00:00Breslau can't communicate and needs an interpreter inside the organization.
00:04He's incapable of talking to other people that do the same type of job
00:09and same work in the same industry that he works in.
00:13He's having a hard time getting across what it is that he wants to do
00:16or intends to do or any of it.
00:20You see him, he just thinks he must be electric.
00:22He just looks like a dude.
00:24He just says, hey, man, this guy's a fun guy.
00:26Looks like a complete dork.
00:29I also think that there's something else that has already been put out there
00:36that I think is a really important tidbit.
00:41And I give credit to Chris Gasper for picking up on this
00:45because I heard him mention this over the weekend.
00:48And I think the fact that this is out there about the Red Sox tells you a little something,
00:53and that is that the internal projections for this team were in the mid-90s.
01:01This is a story that was now published a full month ago by Sean McAdam and Chris Cotillo.
01:06And I think we actually read parts of it after the Cora firing.
01:10The headline was what we're hearing on why the Red Sox fired Alex Cora
01:13and the fallout of the shocking news.
01:15They wrote in that story, while some in the front office viewed the 2026 Red Sox
01:22and their potentially elite pitching staff to have the potential for a win total in the mid-90s,
01:30coaches and players quietly entered the year with lower expectations
01:35because of the offensive deficiencies on the roster.
01:39A further disconnect between the organization's data models
01:42and the eye test related to the logjam of outfield and designated hitter-type players.
01:51How do you get the info that the internal projections are in the mid-90s?
01:55You could have gotten it from the coaches.
01:57But it's out there now.
01:58And I think that being out there tells you that ownership must look at this and say,
02:05how do you project that we're going to be in the mid-90s?
02:09And tell me is the boss, right?
02:10It's not John Henry's job to figure out how many wins the team is going to have
02:14or to figure out who the best players are with the resources that are given to the GM.
02:20Again, it's not enough.
02:20He doesn't spend enough.
02:22That part he is to blame.
02:23But if he's in charge of a team, he owns the thing,
02:26and the guy is telling him, hey, I'm in charge of baseball, we're good.
02:29This team's going to win in the mid-90s.
02:30And then you see this slop that's out there every day for the last two months.
02:36Don't you say, oh, damn, I hired a guy who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
02:40This guy's an idiot.
02:42And he's full of it.
02:43And if he really believes that we were going to be in the mid-90s,
02:47then he does not know what he's looking at, and he doesn't know how to do this job.
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