WEBVTT - Talking Red Sox Trade Deadline ft. Jared Carrabis 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.840 Welcome to Boss of territory. Ladies. 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:10.959 Wait a minute, excuse me, hold on one second. Jar 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.480 rabbas tribal chief, Welcome to the show. I hope that 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.200 was appropriate. I have to have my manners when you appear. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.560 How you do it, I thank you. It feels good 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.000 to be acknowledged. I don't know I'm in this weird 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:29.520 in between this, I'm sure you can relate as a 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.159 Red Sox fan yourself. This run that they've been on, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.120 it's felt very dream like because you know, I get 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.960 the chirps every day. You gave up with this team. Yes, 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.959 I did. I should have. I was correct for doing that. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.040 They sucked. The run that they went on to pull 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.040 themselves out of this was like a zero point zero 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.280 zero one percent chance that they would do that the 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.640 fifteen in a row, the twenty out of twenty two, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.440 and they're still playing. Well, I know that we're recording 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.680 this on what is it Wednesday? Wednesday night? They lost 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.360 last night to the A's, Like the Curtis Mead tricks, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.520 Like oh wow, Like Craig was aggressive and he went 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.080 out and you know, he addressed the offense and then 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.039 he gets two plate appearances and breaks his wrist. So, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:18.120 like everything everything that has happened recently has been like 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.720 the one percent of the one percent. Like, what are 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.279 the odds that the Red Sox are that bad, worst 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.320 Red Sox team since the mid sixties? Pretty low chance 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.520 of that happening. What are the odds that they pull 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.959 themselves out of it? Pretty low chances of that happening. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.880 What are the odds that the Red Sox become early 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.720 buyers after a start to the season like that, Pretty 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.880 low chance of that happening. What are the chances that 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.120 when that guy makes his Red Sox debut that he 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:48.559 breaks his wrist in his second plate appearance. Pretty low 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.440 odds of that happening. So like, I'm just I'm just 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.960 bobbing and weaven. I'm just reacting as things happen, and 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.720 I guess trying to stay appreciative for the fact that 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.760 they're still in a playoff spot right now? Does that 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:02.280 make sense? 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.640 This is legitimately We've watched a lot of Red Sox 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.800 baseball over the years. This is legitimately the weirdest season. 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.760 And I'm with you when it came to just how 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.840 bad things were. I had a thumbnail for I do 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.040 the postgame show every single night. The thumbnail said it's over. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.000 The title said open the cell gates. Nice sad picture 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.200 of Justin Slayton on the thumb. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.120 I was ready, and you know me, I am. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.240 People probably have me muted all across the land because 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.880 I'm too positive about everything. I even said, dude, we're 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.600 fourteen under, like you just lost the Rockies, and everyone's like, 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.720 oh yeah, well, we got the Angels coming up, we 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.840 got the Mets coming up. You just lost two out 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.800 of three to the freaking Rockies. So it's like, how 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.639 do I even have hope against the Angels and the Mets. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.840 I was done. I was like, you know what, I 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.720 can't do this. And of course the Nightmare flight from 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.040 Colorado was the good luck charm. Of course it was. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.400 It's it's ridiculous. I don't even know. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:02.240 It always is. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.200 I don't know what it is. But this is legitimately 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.760 the weirdest season I have ever experienced. And I think 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.079 that also came into play because we've obviously, you know 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.240 what we've seen over the years. When things got bad, 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.200 they got bad. We never saw a big turnaround. Yeah, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.200 you know, a couple of games under five hundred, all right, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.120 you're slumping. No, they're fine. But when you get that bad, 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.880 they've never turned it around. I got to ask you, though, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:27.799 I got to ask you though. It is the trade 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.679 deadline coming up, It is the prime time of the year. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.280 What is a favorite trade deadline memory that you have 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.800 with the Red Sox. They've had some interesting deadlines over 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.680 the years. Not no, omar, we can't do no more. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.440 That doesn't count. No, that's the easy one. Do you 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.880 have another favorite trade deadline memory? Yeah? 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.720 I mean I have an awesome I mean it was 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:54.360 good and bad. I guess I will explain the two 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.240 thousand and eight trade deadline. I was in the Red 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.440 Sox front off on deadline Day. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.000 Yeah you were you? You weren't the governor at the time, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:06.360 were you? 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.240 Yes? Were you? Was that the year? 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:11.800 Sorry? 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.640 I was the year? Yeah, so two thousand and eight 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.240 the Red Side. It was like their marketing team invited 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.719 me to go to Fenway. It was like, yeah, you 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.880 can come for the game and we'll you know, we'll 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.240 have like we have like a meeting. In this I 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.200 felt like I was almost like a case study. It's like, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.839 all right, like this guy clearly loves the Red Sox. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.760 More than most people, Like what makes his brain tick? 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.560 Like how do we like get his ideas? And like 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.080 what what uh? If if he wants it, then the 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.760 general masses they'll want it to So I feel like 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.960 I was just it was like an informational thing. They 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:56.279 were probing my brain. So we're in the conference room 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.320 and like, not only was it the day of the deadline, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.560 it was as it was happening. So four o'clock passes, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.960 like this is before Twitter, like Twitter existed, I guess, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.920 but like not like it does now. So like news 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.840 was not getting broken, like you literally had to sit 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.039 in front of the TV and wait to see like, 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.200 oh yeah, breaking news like the Red Sox did this, 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.440 this and this. So we're sitting in the conference room 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.359 and there's a TV mounted on the wall and four 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.560 pm passes, nothing happens, and then you get the breaking 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:33.520 news Red Sox trade Manny Ramirez, and I'm like, what 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:38.640 the hell is going on? And so the meeting concludes 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.280 and we walk out the door into like the main 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:49.320 lobby area of the front office, and Larry Lukeno, God 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.880 rest his soul, he was walking around on his cell 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.280 phone and all I heard him say was we need 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:00.640 to get that in writing, John, And so this is 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.520 after four pm, so I can confirm that after the 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.520 four pm deadline that there were still some things that 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.800 needed to get put in writing. Like it was not 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.520 officially completed, but the league obviously let it happen. I 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.560 love like may Ormire is one of my favorite players 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.080 of all time. I love Manny. So it's not like 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.280 it was like a glorious memory, but as far as 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.560 unique experiences are concerned, pretty awesome. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.320 I remember exactly where I was. I'm not sure how 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.800 familiar you are with Florida Land, but I worked at Publics. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.880 I was, I guess, a bag boy cashier at the time. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.839 I was in the break room. I was. I was 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.760 eating a I believe, a Public's ultimate sub if I 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.320 remember correctly, with a bag of some some kind of 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.239 a bag of chips, some sitting there. I'm paying attention 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.680 because I think you had the flip phones at the time. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.440 I think you had the Motorola raisers. If I remember 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.200 correctly that that was the right era. That is My 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.760 favorite trade deadline acquisition is Jason Beck. I love Jason Beck. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.320 That was awesome. I actually really wish they kept him 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.280 around longer. I know he had the knees and whatnot. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.560 But I'll also say another favorite memory of mine two 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.080 thousand and five with Manny Ramirez. Right, you go back, 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.240 and I still remember this is when Sports Center you 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.480 had to have Sports Center on like pay attention to anything, 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.320 but they would replay it throughout the night. I still 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.440 remember because I'm paying attention. Is many can get traded 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.240 to the Mets or the Orioles were involved Angels? 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.600 Yes, yes, that too, supposed to be Manny for Irvin Santana. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.240 Oh, that's right. He followed me on Twitter one time 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.080 and I was like, wow, that's Irvin Santana. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.000 Do you remember whose big league debut that was? 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.200 No, I'm going blank, Jonathan Pappleban. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.240 Oh, that's right, that's right, you're right, you're right. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.080 I don't know why I always think back to Gary 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.880 Payton in two thousand and five, like that's I don't 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.760 know why did I wait? What did I say? 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.440 Gary Payton the basketball player, J Payton, the Orioles outfielder. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.000 Turn sorry J Payton? Oh goodness, yeah, my mind's cooked. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.960 I don't know why I always have a vivid memory 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.480 of him from that time. Anyway. Yeah, but that was 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.480 a I still remember vividly hearing because I was like 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.680 a night owl at the time in Sports Center. I'd 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.480 just keep it on on my TV in my room. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.880 Still haunts my memory, hearing Buster only every single hour 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.840 saying it's inevitable, it's happening, many Ramirez, he's getting moved. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.200 I've never been so sure of anything in my life. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:36.719 I was about to. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:37.400 Lose my mind. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.719 Anyway, Good Times, Good Times. Also honorable mention Victor Martinez 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:43.600 did like that movie. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:44.760 Oh that's a good poll. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.520 Yeah, not a long career with the Red Sox, Hungred 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:48.360 eighty three games. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.920 You just pulled a wild memory from my brain. So like, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.080 tell me, you're never gonna believe this, Robbie. But like 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:01.040 a little bit of a weird kid, I just whoever 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.720 I am now, I've always been like, this is not 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.480 a character, this is who I've always been. So two 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.680 thousand and nine, a bunch of my friends we rented 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.319 a house in New Hampshire and it was like the 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.160 first time that I had ever like done something like that. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.760 And this is during July, like it's the summer of nine, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.760 and like a bunch of us go up there and 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.000 like we were there for like a few nights, and 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.600 like everyone got their own rooms, but I was in 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.920 the basement, so I had the couch, and like they 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.840 invited like girls up there and they're playing like beer pong, 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:46.120 like out outside and whatever. And I this was like 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:53.400 my first I guess, like teenage slash like college going 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.240 away vacation where I like wasn't with family and I 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.040 was just with friends. And you know what I did 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.880 that whole time, I did what I would do right now. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:08.560 I stayed in that basement. I packed lips all day 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:13.600 every day, and I played MVPO five. That's it. I 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.640 played MVPO five all day and then watched the Socks 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.000 all night and was down there for the trade deadline. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.479 They got Victor Martinez. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.840 Like that's where, like that vacation where I just isolated 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:32.200 while I was with all my friends is where Victor Martinez, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.520 the Red Sox era entered my life. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.400 I mean that you're talking about Victor Martinez being a 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.000 good poll, Well, that's a great poll of MVP Baseball 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.319 two thousand and five. I believe I had a stretch 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.240 where I got to like season number one hundred at 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.800 one point because I would simulate seasons. I would build, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.280 you know, do the roster constructions and whatnot. I know 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.559 you got some leverage out there, Jared, I know you 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.880 got some pole. I know you have some connections. If 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.360 there's anything you can do to get MVP Baseball back, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.280 I think. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.000 You're the man, dude. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.120 Honestly, dude, I think you're honestly. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.880 If you could find a way, that would be a 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.240 passion project of mine to to bring that back. It's 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.880 it's the best baseball video game of all time and 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.960 it ended in OH five. It ended with Manny on 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.360 the cover. They went out on top. But I would 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.200 just I would love if they came back. I'm not 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.800 really an MLB the show guy. Maybe maybe i'll I'll 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.040 get into it now that I kind of have like 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.480 my playrooms set up here at the New House, I 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.880 could do that. But uh yeah, m v P O 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:37.800 five that soundtrack just unlocks so much serotonin and dopamine 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.600 in my brain. It's uh, it lives on. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.240 I will always love what was it the band the 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.720 was it the Donuts or the Donuts? That was the 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.120 band who had the theme song of Uh. I'm trying 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.280 to play the song in my head. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:53.520 I can't remember the title. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.760 It was the main theme song of MPB Baseball. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.560 I think it was. It was either the do the 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.040 Donuts or the Donots. I don't know how you pronounced it. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.320 I don't know. I couldn't tell you. But if you searched, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.840 like MVP Baseball two thousand and five on Spotify, there's 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.480 plenty of playlists that people have all the songs from 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.840 the video game that you can just play. We're playing. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.360 Well, I'm getting it right now. It was obviously you 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.520 had you had Tessie of course. Yeah, the main song 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.080 of MVP Baseball. Oh, we got the noise. That's what 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:25.360 it is. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.480 We had that noise. Yeah, yeah, there it is. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.360 There it is. It's a good one. It's a good one. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.800 Do what you can. I did try to do my part. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.000 When I was a teacher, we had career day. I 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.040 don't know if you remember career day, if you ever 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.560 had one of those when you're in school. But a 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:44.000 group of because in Orlando, they have I believe their 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.480 EA Sports offices in Orlando, so they had a group 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.800 of guys come to career day. They came to my classroom. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.480 All the kids are asking just these whatever questions, I 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.439 don't know, and I raised my hand. I'm like, listen, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.520 I know you like Madden, but is there anything you 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.959 can do to bring back MVP Baseball? And they had 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:03.480 no idea what I was talking about. They're like, oh, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.840 what what game is that? Don't even worry about it, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.120 don't I'm done. And then I put my hand down, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.920 and then the kids just asked them about like football stuff. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.800 So I tracked awful. Yeah, really, we got to get 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.360 on top of that. We got to get on top 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:17.679 of that. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.040 Honestly, if there is a group of guys out there, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.760 I think Section ten might have a good shot to 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.200 get it done. We'll see. You know what else we 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.080 got to get done out there, Well, well, maybe not 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.199 me and you, but Craig Breslo, he's got to get 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.480 some stuff done. We got the trade deadline a few 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.560 days away. They did make the trade of Curtis Meade, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.319 two abs into his Red Sox career, unfortunately breaking his wrist. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.600 We did get a report today out six to eight weeks, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.439 which means he's going to be back in twenty twenty nine. Right, yeah, goodness, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.880 gracious please, but what is your feeling right now? Going 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.040 to the trade deadline obviously just a few days away. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.160 Here we've gotten reports. I mean, honestly, you go back 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.839 to Holy Cow. A couple of months ago, we thought 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.000 Mike Trout was coming to the Red Sox for carrying out. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.080 We saw reports aggressively looking for a right handed hitter, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.440 willing to take on money. I still think back to 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.280 some of those reports a couple of months ago, and 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.880 I still wonder if some of that not Trout, but 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.520 you know, could be at play, right the aggressiveness, who knows, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.800 maybe even take on some money. And obviously with this 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.760 injury with Curtis Meat, I don't know where's your head 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.280 at right now? Where where's your gut at right now? 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:28.840 With this deadline, it's at the shortstop positions. It seems 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.640 like every day you hear a new exciting name and 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.560 then a report the next day after that being like 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.520 don't even bother, you know, like like there was some 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.600 murmurs about Elie de la Cruz and then Bradford was like, yeah, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.560 the Reds are like, don't even bother. There is Jeremy 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.800 Pana and then it's like the astro said don't even 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.120 pick up the phone. Then it was CJ. Abrams and 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.960 then today Haymond was like, the Nationals have no interest 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.400 in training CJ. Abrams Bobby A junior. That would be great. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.280 It's like the Royals are not trading Bobby Wood junior 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.280 because they're opening a new stadium and there's you know, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.320 they want to have a superstar player when they do that. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.160 So yeah, it's kind of just like moving down the line, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.200 like all right, are you interested in training your shorts up? No? Okay, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.320 what about you want to trade your shortstop? No? So 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.680 like right now, it's kind of like Auto Lopez, who 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.920 I would genuinely be excited about. That's that's not like 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.800 a plan CDE Like, I would be genuinely excited if 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.360 the Red Sox trade for Auto Lopez. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.920 Just had him on the show on Baseball's. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.600 Det just came on on Monday. At the time, I 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.480 didn't think it was possible. I was kind of just 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.320 you know, hopeful, But then I think it was like 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:38.720 the next day. It was last night when we were 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:43.760 on the stream that I heard that one, and yeah, 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.880 I would be I would be genuinely excited if the 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.800 Red Sox trade for Auto Lopez. And then I guess 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.920 after that it would be like, you know, Francisco Lindor. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.480 But I don't know what the hell that trade would 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.840 look like or what kind of money is changing hands 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.880 under that under that trade, So I'd rather just do 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.520 something nice and clean, just Auto Lopez, maybe Liam Hicks, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.840 and figure it out. Get yourself a hitting catcher if 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.040 you were to add two bats in one deal, and 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.200 it's at positions like that, like up the middle. Sure, great, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.080 would love to do that. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.240 And then eventually, mead, if he does beat the twenty 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.280 twenty nine expectations and actually comes back in a couple 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.280 of months, the holy Cow, three bats not bat if 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:24.840 you ask me, you know, that's kind of where I'm 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.520 at as well. Cee j Abrams would be nice, but 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.600 I don't know. I just feel like with where the 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.760 Nationals are at in the standings, it would be a 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.640 weird sell for the fan base. Honestly. I mean, why 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.480 trade an MVP caliber player. You know, we keep hearing 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.320 about Zach Netto. Obviously you just wonder about the price tag. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.400 They don't have to move him. He's got three years 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.600 of control left, and there are downsides with him. I know, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.600 mister Tyler Milliken has probably mentioned all the down signs 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:51.600 and all the positives. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.040 I feel like he would be I'm not moving Franklin 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.320 Arius for zach Netto. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.760 We'll get to him in just a second. We'll get 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.760 to him in just a second. But with you know, yeah, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.119 there's downsides, but I wonder if they actually line up 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.040 when it comes to preference of players going back. But 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.359 then you said Otto Lopez really checks off a lot 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.800 of boxes, right. He kind of fits into the back 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.919 to ball scheme. The Red Sox are going for the 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.320 speed as well. Gives you a little better defense up 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.719 the middle. Also has that versatility with Trevor Story if 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.879 he comes back, he has that versatility to play some 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.199 second base, you know, so you kind of it's like 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:27.920 a nice fit. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:29.080 He doesn't pull. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.120 I know, like everyone wants to talk about the pole 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.920 swing Jason Bay good memories, but yeah, you know, he's 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.639 not really going to be that pole guy. But a 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.919 guy that you can slot into the leadoff spot. And 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.560 that's getting to my point. I just want to get 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.440 a bat that can hit leadoff. I want a guy 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.560 that is just going to give you a consistent ab 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.320 every single night out of the leadoff spot. They're dead 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.640 lasting pretty much everything out of the leadoff spot. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:53.960 I know we got Tony siegeals. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.520 I know he's had some good moments, but if you 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.119 look at the overall numbers out of the leadoff spot, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.480 he's batting around two hundred ops. Isn't looking very good. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.760 They've tried Massa there a couple of times. You feel 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.639 like they've tried everyone, but they can't find it anyone. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.440 So that's where we would be good with Otto Lopez. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.879 I'd also, I don't know what you think about this, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.080 let me know what you think. I would be all 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.439 right with Luis sur Rise if that were to be 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.960 a possibility. I don't know, what would you think? He's 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.440 a rental Yeah, yeah, so if they wanted to go, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.000 they just spent a big piece in Connolly early, so 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.479 if they wanted to kind of, you know, not have 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.159 to give up any more big pieces, that could be 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:32.320 a possibility. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.240 Maybe where are you putting him second base? Like you're 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.120 just gonna and then Curtis me he's not. 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.679 Coming back till twenty twenty nine, so we're good, right, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:40.640 We're good there, And if. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.480 He does, he can't field anyway, So like I'm fine 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.480 with having Curtis me dh if if you were to 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:47.840 go or I saw it anyway. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.800 Honestly, you know he's I don't know anyway. I just 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.920 want someone batting leadoff. Funny enough, you mentioned Lindor. 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.600 Listen baseball fan and me baseball. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.120 Fan hands up. Guys like to do the hands up, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.040 But I would I would be excited. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.480 Who would be who? Yeah? You know, you know there's 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.800 gonna be people out there that are gonna be. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.160 What you're taking on this amount of money, and you're 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.240 taking on like this guy's been. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.479 Horrible this year, have been Juan Soto, They're the worst enemies. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.400 You're bringing that guy to Boston. You know there's gonna 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:24.520 be those reactions. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.240 Sure, I'd be excited. Nothing is universally praised anywhere anytime. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.240 So if you believe in it and you have conviction 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.000 in it, then who cares what anybody else says? Uh? 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.240 Like people hate the Rock? Like how do you hate 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.600 the Rock? You know? Like? That's that? Like I if 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.719 I look in the Rocks comments and I see people 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.200 saying negative things about him, I'm like, man, that's how 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.600 you know that no one, no one will ever have 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.800 universal praise, So don't appeal to the people that say 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.840 negative things. Try and make the positive people happy, and 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:01.840 I think that there will be plenty of Red Sox 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.120 fans that have positive things to say about that deal. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.320 I mean, it depends on who's going out, depends on 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.240 how much money is being assumed by the Red Sox, 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:14.639 there's other factors, but you'd be very I guess ignorant 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:16.800 is the word to be, like, yeah, I don't want 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:21.480