00:00So what's next?
00:01Well, Greg, the interim manager of your Boston Red Sox, Chad Tracy,
00:05joined Rich, Ken, and Ted yesterday.
00:07And Ken asked Chad Tracy about Adley Rushman.
00:11We can hear from Chad Tracy.
00:13And Adley's healthy, and he'll be back in just whenever the lineup says.
00:18Yeah, Adley, he's dealing with some stuff with that elbow.
00:21I said that yesterday.
00:22We're not completely out of the woods.
00:24We are still monitoring and trying to give him appropriate time
00:28to, like, make sure that thing's okay.
00:31It's probably something we're going to deal with off and on through the year.
00:34They're looking at different avenues to help alleviate that.
00:36So we have to be mindful of that because, just like him, he's active,
00:40but, like, keeping him healthy and doing what we need to do
00:43to make sure we keep him healthy is important.
00:44So, yeah, there will be days where he's not in there.
00:47Probably won't be today, but we have to keep in mind, like,
00:51how do we do this properly to make sure that he stays active and healthy.
00:54Okay.
00:56We're going to be dealing with that all season?
00:58Don't they have physicals when they make a trade?
01:01I don't know.
01:02Is this another issue where the medical staff rushed a guy into gameplay
01:10before he was ready to get into gameplay because they had made the trade?
01:15What happened with Curtis Meade happened with Curtis Meade?
01:17And I will say good news on Meade.
01:20You see him in the outfield with a glove on,
01:25no brace or anything on the hand throwing the baseball.
01:28So, I don't know.
01:29Maybe he'll –
01:30I feel like that's a pain tolerance thing, right?
01:31Maybe you'll get him back, I guess.
01:34I don't know.
01:34Maybe they shouldn't have called you Dr. Hill.
01:36Maybe not, Curtis.
01:38That was a whiff by Kennedy.
01:40Maybe not.
01:40I mean, if your two big acquisitions can't play in the playoffs?
01:44Yeah.
01:44Yeah.
01:44Yeah, that would be a major, major problem.
01:46Big issue.
01:46This is a huge – and this isn't – he was injured when you traded for him.
01:51Yeah.
01:52That one, the Rushman one is a little bit more of like I put that on –
01:56I would put that on Bresbaugh and them.
01:58The Meade thing was just the freak accident.
02:00You know what I mean?
02:01Like I wouldn't put that on them at all.
02:03Well, you know who's available if needed to get behind the plate.
02:08I know who you're going to go with.
02:10Gasper the Friendly Ghost.
02:11There you go.
02:11He is available.
02:13Oh, we got to keep workshopping that.
02:15My guy.
02:15Right.
02:16I like Mitch's better.
02:18Sorry.
02:18What was Mitch – what did he have?
02:20The great Gasper.
02:21Oh.
02:22These are all not great.
02:24Gasper the Friendly Ghost is kind of good.
02:25Yeah.
02:26Like you don't expect it, and then all of a sudden he's amazing.
02:29Yeah.
02:29Casper was kind of like that.
02:31He was an underdog.
02:32Bat is money, though.
02:33Yeah.
02:34Like – and every time he hits a dong, I get a million DMs from people who are like,
02:39that's my guy, Mickey G.
02:41Isn't he on a list now with like Ted Williams and Barry Bonds?
02:44Yeah, that's crazy.
02:45A whole PS in a single month?
02:46Yes.
02:47That's ridiculous.
02:49They should freeze his head.
02:50It's unbelievable.
02:52Yeah.
02:53Lou was talking about it on the broadcast the other night.
02:56It's historical.
02:59Yeah.
02:59And that's – you love – like a guy who's been –
03:01And they wanted to send – they did send him down.
03:04I know.
03:04They did.
03:04They sent him down.
03:05I know.
03:06But don't you love seeing that happen?
03:08God, Curtis, you're a savant to a guy who's been like a journeyman around the league for a while.
03:13I absolutely love it.
03:15It reminds me, but it's far better now.
03:17When the Red Sox acquired Gabe the Body Kapler for his first like three weeks, he was like Babe Ruth.
03:22Yeah.
03:23It was awesome.
03:25Lou Malone was like that.
03:26He was a journeyman who got hot in the playoffs.
03:28Right.
03:28A bunch of big hits.
03:29Yes.
03:29First at bat was a home run.
03:30I mean, kind of cool.
03:32Yeah.
03:33He's our version of – I think the afternoon show calls him Mickey Mantle Gasper.
03:38Yes.
03:38I don't like that.
03:39How do you want him to make that joke?
03:41Is that what – yeah.
03:42So there you go.
03:43Sounds like a Ken idea.
03:44We got to come up with better nicknames.
03:45We're really bad at nicknames.
03:46Well, I think that – I think that goes back to his dad because his dad also is named Mickey
03:53and I think there's some – they used to call his dad Mickey Mantle.
03:56I think so.
03:58I do like the great Gatsby though.
04:01You said that was Twitch?
04:02I mean that was Twitch, Mitch?
04:03New Hampshire guy, by the way.
04:05Oh.
04:05We love New Hampshire.
04:06All right.
04:07We love Bernie.
04:08Oh, I love New Hampshire.
04:09Greatest state in America.
04:10You love New Hampshire.
04:11You love Tampa Beach.
04:12I can't stop thinking about that chicken parm.
04:14Oh, my God.
04:15It's a long drive.
04:17Any chance we can get to studios now?
04:18Which chicken parm?
04:19From Tuscan.
04:20Salem, New Hampshire.
04:21Oh, the other one the other day, that chicken parm.
04:23Oh, that was so good.
04:23Tuscan was good.
04:24Really good.
04:25Yeah, it was really good.
04:26Keep rubbing it in, guys.
04:27Well, I say we cannot overstate how good it was.
04:30No, it was really good.
04:31It wouldn't have traveled well back.
04:33I thought about it.
04:34I appreciate it.
04:35Thanks.
04:35Yeah.
04:36So now you're going to go.
04:37We got to go back, I guess, and regrade Breslow when it comes to the trade deadline.
04:43Right?
04:43I mean, he can't account for injuries.
04:45No, but the Rushman thing, to Curtis's point, like, you can have a good understanding of
04:54what you're getting.
04:55Because the Rushman, was it an elbow?
04:58Elbow.
04:58And I look to see, like, has he dealt with this before?
05:00He hasn't.
05:01But when you dive into his injuries, he's injury prone.
05:05Right.
05:05But when he was hurt in Baltimore, was it because of the elbow?
05:09No, that's what I'm saying.
05:09No, it wasn't that.
05:10There's just a million other things that he's been banged up with.
05:13All right.
05:14Yeah, that was kind of the knock on him.
05:16Yeah.
05:17Was, you know, was an all-star, but also is hurt a lot.
05:21So, I mean, he's been on the IL, like, some ridiculous amount, like, six times this season.
05:27Yeah.
05:28This year, he's had a concussion, left ankle inflammation, left wrist inflammation, and
05:32the right elbow hyperextension.
05:34Same.
05:352025, right oblique strain, left oblique strain, minor ailments, dealt with brief day-to-day
05:40designations for a head injury and a hand injury.
05:43Yeah.
05:44Back and hand bumps in 2024, and an elbow precursor, which was something he managed with right elbow
05:53irritation during his college days.
05:55I'm just kidding.
05:56Oh, no, are you serious, or are you making that up?
05:58No, but it wasn't from college, but yes, right elbow irritation in 2022.
06:02All right.
06:03Not to mention the eye thing.
06:05Right.
06:05He said the eye.
06:06He's been dealing with the eye thing.
06:07Greg copies and pastes that and sends it to trainer Dan.
06:10This is what I've been dealing with since 2024.
06:12And also, 2021, he fell on a puppy gate.
06:15Yeah.
06:16I mean, definitely an injury-prone guy.
06:19Yeah.
06:21I mean, and they traded, like, their whole farm system for him.
06:25They did.
06:26That was, that may be, we may look back on that and say that that was not balanced in
06:32the Red Sox' favor.
06:33Well, Craig, not to go back to a rough spot, but could you say this may be Breslow's Waterloo?
06:38It could be.
06:39It quite possibly could be.
06:41And Curtis, you said he had a hyper extension of the elbow this season.
06:45Right elbow hyper extension.
06:46And I'm sorry, it is his right now, too.
06:48Yeah.
06:49His right elbow.
06:49Yeah.
06:50Yeah.
06:50So, that's what I mean.
06:51That is something that when you kind of go back and you're going, all right, if he doesn't
06:55play in the postseason, that's something you got a, you know, a guy who's a catcher who
07:01obviously throws with his right arm, having an elbow injury before you traded for him
07:08is something that your antennas might want to go up on.
07:11This is wild.
07:11Just in the last two years, this is according to, I don't know what this website is, Fox
07:16Sports, wrist, concussion, hamstring, ankle, abdomen, oblique, oblique, head, back, illness.
07:21That's just the last, like, 10 months.
07:25The obliques are scary, especially for baseball players.
07:28Well, of course, the fat shamers in the Twitch chat who are normally coming at me are now coming
07:33at him saying he's overweight.
07:35What's the problem?
07:36That's not right.
07:36He doesn't look overweight.
07:37No.
07:38Yeah, but that doesn't affect your elbow.
07:40Look at the, um, look at the, who's the catcher for the, uh, uh, Toronto Blue Jays?
07:45The little, the little short fat guy.
07:47Alejandro Kirk.
07:48Yeah.
07:48I mean, it's not going to affect your elbow.
07:50Who's that fat guy?
07:51Who's the fat guy?
07:52Short fat guy, too.
07:54I mean, it doesn't affect his elbow.
07:57It might affect the fact that he can't get down to first base in, you know, under a minute,
08:01but I guess, you know, you live with that.
08:07Has he, hasn't he been thrown out from right field?
08:09Yeah.
08:10He got thrown off in right field in one of the Red Sox series.
08:12I, I, I don't remember if it was this year or last year.
08:15I mean, Josh, Josh, Josh Naylor is rather big boned.
08:18Um, seems to be okay.
08:21Although what he's wearing like a full boot or at least, at least it looks like that.
08:27Like what, at what point are you not allowed to wear a full body armor when you're playing
08:32major league baseball?
08:35I think you should ask Roman Anthony.
08:37He wears a ton.
08:38I mean, I would wear it when these guys are throwing 95, 98 miles an hour.
08:42I'd be up there looking like Robocop.
08:44All right.
08:45Was there anything else?
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