00:00the red socks are sucking me right back in gotcha and it's like honestly the to give you an analogy
00:09that you'll appreciate for me it's like telling myself over and over and over again i'm not gonna
00:16go to van lewin and then i walk by and van lewin has you know ras some new raspberry shortbread
00:23ice cream flavor and i am i am right back in there i am right back at it this is
00:27why i can't
00:28keep nutella in my house yeah it's like if it's there and it looks good i'm gonna i'm gonna
00:34participate and that's how i feel about the red socks sweep you you just you just talked about
00:38it during the feed sweep of the series that is six in a row for the first time this season
00:44and that's only two away from a run by the way right uh and and they are two uh measly
00:54two and a
00:55half games out of a playoff spot right so i i don't know i don't know where you are this
01:01morning
01:01i phones open text machine working like what how can you not how can you how can you not
01:11have some belief in in the boston red socks at this point and yesterday to finish that thing up
01:18you get a two-run jack from the durbinator right who who is back on on or is on fire
01:26for the first
01:27for the first time last last month or whatever it's been three weeks and so i don't know i you
01:33have you have to have some faith in this red socks team yeah until they come back to fenway park
01:37right
01:37i mean like i don't want to pour cold water on it it's awesome they're two and a half games
01:42back from
01:42the wild card spot as i just said in the feed like there are a couple teams sitting in front
01:48of them
01:48it's kind of a crowded field right there but there is this looming thing of this road trip is great
01:55what happens when they come back home where i think they're still 10 games under 500 at home at
02:01fenway park which is crazy right and we haven't really gotten as much into what we talked about
02:08yesterday with craig breslow which is that you they they sent roman anthony away and his reasoning for
02:14that is that the clubhouse the training room was too crowded at fenway park like do we need to sage
02:21fenway park for this particular group of red socks players what's going on there i we you i think it
02:26was you greg yesterday asked brez bought that and he said if he had the answer to that you know
02:30he
02:30would he would know exactly what the hell was going on at home i think it's one of these things
02:35where
02:35if you're the manager if you're brez bought and you got to figure out okay what's the you know
02:40obviously looking at every little detail and get these guys to understand you should be able to play
02:45the same way on the road it's about pitching it's about hitting the baseball but i think more so when
02:50i when i look at this red socks team luckily the way the rest of the american league looks and
02:55kind
02:55of is playing it puts you in this position to be right where you you are you are now i
03:00mean i know
03:00they say you sucked back then but i think it's going to be all season long where you're going to
03:05be
03:05you know right there in the mix so if you're the boston red socks for me the biggest thing is
03:10you know when the trade deadline comes i i ultimately continue to think that they are going to be major
03:15buyers well you just swept the team that is leading their division so case in point right now and they
03:21have three more wins than you do or whatever the white socks do so yeah you're right about like it's
03:26you're not you're not that far out of it at two and a half games and i cannot believe i'm
03:33saying it
03:33because it was three weeks ago when we wanted everybody shipped off to angola and you wanted
03:41the entire organization shut down and the park moved to new hampshire or what like whatever and
03:48here we are right sitting here this morning and they're in it they are absolutely in it and it's
03:54hard to deny that so can i bitch for a second yeah okay because i've been looking at some of
04:00the
04:00feedback about the red socks talk and it's like oh you guys were saying this and that about the red
04:06socks you wanted them shipped out of town you were over them three weeks ago yeah like they sucked they
04:12sucked for a huge part of the season and now they're finally doing what we asked them to do for
04:18months
04:18literal months which is go for a run have some momentum string together some semblance of anything
04:27and so yeah they are so reserve the right to change your mind like do you want us to sit
04:32here
04:32when the team is doing well and be totally fraudulent and sit here and be like oh no we still
04:38hate them
04:38nothing has changed right yeah there is a question of is this big picture what is best for the
04:44organization of craig breslow is going to stick around if he's going to be making the moves at the
04:48trade deadline and then what happens if you go into a lockout and it's still craig breslow's organization
04:52but you have to recognize when someone like caleb durbin has turned it around and that's a craig
04:57breslow guy don't read the comments i've told you that before yeah don't do it i said that to you
05:03i
05:03said that i said it over the radio to jaron duran near run i would not call it a full
05:10run because we
05:10define that as eight games so this is six games in a row for the boston red socks but a
05:16sweep and hard
05:18to deny that whatever is going on over there is different than it was for the first uh couple
05:23of months of the season for during the alex cora era so i i i guess we're gonna have to
05:29i know we
05:30got to get to your lead week but i i i guess we're gonna have to give some credit at
05:33some point to chad
05:34tracy like i yeah i think so i think you definitely give him some credit i mean he's done what
05:40he's done
05:41without garrett crochet and so i'll leave the roman anthony discussion off the table but no that's
05:47part of it though but trevor story's part of it yeah so there are a number you know there are
05:52a
05:52number of guys when you say with you know when you're talking about uh tracy and like what he
05:58inherited and who he didn't have you got to kind of give him some credit for where he's able to
06:03have
06:03this team right now yeah um now i will say that i heard a caller bring this up yesterday
06:10during jones and keith and it was very interesting to me you can go back to kyle body
06:18departing fenway park and look at this red socks team's record since then okay and take notice of how
06:25take notice of how good it is um so there are some jones was poo-pooing it a bit um
06:33but
06:34i i there are some that are looking and saying and the argument is that there's still driveline
06:43nerds around the ballpark whatever but i think you can you can certainly if the guy who is running the
06:50whole thing right uh is no longer there then maybe one can look at that and say that's been a
06:57positive
06:57for this red sox well it's quite a coincidence that he that he's totally divested from the
07:04organization and all of a sudden guys like caleb durbin who are now going to his hitting coach and
07:09wall fam that he got from carlos nevaez are hitting eight home runs since june 10th yeah like i understand
07:17i went in talking to people who are with the team every day they're like this kyle body guy he
07:24was with
07:24the team maybe a week or two a year it's not like he was somebody who was around fenway park
07:29all the
07:29time but maybe it's an instance of kind of cutting off the head of the snake and now the driveline
07:36people there their way isn't the only way right maybe that's the change maybe they're doing what they
07:41should be doing which is passing along a spreadsheet right and going here's some numbers right do with
07:48them what you want gotcha like use them however you want to use them which is the way analytics
07:54should be used exactly you know so maybe that's what's finally going on and give brez bot credit
07:59because brez bot remember when we always talked about driveline driveline driveline and he kind of
08:05said that jokingly yesterday he loves it but that's for me but everybody made it sound like it was him
08:11and if he's willing to say we're going to move on from the guy who created drive driveline came in
08:16before brez no no no but you know but you know what i'm saying driveline analytics that's a john
08:21henry thing like right but brez bot is willing to say to john hey listen we like you said great
08:27we just need to have it but we still got to let these guys feel it in their gut we
08:32still got to
08:33let the the the the hitting coaches you know coach them in a specific way yes let guys who have
08:39been
08:39playing baseball their entire lives hit swing at the balls they want to swing at right and uh let them
08:46hit the ball the way they want to hit it as opposed to this you know pull in the air
08:51right
08:52constant you know focus like like let them hit the baseball the way they want to and doesn't it show
08:57that they're willing to do that if they if they're able to move on from a guy like this yeah
09:02yeah you
09:03give brez low credit if he's the one who behind the scenes is saying yeah this way hasn't been working
09:08we got to make a change we just don't know that now 508 texter on the subaru of new england
09:13text line
09:13says congratulations to the red sox they're the best of the crappy teams okay and i understand that
09:19but they're also two and a half games out of a playoff spot and what crappy teams are no crappy
09:26teams that's where they sit right now two and a half games out right which i did not believe they
09:31would be at in advance of the of the all-star break so he it is what it is like
09:37you got to
09:38acknowledge it you have to and you know that that's helping them and there's nothing wrong with that
09:42the the way that the league shape is shaping up this year is that they're not they're on a lot
09:47of good teams and so you have to take advantage of that right and if you're unwilling to if you're
09:52able to do that like the red sox are then you know what this is the way the league is
09:56this year
09:56you just swept the team that is leading their division right so i mean and then you sweep the
10:03yankees who are second in your division so it's like it did it's not like they're a i and i
10:08and i think
10:09we've we've said this all year long they're better than what their record is they just haven't been
10:16able to show that consistently and i think so when they beat good teams you go oh it's not like
10:21you
10:21know lightning in a bottle it's a they're playing well and they're a good baseball team and they're
10:26able to do the things that they need to do to beat those good baseball teams
10:29you
10:29you
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