Jaron Duran leaves with the team, I'm going to quit.
00:11Well, I mean, he's...
00:13Sell high.
00:13You may have to hang on to him.
00:16He's the only guy that's doing anything for you right now.
00:19He flicked off the baseball.
00:21Did you catch the other night, not last night, but my days are running together.
00:27Wednesday, Tuesday night.
00:29Uh, after he wins the game for you and he immediately goes over and challenges the opposing fans.
00:38Right.
00:39He can't help himself.
00:40He cannot help himself.
00:41There's a word for that.
00:42Unwell.
00:42But, hey, good little sweep.
00:45We might actually have a summer.
00:46I was not able to watch much of the game last night.
00:49I was at this new place, the Ice Cream Museum.
00:52And let me tell you, it was spectacular.
00:55It was a special event.
00:57I didn't have to pay.
00:58Oh.
00:58I don't know what...
00:59It was lovely.
01:00I met a person who works there named Ren, whose ice cream name is Cannoli.
01:04And we had a lovely night.
01:06I just let James and I jump in the sprinkle pit.
01:08Oh, fantastic.
01:09And he was finally tall enough to go down the slide.
01:11It was really great.
01:13And then he had a riot in the middle of it and threw a tantrum unlike anything I've ever seen.
01:16So I was very happy to get home and see the Red Sox won the game.
01:19Very exciting.
01:19The whole family should have the Noro in about 24 hours.
01:23Yeah.
01:23Look out trading post lounge.
01:25It's coming your way.
01:26Get from the sprinkle pit.
01:28Oh.
01:28Well, listen.
01:29Listen, I said yesterday, they may be pulling me back in.
01:34Mm-hmm.
01:35I am aware that it is the Royals.
01:39So I don't want to get too overly excited, but that's the sweep.
01:44And that's what you want from your baseball team right now.
01:47Your bats look good.
01:48Your pitching has been, you know, spectacular here.
01:52Andrew Bailey, man.
01:53Gosh, all those questions.
01:54I double asked a question about why he still had a job.
01:56And now look.
01:57You know, guys that you need to heat up are heating up a little bit.
02:02So one of those games, I know Duran was a little aggressive late in the game on a pass ball.
02:07But you're trying to get an extra run.
02:10Chapman comes in and does the Chapman things.
02:12Yep.
02:13You know.
02:13Well, I mean, listen.
02:14You have the pitching.
02:15So you have the defense.
02:18Yep.
02:20And because the rest of the American League is so bad, you're hanging around and a couple games out.
02:27And so you're actually, if you compare this team right now to where they were last season at this time,
02:34I think they have two less wins currently, Curtis, if my math is correct.
02:40It is.
02:41Honestly, it's great that we may actually not have the season be over before Memorial Day.
02:47That's true.
02:48I'm going to throw a little cold water over here.
02:51Go ahead.
02:51Because you're going to see the Twins.
02:53And then after that, you see the Braves.
02:55And that's really the series I'm going to look at.
02:57All right.
02:57Because hopefully you get Garrett Crochet back at some point coming up.
03:01You get Roman Anthony back at some point coming up.
03:04And then you get a better idea of who you actually are.
03:07Because sweeping the Royals is great.
03:10And I hope that this means that they're going to be able to move Duran for something very soon.
03:16But it doesn't really, like, it doesn't save the season to me.
03:19Yeah.
03:20We can ask Sam Kennedy about this when he is on at 9.
03:23But the Crochet news yesterday, to me, the way he was talking about whether or not he's going to need
03:32a rehab start or two
03:33after he is finally able to throw live BP next week was disappointing to me.
03:42Because you may have to wait a while longer than I thought about that.
03:47But I think you're right.
03:50You have got to test yourself against some reasonable teams before we get too overly excited.
03:56I would say, though, like, there's a story out today that Roman Anthony is, quote, frustrated.
04:01And then you actually read the story.
04:03And it's Tracy saying, I think he's frustrated.
04:07Whose story is it?
04:08Mass Live.
04:09Chris Smith.
04:11Chris Smith.
04:11Smitty.
04:13And he said that, so it's not even that Roman Anthony is saying that he's frustrated.
04:17It's the manager surmising that he is frustrated.
04:21So two weeks ago, just as a reminder, Craig Breslow was on this radio station saying, no real issue here.
04:28Should be back soon.
04:29Do you think that Roman should be talking more to the press right now while he's injured?
04:34And saying, like, oh, I really wish I was back out there right now.
04:38I'm doing everything I can.
04:39Like, would that really make a difference to you?
04:40No, it would make a difference to me if the story said that he was frustrated when it wasn't even
04:45that he said he was frustrated.
04:47There was no quote from Roman Anthony saying that he's frustrated.
04:50Saying that he's frustrated.
04:50So it was just the manager saying he's frustrated?
04:52Correct.
04:53Yeah.
04:53But I bet he is frustrated, right?
04:55I mean, I guess maybe that's the manager, you know, seeing him every day could potentially be body language and
05:01how he moves.
05:03Curtis, I feel – are you suggesting that he doesn't care, Roman Anthony?
05:07Not that he doesn't care.
05:08Sounds like him.
05:09What I said is proven to be prescient.
05:12He needs to be 100% to play.
05:15He's soft and he don't care.
05:16We know that about the great Roman.
05:19But I think –
05:20Well, I mean, you mocked it and now this is – we're now, like, literally everybody is on that side
05:24of the street.
05:24No, I don't think everybody – I think you're the only one on the side of the street of him.
05:27Lou Berloni tweeted, thank God for Wiggy when we were discussing this.
05:31That could have been about anything.
05:32Yeah, it could have been anything.
05:33Just thank God for Wiggy for anything.
05:36Wiggy's a great hang.
05:37I get it with Lou.
05:38He makes a lot of money off the red.
05:39I got – you know, Lou and I, we go way back.
05:42I mean, you know, we're both baseball heads, so it could be –
05:44Wiggy teaches me a lot during breaks.
05:46Yeah, I mean –
05:47He's just teaching me about 80s action movies.
05:49Yeah, that could have been.
05:49It could have been like, damn, thank God for Wiggy.
05:51And he's, you know, reminding me of how good the Predator movie was.
05:54Far be it for me.
05:54Far be it for me, Wigs.
05:55It's a seam head, but it's not a baseball head.
05:58I need clarification on this.
05:59Do you have beef with Lou?
06:01No, not at all.
06:01I love Lou.
06:02Okay, you brought it up.
06:04No, I'm saying that –
06:05Sounds like Lou caught a stray.
06:06We didn't bring it up.
06:06You brought it up.
06:07I'm saying that from that morning where it was clear to me that this was going to be a protracted
06:13issue.
06:14Everybody said nothing to see here.
06:15Now we're two weeks later, and we're literally in the exact same spot.
06:18Sounds like you don't like Lou.
06:20But you've got to understand.
06:21I mean, maybe this is – I can't – I'm just giving my side of the street here.
06:25What side of the street?
06:27As a former athlete.
06:28Lou's side of the street.
06:29Oh, 609.
06:31No, I mean, just – who's dealt with injuries.
06:34Yes.
06:34Right?
06:35Right.
06:35Maybe he's doing everything and he can, and there's no, like, structural damage.
06:40There's no ligament damage.
06:42But the pain is just something that he's not – when you start to think, like, all right, he don't
06:48care and he's soft.
06:49He got his money.
06:50Two things I never said.
06:51I mean, I did say soft.
06:53Yeah.
06:53I didn't say he didn't care.
06:53Yeah.
06:54You said he's soft, like, four times.
06:56Yeah.
06:57Oh, I said I didn't – I never said he didn't care.
06:59Well, wasn't that the conversation we were just having with Dick Tracy about him saying that he's walking – he's
07:07frustrated, right?
07:09And then he's – you said, well, he didn't say that, so –
07:12Right.
07:12I said the story was misleading.
07:14So, if you don't think he's frustrated, then maybe you feel like, all right, he doesn't really care because he's
07:20not out there playing.
07:21Why isn't he talking?
07:22If somebody was hurt, they'd be like, I want to get back out there.
07:25I just think that the injury point –
07:27Just to go over, Meggo asked if I wanted him to be talking more because of my reaction to the
07:31story, and I just said that the headline says Roman Anthony's frustrated, and in the story it doesn't say that
07:36he's frustrated.
07:36Okay, I get that.
07:37Yeah, it's like a secondhand reading of the freshman.
07:39Let me ask this simple question, yes or no.
07:42Do you think that he could be out there playing?
07:46Yes.
07:47All right.
07:49So, look, if this was an NBA player, and you heard it was a pain tolerance thing, but there was
07:56no structural risk, and they were opting not to play right now because it was a pain tolerance thing, how
08:03do you think people would talk about it?
08:04Well, I think –
08:05They would say, these guys never play.
08:07They sit out so many games.
08:09I think we know because we talked about it with regard to Jason Tatum.
08:12Ooh, that was like a risk thing, though, in my opinion.
08:15That was like a risk thing.
08:17It was?
08:17Yeah.
08:17I thought it was just a little soreness in the –
08:21First of all, tightness is different.
08:23A little boo-boo tightness in the knee area for Jason Tatum.
08:26I never, never, never categorized it that way.
08:28There was concern that maybe he could blow out that Achilles, the opposite Achilles.
08:32Oh, jeez.
08:33Well, I wasn't aware that somebody had informed him of that concern that he could blow out the other Achilles.
08:40Well, that's when you have calf tightness.
08:44Now, Wiggy's a doctor in case you're wondering.
08:46I mean, think about all the guys who blow out their Achilles and prior to –
08:49There's a lot of them.
08:50So then why did he play in the regular season?
08:51Prior to them blowing it out, they've had some calf tightness.
08:54I know, but why did he play at all?
08:56Because the other leg was compensating for the leg that he was working coming back.
09:01I mean, if it was the regular season with Jason Tatum, like, say he came back midway through the regular
09:06season,
09:08we expect that at some point in time he would deal with some type of issue
09:12just because he's compensating – basically his whole body is compensating for the injured leg,
09:18and there'd be some time he would need because he would be dealing with something.
09:22And we talked about this.
09:24Unfortunately, maybe that little bit of rest that he needed to take a couple games off after his comeback,
09:31happened to be game seven of the first round of the playoffs.
09:36Buzzard's luck.
09:37Well, listen, there –
09:39I don't know what buzzard's luck means.
09:41Yeah, what does that mean?
09:42What does that mean?
09:43Is that a common thing?
09:44Yeah, is that –
09:45I think I've heard it.
09:46I don't know.
09:46Maybe just in Dover.
09:47Well, it's a sweep.
09:49And so I, for one, would like to celebrate that part of it and talk about that part of it
09:55this morning.
09:55Right.
09:56And find out from Sam Kennedy where this team is on what they are or aren't going to do.
10:04Are they going to find a way to add when it comes to the offense,
10:08or is Ken Rosenthal basically correct when he speaks on behalf of the organization
10:15and says there are two choices?
10:17One is Stan Pat and one is Sel.
10:20So –
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