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00:00Greg Breslow the other day discussing the state of the Red Sox.
00:04It's very strong.
00:05Keith, he says, I don't know how it's possible, but they got blown out by the Yankees.
00:13And yet a few days later, I feel even worse.
00:16Same.
00:16Like that was bad.
00:18It was bad.
00:18It's strong to quite strong.
00:20No, I don't feel strong.
00:21I don't feel strong about this team at all.
00:24Me neither.
00:25I have a similar.
00:26I feel stronger than some of the doomsdayers out there saying they're going to just crash
00:29and burn, but I don't feel strong at all about specifically their ceiling under Craig Breslow.
00:35Yeah.
00:35Chad Tracy.
00:36I'm shooketh about Chad Tracy.
00:38I think the overall direction that they have, you know, it's funny.
00:41I think you and I agree on the overall outlook.
00:44If there is baseball next season, as much as like Heim Bloom is a classic, I'm going to
00:49win 78 games every year.
00:51Craig Breslow might be, I'm going to win 88 games and then lose in the wildcard round.
00:55Yeah.
00:55Yeah.
00:55And then just not be prepared, be overmatched.
00:57And we're going to get burned by our own computers and our philosophy.
01:01And it's not going to be good enough.
01:03And we're not going to hit enough home runs and we're going to pitch our tails off.
01:07But then there's going to be times where we don't.
01:10And against some of like the elite hitting or whatever, we're not going to have it.
01:12And then we're not going to be able to hit the elite pitching.
01:14And we're going to run into a team that has guys that throw a hundred miles an hour.
01:17And we're going to be lucky to foul it off.
01:20And we're going to seem like we're overmatched and we're not going to get a guy on second
01:23base against Cam Schlittler.
01:25Like that just feels like the inevitability.
01:28Maybe it's because of what's happened in the last two years.
01:29It'd be nice if they're going to lose to the Yankees, if they could lose one like eight,
01:32six, not just another one where just the bats are not even put some runs on the board.
01:37Yeah.
01:37Show a little life.
01:38Yeah.
01:38If you're going to get swept by the Yankees, they don't have that.
01:40We're losing three games like they did two years ago to the Yankees.
01:42Just try a few runs on for size because as much as we all would like them to spend more
01:47money and there are certain players that we liked in free agency that they didn't get.
01:50I still think overall they have too much talent to bottom out like this is not going to be
01:56one of those last place teams like if they have Garrett Crochet, if he's back with Peyton
02:00Tolley and with Ranger Suarez, that's as good of a trio as anybody outside of the Yankees
02:05have.
02:05And I agree with that.
02:06And if we're going to be consistent and say, well, this is what Breslow does.
02:09He fails at every trade deadline and his team fails every year in the playoffs.
02:12Maybe at least they're in the playoffs.
02:14But I would also say I feel confident he's going to bring in another two or three all
02:18star caliber players.
02:19That's what he does.
02:20Like, I mean, if we're really looking at the man's track record, I think I feel good
02:25about the Red Sox floor.
02:26I actually do.
02:27Yeah.
02:27But what's their ceiling?
02:29And like, it seems like it's kind of close to the floor.
02:31Him.
02:31It is.
02:32And him like patting himself on the back.
02:34Like, oh, we feel really good about where it is and what we've turned it around.
02:36You won fewer games this year than you won the year before.
02:39You won fewer games in the playoffs than you did the year before.
02:42And I largely think it was the same thing.
02:44So I wouldn't go around patting myself on the back for it either.
02:48617-779-7937.
02:50So this all dovetails with the Yankees and Rays tonight, Keith.
02:53Game three is 8 o'clock.
02:55It is Max Freed against Nick Martinez.
02:58Okay.
02:59Are we allowed to have a Yankee elimination party if and when the Yankees get eliminated
03:04around, you know, 1030, 11 o'clock tonight or certainly tomorrow at 10 a.m.?
03:07Are we allowed, after losing to the Yankees two years in a row in the playoffs, being non-competitive,
03:13losing the season series to the Yankees, they went around further, they beat the Red
03:16Sox, are we allowed to celebrate their elimination?
03:19Yes.
03:19I would agree.
03:20Nick says, yes, we are.
03:21I would agree.
03:21So we need to set these parameters today.
03:23Well, growing up, and I don't think this has ever really gone away, but this is something
03:26that I think most of us were raised on.
03:28And it's a corny cliche, but it's true.
03:30Your favorite team is the Red Sox.
03:32Your second favorite team, whoever's playing the Yankees.
03:35Donovan Baxson, 2001.
03:37Josh Beckett and the Marlins in 2003.
03:40Like, those two teams, like, how excited were you that Josh Beckett was good in 03?
03:44I'm like, this guy is insane.
03:45If I could have afforded it, I would have thrown a duck boat parade.
03:47Just for those teams, yeah.
03:48It was electric.
03:50And, like, watching, I could still see Luis Gonzalez's hit up the middle off of Mariano
03:54Rivera.
03:55Like, that was almost as good as the Red Sox winning the World Series.
03:59Was sitting in there.
03:59I think that was in high school.
04:00Watching the Diamondbacks defeat the Yankees.
04:02That was awesome.
04:03Same with the Marlins.
04:05So, yeah, in this case, it's sort of like a loser's lament or whatever, but that's what
04:10we have right now.
04:11Yeah, the Red Sox are kind of losers.
04:12We're kind of losers with them, so I'm not rooting for them.
04:14I'll tell you that much.
04:15I think we should be allowed to have a Yankee elimination party.
04:20Yankees lose.
04:20Here's a good question brought up.
04:23It says, Rocco in the Twitch chat.
04:24He signed his text, though.
04:25So, this is actually a text from Rocco in the Twitch chat.
04:28Just trying to maybe spray.
04:31That way you might see it there.
04:32You might see it there.
04:33Buckshot approach.
04:34Buckshot.
04:34Look, I mean, we're everywhere.
04:35We're on Sirius Keef.
04:36We are everywhere.
04:37We're on Twitter and Instagram.
04:39YouTube.
04:39Facebook.com.
04:40YouTube.
04:41Yep.
04:41Twitch.
04:43X.
04:44Your TikTok.
04:45Yeah, we are.
04:46We're all over the place.
04:47Facebook.
04:47So, like, yo, you want to take a buckshot.
04:49Zuckerberg.
04:50Scattershot approach.
04:51Zuckerberg's platform.
04:52Elon Musk's platform.
04:54Zuckerberg's other platform.
04:56Rocco in the Twitch chat says, the Yankees are going to fire Boone and hire Cora.
05:00So, now maybe this all comes together.
05:02Oh, that would be cool.
05:03So, honestly.
05:04That would be so cool.
05:05I want it.
05:05That would be amazing.
05:06I want it.
05:07Yeah, me too.
05:07The Red Sox are, he declined, if you missed this, Bob Nightingale had the report in USA
05:12Today, last night, that Cora, for a second time, has turned down Dave Dombrowski for that
05:18Phillies job.
05:18Yeah.
05:19He allegedly wants to spend more time with his family and take another check from the Red
05:24Sox to do nothing, which he did for most of his time in Boston.
05:28So, at least he's consistent.
05:29Yeah, but I kind of buy it a little bit with him.
05:31I do a little bit because there were comments, and you could spin it as maybe it's contract
05:36negotiation, but he had comments about, like, not knowing how long he was going to do it.
05:40And this was, like, early on in his time.
05:42I know you didn't buy it.
05:43Yeah.
05:43And then he took a three-year deal for $22 million from the Red Sox.
05:45But, like, a three-year deal is not a six-year deal.
05:47No, but he's like, ah, geez, I don't even know if I want to do it anymore.
05:49Oh, $7 million a year?
05:51Well, he's got the money.
05:51Sold.
05:51It's like, come on.
05:53The guy's full of it.
05:54He always has been.
05:55He missed the game for a graduation party.
05:57So, if you really want to spend more time with your family, don't just jump back into
06:01the game.
06:01So, he's not taking another job.
06:03You think just because he turned down the Phillies, he won't take a job?
06:05I think eventually all these guys are like, all right.
06:07You think if the Yankees smarten up and fire Boone and offer him the job, he'd turn it down?
06:12The guy celebrating on the tarmac.
06:14He's 4-16 at Yankee State.
06:16The guy celebrating on the tarmac and throwing it in the Red Sox face when he got fired?
06:20Can he bring Tech with him?
06:21And then Veritek in the Yankee uniform.
06:23Keith, they're going to look to stick it.
06:25If he got offered the Yankees job.
06:27I don't even know if he would.
06:28But if he got offered the Yankees job, I guarantee you he'd take it.
06:32Just to stick it to the Red Sox.
06:33Why wouldn't he take the Phillies job?
06:35You got Dombrowski there.
06:36You have Schwarber there.
06:37Maybe he's got the Yankees in his back pocket.
06:38Oh, okay.
06:39All right.
06:39Well, if he takes the Yankees job, then that's different.
06:41But if he doesn't, then I guess he really is just taking a year off.
06:44I always wonder why some of those guys fight and claw to get back.
06:48Where it's like, you're getting paid millions of dollars to do nothing.
06:52And you'll probably have a job waiting for you in two years.
06:54It kind of sounds like the dream.
06:55It kind of does.
06:56Isn't that what everybody's working for?
06:58So you eventually don't have to work?
07:00But yeah, I don't know.
07:01I don't think he's going to be the Yankee job.
07:04Or get the Yankee job.
07:05I think that'd be amazing.
07:06That'd be great.
07:07That'd be high theater.
07:08I'd be all about it.
07:09Yeah.
07:09I'm all about Cora and Devers going to the Yankees.
07:12Let's settle all our scores.
07:13Oh, yeah.
07:14I'm all about it.
07:14We hear so much about those two.
07:17Yeah.
07:17I almost used the B word there, Keith.
07:20I know.
07:21Bozo.
07:21You don't want to throw that word around.
07:23Save that for the parlay.
07:24That'll get you yelled at.
07:26That'll get you.
07:27But like, let's settle all our scores.
07:30Do you think he is the Yankee manager?
07:32I don't.
07:32I don't.
07:33Oh, that's just the Twitch.
07:34That's just Rocco.
07:35Yeah.
07:35Okay.
07:36I mean, I don't even.
07:37Cora's probably telling Nightingale he's turning down Nebraska.
07:40I don't even know who drew any of that.
07:41Probably didn't even get on.
07:42But like, you know, no, that was just the Twitch chat moving over to the text line, letting
07:46us know that there was a potential outcome there, which is interesting.
07:50Got it.
07:51But okay, maybe a Yankee elimination party tonight.
07:53I think we should be allowed to celebrate that.
07:56No doubt.
07:57And just acknowledge it makes us losers.
07:59Losers.
07:59And it makes us.
08:00We've already lost.
08:01Pathetic and sad.
08:02I didn't like, oh yeah, I acknowledge all those things.
08:04I've been sad and pathetic my whole life.
08:06I can do it.
08:06I can do it for another day.
08:0842 years.
08:09Every day I've been on this planet, I've been sad and pathetic.
08:12What's another day?
08:13Doesn't matter.
08:13But I want to celebrate them getting eliminated when they get eliminated.
08:16That way you can feel something.
08:17You can feel a little something.
08:18A little joy in their misery.
08:20Yes.
08:21Because they have the most.
08:22Everybody loves a good hate watch.
08:23Yes.
08:23They have the most obnoxious fan base.
08:25So for them to lose and lose to the Rays.
08:27Oh, how embarrassing.
08:28Not even a real team.
08:29The Rays aren't even good.
08:30Their payroll is like Garrett Cole.
08:32That's their payroll.
08:33You lost to Garrett Cole.
08:35That's the equivalent.
08:36By the way, I didn't bring up Cora.
08:38The Twitch chat did.
08:39I'm sorry.
08:40The text line via the Twitch chat did.
08:41That's right.
08:42You know what?
08:42I was doing a little more Cora research versus Chad Tracy.
08:45Why?
08:46Because I like to ask you.
08:48What are you doing?
08:48Stop picking a scab.
08:49We already know.
08:50I like to do this from time to time.
08:50What are you doing with your life?
08:51Not much.
08:52We just established.
08:53I'm sad.
08:54Your brother must be over.
08:55No, but he had a 570 win percentage last year, right?
08:59Tracy did.
09:00Chad Tracy.
09:01Yeah.
09:01Uh-huh.
09:02Yeah.
09:02How about in the playoffs?
09:03Not very good.
09:04The lower.
09:05Cora's win percentage in the playoffs, in fairness, good.
09:07643, 18, and 10.
09:08Yep.
09:08Almost all of that came in one postseason.
09:10That's because he didn't always make it.
09:11In fact, he's a 500 manager outside of the run in 2018.
09:15He's a 500 manager in the playoffs.
09:17You know how many years Cora exceeded a 570 winning percentage in Boston?
09:22Three.
09:24Once.
09:24Oh!
09:252018.
09:26A new 2018, so not 2021, huh?
09:29Nope.
09:29Okay.
09:30Nope.
09:30That was the same.
09:3192 win pace.
09:32So him and Chad Tracy.
09:33Spider-Man meme.
09:34What Chad Tracy did in his games last year, same pace.
09:37He didn't manage 162 as Cora did in 2021.
09:39The only year Cora ever had a higher winning percentage than what Tracy did last year.
09:44And I admit, Tracy sounded like a buffoon in that press conference.
09:47Guys, big Tracy's got this one.
09:50Step aside.
09:50I'll answer this one.
09:51I can't stand him right now.
09:52But only one time did Cora surpass that.
09:55But go ahead.
09:56Good to know.
09:57Be fearful of him with the Yankees if he takes that job.
09:59Good to know.
10:00He's turning down the Phillies.