00:00no idea but welcome back oh good to see you great great to be here i i was in fort
00:04myers with roman
00:05anthony we're having a lovely time together excellent well we were going to tell you actually
00:10before you came back that there's not enough room here in the studio for you it's kind of a small
00:15studio not this room this thing is like palatial holy cow man i the the complete 180 done by fans
00:23and perhaps the media on roman anthony on and marcello meyer who year to year is amazing i like
00:32they have now become the guys the bad guys right who were destroying the the entire operation over
00:40there mego had that uh you know hey let's take our time rome wasn't built in a day but it
00:44seems like
00:44the roman empire has fallen rome is burning yeah it is unbelievable the thing about the red socks that
00:52i love the most is how bad they are at creating fake reasons like yeah there wasn't enough room
00:58for roman anthony the guy that a year ago literally you said was the future of your franchise you can't
01:04find room in the clubhouse yeah well it's funny because yesterday we were listening to wilson
01:10contreras during they said it and he brought up the fact that some of the guys that they have brought
01:17up
01:18recently understand it and get it and are willing to grind and mego was questioning that and and and
01:26then all of a sudden i it has turned into getting those two guys away from the ball club was
01:34the was
01:35the thing that got it going so i don't know i i can't believe that two guys can do that
01:42much damage
01:43when it comes to the vibe yeah and they're young like i can't i don't really i think it's just
01:48a
01:48lack of focus that they might have had individually or at least maybe for roman anthony that's why you
01:55sent him to fort myers but myers still around here correct right myers didn't they didn't say he they
02:01didn't send him to another state right no but no but i just think you know you end up getting
02:08some some you get a vibe guy like every everybody seems to talk about anthony siegler like he's a vibe
02:17guy and he's a you know to borrow a phrase from trot nixon he's a dirt dog uh i chime
02:26i'm not
02:27referring to anybody as a big dog i know that i know you've trademarked that thank you um but i
02:33don't
02:33know i it's i think maybe in baseball more than any other sport the vibe becomes uh very important
02:41so do you think it's like you know the staler phrase from the people down south with roman anthony
02:46he got too big for his britches and where he had so much success in the sense of last season
02:52and that
02:53at the end of last season and the beginning of this world baseball classic where he might have kind
03:00of started reading his own headlines and was walking around the clubhouse with an s on his chest
03:06almost like what cora was concerned about right i mean you look at what the team's done they've done
03:11everything cora said they should do they just have tracy in charge they got rid of driveline
03:15and cora's problem was that the young guys thought they had known everything before they learned it
03:20and now they're they got roman anthony down in fort myers was that cora's problem or was cora's problem
03:26that that ownership had this structure where they were deciding to pay young guys early so they
03:32wouldn't have to pay them bigger contracts later and also not pay big free agents who are proven
03:37veterans around the league yeah i definitely think that was part of it i think there was twofold i think
03:41that was it i think cora was talking to rosenthal about the way they were formulating their rosters
03:45but i think it also is that if you're paying everybody incentivizing guys to sign early then there
03:50isn't the same incentive to learn the game the right way because they already have generational money
03:54i mean and i did not get that particular vibe at all from roman anthony neither that when we had
04:01him on the show but maybe maybe we wouldn't yeah and i don't know you're gonna say curtis no i
04:06agree
04:06100 when we were with him he was he was there at what 5 30 yeah he was very unassuming
04:10yeah and now
04:12i will say that people have for for quite some time have said not so nice things about marcello
04:19meyer and the kind of and the kind of guy that the kind of guy he can be so how
04:23so yeah just
04:25he's whispers of his character he's kind of a dink like like people have said that i you know i
04:30i'm
04:31not saying it but people have said that but i but again i don't know does getting rid of two
04:36guys
04:38immediately send you on a you know the nine and oh run a ten and oh run whatever no i
04:45mean i don't
04:45necessarily i think if the guy is like uh uh raffi devers who has a big influence in that clubhouse
04:52maybe but i don't think the you don't think roman anthony had a big influence in the clubhouse when
04:57he's the one guy who everybody's looking at and saying maybe trevor story will hit 30 home runs
05:02but roman anthony should hit 30 no i think what happened there was a lot of expectations put on him
05:07from the front office and the team but i don't think his voice was like this giant voice in the
05:13clubhouse
05:13he seemed you know at least from you when we talked to him he seemed like he was a little
05:18bit
05:18more quiet he was there early he doesn't seem like he was you know somebody that was could have people
05:22huddled up in corners i don't think he was like a big problem but best case scenario is part of
05:27the
05:27reason they sent him down to fort myers is because his ongoing rehab was at least a distraction right
05:34like every week goes by and it's like roman's not playing again right right what's going on i don't buy
05:40that argument because why is that a distraction and garrett crochet's ongoing rehab is not a
05:46distraction because the pitching was doing well without garrett crochet and for most of the season
05:51when roman was out the offense hasn't picked up until the last two weeks right i could see that
05:56point i think it was more of a lack of focus for him that i still believe that they they
06:02felt like
06:02his focus wasn't where it needed to be so they sent him away out of sight out of mind excellent
06:08question in the twitch chat this morning did they sneak him off to fort myers in a laundry cart
06:15underneath the laundry like like they snuck him out of worcester at one point that that was actually
06:20that was the first sign that there may be something going on other than that he was the next you
06:25know
06:25mickey mantle but yeah it is wild to me watching just seeing what this team did since i left
06:32yeah it is maybe as shocking as how bad the year was prior to it it happens every time you
06:39go on
06:39vacation it's amazing already this morning it is it's only 6 10 some are asking that you leave right
06:46now i got in late last night i would love to go back to bed but no i in all
06:51sincerity it is shocking
06:53they can't sell right like there's no chance they can sell at the deadline no i we were talking about
06:57yesterday in your absence they have got to buy and buy big and and brez bot is trying to save
07:04his
07:04job so i mean i don't know the question becomes do you trust him to be the one who's buying
07:09big but
07:10they they have got to be buying big well i heard jones and keith talking about this yesterday you trust
07:16him during the off season and spring training and bringing in free agents and he you really haven't
07:22been able because if you look at some of the guys that he brought in he he's done an amazing
07:25job but
07:26they've all been like you know off season acquisitions or free agents it's going to be
07:32how aggressive are you going to be this trade deadline knowing that you're right back in the
07:38mix and there's a legitimate chance for you did anybody watch any of the midsummer classic no no i
07:44watch no not one
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