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WEEI Red Sox Insider Rob Bradford joins Rich, Ken, and Ted to discuss injury updates, Chad Tracy’s performance since taking over as interim manager, and the chances of Fenway getting an All Star game in the near future.
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00:00and the great rob bradford he is live at the all-star game right now and uh rob you know
00:05this
00:05roman anthony situation him getting sent down to basically the sahara desert in the middle of july
00:11going down to florida to rehab away from the team um you know we we talked to chris catillo and
00:18sean
00:18mcadam on one of his podcasts it almost sounded like i don't want to say it was punitive but it
00:24was just a way like all right you go deal with it down there we're gonna do what we're doing
00:28up here
00:29what's your take on what's happening with roman anthony why the team sent him away yeah i mean
00:33you ever see rocky four you ever see either go to siberia to train like so you got to get
00:38away you
00:39got to get away you know you got the log of the back or maybe if you want to modernize
00:45it a little
00:45bit creed when he goes to the desert you know in that movie sure uh where he's pulling a tire
00:50through
00:50uh joshua tree national park or whatever um now i don't think that there's a twin peaks in siberia
00:56i'm not positive you know that there is one in fort myers um as ken can attest oh they're the
01:03best
01:03but but but you know i think and all i can think of with the traders room thing is those
01:09old tubs
01:10the hot tubs used to be like those old metal tubs ken did you have like when you come on
01:15yes high
01:15school high school it's like you're lining up for for to get in that tub that if you're if you're
01:21a sore get in the tub oh well is that good i don't know but it's like a hot tub
01:25in a metal basket
01:27so anyway my my point is is that i i don't really think that this was punitive i think that
01:33this was
01:34to get this guy away is going to be the best thing now there's there's an element of and i
01:40kind of joke
01:41about isolating a little bit from you know from everything else that's going on and you know i think
01:47that chad tracy said that's all you know media asking i'm like i went up to chad i'm like well
01:52i apologize for sending realman anthony to fort myers i don't think he did it on the media other
01:57than my podcast so i'm sorry to put the pressure on the kid but but but i don't you know
02:02i just think
02:02that all of it all of it is just we gotta get this guy away and and what it also
02:09tells me is that
02:11they don't think they're not counting on him anytime soon because if you're counting on him anytime soon
02:16you're prioritizing him on the trainer's table yeah aren't you great right great point yeah
02:21so so and that's a that's an issue too going into the trade deadline so you can't you don't know
02:27what
02:27you have with roman anthony if you don't think you have what you have roman anthony that's a problem
02:32roman anthony was supposed to be what james wood is for the washington national this guy who's landing
02:37at the all-star break hitting lead off it with 23 home runs and you don't have that you don't
02:42even
02:42know when he's going to be back so to answer your question i just think that they thought the best
02:47course of action just basically to get this guy on the proper track for all of it for all the
02:53crowd
02:53for all the noise for all of it then just get him down and isolated in fort myers where they
02:59do have
02:59by the way a ton of training tables well that being said rob i want you to give me your
03:04best guess i
03:05know you don't know exactly but who give me the order of return of these four guys roman anthony
03:10marcella meyer garrett crochet trevor story who's back first who's back latest uh i will go story
03:17first meyer second anthony third crochet fourth okay any possibility that crochet doesn't come back
03:26this season yeah i mean yeah yeah i mean and now listen listen i say that i haven't talked to
03:32him
03:32in the last week or so all i know is that when we last saw him i don't think that
03:38he was throwing
03:38hardly at all if any um and now we're sitting here you know you're what three months or three
03:45months away from when it was no big deal in april it's clearly a big deal it's a shoulder issue
03:51you
03:51aren't throwing um so all of that lines up to say he has to ramp back up even if he
03:56started today
03:57so yeah i mean i think this and also guys let's be honest like you don't want to push that
04:03guy no
04:03matter where you are in the standing you don't want to have to have that guy do something stupid
04:07just to make a run at it especially when you actually have pitching pitching is part of the
04:12solution not part of the problem let me ask you this just because it's out there there's been talk
04:18about that roman anthony was having too much of a good time here in boston have you heard anything
04:22about that no okay i heard i've heard that rumors i heard those rumors but all i know is this
04:29let's
04:29listen all i can tell you is that like when i see the guy he shows up he's worked and
04:34like and
04:35that's the weird thing because we would go out to the field and in the days leading up to when
04:41he
04:41was sent down he was you know he was out fielding all the time and he looked normal and i
04:47think that
04:47the day that is a podcast he's like yeah i can do everything except finish swinging a bat and that
04:53was the bizarre thing but i don't i know that's an easy narrative and especially for a 22 year old
04:58kid who is going to go out let's be honest like he's going to go out but it's not like
05:02he's showing
05:03up i've seen players show up an hour before when they're supposed to or you know like in spring
05:08training you know oh no i should say two hours after they're supposed to like that wasn't roman
05:13to me i i don't really buy that too too much hey bradfo what do you think uh the impact
05:18chad
05:19tracy's had on this team like what's his imprint been in your opinion so far i think the imprint he's
05:24had is just like stepping back and taking things as they come and handling it really really well i
05:32know that that's sort of a big broad sort of analysis but that's what he's done he hasn't tried
05:37to force anything he hasn't tried to do a bobby valentine and and reinvent the wheel and do 180
05:42degrees like he's like okay you know i'm just gonna like put out the fires i'm gonna do whatever
05:48i have to do i think he's managed a good game he's done a good job in that respect he
05:54showed he's
05:54a major league manager but i just think more importantly we've talked about this guy is that
05:59he's able to just diffuse anything yeah he's able to there's been stuff could come at him
06:04and it's not it's not just like he's like i'm not going to talk about it or i'm not going
06:09to just
06:09fluff it off this stuff like like if there was if he felt like somebody was throwing at his players
06:16he actually said like oh well it was obvious he was throwing at players he didn't back away from
06:20this and i keep coming back to his dad and i do think this is this is a very real
06:26thing his dad was
06:27maybe the best interim i mean put this on your wikipedia page the best interim manager maybe in
06:33the history of baseball he took over 10 games under 500 in 2009 the rockies and goes like 70 and
06:4040
06:40and wins manager of the year i'm not saying that's what chad tracy has done but i do think that
06:45the
06:45advice and the guidance that he's got from a guy who's been there before has absolutely helped him
06:50yeah i can't say enough nice things about him yeah i mean and i've been saying this is that this
06:55is a
06:55team that had every reason to mentally check out throw in the towel they're historically bad
07:01and and and and cases like that you usually have the locker room either uh turn against each other or
07:07just stop caring and he has been able to hold these guys together and have it so they they haven't
07:13given up and they've played their ass off and guys the thing too is that he's done it the right
07:19way in the sense that you know i always say that you don't have to be a leader to be
07:23a leader you
07:23don't have to have a rudy young school speech like get in the middle of the room this is how
07:27we're
07:27going to do things he's taking things as they've come he's done it well they started to win and once
07:33you start to win and once you start to show progress and result then that's when everybody in
07:39that clubhouse listens a little harder respects a little bit more because you can say that he
07:44didn't whispered he had these guys but this is the major league now he's doing the major leagues and
07:49i think that to do it to have success in the major leagues like they had over the last three
07:53weeks
07:54that goes a long way bradford what are the chances fenway park gets an all-star game anytime soon
07:58oh i mean 2000 uh 229 right i mean this is it has to happen i mean everyone keeps talking
08:07about
08:07there's rumblings there's murmurs it has to happen it's just it was such a great event and i know that
08:14they're having in wrigley next year you know assuming you know the lockout doesn't put the big
08:18sad trombone on it but it's it's you know this this makes all the sense in the world they know
08:23this
08:23i don't believe other than maybe las vegas that they're going to say oh we have to have it at
08:28this
08:28new stadium and and it's just been too long i mean this is this is still one of the most
08:33iconic
08:34all-star games there has been so why wouldn't you want to do their perfect anniversary let's go
08:40let's do it um i don't know when they'll announce it i don't know when they'll define it all i
08:45know
08:45is that if they're if they want to do things right that's what they'll do in 2029 uh well all
08:50i
08:50know is that they could have uh it was a it was a very good matter of fact it was
08:54better than i thought
08:54it was going to be a home run derby they need to somehow find a way to shave an hour
08:57off of that thing that it was so long it was a great ending always a critic and it was
09:04a good
09:04how was the netflix i want to know because i like i've obviously like i'm not i don't know i've
09:08typed
09:08in the press like how was the netflix it wasn't good and it's because and it's not for any reason
09:13other than it was like technically bad like the sound was all over the place like will ferrell was
09:19trying to talk to michael buffer and like neither one could hear each other it was it could have been
09:24it left a lot to be desired i do like the new format but they just got to shave some
09:28time off
09:28somehow i mean it really you had to really be patient to get to that amazing ending there rob
09:34radford yeah and and i apologize about their testing they can never test the pa announcing
09:39the more you know that's what they're doing here but i i'll say this is that if you're right you're
09:44like this is always a problem with the home run derby you know i was all due respect to chris
09:49like the backpack i couldn't do three hours of backpack back but i will i will say this the
09:57wilson the image of wilson contraris walking into a boxing ring while taking it from the phillies
10:03crowd it was great and then the phillies crowd you know is just so unique because in the best way
10:09i
10:09can describe it is that it's the crowd that they try to enact their will more than any other crowd
10:15on
10:15what happens on the field and that's what they were trying to will do wilson contraris as he's
10:20walking into a boxing ring so that was good only a horrible human being would find it entertaining
10:26to hear that crowd booing those children in the outfield i must be a horrible human being because
10:32that was really funny it was great i mean they were just i went out the fun thing is the
10:40bullpen
10:40the visitors bullpen is strategically like right underneath the crowd there if you want a good
10:46time go out there and they put these guys in the shoe box and let the philly fans at them
10:50oh my god
10:51it was it's so it's just it's just this that part of it is such a great environment because i've
10:57been
10:57all start games where it's just like yeah the great game of baseball we don't care who won and
11:01everybody everybody's a winner no no no let's fool the enemy let's go that was i'll have to admit that
11:08was the best part hands down the most entertaining part with those kids what kid missed a pop-up
11:12and the crowd goes whoa he's like eight loser all right rob bradford great stuff uh you can uh check
11:21him out obviously at wei.com baseball isn't boring podcast and of course uh all around scotland wearing
11:28his kilt uh thanks uh great stuff we'll talk to you soon again rob bradford all right guys i'll talk
11:32you later thank you
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