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BEST GAME OF THE YEAR?! Consider the heat... the comeback... the 'refuse to lose' mentality, where does, interim manager Chad Tracy, rank this game? Is it time to remove the 'interim tag'?
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00:00I watched that and I saw the the camera angles tonight of the Red Sox walk off when remarkable historic
00:07season unprecedented never to be done again.
00:10And I think about what it must have been like in Chicago for a White Sox extra innings game this
00:16year or in Tampa or Kansas City.
00:19And I watch a full Fenway Park full throated losing their ever loving minds standing from the ninth through the
00:2713th like it was the ale freaking CS.
00:30And I say why would we give up this advantage of this massive reservoir of support and love that the
00:38Red Sox fans give spending on average 200 bucks a ticket 50 bucks for lobster poutine and enjoying that comeback
00:47when what this team has done where it is and what it's doing.
00:50I just I am in awe of the Boston sports fan.
00:54I think what you guys have done at Fenway is create an absolute massive home field advantage despite the fact
01:02that they won 11 games in the first 40 there.
01:04Now they can't lose at Fenway Park.
01:06This is going to be when the Patriots are great.
01:09We love it.
01:10Bruins Celtics all of that.
01:12When the Red Sox are on a heater like this and it's every night and it's the summer, it just
01:16changes the entire mood of Boston.
01:18Yeah, it elevates.
01:20Everyone, it makes everything feel yesterday was a little cooler because they were winning.
01:24Maybe it was hot because they were hot.
01:26Yeah, well, I mean, you're talking 1130 at night.
01:29People have kids that they got to get home and take care of it.
01:33People got to get up and go and work on the job site.
01:37And you're absolutely right, Curtis.
01:38They're all there.
01:39They're all standing up.
01:41They all believe and this team refuses to die.
01:45It's like a completely different mindset than it was just a month and a half ago.
01:50So it's just awesome.
01:52It's incredible.
01:53And Chad Tracy should lose the interim tag today.
01:56Take that off him.
01:57And you want to bump in salary or just keep him out?
02:00Give him a little bump.
02:00Give him a little bump there.
02:0250 bucks a win.
02:02Okay.
02:03Yeah, it's that's eight in a row for the Red Sox.
02:08Another streak has begun and a sweep of this series against a good team.
02:15And you're you're absolutely rolling.
02:18And I, you know, I guess I'll keep apologizing to Breslow.
02:23I mean, I was very gracious yesterday.
02:26And, you know, he didn't mind that he didn't mind me continuing and apologizing for apologizing
02:32for a minute or two.
02:33But the guy gets gets a lot of credit.
02:36He deserves a lot of credit, gets a lot of I mean, listen, you look at Durbin and the walk
02:42off and the way he's been playing, not only defensively, but offensively.
02:45Um, and that's a, that's a, that is Breslow who made that trade.
02:49You asked a good question beforehand, the expectations and what people, people, how people are going
02:56to feel, you know, it seems like they're going to make the playoffs, but if they don't make
03:01it all the way to the ALCS or if they don't make it to the world series or if they,
03:05you
03:05know, get bumped in, you know, the first round, you asked a good question and that is going
03:10to be very interesting to see how people react.
03:13I feel like we're kind of playing with house money at this point.
03:16And if you want to bring up the Bruins situation and their epic downfall, the difference is
03:20that we're in reverse right now, right?
03:22The Red Sox already sucked and then came all the way back.
03:25Like if you start the season hot and you have this massive fall off, that's when you
03:29lose fans.
03:30The fact that we were so low and we're at where we are right now, we're playing with
03:33house money.
03:34And I wonder if a lot of fans think like that, that's going to be, or if they, you know,
03:38think like me, well, now I expect this team to have a deep playoff run.
03:42And if they don't, I'll be disappointed.
03:44And I'll be pointing to a, you know, whose head should roll because of why you didn't.
03:50And I think it's really, you think if somebody will get fired, no, no, no, I'm not getting
03:54fired, but who heads roll.
03:56Well, heads roll means like, who is the one I'm going to be pointing at and aiming my frustration
04:02and hostility towards it's either the manager or the players up first.
04:06Well, Greg, we got to start with that crazy, crazy finish to the Red Sox game last night.
04:11That was one of the more wild games I've seen in baseball in quite some time.
04:15It is insane.
04:16You're down in the ninth, down in the 10th, down in the 11th, down in the 12th.
04:22And Derby walks it off for you.
04:26The hero we all needed.
04:27The Derby maker.
04:28And they just, they do it over and over and over again.
04:31They find ways to win.
04:34They used to find ridiculous, never done before ways to lose.
04:38Now they find ways to win, but go ahead.
04:40It really is unbelievable though, Greg.
04:42Like they, they were the worst team in baseball losing, not tagging up.
04:45They didn't know how many outs there were on a nightly basis.
04:48They couldn't challenge a pitch.
04:51Dead last in the freaking challenge system.
04:54I mean, it's unbelievable.
04:55It's, I, we are going to look, just remember this.
04:59We are going to look back when we're in the nursing home and say, we were alive when.
05:07Just think about that.
05:08Go ahead.
05:08Anyway, what?
05:09You could be in the nursing home during.
05:10Yes, it might happen.
05:12Could happen.
05:12Well, Chad Tracy, the interim manager, and as Curtis pointed out, probably should have that
05:16interim tag pulled and become the full-time manager of your Boston Red Sox.
05:19Spoke after the game and was asked about where this game kind of ranks all the time for him
05:24as a guy who's seen a lot of baseball.
05:25You've seen a lot of baseball games.
05:27Can you talk about it that way?
05:28It ranks at the top of the list, I'd say.
05:33You guys can ask me questions about the game.
05:34I don't know if I'll quite remember what inning certain things happened.
05:37It was unbelievable.
05:39They, they just did not want to lose.
05:41So it was, it was incredible.
05:43You brought it up earlier, Curtis Fenway faithful there till the bitter end at 1130.
05:49And it's a hundred degrees in there and everybody's standing up and it's just, it's a great time
05:55to be alive.
05:56There is no better place on the planet to do this.
05:59Like we take it for granted, but the wave, there was times when, um, do you remember the
06:062008 season?
06:08They had just won in 07.
06:09It was the ALCS against the Rays.
06:12They were down three games to one.
06:13And there was, I think it was game five or game six, where they were down eight runs in
06:16the seventh inning and they came back and Francona said after the game, he's like, there
06:20are some nights, it just Fenway lifts us to things that we couldn't do.
06:25And that was one of those nights where it was like, even you're down five to two, then
06:30you tie it at five to five and then you're down and then you, then they get the two run
06:33bomb on the top of the 10th.
06:35You tie it in the bottom of the 10th.
06:35Like the crowd was not going to let that team quit.
06:39But yeah, it was just awesome.
06:42And it's, it's guy after guy after guy.
06:44It's not like you point to, you know, one guy, it, uh, Texter says, Brian Bayo looks like
06:51a different human being, right?
06:53He's remarkable out of the pen.
06:55It is stunning.
06:56It is one of the most stunning transformations I've ever seen in my life where he goes from
07:00a starter who cannot get out of the first inning, right?
07:03Giving up a bomb.
07:04And then all of a sudden comes out of the bullpen and is an absolute, which is, which is
07:07maybe he's baby Papelbon, right?
07:10Which is crazy because you would think as a start of the first inning, there's really
07:14not that much pressure on you.
07:16But generally when you come out of the bullpen, you're in a pressure situation, you know,
07:21some guys, you know, and maybe he takes it to, maybe he's too lackadaisical in the first
07:25inning.
07:25Oh, it's unbelievable.
07:27All right.
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