00:00First of all, they start off, you got back-to-backers, you're up two, you're like, all right, great.
00:07I leave the Red Sox, they're in the game, and then I come back, it was 7-4 or whatever.
00:13So then they get that rally going in the ninth, and absolutely cannot advance a runner home when you got
00:24them on base.
00:25It is just so utterly frustrating, Curtis.
00:28Well, that was Curtis' boy, the reliever he wanted to keep here instead.
00:33Wasn't that the guy Guerrero you were talking about?
00:34Yeah.
00:36By the way, how tall is he?
00:38He's tall.
00:38Is he like seven feet tall, Guerrero?
00:41That's the Red Sox team that Wiggy thinks is good, so if we want to talk about baseball acumen.
00:45It was 5-4, next to you, boom, 7-4.
00:49I mean, it's just very frustrating.
00:51They're 8-18 at home.
00:52They played 26 games.
00:54Do you know if the 2018 Red Sox lost 24 games at Fenway Park over the course of the entire
01:00season?
01:01They are nine games under .500, which they have not been since 2022, Curtis.
01:09They just suck.
01:10And I find the whole thing to just be loathsome.
01:12I find the organization, the way that they talk to them.
01:16By the way, Lou yesterday is in a tough spot because whether it's where Mago does some work with the
01:23Celtics
01:23or where Lou works to do the Red Sox, I am so fed up with the ownerships in this town
01:29that are so childish as it pertains to criticism.
01:33Like, let people be honest about your team.
01:37They're watching the same thing we're watching.
01:39And Lou is brilliant when it comes to understanding baseball.
01:43Like, the fact that these people are hamstrung at Nessun to talk honestly about the car crash we watch every
01:51night
01:51is such an indictment on John Henry and Sam Kennedy and Tom Werner.
01:56Tom Werner, who made his billions off Roseanne and TV, you should understand how TV works.
02:02Lou was excellent on the show yesterday.
02:05He was awesome, but when I asked him about Breslow, I thought that was revealing.
02:10Yeah.
02:11I can't bite the hand that feeds you, man.
02:12No, but he was pretty – I liked the way he said it.
02:15You know, he said, I don't like talking about other people's jobs.
02:19Right, right.
02:19But there has to be some improvement here.
02:23No, I'm kidding.
02:24There has to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
02:26So it's awful.
02:27MLB Insider, I don't know if you guys saw this, Bob Nightingale noted that because they're 8-18,
02:33as somebody just said.
02:34Curtis just said, at home, they are on pace to have the worst home record at Fenway Park
02:42in a full season since 1932.
02:45Wow.
02:46How was that year, Craig?
02:47I mean, Curtis, I was young.
02:49I don't remember much.
02:50I don't – they are just –
02:52Thanks, thanks.
02:52And Lou brought up a great point yesterday, which I was thinking about last night watching
02:57that game, where he was talking about if you are indeed going to be on the market and you
03:03believe this is a playoff team, then you're going to pay a high – a really high price
03:09up until trade deadline time for what you want to get.
03:12Well, that also means that if you can make a decision about this season and say goodbye
03:19to it, you're going to receive an awful lot of value for what you have.
03:25Yeah.
03:26Why don't they just call Noah Kahan and have him just perform nightly during the game,
03:31trade everybody, and win-win?
03:33Well, it's probably flush the toilet time on this team, like, and then move on from
03:36players.
03:37But see, they're not going to – they're never going to make that decision.
03:42Like, they're not going to make the decision about flush the toilet time, as you called
03:47it, until it's way too late to get value.
03:50They're only three games out in the loss column of a wild card wigs.
03:54Do you think they really look at it that way, though, Curtis?
03:56No.
03:56I pray they don't.
03:57Do you think that, seriously, that there is a part of them that goes, well, if we can
04:02eek by with that final wild card spot because the AL is so bad across the board, like, we
04:10can at least keep a little bit semblance of engagement from the fans or at least say we
04:16made the postseason?
04:17I think you could, if you knew your team, could put together a series of wins where
04:24you win a few series back-to-back-to-back.
04:27And I don't think they're able to do that.
04:29Back-to-back series wins?
04:30Yeah.
04:31They couldn't even win against the Twins.
04:34We're talking about series wins.
04:36They couldn't win a game against the team that is basically like the mirror image of
04:41them in the Central Division.
04:42That's why I said, that's why when you asked the question, I said no, because I don't
04:46believe they think that they can do that.
04:49So the answer to your question is no, because I don't think they can look at it and go, all
04:54right, we are kind of like, you know, treading water in this area and we can win a couple
05:01series in a row.
05:02I think they believe they can't do that.
05:04So that's why they're probably at the point where it's like, yeah, there's no need to
05:07kind of tread water because as soon as we get to all the ends, we're just going to
05:11drown.
05:11What if they listened to Wiggy's lead where they were like 6-10 against good teams, but
05:15in two run games, they were 4-3 and they were 3-2?
05:18If you look at it, there are two things that this team can't do.
05:21They can't keep a lead.
05:23No, they can't win.
05:24And they can't.
05:24They had a lead last night, 2-0, like you said.
05:27Unfortunately, the game's 9-inning.
05:28I understand.
05:29It was a little bit of Kenny Atkinson-ish.
05:32Well, that's why I said they can't keep a lead.
05:34James Harden just tweeted the Red Sox are the better team.
05:37And they can't come back from a lead, I mean, when they're down 3-0.
05:41Yeah, how about in the ninth?
05:42Or down by three runs.
05:43How about bottom of the ninth, you're down by a run, and you got guys on base.
05:48Can you swing the bat to try to make contact with the baseball?
05:51Absolutely not.
05:51It's too much to ask.
05:52Or do you need to go down looking?
05:54Like, swing the baseball bat.
05:57Who was that, Monasterio?
05:58Yes.
05:59Yeah, no.
05:59And take the glasses off.
06:01Like, what's with the glasses?
06:02They're not helping.
06:04He needs those to see.
06:05He needs the LASIK.
06:07I mean, are those safety goggles?
06:09Or does he need them to see?
06:11Like, I don't...
06:12But, like, swing...
06:14Swing the bat.
06:15So...
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