WEBVTT 00:04.428 --> 00:07.411 [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the bastards of Boston baseball. 00:07.811 --> 00:09.152 [SPEAKER_00]: I am your host Charlie Smith. 00:09.172 --> 00:12.776 [SPEAKER_00]: You can find me on Twitter slash X at Smith underscore MLB. 00:13.236 --> 00:16.839 [SPEAKER_00]: My co-host for this one, Jeremy Schilling at JT Schill 20. 00:17.460 --> 00:18.581 [SPEAKER_00]: Schill the thrill. 00:18.721 --> 00:22.244 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so pumped you with me again for this wonderful Sunday. 00:22.625 --> 00:27.029 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want more bastards of Boston baseball content, check out bastards of Boston baseball. 00:28.350 --> 00:28.890 [SPEAKER_00]: Calm. 00:29.191 --> 00:33.995 [SPEAKER_00]: We used to be known as the Fire Brezzler podcast, and then we dropped it. 00:34.115 --> 00:36.437 [SPEAKER_00]: Now we're back to the bastards of boss at Baseball. 00:37.595 --> 00:47.637 [SPEAKER_00]: But man, oh man, I wish we could fire some people, because this is so infuriating to be watching certain teams play baseball, and we're not included, but there's a couple of reasons why we're not included. 00:47.697 --> 00:50.778 [SPEAKER_00]: When you don't build a proper team, you don't get to play fun baseball. 00:51.138 --> 00:53.618 [SPEAKER_00]: And fun baseballs for the teams that are actually supposed to be here. 00:54.138 --> 01:01.440 [SPEAKER_00]: So Jeremy, any first thoughts and or temperature checks for just baseball playoffs, anything in general. 01:01.820 --> 01:02.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Where you at? 01:02.381 --> 01:04.322 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'll start with the temperature check. 01:04.622 --> 01:20.236 [SPEAKER_01]: I somebody Johnny Fontaine asked me about this a couple of days ago, a long time friend of the program, I'm at a 4.2 for the organization, pitching in a great spot, the roster's overall and completed another nightmare. 01:21.037 --> 01:27.743 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's where I want to start, we go into the 2026 into the 2027 off season. 01:30.065 --> 01:41.495 [SPEAKER_01]: With the same goddamn problems we had last year, the same problems, nothing's been fixed, except we're not as deep as a pitching staff as we were this time last year. 01:42.275 --> 01:53.665 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, now you didn't know you were gonna add swirl as you thought it was about a bat, but my point is, is they're still complete line up in stability, right? 01:53.985 --> 01:55.967 [SPEAKER_01]: Adley Rushman needs to get in shape, 01:57.043 --> 02:01.106 [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to figure out his arbitration number, but other than that, it's the same problems. 02:01.126 --> 02:03.027 [SPEAKER_01]: They still going to deal with the story contract. 02:03.047 --> 02:05.209 [SPEAKER_01]: They still going to deal with the Yoshida contract. 02:05.669 --> 02:07.631 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't have a power bat in the line up. 02:07.651 --> 02:08.992 [SPEAKER_01]: They got too many lefties. 02:10.513 --> 02:11.814 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the same off season. 02:12.474 --> 02:15.396 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's where I am the most frustrated. 02:15.916 --> 02:17.257 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take the season result. 02:17.277 --> 02:19.279 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at the end of the day, July bought them. 02:20.045 --> 02:21.586 [SPEAKER_01]: and us a fan base a season. 02:21.626 --> 02:32.610 [SPEAKER_01]: We had meaningful baseball until late September and that I am for very grateful because I I hate the seasons when it's over early and I got nothing to do but sit around away for football and hockey basketball. 02:33.010 --> 02:38.152 [SPEAKER_01]: So they gave us a baseball season but it's the same problems. 02:38.252 --> 02:39.413 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the same issues. 02:39.473 --> 02:41.493 [SPEAKER_01]: It's is John Henry going to spend. 02:41.573 --> 02:41.873 [SPEAKER_01]: It can 02:46.172 --> 02:49.333 [SPEAKER_01]: which this option sees and there aren't any available like they were last year. 02:49.373 --> 02:50.654 [SPEAKER_01]: So that means what does he have to do? 02:50.714 --> 02:52.675 [SPEAKER_01]: If he's going to go get one, he's going to go trade for it. 02:53.235 --> 02:56.557 [SPEAKER_01]: Which I don't know anybody that trust Brezbo to do that. 02:56.577 --> 02:59.018 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he would pitching, but certainly not with an offensive player. 02:59.778 --> 03:01.199 [SPEAKER_01]: So then you ask another question. 03:01.219 --> 03:05.660 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you bring in some other executive to help support Brezbo from an offensive perspective? 03:05.941 --> 03:06.721 [SPEAKER_01]: These are the Charlie. 03:06.761 --> 03:10.863 [SPEAKER_01]: These were the same things we were talking about last year. 03:11.523 --> 03:12.684 [SPEAKER_01]: The same things. 03:16.448 --> 03:29.574 [SPEAKER_01]: Come in from the clubhouse after we lose because you know what happens when you when you have a team that agrees with your fan base, you have Wilson contraris saying we're tied to analytics and I don't want to say what I really want to say. 03:30.375 --> 03:42.641 [SPEAKER_01]: At which I think he was saying that we went away from the guys that got us here, we went back to the people that spent the majority of the season rehabbing or down in Florida and look where it got us. 03:43.209 --> 03:48.773 [SPEAKER_01]: you know, they they they they bring in need when Anthony goes down with another swinging injury. 03:49.413 --> 03:54.917 [SPEAKER_01]: And instead of a guy like Seagler who was a big part of who while you got here, who had been playing baseball all year. 03:55.237 --> 04:02.442 [SPEAKER_01]: And you put a guy on the roster and meet and I know it didn't play, but it just highlights my point that hadn't swung about hadn't played baseball. 04:02.702 --> 04:05.644 [SPEAKER_01]: And sure, I'm sure he's working out and feeling round balls and live BP. 04:05.844 --> 04:07.065 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's a big difference. 04:07.374 --> 04:12.106 [SPEAKER_01]: between the guys been playing for six months in a guy and just resume baseball activities. 04:12.587 --> 04:14.693 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the fundamental flaw in the organization. 04:15.092 --> 04:38.622 [SPEAKER_01]: And thank God, contraris said something because I completely agree with him when a player says essentially this is going through the Jeremy translator for for for, okay, I'm going to listen to this stats and I'm going to see my my one of my coases pulled in the fifth inning because the stats say he shouldn't face the third, the line up for the third time, he feels sunny great comes out and says he's got the best the array. 04:39.256 --> 05:08.143 [SPEAKER_01]: uh... the third time through the line up in major league base for at least in the very dust and it does a great best and then some grace says hey you come back next year do you boss in as a destination in his answer is quote i don't know close quote that's a problem when teams that that achieve what they expect to achieve or believe in the organization they're working in plain for you know what they do they go to their offseason and that's it they go to their offseason and that's it 05:08.782 --> 05:16.748 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what happens when, and by the way, if contraris and sunny gray are saying it, don't make it a mistake about it. 05:17.209 --> 05:22.053 [SPEAKER_01]: The far majority of that clubhouse would say the same thing of a microphone was shoved in their face. 05:22.413 --> 05:28.958 [SPEAKER_01]: The difference is the media knows who the media knows who to go to for the sound bite. 05:29.398 --> 05:32.881 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's still a reflection of the entire clubhouse, Charlie. 05:32.901 --> 05:37.885 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to take up the whole podcast, Randy, and Raven, so I'm going to pause now and let you jump in, but I got more to say. 05:38.986 --> 05:51.648 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, a lot to unpack with that entire comment because a lot of it, I agree and I'm going to double down on your behalf because you do lose sunny gray. 05:52.873 --> 05:57.437 [SPEAKER_00]: You get Gerrit Krishay back and it becomes very much of the Boston Red Sox. 05:58.138 --> 06:01.241 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to be adding people at the deadline. 06:01.261 --> 06:03.623 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to be adding people off of free agency. 06:03.663 --> 06:06.165 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be people are coming back and that's the addition. 06:06.786 --> 06:10.169 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is such a stupid way to look at it. 06:10.509 --> 06:12.671 [SPEAKER_00]: You lose Sunny Gray who's not coming back. 06:13.192 --> 06:13.792 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think 06:14.573 --> 06:23.416 [SPEAKER_00]: The Boston Red Sox front office can afford to bring back somebody like that even though he had a career year at his age, that's part of it. 06:23.496 --> 06:26.657 [SPEAKER_00]: But, too, he just publicly blasted you. 06:27.217 --> 06:29.578 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not a destination city. 06:29.878 --> 06:35.860 [SPEAKER_00]: It either is a destination city, a place where you want to continue playing orphanage out your career or GF. 06:38.145 --> 06:57.235 [SPEAKER_00]: it's not and and that's basically what you heard and and seeing and seeing Wilson Katrina's go twice not once twice I mean it is unreal we don't drive like because it didn't work and the players basically mute even said after this we're done get rid of it and then all of a sudden 06:58.233 --> 07:03.397 [SPEAKER_00]: You got players on this team, Camel Durbin found Jesus Christ and all of a sudden starting the ball. 07:03.417 --> 07:04.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Forget about your O for 26. 07:05.418 --> 07:10.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you all of a sudden have ball players on this team or at least players that are moonlighting as such. 07:10.782 --> 07:16.286 [SPEAKER_00]: So you look at the players who are not coming back absolute fair game. 07:17.006 --> 07:21.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Last year, rhyme opportunity, you could have gotten a power bat. 07:22.110 --> 07:23.631 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a first basement, 07:24.916 --> 07:46.716 [SPEAKER_00]: Right handed hitter would have been perfect peppering balls off the monster, but this front office in their infinite effing wisdom opted not to get Pete Alonso the dumbest offseason bulk of all time because I think if you give them an extra one at two million per year 07:47.697 --> 07:48.297 [SPEAKER_00]: He's here. 07:49.118 --> 08:02.386 [SPEAKER_00]: He may not win an MVP as a member of the Red Sox, but dude, I think he had 43 homers over 100 RBIs, he had over 260, he's probably a 50 home run hitter playing 81 games at Fenway Park. 08:03.126 --> 08:04.607 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you solve two problems. 08:05.207 --> 08:11.231 [SPEAKER_00]: One, you have your first basement, and two, you have that right handed power hitter that you so desperately needed. 08:11.751 --> 08:12.812 [SPEAKER_00]: But this front office, 08:13.867 --> 08:15.508 [SPEAKER_00]: this wonderful front office. 08:16.328 --> 08:18.610 [SPEAKER_00]: They're the smartest people in Major League baseball. 08:18.970 --> 08:21.151 [SPEAKER_00]: We're just here riding the high. 08:21.691 --> 08:24.593 [SPEAKER_00]: We're just here enjoying the run. 08:25.093 --> 08:31.537 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the run wasn't fun at the beginning because we were getting absolutely clapped and it wasn't fun. 08:31.777 --> 08:36.720 [SPEAKER_00]: You were half a game at one point from being the worst statistical team in baseball. 08:37.597 --> 08:43.260 [SPEAKER_00]: This free agent class is so not sexy, Helen Keller could see it. 08:43.760 --> 08:45.301 [SPEAKER_00]: It's that bad. 08:45.941 --> 08:53.865 [SPEAKER_00]: Randy Rosarena is one of the only names who's there, some of the other outfielder names that are possibly gonna get peppered. 08:54.245 --> 09:13.019 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless club options get picked up, you got Ronald LaCunia, who's injury-prone, I don't know how I feel about that, that Luis Robert Jr., who I think is a shadow of his former self, George Springer, who has had his way with the red socks and all the wrong fashions, he might actually retire. 09:14.269 --> 09:35.647 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the end of the list of outfielders that are sexy before you have players like Ramon Luriano who wasn't here, Rob Reft Snyder, who's not a power hitter, Austin Hayes is still in the witness protection program and Trent Grisham basically plays Savannah banana baseball in center field doing these little cute flick catches and that's it. 09:36.592 --> 09:39.814 [SPEAKER_00]: Jazz Chism, the, I think I'm a 40 40 guy. 09:39.994 --> 09:42.576 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want that festering, you know what on my team. 09:42.756 --> 09:43.936 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a clubhouse cancer. 09:44.197 --> 09:47.699 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want anything near, I don't want any part of that here. 09:48.379 --> 10:01.287 [SPEAKER_00]: So you're basically throwing 2027, unless Curtis Mead comes back and he's amazing and Wilson Cajaris can build on what he did and I think there's gonna be a slight regression to be honest. 10:01.647 --> 10:02.868 [SPEAKER_00]: The fact of the matter is, 10:04.027 --> 10:06.548 [SPEAKER_00]: You really aren't ready for 2027. 10:08.069 --> 10:13.572 [SPEAKER_00]: You've lost a starter, you're getting one back from injury, assuming he doesn't get another injury. 10:13.912 --> 10:20.716 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you really have to hope that 2027 works out for you. 10:21.076 --> 10:22.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Hope is not strategy. 10:24.193 --> 10:28.896 [SPEAKER_00]: You cannot go into the 2027 season, hoping that you're ready. 10:29.296 --> 10:38.502 [SPEAKER_00]: When you haven't made any additions and as you so eloquently put it, Jeremy, you've done nothing to enhance this team's outlook for the future. 10:39.363 --> 10:46.968 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna take it a step further because you play 162 tryouts to get to meaningful baseball. 10:47.953 --> 10:49.975 [SPEAKER_00]: You're only two meaningful games. 10:50.276 --> 10:57.764 [SPEAKER_00]: You got slapped around like a school child, nine-nil, and then you lost the second game, nine to two. 10:58.204 --> 11:02.809 [SPEAKER_00]: You got out scored 18 to two by your longtime rivals. 11:03.973 --> 11:11.219 [SPEAKER_00]: you probably shouldn't have been here, and then to make matters worse, their best player isn't even on the roster. 11:11.659 --> 11:14.581 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how little they think of you. 11:15.202 --> 11:18.885 [SPEAKER_00]: And they brought back Jean Carlos Denne, who was irrelevant in that series. 11:19.345 --> 11:25.310 [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't matter who they put out, and I really was willing, and I was wrong. 11:25.911 --> 11:29.533 [SPEAKER_00]: had was wrong, Jeremy, and you set it on our last time together. 11:30.193 --> 11:32.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Gemschal is the best pitch in the American League. 11:32.615 --> 11:39.298 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna have his way with us, chefs, kiss, write on the ass, and there was nothing we could do. 11:39.858 --> 11:46.082 [SPEAKER_00]: And then what's wild about it, what's wild, is after getting walloped, 18 or two. 11:46.222 --> 11:50.904 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, God just destroyed in two games, speechless. 11:51.225 --> 11:52.845 [SPEAKER_00]: Couldn't even be angry because I just, 11:56.182 --> 11:59.104 [SPEAKER_00]: That team got one hit. 11:59.985 --> 12:07.391 [SPEAKER_00]: Through seven and two thirds innings, the Yankees got one hit, a fluke, I don't even know how he got it, double. 12:07.852 --> 12:16.279 [SPEAKER_00]: And then his idiocy, getting thrown out at third, will go down as probably one of the lowest moments of his career. 12:16.959 --> 12:19.221 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't get on base. 12:19.801 --> 12:22.263 [SPEAKER_00]: And you, as not a fast dude, 12:26.135 --> 12:29.217 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not even at second base when the throw is coming in. 12:29.257 --> 12:31.178 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to talk about complete stupidity. 12:31.738 --> 12:43.184 [SPEAKER_00]: This team made us look even more dumb and more bad, because you've clapped us not once twice and then proceeded to get what in someone else's home. 12:44.705 --> 12:45.686 [SPEAKER_00]: Back to you, Jeremy. 12:47.127 --> 12:52.570 [SPEAKER_01]: So I wanted to transition to a new topic and I'll let one of our commenters 12:53.685 --> 13:04.293 [SPEAKER_01]: kind of set the stage, which is L. Hefe through YouTube, the YouTube channel, asked us, Tracey, Brazil's guy, or are we continuing with the manager, isn't the GM's guy? 13:04.993 --> 13:13.639 [SPEAKER_01]: So, this is obviously goes back to core already being in place when Brazil's hired. 13:14.400 --> 13:16.761 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, there's two things I want to say about this topic. 13:16.822 --> 13:20.124 [SPEAKER_01]: Number one, the timing of the extension for both guys 13:22.052 --> 13:28.595 [SPEAKER_01]: People had been clamoring for Tracy to be removed the interim and given the full time position since the July run. 13:29.075 --> 13:34.198 [SPEAKER_01]: Then they go basically neutral the balance of the season over 40 games, where they're 20 and 20. 13:34.578 --> 13:37.559 [SPEAKER_01]: And then in the last few days of the season, you've given the extension. 13:38.259 --> 13:39.620 [SPEAKER_01]: What is management doing? 13:39.740 --> 13:41.081 [SPEAKER_01]: What is ownership doing? 13:41.221 --> 13:42.341 [SPEAKER_01]: It makes no sense. 13:42.481 --> 13:44.842 [SPEAKER_01]: Why aren't you waiting to see how it plays out? 13:44.862 --> 13:47.444 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, I would have had Tracy back. 13:48.144 --> 13:49.945 [SPEAKER_01]: But I would have done it for a season. 13:50.985 --> 13:57.192 [SPEAKER_01]: because I would have wanted to keep breast low as let's see, give a one more off season. 13:57.272 --> 13:59.674 [SPEAKER_01]: I think he bought himself another season, at least with the pitching. 14:00.395 --> 14:05.521 [SPEAKER_01]: But now we've got him through 2030, and we know how ownership doesn't want to move on from people in all my money. 14:05.981 --> 14:06.962 [SPEAKER_01]: So guess what? 14:08.424 --> 14:08.944 [SPEAKER_01]: We're stuck. 14:10.426 --> 14:12.748 [SPEAKER_01]: And here's my answer to Al-Halfay's question. 14:13.750 --> 14:22.557 [SPEAKER_01]: Tracy is 100% a breast low guy and except of guy I'm going to substitute that word for the term puppet. 14:23.517 --> 14:36.607 [SPEAKER_01]: So Tracy is breast low's puppet and how do we notice because it happened in the series you pull your ace totally after four and two thirds you bring in Miller you pull some 14:39.987 --> 14:48.113 [SPEAKER_01]: A guy who has the best ERA in the American League through the third time through the order and go to Miller again. 14:49.153 --> 14:50.414 [SPEAKER_01]: Do we really believe? 14:50.474 --> 14:52.936 [SPEAKER_01]: Does anybody really believe that was Tracy's call? 14:54.557 --> 15:03.003 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason why Alex Corra isn't here is because Corra would have kept those two guys in the game and Sunit Ray probably would have went six and two thirds or seven innings. 15:03.683 --> 15:06.986 [SPEAKER_01]: And instead of losing nine, two, you stay in that game and who knows what happens. 15:07.766 --> 15:08.627 [SPEAKER_01]: That's how you know. 15:09.620 --> 15:21.287 [SPEAKER_01]: and it's not just the pulling of the starting pitcher, it's who came in the game, who has been terrible all month to September, can't throw strikes when he's over the plate he's getting slammed. 15:21.807 --> 15:30.733 [SPEAKER_01]: And even if I can accept that you go to him in game one, he gives up the home rotting his still go back to him in game two, 15:31.655 --> 15:36.058 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, would Korra have done that or would he had a little bit more touch and feel, right? 15:36.258 --> 15:45.024 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not saying don't use Miller, but why would you put him in the exact same spot to fail in the exact same way? 15:45.924 --> 15:55.591 [SPEAKER_01]: It is ridiculous and I'm sitting there and I let it go that night, but the next day I'm sitting there driving a work and I'm like, this exact question, poppin' my mind. 15:55.711 --> 15:57.532 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's a good question. 15:57.855 --> 16:05.760 [SPEAKER_01]: It dawned on me that the reason why Tracy was extended at the same time, Fresno is because Tracy will do what Fresno tells them to do. 16:06.200 --> 16:08.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Because, again, remember, Fresno played. 16:09.262 --> 16:13.504 [SPEAKER_01]: Fresno was a one, back when we could do it, a one-out lefty guy. 16:15.045 --> 16:24.531 [SPEAKER_01]: This was in a guy who, you know, grinded every day for a hundred and sixty-two play to hurt, you know, thought back when he had to go on the deal. 16:25.411 --> 16:26.872 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a one-out lefty guy. 16:27.610 --> 16:30.751 [SPEAKER_01]: that wrote the co-tails of a team that was an absolute wagon. 16:31.291 --> 16:34.213 [SPEAKER_01]: And he still says, well, I played and so I understand the clubhouse. 16:34.253 --> 16:35.573 [SPEAKER_01]: Though you don't, you nerd. 16:36.293 --> 16:37.034 [SPEAKER_01]: So here we go. 16:37.714 --> 16:38.774 [SPEAKER_01]: We got three years of this. 16:38.894 --> 16:42.256 [SPEAKER_01]: And now that this happened, now that the playoffs went the way they did. 16:42.396 --> 16:45.757 [SPEAKER_01]: And everyone's, oh, I like Tracy, but I'm concerned about his playoff. 16:45.797 --> 16:47.898 [SPEAKER_01]: How's he gonna handle the big moment? 16:47.918 --> 16:49.659 [SPEAKER_01]: His really only been a manager in the minors. 16:50.259 --> 16:53.200 [SPEAKER_01]: You have now serious reason to be concerned. 16:53.617 --> 16:59.041 [SPEAKER_01]: because Tracy and it is painfully obvious, will do what Brazil tells them to do. 16:59.522 --> 17:05.366 [SPEAKER_01]: And that means, guys, the game is not being managed from the clubhouse, it's being managed from the sky box. 17:06.227 --> 17:19.678 [SPEAKER_01]: And that, if you're a Red Sox fan, should scare the ever-living believeadia, because Brazil doesn't know how to build a lineup, how to manage a game, essentially, anything offensively, 17:20.384 --> 17:25.048 [SPEAKER_01]: And now he's making decisions on who comes at who's pitching and who's going where and what's going on. 17:25.128 --> 17:26.670 [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's a bad situation. 17:28.211 --> 17:30.173 [SPEAKER_01]: I like Tracy like the way handles the media. 17:30.193 --> 17:34.656 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems like the clubhouse responded well to them throughout the entire year. 17:35.117 --> 17:40.201 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's a real bad situation because Brazil is running the Red Sox in its entirety. 17:42.643 --> 17:47.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Sox, but kind of hard to try to combat that with something that 17:50.280 --> 17:51.421 [SPEAKER_00]: with sound like the opposite. 17:51.581 --> 17:53.983 [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, I call that Yankee series to a teacher. 17:54.023 --> 17:54.203 [SPEAKER_01]: I did. 17:54.704 --> 17:56.265 [SPEAKER_00]: You did, and I was wrong. 17:56.885 --> 17:59.447 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I said, you are right, and I was wrong. 17:59.607 --> 18:02.430 [SPEAKER_00]: But I didn't want it to say it twice, so I won't say it for a third time before. 18:02.450 --> 18:02.890 [SPEAKER_00]: You called it. 18:03.190 --> 18:14.079 [SPEAKER_00]: You called it, I tried really hard from the deepest part of my socks support love, got it in the series. 18:14.880 --> 18:16.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Red Sox podcast, 18:16.822 --> 18:17.722 [SPEAKER_00]: There's gotta be something. 18:17.883 --> 18:19.283 [SPEAKER_00]: We gotta be able to pull this thing out. 18:19.683 --> 18:22.585 [SPEAKER_00]: Some way, you lose Schlittler when the other two. 18:22.665 --> 18:27.487 [SPEAKER_00]: When game one split the series, figure it the bleep out, and do it. 18:28.167 --> 18:28.628 [SPEAKER_00]: Couldn't do it. 18:29.048 --> 18:30.649 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was, you know. 18:31.089 --> 18:34.330 [SPEAKER_01]: Charlie, what do you think about bringing in Crochet in this bot and game two? 18:34.350 --> 18:35.291 [SPEAKER_01]: You have an opinion on that? 18:38.572 --> 18:39.213 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't like it. 18:40.293 --> 18:43.115 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't like bringing in Garrett Crochet because this is someone who 18:44.726 --> 18:46.147 [SPEAKER_00]: shit hasn't pitched in months. 18:46.167 --> 18:47.927 [SPEAKER_00]: You're putting him in a high leverage spot. 18:47.987 --> 18:51.969 [SPEAKER_00]: He was getting peppered and tuned up the last couple games he played. 18:53.190 --> 18:56.311 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think Garrett Kershade would have been a game changer from the bullpen. 18:56.911 --> 19:00.993 [SPEAKER_00]: As it was, his only out wasn't even an out. 19:01.013 --> 19:03.274 [SPEAKER_00]: He struck a guy out, but he still reached base. 19:03.314 --> 19:06.195 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he wasn't able to retire a batter. 19:07.212 --> 19:15.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you go to a guy who, again, has not pitched for prolonged period of time in a moment of dire need? 19:16.298 --> 19:22.102 [SPEAKER_00]: Why wouldn't you go to the guy who you've gone to all year for that situation? 19:22.622 --> 19:25.444 [SPEAKER_00]: They had no touch with the game. 19:25.945 --> 19:30.588 [SPEAKER_00]: It was, oh, he was, he was our best pitcher in 2025. 19:31.689 --> 19:33.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's put him in a situation where 19:34.502 --> 19:38.305 [SPEAKER_00]: It could get worse, but let's hope, let's hope that he can do it. 19:38.566 --> 19:42.669 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the hope strategy is not working well for the Boston Red Sox. 19:43.310 --> 19:46.933 [SPEAKER_00]: Not one half, your lineup isn't even a bench player in a major league team. 19:47.494 --> 19:50.356 [SPEAKER_00]: That should be your rule brick when you make your lineup. 19:50.957 --> 20:01.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, if I'm having this guy bat two games in a row or start, I don't know, every game in the series, where would this guy slot if he was on this team or that team? 20:02.170 --> 20:03.891 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he wouldn't be a starter. 20:04.632 --> 20:06.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he wouldn't even be on the team. 20:07.834 --> 20:09.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he shouldn't start off three games. 20:11.116 --> 20:23.624 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a start, there's an idea, but advanced analytics and stupid metrics are destroying our game that we love and destroying the team that we love. 20:24.424 --> 20:27.967 [SPEAKER_00]: And I gotta say, as cute as that 15 20:32.934 --> 20:34.357 [SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was just smoke screen. 20:34.658 --> 20:41.915 [SPEAKER_00]: It was like, you know, there's bad guys in the bank robbing it and they're trying to get out and, you know, 20:43.083 --> 20:48.867 [SPEAKER_00]: Cops come in, SWAT comes in, they got the smoke bombs going off inside the bank and everyone's disoriented. 20:49.227 --> 20:52.048 [SPEAKER_00]: That was basically Red Sox fans across the world. 20:52.589 --> 20:53.469 [SPEAKER_00]: We were disoriented. 20:53.509 --> 21:00.394 [SPEAKER_00]: We were just so enthralled at the fact that we won 15 in a row, nine in a row, went 29 and five or whatever. 21:00.414 --> 21:03.495 [SPEAKER_00]: The heck, the streak was for 34 or 36 games. 21:03.575 --> 21:04.896 [SPEAKER_00]: It was 31 and five. 21:05.016 --> 21:05.657 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember. 21:05.737 --> 21:06.878 [SPEAKER_00]: And at this point, it doesn't matter. 21:06.978 --> 21:07.498 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care. 21:08.884 --> 21:12.667 [SPEAKER_00]: those streaks don't matter because you're not in the playoffs anymore. 21:13.568 --> 21:18.192 [SPEAKER_00]: You could go 120 and 42 and if you get knocked out in the playoffs, 21:19.300 --> 21:22.142 [SPEAKER_00]: No one gives a shit, no one cares because you lost. 21:22.582 --> 21:24.063 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't win the whole thing. 21:24.503 --> 21:28.746 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't win the most important series of the year. 21:29.366 --> 21:30.427 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't even get there. 21:31.448 --> 21:41.734 [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, as annoying as the 2021 baseball team was for us that went to the playoffs, that team was still way better than this team. 21:42.594 --> 21:44.115 [SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't even close. 21:45.975 --> 21:54.319 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm saying injuries were a part of it too because people can say, oh, well, you know, Crochet and Crochet was not the Garrett Crochet of 2025. 21:54.480 --> 22:00.242 [SPEAKER_00]: I a boatload of Crow because I called him Siam for 26 and it just didn't happen. 22:01.023 --> 22:03.244 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going another Red Sox picture of Siam for 27. 22:03.484 --> 22:04.605 [SPEAKER_00]: I might be wrong, but you know what? 22:05.429 --> 22:06.650 [SPEAKER_00]: He's just, Mr. 22:06.690 --> 22:08.571 [SPEAKER_00]: Positively, Mr. just great energy. 22:08.591 --> 22:09.972 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love Peyton Toli. 22:10.533 --> 22:15.857 [SPEAKER_00]: And I feel bad that Peyton Toli wasn't given a little bit more support in his game. 22:16.617 --> 22:22.962 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is super annoying, you know, back to your point about Sunny Gray, because I do want to talk about that for a second. 22:23.382 --> 22:32.589 [SPEAKER_00]: Pulling him out when he does have a really strong track record, track record, you know, proof where there's numbers, you pull him out 22:37.016 --> 22:39.817 [SPEAKER_00]: dumb reasons, none that matter with me. 22:39.837 --> 22:41.657 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't want him to face the third time through the order. 22:42.017 --> 22:42.617 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the order. 22:42.637 --> 22:46.578 [SPEAKER_00]: When he's got a 136 or 126 EO, batting average against. 22:46.638 --> 22:48.259 [SPEAKER_00]: It's so dumb. 22:48.939 --> 22:50.739 [SPEAKER_00]: What did you think about Gary Crochet coming in? 22:50.779 --> 22:51.880 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you like that decision? 22:53.440 --> 22:59.802 [SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm sure you don't remember this, but in the war room, I texted every time this topic came up, go with the horses that got you there. 23:00.402 --> 23:00.822 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 23:00.842 --> 23:04.743 [SPEAKER_01]: With the guys that got you there, I had been saying it for since the topic has been brought up. 23:06.035 --> 23:06.976 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's my issue. 23:07.176 --> 23:26.252 [SPEAKER_01]: It is another example of Sam Kennedy's line machine going to work, because now that I look back at the season, I wish I counted the number of times, Nesson highlighted, during a pitching change, during a low on the action, Gerrochot throwing the alfield. 23:26.548 --> 23:31.690 [SPEAKER_01]: Garrett Crochet thrown in the bullpen his fastball v-low in a bullpen session. 23:31.790 --> 23:34.370 [SPEAKER_01]: Then it was his live bullpen sessions. 23:34.490 --> 23:36.251 [SPEAKER_01]: It's all look what's coming. 23:36.271 --> 23:37.831 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't look at the actual product. 23:37.851 --> 23:39.412 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't look at the roster refill. 23:39.432 --> 23:42.233 [SPEAKER_01]: So it was, it was, but Garrett's coming. 23:42.573 --> 23:43.073 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember him? 23:43.233 --> 23:46.894 [SPEAKER_01]: From last year, second place in the sion behind Toreak School, he's coming. 23:46.974 --> 23:51.416 [SPEAKER_01]: A bull don't focus so much on the fact that he won't start, but he's going to be there. 23:51.976 --> 23:55.177 [SPEAKER_01]: And so they blew the smoke screen up our ass for the better part of 45 23:56.353 --> 24:04.075 [SPEAKER_01]: So when you get to the point, you have to put him in the game because we've been smoking propaganda up your backside for 45 days. 24:04.635 --> 24:09.476 [SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't ready to pitch in that moment and looked to his, it's credit he was too amped up. 24:10.036 --> 24:10.356 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 24:10.876 --> 24:21.778 [SPEAKER_01]: He was probably as strong as he's been since spring training and he got the punch out and Adley Rushman who's not healthy and is overweight, I'll say it. 24:22.442 --> 24:27.949 [SPEAKER_01]: He's slow getting to the baseball and the velocity on the throw down to first wasn't enough. 24:28.650 --> 24:31.173 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and I'm side note, side note. 24:32.533 --> 24:35.814 [SPEAKER_01]: Why the hell is contraris on the back of the bag receiving the ball like a catcher? 24:36.474 --> 24:40.596 [SPEAKER_01]: Why is he not, and I understand you have to play it differently when the throw is coming from that angle. 24:40.936 --> 24:48.119 [SPEAKER_01]: But why are you not left foot on the pitching side corner of the bag ready to extend it at all possible to act like a first baseman? 24:48.279 --> 24:50.260 [SPEAKER_01]: That's just the side note, that's not what I'm going to focus on. 24:50.840 --> 24:59.403 [SPEAKER_01]: So you get jobed by Adley having a bad elbow and being 10 or 20 or whatever pounds overweight and it just doesn't happen quick enough. 25:00.137 --> 25:03.598 [SPEAKER_01]: You have to be able to bounce back, but you haven't pitched in game action. 25:03.938 --> 25:11.221 [SPEAKER_01]: You haven't gone through that emotion of an error, a double play that should have been turned that wasn't, or bearing down with two men on base. 25:11.821 --> 25:14.242 [SPEAKER_01]: You haven't done anything with throw live BP and bullpens. 25:14.562 --> 25:15.962 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, he didn't pitch in April. 25:16.382 --> 25:21.164 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy who'd been away for five months, but they blew the smoke screen up our ass. 25:21.184 --> 25:26.326 [SPEAKER_01]: So here he comes out in the six, because we got to throw him, we got to show him that all that propaganda meant something. 25:30.218 --> 25:32.380 [SPEAKER_01]: is not to win or lose a championship. 25:32.960 --> 25:45.249 [SPEAKER_01]: It's to make sure you renew your Nesson 360, renew your season tickets, and fall for this bullshit again next year, which again, we're facing the exact same issues we were last season, so I'm not expecting it to be any better. 25:47.731 --> 25:51.074 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, Charlie, what is your one? 25:51.194 --> 25:55.997 [SPEAKER_01]: If you could boil it down to one biggest change, you would make going into 2027, what would it be? 25:57.657 --> 25:59.998 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I don't know, invest in offense. 26:00.078 --> 26:03.000 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know, right-handed power bat of some capacity. 26:04.421 --> 26:06.001 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't not at this point. 26:07.002 --> 26:11.244 [SPEAKER_00]: Jared Rand, who I love, and I know I'm probably a lonely island here in the group. 26:11.724 --> 26:16.547 [SPEAKER_00]: I still love him, and I hope he's able to turn around 26, but there's no way to know that that's gonna happen. 26:17.067 --> 26:23.971 [SPEAKER_00]: Curtis Meade, you have no idea what he's going to be when he comes back, maybe he's a 15-home run guy and he hits to 20, you have no idea. 26:24.291 --> 26:25.772 [SPEAKER_00]: You look at Curtis Meade's numbers. 26:27.887 --> 26:32.849 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have to pull him up because he had his best statistical year this year. 26:33.669 --> 26:36.911 [SPEAKER_00]: He had 17 home runs and 48 RBIs. 26:36.991 --> 26:40.892 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even going to mention the ad bat he had with the Boston Red Soxon didn't matter. 26:41.493 --> 26:48.636 [SPEAKER_00]: He walked into this season with five total home runs and 39 career RBIs or something like that. 26:49.196 --> 26:49.336 [SPEAKER_00]: So, 26:51.452 --> 26:56.861 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if we should be expecting him at age 26 to, you know, the assassin from Adelaide. 26:57.221 --> 27:04.613 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's going to come back and just absolutely torch it for the boss and it's like, that'd be great, but I don't know if I can count on that in a consistent basis. 27:05.522 --> 27:07.783 [SPEAKER_00]: you blew it when you didn't get paid a lot so. 27:08.263 --> 27:28.172 [SPEAKER_00]: And now you're forced to get somebody like one of the names that we mentioned earlier, you know, Randy Rosarania or, you know, getting a Cunha Junior if they're even willing to come out here because I mean, some of the other names, like Boba Shet coming to Boston, someone, I talked about this earlier this year, 27:29.808 --> 27:37.932 [SPEAKER_00]: be cute to get, you know, Dante Bashet's son to come play in Boston where Dante played for a cup of coffee. 27:37.972 --> 27:38.852 [SPEAKER_00]: He was here for a year. 27:40.253 --> 27:42.014 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to get another right handed bat. 27:42.134 --> 27:47.937 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's up with Bo Bashet, but he's not the guy who we all thought he was going to be. 27:48.497 --> 27:51.638 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if, you know, I don't want Paul Goldschmidt. 27:51.718 --> 27:52.259 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want 27:53.526 --> 27:56.068 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it does it be great, but he's got a vesting option. 27:56.128 --> 27:57.570 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's not a guarantee. 27:58.010 --> 28:02.934 [SPEAKER_00]: There are no sexy names here that I absolutely would just bend over for. 28:03.234 --> 28:10.320 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't have any of those names, that tells you this FA class, this free agent class is just not 28:11.080 --> 28:12.461 [SPEAKER_00]: Great, I'm not gonna say it's garbage. 28:12.701 --> 28:16.705 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you look at some of the pitching options, and yeah, there's some sexy relievers that I would love to have. 28:16.745 --> 28:22.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I would love to get more on the guy from San Diego, or they have another guy named Jason Adam. 28:22.850 --> 28:26.753 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to get one of those two guys here, but that's probably also not gonna happen. 28:27.033 --> 28:35.640 [SPEAKER_00]: You wanna get a proper closer to match him with a role dish Chapman, because Chapman's only got one year left, and he can't keep doing it forever. 28:35.720 --> 28:37.182 [SPEAKER_00]: Chapman's eventually gonna slow down. 28:37.262 --> 28:38.423 [SPEAKER_00]: It might actually be this year. 28:39.350 --> 28:41.392 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to get a right hand at power about that's it. 28:41.952 --> 28:48.997 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ, if you were listening to me, please dear God, please bring a right hand at power about that is 30 home run power to Boston. 28:49.338 --> 29:00.446 [SPEAKER_00]: Either via trade or via free agency because I don't think Red Sox fans can take another year where we barely have a guy who can at 30 home runs and nobody had 100 RBIs. 29:01.146 --> 29:02.648 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually don't think anyone hit 90. 29:03.348 --> 29:08.511 [SPEAKER_00]: RBI's to be honest, I could be wrong, but I have to double check on that. 29:08.651 --> 29:11.593 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we had even 130 90 guy. 29:12.614 --> 29:14.495 [SPEAKER_00]: Did Wilson Crusher as at 90, I don't think he did. 29:16.576 --> 29:19.258 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, nobody hit 30, so I know we didn't have any 30 90 guys. 29:19.298 --> 29:20.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, there you go. 29:21.639 --> 29:25.461 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought he had like 29, but I or something close to it. 29:31.862 --> 29:39.283 [SPEAKER_00]: That sucks, that's like your second best guys, numbers, 27 home runs and ADRBI's. 29:41.144 --> 29:43.144 [SPEAKER_00]: On some teams, that's like the second, third best guy. 29:43.744 --> 29:48.725 [SPEAKER_01]: So on me, he's going to be handed the second base job if he's healthy to open the season. 29:49.005 --> 29:55.946 [SPEAKER_01]: So, that's, that's just going to happen, the most, one of the most important things that can happen. 29:56.026 --> 29:59.667 [SPEAKER_01]: And obviously your answer is the correct one, a right handed power bat, and to balance 30:01.930 --> 30:08.055 [SPEAKER_01]: being so lopsided, I'm gonna go down the list. 30:08.155 --> 30:10.998 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't, maybe it might not be the first second or even third biggest thing. 30:12.379 --> 30:14.400 [SPEAKER_01]: Getting Adly Rushman's elbow healthy? 30:14.981 --> 30:15.702 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my God, yeah. 30:15.862 --> 30:17.163 [SPEAKER_01]: And getting him into shape. 30:17.523 --> 30:20.566 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna look at it from both the player and the team perspective, okay? 30:21.086 --> 30:22.827 [SPEAKER_01]: You use so many assets. 30:22.888 --> 30:27.812 [SPEAKER_01]: You need Adly Rushman to be who he can be, okay? 30:27.872 --> 30:28.152 [SPEAKER_01]: So, 30:28.713 --> 30:32.816 [SPEAKER_01]: He also with the ability to hit both sides of the plate. 30:33.417 --> 30:36.639 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives you a little bit more balance than you had going in the season, right? 30:37.019 --> 30:45.986 [SPEAKER_01]: And if he's healthy, he'll play every, you know, three out of every five games and by the time you get to August, it's September, probably four out of five games. 30:47.487 --> 30:52.491 [SPEAKER_01]: But from the player's perspective, this is his final year of arbitration. 30:53.192 --> 30:57.555 [SPEAKER_01]: He has every should have, every motivation, 30:58.447 --> 31:08.036 [SPEAKER_01]: to get himself in shape so that he can go make a hundred plus million dollar contract and that should be with the Boston Red Sox if he does it and he has a good year. 31:08.857 --> 31:13.361 [SPEAKER_01]: If he comes in fat and at a shape like he arrived in Boston, shame on him. 31:13.863 --> 31:22.447 [SPEAKER_01]: and shame on the organization for trading for professional athlete in such a demanding position that isn't ready to do it on a day and a day out basis. 31:23.108 --> 31:40.816 [SPEAKER_01]: I get so frustrated with professional athletes that aren't in shape, and this is a guy that should invest in after his, and they can do it this season if they want to, but I would put the onus on him to hit certain performance goals for offseason training. 31:43.010 --> 31:50.796 [SPEAKER_01]: And say, if you come into camp here at your weight and you come into camp in shape, we're going to talk contract before the season starts. 31:52.417 --> 32:02.545 [SPEAKER_01]: And he should be shopping at the bit to show that he's in every day catcher in this league because he stands to make a lot of money in a premium position. 32:04.106 --> 32:06.728 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know anything about the player, obviously, we only had him for two months. 32:07.209 --> 32:09.891 [SPEAKER_01]: I know he's a huge hit and a clubhouse personality wise. 32:10.416 --> 32:11.817 [SPEAKER_01]: But you want to be a true leader. 32:11.997 --> 32:14.358 [SPEAKER_01]: Go get yourself in shape and earn yourself a big contract. 32:14.398 --> 32:22.501 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a huge part of what could be a difference in 2027 as compared to what we just watched this last season from the catching position. 32:24.788 --> 32:30.912 [SPEAKER_00]: He plays a Premier position at the end of the day, Adley Rushman on your team should make you better. 32:31.112 --> 32:32.813 [SPEAKER_00]: It shouldn't be a hindrance. 32:32.973 --> 32:46.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, there are those fake podcasters out there that are complaining about every single player and you can say all you want about it, but I would do Adley Rushman at 60% better than 90% of the catchers out there. 32:47.883 --> 32:53.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Cal Raleigh who went off last year, shadow of his former self. 32:53.588 --> 32:55.789 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even think he had 20 home runs this year. 32:56.170 --> 32:58.191 [SPEAKER_00]: Guy was just dog in it. 32:58.532 --> 32:59.032 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me see. 32:59.913 --> 33:01.894 [SPEAKER_00]: 23 home runs 69 RBIs. 33:02.215 --> 33:03.876 [SPEAKER_00]: He had 60 home runs last year. 33:03.896 --> 33:05.717 [SPEAKER_00]: He had 69 RBIs this year. 33:06.338 --> 33:07.479 [SPEAKER_00]: Shadow of his former self. 33:08.279 --> 33:09.661 [SPEAKER_00]: The way that he's playing baseball, 33:10.494 --> 33:13.722 [SPEAKER_00]: He had 150 less at bats and almost the same number of strikeouts. 33:13.902 --> 33:15.145 [SPEAKER_00]: He also needs to get right. 33:15.466 --> 33:18.834 [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, he's not our problem, but I 100% agree with you, man. 33:20.378 --> 33:23.321 [SPEAKER_00]: get back in shape, get right because the team is going to depend on you. 33:23.642 --> 33:35.375 [SPEAKER_00]: And who knows, maybe Adly Rushman can be that, you know, you get that right handed power about, Wilson Contreras, Adly Rushman, maybe even say it on Curtis Mead, all 20 home runs. 33:35.835 --> 33:38.318 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you don't need a guy that hits 30, 40 home runs. 33:38.358 --> 33:41.081 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you can survive with five guys that can hit 20. 33:41.922 --> 33:44.883 [SPEAKER_00]: That'd be awesome, but everyone's going to have to light up this year. 33:44.903 --> 33:49.926 [SPEAKER_00]: You had Wilson Contreras, Jaren Durran, and who am I missing? 33:49.946 --> 33:50.726 [SPEAKER_00]: Why the other 20? 33:51.967 --> 33:52.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Really hurt. 33:53.025 --> 33:58.347 [SPEAKER_00]: will your brain, you thank you so much, I appreciate it, and will you're also could be a 20 guy? 33:58.547 --> 34:00.547 [SPEAKER_00]: The problem with will you're a sea streaky man? 34:00.807 --> 34:09.790 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he could start the year off five homers 20 RBIs in the first seven games and then the rest of the month have three RBIs in hit 116 which is so annoying. 34:10.230 --> 34:14.651 [SPEAKER_00]: All that talent swings for the fences, Roman Anthony also needs to be healthy. 34:15.032 --> 34:16.332 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't stand it. 34:18.923 --> 34:23.826 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I can do another year of Roman Anthony being injured or having a risk problem or something like that. 34:24.246 --> 34:27.068 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's for, I know it's more frustrating. 34:27.328 --> 34:34.733 [SPEAKER_00]: Having a player who you drafted fourth overalls, mommy and daddy complained that you're not getting playing time, that's just annoying. 34:35.413 --> 34:41.997 [SPEAKER_00]: But you being injured and having a risk problems, I don't know man, maybe try both hands. 34:42.718 --> 34:47.601 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what to tell you because like good God, how is your risk this week? 34:48.288 --> 34:49.709 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's my take on Anthony. 34:50.229 --> 34:52.070 [SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned the week for age and class. 34:53.611 --> 34:54.632 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to trade mate. 34:54.652 --> 34:57.774 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to use major assets if you want to try to upgrade this roster. 34:57.794 --> 35:00.196 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't throw, and I already can hear it. 35:00.636 --> 35:06.340 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't start with me, get picking our trash, put in a barrel, and saying give us a great player. 35:06.460 --> 35:11.223 [SPEAKER_01]: I can already give them, give them Dorane, give them Yoshida, give them down. 35:11.263 --> 35:11.963 [SPEAKER_01]: Tanner, how? 35:12.003 --> 35:14.465 [SPEAKER_01]: Give them Cutter Crawford, we'll go get your dog on Albris. 35:14.685 --> 35:15.906 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what those four players get? 35:18.755 --> 35:20.516 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to get an impact bat. 35:20.716 --> 35:22.737 [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to give them Roman Anthony. 35:23.697 --> 35:30.760 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to forget his name because in the moment, but our number one prospect for the shorts of the table. 35:30.780 --> 35:31.420 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Franklin RS. 35:31.560 --> 35:32.320 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Franklin RS. 35:32.820 --> 35:39.503 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to use an Anthony in areas, a Raffaella, to go get somebody to improve the roster. 35:40.063 --> 35:44.625 [SPEAKER_01]: And to me, if they hold on to Anthony just for the sake of holding on to him, shame on them, 35:45.221 --> 35:52.223 [SPEAKER_01]: He should absolutely be made available to anybody that's willing to take on his upside so that we can go get a known commodity. 35:52.263 --> 35:53.943 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, it's not gonna take just Anthony. 35:54.463 --> 36:00.224 [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna take Anthony, it's gonna take a bunch of prospects or an abray you, it's gonna take somebody. 36:00.704 --> 36:05.085 [SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm over the Anthony experiment personally. 36:05.125 --> 36:10.666 [SPEAKER_01]: I think we've seen enough with who he is and his inability to play through injuries. 36:13.473 --> 36:16.074 [SPEAKER_01]: the entity topic might be 20 minutes by itself. 36:16.154 --> 36:18.455 [SPEAKER_01]: So that might be a topic for the next show, Charlie. 36:20.076 --> 36:27.620 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll say this much because I find it very difficult for someone to come up with a different answer than what you just said. 36:28.758 --> 36:30.019 [SPEAKER_00]: that could appear logical. 36:30.679 --> 36:44.889 [SPEAKER_00]: So for those people that are listening, that disagree, I admire how you never let evidence interfere with your opinions, and I would agree with you, but then we both be wrong, okay? 36:45.509 --> 36:55.356 [SPEAKER_00]: So remember this, you might be intelligent for some of those listeners that disagree, it just doesn't show where it matters, which is the Boston Red Sox right now. 36:56.214 --> 37:04.080 [SPEAKER_00]: They're in a dire situation, a dire spa, they need to fix it because this is not Boston Red Sox baseball. 37:04.500 --> 37:08.923 [SPEAKER_00]: This is Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball. 37:08.943 --> 37:09.463 [SPEAKER_01]: Not that. 37:09.563 --> 37:11.205 [SPEAKER_01]: It's Fayette's Tampa Bay. 37:11.385 --> 37:12.846 [SPEAKER_01]: It's Fayette's Milwaukee Breaks. 37:12.866 --> 37:13.226 [SPEAKER_00]: Big better. 37:13.686 --> 37:15.267 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's what it is. 37:15.348 --> 37:20.211 [SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to follow the model, but they have stupid people trying to operate it. 37:20.391 --> 37:21.652 [SPEAKER_01]: That's really essentially what it is. 37:22.032 --> 37:25.955 [SPEAKER_01]: We have the short bus kids, and they have the big boys that actually know what they're doing. 37:26.720 --> 37:31.882 [SPEAKER_01]: and no baseball and use analytics, but don't let it steer them completely in direction. 37:32.182 --> 37:36.564 [SPEAKER_01]: This is like the office episode where Michael's just using GPS and drives into a pond. 37:36.884 --> 37:38.105 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Boston Red Sox. 37:38.465 --> 37:54.392 [SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, the brewers are like sure, we'll use the GPS, but we'll also make note that there's traffic, and maybe we should pivot here and pivot there, and maybe we should look at the actual baseball players personality and propensity to perform in late and clutch circumstances. 37:55.850 --> 38:05.757 [SPEAKER_01]: Nope, we'll put Miller back and again, we'll put in crochet on five months of not being in competitive situations and that's the problem. 38:07.258 --> 38:18.605 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the problem and you should be concerned that Brazil and Tracy got extended when they did because Tracy is a puppet and Brazil is running every single inch of this organization below same candidate. 38:19.846 --> 38:22.709 [SPEAKER_00]: the finger the finger puppets in and the I like Tracy Marinette. 38:23.010 --> 38:23.230 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 38:23.250 --> 38:23.931 [SPEAKER_00]: I like Tracy too. 38:23.951 --> 38:25.072 [SPEAKER_00]: I like Tracy too. 38:25.713 --> 38:29.717 [SPEAKER_01]: It's for Tracy to become a lifetime manager. 38:30.413 --> 38:37.057 [SPEAKER_01]: A guy who coaches gets multiple cracks at it, maybe even gets to a big playoff situation, gets to a world series. 38:37.697 --> 38:41.679 [SPEAKER_01]: At some point, he's got to stick his foot in the ground and gone, not doing it today. 38:41.859 --> 38:45.822 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna trust Sonny Gray to get this out and then I'm still having for three more in the six. 38:46.322 --> 38:54.386 [SPEAKER_01]: Or I understand what you're saying with the analytics, with this pinch hit situation, but this guy's been hot and I'm gonna let him, and he's been great in clutch situation. 38:54.426 --> 38:56.868 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm gonna damn the analytics and go with the eye test. 38:57.429 --> 39:01.405 [SPEAKER_01]: And until Tracy can show me that he's willing to do that, I don't trust him. 39:04.523 --> 39:05.664 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't add anything to that. 39:06.745 --> 39:08.286 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's going to be what we have to do. 39:08.306 --> 39:11.209 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to go back to before and it looks baseball. 39:11.769 --> 39:12.250 [SPEAKER_00]: And the past. 39:12.330 --> 39:12.690 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 39:12.730 --> 39:14.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Charlie, before I came on here, I was so happy. 39:14.992 --> 39:17.675 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm bouncing around my house, football season's back on. 39:18.095 --> 39:18.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 39:18.455 --> 39:20.077 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, winning day a gambling. 39:20.097 --> 39:21.017 [SPEAKER_01]: Like it's all been good. 39:21.338 --> 39:25.902 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I had to revert back to baseball for one more Sunday night podcast with you. 39:26.202 --> 39:27.383 [SPEAKER_01]: And now I'm in a pissy mood. 39:28.717 --> 39:31.598 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, I'd apologize, but you know I'm not sorry. 39:31.638 --> 39:33.218 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a great song, it's full. 39:33.398 --> 39:37.740 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a piece of shit John Henry and his lines go back executive, same Kennedy. 39:38.440 --> 39:39.140 [SPEAKER_00]: There it is, man. 39:39.640 --> 39:40.601 [SPEAKER_00]: I got nothing else, my friend. 39:40.661 --> 39:42.501 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything you'd like to wrap it up with? 39:44.562 --> 39:45.102 [SPEAKER_01]: Go pat. 39:46.162 --> 39:47.663 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 39:47.703 --> 39:48.523 [SPEAKER_00]: That was a wild one. 39:48.543 --> 39:50.484 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't see that one coming. 39:50.524 --> 39:52.504 [SPEAKER_01]: That's perfect, they'll have to need better nerds. 39:52.784 --> 39:53.965 [SPEAKER_01]: That we do, my friend. 39:54.105 --> 39:54.345 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 39:55.321 --> 39:55.561 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 39:55.822 --> 39:56.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed. 39:56.362 --> 39:56.643 [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed. 39:57.223 --> 40:00.807 [SPEAKER_00]: That is going to do it for your basters of Boston baseball from Jeremy and Charlie. 40:01.348 --> 40:02.489 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for joining us. 40:02.649 --> 40:07.234 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want more basterds of Boston baseball content, check out basterds of Boston baseball.com. 40:07.394 --> 40:07.835 [SPEAKER_00]: Have a good one.