00:00but it's a great question do they buy do they sell ken rosenthal uh chimed in on that today
00:05let's take a listen on june 30th i wrote this the surging red socks are somehow in the playoff
00:12hunt they just won five straight and i said you can blame the watered down american league and
00:18the comments to this column and my comments or the ones i receive on my columns are always quite
00:24lively but these were exceptionally lively people thought i was nuts people said and i quote this is
00:32ken on weed then there was a response nah i think he's huffing paint thinner he's way too excited for
00:38bud and then ken loves his big market baseball bootlicking that's not true i write about all 30
00:45teams now the red sox proceeded at that point to lose two and then they won nine straight on the
00:51road and part of the premise of the column was that their schedule was easing and it did ease
00:56that road trip was against anaheim the los angeles angels against the chicago white sox and the new
01:01york mets who of course just gave one away yesterday to give the red sox their nine game road winning
01:07streak this team now let's look at those wild card standings again this team the boston red sox the
01:12team that fired its manager has had all kinds of injuries still without crochet still without
01:18roman anthony and others this team is a half game out in the wild card race it's incredible
01:23and here we go going into the deadline what will the red sox do i don't think they're selling as
01:28of
01:29right now no chance they've got a chance and they've got a president of baseball operations i'm sorry a
01:33chief baseball officer who has been under scrutiny he's not going to want to concede you know what's
01:39interesting rich i was first first for real quick i'm sorry ken i just first have to say before you
01:43make
01:43a comment that ken rosenthal obviously has the nerdiest followers on social media by asking is
01:48ken on weed well he wears a bow tie and what do you expect is he smoking the green is
01:53that what he said
01:55nerdy ass followers my friend okay i'm sorry ken that just distracted me when he said that so part
02:00of the office chatter here before the show loft is our sales guy says you know what kind of disappointed
02:05that they win that game yesterday because this is going to endorse the money ball approach and they're
02:10not going to be aggressive at the deadline they're just going to ride this as long as they can and
02:14be
02:14happy to be in contention again and not go hard after a piece and i think there is some part
02:20of that
02:20where you worry or does this sort of embolden them because you said it yourself ted this was
02:26brezlow's plan pitching a defense he didn't buy he didn't think offense was that important clearly
02:31so do they just continue and not do anything just stay pat it feels like they might just be happy
02:36with
02:37the newfound money and not do a thing and that would be disappointing i do not partake of the
02:41tree thank you i think i think that would be a mistake because now you have what is it rich
02:46we
02:46have you they have our attention now so so there is so to not do anything considering kind of the
02:52the bludgeoning they've taken all season long i mean we i mean people have been crushing this team
02:56and they're still lasting home runs dead last at home runs second from the bottom in runs scored
03:00that's crazy it's unbelievable that they're in a playoff spot and so i just i just think you you
03:06you know what it's can you capitalize on on what you did last year the first you know four months
03:12of the season has been terrible clearly now you got a little something i mean for them to not do
03:16anything to be inactive um i think would be a big big mistake they would get crushed they'd get
03:21crucified and i don't know that they would you don't think i think there are enough people that
03:24are on the fence because you don't really believe that they're good enough i don't but are they one move
03:28away that would be the next question like would one right-handed bat make the difference and make you
03:33believe they're good yeah i boy that would i yeah i mean i would say two would be uh a
03:38little bit
03:38i feel a little bit better about it but yeah i mean i don't know what was what was the
03:41problem with
03:42this for this team uh in the playoffs last year against the yankees was it yeah was it pitching or
03:46was it hitting they weren't hitting there was no offense so you know what i'm i am sick of half
03:50measures with this team at the trade deadline they do this every single trade deadline it's like
03:55it's such a non-move they'll make a move for like a relief pitcher or something that doesn't move
04:00the needle and you know what breslow save your job save your job do something erratic get a big
04:07bat in here this is one of those situations where if i'm craig breslow i want to i want to
04:13prove
04:13everybody wrong everyone who called for his job rosenthal who said that the entire basically he's the
04:19one who's next hell we crushed that guy you know what save your job craig breslow don't go half
04:25measure get a big bat in here because then you know what may happen if you get a big bat
04:30in here
04:31there is a chance this team could continue playing close to this level and then as you were saying
04:36ken what if you got garrett crochet back and what if all of a sudden roman anthony comes back and
04:41is
04:41anything close to what he's supposed to be all of a sudden you're talking about a team that
04:47legitimately has a shot i mean they got to be thinking that though rich they got to be thinking
04:50about man you know roman's going to come back i mean he's not he's not going to be out he
04:54can't be out
04:54for too much longer please you kidding me i mean maybe but um i love it they just sent him
04:59away
04:59just do just go away you're depressing me i mean go to go to go to the sahara florida in
05:05july
05:05seriously get better but so i mean he they're gonna so it's good basically they're seeing that
05:09as like free agent pickups if when they come you know trevor story i mean i'm assuming he's coming
05:14back uh and then you mentioned garrett crochet those are big kind of names they might say that this
05:19is this is our trade deadline acquisition roman anthony that'll be totally trot that right don't do that
05:23yeah yeah don't don't do that because because i know that that's going to be the excuse and that
05:27shouldn't be the excuse craig breslow save your job go out there and get a big bat do the one
05:32thing
05:32that you did not do in the offseason that you've been most criticized for why would he do that he's
05:36now winning with his method and what's his resume last year he got dustin may and steven matts
05:41no hitting he got lucas sims and louise garcia two years ago pitching no i think they got a catcher
05:46danny jansen that's it he doesn't go after big offense he doesn't feel like that's the way to win
05:51yeah you know i'm looking he hasn't won though he's winning now though he's not winning he's not
05:56even the playoffs no you were just praising him actually you weren't you you are not sold on
06:00breslow that's the one thing rich is not rich gives it all to tracy if he gets a big bat
06:04yes then i'll
06:05be like finally you did you know what it's a you're a little late on it but it's about time
06:10you finally
06:11made the move you were supposed to make because that's been my biggest criticism of him the entire
06:14time here's what'll be frustrating rich is that if if right now i'm you know yesterday you look at
06:19romey gonzalez he hit in the four hole uh uh yesterday he was uh two days ago he was the
06:24cleanup hitter for the red socks in the playoffs last year like romey gonzalez and it's it's it's
06:31just not good enough there it's there you know a year later and here we are romey gonzalez this is
06:35your is your cleanup hitter they they need to get a right-handed bat that would be huge if they
06:40did
06:40i just don't trust do we trust craig breslow to make that mid-season trade no joe ryan remember
06:47anybody remember joe ryan we all thought it was a fait accompli that he was coming here it didn't
06:50happen i just worry that he's not he's not at depth depth at pulling off a big trade like that
06:56in the
06:56middle of the season prove us wrong prove us wrong craig breslow i mean everyone called for you everyone
07:01said that you're about to get fired that you are off with your job you need a translator prove us
07:07all
07:07wrong make a move save your job this is this is your chance because how great would it be if
07:13you get
07:14this bat everybody's able to come back and get healthy you can put a gigantic middle finger right
07:19in the face of everyone who called you out and that's just so make the move no half measures go
07:25all in and then then ken i will finally give craig breslow the credit that you so desperately want me
07:31to give
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