Jones & Keefe: Rob Bradford on how the Mets can serve as inspiration for the Red Sox

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00:00Hey, Boston Red Sox, just play the great game of baseball, all right?

00:04Just stop overthinking things.

00:06Just play the great game of baseball.

00:07Hey, Boston Red Sox front office, just put the best team on the field.

00:11I mean, just put your best foot forward.

00:14That's what this is all about.

00:15You know, I wrote about this today.

00:16I looked back, and the Mets, this was the jumping-off point for the Mets.

00:20People didn't realize or forget they were 11 games in the 500 right now,

00:2411 games in the 500.

00:26They were like 19 games back.

00:28And then they have a team meeting.

00:30They had some hard conversations.

00:32They make some tough decisions.

00:34And next thing you know, they had the best record in baseball

00:36and landed in the National League Championship Series.

00:38It's about making tough decisions.

00:40It's about getting uncomfortable.

00:42It's about not saying, well, we think this is happening back two months ago.

00:49We think this is happening a month ago.

00:50It is about looking at what you have and making tough decisions.

00:55And we can go through this.

00:56We can go through Devers.

00:58The answer that Craig Breslow gave about the crochet 85 pitch thing,

01:03I had said that initially.

01:04I had said that right out of the gate.

01:06Cora was getting ripped for this.

01:07I said, just listen to Cora before the game.

01:11He said, people smarter than me make these decisions about how long these guys go.

01:17He was setting this up already.

01:19And that isn't good.

01:20Like, that isn't good.

01:21Greg can talk about how this is a collaborative thing.

01:26But I come back to Joe Maddon.

01:28When Joe Maddon got fired, he said, one of the problems with managing now is that when the game starts,

01:33you have seven voices in your head.

01:36And that's sort of how it feels right now.

01:38I mean, I'm all over the place.

01:39No, no, no.

01:40So who's safer, Craig Breslow or Alex Cora?

01:43Who do you think John Henry would side with?

01:45I think it's even right now.

01:47I think everyone talks about Cora.

01:49But if he's going to side with one.

01:51Oh, if Henry?

01:52Yeah.

01:53No, no.

01:53I think it's honestly, I'm not copping out.

01:56I think this is a reality.

01:57I think it's too early for Breslow, the guy that they hired.

02:00They know the narrative of, you know, four years and out.

02:03They don't want to do this all over again.

02:05They probably like a lot of what he did.

02:07And by the way, Craig Breslow had a great offseason.

02:09Like a great offseason.

02:11Like guys they brought in.

02:12And this, we know that how much they really, really like Alex Cora.

02:17We could talk about Alex Cora's year.

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