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OH NO! Newly acquired INF Curtis Mead- is headed for the IL.
Red Sox acquire a bat, but Mead now may be gone for the season. What does this mean for the MLB Trade Deadline now? Will they try and replace Mead, or stand pat? Address pitching? Do you believe Mead could be back, or out for season?
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00:00What does not make me comfortable is that the Red Sox go and get a bat
00:04and then that bat may not be available for the entire rest of this season.
00:09I view that Curtis Mead acquisition like our visit to the dive
00:13at Lake Winnipesaukee.
00:15I mean, you're talking about we were there, we were on it,
00:18but it just wasn't quite the full season.
00:21We came, we saw, we got on the IL.
00:23Yeah.
00:24Not good.
00:25Bad news.
00:26So he came back and will be examined, I'm assuming,
00:32or was examined yesterday by a hand specialist.
00:36But, I mean, I guess potentially it's not season-ending surgery that's required
00:41and that thing will heal up.
00:44I don't know, Curtis.
00:45Do you want to take calls from those who've had a fractured wrist?
00:49Yeah, especially people that might have played Legion ball.
00:52What about the Cape League?
00:53Are they allowed to call or are they busy?
00:55Summer catch, great flick.
00:57I would add that the chances, though, that Curtis Mead returns better than those
01:02that Roman Anthony comes back this year.
01:04Well, I guess glass half full.
01:07You still have the deadline.
01:10You know, you've got days until Monday.
01:13So if you want to go and do it all over again,
01:16you can go and get yourself another bat somewhere else,
01:19depending on what you're willing to part with.
01:21What do you think Breslow, we can ask him tomorrow at 9,
01:23what do you think Breslow's immediate reaction?
01:25Did he throw the Sunday New York Times on the ground?
01:27Yeah, I would assume that he probably unplugged
01:31and then replugged in every device in his home that he was using at the time.
01:35Well, weren't there little whispers about possibly they'd be willing to move on
01:40from Trevor's story and Marcelo Meyer?
01:42So maybe there is.
01:44But like you said, Greg, hopefully it's not a season-ending thing
01:47and it doesn't keep him out too long.
01:50I don't know.
01:51If you're Bresbot, you've got to say what the actual F is going on.
01:54Yeah, but it was...
01:55Because you can't help that, but now he looks like...
01:59He looks like what?
01:59I mean, he made a good move.
02:01He made a great move, and everybody was praising him two days ago.
02:03But the fact that then this turns,
02:05and if this were to derail the season in any way,
02:08it just would suck for him.
02:10Yeah, I mean, I don't think people are upset about this situation.
02:13No, I'm just saying if this ends up not panning out
02:16the way that we hoped it would,
02:18then that ends up falling on Bresbot for a lot of people.
02:22Really?
02:22Yes.
02:24In my opinion.
02:25All right.
02:26All right.
02:26Yeah, I mean...
02:27I just think he can't win.
02:28Like, this is a guy who made a great move.
02:30We were talking on Monday about how the boos were so loud
02:32at the roadshow you guys had this season.
02:34The boos were so loud last fall when we were out at a roadshow.
02:38The fact that now Curtis Mead ends up with a fractured wrist
02:41at his second at-bat, like, that sucks for him.
02:44Well, I look at it like this.
02:45I look at it, it does suck for the team,
02:47and it does suck for Bresbot,
02:48but I also look at it like you were playing unbelievably well
02:52before he got here.
02:53Correct.
02:53And so I don't think that you, you know,
02:56obviously all you can do is hope that he's able to come back this year
02:59in the acquisition that you made,
03:01but I think there were a lot of people, myself included,
03:03that felt like even if they didn't do anything during the trade deadline,
03:07they still had enough to get to the postseason.
03:09So I don't think that it looks at it at the season is over
03:14because you were playing...
03:15No, no, no, no.
03:15Let me be clear.
03:16That's not what I'm saying at all.
03:17I'm just saying that Craig Breslow,
03:19as we praised him on Monday,
03:21it sucks for him on Tuesday.
03:22Like, that is a complete 180 for a guy
03:24who seemed like he was on top of the world,
03:26as he should have,
03:28to then have a fall from grace.
03:29Like, that sucks for Craig Breslow.
03:31Oh, yeah.
03:31I mean, yeah.
03:32Bottom line.
03:32Yeah, I think, yeah, we all know that part of it.
03:34I think that's, you know,
03:36and I think the biggest thing is there is something
03:38that maybe they were thinking about maybe making another trade,
03:41but was that to Curtis's point to get another starter?
03:44But, I mean, I just think that
03:46if you're this Boston Red Sox team,
03:48you look at your performance,
03:49you look at, all right, how we're playing,
03:51hopefully you get them back,
03:52hopefully the news ain't as bad as what it could be.
03:56Yeah, I mean, I would ask if the reason
03:59that it didn't show up
04:00when they did the imaging immediately after the game
04:03is because it's not, like,
04:07does not require season-ending surgery.
04:09Like, I don't know enough about it.
04:11Yeah, I don't either.
04:11Maybe it's the swelling or something.
04:13I don't know enough about x-rays or how that goes.
04:15I have no idea.
04:16Yeah, it's digital these days.
04:18I would also add, Greg,
04:20that potentially they were on the phone with people
04:22not wanting the people they're talking to
04:24to know that he had a fracture in his hand.
04:26So maybe they slow-played the injury
04:28and maybe were making a couple phone calls.
04:30If the other teams knew that he had this broken wrist
04:33or broken hand, whatever the hell,
04:35then maybe they would have been less likely
04:36to be receptive to the phone call.
04:38But maybe the Red Sox were trying to get ahead of it
04:40by delaying the news to the public for about 24 hours.
04:43Well, he had said, like, I mean,
04:45we just heard him say that he had a similar situation
04:47like this before in the past.
04:49So, I mean, maybe that's something,
04:51it wasn't the same hand.
04:52Is it the, you know,
04:53how long did that take him to recover?
04:55Yes.
04:56You know, so there is...
04:57Well, I believe it's the same hand
04:58that he burned putting shrimp on the barbie,
05:01if I remember correctly.
05:04Do you think he loves going to Outback
05:05now that he's in the U.S.?
05:07No, I feel like the Australians think
05:09that's, like, phony, fake.
05:10Yeah, it's not real.
05:11What, you're telling me
05:12you can't go to Australia
05:14and get a homegrown Bloomin' Onion?
05:16What?
05:17I think you probably could,
05:18but they're probably, like, crikey.
05:20You know, it's like, it's not real for them.
05:22Every Australian I meet is very sexual.
05:24They are.
05:24Go on a walkabout.
05:26They are.
05:27Tyra Banks lives in Australia.
05:29Yes.
05:29Fun fact.
05:30We have her name.
05:31We have her number.
05:32Yeah, we learned that from Mom
05:33when we did the event with her.
05:35Have you called her?
05:36No.
05:36Have you, since you have her digits,
05:38why don't you just randomly call her
05:40and say, hey, what's up,
05:41on a Thursday or a Friday?
05:41When the top model documentary came out,
05:43which was not complimentary to her,
05:45where he was like,
05:45why don't you text her?
05:46I'm like, I'm not texting her saying,
05:47hey, just watch the doc.
05:49Tough look.
05:49Well, I was saying text her before that,
05:50you know what I mean?
05:51And, like, you know,
05:52females, I get a little bit, you know,
05:53you could have a build a bond with her.
05:55Like, what am I texting her for?
05:56Well, I know.
05:57I don't ever want to feel like
05:58I'm abusing a gift that I was given,
06:01which is Tyra Banks' phone number.
06:02Mm-mm-mm.
06:03All right.
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