00:08Yes, of course. You're welcome to speak to anybody on the show.
00:11Hi, Wiggy.
00:12What up, brother?
00:12I went to Bridgerton Academy in North Bridgerton, Maine.
00:17Didn't your son go there, too?
00:18Yep, me and my son went there.
00:21You went there, too, Wiggy?
00:23Yep, class of 94.
00:25I was class of 68.
00:27It's a great place.
00:31It is a great place.
00:32A great school.
00:34I'm not a Patriot fan, though.
00:35Sorry, Wiggy.
00:36It's all right.
00:36Was Maine part of Massachusetts still then?
00:40No.
00:41Get with it, Curtis.
00:42Okay, sorry.
00:43Yeah, Curtis, get with it.
00:44My bad.
00:45Bob, what do you think of the Red Sox going to do from here on in?
00:49Are they on a roll now?
00:51They're turning it around.
00:53So they have turned it around.
00:54Red Sox win game one with the Reds.
00:57Terry Francona back in town.
00:59And they do it in dramatic fashion thanks to Willier Abreu, who has the beloved inside the Parker and a Grand Salami.
01:09I love how they turned it around after they just won one game of the series, the first game.
01:17Ah, yes.
01:18What happens if they lose this series?
01:20Well, I'm looking at it positively.
01:22All right, I got you.
01:23All right.
01:23This could be the turnaround.
01:25This could be.
01:26You say it all the time.
01:27That's it.
01:28They're only three out of the one in our spot.
01:30The Reds are also not good.
01:32Again, we said this yesterday.
01:33Yeah, but they went into this game better than the Red Sox.
01:37Yes, yeah.
01:38They keep you right there.
01:41I mean, the thing is that that is somewhat frustrating about the division being so bad is that they're going to be able to hold that right there in it for a wild card over you all season long.
01:57Well, it's nothing to do with the division, the American League, the wild card.
02:00They're not going to.
02:00I mean, they're seven games out of the Yankees.
02:02They're not going to.
02:02Yeah.
02:02Division's long gone, but the wild card is, Greg, you're right.
02:05They're going to be close enough where you're going to be like, all right.
02:09And if they go on a little three, four game run, they're a game back.
02:13They're two games back.
02:14They're, you know, the third wild card spot.
02:16They're going to keep you close enough to where you have to be like, all right, what do they do here?
02:21But I think it's going to depend on what happens once they get to the trade deadline,
02:25which I believe is at the end of July and how far out are they?
02:29And if they say, all right, we know we're going to be close to it all season long.
02:34Do we add pieces?
02:35I mean, they are going to, I'm assuming that you may get Alex Bregman back quicker than you thought
02:41because Alex Cora was saying yesterday that he's a hundred percent.
02:44So Curtis, you all right?
02:47They're not going to, the Bregman coming back.
02:49They might, they might turn out to be a wild card team.
02:51That's great.
02:52They're not a good team.
02:53They're just, we're over halfway through the year.
02:56We're 85, 86 games in.
02:58They're two games under 500.
03:00They blow teams out and they lose close games because they are unable to play in clutch situations
03:05because their GM is a robot.
03:08And he doesn't understand that there's actual pulses that alter based on the situation that's
03:12going on in a baseball game.
03:14Is it the GM or is it the manager?
03:16No, the manager is just synthesizing the data.
03:18I put some of it on Bregman's plate, but I put more of it on Cora's plate.
03:24I don't think he's just, you know, synthesizing the data.
03:27I think he's a big part of that, especially in the close games.
03:30Do you think Alex Cora believes there are players that do things or algorithms?
03:35Players.
03:36Right.
03:36Right.
03:37But even Bregman will have opposite approaches.
03:39No, no, no, but I think Alex Cora has enough juice and enough say-so to be able to be like,
