WEEI Afternoons: Are the Red Sox BACK? Lou Merloni joins the show

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00:00John Henry smoking cigars posting on social media are the Boston f-ing Red Sox back, baby

00:11Listen life life is good. I'm sitting up by the pool. They got Bregman

00:14I mean, I'm styling right now and they are as well. I think it helps in so many levels. He's a good player winning player

00:21Kind of brings the approach you want it to play give you quality of bat doesn't strike out and then on the financial side

00:27It's like dude. Yeah, you finally

00:29Recognize somebody you want and you went out and got him you paid a little extra for him and it just proves to people

00:34That maybe they're back into the spending game again, or they are

00:38So Lou just to sort of like from from what you understand how the negotiations went down

00:43Can you sort of stitch together a loose?

00:44Timeline for us and the fans at large because it seemed like Bregman was a no-doubter

00:49Then there was a big ask then it felt like our Notto was the way to go and next thing, you know last night

00:54It's 1040 at night and BAM Bregman three for 120

00:58Yeah, I think to be honest with you that I think there were a lot of people like surprised

01:03That that ended up working out there was really not much communication for a while

01:08Then there was an offer and I believe was in that three 100 range with deferred monies

01:13But there was just they knew maybe Bregman side Boris

01:15they knew it wasn't the best offers and and when you started getting

01:18six-year deals from Detroit and and and trying to get a five-year deal from the Cubs and

01:23Toronto's involved Houston's involved

01:25it just sort of looked like the Red Sox weren't going to budge off their three-year ask and

01:29If that was the case, it was like up to about two or three days ago

01:32I people telling me that they're being more aggressive on Arenado and it was like, all right

01:36well Bregman is going to get his five six years somewhere and then they're going to trade for Nolan Arenado, but

01:42All along it was like these deals were out there for Bregman and you never signed them

01:46And it started to make you feel like he was waiting for that final offer from the Red Sox, right?

01:51Like he wanted to hit here. It's like Minute Maid short left porch if you wanted to play for Cora

01:56he kind of you know saw the minor league system saw

01:59Then and finally, I think they upped it from 100 to 120 and got the deal done