00:00Wiggy, you didn't say you were happy with the Red Sox just being a wild card team.
00:05Did you?
00:06Somebody's texting in furiously.
00:07No, I said that my expectations are that they get to the ALCS.
00:11Okay, that's what I thought.
00:14Somebody's like, what an absolute simp Wiggy is if he's happy with the wild card where they were last year.
00:21No, that's not what you said at all.
00:24I think that you have high expectation and your lead this morning, high expectation when it comes to the Patriots.
00:30Yeah.
00:31Like it's failure if it's not ALCS.
00:34Right.
00:35From your perspective.
00:35I look at this team and I look at because going into this season, the expectation was, oh, this team's
00:43good enough to make it to the World Series.
00:44What a simp.
00:47That was the expectation of this team going into this season.
00:51And I've always been that they've had the talent, like the talent didn't change going into the season.
00:57It's been the same guys.
00:59It's just where they were struggling is the guys that they had expectations to be above average major league hitters
01:07weren't doing that.
01:09Your rotation has been good all year long.
01:12Just your whole pitching staff has been good all season long.
01:17Your hitting is now kind of starting to maybe find its groove a little bit.
01:21And the guys that, you know, maybe we didn't expect much from or we didn't know, like guys have come
01:28out of nowhere.
01:29When we've seen guys like, you know, Siegler, you know, Flock of Siegels come out of nowhere.
01:33And you've seen some of these other players like Durbin has kind of turned that corner around.
01:39You know, expectations were that he would be a solid major league hitter.
01:43And he's showing that, okay, that's what he's been able to do here of late.
01:48So you start to look at this team.
01:50And I always talk, you know, I've always been told from the baseball experts, people who know way more about
01:56baseball than I do,
01:57that the playoffs and postseason is about pitching.
02:01And when you have one of the best rotations when it comes to ERA, you have one of the best
02:06rotations when it comes to not even rotations,
02:09but just pitching staff when it comes to not giving up home runs.
02:13Like you start to go, all right, why?
02:17And then you look around at the rest of the AL.
02:20Well, this team is just as good as anybody else.
02:23Yeah.
02:24So my expectation.
02:24They have been of late.
02:26They have been just as good.
02:27Like you went on a 15 game run against good teams that you are going to face should you get
02:37to the playoffs.
02:38So you ought to be able to continue that.
02:43And they've done it without Garrett Crochet and they've done it without Roman Anthony, whatever your expectation was.
02:49I would ask this question here to everybody in the room.
02:52And people listening is what we've seen from this team over the past several weeks.
02:59You know that I know you love him.
03:01He's your number one emcee of all time.
03:03And when he says, well, the real Slim Shady, please stand up.
03:07Right.
03:08Is this the real Red Sox team that you have seen for the last three weeks?
03:12Versus what we saw, you know, the first couple months of the season.
03:17And I think that this is, you know, the 15 game win streak.
03:22Yeah, that's great.
03:23But I think that this is more of what we expected from this Red Sox baseball team.
03:31And I don't think if any, if there's somebody out there is like, nah, nah, this ain't really them.
03:36Well, call up and tell me why.
03:37Because you don't perform like this and play as good as they've been playing against good baseball teams when this
03:45is, what do they say, them just getting lucky.
03:48Well, here's a 978 text.
03:50It's not even August yet.
03:51And, Wiggy, four of those pitchers have never had or have never been successful full major league season.
04:02Well, I mean, I don't know that that's when he was talking about four of those pitchers.
04:06Who is he talking about?
04:07Is he talking about Tully, Early Bennett?
04:10Jake Bennett.
04:12You're talking about Sandoval?
04:14I don't know.
04:14I mean, Suarez, Gray, and Crochet have all been, had legitimate seasons in the MLB.
04:19Right.
04:19And I don't look at like, oh, I look at it like if you're performing like this, my expectations are
04:25nothing changes when you get to the postseason.
04:28Have that same mindset.
04:30Yeah.
04:30This is Mike from East Long Meadow.
04:34Good morning, Mike.
04:36Hi, guys.
04:36How are you?
04:37Good.
04:38Greetings, please.
04:40We are being shadowed this morning by our queen.
04:43If you could, just a quick hello to her in the background, please.
04:46Okay.
04:47Hello.
04:47Hello.
04:48Okay, good.
04:48Go ahead.
04:50She appreciates that.
04:51Just a quick, a little criticism of Wiggy, only because this is not the team that they started the year
04:57with that they had these high expectations for.
04:59There is no Roman Anthony.
05:01There is no Myers.
05:03There is no Campbell.
05:05All I'm saying, their pitching has been great, no question.
05:08But what they did for 14 weeks versus what they did for three weeks, I think they're somewhere in the
05:15middle.
05:15It'll be interesting to see what happens moving forward.
05:20But, you know, an old-timer once told me, you're never as good as you look when you're winning or
05:26as bad as you look when you're losing.
05:28They're somewhere in the middle.
05:29Mike, I would also say, but that team that we saw at the beginning of the season was Willia Abreu,
05:36was Sadon Raffaello, was Caleb Durbin.
05:40Was Wilson Contreras.
05:41Was Jaron Duran.
05:42Jaron Duran.
05:43Was Yoshida.
05:44So, there are guys that have been contributing and that have come up and that we've seen here of late.
05:50But, you know, Monasterio has been here the whole season.
05:54So, there's a lot of guys that have been here that are now, some of them are getting back to
06:01what they probably normally are.
06:06Main texter, you guys are all falling for this again.
06:09The 15-game win streak was exciting, but this team is junk.
06:14Okay.
06:16But I would ask these people, okay.
06:18See, I don't think the team, real quick.
06:21The team was playing like junk.
06:23They were not constructed like junk heading into the season.
06:27We all looked, when we were crying and whining about it, we were like, oh, Breslau blew it when it
06:34comes to the roster.
06:35But they are now playing where they should be.
06:39And Chad Tracy, oh, before you hung up on that guy.
06:43Chad Tracy was talking about the at-bats and the offense and the way that they have been able to
06:49manufacture things and are not relying just on dongs.
06:56So, save that.
06:58Well, even when this team was losing, Greg, Craig Breslau was on here telling you that this team was better
07:03than their record.
07:04And the nerds would have told you, look at the run differential.
07:07They still have a positive run differential for how bad that team was prior to this win streak.
07:11Now, they have the second-best run differential in the entire American League.
07:15I think you've played enough games.
07:17And this is why I would ask the people who don't believe in this team, right?
07:20They've played enough games.
07:22And you stacked up, coming out of the all-star break, against the best team on paper in the AL
07:29in the Tampa Bay Rays.
07:31And you swept them.
07:33And you were able to line up with them, you know, hitter for hitter, pitcher for pitcher.
07:39And I always hear Jones and Keith talking about this, and they probably know a lot more than I do.
07:44You know, when they start to look at the Tampa Bay Rays and they start to say, look at their
07:48talent.
07:49Okay, so they get the kid Yandy Diaz, like, who's an unbelievable player.
07:53And I think they said one more player that they really like.
07:55But if you look at that team, right, who in that lineup are you going, oh, that's why you can't
08:02compete with the Tampa Bay Rays.
08:06Oh, you can't compete with the New York Yankees.
08:08Like, I think, all right, Aaron Judge is a great player.
08:11Yeah, but you don't know when he's coming back.
08:12And they have a very similar rotation to what you have.
08:17Like, you can't deny that the Yankees don't have a great rotation.
08:21Right, but so do you.
08:22You have a guy like, I think, I think a lot of people look at Wilson Contreras and go, all
08:28right, he's a dangerous hitter.
08:29He's somebody in the Boston Red Sox lineup that we have to be worried about.
08:34And then you got all these other guys in the lineup that have basically been here all season long that
08:39are now hitting above what we, when we saw them, we go like, that's not who they are.
08:45And they're starting to hit to what we expect them to be.
08:47This is Ed from my adopted home continent of Maine.
08:50Hello, Ed.
08:51How are you doing, everybody?
08:52Hey, listen, I'm with Wiggy 100%.
08:55First of all, there's 7 billion people on the planet.
08:58800 can play this game at this level.
09:00Tracy's giving these kids the confidence that they need.
09:03And when you said it before, it's, you know, about being a professional athlete, you got to have the confidence
09:08in yourself.
09:10And that's what he's pumping into these kids.
09:12Yeah.
09:12And I think it's fantastic.
09:14Yeah.
09:14I mean, he was, he's impressive.
09:17Like, I had people telling me yesterday, he just answers the question.
09:21He doesn't sit there and think about how he wants to answer the question.
09:25He's, he's really impressive.
09:27So, all right, we will be.
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