00:00Here is Mickey Gasper talking about the team finishing that way,
00:04getting that win, and the team's mentality.
00:06I felt great.
00:07You know, it was a lot of competitive at-bats all night.
00:10And, you know, that ninth inning, really good pitcher in Fairbanks.
00:13And I felt like I had a good plan, you know, looking for it in a certain zone.
00:17And, you know, was able to work a walk.
00:19And then, you know, Siegler with the huge hit.
00:21Sogey with the huge insurance run.
00:23That was just a – that's what you got to do in the ninth inning,
00:25especially when you're taking the lead and then, you know,
00:28giving Chappie a little buffer.
00:30You've been with Siegler, you know, in Worcester this year, here.
00:32Like, how big is that energy for this team?
00:35It's huge, you know.
00:36It's next man up.
00:36It's when your name's called, you know, come out and give it everything you got
00:40and do your job.
00:41And, you know, that's what Siegler did tonight.
00:43It's, you know, it's no surprise to me.
00:45I knew he was ready to play.
00:46I always know he's ready to play.
00:47And, you know, when his name's in the lineup,
00:49he's going to go out there and do what he does and be himself.
00:52Tony Siegler, that game had everything.
00:54RBI triple in the ninth.
00:56Sox go up 3-2.
00:57That game had everything last night, Curtis.
01:00What a game.
01:01By the way, Contreras hit last night by a pitch and reacted well.
01:06Did not lose control last night.
01:08I was very happy about that.
01:10There were no emptying of the benches, clearing of anything.
01:13That's the 22nd time that he has been hit.
01:16Now, Jones blames it all on him.
01:18He crowds the plate.
01:20So what?
01:20I know, but that's, you know, I guess it's like if you're.
01:23Adam Jones doesn't like him.
01:25I get it.
01:25It doesn't bother me.
01:27It doesn't bother me.
01:28Greg, of course, has no issue with crowding a plate.
01:30But I think he's probably, I think he's probably one of those hitters that looks at it and goes, because
01:37I love to crowd the plate that I'm just going to get hit with pitches at times.
01:40Yeah.
01:40You know, I think that's part of the game.
01:42Wasn't Jim Rice like that?
01:43Was it Jim Rice who got hit by a lot of pitches?
01:45Didn't he like to crowd the plate?
01:46Or was it Don Baila that I'm thinking about?
01:48I mean, didn't Ortiz crowd the plate?
01:50Who was the guy that had the huge elbow pad that crowd the plate?
01:53Was it Frank Thomas?
01:54Oh, yeah.
01:56Big hurt.
01:57The big hurt.
01:58Yeah.
01:58So, I mean, I think he probably knows that.
02:01We need a new nickname for the Durbinator.
02:05You don't like the Durbinator no more?
02:07Well, I was going with Derby for a while.
02:08I don't like it.
02:09All right.
02:09How do you think?
02:10I thought, I was thinking during the game last night, and I don't want to offend him, but Courtney,
02:16Courtney brings this up from time to time because we know she has an issue with this.
02:20When she's not breaking massive news.
02:22Right, right.
02:22When she's not dropping cocoa bombs like the one this morning.
02:27But do you think he would like the short king of the north?
02:30No.
02:31Immediately no.
02:32No?
02:32No.
02:33Oh, you don't think that?
02:34Like, what are we doing?
02:36Unless he leans into it.
02:37I mean, no man is leaning into being a short king.
02:42Everyone's on their tippy toes and wearing lifts in their shoes.
02:45What if we go in the opposite direction, Greg?
02:47He's been giving off a lot of good energy.
02:49What if we go with the big derb?
02:50Big derb I like.
02:51All right.
02:53Yeah.
02:53BBD?
02:54No, B-D-E.
02:58Big derby energy.
02:59All right.
03:01But we already have that BDE.
03:03We use for Shime's, his big dog energy.
03:06Well, Shime can share.
03:08And Bolo.
03:09Yes.
03:10Yeah, exactly.
03:11Lotto had a song about it.
03:12Speaking of short kings, though, wait till the news.
03:15Oh, yeah, that's true.
03:17Jed York, unfortunate.
03:20He is a bit of a short king.
03:22Oh, is he a short king?
03:23Oh, yeah.
03:23Oh, my God.
03:25Yeah.
03:25Riverside would not be a fun trip.
03:30Did they choose the 49ers because that's the average age of the hookers that he gets
03:35at the trailer park?
03:36Jesus.
03:37I have so many questions.
03:40What a bizarre story.
03:41I mean, you're stuck to the gills and you go on a trailer park?
03:44Curtis, are you worried at all about innings when it comes to Chapman?
03:49No.
03:50Not at all.
03:51I, this, I, the Red Sox are built for the playoffs.
03:56They are built to win a World Series.
03:58I know that is crazy.
04:00Some might even say idiotic.
04:03Pipe dream.
04:04But front end pitching, back end, absolute lock, stock, and barrel in a role to Chapman.
04:12Concerned at all about Ranger.
04:14Yeah, I don't, I would not trust him in the playoffs.
04:16Okay.
04:16No, I would go Sonnier than Peyton.
04:19Tully and Gray.
04:20Gray, Tully.
04:22And then figure out the third starter.
04:25And then you got, I mean, I love, I love the way this team's playing.
04:30And yes, Wiggy, I go up and down.
04:32I'm a Red Sox fan.
04:32I'm crazy by nature.
04:34No, there's nothing wrong with that.
04:35Nothing wrong with that.
04:36But I just say, you don't have to jump off the ledge after two series losses.
04:41You know.
04:42I was born on the ledge.
04:43After they set records for the wins that they set.
04:47The problem is they set records both ways.
04:50They set records historically in a good way and historically in a bad way.
04:55But I think a lot of us felt like the beginning of the season and the way that they were
05:02performing
05:03and what their record was, that wasn't really who they were.
05:06And granted, we don't, I'm not saying they were, they are that team that, you know, went
05:11on that unbelievable stretch and won all those.
05:14This is revisionist history.
05:15You were down on them like everybody else was.
05:18But I was always like, we always had this conversation.
05:20They're not as bad as what they are putting out there.
05:23I had done leads on that.
05:26Your hitters at that point in time, major league hitters were hitting below a major league average.
05:34And that's why you're performing.
05:36But those were guys you were like, you go, oh, that's who he is as a hitter.
05:40You just go, man, they're not living up to who we just want them to be.
05:45The mentality, which Mickey Gasper was talking about, has completely changed.
05:51Like, you can tell they believe that they're down in these games late in the game, down
05:58in the eighth, down in the ninth.
06:00And they believe they can win the baseball game.
06:02And they do.
06:03Yeah.
06:04It's that's what Sonny Gray told us.
06:06It wasn't Sonny Gray who had the audio.
06:08It said, like, every time we step out on the field, we expect to win the game.
06:11It's a never, never say die attitude, which is completely polar opposite of what they
06:15were at the beginning of the season.
06:16As soon as they go down two runs, the game was over.
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