Red Sox, Craig Breslow, Trade Deadline
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00:00Craig, good to be here.
00:01Most of us missed you yesterday, except for Angry Principal Dave, who loved the show
00:04without you yesterday.
00:05Oh, that's so nice.
00:06Well, I hope he has a lovely morning, and I hope everybody out there is enjoying themselves.
00:10I am thrilled that Sam Kennedy is joining us Thursday.
00:12I did not know that.
00:13Jeff Passan has a good story at ESPN.com.
00:17People with most on the line this trade deadline.
00:20And he notes Craig Breslow, and within this, he says, over the first 21 seasons this century,
00:26the Sox entered opening day with the top five payroll 20 times.
00:30The past four years, they've been sixth, eighth, 12th, and 12th.
00:35For reasons that have not been explained by an ownership group that for so long was regarded
00:40as one of the game's best, the Sox have spent the post-COVID era acting like a mid-market
00:45team, not one of the game's behemoths.
00:48And that's what we've all been saying.
00:50They have changed their philosophy.
00:53We've all seen it.
00:54They abhor the question because they don't know any other way to talk around it.
00:58And yet here they sit with a phenomenal start to the year, 49 and 40, Kassus coming back,
01:06you've four and two against the Yankees.
01:08You have gained, I believe, nine to 10 games against the Yankees in less than a month in
01:13the standings.
01:15This is the time.
01:16You get a starter, get an infielder, get a reliever, whatever you need.
01:21You have the capital and you can take the city again this fall.
01:27The Sox independent race in September will be a bigger story than Jacoby Brissett leading
01:32the Patriots.
01:34And it's all there for them and prove to us that you haven't changed and that you know
01:39where you are.
01:42They've won 16 of the last 22.
01:46They keep winning series against mediocre teams and against really, really good teams.
01:53They are a wild card team.
01:56And they appear to be, if you believe Buster only unsure, unsure, undecided, I think was
02:04the word he used about whether they're going to be buyers or sellers in a couple of weeks.
02:10There's no way.
02:11It is cool.
02:12Put your feet to the fight.
02:13It's a joke.