00:00the great rob bradford who uh after this weekend as i said they seemed like a competent baseball
00:05team for the first time in a long time you got to see some offense out there uh yesterday obviously
00:10didn't go the way we wanted it to uh pitching wise but did you see anything or are you are
00:17are you noticing anything from this weekend can you take anything from them winning a series
00:21at home which is such a rarity kind of kind of better as i said water in a desert baby
00:28yeah so first of all they were very fortunate that scotland descended upon fenway yesterday because
00:36they lost and the same sort of stuff popped up and this is the problem that you can't win three
00:42in a
00:42row that you can't get any sort of momentum and and yeah i think friday and saturday we're steps in
00:47the
00:47right direction certainly at home and like oh my goodness you can hit the ball over the wall against
00:53the wall you can take advantage of fenway park but then as quickly as it comes it leaves and that's
00:58how it's been across the board i think after friday i looked at the numbers that they had won in
01:04the
01:05barely the in the in the last 10 games in the previous uh i'm sorry in the previous eight games
01:11at fenway park they had scored a combined 10 runs in the following game in other words they don't score
01:17after they win at fenway now they did score but then the next day they didn't once again the biggest
01:23thing guys here is they they are going to get a little bit better offensively sedan rafiela is in
01:29wilson contraris they should be all-stars only one of them might probably will be but at the at the
01:35end
01:35of the day you buried yourself in such a hole here you still have a goal but gets good competition
01:41you have some of this pitching that had been so so good taking a little bit of a turn here
01:46it's it's
01:47just i said it before like you get to denver and i think that's a week from uh a week
01:53from today a
01:54week from today you'll have a better idea you still have to go on a heater and they haven't shown
01:59the
02:00ability to go on the kind of heater that they really need right now never not once all season long
02:04brad foe hey no what do you make of the uh the report that you know john henry is omnipresent
02:09he is
02:10everywhere he's uh he wants to see him be seen he was at the most recent uh you know away
02:16series
02:16against the yankees uh very visible um you know and trying to figure out why that why that might be
02:23could you have any theories as to why maybe john henry is showing his face more uh this year maybe
02:28than he has in in recent years yeah you know you go back to the whole the whole report about
02:34them
02:34making trades or whatever it was i mean that you know i do think that was an owner's meanings things
02:38which by the way shouldn't be discounted because a year ago today they make the devers trade
02:45and that all started at the owners meetings with a conversation between owners now i think the
02:51difference here is that you're right i mean john henry has been around and normally i would say
02:56no big deal poo poo it whatever it is he can go wherever he wants but he was around a
03:02lot when
03:03before the bloodbath in baltimore happened um and i don't know if one led to the other but he was
03:09around a lot he was around a ton so we can't discount anything and i do believe when ortiz
03:16says hey john henry isn't happy heard it from other people as well you know that john henry is like
03:21you
03:22could say oh he's not paying attention he is paying attention to this and and if you're john henry and
03:27you want another kick uh you know kick across the hindsight about how urgent this should be it's not a
03:36parade like it was when the dodgers people came to town it is the all-star voting that came out
03:41today
03:42apathy has crept in way way too much with this team with this organization they do not they have one
03:48player one player who finished in the top 10 in voting that was unheard of back not too long ago
03:58one player i mean if they only list the top 10 for everybody but outfielders and so only one red
04:06sox player was listed among american league vote getters and that was wilson contreras who i think
04:11was six in first baseman and i don't think he's gonna make it so i think that that is should
04:17petrify
04:18john henry because what that brings in is the a word apathy i just wish he if he's there why
04:25can't he
04:26say that he's upset why can't he speak i know he's so i know he's bad at it and i
04:31know people will
04:31twist his words but that's what happens just get over the fact that people will take what you say
04:37and they'll run with it one way or the other but at least it shows that you're showing your face
04:41and
04:41that you care i think a lot of fans would just like to hear him say this is unacceptable yeah
04:46of
04:46course i mean we've we've said this before that yeah absolutely he should talk absolutely that would be
04:52the best thing for a lot of different reasons for us and for him yeah but he's just reached this
04:57point in his life where he's like nope not gonna do it not gonna do it it's not worth my
05:02time you know
05:03i'd rather be caught on camera i'd rather i have david ortiz say something or i'd rather it get passed
05:10through you know other channels whatever it is but i'm just not gonna do it and i think that you
05:17know
05:17as frustrating as for us i think we just gotta accept it and get our head around it because
05:21that's just who he is he's not john mendleton of the phillies he's not some of these other owners
05:27and that's unfortunate but it is what it is now bradfolk contreras 37 home run pace having a great year
05:34they've got him for two more years right yeah do you think they believe he's a foundational piece
05:39here for at least you know the duration of that contract or will they trade him or ask him to
05:43accept
05:43i don't i mean you never say never but they shouldn't trade him ken because i think he's
05:49part of the solution and it's it's not only because he has he's hitting home runs which no
05:53one's hitting home runs it's because he represents everything that they they really really need they
05:59need that veteran presence they need that clubhouse the guy they need the guy who as he's running
06:04to first is yelling into the dugout but more importantly they need the guy who can play his
06:09strengths play to fenway park he has the most hits of any player in major league baseball most
06:16pole side hits of any hitter in major league baseball at his home park that's at fenway so
06:22that tells you that he is a great fit for here he's a great fit playing wise and by the
06:27way he's
06:27he's one of the best defensive first baseman which for the last few years we've been saying how come
06:32you can't get one of those everything everything now will he take a downturn probably but you know you
06:38can't just keep chasing what you think you want when you already have it right in front of you
06:43he's part of the solution not part of the problem all right so there was a interesting powwow with
06:49roman anthony in the media the other day you were you were you uh in that scrum when he was
06:53talking
06:53about his injury i was i was not i was uh over the texas ranger side i was not aware
06:59that the scrum but i
06:59did talk to roman a little bit later to make sure that he took a picture with his baseballs and
07:03boring
07:04sure of course yeah you got to get the marketing out there that was more important so but but he
07:09did
07:09say something interesting i mean he was talking about his injury and saying that it you know usually
07:14that injury could take anywhere from six to eight weeks and and i believe somebody may have said well
07:18you're at six weeks right now and he's like oh well i mean let me just clarify it could be
07:22up to
07:2310 weeks what did you what did you make of his comments yeah i think alex spirit wrote a really
07:28good
07:28story talk today talking to a hand specialist who said this is a very very unique injury and i think
07:34roman's been done his best to articulate exactly what the injury is so you never put timelines on
07:41this we've said this before it's just stupid to put timelines on and what happened it's not as bad
07:46as saying it's not a tear but it's not that far off because once you put the timeline on once
07:51you
07:51say it's not a tear you get the crosshairs put on you once you put a timeline on it like
07:56you did
07:56you get the crosshairs put on you it is what it is like if he's saying that he's swinging a
08:01bat
08:01and it still feels discomfort and you can't have surgery and you and a cortisone shot isn't helping
08:08science and math would suggest that there's not a lot of other avenues you can go down other than
08:13just waiting it out that's unfortunate we would all want to see him play we all want answers but to
08:19your point like even in that scrum and i obviously heard the scrum like he didn't have any answers like
08:24there's nothing more that he can say other than hey you know what it's like middle-aged man still
08:29working on it does he do anything pre-game like is he yeah okay yeah he goes out he's actually
08:34been
08:35out uh he's actually been doing a fielding practice out there yeah okay and and i'm sorry is that his
08:41throwing hand that yeah throwing hand yeah yeah and he's is he throwing the ball around uh well i don't
08:48know i so i saw him out there yesterday i didn't see him throwing but i know that you know
08:53i put up some
08:53video of him throwing it was right around the time when i talked to him so a couple weeks ago
08:57yeah
08:58and i felt like and i said at the time it didn't look quite right and which makes sense because
09:04you
09:04know it's you still need that finger to throw the ball yeah but yeah he's i i don't think i
09:10don't
09:10think he's he's airing it out uh right now because of the injury yeah because it i mean obviously you
09:16know hitting a ball that's a lot more i mean that's a lot harder on your hand than at your
09:21own pace or
09:22however you want to throw it you know being able to do it at whatever strength yeah i wouldn't even
09:26shake people's hands man yeah i see him shaking hands i'm like oh yeah i cringe i i remember xander
09:32bogart's hurt his wrist he was coming back from the all-star game one year and he shook someone's
09:38hand at the airport and he hurt his wrist doing it like that's weird okay so he's shaking people's
09:43hands that's weird well i don't know i see i see i mean he's being nice he's a nice guy
09:48yeah but
09:49it's a finger that does seem really i don't know like you got to put up a pole which is
09:54better for
09:54the finger a fist pound or a handshake i don't know i guess so good yeah i mean but that's
09:59that
09:59that is wild i mean at least we know that he's throwing the ball a little bit that's a good
10:03sign
10:03um that he's you know doing a super cool handshake that's definitely strange let's let's drop this
10:09pump the brakes i don't know if it's super cool right it's the cool guy shake the ones that i
10:13can
10:13never pull off all right well rob bradford great stuff um we uh i mean as i said at least
10:19we got a
10:19weekend of entertaining baseball so good i know that part was good it felt normal real quick let me
10:24just before you go of course let me before you go 93 games left to play all right you got
10:29roman
10:29anthony trevor story uh garrett crochet roma gonzalez sunny great still on injured they can come back
10:36you're only five games out of the wild card brad foe like is is is is there i mean is
10:43there any hope
10:43that uh this team can still uh can still do it yeah man like consider all those things yeah it's
10:49like
10:50honestly it said it's it's one of these things and it's it's frustrating because it's a lot of people
10:56think hey they don't deserve this but it is what it is you're you're playing to the field and and
11:01really all it takes is the type of win streak which they actually rattled off last year and you know
11:08whether you're talking about a week a week and a half of games but the problem is that they haven't
11:13shown the ability to do that in any capacity so when you haven't done it by this point it's really
11:19hard to see them doing it especially when you don't have some of those guys coming back to really help
11:24you so yeah yes to answer your question they they're still in it but hey so are the so is
11:31every
11:31other team but one in the american league that doesn't mean they should trade for someone right
11:36now at the deadline because right now that isn't worth it all right rob bradford great stuff we will
11:41have you on a gun very soon hopefully they'll continue this nice little streak against uh against
11:46the blue jays that would be good that would be nice i'll be listening you guys great i really look
11:51for this interview and um and uh yeah it's you guys doing some great stuff some great interviews
11:56driving the conversation and uh and every time you do an interview i see someone on the street and
12:01yell at them say hey great interview excellent well cat's gonna be on with us from the tartan army here
12:05in just a few so i can't i'm looking forward to that any all the i'll take all the scots
12:09i can get
12:09on this station right now all right uh brad tell dad phone we said hello by the way oh are
12:14you kidding me
12:15he's probably texted in a million times if he knew how to text oh good all right we'll talk to
12:19you soon
12:20thanks man
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