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After beating the White Sox and winning their 9th straight series, the guys discuss their expectations for the Red Sox for the rest of the season.
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00:00Gentlemen, we're going to remember this Red Sox summer for a long time.
00:04Goose is.
00:043-2, the pitch is swung on and driven.
00:07High into right field.
00:08Is it deep enough?
00:09It's back.
00:10Adios!
00:13He does it again!
00:17Willier on another heater.
00:20And it's 2-0 Red Sox.
00:24Yep, right now, Kalshi has the Yankees and the Sox neck and neck to win the American League.
00:29It really depends on what time you click on it.
00:31I've seen both today, which is insane from where they were two months ago.
00:36But, of course, not now.
00:37The Sox once again embarrassed one of the best teams in baseball, shutting out the White Sox for zip.
00:43And one of the reasons is that guy right there, Willier Abreu, who has the most homers in baseball since
00:48the All-Star break with nine.
00:50And when asked by Nesson afterwards what his secret to hitting bombs was, he said this, Diz.
00:56I get a good pitch to hit, I hit it, and the ball just go.
01:02The ball just go.
01:03That's Lorenzo's advice.
01:04The ball just go.
01:05The ball just go.
01:06Love that.
01:07I get a good pitch to hit, I hit it, and the ball just go.
01:11That was a 3-2 slider.
01:12He waited on it perfectly.
01:14And just when he hits a home run, doesn't it look better than anybody else?
01:17The ball just go.
01:18That sweet lefty swing.
01:19Boom.
01:19He sounds like the Russian guy from Slapshot.
01:22It does.
01:23It does.
01:23The goalie.
01:24I would buy that T-shirt.
01:26I would buy a shirt that says, could you play the whole clip one more time?
01:31I get a good pitch to hit, I hit it, and the ball just go.
01:36I love it.
01:37No, you just need the ball just go.
01:38Bradfo, if you're listening, get on that.
01:40That's a bumper sticker.
01:41Ball just go.
01:41The ball just go.
01:43The Slapshot goalie was not a Russian.
01:44He was from Quebec.
01:45He was Yvonne or something like that.
01:47I'm sorry, Mr. Canadian.
01:48You talk about just consistent, dependable Red Sox players.
01:53I mean, how about the right fielder and the center fielder for the Red Sox?
01:57I mean, Raffaella and Bray, you have been.
01:59Who's your favorite Red Sox right now, Ted?
02:02It's Willier.
02:03Oh, really?
02:04Yeah.
02:04Well, you know, North 52.
02:05Because he's hot.
02:06Oh, I didn't even notice that.
02:07Yeah, 52, man.
02:08So, I go with the number.
02:10And I like his understated kind of approach.
02:14You know who wrecks me?
02:15Who wrecks you?
02:16Sonny Gray.
02:17I love the sweeper.
02:18I love the spinning sweeper.
02:19How about last time?
02:20Christopher Nolan wrecks me.
02:20A lot of whiffs.
02:21He wrecks you like the oddest.
02:22He was on fire last night.
02:24Dude, but he was in fuego, man.
02:27Dude, he's your number one when the playoffs start tomorrow.
02:30So, when you look at the Cy Young race, he's third, Rich, I think, behind Schlittler and Cease.
02:35But he's leading the league in wins.
02:38The nerds kind of rule that out as an important stat anymore wins.
02:42But he should be considered.
02:44I mean, God, the team is 15 and 6 when he pitches.
02:46How important has he been?
02:48He is.
02:48But the two guys you just named are having better seasons.
02:51I mean, he's unbelievable.
02:52Higher strikeouts.
02:53No question.
02:54But, I mean, my God, that's the great thing is you feel pretty damn good about your pitching all around.
03:00As a matter of fact, but if you ask me, like, who my favorite on the team is right now,
03:04it's Wilson Contreras.
03:05Because, first of all, he had one interesting game last night.
03:08So, as you saw there on the first pitch of the game, San Antonacci grounded out to Wilson.
03:12And then Sam intentionally elbowed Contreras on his way by.
03:17And Antonacci's next at bat.
03:19He gets hit by a 93-mile-per-hour sinker from Sonny Gray.
03:22Well done, Sonny Gray.
03:23Looking out for your guy.
03:24That's the vet move right there.
03:26I love that.
03:27Great stuff.
03:27And then after that, Contreras left the game because he was sick.
03:30Most likely diarrhea, in my opinion.
03:33Well, they said all kinds of things.
03:34Illness, dizzy.
03:35I mean, they're throwing it all on the table.
03:36The concussion?
03:37Yeah, he had a concussion a couple days ago.
03:39I mean, not joking around, obviously, that could be definitely a part of his concussion after several days.
03:46I was kind of shocked that he came back as quick as he did and only missed one game.
03:50But it's funnier to say that it was diarrhea.
03:52I don't know if you ever heard that clip of Chanho Park.
03:55It's one of my favorite all-time athlete post-game press conferences.
03:58Chanho Park, and Stiz, maybe later in the show you can pull it up.
04:01Chanho Park was after the game, and they're like, why did you leave the game?
04:05And he goes, I had a lot of diarrhea.
04:08And everyone just starts laughing in the locker room, and he just doesn't understand that that is something that you
04:13don't just usually come right out with.
04:15And he goes, why are you laughing?
04:15I had a lot of diarrhea.
04:17You can't say that now.
04:18What's that parasite going around, the cyclospora?
04:20People are getting that thing and getting hit hard.
04:22Some little lettuce?
04:23Yeah.
04:24But diarrhea is just a funny word.
04:27I just like saying diarrhea.
04:28Oh, yeah.
04:29And it sounds even better when Chanho Park says it for some reason over and over again.
04:32Well, this is getting ridiculous.
04:35They've won seven straight and 30 of their last 35.
04:38And that 30-5 record is historic because it's the best 35-game stretch in Red Sox franchise history.
04:46How many times, good and bad, have we used the word historic this season?
04:51As I said, it's going to be a long time until we forget this summer of the Boston Red Sox.
04:57Now, Jones, by the way, said they're peaking too soon, which is a very Jonesian thing to say.
05:02And he might actually not be wrong.
05:04I am worried about that a little bit.
05:05At this point, you could slow down a little.
05:07Stop.
05:08Stop.
05:09Come on, Rich.
05:10That's the dark night at his finest.
05:11Are they really what – is this team really the team that we've seen over the past month?
05:17Stiz, Stiz, do me a favor.
05:18I want you to get like a whiteboard, like one of those that we can write on.
05:23Yep.
05:23And I want to write on it, sports talk cliches.
05:27And just with a – number one is – number one on that list is they peaked too soon.
05:33It's the dumbest take of all time.
05:36You're either good or you're bad.
05:37No, there's a such thing called momentum.
05:39Oh, right.
05:40And their momentum is great.
05:41But you can't – like there's not like a certain – like a finite amount of good you can have
05:45in one season.
05:46Well, I don't know.
05:472007 Patriots, I mean, did they peak too soon?
05:49You know, at the end of the day, you could say the Patriots peak too soon.
05:53And that's one of the most memorable teams ever.
05:55See, I think – and, Ted, you would obviously know way more about this than –
05:59I think the 2007 Patriots, the problem there was they put too much pressure on themselves to have a perfect
06:05season.
06:06And I think that if they would have lost a game at some point, they wouldn't have had that pressure
06:12and it wouldn't have effed them up.
06:13That's kind of right.
06:14Were you sitting there saying, well, they need to lose a game?
06:16Was anybody saying they need to lose a game before they get into the playoffs?
06:20No, but if they would have lost one, if they would have lost one, the next day I would have
06:24said, you know, that's actually probably a good thing that they lost one.
06:27Yeah, totally.
06:27Yeah, after, sure.
06:28Yeah, afterwards, of course.
06:30Lose a series.
06:30But that's not even close to the most iconic sports cliche.
06:33I mean, you've got one game at a time, 110%.
06:35I mean, there's the next man up.
06:37I'm talking sports talk cliches.
06:40Ones that you hear that are so – like, he's a fraud.
06:44Write that down, too.
06:45Write down, he's a fraud is number two.
06:48Horses, not ponies.
06:49They peaked too soon.
06:52If you've got any more, 617-779-7937.
06:55I'll make a whole list of the biggest sports talk radio cliches, but that's number one.
07:00Look, I said to yesterday's show that, you know, okay, like, are they going to run out of steam?
07:04Is this all this winning?
07:05Is this build this – you know, all of a sudden these guys are like, man, you know, they put
07:09so much into getting themselves dug out of this hole that they don't have any gas left in the tank
07:13at the end when it matters.
07:15But you look at the profile.
07:16These are a lot of young guys.
07:18There's a lot of guys that are getting their chance to play in the bigs for the first time.
07:23It's in Boston for – a lot of these guys are playing in Boston for the first time.
07:27Just the newness of it, I think, and the youth.
07:31This team, I don't expect them to kind of have a letdown because this isn't some veteran-laden team that's
07:37done this year in, year out.
07:39Well, you know what worries me?
07:40The one thing that worries me is just the home runs are coming fast and furious, and this is not
07:44– if you really want to be honest, they're not a home run hitting team.
07:46They're hitting home runs now.
07:48That's going to dry up at some point, don't you think?
07:50Yeah, well, they'll play better pitching.
07:52Okay, yeah, but you're going to win games 2-1, 3-2.
07:54But don't you love the fact that they can fall back on their small ball game, which is that they're
07:59executing sacrifice flies and bunts like they're the, you know, the walk of Brewers.
08:06So, to me, if you're not going to hit home runs, all right, then play the small ball game like
08:10they are.
08:10You know what's weird is that we can't compare this to anything.
08:13You know, we're talking about whether or not they're playing too well, too early.
08:16Like, I can't think of a team that was this disastrous at the beginning of the season and just looks
08:22so unbelievable.
08:23I mean, they look like – like they are an absolute steamroller right now.
08:28You know what Ted would say?
08:29St. Louis Blues 2019.
08:30St. Louis Blues 2019.
08:31That's a great point.
08:32Coach and change.
08:33That's the one.
08:33Yep.
08:34You know what, Ted?
08:35That's exactly right.
08:36That's probably the best you can point it to.
08:38And, God, I'm glad that that's it because things worked out pretty damn well for the St. Louis Blues.
08:43So, I mean, just – you're going to remember this.
08:47I was thinking that last night when I was watching it.
08:48And it goes to show once again, and I said this yesterday, it seems that the better teams, they play
08:55better against the best teams.
08:56You know, it's like when you put the best teams in front of them, like the White Sox who are
09:01number one in the AL Central,
09:03like they just absolutely come to effing play.
09:07And I'm looking right now.
09:08So, you know, I was saying that Willier has the most homers in baseball since the All-Star break.
09:12But Sedan's right behind him.
09:14Yeah.
09:14Like Sedan is –
09:1615 total now, I think.
09:17Yep.
09:1715 total for him.
09:19It's been just a while.
09:21But Ryan's got 15.
09:22Sneaky 15.
09:23Oh, yeah.
09:24Always under the radar of that team.
09:25You look at their eight and nine hitters last night.
09:28Montessario and Wong.
09:30Short stop, catcher.
09:32They got a short stop down at AAA ripping the ball off the cover.
09:35And they got a catcher just waiting to be activated any day now.
09:39Think about just the upgrades in those two spots right there that's possibly coming.
09:44So, I mean, the team's only going to get better from here on out.
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