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The RED SOX fire ALEX CORA, but was he really the PROBLEM? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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The Mets lose their star player. They lose their star closer.
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The Mets are in a bad spot right now.
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I've never seen a Ranger team quick before the Olympics.
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We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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I played 82 games. You don't see the fun doing
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that, but Jack Hughes did after getting his team knocked out to
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play every single shift he got back in the game.
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I'm going to find him home. A7 aggression.
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I'll be going to hold me back. They're going to RIP me off.
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Take it back. This kid, go on the black.
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The weather is changing here in Long Island, New York.
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I do not like the pollen. I don't like the green all over
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your cars. The the docks are out, the the
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geese are crossing the street and the birds, you see Hawks and
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actually saw an eagle about a day ago.
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So you don't really get a chance to see eagles because they're
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American eagle. Yeah, American eagle.
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It's going eagle. They're actually going extinct.
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So when you get a chance to see something like that, it's pretty
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cool. It's pretty crazy.
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So I got a chance to see that the other day and yeah, it's
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it's always great to see the weather change.
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I don't like the heat out here. I don't like the summers here.
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I don't like the humidity. I hate it.
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But you know what that means? It means when it gets warmer
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out, it means ballparks, it means baseball.
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It means Mets, Yankees. And hopefully the Mets will get
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out of this hole because them playing Colorado and watching
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them play the last two games against Colorado, it's
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embarrassing. It is really embarrassing
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watching the New York Mets. The Mets should be ashamed of
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themselves. It doesn't even look like they
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want to go and play baseball. And what it tells me right now,
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and we will get into that also a little bit later to show is
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Mendoza could be on his way out. This this organization might be
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looking for a new manager at the end of the season.
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I, I just, and we, we're going to get into the whole Boston Red
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Sox debacle because that is an absolute embarrassment what the
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Boston Red Sox did early in the season.
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I, I'm so shocked that the the Red Sox did that.
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But again, a lot to get into tonight.
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Red Sox fire Alex Cora, ESP NS Jeff Passan reports that the
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Boston Red Sox have fired their manager, Alex Cora after seven
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seasons with the team. They fired him twice, actually.
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But no, that's a whole nother story.
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Suspended the first. Well, yeah, well, he was fired.
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Five other coaches were also fired, including three different
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hitting coaches, third base coach Kyle Hudson and bench
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coach Ramon Vasquez. Red Sox President Sam Kennedy
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said that the decision to fire Cora was entirely made by the
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chief of Chief Officer of Baseball Craig Breslow, and the
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decision was made Saturday morning after their fourth
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straight loss, including being swept by the Yankees.
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Breslow and Kennedy along with owner John Henry, yeah that
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idiot, flew to Baltimore to announce the firing to firing to
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the team after the Red Sox 17 one blowout win over the Orioles
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on Saturday. Trevor Story took shots at Craig
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Breslow and the organization, saying he questions the
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direction the team is going in and that he believed Breslow's
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answer to why he fired 5 different coaches was
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unsatisfactory. Relief pitcher Garrett Whitlock
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said that Breslow, Kennedy and Henry only talked amongst each
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other for about 10 minutes before making the decision and
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didn't even consult any of the other players.
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The Red Sox were 10 and 17 when they made the move to fire Cora
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and decided to promote their AAA manager and former MLB third
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baseman Chad Tracy to to take over as an intern manager.
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I'm sorry. This is what they're selling to
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their fans. For all you Red Sox fans, I feel
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bad for you guys, Chad Tracy. That's that's what they're going
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to buy into all season long. You are 27 games in, I'm sorry,
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28 games or 29 games into the season, 30 games.
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Let's let's just throw a number, a round Number here. 30 games
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into the season. You fire your coach, Alex Korra
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before the season even took off. The season doesn't start until
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40 games into the season. And your excuse is, well, we
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wanted to make a move. We we had to make this move.
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You didn't give any reasons and what direction you're going, But
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your direction is, hey, we're going to give you a former third
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baseman who nobody knows anything about.
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And his last name, you know what they should call Chad Tracy?
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Dick Tracy, because he's nothing but a Dick.
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He's a Dick hanging from a long strapping.
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You know what I'm not going to say because I have kids
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listening to the show, but you know where I'm going at.
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I think this is absolutely ridiculous.
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And to me, it's not. The manager Alex Kerr won a
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World Series, did he not? Not only as a an assistant
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manager with the cheating Astro team, but as a head coach, as a
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head manager for the Boston Red Sox.
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And this is what they're selling.
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This is what this organization is selling to the players as
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your shortstop, your lead guy, one of your captains of your
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team, Trevor Story comes out and says Craig Breslow and the
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organization don't know what they're doing.
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They have no clue. It's unsatisfactory.
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I, I, I, I, I know there's a lot of Red Sox fans listening to
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this show right now and probably are going to listen to my take
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care. So here's my take.
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And it it this is this is coming from a Yankee fan, but I'm not
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I'm not going to take shots at Alex Kor because I can't blame
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Alex Kor for this. I look at the organization, I
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look at the players, I look at everything that there you had a
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guy your your outfielder was in Minnesota giving the fans the
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finger. OK, Duran was giving the finger.
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What was it a week and a half ago?
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It was the story was a lead story all over sports that this
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man, because obviously he has mental issues.
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You're you're a professional athlete, you're a professional
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baseball player. And I'll give, I'll give Alex
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Gore a little credit because after the game, Alex Gore took
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responsibility for that. I'm the manager, I'm the leader
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of this team. My team should be following
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through and, and, and understand that this is this is a team
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sport. This is a fan sport.
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There's kids coming to the ball game.
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That was unsatisfactory. Alex Korra was a man about
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things. Alex Korra has been a man about
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what this team has done over the last couple of weeks.
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They don't show up to games. What the Yankees did to them is
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wipe them on the damn concrete. It was they might as well play
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on concrete because the turf for the the grass that they're
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playing on, they can't hit on. At least if they're playing on
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cement, they'll bounce in different places.
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They'll hit a rock is something because it seems like the Red
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Sox don't know what they're doing on the baseball field.
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There's more errors, there's more mistakes going on.
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They can't hit. Anthony comes out and calls his
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teammates out. Their young superstar, their
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young stud who's on Team USA come out in early in the season.
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It took shots at the team that they're not playing hard.
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They're not seeing the ball they should be playing, playing the
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numbers, playing the pitch clock, playing the pitch
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pitches, seeing the pitches, right?
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Stop forcing and swinging at the first pitch.
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This is embarrassing. And then the fans threatening
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Cam Schlidler coming out and saying all these derogatory
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things about a guy that was born in Massachusetts, grew up as a
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Boston Red Sox fan and because of what he did to the Red Sox in
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the playoffs to eliminate the play, pretty much the Red Sox
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last year and put up 11 strikeouts and completely
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dominated them. You're going to threaten this
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kid because he's a Yankee and because he's coming home to
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Boston? I'm sorry, I'm not taking shots
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at the fans. I'm not going to do it because
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everybody knows what I feel about the Boston Red Sox fans
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just as much as I I would say about the Yankee fans.
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That is disgraceful. And if you're a Boston Red Sox
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fan, you want to punish John Henry, who really doesn't give a
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crap about this team. He hasn't give a crap about this
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team for years. He bought a soccer team.
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He's invested all his money in the soccer team more than his
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baseball team. You had a star for star third
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baseman that you paid $300 million that you forced out for
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Bregman, and then Bregman didn't even resign with you last year
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in the offseason. He goes to the Cubs.
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What kind of crap is that? What excuse do you have on that?
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You bought into Bregman. You gave up on the player that
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you paid $300 million who you wouldn't let go to the Mets.
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He goes to the Giants. You get nothing, absolutely
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nothing for the from the. They already traded the top
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prospect in that deal to Milwaukee.
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It's embarrassing. This organization is falling
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apart right in front of every fans, feet and eyes from up and
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down. There's no excuse for this team,
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this organization, and the fact that you fire the manager, the
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guy that has LED this team to the promised land, has won a
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championship with this team, and you're going to just give up on
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him in 30 games? It's despicable.
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Yeah, and John Henry is definitely changed his tune of
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what he was in previous years when he was the owner.
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I always said that the Red Sox were one of those teams that
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were the one of the best strangely operating good teams
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I've seen in sports for a while when they were winning World
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Series in the most unconventional ways.
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I compared it a lot with the way that the Eagles, they do a lot
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of things now. They're more stable, but I'd say
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they usually do a lot of bold moves all at once.
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You think about it, when they got rid of Andy Reed and they
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hired Chip Kelly and they actually started doing well
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right away, and then they won a Super Bowl five years later.
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The Red Sox did the same thing. They fired Terry Francon after
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2012. They win a World Series with
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John Farrell in 2013, which was the strangest one seed ever I've
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ever seen win a World Series. And then they tear it all down
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and they signed Pablo Sandoval and all those bad contractors
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and they go back down. They go back up again with Cora
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Grant said. I thought they were cheating at
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the time too. When Cora went over there.
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I thought they were going to get pushed worse than the Astros.
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I was wrong on that. I argued with Jeff at the time.
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Jeff, you won that one. But it's a strangely operating
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good team. But again, who's behind all
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that? John Henry and what?
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The last year when you were on your cruise, the Devers trade
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came out and I did the weekend crunch with Josh and he was
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mentioning because. I got a text from Josh.
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I remember the cruise we were on.
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I got it. I remember I that was the time.
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If I'm not mistaken, that was the cruise with the Chiefs.
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Right. No, no, that was last.
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That was the last. That was in 2023.
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I remember that one too. No, that was you wanted to
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throw, throw something at the TV.
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Well, I, I was about to, I had a drink in my hands, a drink of
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water, and I almost threw it. I was seriously standing there
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because I'll never forget Sauce Gunner got called for a penalty
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when he didn't have a penalty and the and The Jets were going
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to win that game and they called the penalty on him and which
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gave the Kansas City Chiefs a chance to take the ball right
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down the field and win the game. Right.
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And it was like Zach Wilson's best game of career played
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Patrick Mahogan. 297 yard please.
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Stop, stop, stop, stop. I don't hear anything.
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But yeah, this crew, this was your cruise last year and the
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Devers trade came out later that week.
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And I, I did the weekend crunch with Josh.
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And Josh is a big Premier League fan.
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He's an Arsenal fan. He was saying he was going
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through how much he real John Henry really cares about
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Liverpool more than he cares about the Red Sox.
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He's right. And it was a really distinct
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difference that you could tell now with the way this new
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ownership is going and the way this team has really changed
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from what they were. Now, let me ask you a question.
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You bring in Theo Epstein, He leaves baseball.
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He was the VP of player personnel.
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Whatever he was doing over there for baseball, he comes in, he's
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a partial owner now of this organization.
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Why isn't he involved with this this three man conversation?
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Because to me, if I'm Theo Epstein, who I think is one of
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the smartest baseball minds baseball has seen in about 40
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years, this guy is one of the most intelligent people in
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baseball. You brought this guy.
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He's a partner in this organization.
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Why isn't he making these decisions?
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Why isn't he out there figuring out what works and what doesn't?
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Because to me, all I see what Theo Epstein is doing is
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collecting a paycheck. That's all I'm seeing.
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And if I were the Boston Red Sox today, tomorrow or the next day,
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I'm reaching out to Theo FC and asking him to take over this
15:07
team, become the GM of this team, and rebuild this debacle.
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Because this organization has been an absolute debacle since
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he's walked away from it. He went to Chicago.
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He wins another World Series with a team that hasn't won a
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World Series in 100 years. Yeah.
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And I was going to say too, like Heim Bloom was over there for a
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while and that's when they trade all way a lot of those core
15:27
pieces from 2018 and a lot of people thought he was the
15:29
problem at the time. But again, you're when Henry has
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that much control, we've talked about in other sports too, and
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the ownership gets in the way so much and it deters a lot of
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these players. I'm not saying Craig Branslow is
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off the hook either, because he hasn't done very good things
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either. But they have a lot of good
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young players. They have a good player
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development system that I think has worked.
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Now the pitchers have to stay healthy.
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That's a big key. And obviously Crochets had a bad
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start to. The year, If I was the Guardians
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right now, I would I would bring Theo Epstein in because he's
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been doing it with every other organization.
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I would reach out to Theo Epstein, sell the whatever you
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own, whatever piece you own, 5% or Tom Brady's 10%, leave the
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organization. Go over there to the Guardians,
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win them a championship. They'll give you 25% of that
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organization. Why not spin the wheel?
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Make. The deal?
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It might be the second best team in the American League after the
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Yankees right now. Yeah, maybe worth a flyer.
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The Guardians are remarkable. They're a remarkable
16:19
organization because it seems like and right now they're
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playing great baseball, but they usually are horrible in the
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first half and for some reason in the second-half, they're the
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hottest team in baseball. They win like 50 out of the next
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70 games. It's, it's ridiculous how good
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the Guardian. And now the Guardians are
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playing great baseball. Now they go into the second-half
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and they just take, you know, take off.
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Yeah. And and they, they could be a
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World Series contending team. They have a great bullpen right
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now. They always do.
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Yeah. And.
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That's what I was going to get at 2 with the Red Sox.
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I think the American League, probably outside of Cleveland
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and the Yankees, and I would say the Rays that have played well.
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There's a lot of mediocrity in it.
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Which is another team that's very surprising right now, the
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Rays. Right.
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And that's why I think there's still an OP opening to make it
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work for the Red Sox. And that's why you can't have
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these players like Trevor Story get frustrated like Duran, like
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you were saying, get frustrated in certain instances.
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And they might need this kind of culture change.
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They're they're not like the Mets.
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They're. Not OK.
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So, so I'm sorry to cut you off. Trevor Story is right now
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hitting 198. Duran is hitting 189.
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The two players that are opening their big mouths are the two
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players that are not even hitting over 200.
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And these are two players that are All Stars.
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These are two players that, well, Trevor Stories, who got
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paid a lot of money to come here.
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And he is not wrong about Alex Gore.
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He's not. But I don't want to hear it from
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him. I want to hear it from Abreu.
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I want to hear it from the guy that's actually hitting the
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ball. That's what I want to hear.
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I want to hear it from my best player right right now.
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And by the way, it seems like Roman Anthony's got a lot to
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say, but he's hitting 217. The guy hasn't hit.
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He wasn't hitting in the the Baseball Classic and he the WBC
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and he's not hitting now. Yeah, William Brady was hitting.
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I think he was on that Venezuela team.
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It, it seems like it's Venezuela all the way.
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I mean, it's like Chip and Dale rescue Rangers here, man.
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I mean, seriously, I am lost, man.
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I, I, I, I feel like everybody said that the Yankees, they're,
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they're looking like a team that's going to eventually fall
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apart. They have old management still
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there, Brian Cashman, get rid of him, walk away from him.
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But the Yankees seem to find a way to win games.
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They seem to find a way to make the playoffs every single year.
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They they slow, slow, slowly and quietly make very small moves in
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the offseason that everybody was shaking their head saying, Oh,
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well, these aren't good enough to win a championship.
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But the Yankees were on A8 game-winning streak.
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They finally lose a game. Aaron Judge is actually not
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having the season that he he was having last year.
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But he's it looks like he's still going to hit home runs.
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He's still going to get his RBIs.
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He's still going to everybody else is hitting.
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I mean, Rice right now is looking like he's looking like
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Babe Ruth right now. I mean, it's unbelievable what
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the Yankees are doing right now. And it's not even their stars
19:05
showing up to these games. It is pathetic.
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This, this garbage is pathetic. And this organization should be
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bringing Theo Epstein in these conversation.
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John Harry should be away. Keep that man away from this
19:19
team in this organization. That man has done nothing good
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to this organization in 10 years.
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He has brought GM after GM. How many GMs have they had in
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the last 10 years? Seriously, it's got to be about
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3 or 4. Yeah, I think 3.
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Since I got rid of it, I can't. I remember the first guy's name,
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but it was Bloom. And Theo Epstein was there.
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Theo Epstein was there for almost 8 years and he won 3
19:42
championships. I I mean, that's winning.
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That is a smart man. That's the guy you brought in as
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a partner. Why isn't he making these
19:54
decisions? Why isn't he at that little
19:57
crowded management table making decisions?
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The smart man that actually knows how to build a baseball
20:03
team and win. It's.
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Pathetic. Yeah.
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And you mentioned a lot of these things, like they have to stay
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away with Henry and Breslow, especially for making these
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irrational comments we saw last year, obviously during that
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whole Dever saga, which was ugly.
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I didn't even get to Breslow. Yeah, which was ugly for about 5
20:19
months and Breslow I think really made it worse.
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Rob Manfred, bitch, let me tell you.
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And I know, I know Jabba and Goody last year on our show was
20:27
mentioning a lot that having players in the front office can
20:30
be a good thing, which I do agree to an extent.
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But I think it's different when you go to this level of extreme
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and you have a lot of players like Devers that got disturbed
20:37
in the most extreme level. And I give the young players a
20:39
lot of credit for them still being able to be a good team
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amidst all that, all that drama that they didn't need to bring
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on. And in previous years, you saw
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the Red Sox overcome that drama with their veteran guys, and now
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they're trying to deal with their young guys.
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But it's just harder when you have a lot of these veteran guys
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are going against the green now and you create a team now that's
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11:00 and 7:00 17 still trying to battle in a lot of ways.
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But you also have young guys like you said, William Brady
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that's hitting. Look at the rookie you top
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prospect Connelly early pitch yesterday pitched very well.
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And it's still this drama that's now happened to them and they
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have these young players striving.
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These veteran players are deterred by the fact that
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Breslow just went behind their back and did nothing.
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And John Henry is continuing to be just the only caring about is
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Liverpool team that wins some Premier League championships.
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But the Red Sox haven't won since that 2018 title.
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Exactly. So that's the that's what I was
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going to say. I was like, they're not winning.
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It's inconsistent with the bullpens.
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It's consistent managing the team talent everywhere.
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So I don't see, you know what everybody knows once you play a
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robbery, which quote UN quote, New York Knicks.
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I mean New York Yankees here I am talking like you tonight.
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New York Yankees is the robbery talking about them?
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Talking about me. Called the Knicks Yankees
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earlier. Oh, so cuz I messed up with the
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Knicks. I mean it was completely
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different. It was New York is different
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from Boston, buddy. New York is different from
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Boston. Don't throw the Boston and and
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New York in in terms of questioning.
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I'm sorry but I'm just I have to add that.
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Yeah. So without inconsistent and them
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losing and then on top of that getting swept by the Yankees.
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And then, you know, we talked about this on a previous episode
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about how baseball is going analytic.
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There's a there's a lot of people in front office that, you
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know, keep tracks of these things.
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And when they see that, yeah, you know, the manager is
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inconsistent. He doesn't really have control
22:27
over the team. You got to believe that they're
22:29
going to make an adjustment in very soon, just like they do
22:32
with any team that basically promotes analytics over talent
22:37
and. Every team promotes analytics in
22:38
baseball. It's the biggest thing.
22:41
Even the ones that are small market, even the ones that are
22:43
not considered the home run teams.
22:44
We talked about it last year with a lot of guests that were
22:46
with the Milwaukee Brewers. Like the Milwaukee Brewers are
22:49
not known as this flashy power hitting team type thing, but
22:51
they still really use analytics to their best advantage in other
22:54
parts of their player development system and they go
22:56
into this year as the number one farm system in baseball.
22:59
I got a question for all you fans.
23:00
Craig Breslow, All right, I, I mean, anybody who knows who he
23:06
is, He was a pitcher in the major leagues.
23:08
He was a left-handed pitcher. I remember him more with the
23:11
Blue Jays. But I I know he's a Connecticut
23:13
born guy. He grew up a Red Sox fan.
23:16
Why are they taking advice from this man?
23:21
This guy career career is absolutely putrid.
23:24
I mean, Jabba has better numbers than this guy, all right, 23 and
23:29
33.45 ERA. The guy is played in 576 games.
23:34
This is the guy they're taking advice from.
23:36
I understand if it's Rodger Clemens, I understand if it's
23:39
Andy Pettitte or I understand if it's anybody.
23:42
How about Pedro Martinez? How about bringing a real
23:44
baseball mine in that actually knows what he's doing, is
23:47
actually a smart man and actually knows what Boston Red
23:51
Sox organization knows how to win and knows how to run and and
23:55
and be a consider. How about this bring Kurt
23:57
Schilling in. He's more controversial than
24:00
anybody. He knows baseball.
24:02
I listen to I've listened to some of the things that he's
24:05
been on podcasts. You have this man Craig Breslow
24:11
making decisions like this. This is embarrassing and you
24:16
have your own players throwing you under the bus now.
24:19
I mean, how long does it go? How long is this going to take
24:23
until the organization, John Henry and management, Sam
24:27
Kennedy decides that this guy is an absolute ridiculous?
24:32
I want to say I don't want to use the word because I know
24:34
Speedy doesn't like it. I wanted to do it, but I'm going
24:37
to be very nice on it. The guy's an idiot.
24:40
Isn't it great? Isn't this just great I've been
24:43
waiting for since I guess, 2004 for them to stink again.
24:49
This is wonderful. Even when they had a down season
24:52
before, you knew they were still good.
24:53
They had that core. It was Dombrowski was the GM
24:56
back in the day. You said it best, Dombrowski.
24:59
But he was the best one they had.
25:01
He he left after the championship in 2018.
25:05
So they had one more year he was gone and then they replaced him
25:07
with High in Bloom. I'll give him the hub from for
25:09
For the People and I'll tell you what.
25:11
I'll tell you what. He was horrible, that guy, one
25:15
of the worst GMs, and he was succeeded by the worst one in
25:18
Craig Bip Breslow. This guy's got an ego problem,
25:20
Errol. This is what happened.
25:22
He did not want to deal with Cora having more managerial
25:26
power than the average manager does today.
25:28
That has to take all their stuff from the front office from him,
25:32
and that's what happened. You could see the fighting all
25:35
season. Guess what?
25:36
Trevor Story, he's on the market tonight.
25:39
He can be traded within a couple of days.
25:41
It's going to be the Breslow vision and it's going to be
25:44
terrible. I'm here for it.
25:46
I love the fact that they're going to stink that their
25:47
prospects were all overrated like they always said about the
25:50
Yankees prospect. I can't wait to you Boston fans
25:55
have to deal with this. I've got this place disaster.
25:57
I've got something for you. If I met Craig Breslow, I would
26:00
say Craig Breslow. Ego problem.
26:03
This is Quinton Coppols. Quinton Coppols, Craig Breslow.
26:06
Nice to meet you. Let's.
26:07
Do it, let's do it. You'll be the perfect candidate.
26:12
And you squeeze his head like a melon.
26:14
OK, cuz I honestly, this is really funny.
26:20
This is this is something that you would not expect from the
26:23
Boston Red Sox organization. They've been a very smart
26:26
organization over the years. I think they're they were very
26:31
well run when Theo Epstein was there.
26:33
Dombrowski is an idiot. I don't care if they won.
26:35
They they bought players to win that championship That that's
26:39
that's why they won And and things had to fall, right.
26:41
And Alex Cora has been a really good manager.
26:45
If you look at his numbers, how many, how many guys, how many
26:49
managers in the league have better numbers than Alex Cora
26:52
does in his career as a head manager?
26:55
I mean, seriously, you, you, you look at him, he's a top five
26:58
guy. He is going to be on the market
27:00
next year. He's going to get a job.
27:03
Somebody's going to hire him, so maybe the Astros, just probably.
27:09
Maybe the Mets. No, that's a good idea.
27:12
They're not going to do that. I'm telling, I was telling it to
27:14
Nathan in the private chat. They're not going to do that
27:16
because they're going to look bad for passing on Carlos
27:18
Beltran because of the cheating scandal in Houston that came out
27:21
right at that time when they were all ready to hire him.
27:23
And then they got rid of him and the Red Sox did the same thing.
27:25
They suspended Cora and then they brought him back in 2020 to
27:28
2021. So they're not going to do it.
27:30
Yeah. That's that in the Stearns is an
27:32
egomaniac like Breslow as well, and would never allow the core
27:36
to have the type of control that he would want to have as a
27:38
manager. It's a shame because those are
27:41
the types of managers that the players love to play for.
27:43
It's obvious every single time. It's not these MIT nerds from,
27:47
you know, Lenny from NIT that invented the torpedo bat in a
27:51
lab a couple of years ago that's telling you how to play
27:54
baseball. Job with an.
27:55
Advocates, you know, and, and a ChatGPT math program, like, I
28:00
mean, come on, like that. This is what it's become.
28:02
And some teams are embracing it. And it seems like John Henry,
28:06
who just cares about the dollars and cents right now, has
28:09
embraced a guy who's just going to treat it like a business, not
28:12
a sport. Not a I'm going to help them
28:13
out. I'm going to help them out.
28:15
I'm going to buy a year's worth the supply of Yankee, you know,
28:19
Kleenex, you know, nice, nice napkins.
28:22
And I'll send it over there to the Red Sox fans and and maybe
28:26
we'll have a box for every one of those fans for 55,000 people.
28:30
Because honestly, as an organization and I, I feel bad
28:34
for the Boston fans because the Boston Red Sox fans are to me so
28:38
dedicated to their team. They show up every game.
28:41
They sell out almost every single game.
28:44
Fenway Park is one of the nicest stadiums to go to.
28:47
I'm not a, I'm not a fan of the fans, but at least they're
28:50
they're, they, they're the backbone of that.
28:52
Organization. Yeah, they're the backbone of
28:54
that organization. And to see this organization
28:57
completely fall apart 202829 games into the season and just
29:03
give up on the season because that's what they did.
29:05
And they added Chad Tracy, Dick Tracy to to run that
29:10
organization. I mean, it's I.
29:14
But I mean, I would, I would, I'm, I'm celebrating just like
29:17
everybody else. I'm not celebrating anything.
29:19
Listen when the Red Sox. Listen, as a Yankee fan, you got
29:22
to. Celebrate.
29:22
No, because when the Red Sox are bad, it's not fun.
29:26
It's not fun. That's what I said.
29:27
That's the only part that we missed.
29:28
But who won't take an easier road to the World Series like.
29:33
Dude, the Yankees don't have to worry about the Red Sox.
29:36
That's not the team to worry about.
29:37
Right. No, I know one less team don't
29:40
have to worry about. And I told everybody, this is
29:42
the year that the Blue Jays are going to fall off.
29:44
They spend money. They spend money and then they
29:47
fall off. They're not the same team as
29:49
they were last year. They wanted this ultimate No,
29:52
it's true. He did me.
29:54
Earl agrees with you speaking, you jinx.
29:55
No, my playoff picks, My playoff picks were.
29:58
Wait a second. When I make picks, my friend,
30:01
I'm actually on. So I have Colorado win the NHL
30:04
Stanley Cup before the season started.
30:07
I had it. So you're going to tell me I
30:08
made picks and all that other stuff.
30:10
I also going into the playoffs, I had seat Seattle going all the
30:13
way to to the the Super Bowl can.
30:15
We verify that fish. You can verify whatever you
30:17
want, it's not a lie. He definitely had the Avalanche
30:21
one, I remember that vividly. The Seattle one?
30:23
Speedy, probably. I thought you had the Eagles
30:25
going back. I thank you.
30:26
No, I didn't. Thank you.
30:27
No, I didn't. No idea.
30:29
No. You had Buffalo in the AFC.
30:30
I had Buffalo. I had Buffalo.
30:33
I had Buffalo going in, going into the playoffs.
30:36
Going into the playoffs, I had Seattle and Buffalo.
30:40
That's what I had. Oh my God, I did.
30:42
And you want to know something? Buffalo should have been in the
30:44
Super Bowl. No, they should.
30:46
Yes, they should have. They got robbed.
30:47
They absolutely got robbed. They got robbed.
30:50
They got robbed. That was not an interception.
30:53
That was catch by coach. We should be billionaires.
30:57
We're going to be after I smack you around, you know?
31:03
I love that you could be a billionaire and just waste money
31:05
on Sonny Gray in the offseason. Look at these moves they made.
31:09
Look at these moves. Sonny Gray.
31:10
I'm pretty sure he's already hurt.
31:11
They had. They get it.
31:13
Johann Oviedo to be in the rotation.
31:17
I'm pretty sure he's terrible. What a name he's.
31:19
Only a big back end guy. They're they have the younger
31:21
guys that are when they're healthy.
31:22
But still not good. Ranger Suarez is a good pitcher.
31:27
He's having a good. He's pitching really well
31:29
tonight, but he's been up and down.
31:31
He's someone who doesn't rely on velocity, so.
31:33
Great playoff pitcher. Great playoff.
31:35
There he's he's really, really good, but he throws 91 right and
31:40
guys like that only have another year or two left that they can
31:42
stay over 90 and then it's not what they do, but doesn't work
31:45
as well anymore. He'll go and so.
31:46
That's a five year deal, but five years, 130 million for your
31:52
long reliever that look at these deals Breslow was making this
31:55
offseason. It's just terrible.
31:56
They added Wilson Contreras, who doesn't play the field really
32:00
anymore. Really good bats still, but he's
32:02
ADH, he's ADH now officially basically right.
32:05
He'll play if he play any first, he might play a little first.
32:07
He's terrible and they got Caleb Durbin, who I'm mad that they
32:10
they got, but he hasn't been good yet either.
32:13
So and IKF and they signed IKEA, IKF.
32:18
That was their offseason. Two future Yankee killers.
32:22
Come on, IKF. Raise.
32:23
It poor IKF that actually went to the World Series with the
32:26
Blue Jays last year, actually played well and now sucks for
32:30
the Red Sox. Wonderful.
32:32
Absolute home runs. Thank you.
32:34
Breslow. If I was a Breslow fan, but I'm
32:36
not, so I'd smack him around and put my foot in his ass because
32:40
this is absolutely ridiculous. And if I'm Theo Epstein right
32:44
now, I'd sell my piece of the team and get the hell out of
32:47
there because I there's nothing that's and everybody, everything
32:50
that I've read is he's been working more.
32:53
Theo Epstein's been working more with the soccer team than he has
32:56
with the baseball team, which is a problem right now.
32:59
Soccer's big money, man. It's not the point.
33:01
That's not the. That's not the point.
33:03
It is you. Own both of them.
33:05
You got it. That's similar you.
33:07
Own a piece of the Red Sox, the organization that you helped
33:11
beat the Bambito Curse. That's what you did, and you
33:15
didn't do it once. You did it three times.
33:18
That's what you did. The Red Sox didn't win a
33:20
championship for almost 100 years, 100 years, and this man
33:26
found a way to put a team together.
33:29
He brought Curt Schilling in there.
33:30
He had Pedro Martinez, he had all these guys.
33:33
He built this roster. Ramirez, you had.
33:37
You had Big Poppy. You built your teeth.
33:40
You had, to me, one of the more dominant forces.
33:45
And then you decide to leave baseball because honestly, I'll
33:48
tell you this straight out. If Theo Epstein was still there
33:52
working for baseball in 2028, when Rob Manfred or man ass his
34:00
contract's up, Theo Epstein takes that job.
34:03
He's running baseball. He is 100% running baseball.
34:08
Tony Larussa was too old. That's why he stepped down.
34:11
As we all know how many people got into the Hall of Fame
34:13
because of Tony. Joe Torre is getting up there in
34:16
age. He's obviously not doing so well
34:20
as as what, a baseball fight, VP of baseball operations right
34:24
now. I think, I think that's his
34:25
position right now. There's nothing that tells me as
34:31
a if you're a Red Sox fan that this isn't going to tip and it's
34:35
going to tip bad. And they have a good young core
34:39
of players. They do.
34:40
They have a bunch of guys. But what's it going to take
34:42
when, when eventually Anthony decides I don't want to be here,
34:46
I don't want to play for this organization, Trade me.
34:49
And for, for what he's worth, he just signed a long term deal,
34:53
$100 million in. It's a very affordable contract
34:57
where he can go and, and you can get a lot back for him because
35:01
if he goes in there and he tells ownership that I listen, I don't
35:04
want to be here anymore. I, I, I don't want to be working
35:07
and playing for this organization.
35:09
That's been an absolute debacle. You don't keep them out.
35:11
You don't go to the players, you don't talk to the players before
35:13
you decide to fire our manager before the season even started.
35:17
You've given up on a season before the season even starting.
35:20
You hired Dick Tracy to run this organization.
35:26
Man, man. Tired Tracy.
35:28
Man. Yeah, I'm lost.
35:30
He's going to hear this and he's going to find.
35:33
You I don't You think I care? This is This is.
35:37
I don't. I don't.
35:38
I don't. I don't, I don't.
35:39
This is pathetic. I, I don't care.
35:41
This is pathetic. I feel bad.
35:44
I feel bad for the Red Sox fans. I actually feel bad for you
35:48
guys, for all the Red Sox fans listening to the show or going
35:51
to listen to the show when the show is over.
35:55
My heart goes out to you guys. It really does.
35:58
No, it doesn't. I don't care.
35:59
I don't care. Screw the Red Sox.
36:02
Screw the Red Sox fan. There you go.
36:04
I'm sorry. I'm here for it.
36:07
Let's go. I'm not going to beat around the
36:10
Bush. The Bush is already burned.
36:12
Cute, cute. Don't worry about that.
36:14
Our two most common claiming Red Sox fan listeners are now Mets
36:18
fans. No doubt about it.
36:21
Welcome. Welcome to the dungeon.
36:24
It's a dungeon, all right. It is a dungeon.
36:27
Speaking of dungeons, you know, we're we're waiting for a guest.
36:30
Our guest is going to be coming in in just a few moments.
36:33
But I do have a very special segment as we call this ladies,
36:38
man, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know, should I, should I
36:41
say it nice, speedy, or should I say it a little bit better?
36:43
How about just give it a golf clap?
36:45
That's what I'm going to do. Give it a golf clap.
36:48
His deserves a golf clap, no doubt.
36:51
Golf clap. Golf clap.
36:54
Well, my golf clap goes to one guy.
36:58
A guy that I have interested, I've been so interested in
37:03
meeting over the last couple of weeks.
37:05
A guy that is controversial, but a guy that I thought is going to
37:10
have a great season with the Long Island Ducks.
37:13
A guy that I believe is one of the best pitchers in all of
37:17
baseball, not in the major leagues right now and should
37:20
have a chance. And that goes to Trevor Bauer
37:24
and I'll say this. Trevor Bauer, I saw his first
37:28
game, I was there in the first game and I got a chance to see
37:31
him pitch. He had eight strikeouts, 2
37:33
earned runs, 93 pitches, 53 strikes that he pitched great.
37:38
It was cold. It was 42°, but I knew, I knew
37:42
that once it got warm that this guy is going to dominate for the
37:46
Long Island Ducks. And this isn't the first no
37:48
hitter. He's going to pitch guys.
37:50
He's going to pitch multiple no hitters this year in this
37:54
league. This guy's got 10 pitches.
37:57
This guy is as dominant when he is on.
38:01
He is unhittable. Unhittable and everybody.
38:05
You could say you don't like him.
38:07
You can say that he is controversial, he's mean, he's
38:10
disrespectful, he doesn't know how to treat women.
38:12
That's your decision to and that's your prerogative.
38:15
My prerogative here is it's very strong.
38:17
The guy is at right now pitching a 1.64 ERA in two games right
38:23
now. He is pitching at such a high
38:27
level and he hasn't even started guys.
38:29
He has not even started the season, hasn't even started for
38:31
this man, and he's already pitched a no hitter 7 innings, 7
38:37
innings of dominant pitching and everybody, it's only coming.
38:43
We might see a perfect game this year.
38:46
That's how good Trevor Bauer is. And baseball should be ashamed
38:50
of themselves, shamed of them themselves.
38:53
Think about it. Trevor Bauer won the Cy Young in
38:56
Japan, won the Cy Young in Mexico, and this man still
39:05
doesn't have a job in the major leagues.
39:07
Doesn't make any sense. He knows he's being blackballed.
39:11
I've interviewed him twice, not once, but twice already this
39:14
season, and I'm going to interview him more.
39:17
I'm try. I'm going to try to get him on
39:18
the show. You know why?
39:20
Because I love this man. I think this man personally is
39:24
one of the more unique personalities that baseball
39:30
should want back in the league. There is nothing wrong with this
39:35
man. He speaks from his heart.
39:38
He goes out there, plays hard, plays at a high level.
39:41
He has such emotion. Who doesn't like an emotional
39:45
personality that goes out there? The teammates call him uncle.
39:50
He's 35 years old. He's taking a leadership role
39:53
over there with the Ducks. He wants to come to America and
39:56
play a front in front of all the American fans, sign autographs,
39:59
go out there and play hard every single game.
40:04
And Rob Manfred. And every single team in
40:08
baseball are has given up on this man, has given up on a
40:13
person that deserves to be there, deserves to be at a high
40:16
level. How many pitchers do you know in
40:19
the major leagues today have 10 pitches?
40:21
Sweetie, we were talking about this.
40:24
He's one of very few I would trust to believe that claim. 10
40:27
pitches and this guy is playing at such a high level right now
40:33
and it's not even warm. It's not even hot.
40:35
It's 62°. He pitched a no hitter in seven
40:39
innings. I'm going to tell you this guys,
40:42
this guy is probably going to pitch closer to 1 by the end of
40:46
the season. He is going to have right now,
40:48
he has, if I'm not mistaken, 17 or 18 strikeouts in two games.
40:53
If he pitches between 25 and 30 games this year, the guy is
40:58
going to absolutely have the strikeout record in in that
41:01
division in the Long Island Ducks division.
41:04
He is going to be probably have the best CRA any pitchers had in
41:08
a 25 game or more season run. This guy is the best pitcher
41:15
right now and I will tell you, I'll tell you this right now, if
41:18
you want to throw this, throw this and let it stick.
41:21
This guy would be a top ten pitcher right now in baseball if
41:24
he was playing in the major leagues right now.
41:26
It's a shame that he's never going to get a chance and he's
41:29
he's taking that. He understands that.
41:32
But I, I love it. I love what is going on right
41:35
now. Seeing a kid, seeing a guy
41:37
actually show up to Long Island telling me he's loving his time
41:41
here, getting a chance to eat the food and enjoy the people
41:44
and the fans and the excitement of baseball here in New York.
41:49
And I'm just happy he's here. So my Golf Club goes to Trevor
41:53
Bauer, 7 innings, no hitter, one walk.
41:58
This guy is the best pitcher right now in my eyes, not only
42:03
in long, not not only for the Long Island Ducks in in in that
42:08
Baseball League. I can tell you right now he's
42:10
one of the top ten top 15 pitches in baseball in the
42:14
country. And you can sell that and you
42:18
can throw that and hope that sticks because it's true.
42:20
Sell that, baby. Congratulations to Trevor Bauer,
42:24
I expect more from you. I expect to see maybe a perfect
42:27
game. Maybe another three or four no
42:30
hitters this year. I wouldn't even doubt it.
42:32
I think the guy is that dominant.
42:34
So congratulations to Trevor Bauer.
42:35
I expect more from him and I expect him to be as elite as
42:40
we've seen so far in two games. So that's my Golf Club.
42:44
We had a great show. Thank you again to all the fans
42:47
on all the platforms. Thank you to the fans that
42:49
listen to us on Spotify and Apple audio and video.
42:52
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42:55
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42:59
TuneIn and engage with us and all everybody on YouTube right
43:03
now that's tuning in big fans and and I I know there's a lot
43:07
of stuff going on during 711 and there's there's games going on
43:11
and football. I'll tell this to the fans, you
43:15
can watch the games and listen to us and we can entertain you
43:18
while you're watching your games.
43:19
And I know if you're at the bar, you're not.
43:21
You want to eat and you want to hang out with your friends and
43:23
talk. But what we do here at from 7:00
43:25
to 7:00 to 11 most nights is entertain you guys and give you
43:30
a take in sports that I'm sure you don't get on any other
43:33
network and on any other platform.
43:35
So I hope everybody understands that's what we're trying to do,
43:38
give you a different view and the way we look at sports.
43:41
So that's it. Who do we have on Thursdays?
43:44
Metta World Peace is joining us. Formula for.
43:46
Those that are awesome. Will be joining us.
43:49
Thank you to Nathan. And you know, it's been great.
43:52
I'm going to be working on a Trevor Bauer story tonight with
43:55
his no hit. I am not going to make it to his
43:59
pitching on Saturday. So somebody's going to go on my
44:02
stay. But I will say this.
44:04
I I love interviewing him. I think he's a great he's a
44:08
great personality. And I think people when you get
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to know him and, and get to see what type of person that he is
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on and off the field, you, you kind of you kind of fall in love
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with him as as a player and, and I think that's what he is.
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I think the media really loves him.
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He's a media darling and and you can see it and the fans love him
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over there too. So anyways, that's it.
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We'll see you on Thursday, is the.
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Worldwide sports radio network. Found me.
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Fish wears panties.