00:00We're in Fall River right now with a bunch of diehards, and we were introducing Craig Breslow.
00:08What would the reception be? Would it be different than it was on Friday?
00:12It would be. It would definitely be.
00:15No, because the trade deadline still happened. I think that it would be less booze.
00:19But again, I've always said I don't put all the blame on Craig Breslow.
00:23Yeah, I think it makes them look worse the closer they get to being a championship contending team.
00:29Because you had this opportunity where even if they're being honest and they were close to Joe Ryan, they had no second or third plan.
00:41So I would compare it to this. You and I go on a road trip somewhere. We're going out to Springfield.
00:48And you stay on the pike the whole way. And I'm like, there's a bit of traffic. I'm going to get on Route 20 for 20 miles.
00:54And I'm going to go back over to this, and I'm going to drive like an absolute maniac and arrive at the same destination.
00:59It doesn't mean it's the same thing. It's just introducing a higher degree of difficulty because they could have approved the team, and they chose not to.
01:07Okay. Wait, who is Craig Breslow in that analogy?
01:10He's the guy that thinks he knows the wind shear and goes three different directions.
01:14But Curtis, if you listen to Alex Cora, he says that Crochet and Baio are the second guy, the second pitcher.
01:20What else would he say?
01:22Well, I'm just saying, after Crochet's appearance last night, he looks pretty good.
01:26It doesn't matter what they do.
01:27I mean, not Crochet. Gialito.
01:30It doesn't matter what they do the remainder.
01:32Sorry.
01:32I mean, that's all right.
01:33Gialito had another gem, though.
01:36Oh, I know.
01:37But it doesn't matter what they do the remainder of the regular season.
01:42It's all about the postseason and how deep they get.
01:45And then if they lose a series because of pitching, that's when it's going to come back to bite him on the butt.
01:53It doesn't, you know, it's all good to sweep the Astros and, you know.
01:56Well, you can't say it like that.
01:59I mean, I think that's the way it is, though.
02:01No, I think we have to be fair, though.
02:02Like, I think you can't say, listen, I think we gave Craig Breslow his just dessert on Friday and it was justified.
02:13But you can't say, oh, it's all well and good that they swept the Astros.
02:18I mean, that is a really good baseball team.
02:21And that is a team that you struggled with the last two Augusts.
02:26Right.
02:26And so when it comes to arguing that this team is going to collapse in August and that's what happens.
02:33Right.
02:33And I think you have to, you got to be careful.
02:36But it doesn't, if Giolito and Bale roll out gems all the way through the remainder of the regular season and then get into the postseason and they lose because other than crochet, they're starting pitching struggle.
02:50It's going to come back to Curtis is right.
02:53It's going to come back to people going Bres if you would have just did something.
