00:00The red hot Red Sox complete a sweep of the Dodgers and the trade deadline is looming.
00:07And we were talking about it a lot the first hour, but I hope that Presbot is over there
00:13cooking right now as we speak, Curtis, it is going to be disappointing if 6 p.m.
00:18comes and goes and there's nothing done by this Red Sox team.
00:22If they feel like they can just stand pat, I am going to be disappointed with a capital
00:27D over here.
00:28I'll tell you that.
00:28Can we agree to one thing that they need at the deadline that may not even require trading
00:33a prospect?
00:34Sure.
00:34A new jet.
00:36Ah, they do have problems flying an awful lot when they fly commercially.
00:40Wilson Contreras posted on Instagram that they were stuck again in L.A.
00:45Like.
00:46So did Jaren.
00:47I have to.
00:47He's back on social media.
00:49Good for him.
00:50That was a bit of a hiatus.
00:52So the manner in which that this team, I've flown Delta sick brags several times.
00:57I haven't had a delay in like two years.
00:59How is this team with Delta on a private charter jet constantly on a tarmac?
01:05I don't know.
01:06Maybe.
01:07Honestly, no offense to John Henry, probably using Groupons or something like that or travel
01:11loss.
01:11Maybe they book on travel loss.
01:13He's got spare miles.
01:14I don't know.
01:15Greg, you know what I wanted to say to you and maybe you and a lot of people who think
01:20like you?
01:20Because it will be interesting that people will be upset if they don't do anything today
01:26after they just swept the best team in Major League Baseball.
01:32And if you look at them over their last eight series and what they've been able to do and
01:37how they've been sweeping teams, good teams.
01:40So this is an interesting take.
01:43So you think they're fine as is and you wouldn't go out and add.
01:47I mean, I'm not saying I wouldn't, but I'm not going to be upset if they don't.
01:52Like, I don't get how you'll be upset if they don't.
01:55I mean, I know they added Curtis Mead who ended up getting hurt.
01:59But if they don't make another move, I'm not going to go like, I'm not going to be upset,
02:03especially going looking at this team and how it's constructed right now and where you
02:07are, you just, you just swept the best team in Major League Baseball.
02:12Yeah.
02:13Listen, I guess my question is why are you upset after the way that they've been able
02:17to perform?
02:18Because I look around the rest of the league.
02:20It's not that good.
02:21And you have a prime opportunity if you add here or there to really go for it and to get
02:28this team into the World Series.
02:29So I, that's why.
02:32Right.
02:32Because you saw what the team did last year, which was nothing, and then they got, and
02:35they were a player or a play away from getting to the ALCS and beating the Yankees.
02:39Yeah, but this team is completely different than what we saw last year's team after the
02:43All-Star break.
02:44Like, this team looks way better than what we were able to see after the first, you know,
02:50few games after the All-Star break.
02:52They've been playing well recently, though.
02:54And you've got guys like Chad Tracy telling media that they deserve to have additions.
02:58So if Chad Tracy's in media saying that they deserve this, this team deserves for them
03:04to make moves at the trade deadline to then not do it, I think.
03:07I guess the biggest question is this.
03:08They made a move, right?
03:10If he wasn't hurt, would you still be saying the same thing?
03:15Like, if Curtis Meade wasn't hurt, would you?
03:17No, I mean, if Curtis Meade was not hurt, I might be saying, listen, I would like for
03:21them to add an arm in some way, shape, or form, because as we have discussed many times,
03:27I don't know what the restriction's going to be inning-wise on Peyton Tolley going forward.
03:31I don't know if you can count on 36-year-old Sonny Gray, who gets hurt a lot.
03:37Like, I have questions about that.
03:39Last year, after the All-Star break, they went 11-6 in their next 17 games.
03:44That's pretty good.
03:45Yeah, I'm not saying that.
03:45I think you're thinking about the trade deadline, where they fumbled.
03:47We don't know what this team's going to be after the trade deadline, it's been that way
03:51every year.
03:51They've had the same record.
03:52You see that stat over the weekend?
03:53They have the same 56-51 record for four straight years?
03:56Yeah.
03:57Yeah.
03:58This team deserves an investment.
04:00They need a bat.
04:00They need to hit home runs.
04:01Craig Breslow made a lot of news when he was on with us last week, and the one thing that
04:04I saw everywhere was when he talked about how you have to have home runs in the playoffs.
04:10You need home runs.
04:11And that's something their team doesn't have.
04:13Yeah.
04:13Talking about the Sox.
04:14So let's hear from one of your Red Sox superstars right now, who is just hitting the absolute
04:19cover off the baseball.
04:21That would be one, Sedan Raffaella.
04:23He joined Will and Lenny DiNardo after the game last night and talked about how much fun
04:28he's having and his home run there early in the game.
04:32I think right now we have a lot of fun as a team.
04:36And no, I think right now it's the most fun I'm having with.
04:39Yeah, I think it was huge to bring us back in the game, and the boys did the job again.
04:45So I think it's been huge for us when we fall behind, answer right back, and I think that's
04:50been one of the big keys for us.
04:54Sedan may be having a lot of fun, but nobody is having more fun than Will Fleming.
04:59I mean, the man is absolutely into it night after night after night, Curtis.
05:03You should see it when they're stuck on the tarmac, he just starts karaoke.
05:10Well, Wiggy, I can understand, I guess, that you look at this team and say, hey, you know
05:15what, if they stand pat and they're unable to add what they want to add, they're worried
05:21about the price being too high, they're worrying about what they're going to have to pay somebody
05:26going forward, whatever.
05:27I can see how you might be confident currently right now, because they are on an absolute run.
05:34He's done it again!
05:37Yeah, I mean, they're on, like you said, a run, a heater, like, I wouldn't have thought
05:43that they would go into L.A. and sweep the Dodgers.
05:47Nobody would have.
05:48Right.
05:49Not a soul.
05:50So, and I'm just saying, from where they might be sitting, then they might go, okay, all
05:55right, is there somebody that we could get that, and we heard Bresbot say, is more than
06:00just a rental, that could be a guy that could be here for three to five years that we would
06:04want to go get and help us?
06:06Where do we need help?
06:07Do we need, I mean, you got guys that are, like, now their bats are getting hot.
06:13Raffaella, Abreu, we've already talked about, Contreras, even, you know, say what you want,
06:18Duran, you might have, you know, three guys that could potentially get the 30-plus home runs,
06:23or at least in the high 20s, and you start to go, our rotation looks good, our bullpen,
06:29maybe we might not have to add.
06:32And then once they potentially get me back, they might say, here's a bat that we're going
06:37to have come postseason.
06:38If they go 30 and 21 the rest of the way, which is very doable, they end up with 90
06:44wins.
06:45Consider where they are.
06:46Can you believe that?
06:47We thought they were going to lose 100 games, and they might win 90.
06:50We were trying to figure out mathematically if it was possible or not for them to lose
06:54100.
06:54That's remarkable.
06:55They might win the division.
06:57I mean, I know that and all that, but think about, there was points in times where they
07:01were, what, 14 games out?
07:03Yep.
07:03I'm like, ah, there's no way.
07:04And now they're in a legitimate chance and spot where the division is something that they
07:10can win.
07:11There are two games out in the lost column of the Yankees.
07:13You remember when Michael Kaye berated Red Sox fans for having the gall to say that the Yankees
07:16sucked?
07:17And he's like, you're the worst team in baseball.
07:19Yeah.
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