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Ken Laird breaks down the Red Sox end-of-season press conference, including an angry phone call from Caller John!
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00:00They did a post-mortem the other day, Chad Tracy and those guys.
00:02And the first thing I wanted to know was, you know,
00:05is Bresbott going to throw Chad Tracy under the bus for the calls that were made
00:11to the dugout for Eric Miller to come in there and yanking your starters super early?
00:15And he didn't even have to throw him under the bus.
00:17Chad Tracy just said, I gotcha, and pushed him out of the way before the bullet hit him in the
00:22chest.
00:22He was like the Secret Service agent standing in front of the president and taking one.
00:28And I thought that was awful.
00:30And we never got Breslow asked directly what he thought of the four and two thirds quick hooks
00:35because Tracy did such a good job jumping in front of the bullet.
00:38Nobody else followed up.
00:39Right.
00:39I would just be like, hey, okay, well, if it was Chad Tracy's decision, what did you think of that?
00:46What did you think of that, Jared Bres?
00:47And nobody asked that.
00:48But I didn't listen to the entire thing because just like when they announced Chad Tracy was the full-time
00:53manager,
00:54that press conference went on for an hour.
00:56And I'm like, dude, what are we doing?
00:57There's nothing that you can say in an hour that I need to hear.
01:01But apparently there was some fantastic nuggets that I did not listen to, which Ken, you know,
01:06he was like the guys in the Da Vinci Code who whipped themselves in the back, Opus Dei, who loved
01:10the pain.
01:11He just sat and watched the entire thing.
01:14And you took some gold nuggets from this, did you not?
01:16Well, here are my, I whittled it down to four fantastic excuses that we got from the Bresbot.
01:21Okay, so it's my Bresbot buffet of excuses, which I want you guys to pick your favorite.
01:26Okay, I got this is, what is this called?
01:27The Bresbot buffet?
01:29Yeah, his excuse buffet.
01:30Of excuses, the excuse buffet.
01:31Okay, what is number one?
01:32All right, number one, this is the longest clip of the bunch, 27 seconds.
01:35But here he is talking about their three-month pace.
02:04All right, so we got that going.
02:06Item number one, we were on 104-win pace for three months.
02:11The balls on that guy.
02:13Wow.
02:14Did he really say that?
02:15He did.
02:16This is the, you just got embarrassed in the first round of the playoffs.
02:21Like, embarrassed.
02:22And it's your fault.
02:24For the second year in a row.
02:25And for the second, and it's your stupid printouts and analytics.
02:28It's your fault that they're out.
02:31And you have the cojones to say we were on 104-game-winning pace.
02:39Well, because he was getting very upset because people kept saying it was just the streak.
02:42You know, other than that streak, you guys suck.
02:46But, no, no, it was more than that, you know?
02:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:57Oh, my God.
02:58That is just not what people want to hear.
03:02All right, that's number one.
03:03At some point, you just have to sit there and say we blew it.
03:07And, listen, it might not make people change their minds about you, but we're not going to hate you anymore.
03:12I mean, we, like, dude, that just makes us, A, hate you, B, not trust you, and C, carry our
03:18fiery rage of a thousand suns with us through the offseason.
03:23That's the last taste you're going to leave in our mouth.
03:26Oh, God, that sucks.
03:27Well, he wasn't done.
03:28Now, yesterday we did play this, but it was so good.
03:30I couldn't believe he said this, actually, thinking back on it.
03:33This is item number two on the Brez excuse buffet.
03:48Is that a regular season, boy?
03:50A couple regular season sweeps and did not lose to the White Sox.
03:53Just throw the White Sox, the newsstandard.
03:54Don't forget that.
03:55We beat them in the regular season.
03:56Can you believe just, like, randomly saying that you swept the Yankees in one series after what just happened to
04:03you?
04:03It's unreal.
04:05All right, now, people have been critical of their power, but you wouldn't know that from listening to Craig yesterday.
04:10He's very proud of the Magnificent Seven.
04:18Who are those seven guys, and how many home runs did they hit?
04:22Well, I have that one.
04:22This is interesting.
04:23That you didn't bring in a good enough guy.
04:25Yeah.
04:25No, listen to these career numbers right here from these guys.
04:28Mickey Gasper, the big man, had ten.
04:30Oh, ten home runs, baby.
04:32Andrew Monasterio had six.
04:33Oh, six, baby.
04:35We had Nick Sogard with five.
04:37All right, Nick.
04:38And Tony Seagulls had three.
04:39There we go.
04:40Career years.
04:42Three, five, six, and ten.
04:43Way to go.
04:44And the others were slightly impressive.
04:46I mean, we did have Wilson going from 24 to 27.
04:49Abreu went up from 22 to 24.
04:51Uh-huh.
04:52And Durbin went up from 11 to 13.
04:53Can I tell you a stat that blew me away when it comes to the Red Sox hitting this year
04:58versus last year?
04:59What's that?
04:59But they scored 97 more runs last year than they did this year.
05:07Oh, wow.
05:08Oh, wow.
05:0997.
05:10That's insane.
05:11By the way, he's talking about these guys hitting numbers?
05:15Come on.
05:15He's owning himself.
05:16Right.
05:16He said, my team that I put together is so bad that we had seven people have all-time highs
05:22in home runs, and we still sucked.
05:24You know, I think it's important to call out that we had, I think it was something like seven guys
05:28who set career highs in home runs this season.
05:30That's on you, and it wasn't good enough.
05:31It means you didn't have good enough players.
05:33And by the numbers, they hit 23 less home runs this year and went back from 15th best in baseball
05:37to 26th best in baseball.
05:39So that was number three.
05:41Real quick, real quick.
05:42Can I just go to – let's go to John online.
05:44Right in the middle of a buffet.
05:45I'm sorry.
05:46John, what's going on, man?
05:47How you doing?
05:50Oh!
05:53There you go, buddy.
06:13There you go, man.
06:25Not even close.
06:26It's inferior.
06:27And you never got closer than six.
06:29So for me to have to listen to you regurgitate your greatness for 37 games and then parlay that with
06:38Chad Tracy falling on a grenade for you,
06:42he sold his soul to become a manager of the Boston Red Sox.
06:46That wasn't an interim.
06:47His father played.
06:49His father managed.
06:50He played.
06:51He managed.
06:52And a week before the playoffs start, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I got to listen to Chad
06:58Tracy tell me it was his choice to take his two best pitchers out of the game before they're ready
07:06to come out.
07:06I mean, these guys could have gone three, four more innings apiece to go to Eric F. and Miller.
07:12Are we – the world has gone mad.
07:15It doesn't even make sense anymore.
07:17Why don't we go out and get dressed in the uniform and play the games?
07:21Why don't we just put 18 laptops out there with 18 pencil protectors and we'll see which pencil stays the
07:29sharpest, the longest, and we'll give him the president's trophy because that one deserves the World Series.
07:35It has nothing to do with who hits the ball or who throws the ball.
07:40It's who can type up the best formula.
07:42Every one of them can get stuffed in a cruise ship with COVID, go straight to hell.
07:48This sport has lost all credibility until they find a way to stuff all of these people in one collective
07:57locker.
07:58Oh, dude.
07:59I'm standing up right now, John.
08:00I'm standing up.
08:01It's going to be the winner.
08:03Nerds have ruined the game of baseball.
08:06There is no question.
08:08And he's right, and I said it when it happened, and there's no bigger – as you know, almost to
08:14a comic extent, there's no bigger defender of Chad Tracy.
08:18Dude sold his soul to the devil.
08:20He who signed that contract to get the interim tag ticket away, took the money, and was like, I will
08:25do whatever you say.
08:26I will take all the blame.
08:28And he's right.
08:29John is right because Chad comes from a baseball family.
08:33Both of them played.
08:34His dad played.
08:36He should know better.
08:36That is not something that somebody who knows the game of baseball would do.
08:40That was instruction from Johnny Five up in the front office, the computer, shooting out spreadsheets.
08:46All right.
08:46You got one more?
08:47Yeah, one more.
08:47I think you saved the best for last.
08:49Well, I mean, I think this is very impressive.
08:51It's short, but it's sweet.
08:52And this is getting right to the heart of the matter.
08:54In the postseason, this is – I can't believe he actually said this.
08:57So we have the 104-win pace.
08:58Okay.
08:58We have – we swept the Yankees and the Rays in the regular season, and we didn't lose to the
09:02White Sox.
09:03We have seven home run hitting record setters, and now we have this.
09:07Those games were very, very close, you know, for the first five innings or so.
09:13Oh, my God.
09:15Thanks.
09:15He's like, we were a good team for four and two-thirds innings in those two games.
09:18Last day, we hung in there half the games in the postseason.
09:21Hang on.
09:22This is my favorite.
09:23Play that again.
09:23The games were very, very close, you know, for the first five innings or so.
09:29I almost threw this.
09:30I almost threw – I'm not kidding.
09:32I had this tendency to just pick this up and throw it at the wall.
09:34We were a good first-half team, but we sucked in the second half.
09:37Like, what are we doing here, man?
09:39That's my favorite excuse of all the excuses.
09:41I would just raise my hands and say, excuse me, yeah, be in the back.
09:46How many innings are in a baseball game?
09:49Well, you know, sometimes it's called after six, so.
09:53Those games were very, very close, you know, for the first five innings or so.
09:58Wow.
09:58All right.
09:59That is just – that's crazy.
10:01I'm almost glad I didn't hear that until now.
10:03Can I do one for dessert?
10:04This is a short – this is not an excuse.
10:06Give me a little over dessert.
10:08Shoot in my veins.
10:09So this is an admission that they have a problem, but this is kind of a bad problem to have.
10:13Here's Brett.
10:13We're very familiar with our offensive production against, you know, pitchers that throw 95-plus
10:19and 97-plus, and I think there are ways to train that.
10:22I also think that, you know, we have to be aware of roster construction and making sure
10:28that we have a resilient offense.
10:29Okay, so a lot of guys throw 95-plus.
10:34They're aware they have a problem, but there's ways to train that, and they want to have a
10:38resilient offense.
10:40It's just – like I said, the whole thing was just very unsatisfying the whole day.
10:48The whole presser.
10:51That is –
10:51You know what's crazy?
10:53They waited to have this press conference.
10:55A long time, I thought.
10:56Right.
10:57They had the whole weekend.
10:57And this is what they come up with?
10:59Right.
11:00They're waiting to – I'm guessing that they train – you know, they have presidential
11:05debates.
11:06They train the presidents to have, you know, no questions are coming and how to react to certain
11:11questions.
11:11Like, there's nobody serious running this thing.
11:14Like, there's no adult in the room.
11:16We didn't lose a game to the White Sox this season.
11:18Are you kidding me?
11:19Like, just sit them down.
11:21Thank you, John, in the car.
11:24We were very, very close, you know, for the first five innings.
11:27How are the White Sox doing right now with guys that you traded away?
11:31How are they doing?
11:31Just sit there and eat it.
11:33When someone crushes you for how bad the season was and how poorly things ended, take it.
11:40Sit there.
11:41Take the L.
11:42Take the pain.
11:43Absorb it.
11:44Because that's what you're doing.
11:45You're absorbing it from us.
11:47But what you just did is you took it, rolled it into a bowl covered in poo, and threw it
11:51back in our faces, and now we're all pissed.
11:54The totality of the record from, you know, from July 1st on, right?
11:58That was three months of playing, I think, like, 104 kind of win pace.
12:06All right.
12:06How hard is it to just say, you know what?
12:08We're not satisfied.
12:10We're going to try and do better.
12:11We had high hopes, but it just didn't work out.
12:14Like, how hard is it to say that?
12:16You know who does a great job?
12:18It's Cam Neely.
12:19Cam Neely does it better than everybody.
12:20Yeah, Cam Neely sits there, and he's, like, legit pissed.
12:24You can see that he probably wants to leave the room, and, like, I almost did, throw stuff.
12:28Yeah.
12:29That was, like, them, like, sunshine and roses covering our asses, lying through their teeth.
12:34They think we're idiots.
12:36Justifying, rationalizing, and qualifying.
12:38John Henry, Linda Henry, Henry family are never selling the Boston Red Sox.
12:43Oh, we're screwed.