Speaker 1: Welcome to Boss of territory. Ladies.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, excuse me, hold on one second. Jar
Speaker 2: rabbas tribal chief, Welcome to the show. I hope that
Speaker 2: was appropriate. I have to have my manners when you appear.
Speaker 1: How you do it, I thank you. It feels good
Speaker 1: to be acknowledged. I don't know I'm in this weird
Speaker 1: in between this, I'm sure you can relate as a
Speaker 1: Red Sox fan yourself. This run that they've been on,
Speaker 1: it's felt very dream like because you know, I get
Speaker 1: the chirps every day. You gave up with this team. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did. I should have. I was correct for doing that.
Speaker 1: They sucked. The run that they went on to pull
Speaker 1: themselves out of this was like a zero point zero
Speaker 1: zero one percent chance that they would do that the
Speaker 1: fifteen in a row, the twenty out of twenty two,
Speaker 1: and they're still playing. Well, I know that we're recording
Speaker 1: this on what is it Wednesday? Wednesday night? They lost
Speaker 1: last night to the A's, Like the Curtis Mead tricks,
Speaker 1: Like oh wow, Like Craig was aggressive and he went
Speaker 1: out and you know, he addressed the offense and then
Speaker 1: he gets two plate appearances and breaks his wrist. So,
Speaker 1: like everything everything that has happened recently has been like
Speaker 1: the one percent of the one percent. Like, what are
Speaker 1: the odds that the Red Sox are that bad, worst
Speaker 1: Red Sox team since the mid sixties? Pretty low chance
Speaker 1: of that happening. What are the odds that they pull
Speaker 1: themselves out of it? Pretty low chances of that happening.
Speaker 1: What are the odds that the Red Sox become early
Speaker 1: buyers after a start to the season like that, Pretty
Speaker 1: low chance of that happening. What are the chances that
Speaker 1: when that guy makes his Red Sox debut that he
Speaker 1: breaks his wrist in his second plate appearance. Pretty low
Speaker 1: odds of that happening. So like, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: bobbing and weaven. I'm just reacting as things happen, and
Speaker 1: I guess trying to stay appreciative for the fact that
Speaker 1: they're still in a playoff spot right now? Does that
Speaker 1: make sense?
Speaker 2: This is legitimately We've watched a lot of Red Sox
Speaker 2: baseball over the years. This is legitimately the weirdest season.
Speaker 2: And I'm with you when it came to just how
Speaker 2: bad things were. I had a thumbnail for I do
Speaker 2: the postgame show every single night. The thumbnail said it's over.
Speaker 2: The title said open the cell gates. Nice sad picture
Speaker 2: of Justin Slayton on the thumb.
Speaker 1: I was ready, and you know me, I am.
Speaker 2: People probably have me muted all across the land because
Speaker 2: I'm too positive about everything. I even said, dude, we're
Speaker 2: fourteen under, like you just lost the Rockies, and everyone's like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, well, we got the Angels coming up, we
Speaker 2: got the Mets coming up. You just lost two out
Speaker 2: of three to the freaking Rockies. So it's like, how
Speaker 2: do I even have hope against the Angels and the Mets.
Speaker 2: I was done. I was like, you know what, I
Speaker 2: can't do this. And of course the Nightmare flight from
Speaker 2: Colorado was the good luck charm. Of course it was.
Speaker 2: It's it's ridiculous. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: It always is.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. But this is legitimately
Speaker 2: the weirdest season I have ever experienced. And I think
Speaker 2: that also came into play because we've obviously, you know
Speaker 2: what we've seen over the years. When things got bad,
Speaker 2: they got bad. We never saw a big turnaround. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of games under five hundred, all right,
Speaker 2: you're slumping. No, they're fine. But when you get that bad,
Speaker 2: they've never turned it around. I got to ask you, though,
Speaker 2: I got to ask you though. It is the trade
Speaker 2: deadline coming up, It is the prime time of the year.
Speaker 2: What is a favorite trade deadline memory that you have
Speaker 2: with the Red Sox. They've had some interesting deadlines over
Speaker 2: the years. Not no, omar, we can't do no more.
Speaker 2: That doesn't count. No, that's the easy one. Do you
Speaker 2: have another favorite trade deadline memory? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I have an awesome I mean it was
Speaker 1: good and bad. I guess I will explain the two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight trade deadline. I was in the Red
Speaker 1: Sox front off on deadline Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah you were you? You weren't the governor at the time,
Speaker 2: were you?
Speaker 1: Yes? Were you? Was that the year?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: I was the year? Yeah, so two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: the Red Side. It was like their marketing team invited
Speaker 1: me to go to Fenway. It was like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can come for the game and we'll you know, we'll
Speaker 1: have like we have like a meeting. In this I
Speaker 1: felt like I was almost like a case study. It's like,
Speaker 1: all right, like this guy clearly loves the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: More than most people, Like what makes his brain tick?
Speaker 1: Like how do we like get his ideas? And like
Speaker 1: what what uh? If if he wants it, then the
Speaker 1: general masses they'll want it to So I feel like
Speaker 1: I was just it was like an informational thing. They
Speaker 1: were probing my brain. So we're in the conference room
Speaker 1: and like, not only was it the day of the deadline,
Speaker 1: it was as it was happening. So four o'clock passes,
Speaker 1: like this is before Twitter, like Twitter existed, I guess,
Speaker 1: but like not like it does now. So like news
Speaker 1: was not getting broken, like you literally had to sit
Speaker 1: in front of the TV and wait to see like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, breaking news like the Red Sox did this,
Speaker 1: this and this. So we're sitting in the conference room
Speaker 1: and there's a TV mounted on the wall and four
Speaker 1: pm passes, nothing happens, and then you get the breaking
Speaker 1: news Red Sox trade Manny Ramirez, and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: the hell is going on? And so the meeting concludes
Speaker 1: and we walk out the door into like the main
Speaker 1: lobby area of the front office, and Larry Lukeno, God
Speaker 1: rest his soul, he was walking around on his cell
Speaker 1: phone and all I heard him say was we need
Speaker 1: to get that in writing, John, And so this is
Speaker 1: after four pm, so I can confirm that after the
Speaker 1: four pm deadline that there were still some things that
Speaker 1: needed to get put in writing. Like it was not
Speaker 1: officially completed, but the league obviously let it happen. I
Speaker 1: love like may Ormire is one of my favorite players
Speaker 1: of all time. I love Manny. So it's not like
Speaker 1: it was like a glorious memory, but as far as
Speaker 1: unique experiences are concerned, pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: I remember exactly where I was. I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: familiar you are with Florida Land, but I worked at Publics.
Speaker 2: I was, I guess, a bag boy cashier at the time.
Speaker 2: I was in the break room. I was. I was
Speaker 2: eating a I believe, a Public's ultimate sub if I
Speaker 2: remember correctly, with a bag of some some kind of
Speaker 2: a bag of chips, some sitting there. I'm paying attention
Speaker 2: because I think you had the flip phones at the time.
Speaker 2: I think you had the Motorola raisers. If I remember
Speaker 2: correctly that that was the right era. That is My
Speaker 2: favorite trade deadline acquisition is Jason Beck. I love Jason Beck.
Speaker 2: That was awesome. I actually really wish they kept him
Speaker 2: around longer. I know he had the knees and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But I'll also say another favorite memory of mine two
Speaker 2: thousand and five with Manny Ramirez. Right, you go back,
Speaker 2: and I still remember this is when Sports Center you
Speaker 2: had to have Sports Center on like pay attention to anything,
Speaker 2: but they would replay it throughout the night. I still
Speaker 2: remember because I'm paying attention. Is many can get traded
Speaker 2: to the Mets or the Orioles were involved Angels?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that too, supposed to be Manny for Irvin Santana.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. He followed me on Twitter one time
Speaker 2: and I was like, wow, that's Irvin Santana.
Speaker 1: Do you remember whose big league debut that was?
Speaker 2: No, I'm going blank, Jonathan Pappleban.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, that's right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I always think back to Gary
Speaker 2: Payton in two thousand and five, like that's I don't
Speaker 2: know why did I wait? What did I say?
Speaker 1: Gary Payton the basketball player, J Payton, the Orioles outfielder.
Speaker 2: Turn sorry J Payton? Oh goodness, yeah, my mind's cooked.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I always have a vivid memory
Speaker 2: of him from that time. Anyway. Yeah, but that was
Speaker 2: a I still remember vividly hearing because I was like
Speaker 2: a night owl at the time in Sports Center. I'd
Speaker 2: just keep it on on my TV in my room.
Speaker 2: Still haunts my memory, hearing Buster only every single hour
Speaker 2: saying it's inevitable, it's happening, many Ramirez, he's getting moved.
Speaker 2: I've never been so sure of anything in my life.
Speaker 2: I was about to.
Speaker 1: Lose my mind.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Good Times, Good Times. Also honorable mention Victor Martinez
Speaker 2: did like that movie.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good poll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a long career with the Red Sox, Hungred
Speaker 2: eighty three games.
Speaker 1: You just pulled a wild memory from my brain. So like,
Speaker 1: tell me, you're never gonna believe this, Robbie. But like
Speaker 1: a little bit of a weird kid, I just whoever
Speaker 1: I am now, I've always been like, this is not
Speaker 1: a character, this is who I've always been. So two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, a bunch of my friends we rented
Speaker 1: a house in New Hampshire and it was like the
Speaker 1: first time that I had ever like done something like that.
Speaker 1: And this is during July, like it's the summer of nine,
Speaker 1: and like a bunch of us go up there and
Speaker 1: like we were there for like a few nights, and
Speaker 1: like everyone got their own rooms, but I was in
Speaker 1: the basement, so I had the couch, and like they
Speaker 1: invited like girls up there and they're playing like beer pong,
Speaker 1: like out outside and whatever. And I this was like
Speaker 1: my first I guess, like teenage slash like college going
Speaker 1: away vacation where I like wasn't with family and I
Speaker 1: was just with friends. And you know what I did
Speaker 1: that whole time, I did what I would do right now.
Speaker 1: I stayed in that basement. I packed lips all day
Speaker 1: every day, and I played MVPO five. That's it. I
Speaker 1: played MVPO five all day and then watched the Socks
Speaker 1: all night and was down there for the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: They got Victor Martinez.
Speaker 3: Like that's where, like that vacation where I just isolated
Speaker 3: while I was with all my friends is where Victor Martinez,
Speaker 3: the Red Sox era entered my life.
Speaker 2: I mean that you're talking about Victor Martinez being a
Speaker 2: good poll, Well, that's a great poll of MVP Baseball
Speaker 2: two thousand and five. I believe I had a stretch
Speaker 2: where I got to like season number one hundred at
Speaker 2: one point because I would simulate seasons. I would build,
Speaker 2: you know, do the roster constructions and whatnot. I know
Speaker 2: you got some leverage out there, Jared, I know you
Speaker 2: got some pole. I know you have some connections. If
Speaker 2: there's anything you can do to get MVP Baseball back,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: You're the man, dude.
Speaker 2: Honestly, dude, I think you're honestly.
Speaker 1: If you could find a way, that would be a
Speaker 1: passion project of mine to to bring that back. It's
Speaker 1: it's the best baseball video game of all time and
Speaker 1: it ended in OH five. It ended with Manny on
Speaker 1: the cover. They went out on top. But I would
Speaker 1: just I would love if they came back. I'm not
Speaker 1: really an MLB the show guy. Maybe maybe i'll I'll
Speaker 1: get into it now that I kind of have like
Speaker 1: my playrooms set up here at the New House, I
Speaker 1: could do that. But uh yeah, m v P O
Speaker 1: five that soundtrack just unlocks so much serotonin and dopamine
Speaker 1: in my brain. It's uh, it lives on.
Speaker 2: I will always love what was it the band the
Speaker 2: was it the Donuts or the Donuts? That was the
Speaker 2: band who had the theme song of Uh. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to play the song in my head.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the title.
Speaker 2: It was the main theme song of MPB Baseball. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it was. It was either the do the
Speaker 2: Donuts or the Donots. I don't know how you pronounced it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I couldn't tell you. But if you searched,
Speaker 1: like MVP Baseball two thousand and five on Spotify, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of playlists that people have all the songs from
Speaker 1: the video game that you can just play. We're playing.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm getting it right now. It was obviously you
Speaker 2: had you had Tessie of course. Yeah, the main song
Speaker 2: of MVP Baseball. Oh, we got the noise. That's what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: We had that noise. Yeah, yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2: There it is. It's a good one. It's a good one.
Speaker 2: Do what you can. I did try to do my part.
Speaker 2: When I was a teacher, we had career day. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you remember career day, if you ever
Speaker 2: had one of those when you're in school. But a
Speaker 2: group of because in Orlando, they have I believe their
Speaker 2: EA Sports offices in Orlando, so they had a group
Speaker 2: of guys come to career day. They came to my classroom.
Speaker 2: All the kids are asking just these whatever questions, I
Speaker 2: don't know, and I raised my hand. I'm like, listen,
Speaker 2: I know you like Madden, but is there anything you
Speaker 2: can do to bring back MVP Baseball? And they had
Speaker 2: no idea what I was talking about. They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: what what game is that? Don't even worry about it,
Speaker 2: don't I'm done. And then I put my hand down,
Speaker 2: and then the kids just asked them about like football stuff.
Speaker 1: So I tracked awful. Yeah, really, we got to get
Speaker 1: on top of that. We got to get on top
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 2: Honestly, if there is a group of guys out there,
Speaker 2: I think Section ten might have a good shot to
Speaker 2: get it done. We'll see. You know what else we
Speaker 2: got to get done out there, Well, well, maybe not
Speaker 2: me and you, but Craig Breslo, he's got to get
Speaker 2: some stuff done. We got the trade deadline a few
Speaker 2: days away. They did make the trade of Curtis Meade,
Speaker 2: two abs into his Red Sox career, unfortunately breaking his wrist.
Speaker 2: We did get a report today out six to eight weeks,
Speaker 2: which means he's going to be back in twenty twenty nine. Right, yeah, goodness,
Speaker 2: gracious please, but what is your feeling right now? Going
Speaker 2: to the trade deadline obviously just a few days away.
Speaker 2: Here we've gotten reports. I mean, honestly, you go back
Speaker 2: to Holy Cow. A couple of months ago, we thought
Speaker 2: Mike Trout was coming to the Red Sox for carrying out.
Speaker 2: We saw reports aggressively looking for a right handed hitter,
Speaker 2: willing to take on money. I still think back to
Speaker 2: some of those reports a couple of months ago, and
Speaker 2: I still wonder if some of that not Trout, but
Speaker 2: you know, could be at play, right the aggressiveness, who knows,
Speaker 2: maybe even take on some money. And obviously with this
Speaker 2: injury with Curtis Meat, I don't know where's your head
Speaker 2: at right now? Where where's your gut at right now?
Speaker 1: With this deadline, it's at the shortstop positions. It seems
Speaker 1: like every day you hear a new exciting name and
Speaker 1: then a report the next day after that being like
Speaker 1: don't even bother, you know, like like there was some
Speaker 1: murmurs about Elie de la Cruz and then Bradford was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Reds are like, don't even bother. There is Jeremy
Speaker 1: Pana and then it's like the astro said don't even
Speaker 1: pick up the phone. Then it was CJ. Abrams and
Speaker 1: then today Haymond was like, the Nationals have no interest
Speaker 1: in training CJ. Abrams Bobby A junior. That would be great.
Speaker 1: It's like the Royals are not trading Bobby Wood junior
Speaker 1: because they're opening a new stadium and there's you know,
Speaker 1: they want to have a superstar player when they do that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's kind of just like moving down the line,
Speaker 1: like all right, are you interested in training your shorts up? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: what about you want to trade your shortstop? No? So
Speaker 1: like right now, it's kind of like Auto Lopez, who
Speaker 1: I would genuinely be excited about. That's that's not like
Speaker 1: a plan CDE Like, I would be genuinely excited if
Speaker 1: the Red Sox trade for Auto Lopez.
Speaker 2: Just had him on the show on Baseball's.
Speaker 1: Det just came on on Monday. At the time, I
Speaker 1: didn't think it was possible. I was kind of just
Speaker 1: you know, hopeful, But then I think it was like
Speaker 1: the next day. It was last night when we were
Speaker 1: on the stream that I heard that one, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be I would be genuinely excited if the
Speaker 1: Red Sox trade for Auto Lopez. And then I guess
Speaker 1: after that it would be like, you know, Francisco Lindor.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what the hell that trade would
Speaker 1: look like or what kind of money is changing hands
Speaker 1: under that under that trade, So I'd rather just do
Speaker 1: something nice and clean, just Auto Lopez, maybe Liam Hicks,
Speaker 1: and figure it out. Get yourself a hitting catcher if
Speaker 1: you were to add two bats in one deal, and
Speaker 1: it's at positions like that, like up the middle. Sure, great,
Speaker 1: would love to do that.
Speaker 2: And then eventually, mead, if he does beat the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty nine expectations and actually comes back in a couple
Speaker 2: of months, the holy Cow, three bats not bat if
Speaker 2: you ask me, you know, that's kind of where I'm
Speaker 2: at as well. Cee j Abrams would be nice, but
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just feel like with where the
Speaker 2: Nationals are at in the standings, it would be a
Speaker 2: weird sell for the fan base. Honestly. I mean, why
Speaker 2: trade an MVP caliber player. You know, we keep hearing
Speaker 2: about Zach Netto. Obviously you just wonder about the price tag.
Speaker 2: They don't have to move him. He's got three years
Speaker 2: of control left, and there are downsides with him. I know,
Speaker 2: mister Tyler Milliken has probably mentioned all the down signs
Speaker 2: and all the positives.
Speaker 1: I feel like he would be I'm not moving Franklin
Speaker 1: Arius for zach Netto.
Speaker 2: We'll get to him in just a second. We'll get
Speaker 2: to him in just a second. But with you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's downsides, but I wonder if they actually line up
Speaker 2: when it comes to preference of players going back. But
Speaker 2: then you said Otto Lopez really checks off a lot
Speaker 2: of boxes, right. He kind of fits into the back
Speaker 2: to ball scheme. The Red Sox are going for the
Speaker 2: speed as well. Gives you a little better defense up
Speaker 2: the middle. Also has that versatility with Trevor Story if
Speaker 2: he comes back, he has that versatility to play some
Speaker 2: second base, you know, so you kind of it's like
Speaker 2: a nice fit.
Speaker 1: He doesn't pull.
Speaker 2: I know, like everyone wants to talk about the pole
Speaker 2: swing Jason Bay good memories, but yeah, you know, he's
Speaker 2: not really going to be that pole guy. But a
Speaker 2: guy that you can slot into the leadoff spot. And
Speaker 2: that's getting to my point. I just want to get
Speaker 2: a bat that can hit leadoff. I want a guy
Speaker 2: that is just going to give you a consistent ab
Speaker 2: every single night out of the leadoff spot. They're dead
Speaker 2: lasting pretty much everything out of the leadoff spot.
Speaker 1: I know we got Tony siegeals.
Speaker 2: I know he's had some good moments, but if you
Speaker 2: look at the overall numbers out of the leadoff spot,
Speaker 2: he's batting around two hundred ops. Isn't looking very good.
Speaker 2: They've tried Massa there a couple of times. You feel
Speaker 2: like they've tried everyone, but they can't find it anyone.
Speaker 2: So that's where we would be good with Otto Lopez.
Speaker 2: I'd also, I don't know what you think about this,
Speaker 2: let me know what you think. I would be all
Speaker 2: right with Luis sur Rise if that were to be
Speaker 2: a possibility. I don't know, what would you think? He's
Speaker 2: a rental Yeah, yeah, so if they wanted to go,
Speaker 2: they just spent a big piece in Connolly early, so
Speaker 2: if they wanted to kind of, you know, not have
Speaker 2: to give up any more big pieces, that could be
Speaker 2: a possibility.
Speaker 1: Maybe where are you putting him second base? Like you're
Speaker 1: just gonna and then Curtis me he's not.
Speaker 2: Coming back till twenty twenty nine, so we're good, right,
Speaker 2: We're good there, And if.
Speaker 1: He does, he can't field anyway, So like I'm fine
Speaker 1: with having Curtis me dh if if you were to
Speaker 1: go or I saw it anyway.
Speaker 2: Honestly, you know he's I don't know anyway. I just
Speaker 2: want someone batting leadoff. Funny enough, you mentioned Lindor.
Speaker 1: Listen baseball fan and me baseball.
Speaker 2: Fan hands up. Guys like to do the hands up,
Speaker 2: But I would I would be excited.
Speaker 1: Who would be who? Yeah? You know, you know there's
Speaker 1: gonna be people out there that are gonna be.
Speaker 2: What you're taking on this amount of money, and you're
Speaker 2: taking on like this guy's been.
Speaker 1: Horrible this year, have been Juan Soto, They're the worst enemies.
Speaker 2: You're bringing that guy to Boston. You know there's gonna
Speaker 2: be those reactions.
Speaker 1: Sure, I'd be excited. Nothing is universally praised anywhere anytime.
Speaker 1: So if you believe in it and you have conviction
Speaker 1: in it, then who cares what anybody else says? Uh?
Speaker 1: Like people hate the Rock? Like how do you hate
Speaker 1: the Rock? You know? Like? That's that? Like I if
Speaker 1: I look in the Rocks comments and I see people
Speaker 1: saying negative things about him, I'm like, man, that's how
Speaker 1: you know that no one, no one will ever have
Speaker 1: universal praise, So don't appeal to the people that say
Speaker 1: negative things. Try and make the positive people happy, and
Speaker 1: I think that there will be plenty of Red Sox
Speaker 1: fans that have positive things to say about that deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, it depends on who's going out, depends on
Speaker 1: how much money is being assumed by the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: there's other factors, but you'd be very I guess ignorant
Speaker 1: is the word to be, like, yeah, I don't want
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor on my team. Like what are you talking about? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I agree there's always the negative reactions. What
Speaker 2: convinced me of what you just said was I saw
Speaker 2: someone saying that cinnamon toast crunch was the worst cereal ever,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, you know what, there's no one
Speaker 2: idiot going to be happy.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, that's literally the goat. That's the greatest cereal
Speaker 1: of all time.
Speaker 2: Could Francisco Lindor be the cinnamon toast Crunch for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox. We'll just have to wait and see. But
Speaker 2: I do think they need someone I have to lead
Speaker 2: off spot and actually, you know, if they have that
Speaker 2: capability of even batting third, because I am still holding
Speaker 2: out hope and maybe this is the delusional Red Sox
Speaker 2: fan in me that maybe Roman could still find his
Speaker 2: way back right, and I would like to be able
Speaker 2: to get someone where you can kind of you know,
Speaker 2: whether you put Roman leading off or third, and whoever,
Speaker 2: if they bring someone else in, I would like for
Speaker 2: them to be able to handle either of those spots.
Speaker 2: And that's where I look at lind Or. He can
Speaker 2: obviously handle both. Luisa Raise, believe it or not, Luisa A.
Speaker 1: Raise is actually a.
Speaker 2: Pretty good three hitter in his career, so actually got
Speaker 2: some pretty good numbers batting third. Or if you just
Speaker 2: went with Otto Lopez, you stick them in the lead
Speaker 2: off spot and you're good to go. That's what I think.
Speaker 2: I just think you need someone top of the order,
Speaker 2: set the tongue.
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about it as like lead off or third.
Speaker 1: I'm just a top of the third batting order guy,
Speaker 1: yeah or top yeah, yes, Yeah, that's pretty much where
Speaker 1: I'm don'twhere one through four I would be happy with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if you really think about it, you wonder. And
Speaker 1: again this isn't me trying to, you know, toot the
Speaker 1: Lindor train. I'm just I'm always going over possibilities. But
Speaker 1: you kind of wonder, like if the Mets are looking
Speaker 1: to maybe get a get a headstar on, you know,
Speaker 1: getting a contract off of the payroll. I know it's
Speaker 1: Steve Cohen, but I don't know if they did want
Speaker 1: to get a head start, you kind of wonder if
Speaker 1: maybe that could be realistic. But then again you think
Speaker 1: of the money, and then this is where a big
Speaker 1: problem comes up. If you did bring him in, where
Speaker 1: does Franklin Aarius go at that point?
Speaker 2: Because Lindor. I don't think Lindor is gonna be moving
Speaker 2: over to second base. I don't think he's gonna bless.
Speaker 1: I think Arius can can play second base, you know
Speaker 1: like that, I think that that's a possibility, or you know,
Speaker 1: for a Francisco Lindor trade, I would really for everything
Speaker 1: that we're talking about with the money exchanging hands here,
Speaker 1: if the Red Sox are taking on all or a
Speaker 1: vast majority of that contract, you're taking one of our
Speaker 1: bad contracts. Then like you're taking Story, you're taking Masa,
Speaker 1: you're taking something like that. That's the only way that
Speaker 1: it makes sense. But to bring on Lindor, let's just say,
Speaker 1: at full one capacity for his ballery and to still
Speaker 1: have Story on the books for the next year. So
Speaker 1: just one more after this and then Masa's deal, it's like,
Speaker 1: take someone, take someone off our hands to offset this,
Speaker 1: And I.
Speaker 2: Think that that could be realistic, you know, you kind
Speaker 2: of if you think about it. With Stories, only got
Speaker 2: one year left, so for the Mets, I feel like
Speaker 2: that'd be an even kind of a takeer. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: we'll take Story for next year, but at least we're
Speaker 2: out of the rest of the contract with Lindor. You know,
Speaker 2: same with Masa, right, you know, I think that is realistic,
Speaker 2: and who knows, you feel like you keep seeing his
Speaker 2: name popping up though. But I got to ask you this,
Speaker 2: if there were a big deal out there, any big deal.
Speaker 2: Let's let's let's say the Reds came out and said,
Speaker 2: all right, you know what, Ellie day La Cruz will listen.
Speaker 2: Are you giving up Arius in that deal?
Speaker 1: I mean that that deal starts with Roman, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I would like if if I'm trading Roman, I need
Speaker 1: a French player back because I still see Roman as
Speaker 1: a franchise player here. I still believe in Roman. I
Speaker 1: think that he can certainly be the face of the
Speaker 1: Red Sox franchise for the next decade plus. So if
Speaker 1: you're gonna. If you're going to include him in a deal,
Speaker 1: then I need Bobby Witt juniors coming back. Ellie Dela
Speaker 1: Cruz is coming back, Like it's a very very short list,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's young under contract superstar players, Like that's
Speaker 1: those the deal and like in some some cases, like
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis used to be in that category, I'm not
Speaker 1: putting Roman in a deal for Tatis. Like there's really
Speaker 1: maybe a handful of guys realistically that you would put
Speaker 1: Roman in a deal for. But yeah, like Franklin Aius
Speaker 1: is not going to be headlining at Ellie Dela Cruz deal.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: You know, when we go back to twenty thirteen, and
Speaker 2: you know, it's you can never point back to history
Speaker 2: and say, oh, just because that happened, this is going
Speaker 2: to happen. Right, But you know, you looked at Xander
Speaker 2: Bogart's and how solid he was coming up through the
Speaker 2: miners in twenty thirteen, ends up helping out and Arius
Speaker 2: because ending at home run at Worcester the other day, right,
Speaker 2: it seems like the real deal. Could he end up
Speaker 2: being a guy that ends up helping the Red Sox
Speaker 2: down the stretch. It's going to be interesting to see.
Speaker 2: The deadline is always a crazy time. It's always a
Speaker 2: crazy time of the year. And I will say this
Speaker 2: about Arius. I think the Mason Miller Leo Davries trade
Speaker 2: last year really like put something in people's heads. Oh
Speaker 2: they moved Dvrees for Miller. Oh yeah, yeah, Arius can go.
Speaker 2: It's not the same thing. You know. Aj prel is
Speaker 2: an absolute lunatic. The guy's a mad man. He's a
Speaker 2: freaking nature. That doesn't mean Arius is gonna get moved.
Speaker 2: Is it when you see Arius Mott trades out there
Speaker 2: for say zach Netto, I gotta ask you, does it
Speaker 2: does it get under your skin a little bit? Or
Speaker 2: are you just like, man, like.
Speaker 1: What do we do? I think I am in the
Speaker 1: minority that trust Craig Breslo, Like I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think that Craig Breslo is trading Franklin Arius for
Speaker 1: It's not going to be a one for one where
Speaker 1: we're getting the downside of that. I think if he's
Speaker 1: in a deal, it's he's one of three or four players,
Speaker 1: Like I could see Arius meyer Iansen like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not putting like totally might be my only untouchable in
Speaker 1: the ORG. Yeah, but I've seen some mocks where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like if you want to go big, you want to
Speaker 1: swing for the fences, then you're talking Meyer ionsen uh
Speaker 1: Arius totally and like, yeah, that's if I'm putting together
Speaker 1: that package, I better be getting a bona fide superstar
Speaker 1: that's twenty five or younger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree. We'll see. You know, who knows,
Speaker 2: maybe Marcella Meyer can end up being in like a
Speaker 2: change of scenery kind of a you know, kind of
Speaker 2: a move for him. Possibly, we'll see. But you know,
Speaker 2: if I were to ask one more question, do you
Speaker 2: how if you're go to scale of one to ten,
Speaker 2: how aggressive do you think Craig is going to be here?
Speaker 2: Do you think he's really going to go all out?
Speaker 2: Do you feel because you got to remember, man, a
Speaker 2: couple of months ago, we thought we're hearing the end
Speaker 2: of days for Craig Breslo, and here he is. I
Speaker 2: don't know what sense do you get there?
Speaker 1: The sense that I get is that he is going
Speaker 1: to be aggressive, but he's not going to be desperate.
Speaker 1: I don't think that he's going to I think he's
Speaker 1: going to put the players on the table that should
Speaker 1: get the deal done that he wants to get done.
Speaker 1: But the thing that fans every single year around this
Speaker 1: time need to remind themselves is that it takes two
Speaker 1: to tango. Like perfect example was the Joe Ryan thing
Speaker 1: with the Twins last year, where you know, we were
Speaker 1: putting out there that the Red Sox went all out
Speaker 1: for Joe Ryan and then the Twins were like, no,
Speaker 1: they didn't, and then it came out like yes they did,
Speaker 1: Like you're just stupid, like you should have taken their offer.
Speaker 1: That offer that they put up for Joe Ryan was
Speaker 1: what it was like Arius totally, I thought I saw
Speaker 1: somewhere like Bradford had that there was like a I
Speaker 1: don't know that it all were included, but it was
Speaker 1: kind of like a buffet like here's five prospects you
Speaker 1: can you can pick two, pick three kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it was just Arius and totally, Oh, it's
Speaker 2: a lot to pass on anyway. But that's the trade deadline, right.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the best moves are the ones that you don't make.
Speaker 2: And I do also want to say I appreciate you
Speaker 2: saying it takes two to tango, because I'm so tired
Speaker 2: of seeing mock trades out there where it's like, listen, no,
Speaker 2: that's not happening on that one side. Yeah, gret that
Speaker 2: looks good for you, but this one, no, we got
Speaker 2: we gotta stop it. It's a fun time of the year, Jared,
Speaker 2: It's a fun time of the year. I know where
Speaker 2: most people. I know most people know where to find you, guys.
Speaker 2: But just in case, let the people know at home,
Speaker 2: where can they find you? And do you have any
Speaker 2: fun projects coming up? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I just I just moved and I spent
Speaker 1: all this money building this set over here, and then
Speaker 1: I hired a tutor to learn Adobe Premiere, and then
Speaker 1: I bought a bunch of equipment, and I just recently
Speaker 1: started shooting, editing and putting together my own videos for
Speaker 1: social media. I'm very proud of myself. I feel like
Speaker 1: at this stage of my career, this is this is
Speaker 1: season twenty for me that I've been covering the Red
Speaker 1: Sox in some form of fashion. So to be able
Speaker 1: to create the content the way that I see it
Speaker 1: in my brain, and then to make it look how
Speaker 1: I wanted to look, very very excited to continue to
Speaker 1: do it. So yeah, But I mean, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: posting it everywhere. So I mean, I'm I'm on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,
Speaker 1: all those places. But I just it's my new it's
Speaker 1: my new passion project slash hobby. It's it's you're a
Speaker 1: sick oh when like your job is your hobby and
Speaker 1: your hobby is your job. But like that's that's where
Speaker 1: I'm at. Is. I got really excited to learn how
Speaker 1: to edit videos and then be able to make the
Speaker 1: content that I really want to make, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's an exciting time for me. I've only done two
Speaker 1: of them so far, but like I'm getting better at it,
Speaker 1: and the one that I did yesterday, I'm very proud
Speaker 1: of myself. It's uh, you know, and.
Speaker 2: Obviously you've grown like such a such a big thing
Speaker 2: over the years. But I guarantee you you're going to
Speaker 2: look back at your first video. Was that the one
Speaker 2: you just posted like a couple of days ago. Is
Speaker 2: that the first one that you've edited and whatnot?
Speaker 1: The one about the Curtis Mead trade was the first thing.
Speaker 2: You will look back at that in years from now
Speaker 2: and you'll be like, Wow, that sucks. You're gonna you're
Speaker 2: gonna have that mindset.
Speaker 1: It looks I reay that now because the lighting looks awful.
Speaker 2: But then I fixed it. I fixed it the second one.
Speaker 2: I promise you, like I go. I still sometimes I
Speaker 2: go back to my first ever YouTube video. I'm literally
Speaker 2: wearing a stone cold Steve Austin shirt in that video.
Speaker 2: I'm in a room with nothing behind me because I
Speaker 2: lived with just random roommates so I could save money.
Speaker 2: I'm in my room. I bought the little the little
Speaker 2: boom arm with the microphone on Amazon Black Friday, thirty dollars.
Speaker 2: What a deal, What absolute spoke show of a deal.
Speaker 2: And I'm in my room and I have no idea
Speaker 2: what I'm doing. And I'm talking very quietly in that
Speaker 2: video because my roommates were trying to sleep, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I want to I want to make a YouTube video.
Speaker 2: It's it's the worst thing imaginable. I urge everyone to
Speaker 2: go look if you if you need to look at
Speaker 2: something terrible.
Speaker 1: Go back to that.
Speaker 2: But it's good to look back on when you have that,
Speaker 2: and you're going to appreciate it over time, and you're
Speaker 2: only gonna get better, you know. But obviously you do
Speaker 2: a great job as it is, so you know about that.
Speaker 2: I will also say I want to say one more
Speaker 2: thing before we get out of here. I did say
Speaker 2: this off camera before we started recording. But I love
Speaker 2: the new backdrop. I can't believe you actually stole the
Speaker 2: Red Sox World series trophies, John Henry. It's it's it's great.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: People think it's like a green screen, like I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: these are these are real, you can touch.
Speaker 2: They're very good. I take notice of these things. I
Speaker 2: like you said, like I'm a I'm a sicko when
Speaker 2: it comes to I look at everything like I look
Speaker 2: at the little details. I look at how you guys
Speaker 2: on section ten. When you organize, you do a new organization.
Speaker 2: I see those things. It's about the production. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of these days when we're going to get Tyler
Speaker 1: Millikean out of his mom's house so that he can
Speaker 1: build like a set behind him that doesn't look like
Speaker 1: a bedroom because it is his bedroom.
Speaker 2: Wherever he goes. Please avoid getting a dog.
Speaker 1: He's not allowed to have a dog.
Speaker 2: No, no, not allowed to do please, Tyler, no dogs.
Speaker 2: We're out here, everybody, Jared, thank you for joining me today.
Speaker 2: Do appreciate that we actually have the game on right now,
Speaker 2: so we got to go watch. Yeah, Jared, we thank you,
Speaker 2: my friend for coming on. Everybody, if kind of the
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Speaker 2: and we'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: Bye, all right, see