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Oh, right, of course, because I'd like to know who that is, I don't hear what you think.

I'll tell you some of the rugby rights.

We've got a 3-2 pitch, the runner can go a 2-down, my overtaking off, and that's in

their first strike 3, but they want to challenge it.

This is a better challenge.

I'll be down, but it's worth it here, why not?

You got one left, ninth in in.

Yeah.

Pretty good on him.

One remaining challenge.

So it goes Roman's way to call his overturn, that means it's ball 4.

I don't think he's going to miss many challenges.

No, but you know, him hovering around whole plate made me think.

Yeah.

Right?

You didn't think if he knew it was a ball, you throw your bat, take off your gear, and walk

down the first as they're reviewing.

Show me some confidence, Obi-Wan.

Right?

One, and a line driving a base in and a left.

Here comes Meyer.

He will score.

He almost stumbled around third base, but he is in to make a 2-0 and a giant run driven

in by Trevor Story, Red Sox 2 and a Red Snuffing.

Big knock here for the socks.

And a big challenge by Roman.

The giant run.

Yeah, that's a huge moment in the game.

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Jimmy Stewart has released the hounds.

They're open now.

You fill them up and we'll go to you when you're ready.

If that's the opening segment, then it's the opening segment.

We'll fill the interim with some opening takes and I'll go first since we played that

sound there of wasn't the game winning run in that game yesterday.

But I think was the key juncture in that game yesterday and that was ninth inning.

Roman Anthony about to get struck out to end the inning and you would have to nurse a

one-nothing lead going into the bottom of the ninth instead.

He challenges on the ABS system.

He wins.

Next thing you know, he gets driven in and there you go.

The Red Sox gets some insurance runs and go on to win.

And so my opening take is on ABS and the opening take is it worked.

It worked.

I told you that, well, I mean, you know, I'm fair.

I'll just call it like it is, scoreboard, whatever.

I'm that guy.

You can trust me for that, even if I have some sort of preconceived notion and on this,

you know that I do.

I don't like replay.

I don't like automation in any form.

I'm against ABS.

I'm against all of this.

I don't like it.

And I told you and you trust me that if it works, it works.

If someone wins, someone wins, if someone loses, someone loses, that's the way that it

goes.

And ABS on day one worked.

It worked for the Red Sox for sure.

The ball was a little low.

They got the call right.

It ended up helping the Red Sox win a game.

It didn't really interrupt the flow of the game.

That particular challenge took 15 seconds.

I went back and timed it this morning, that's 15 seconds is what it cost me in time.

And in general, these challenges go between 10 and 15 seconds.

That's pretty much seems to be the norm.

So it doesn't take up too much time.

It gets the call right.

And so it quote unquote worked.

I still don't need it.

I still don't need it.

I don't need it as a baseball fan.

I know you feel good about it today because it helped you win a game.

Wait till crochet punches someone out with a low fastball at the knees.

Not because the strike zone is no longer at the knees.

It's a predetermined box that is determined by your height that is measured in spring

training.

It's no longer at the letters are at the knees.

It's again, like taping up a box on the brick wall of the school yard.

Like I used to do playing strikeout.

That's what it is now.

It's not shoulders.

It's not letters.

It's not armpits.

It's not knees.

It's predetermined.

It's a box.

Wait till you punch someone out at a key spot with a fastball dotted right at the knees.

And so when taps are helmet and the next thing you know, they have to call them back

and you lose a ball game.

I want to hear from you on that day, but I don't need it.

They didn't blow that call.

It was 0.9 of an inch low.

I was going to say it was less than half the width of a baseball.

They give you how far it is.

They give you the length or the distance that it's outside the zone.

That was 0.9 of an inch.

That's not a blown call.

These sports are known as a game of inches.

Sometimes you get it.

Sometimes you don't.

I don't think that that 0.9 of an inch was a problem in the game.

That all didn't bother me as a baseball fan that the umpire would give you a low strike

or a high strike.

It was just part of the game.

And now it's not and I don't need ABS.

And I do think it interrupts the flow of the game.

So I have more on this, but that's just an opening little taste for you who wants to

go next.

Murray.

I love it.

ABS.

More of it too.

And you don't like it.

Throw throw strike.

So been out the last few days.

I wanted to quickly touch on the not so subtle message that Christian Gonzalez said to

the Patriots while attending the Celtics OKC game on Wednesday night.

By now you probably know they show them up in the dump jumbo tron.

He gets a big pop in the garden crowd.

Does a little pay me motion with his two hands pay me.

What's the response been since then on the show?

Did you guys take any calls on this?

Did you talk about it a little bit?

Yes, we did.

We absolutely talked about it yesterday.

People mad.

They call them overrated.

They shouldn't pay him.

They didn't like that he did this.

I'll tell you we introduced it after we did Maz's tears and the call screener was jammed

with suggestions from Maz's tears and we didn't really hear from anyone on it.

OK.

Because I'm just curious because I didn't really see much online in terms of people being

like, what's he do?

And I just I'd like to know because I have no problem with it personally.

In fact, my hope is that the Patriots will actually pay attention to the act and then

pay Christian Gonzalez the money that I think he should be getting because I don't think

they should gamble and give him a fifth year option next year after his rookie deal expires

and then try to go to the franchise tag route.

I don't think that that works.

It's too big a risk of pissing the player off.

He probably won't show or they'll have the fake hold out.

What do you mean?

Look what's going on with the Cowboys and George Pickens right now.

They've franchise tagged him.

They're in a contract stalemate.

He's sounding like he doesn't want to play for them.

So and I don't want them trading him for picks, even if you got two ones for him because

I don't think that the Patriots are likely to, even if they use one of these first round

picks to find another corner, the level of the player that Christian Gonzalez is.

So pony up, get him long, get him blocked up into a long term deal and get this done.

And I'm sure Gonzalez might now want to, and this is something Gasper talked about last

week.

You know, maybe he's looking for the market to reset and what the Seahawks are going to

do with their corner Devon with their spoon.

But the Patriots should want to get this done sooner than later because the longer they

wait, the more this is going to cost them, they should, they should lock him up as quickly

as possible.

Mass.

Okay.

So I want to go back to the Celtics because I'm going to be completely candid here.

I picked up the phone today and I called Brian Robb who covers the Celtics from Mass Live

and I said, hey, obviously watch a game like everybody else did the other night.

And he said, yes.

I said, the second half offense, do you agree with everyone else that it was as well as

they played offensively in a long, long time?

He said, yes.

And I said, why?

And he said, well, they really moved the ball and blah, blah, blah, sorry to interrupt

Mass.

But the Celtics guys can acknowledge the obvious thing right in front of their face.

Okay.

So I'm getting there.

And I want to know why.

Go.

And then he said, you know, Tatum wasn't hunting his shot and then blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah.

You just got it.

So I said, I want to focus on those three words or four words or whatever it is.

Tatum wasn't hunting his shot and B Rob said, right.

So I went and did a little research.

I'm not putting any of this on B Rob.

I just think that that is at the essence of what this thing is.

Tatum wasn't hunting his shot.

And if you want to say that right now, Jason Tatum is shooting the ball for these coming

off in Achilles, I agree.

But I would tell you, I think it should stay this way.

If Jason Tatum plays past first, shoot second, shoot when the shot is there, they are

an infinitely better team.

And so I looked us up from the other night, overall in the game, nobody shot more than

17 times.

That was Jalen Brown.

Are you talking about the OKC game now?

Yes.

Yes.

The 17 shots that Brown took were below his season average and he led the team.

Jason Tatum was also below what I would call his traditional average.

He only took 12.

There were eight guys on the team that shot the ball between seven and 17 times.

That was in the whole game.

If you go to the second half, eight guys shot the ball between three and seven times.

The ball moved.

Now we can talk about free throws.

And I would tell you, by the way, in the second half of the eight guys, six of them shot

over 50 percent.

The Celtics has a team shot, 55 and a half percent in the second half.

They shot 44.4 percent from three.

Nobody took more than seven shots.

Two guys shot under 50 percent.

And a whole was Tatum and Derek White, who went one for nine.

So the end, by the way, I would tell you that Tatum contributed in other ways.

He had seven rebounds.

He had three assists, Derek White also had three assists, combined Tatum White and Brown

went to the free throw line 20 times.

So 22 times they made 20.

So the ball was in their hands plenty, plenty.

Other people got involved because they were open.

Everybody moved the ball.

And when the guy who led them in the offense of the fourth quarter was Jalen Brown.

As I also, last night, for the TV show, BST, looked up or Robbie Buckets or producer looked

up for me, usage rate, because again, like you listen to the Celtics people, it's like

this topic doesn't exist.

And I guess I want to know why, and I think I think I got it, is because it, I guess it

does sort of shine a critical light on Tatum.

It does.

And they don't want to do it, because you just, in Greenland, you just don't do that.

So they shy away from it, or they're just not inclined to go there.

But it was just so obvious to me, the way they played late against Minnesota on Sunday

night, and the way they played late against O.K.C. the other night, it was such a difference.

So we looked it up, usage rate.

On Sunday night, so by the way, just quickly, because we're on the same wavelength, their

usage rate is based on shots, I think.

It is, and I even looked this up.

OK, so go ahead.

The definition of usage rate is the possession ends with you.

So it's either a shot, a turnover, or a free throw attempt.

OK.

So that's how they define usage.

But there's another way to say it, it's like touches, or you know, you're the offense,

but they call it usage rate, but the usage rate is defined by the percentage of times

the possession ends with you.

As Vinnie has for you right now, usage percentage in the fourth quarter this season, all season,

just to give you a gauge.

Jalen Brown is 37.7%.

That is second in the entire NBA behind Shay Gilgis Alexander.

So because Tatum has been out, the offense has been triggered and goes through Jalen

Brown.

That's a way to look at that.

In that Minnesota game on Sunday night, and I don't have the exact number in front of

me.

I'm sorry.

I wrote it down and then I threw the paper away like an idiot.

But on Sunday night, Jason Tatum had a usage rate of about 38%, which was the sixth highest

in the NBA that night.

And Jalen Brown was down at around 22% and their offense sucked against OKC.

Jalen Brown's usage rate was 42%.

Jalen Tatum was 22%.

It flipped and it was the best offense they had all year.

This is a story that green teamers, the media that covers the team don't want to go here.

And it's just another example of why I think the Celtics media outside of Gary Washburn

is frankly useless because they just don't want to go here because it, I don't know.

What?

It shines a light on Tatum or something.

I don't know.

But it was stark.

But if you eyeballed it, it was obvious.

And the numbers back it up and I could not agree more mess.

Yeah, it is.

Look at it.

And this all gets to a back to bringing the ball up the floor.

If you put the ball in Tatum's hands to start the possession, he's going to hunt his shot.

And the offense will get stagnant.

Now if he gets to the point where he can move the ball quickly and bring it up and get rid

of it, whereas he's dribbling up the floor, get rid of it to get the offense moving,

that's a different thing.

But I would tell you, I think it starts with him bringing the ball up.

If they take it out of his hands early, he becomes a better player and they become a

better team.

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Patrick and Manchester.

Go ahead, Patrick.

Hey, guys.

I just want to back you up with the Tatum, but I got, I think both Tatum and Gonzalez should

be traded for a lottery pick and a draft pick.

So like a package deal.

We don't cross the board.

You want to put Tatum and Gonzalez in the same package.

That's the cost earner I can there too.

All right.

Well, listen, I would probably do that too, but Tatum isn't very good.

You guys just made the point for years now.

It's not just.

Patrick, why don't you do that?

Why don't you do that?

Why don't you do that?

What do you mean he's not very good?

That's stupid.

He's, no, it's not stupid.

Look at every time he goes and he shoots a low percentage from, from, um, field goals

and three point, low percentage.

Like you guys said, he makes the offense stagnant.

He's just a black hole and the ball goes to him.

When it goes to Brown, the ball moves much better, Brown's much better.

You can get a lottery pick for Tatum.

Take it every day.

Patrick, what's your case on Gonzalez?

You can get two first round picks for Gonzalez, trade them, play some zone and get an edge

rusher and a wide receiver and a tight end and a tackle.

Okay.

Well, you just got too first.

Are you drafted for guys?

Are you then trading those first for like five fourths?

Yeah, they're going to multiply just too much, set like Gremlins number one, Tatum

is awesome.

But in terms of the offense going through him and him triggering the offense, I'm sorry.

You're not at your best.

Even when he's 100%, you're not at your best.

It's why you lost last year.

No one wants to look at it.

But between the three pointers and the, the pace of the offense when Tatum brings it

into the front court is why you lost.

And hopefully this clues everybody into how they're going to be at their best even going

forward.

Beyond this year, when Tatum comes back to 100%, I'd still play them off the ball more

mess.

I still would.

They should.

Gonzalez, two first round picks, you can, you can talk me into that.

I don't think that would be a bad outcome.

I think the worst outcome is where they might be headed, which is a standoff on the contract.

That's the worst outcome.

That is the worst outcome.

Pay the man or trade the man.

But don't do that thing in between.

Yeah, don't let it linger.

You're just asking for trouble.

This is not a guy.

He's not represented by guys that are going to, that are going to play that game.

You're just sort of asking, make a hard decision.

Reach into your pocket and do that or make a hard call.

But if you decide to have some sort of stare down, I, I think you're going to lose it to

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Look, I don't think that the Patriots are going to have a ton of urgency to get this

done now.

Maybe we'll see something maybe more towards training camp.

I think the Patriots are more focused on, you know, AJ Brown or whatever.

I'm sort of indifferent with Christian Gonzalez.

I mean, if as long as he's not, you know, Johnny Manziel and money and money bags and

all this stuff, because I just, I'm sorry, like I, I think he's super talented.

I do.

And like his first pass break up in the Super Bowl was sensational.

The full layout one, the other ones, I put mostly on Sam Darnold.

He should have, Gonzalez actually should have given up two touchdowns in that Super Bowl,

but just because Darnold was bad, he did not and also some, you know, pressure up front

from the Patriots.

Um, you know, I'm fine with whatever direction the Patriots choose.

If they choose to extend Christian Gonzalez, I'm fine with it because he does have that

potential.

If I'm, I'm also fine with it.

If they say, you know what, that's not where in this scheme, that's not where we're

going to put money and it's not where we, we ever really put money in this scheme with

Mike Vrable with his Tennessee or here.

And they say, you know, we're, we're going to trade Christian Gonzalez.

I would be fine with that.

If my gut instinct is, I think that I do think that Vrable wants to see more from Christian

Gonzalez before he fully invests.

Was Christian Gonzalez doing the money thing because he's gotten paid in the things in

the bag and he's just letting everybody know I got my money or, no, I know that gets

that.

We would, that's two nights ago.

We would have heard about something.

Someone else would have leaked it.

Another reporter would know something.

No, I, I took that immediately and because we've got no further reporting on it is, hey,

I know what's going on.

You all know what's going on.

You're all sports fans here.

You care about this stuff, maybe more than anyone else.

And you know the story, pay me.

It's time for me to get paid.

I'm going to make this motion pay me universally known is time for me to get paid.

Not I just got paid.

If I just got paid, I would have shown you the new $50,000 Rolex or whatever the hell that

I just bought with my new money.

No, no, this move is, it's time for me to get that money.

Pay me.

I am with Maria.

I mean, it's just, it's just not like the Patriots to pony up before they have to pony up.

Even if everyone else is doing it.

I mean, it's, you know, that year three, you can extend a rookie.

I know Jackson Smith and Jigbub, it was that draft, right?

Yeah.

So he didn't, he's not up.

He's still under contract.

Right.

That's right.

It's not the same position, but after year three, you can extend these guys.

And it's now becoming practice at the elite guys who've proven themselves after three years

are expecting to get paid.

And I tend to believe that that Jackson Smith and Jigbub deal also can some, you know,

maybe potentially affect this deal as well.

Cause Chris, Chris, Chris, and, and Alice in his agent can take that tape of the Super Bowl

when he's one of the only Patriots actually show up in the biggest game and the biggest stage and say,

Oh, that guy that just is now the highest paid wide receiver.

Yeah, I shut him down.

So my price just went up.

Pay me pay me pay me pay me.

Here's the universal move.

Pay me.

That would be such a dick move by him and his agent, but that's what they should do.

Yes, they should say, well, he got 42 and I shut him down.

So I won 43.

No, I'm not just saying that he's not going to get it.

Obviously, but that's what if they're going to bust his balls, you should bust their back to calls here on everything.

Larry and and over quickly.

Larry, his comment line says Marcelo Meyer yesterday, something I definitely want to hit on.

It's a guy that should be playing every day.

So believe it or not,

I'm okay with it right now the way it is.

And I'll tell you why because he's got some sort of focus problem clearly.

When he's engaged, he's really good.

Are you what makes you say that he clearly has a focus problem?

Because I'm going by that at bat that I saw last year against Cincinnati.

When he missed the ball by a foot and a half, he wasn't even close.

It was, it was, you know, here's my point, Mike, when there's a ball outside that's moving away from the batter,

and he misreads it, he usually starts lunging, right?

Like, oh, that's going out there.

And then you see an ugly, bad swing.

He stayed upright, let the pitch go outside and swung like it was down the middle.

He missed the ball by a foot and a half or two feet.

So we're going to do this on one swing and miss.

Yep.

Listen, I, we're, you're right, we can do that.

So and, and then again, he hit 125 against lefties.

He went four for 26.

He struck out 10 times nine of the hits that are three of the hits of the four he's got with singles.

So I guess what I'm saying is this, he needs to learn to be a pro.

And it's the reason I'm saying that is not to teach him.

But I'm worried that if you let him hit against lefties and he sucks, it's going to affect the rest of his game.

I'm going to make the same statement here.

I made on TV last night and you can clip it, Jimmy, Jimmy likes predictions.

Marcelo Meyer is going to be better than Roman Anthony.

He's better.

I don't know if you have a better gear this year.

I mean, it's, you know, especially since they are holding him back.

And maybe he's just, you know, he's behind Roman Anthony at this, at this stage.

Ultimately, within the next year or two, you will all consensus agree that Marcelo Meyer is a better ball player than Roman Anthony.

I say no, but go ahead.

How about Bo in August?

What do you got Bo?

Hey, guys, so for the first time in recent memory, the Bruins were sellers at the trade deadline.

They use their draft picks.

They get a number seven pick who's a Hobie Baker finalist and they bury him in Providence.

And you look at what celebrini's done, what cut it, go these done, they're going to take some kid with talent and skill.

And they're going to turn him into a third line mucker.

You're going to assume that he's so he's Maclin, celebrating now.

I'm not saying that.

But he certainly led Hockey Eastern scoring and he is a Hobie Baker finalist.

I'm not saying he's Maclin, celebrating, but don't turn him into, you know, Fabian Lysel, either just by not being able to develop talent.

They didn't turn Fabian Lysel into Fabian Lysel.

They drafted someone who sucks Fabian Lysel did that on his own.

Thank you.

I like you and Marcelo Meyer.

I don't have a problem with them putting Hagen's in Providence and let him see how it look, how it looks.

Some undersized weenie from PC, I'm just going to throw him in there.

No, no, I want to see him against a little stiffer competition, older men, and then, and I'm no problem with them doing this.

No problem.

The NHL actually has a hard salary cap.

The money does actually matter there, unlike in the NFL.

And if they can save a year of paying them, you would throw him in there if he's not ready, just to throw him in there to make you feel better.

No, sorry, BC boy and play against some men and let me see what that looks like.

And I didn't check in on the other night.

I'll let them make the call.

He was scoreless.

So I guess he had three shots on that.

Did you watch any of it?

No, I didn't.

I just read it.

Yeah, me too.

So I didn't see it, see it, but another undersized soft ass kid from BC.

I'm just going to throw him in there.

No, I'm not.

No, I have no problem with that.

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And a 2-2 from Chapman.

And a fly ball off the end of the bat that should do it.

Anthony is there and the Red Sox take opening day in Cincinnati and they do it with a shut out

three to nothing against the Reds.

Well, that's how you dialed it up.

I mean, you talked about the pitching and defense.

Now listen, I think that the offense will perform.

I think it is underrated, but tonight, Garrett Crochet gave you everything you wanted out of him.

I know one of the greatest camp and then you lined it up with Slate and Whitlock Chapman.

Absolutely fantastic.

And we saw the impact of ABS that walk.

Well, it was a strikeout by Roman Anthony created two more runs.

Nice insurance runs late.

Good win for the socks.

Is that what you expect from this team going forward?

So I would say largely yes.

Look, Crochet, the biggest spot in the game to me was in the bottom of the sixth.

Base has loaded one out for Cincinnati.

They had Suarez and Stier coming up and Crochet struck them both out.

And then, you know, kind of yelled out and walked off the mound.

That was a huge spot in the game.

And then the Red Sox scored in the top of the seven took a one old lead and you know, the rest.

But I will tell the one thing that I'm reluctant to jump at yet is tell me who pitched in that game yesterday.

That was new.

Crochet, Slate and Whitlock Chapman.

So do we really know that they're going to be great in pitching?

Because I'm not going to say that until sunny gray goes out there and pitch as well or better.

Right, right, exactly right.

So I know that they can do that when Crochet is on the mound.

Well, he had a shaky spring.

No, he did.

He did, but again, I never doubted.

No, so I don't know my doubt.

I thought there was a chance it could be a little hang over there, but he picked up right where he left off.

He looked pretty much like the guy who pitched against the Yankees.

Do you question the pitch count six innings 80 pitches?

I felt like he could have at least had another inning.

I thought, so I don't worry.

And I'll tell you why because they've seen it a million times an opening day.

They just pulled the plug early and especially after he came off a long season last year,

they're going to go slow at the beginning.

I'm not shocked and their bullpen's good enough where they can get through it.

Or at least they were yesterday in Cincinnati.

So, you know, I know Crochet can pitch and I know that Whitlock and Chapman, when they're right,

are as good as any finishing tandem in the league.

I have questions about Chapman this year.

Sure, you should.

You should, but but yesterday, based on yesterday, he did the job.

The three run, you know, I don't even count yesterday as a high leverage.

You know, that was one of those layup saves.

But either way, Marcelo Meyer was on my list.

I think he's going to be an amazing ball player and they're holding them back and busting

his balls.

And I'm okay with that.

If he needs it, I guess, but he's going to be good and they better be careful about

taking that thing too far.

I need to joke that he's out and Isaiah Kiner-Fileffa, who can't hit anybody left.

He's right.

Is he going to use these right.

Is he going to use these right.

Is he going to use these right?

Is he going to use these right or anything is in there?

Monasterio should have played second base yesterday, but that's me.

It'd be one of those things, master.

If they still had Ref Schneider or who is the other guy that hit Roman Gonzalez or Roman Gonzalez,

the guys who just torched lefties, and okay, putting it put this guy in, you're going

to take this guy out for Isaiah Kiner-Fileffa.

I know that.

I hate to again.

But to me, it comes down more to the choice of who they put in than it does about keeping

him on the bench.

And I'll just say quickly, Monasterio had an 840 OPS against lefties last year.

So you pick up a guy like that in the Durban trip and you put him on the roster and then

you play full, you know, forever.

What is that?

Okay.

Lou said there on the final call from Nesson that this lineup is going to hit and it's

not going to look like this all season.

Are we convinced about that?

I'm not.

I'm going to ask you some individual thoughts on guys who are down in the order.

Okay.

William Contreras.

I'm not as alarmed about him as I am other people, but he's not a cleanup hitter.

So you had one of the guys in scoring position yesterday.

He didn't deliver last year in St. Louis.

He did well in those situations.

So do I, like, do I hate him on the team?

No, but if you had a real right handed cleanup hitter, you could back Contreras fifth

and then a brave six, then everyone would be slotted way, way better.

So he wasn't great yesterday in that game like before I believe he was.

He was over.

He walked once and got on base.

I didn't notice anything with his defense.

That was alarming by all accounts.

He's, you know, pretty good, not great, but pretty good.

So I liked the player, but he's not a number four here, Caleb Durbin sucks.

I watched one game and I'm out.

I'm out.

He's got nothing.

So you want to tell me he, the first two balls he hit were 85 miles an hour.

You mean exit velocity?

Exit velocity.

I could do that.

I could do that.

And he had a ball go right through him at third base.

Yeah, we're going to say how about the error?

The thing that alarms me most, he looks like he's swinging a telephone pole.

He's got one of the, and the first at bat, yes, you know, this guy's bat looks slow.

That's slow.

He's a slow bat.

So I looked it up on baseball, Savon, bottom six percent in major league baseball.

Bottom six percent in that speed.

Yeah.

Like he's in the six percent of the slowest bat suck hitters in the game.

I love opening day.

I love it.

Not just for the pageantry and the feeling you get for the first day of baseball, but

I love that it's usually followed by an off day.

And you get two days to jump to conclusions on one baseball game.

And I just love it.

Six percent.

That's lower than the state tax.

I love doing this because we say Roman Anthony looks great and Marcelo Meyer looks great

and you don't bat an eyelash.

Then we look at Caleb Durbin and say, well, this, he doesn't look very good.

He said, well, it's just one game.

Well, it's just one game on Marcelo Meyer too.

What do you can't have it both ways?

It's either just one game or it's not just one game.

Does anyone say anything about anyone?

This is another reason I love it.

Okay.

I don't want to say I told you so about Caleb Durbin, but I told you so about Caleb Durbin.

I'm worried about you.

You're uniquely qualified to know about the guy.

I just, the brewers do this for team.

I don't see much there.

I don't see much.

The guy doesn't have much like I, you know, I, sorry, I, you know, I, I am jumping the

gun there.

I totally, I don't think I think he's got nothing.

And then we just kind of match it at Caller Phineph, kind of Philepha utility guy.

He is what he is.

He's like, you know, he's not quite who is the shortstop they had for a lot of year.

You know, the, what's in the Tigers that they created?

Oh, um, it's a really good defensive like really was a transition.

He was.

This guy's not, but, but he's the same kind of player.

He can play a capable shortstop.

Jose Glacier was great, was spectacular, terrific defensive player.

He was better than this guy, but this guy is not bad defensively.

He's pretty good.

It's a good name to say if he sucks, because it's, he can say it with like discussed

behind Isaiah, kind of Philepha, like Tom and Quincy.

He's on the reason for, on the roster for one reason and one reason only to me.

And that is they need a backup shortstop in case story goes down.

Someone who can play the position last year, they didn't have it.

Was that it or they want to bury Marcelo Meyer?

I think that's good more to do with Monasterio.

Well, all I know is that, that bottom hat, that lineup is still, I mean, again, I think

Trevor story is due to come off of what he did last year.

Yeah, you think he's hitting 25 home runs again.

I think he's playing 154 games.

No, you know, Jaren Durand two hits yesterday and sort of followed up a good spring.

So maybe, but when that long ago that we looked at him and said, this guy is really overrated.

How old is William Petra?

I mean, I think you're going to like him.

He's like 34, I think competitive guy.

He's 33 turns, turns 34 in three weeks.

I'm sorry, in two months, sorry, May 13th, but he'll be this, you know, his age 34 C's

and Caleb Durbin, Brewers let him go for a reason.

I'm sorry.

I'm just, I'm just, I'm trying to tell you that for a couple of months.

Will you or Brea, we all like, but if you're not going to play Meyer and I'm going to have

to look at kind of Falefa Narvaya's Raphaella, it's just, I'm not convinced they're going

to score like we're used to seeing them score.

The whole though is in the middle of the lineup.

It's not at the end.

It's just, it's been, you know, pushed down to show at the end because they had to move

guys up.

If they put a guy behind who's hitting third, Durant, if they put a guy behind Durant,

they could configure their lineup differently.

And then Brea would be hitting sixth and it wouldn't feel as bad.

So that I think the problems in the middle, not at the end.

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Sean and Lawrence, go Sean.

He keeps saying like, oh, I didn't actually watch the game.

Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, whatever, like, isn't your job to talk so opposed to actually

watch sports?

So I would say my job is to get you to listen.

That is the job mission accomplished.

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Felt your in the last 985, the sports hub.

The Boston Celtics basically sent the message that they're the team to go through in the

Eastern Conference.

And they believe they're the best team in the NBA and they can beat anybody.

And as we sit here this morning, we're in no position to deny and refute that claim.

Because right now the Boston Celtics look like a team that can win the championship.

We just got to keep it a buck and call it like we see it.

Who can't they beat?

Who can't they compete with?

When you have size, when you have athleticism, when you have two superstars, one that is

here, one that is returning to form, hopefully, and you have a bench that calls upon you to

step it up because they can produce and they show up and they produce, that's a team

that can beat anybody.

We picked out a little sample for you of what they're saying nationally and they all agree.

You are it.

Back to calls on that and everything else, AJ and Dorchester, go ahead, AJ.

Hey, fellas, how are you?

I just want to call in a bit of a green team or take today.

You guys are going to hate it, but I wanted to say after the OKC game, I personally love

scale on the call.

I such a homework and playing about the calls on that.

Personally, I love it.

I mean, I just could not disagree more, but to each his own, it feels like a plant from

NBC sports Boston that was so pathetic.

Oh, my God, you like carrying about your guy bitch about the officials every time up the

floor?

I mean, OK, Jackson and Chicago, go ahead, Jackson.

Yeah, guys, two thoughts.

I wonder with the Marcello Meyer platoon, if it's a little bit more about keeping him healthy

rather than actually his ability.

And second point, Felgar, if you think that Marcello is going to be better than Roman,

which one gets traded to the West Coast first?

Thank you.

Meyer, because he hasn't signed his contract.

Exactly, right?

BB to it.

Uh, they're doing something with Meyer.

And maybe they're right to do it.

He needs an attitude adjustment or something.

I don't know the guy, but I, again, man, it's back to the money.

I just, I don't trust them that the money is not a part of it.

You shouldn't trust them.

And it part of the whole package is, well, you're not playing ball with us on the contract,

like the other guys did.

Campbell did Roman Anthony did Brian Bayo did, right?

Bayo signed it.

Yes, yes, he did.

You guys played ball with us.

You're not a few.

You got to sit behind Kiner, Falefa.

And I think that's a part of it too.

If they had signed his contract, would they be worried about his work ethic or how he shows

up?

I don't know.

Probably not.

I mean, maybe, I may be, but I, I, I don't trust them is the long and short answer.

And I just don't know how you just watch him play.

He's smooth.

He is a fluid, natural ball player.

He's going to be really good.

And those two hits yesterday were both to the opposite field.

He had, look, he had 29 hits last year, his rookie season, I think it was 29, 10 of them

were to the opposite field.

He had two yesterday.

So I think he's already making adjustments that they wanted him to make and they were

on display.

Tim and North Adam, North Adams on the Bruins.

Hi, Tim.

Yes.

Hi, failure.

I just want an opinion from you guys on why the Bruins on the power play continue to

do that stupid drop back into the defensive zone.

I don't understand the way seconds and then your guys have to stop at the blue line the

forward.

So if they do receive a pass, they're standing still.

Well, Tim, I don't understand that.

I just wonder what you guys take is on it.

The reason they do it is because everyone does it.

They just can't do it.

But everyone that you watch games across lead, that is the consensus, sort of go to zone

entry on the power play across the league.

I don't know who the first one to do it.

It was the first one to do it, Kev, you know, with a, like, maybe started with McDavid.

I mean, because he's just so fast, my god, skilled.

But whoever figured it out, it's a, it's really a great sort of play.

You sort of start up the ice, the defense starts to back up.

You get someone with an even greater head of steam and they sort of fill the gap of

the room you created by that first initial sort of push forward.

And it works in a lot of places.

It doesn't work here.

And if I'm them, I would just go back.

I would not be afraid to just gain the red line and go get it.

Don't put it in and go get it.

And the main culprit is pasta.

He's just such a turnover machine and he's just so reckless with his passing and stick

a candle and sometimes that a lot of times he's the guy that enters his own a lot of

times.

He's the guy that gives it away.

So I'll start with David Posterock, but the whole team sucks at it.

And they can't even the power play blows because they can't get in the zone.

Once they're in the zone, they're kind of fine.

It's fine.

Once they're in there, they just can't get in there.

And their PK blows their penalty kills smells that it has kind of all year.

Steven Rossi.

Go ahead, Steve on the Patriots.

I apologize in advance for asking Selger to remember something from a long time ago.

So we'll see how it goes.

But the Patriots, the Patriots are hosting nose tackle, Kate and McDonald from Ohio State

for a top 30 visits soon.

And it's kind of caused a kerfuffle among the online Patriots draft nerds on how the

Patriots possibly with already two pretty good interior defensive lineman could spend

a first round pick on a nose tackle.

And I was just trying to tweak them with a little line that, you know, once upon a time

with two pretty good defensive lineman and Taiwan and Richard Seymour, the Patriots

at 21 overall took a nose tackle.

And I was trying to find an article from around that time to kind of show them the vibe of

the team.

And I found one and I just want to read you the title real quick.

It's Patriots notebook, a sizable investment, date line April 30th, 2004 by Mike Felger

for the Boston Herald.

My question for you, Felger is, do you remember at all the reaction to taking a nose

tackle in the first round and even pretend that McDonald is anywhere close to Vince Will

Sport?

Would you do it again?

Yes.

I would do it again.

And I think the reaction, then it was a different environment in 2004.

The Patriots weren't the top show in town.

And online didn't even really exist, you know, for kind of, but not like, you know,

it was like just putting Twitter hadn't, you know, and we're pants fans getting into

the minutiae of the draft and college football and so I wrote that story probably.

And we talked about who they were going to draft.

And then I showed up for the big show and they talked about the number three starter or

the ham sandwich that Fred had for lunch.

You know what I mean?

Like it just wasn't, I don't remember the reaction to them drafting Vince Will fork.

But I think they would definitely do it again because I still wonder about Christian

Barmore.

I mean, he survived that date where his contract became guaranteed, but it was only 12 million

or something like that.

If they traded him, he's still tradable.

I still think he's tradable because I think he's worth that money.

I think someone might take on that money or you could swallow just a little bit of it

and, you know, still trade him.

So no, I think, I don't know if it was able to learn this from that, but Bellicic used

to have a philosophy.

Like when he first took over, he said the number one need is defensive line.

And you could never have enough good defensive line and he drafted that way.

As the college has said, see more Warren will for like he, you know, he prioritized that

position throughout.

And I wonder if Raible has something similar.

I mean, look, it feels like he put a priority on it last year.

The interior of the defensive line was the strength of the team last year.

It really was.

I mean, what did they do better than when those two guys were on the field?

That was the core of the strength of the team.

Absolutely.

It was their number one strength.

Those two guys.

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