Red Sox Lose Series Opener to Brewers // Alex Cora Postgame Comments // Mazz’s Thoughts on Geno Auriemma - 4/7 (Hour 1)

Is Felgren-Maz your favorite afternoon show? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Oh, Felgren-Maz. M-Maz. Mitchell waiting at a 2-1. And a line, Robin left field down for a base hit. Terrague around. Anthony fires. Great play. It's well. Keeps on rolling. Here comes another run. He'll let you wrap play. He played the tag. He's safe. Now play a third, but no throw. And it is 7-5 Milwaukee. This ball by Mitchell was hit out to Roman. He had a nice little break on it, too. Caught it on that one hop, but just that this throw was way off line. But this is more about the throw here. To the plate in the first time. And a right now rule to base hit and an E-7. You know, Roman kind of D-Hed a few days, and Corey was talking about working with Huddy, working on his throwing, trying to iron out some things. He catches this baseball. Drake's not even in third base yet. This throw is low. Way off line. Well, the last signature play of that game last night. Two runs single by the Brewers. That featured another hideous throw by Roman Anthony. And a failure to back up home plate by a pitcher that led to... Well, first and second, two outs. A routine line drive to left field. Which at Fenway Park, for most teams, most offensive teams and most Red Sox teams, that's... the runner isn't even going around second base. He's not even trying to score. Terrang's not even at third base when Roman Anthony fields the ball in short left field. And not only does Terrang come home, but Christian Yelich comes home behind him, and it's a two run single to left field at Fenway Park with runners on first and second. Which you'd almost never see. Right, it's borderline unprecedented. Your thoughts? So, clearly there's something wrong with Roman Anthony, because we've seen way too many of these in the early part of the year. And Murray, when you said to me at one point about Roman Anthony's throwing, and Mike, maybe it was you, one of you guys said it. Oh, there was me after the Red Series. Murray's been on it from day one. Okay, and when you said, do you remember him throwing... I think the way you said it was, do you remember him throwing like that last year? My answer was no. And you know why? Because I don't think he was. At least not like this. And so now, you're asking me my assessment, and we'll start with the actual Roman Anthony problem. I think it's in his head. I think he's a mental case. And I started to really feel this way when I watched his post game last night, because he's beaten himself up now after these games, and I'm going back to the series over the weekend against San Diego. The last couple of times he has addressed the media, he is beating himself up. Want to hear it real quick, since we're referencing it, you just pick whatever. Jimmy, Roman Anthony last night on that final throw. It was a terrible throw again, so I didn't have a shot with that throw, and it got to be better. It was terrible. Give me one more. We had to turn up the volume on this, because he was speaking so low. I'm doing everything I can pre-game, and I think just struggling to get a grip, but I mean, at the end of the day, there's no excuse. It's terrible. It's bad baseball, and it's on me. Okay, Mass. Now, I commend him for being stand-up and being accountable for it after the game, and that's a good sign. I think, by all accounts, Roman Anthony's got good character, good makeup. I don't think that this is a makeup issue. I think it's in his head, and I think part of the reason it's in his head is because he has been thrust into a position that he shouldn't be thrust in, at least not yet. Don't you find it odd that a 21-year-old with less than a half-season in the big leagues... I shouldn't say that's a little more than that, actually, but roughly a half-season in the big leagues, is all of a sudden become the face of the Red Sox and the spokesman for the Red Sox after defeats? Isn't that bad? That's a bad sign. It feels quick. Bad, bad sign to put that kid in that spot. And he is a kid. He's 21 years old. This was something... Like, when we talked about them before the season started, things that might potentially go wrong here, people were right to bring up, is it maybe too much pressure to put on a 21-year-old Roman Anthony to be the face of the franchise? Yes, I think we're seeing that in real time. And so I am really starting to wonder about the damage they are doing to their longer-term future beyond 2026. And maybe that's a separate story. Maybe it's tied into the same thing. But I think there's a real problem here. And when you start to look at... They are effing this thing up so badly, it isn't even funny. What do you mean by this? And I'm going back to the beginning here with when Dave Dombrovsky left, they brought in Hyam Bloom to rebuild the organization. They then had to get rid of Bloom after four years. Now they're in three years of Breslow. We have been waiting all this time, Mike, for Marcelo Maia, Roman Anthony, Christian Campbell, Kyle Thiel. The whole thing was about this group. They introduced them together at Worcester when they got there. The whole thing was this was the future. And then last year was this is the year they're going to arrive. They arrived, the team made the playoffs. Roman Anthony looked like the real thing until he hurt his oblique muscle. The whole thing looked like it was ready to take off. And they had a bad offseason that left them without any real leadership in the clubhouse. And now they've thrown these kids into the deep end of the pool. Christian Campbell has already maybe wrecked and back in the minor leagues. Marcelo Maia had the manager up his ass all of spring training. Roman Anthony now has the yips in the outfield. Has Brian Bale gotten better? Because I don't think he really has. Jaren Duran was brought here probably two years or a year and a half before he should have been in the big leagues and couldn't track a fly ball when he got to Boston. I think you can go up and down that roster. Caleb Durbin, who's admittedly like 26 or however old he is, is a little bit older, but he was a rookie last year. Now being thrust into a situation at Fenway Park where he's replacing Alex Brigham, how has he dealt with it in the early part of the year? Poorly. I think they've put all these guys in horrible spots. Horrible spots. They're not being raised or introduced to the major leagues in a positive winning environment. They're being put into a losing environment where it is being thrust on them to deliver success. And that is not just a recipe for short-term failure. It's a recipe for long-term failure. This is a problem. They have talented kids that they're either mis-evaluating or effing up. Yeah, it's part of the effing up part. I mean, go back to Roman Anthony last year when he first got up here and you're looking at these drills, defensive drills, and it's what? You didn't really tell him to worry about the fundamentals? Just worry about what you do at the plate. They're not teaching these kids the right way. I think that's evident. And remember, when he came up last year, they had to do drills with him in the outfield on his second day in the big leagues. Fielding drills. Right, I say in the outfield, but you know what I mean. How to field a grounder in the outfield taking a knee. Right. So are these guys ready? Like, are they really ready? Now, Roman Anthony as a hitter looks pretty polished, despite the slow start. So I will say in the batter's box, yes. Marcelo Meyer maybe no in the batter's box. So they're not fully there and maybe no rookies are. But to be in the spot they're in right now, in this market, two and eight, having to answer questions after the game, and what worries me is the track record of some of the people behind them. I don't feel like Brian Bale has really gotten out that much better. I feel he's pretty much the same guy he was when he got it. Yeah, let's never hear the term baby Pedro ever again. That's been ridiculous, but now more than ever. I think he's backslid. I don't use the same. I think he's backslid. Okay, so there you go. I think he was kind of last year. Yeah, really, when you start looking at them, you say, are they, are they... Improving. Putting these kids in the right spot. They don't have a nurture on young talent. They're not bringing it along. They're throwing them to the wolves. That is a developing story. Holy, Matt. I mean, even before Roman Anthony spoke last, I don't know how long you watched after it ended. I watched most of it. That dugout emptied. He sat there shell shocked. Just it was like, it was kind of like jarring to look at, like, oh boy, like this kid's way, this is way in this kid down. Then, Matt, you worry about these guys sort of being all over the place. So this is another thing, like when you watch them now, this is a 2026 problem. Okay. Contreras is fighting his own little battle on the field. Right. Did any duck the media the last couple days? I think, I think so. After some bad games and good... Oh, he did leave one of the games without talking to the media. Yes. So you would say that, so Ty, in your first point, Matt, that you offer some protection for these young kids, where they're not being thrown to the wolves, they're not being asked to lead and speak for the team. And it's a tough spot to put these guys. So you have those leaders on top of them that handle that, like Brengman would have or Bogarts would have. So you would ordinarily say William Contreras would be that guy. He's been in the league a long time. He's won a championship, et cetera. Except Wilson Contreras is nowhere to be found until he's got his own personal itch to scratch. Correct. So we heard from him last night about his own thing. But where was he the previous week to take some of these bullets for the young guys? He ducked out non-existent. And I think there's a lot of this going on with this team at the moment. So Anthony's having throwing problems. Contreras did what you just said. It is now feuding with the Brewers. Garrett Whitlock just returned from the birth of his child on his first night back at the store in the eighth inning. He gives the game up. And I think this is just, they're all fighting individual battles. Are they fighting together for the cause? Is there anybody there to say, guys, leave it at the door. We got to win the game. The goal is to win the game. Is there anybody saying that? Is there anybody giving them any sort of direction, whether it's Cora, someone in the clubhouse? Is anybody saying, guys, leave your bullcrap off the field. Once the game starts, the goal is to win. Caleb Durbin, over 19 to start the year. So he's in his little world. Whitlock's in his little world. Contreras is in his little world. Every guy fighting his own battle, and they're getting their asses kicked when they play the competition. Is that really a surprise when everybody is really in their own little bubble? I mean, to me, they are completely scattershot. They are all over the place, and it reflects in the quality of the product on the field, because right now they blow. Finally, to sell the team chance, continue to grow Murray that amuses you. Yeah, yeah, and nothing's going to happen, but I like that the owner's hearing it, and John Henry was there last night, and now there's this viral clip of him malving. Oh, sell the team, and he does like a little eye roll with it. So he's there, he heard it, and it was very much a Simpson's reference here, but are they booing me, Smithers? So the rich guy hearing this, is this what I'm hearing? But he wasn't incredulous or mad about it. It was like, oh, sell the team. Like, that's ever going to happen. I don't think he's going to do it. He's just frustrating to see, but that's the reality. He's not going to do it. But keep on him, keep on him. Keep saying this as long as they keep sucking like this. Yeah, look, and I think Barstool's driving a lot of this. They've had t-shirts printed up like the whole thing. You know, Port Noy's really been on it. It's on social media and what have you. But I don't think they understand the magnitude of their problem over there. I don't think they understand it. I don't think they understand the spot that they've put Roman Anthony in particular in. This is wholly and grossly unfair what they're doing to this kid. He is a special talent by all accounts, offensively at least. And to thrust him into this spot with a bunch of losers, because that's really what this team has become, is a bunch of losers, is really risking damaging his development as a player and, you know, damaging his confidence in the organization. And I don't mean that he can leave or anything like that. I just mean that if he doesn't believe in it, do you think he's going to get his best? Those are some of our lead off thoughts. What are yours to you right after these words? Joe Haggerty here between the car, the ranks, two kids in hockey and covering hockey myself. My schedule is absolute chaos. But a few weeks into Awakened 180, I'm down 20 pounds. Awakened180weightloss.com. Belger and Maz continue on the Sports Hub. Round ball right side, Wic gets through the friendly boundary. Duran with full mouth and the Red Sox have lost again. And again, it was full fire for half of it, ended with a bit of a whimper. And the Red Sox are two and eight. She has an awful ring to it, heading into game two tomorrow night. Well, you just find a different ways to lose ball games right now. It's grinding on everybody, including those guys in that clubhouse, trying to find some answers. The last couple of nights, you've done enough offensively. There's been signs offensively. It's just starting pitching. You need some shut down innings when you have some big leads. You've got to go out there and put up some zeros. And it's just you're unable to get it. And you're allowing teams back into ball games and it's costing. It's supposed to be a big strength of the Red Sox. It has not been anything but only the fourth time in 80 years, the Red Sox have lost eight of their first 10. Jake and Haverly, hi Jake. You hit the nail on the head there, brother. They're just going to sit there and they're going to bleed this Roman Anthony kid dry. They're just, they're going to sit there. They're going to make their stupid bobble heads. They're going to sit there. They're going to make every little advertisement out of them. And then they're going to bleed them dry until there's nothing left. That's all this ownership group cares about. All they care about is making money. They don't care about the team. I was at the game last night and I felt like I was watching a circus. I was freezing my nuts off and it wasn't even good baseball. Let me stop you there. Which John Henry to blame for last night? Well, I mean, was it lack of spending last night? No. So I think last night was a contrast in well run organizations. You're not a well run baseball organization. You don't teach your guys how to play baseball. And the other side doesn't have as bruise on any more talented than you. Probably less. Definitely less. But they know how to play. I think the beef with John Henry last night is who have you hired to run your organization and how do you how do you teach baseball? What is your organization stand from? You've asked it a million times. What's the identity of the big league club? The Brewers definitely have one. Yeah, they do put the bat on the ball and run like little rabbits. Try hard. Try hard. You know, that's what they do. What are the red side? Are they power? Are they pitching? Are they defense? None of those things. Are they contact and running the base? What are they? None of those. They don't know. And look, if you like on this part of it, Cora is a bad fit for this kind of team. I mean, in this organization, I guess, if you want to if you want to play the style you're talking about, Cora is the wrong guy. Not that because he can't do it, but because he's a big league. He's a big market mentality. He wants talent. He wants to compete with the big boys. The Brewers accept the fact that they're not. Cora won't accept that. He can't accept that. He has trouble with it. They think they're a power hitting team the way that they swing out of their ass. I put this in email. Like you now use David Hamilton as an example. He already has nine walks on the season, grinded out a couple last night. He played 91 games last year and walked 13 times. How many times does David Hamilton swing in out of his ass? He had terrible on base percentage. It's the approach. It's their whole. So again, John Henry doesn't have much to do with that. It's all these geeks that they've hired. Well, it's who's he? He's hired. So that's what there's two things you get on an owner for who they hire and what they spend. Yep. That's pretty much it. Like that's all you can say. Well, do they metal or not? Frankly, if you do the first two things well, it doesn't matter if you metal. If you spend what it takes and hire good people that everything else takes care of itself. Yep. Only two things to judge an owner on as far as I'm concerned. And I think who he's hired has sucked. And the organization is not a well run baseball organization. I'm sure they make money and are a good like business organization, baseball organization. Just ask yourself, what kind of team are they building? Good question. You can't tell. No, no one knows. No one knows. And Mike, I mean, it's a good point, Murray. Like they, they, they said run prevention. So you would think that that's more putting the ball in play that kind of offense yet. One thing if you have to grinding out walks, David Hamilton, Bunton for hit early in that came out. Yeah. And did he ever do that here? No. Oh, and Lou, did you say that? Yeah, I put that in email, you know, like he also grieve. He punted last night. I was like, huh, David Hamilton for a head. He sacrificed Lou as a brewer fan. The tongue bath. He gave my team all night. It was orgasmic. But I don't think Lou was just doing that to stroke the brewers. I think he was doing it to needle. I think Lou was all over the Red Sox last night in the way that he praised the brewers and started when Hamilton punted for a hit earlier in the game. Lou said immediately, here they were trying to get him to hit home runs. He said that immediately. Lou said when Hamilton was here last year, we kept saying, why didn't this guy lay down a bun? Because he fast as hell. So why didn't he lay down some buns? They were having him hit home runs here is what he said. Then when the Bruins, the brewers sacrificed in the fourth to move runners over, Lou said the front office here would tell you that's a dumb play, but it creates tension. It creates chaos. It created four runs. Lou at one point, I started jotting this down. I didn't pull all the sound because I don't want to subject you to it. But he said, we started going over the brewers rank. They're third in runs, first in chase rate, meaning the best chase rate. Only two guys hit more than 20 home runs last year. He said, here they're trying to find these home run hitters and striking out, finding these home run hitters. You don't have to hit home runs to have a great offense, he said. He pointed out the last two innings. They put up five runs and haven't struck out. He points out they've walked eight guys, five of them have scored. He says, at one point you get to the postseason, you ask a team to hit for contact, lay down a bun, move runners over. This team, meaning the brewers do it all season long. They do it for 97 wins. Maybe you should ask your team to do it a little sooner. He kept going, he just kept saying this about the brewers. And what he was really doing was talking to the Red Sox. Yeah, for sure. Because he, like everybody else, doesn't get the way they don't play baseball. So I did grab just one. This is Lou in the ninth inning, just talking about how the brewers came back in this game. It just sort of feels like the Murph over there just kind of being rewarded for playing a game. Right? Yes. Moving runners, we mentioned before, they were down three first and second. Nobody out, they bunt it. Down three early in the game. There isn't a computer in the world that tells you that's a smart play, bought, put pressure on the team, ended up getting up four. Just what they do. But they did it. It's in the 97 wins last year. That's all them speaking to the Red Sox. Yeah, totally. Again, and it's because the way the Red Sox do it completely takes all the situational stuff out of play. They go by the numbers as to what the percentages say. Fourth inning down three, runners on first and second, nobody out. They bunted the runner over, runners over to play for two runs. And Lou says there's not a computer in baseball that would tell you to do that. He's talking to the Red Sox. He's talking about how they manage their team and how they play. And it was, I thought it was excellent, subtle, but excellent. Arlo and Mass, go ahead, Arlo. I just have a couple of things to say. I want to ask you, do you think court can be the manager for the rest of the season? And what is the feeling of this Red Sox team moving forward? You want to answer those, Mass? Yeah. I mean, could he be the manager for the rest of the year? Yes. I think the company being fired, if this continues, my answer is yes. Because he's got one more year in his contract after this. They're going to have to revisit it after the year anyway. And so this would be the kind of year that gets you fired. I think the timing has hit that stage from a contractual standpoint. So if it goes like this, you know, what would I do if I were them? I'd fire them and move on. Right now? No, I said, you know, if this thing would have persist, you know, passed a certain point. So, you know, I just, I don't, if they want to play Brewer's style of baseball, Cora's the wrong guy. I think Cora, you know, wants to encourage that. But I also don't know that if they're an 85 win team and they can't compete with the Yankees and whoever else in the American League, the Blue Jays had a big market teams. Cora wants a big market team and he wants to play for championships. Still, they don't have to be this stupid. Back to David Hamilton. Who sucks? He's not a Major League hitter. You walked him twice. He's four walks off from his total last year. He's played seven games, I think it is. Whatever the hell it is. Amazing. So he gets to Milwaukee and they just say simply, you kind of suck like a lot of us. Yeah, right. So you're only going to swing at strikes. You're going to take walks. You're going to put the ball on the ground. You're going to bunt and you're going to run your little balls off. Yeah, that's your only path. Here they had him launch angle. But if you're the Red Sox, you know he sucks. You know there's only one way he can hurt you. By running. Is on the base pass. And you walk him twice. That is so bad. Yeah, it is. I can't tell you. But this is who they are. They're stupid team, Mike. So they're not. So they're not. This is to Cora. You're right. He's the wrong match for this team. But that's on someone over there. Sure it is. It's like guys. So it's driveline holes. You know, but specifically this is the pitching coach. This is Cora. This is just one on one. The scouting, the game, the scouting report. Don't let that guy on the base pass. You don't let him bunt for a hit. The third baseman should be in his jock. And you throw him strikes. Yeah, but the numbers will say that you are like more likely to give up a hit if you come in. This is what I'm getting at. They don't play situationally. They don't. It's asinine. The whole thing's asinine. They're a dumb team. They're a dumb organization. And what's their ceiling? I mean, you know, there's just troubling numbers. 57 teams in the wild card era have started two and seven or worse with a minus 15 run differential or worse. Of those 57 teams, 54 of them missed the postseason. Not a single one advanced to the World Series. There's a million stats like this out there. Teams that start two and eight teams that start two and seven teams with this run differential. So what does that mean? I it doesn't mean it's over, but it means the odds are stacked against you and why one is math. You know, it's hard to overcome a bad start for some reason, but I think it's more along the lines of the thing we mentioned yesterday. He has good teams just don't have bad stretches. Not like this. They don't. They have a maybe a three game losing streak here or there. Maybe there was a couple of weeks stretch where they just sort of tread water. But if you're a really good team, you don't have really bad stretches typically. And that I think or have starts like this where you're booting the ball all over the place. Looks all disjointed. Yeah, there's also a difference between losses and bad losses. You know what I mean? Like when you play at a level that they're playing at again, what are they doing well? What do they do well? Blow games. Nothing. No, they don't do anything. Well, no, they really don't. Nothing. There's nothing they do well. They don't hit. They don't field. They don't pitch their bullpens now blowing games on top of it at the plate. They don't strike. They don't control the strike zone. So they don't force you to throw strikes. They strike out a lot and they don't hit home runs. What do they do well? Zippo. We continue with your thoughts. May as also wants a second swing at Gino. Gino Oriama will take one breather from bashing the red socks to bash Gino after Big Jermari gets you updated here. Joe Hagerty here. If you were designing the perfect way to blow up a weight loss plan, my schedule would be a pretty good place to start. I'm in the car all the time running to ranks, juggling two kids in hockey, covering hockey myself. And half the time the day changes on me before it's even lunch, a few weeks into Awaken 180, I'm down 20 pounds. That's real weight real fast. And the only reason this is working is because I'm not trying to figure it out on the fly anymore. Crazy thing is I'd probably be down 30 pounds, but had a couple slip ups early because of my hectic schedule. Big mistake. That's why I've never been able to do it before. Now I give my coach my schedule where I'm going, what's coming up. And he helps me plan for the unexpected. Last week, I was going out to dinner and he gave me the meal options before I even got there. That's what I need. Not guesswork. Not willpower. Not willpower. A real plan for real life. That's why Awaken 180 is working for me. Let it work for you. Online at Awaken180weightloss.com. That's Awaken180weightloss.com. What's your plan for 2022? Not really. We don't have a lot in common. I mean, you know, I mean, Dawn was my assistant on the Olympic team and we've been coaching against each other for a long, long time. And I have tremendous amount of respect for what she's done in South Carolina. And I remember when she got there and her program had basically fallen off the map. I heard take her program, take it to where it is right now. I have tremendous amount of respect for that. That was after the game? I think so. I'll double check it. Well, anyway, you wanted another shot at you know. Yeah. So look, the comment was, you know, again, this goes on top of we don't have a lot in common. What? You don't have a lot in common and I'm adding it on top of everything that because they did such a nutritious job of it yesterday in terms of, you know, again, I thought that he was upset about the handshake after the game. It was before the game. So I want to get it right. Okay. So let's get it right. He, uh, first of all, as it turns out, he was allegedly upset that she did not shake his hand before the game. She did this video of it. That's number one. Secondly, it's really ultimately about him being a poor sport and unable to take the fact that she beat his ass in the national semifinals. And that's what South Carolina did. They beat you cons ass 14 points, which for an undefeated team. Like that is an ass kicking. And that's what happened. And then to sit there and say, we don't have a lot in common is Chris Casper put it this way in his column today and he put it way better than I ever could. Uh, Oriama publicly denigrated Staley standing as an equal, insulted her integrity and detracted from her team's success. Strike one, strike two, strike three. Really right down the middle. That's exactly what he did. Then he has the audacity or whatever that interview was to say, we don't have a lot in common. You've won 12 national championships and been to 24 final fours. You a whole, you know how tough it should be. Although relatively speaking, you had it pretty easy as the coach of Yukon when you got the best players and women's basketball all the time, won four straight national titles in six and eight years during the peak of your career. Now I think you have one in like the last close to 10 years. He won in 2025. Last prior to that was in 2016, I think. So it's really just one title in a long time. Could it be that he's just pissed off that another, uh, uh, program in the country really overtook his as the preeminent women's program in America, even though they get smoked by UCLA, they've won three national titles here in the last five or six years and she kicked your ass in the game. Could that be what really the issue is? Geno. So I just think the worst kinds of people to me are the ones that start believing their own bull crap that your resume expands. You've had a lot of success really because you've had the best players in most of the years you won. You have been a prohibitive favorite to win the national championship because you had the best players, but you want to walk around thinking it's you like you invented the game. When the fact of the matter is there will be someone else to replace you just like there is someone to replace everybody else that ever walks the planet. So you know what? When you start acting like an a-hole, you know what happens? You get your ass beat like one. He got everything he deserved in this. I have so little respect for that guy. Not as a coach. You can tell me he's a good coach and I won't dispute it. But as a human character, like dignity, tact, I'm not sure he is any. Like I think what he did after the game was one of the most tactless a-hole moves that I think you can see in sports when a coach who's supposed to set a standard for his program turns his back on the opposing coach and by the way the opposing players. Gutless. Absolutely gutless. So that cut was from April 3rd, which was Friday, which was I think the semi-final game. I'm just curious when it was because I don't know why I was under the impression that was a couple days later. Oh, did I mention she was on his staff during the Olympics? Yeah, well he did. He mentioned that at WMP. I think he mentioned it there. So you have nothing in common with her? You both coach powerful women's basketball program. What more do you want to have in common? Do you want to go hiking together? I think the worst part was him not putting her name in the statement. Brutal. Like that is so dis-so that so like what I'm I guess what I'm trying to drive at why it was important word when that comment came is because I mean not that I'm giving him a break but there's one thing about well everyone deserves a bad day or a bad moment or we all have them. Just get bitchy. You get small and you just sort of give into it and you act like a jerk. And then you think about it in the next day you say I was a jerk and you atone the right way. He hasn't even atoned the right way is sort of my by not putting her in that statement. I thought was so this is a long way of saying apologizing to the staff but not her in the written statement the next day. I thought was the worst part of the whole thing. This guy's a coward. He's a bully. A whole day to sleep on it wake up and then do the right thing the next day and you still couldn't bring yourself to do it. So small. It's got a little wiener. It's OK Gino. Some of us just got small penises and you're one of them. That's it. And I knew I read it somewhere. I was in Casper's column where he said that that press conference was after the game. That was. So like you know I just think he's freaking he's gutless if you ask me gutless. There's a follow up on Gina Oriama. To the Red Sox and whatever you want in a long commercial free segment next. Joe Haggerty here. If you were designing the perfect way to blow up a weight loss plan my schedule would be a pretty good place to start. I'm in the car all the time running to ranks juggling two kids in hockey covering hockey myself and half the time the day changes on me before it's even lunch a few weeks into a wake in 180 I'm down 20 pounds. That's real weight real fast. And the only reason this is working is because I'm not trying to figure it out on the fly anymore. The only thing is I'd probably be down 30 pounds but had a couple slip ups early because of my hectic schedule. Big mistake. That's why I've never been able to do it before. 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The Red Sox do typically react to fan discontent. They do. So and Henry can get emotional about it. Like when the didn't they sign? Would they sign after he got hooded at the Devers? So they gave Devers the extension after he got booed at the winter classic. Was it the winter classic? Yes, he got booed at the winter classic. So that was it. Yep. So he doesn't feel like he's emotional, but he will react emotionally. So your your chanting sell the team and all this is going to result in something. Yeah, your emotional the emotional moves have been the Devers won Trevor's story and last year with Bregman. He hears it and remember, now here I am with my cool cigar. Exactly. So you'll get something out of it. I don't know what it is. And also he had a thing in Liverpool. Remember after that whole super without the Super League, remember they want to do that? And he issued a video apology. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Base there. Yeah. So, you know, sometimes I think he recognizes when the feathers are ruffled. So interesting to see what the reaction is here. Back to your phones in a new Bedford. Hi, Ian. What's up guys? Not to cross sports, but honestly, it just feels like most of the contraris gives me Kyle van noi vibes. I mean, after he spiked David Hamilton last night, that game completely flipped. The teams missing a real leader. I just think about Roman Anthony comment during the world baseball class about missing Alex Bregman. This team is sorely missing him, not statistically, but a real leader in the clubhouse. Thanks guys. So lack of toughness. And one of them said it in the post game on the nest and post game that really William Contreras engaged and no one followed him. And I have more in contraris here in a second. I've saved all of it for three o'clock. I got a bunch of thoughts on William Contreras, but as in terms of the red sock side of it, the story is how they responded. Because as soon as that whole kerfuffle happened there in the third inning, I wrote it down. I said, let's see how they respond, how either side responds. You know how the red socks, how Brian Bayle responded? Uh, he was on his game last night, wasn't it? So it's now three, nothing top of the fourth inning. The building just woke up. You just rallied for two runs. Everyone's up. Contreras is engaged. Everyone's engaged. Everyone sparked. Everyone's ready to go. Three, nothing. Here you go, Brian Bayle. Frelick reaches on an infield single Hamilton five pitch walk. Sacrifice. Terrang four pitch walk to load the bases. Caleb Durbin air scores one. That's it for Bayle. Colombe come in, comes in. Colombe, yep. Infield single. Durbin couldn't come up with that one either. Scores another one. Four pitch walk scores another one. And then you got Ren Gifo, they ground into that double play. That was like a 13 pitch at bat. So your pitchers, Bayle specifically melted down. David Hamilton five pitch walk. The guy sucks. Throw him strikes. You're walking Hamilton? That's just weak ass stuff right there, Maaz. Weak team. Yeah, look, and again, Bayle was all over the place. How many pitches did he have when he left? How did he finish with? I didn't have the number, but it's those in the 80s almost. Yeah, it wasn't with the 80s. I'm pretty sure of it. He was all over the place. Four walks. Yeah, all 86 pitches in three and a third. Three and a third. But that ending specifically. I don't say it just speaks to mentality, too, is what I'm getting at. But that top of the fourth, you had the bottom of the broo or his lineup, which stinks and a three oh lead and a three oh lead and your William Petraeus had just engaged and gave the whole building a jolt. The whole building, the whole bench, the whole game took on a vibe right there. And you have a three nothing lead in the bottom of the brooers order. And you make one out and it was a sacrifice and you get pulled. That right there tells you all you need to know about Brian Bale. Pete in the car. Go ahead, Pete. Yeah, you asked the question, you know, what kind of team are the Red Sox? I think if you go back to, you know, through their mouthpiece, Alex Spear, last year, they told us how they reinvented hitting with Drive Line. This spring training, they told us how their pitchers spent the whole fall in their pitching lab with pitch shape and spin rates and how they're revolutionizing that. But the truth is, you know, a year ago, they used the consulting firm to purge their baseball operations and player development staffs. And it got very little play, kind of just hidden under, like they cut a bloated front office. But the truth is, they eradicated a lot of teachers in their baseball player development levels. And so we're left with a team that cares mostly about exit velocity, launch angle, and spin rate. That's right. Yep, you got it. And at the Major League level, the team has no identity. Yep, zero. No one can tell me how they play. There's no specific way that they play, other than poorly. Just lacking fundamentals. Billy and Rainham, go Billy. Billy! Getting calls back, you obviously know the number. Bob and Edom, hi, Bob. Yeah, let me stick to my call line and be quick. Felga, you know, if they want to follow this Milwaukee, Tipper Bay, Kansas City, Arizona model, that's fine. But cut the prices of the game day experience by 33%. Don't tell me you can't spend any money. I told man last night on the baseball hour, Jim and John Brouss, who was the last guy that could walk into the room with John Henry, and say, hey, we have to spend money if you want a winning team. If you don't want to spend any money, I'm going to trade the prospects like he did, and get better players so we can try to win something this year, not 10 years from now. This year, we can win one. OK, so I'm just going to. Spending is not the issue last night. You outspend the brewers by like $100 million. Right, certainly the close. Philosophy is the problem last night. The spending gives you some room for error when you make mistakes. You can just spend your way out of it. But last night, again, I don't know exactly what the discrepancy is in payroll, but it's probably around $100 million. Yeah, that's about probably about right. So that's not why you lost last night, because you don't know how to play the game. Correct. And they haven't for some time. So that's sort of today's thing. I mean, you want to get on spending. I'm all for it. I just don't think that was the issue in a game like last night. And frankly, some of these. You outspend the. You've lost to Cincinnati, who you outspend by $100 million, probably. You lose to the brewers last night, who you outspend by $100 million. I don't know what Houston's payroll is. It's probably closer to yours. But you see what I'm driving at. You're more talented and spend more than these teams that you're losing to. You're losing them because you don't know how to play. If you go on my tax payroll, the Red Sox are almost double what the brewers are. So money is not really the issue last night. Dan in Boston, go ahead, Dan. Top of the fourth. He said the first guy up had an infield single. That was a grounder to Marcelo Meyer. He was covering the wrong side of the bag. There was a left hand. Yeah, left handed. He was supposed to be in the hole getting that ball. Instead, he runs to the bag. That ball goes through that side of the infield. You're thinking of a different play. OK, either way, Cameron cuts the Cora. He has this like disgust look on his face of like, what are you doing? They can't back up throws where they're supposed to. There were three times where the pitchers should have either run over to first base to help the first baseman. You had Contreras last night taking a keeper when the pitcher didn't even run over. You want to talk about head up your butt and not really know what the hell is going on. Just right there, fundamental baseball. They look like a bunch of JV players. And they got schooled last night. They absolutely got schooled. And there's absolutely no accountability for that right now. And I'd love to see some. They don't play the game well. They're dumb. They don't play the game. He called it out on the Anthony, the final Anthony throw. It's easy to call out the arm. Because that is just like, what is up with that guy in his arm? Jesus. But the whole play. Here's Cora post game. Jimmy, give me Cora post game on the Anthony throw, please. Obviously, it wasn't a good throw. The wind didn't back up. That's happened, I think, twice this week. We're just watching the play. And when the boy says, we got to go somewhere. The only people that can watch is the people in the stands. And obviously, they're not too happy. Roman's throwing. Are you guys sure that he's healthy? 100%. Do you think maybe he's in his head a little bit about it? I don't think so. His mechanics. So that's on the throw. But Witt didn't back up. Second time it happened this week. It happened over the weekend, too. Chapman. Yep. Chapman didn't do it the other night. Wittlock didn't do it yesterday. Durbin, I think Jim Rice did a good job in the post game. I'll tell you, Jim Rice. This guy's grown on me. He's salty. And Papalban, salty. Those two guys are pretty good. They get on the team. It's pleasant to hear. And again, I think between Lou, subtly taking shots at the Red Sox all night with his Brewer's commentary. And then Rice and Papalban. Anyway, Rice says, Durbin, watch Durbin on the throw. Durbin's a cutoff. Anthony misses him. But Durbin with a half-ass effort to try and get that throw. That's why it goes to the backstop. Because Wittlock isn't backing up. But Durbin can still cut it off. Durbin could have dove, left his feet, gotten on the ground to get that hideous throw. And he did. And he just sort of waved at it. And that's one of the reasons it goes to the backstop. It's just, first and second, a line drive to left field scores, too. That's so bad. No, you can't get any closer to home plate in a Major League stadium in the left field at Fenway Park. I mean, any other teams, that's bases loaded, two outs. The Brewers just run because they have to. So they'll run in that spot, whether they have the book on Anthony or not. Something told me they had the book on Anthony. The guy can't throw. Basically threw it under the Brewer's dugout. That is just so two run score on that? How does that happen? That sounds crazy. How does one run score? Never mind two. Ineptitude. And stupid. They were a stupid baseball team. They swing at pitches out of the strike zone. They throw the ball all over the place. They don't throw enough strikes. They don't swing it enough strikes. They were a stupid baseball team. Let me get to Wilson-Contreras. I got some thoughts on this. After Murray's 90-second update, no commercials here.