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And now back to toucher and hearty on the sports hub.

This was playing as we entered Fenway Park yesterday.

Oh, it was.

Is it chills?

Did it?

Oh, nice.

I like Fenway.

I like where it is.

And I like when I get seats behind the visiting dugout.

That's the place I like to sit.

Four seat rows.

Not a log jammed.

I did enjoy the rain and then the cold that followed.

I like being covered and being wet and then sitting out in that.

I also liked that knowing that we had to leave at a certain time

because of a Easter dinner and that also we were cold and wet

and that my son wanted to leave.

But then when he found out that Miller was pitching,

he wanted to be the upset that he wasn't there.

Last time I sat down in that area of Fred Calvin and I went to a game

it was the first of a double header the year after COVID.

So this would have been 21.

And they were doing the seven inning double header that day.

Right.

Glorious.

I think we left the house at noon for a one o'clock start

and we were home by three.

Wow.

It was awesome.

That is amazing.

Quick.

Work fast.

Let's go.

Playing two today.

If you're paying for something that's enjoyable,

you want it over as soon as possible.

No question about it.

Paying for it.

That's the whole thing.

Oh, I walked up to Fenway.

They're like, oh, it's Mr. Baseball.

And so that's right.

Let me in.

I get my kid with me too.

So don't give me none of them crap seats.

Yeah.

It's something good.

They say, well, well, well, you go to sit down in your seats

and they're like, wait a second.

This is a guy from the golf show.

And then they're like, yeah.

And they're like, come with me.

Yeah.

Why don't you just sit on the field?

It's something like the ballboy today.

Sports of golf club debut this Sunday.

Not even found the sports up.

Seven.

Live.

Go live.

The one live show of the year.

No.

No.

No.

There are three other majors.

Yeah.

Are you doing it during every major?

Yeah.

We'll go live during the PGA championship next month.

Even you count that.

We'll go live during the US open.

And then all that.

The open championship live show.

You know, you know, you got guys who are like,

warm and I'm getting on a course because of the, you know, the delay.

That's fun.

That's fun.

Yeah.

You know, it's like live commentary.

And there's nothing like it.

Yeah.

There's nothing like it.

So, you know, who's the guest for this, this Sunday?

No guest.

Solo, baby.

Yeah.

Do you have an out, a rough outline of what you're going to talk about?

Well, you're calling in.

Oh, for sure.

You want me on there.

You said you would call in for the first show.

What do you want me to say?

I want you to talk about the masters and we can talk about golf.

You'll be watching some of the golf.

Not today on Friday and Saturday.

No, I won't.

You won't watch any masters.

If something interesting is happening late on Sunday, I'll watch it, but not until then.

I don't understand.

I don't really like, I'm sure.

Well, I'll know to, I know I'll have a heavy load to carry on Thursday and Friday because

I know where your focus will be during the latter half of the show is you will have your,

what will be on your computer?

The masters.

Right.

And that will be what your attention is turned to.

So, I know that, and I don't want to bug you and get it and get you.

Yeah, yeah.

That's me, though.

You're not going to watch any of the third round coverage on Saturday.

The chances are very slim that I would.

Yes.

You got plans?

My son has games on Saturday.

But beyond that, I don't think that I would really sit home and watch the masters.

I don't like watching golf on television or in person.

That's, that's problematic.

Okay.

Why is that problematic?

You don't like it either way.

I like it.

You see it.

You know, you'd be surprised how many people function in this world without watching golf.

You'd be surprised whenever things Fred doesn't like.

That is true.

That is true.

If there's ever been evidence of my negative, more evidence of my negative attitude,

it's my inability to enjoy television golf as a spectator sport.

Absolutely.

Listen, I can eat it if I have to.

But one thing that's great about baseball, which is back,

is that teams feel the need to spice things up a little bit.

Now, last week, we did inform you about what the Blue Jays did,

and they created this little anthem.

They said, not so fast.

Just slow it down, you turkey.

I want the BPM counter and that thing to read no more than five on the first number.

Let's keep this thing below walking pace.

This is Canada.

Let's not get it again.

And the name of this song is OK Blue Jays, because they were going to call it,

oh my god, you were great Blue Jays.

And they went, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

That's New York talk.

How about OMG Blue Jays?

No, no, because again, that's let the people south of the border do that.

Let the United States, because we're all Americans.

Let them get all riled up.

Let the United States get all riled up.

We'll keep our comedy nice and centralized.

You've got a diamond.

Yeah.

You've got a diamond.

Yeah.

You've got a hat and a bat.

And that's not all.

Whoa, because that would have been good with that.

A hat, a bat, a diamond.

What, what, you're going to throw more crap in here?

You've got a hat and a bat and a cat.

Are you scared?

You know why it smells?

You know why it smells?

Because I just, past tense, past tense.

I got a hat.

You got a bat.

You don't go by the bathroom.

Because I just, shush, shush.

Because I just not show face.

That's the dueling piano version.

You got the bleachers.

Yeah.

You got horrible seats with no back on them.

BC does that for their football games.

You got the bleachers.

Where there should be good seats.

But still nobody goes.

You got them from Springtale Fall.

You got them from Springtale Fall.

Oh, I thought that was a Springtale Fall.

That's just some Canadian thing.

Springtale Fall is a Nova Scotia.

Exactly.

You ever go to Springtale Falles in the summer time

and last for four days.

Keep your mouth shut about it.

All right?

That's what you're talking about.

All right.

So, now, whether the Blue Jays actually endorsed this

or commissioned it, we don't know.

Sometimes teams will actually commission a song

and promote it.

And I think that's the case with these next couple.

Yeah.

So Tampa Bay, I mean, for years, world enough to remember

the Dark Ages before Tampa Bay had a team.

And the rallying cry throughout the nation was always,

can't you just expand this thing so we can get something in Tampa

where everybody can YouTube crime scene comes out of?

Can we please reward these awful people with something to enjoy?

Now, don't give them any kind of real park.

Shove it in a mall.

No, no, stick it inside a convention center.

Yeah.

And just have, let's not make the ceiling so high

that the ball won't hit it.

No, no, no, no, no.

No need for it.

So you'll, I mean, there was, again, I don't like the point

at my age, but there was a time when Tampa Bay didn't have baseball

and just, it wasn't good.

Let's just put it that way.

It took Tampa Bay.

Things were not right with the world.

When I was in Orlando, there was talk of the San Francisco Giants

moving to Orlando, which seemed like it was really going to happen.

Yeah.

And by the way, the Jacksonville Jaguars will be playing in Orlando

for one year.

Mm-hmm.

And then they'll realize, oh no, this city's way better.

That's right.

They built the new stadium.

Yeah.

They're revamping their old ones.

Oh, sorry.

They're playing in Orlando for a year at the Citrus.

They're going to have the, so the three home games they have

will be in Orlando.

Right.

When they're not overseas.

That's just a good point.

There were only three games.

I forgot about that.

And you might say Fred, Orlando is not a great city.

And I would say, oh, compared to Jacksonville, it is Paris.

Yeah.

You fly into Orlando International Airport and go into Orlando.

You go, oh, hey, there's a real city here, like with things.

Jacksonville, not the case.

No, Jacksonville, really nothing going on.

Except for 38 special.

All right.

So here is what the raise did as if they needed a song.

Because everyone was already hyped up through the inner breeding

and rampant, you know, ridiculous crime.

It's the Benny Hill of crime going on in Tampa.

Here we go.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, yeah, he comes out hot.

Kidding it.

It's another.

It's another pitiful day.

Sunny tap a bay.

You feel the heat.

Tens of bright.

What happened to Alph?

Did he get kicked in the balls before he sang this?

He's eating cats, obviously.

They're not agreeing with him.

It's another pitiful day.

Sunny tap a bay.

You feel the heat.

Tens of bright.

Exposed to a raise.

Well, you will not be exposed to any raise.

No, there's a huge dome covering you.

The dome.

It's just more of a roof.

It's a shingled roof out there.

Because why would you allow yourself to be in the elements of Tampa?

I have to roll.

Has the board is lit?

Has Matt board?

As the board is lit.

Again, they were having a sewage issue.

And has Matt had to be brought in.

Tampa is just the worst place ever.

It really is a horrible, horrible place.

As soon as I heard feel the heat, all I could think of was...

And see, bookie nights, that was supposed to be bad.

But yet, it's better than this.

You know what?

I think we should repeat that again.

Tampa Bay is the dirt digler of cities.

It's where every young dirt digler mentally goes to move.

Yeah.

To ruin something that could have been nice.

It has water and nice weather.

It could have been something nice.

But again, Florida, for whatever reason, Florida has been ruined.

Everyone decided to go down there and ruin it.

But here we are.

Here you are.

You.

I wonder if they could have done it after you took the dump.

Because also, if they could have found it when you had to head some sort of laxative.

Because this dump is not coming out yet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's the strategy with this?

You could have found it when you had had some sort of laxative because this dump is not

coming out.

What's the strategy with this sound like I'm pushing out a dump, but your voice sucks

anyway.

No, no, no, no, no, not sucky enough for a Tampa Bay race song.

You in the other take.

That sound like Sebastian Bach, his brother, like a twin situation.

The tall Sebastian Bach and then we have the glob of Sebastian Bach.

Yeah, they're like, they just asked the question, have you been to jail?

Okay.

Was it a domestic issue?

Okay.

Very good.

Have you ever found yourself in a lazy boy shirtless talking to police officers inside

your home?

Okay.

No, season tickets, my friends.

Don't worry.

You'll have friends.

It's our hidden run, which is the state slogan.

Come to Florida, you'll get away.

When you hit run, we're not going to chase you.

You're cool.

Yeah, all of that is true.

Everything that you said, whatever you just said, I agree with you.

Yeah, I mean, if you want to get the crowd hyped up, I mean, try not chanting too.

Yeah.

Everything he said there is happening.

All right, and if you finally, if you just thought that the Red Sox were not complicit

in any of this, you would be very, very wrong.

It's summer again up in Boston, the Red Sox are playing today and once that first ball

have been tossed in, another game gets underway, I always the ball has been tossed in.

Yeah.

That doesn't even happen.

No, that's how they start the game.

They tossed them all in the infield and then they have two designated players from each

dugout, run out, whoever grabs it first, you get to choose whether you get a bat first

or whether you think of New England, at least they've at least they're using the Hill

music of New England to get this point across.

This is once again the, the fascination with country music has infiltrated all parts of

the country, including Massachusetts, little lap steel, little twang here, people want to

pretend they're cowboys for God knows whatever reason, because I can't afford another

seed and I pretend to my kids that look at this, we want to see the back of the outfield

who's, you'll catch a homerun, sit tight.

And then they take me out in cops that take me out in a watt van, hey, let's get drunk

and start fights, we'll get sourced after the game is over.

I'll take you to mommy at her house.

Let's keep this our secret that we could instead till the last pitch, because we were removed.

Please don't take the looks of sympathy from the people around us that your father was

behaving this way personally, all right, to very good.

We will be joined in just a moment by Chris Mason, not only are we going to talk about

the Red Sox, we will talk about his Roman Anthony profile, he is dug into the life of

Roman Anthony as he's lived it thus far, and we can have that with Chris Mason in just

a moment.

It's never changed, it's never changed, it's the same thing over and over and over, it's

just never good.

It wasn't funny the first time.

Touch your in hearty mornings on the sports side.

We'll just continue to show up every day and you know, work your ass off and get in the

video room and be prepared as you possibly can.

No, I don't think that we're not doing that, I think it's again, it's just a tough strategy

and we need to find a way to just bring more energy in and just be better.

We are touch your in hearty Chris Mason is the sports enterprise reporter for Mass Live.

He wrote a nice piece on Roman Anthony.

Chris, thank you for joining us, sir.

Thanks for having me on, good morning.

We appreciate it.

What's Roman Anthony's dad's name?

Tony.

Tony.

Anthony Anthony.

Yeah, his name is Anthony Anthony Anthony and his older brother is Anthony Anthony Junior.

Okay.

Whoa.

So they have two Anthony Anthony's.

It sure do.

All right.

Well, very good.

Part of this story is the indignity of being a high school player and taken in the second

round and only given $2.5 million signing bonus.

I mean, in a draft that also includes kids that played in college, the indignity of having

to wait an entire round before being taken can be a very trying on a man.

It is compared to Brady's slide.

I don't know how you ever recover from an embarrassment like that, but it's a theme throughout

the story.

It's Roman Anthony getting pissed and showing everybody up that they were wrong about

him.

Right?

Essentially.

Yeah.

I mean, he took it very personally that he was the Florida high school player of the year and

there were five kids from Florida high school has taken before him.

And he did slide down to 79, which it's like they have the comp picks, they have kind of

longer rounds.

So yeah, he went down to 79 and just was not happy about it.

Right.

But we have to admit that in the total, the scheme of things being a bonus high school

draft pick is a pretty big accomplishment for a kid, you know, a positional player nonetheless.

You know, you have to absolutely, but on the flip side of that, ESPN just did a redraft

of that draft and had him going number one overall as to like where these guys should have

been picked.

So, yeah, I would imagine considering, you know, the way that his trajectory has gone,

he was under drafted.

There's no question about it.

It's not exactly a poolhole situation, though, or a Mike Piazza situation where they

were, you know, afterthoughts and then they went, oh, by the way, you're a hall of fame

or like that's a, that's a, that's a, let's put it this way.

If most kids in high school, if they were being bandied about as a first round pick and

they slid to the second round, I don't know if they, if how big a tragedy would have

been, but nonetheless, it speaks to the talent of Roman Anthony.

And what is required of an athlete to get that kind of, they need fuel is what you're

saying, Chris.

Yeah.

Essentially, and it got to the point where he was so mad after falling out of the first

round that he told his dad, you know, call my agents, get me out of the draft and it's

like that.

Well, that's, that's not how that works.

Like that's not going to work that way, but yeah, that's how upset he was and it's like

you're saying, it's not like this is, um, Uberstein, the kid who made his debut last night

who went in the 19th round.

Yeah.

But yeah, no, it's definitely something that's fueled him since then.

Do you think, uh, do you think if he had been selected higher, you wouldn't feel the

need to overcompensate and buy a Lamborghini and the first craft, I skipped over that the

first time I went back and reread him like, holy crap, he really bought a Lamborghini,

which is the biggest comparison to Brady that you could make.

Right.

No, it's not a joke.

Remember Brady was, was dancing around down in Rhode Island and, uh, in some ridiculous

car.

He was at the end of the day.

He gave an 18 year old $2.5 million right off the bat and then 130 when he signs his extension,

you know, he's got some money to play with.

So there's always got to be a purchase like that, I guess, the $2.5 million plus the agent

fees and the taxes.

I don't know.

It's much money left as you would think.

Yeah.

That's a $200,000 vehicle.

No, the Lamborghini came after the extension.

Oh, okay.

Very, very good.

All right.

Very good.

Then, yes, absolutely.

One could afford to whittle, but that is, there is something funny about a kid that age,

getting that kind of money.

Like that, there is that there is something interesting about that.

No, absolutely.

And I mean, even his first car in high schools of Mustang and one of his teammates was telling

me it's in the story that he pulled up to the field for the first time and, you know,

he thought he was, you know, hot to try on this new little Mustang, but he was too big

for it.

And he's like, we all started laughing, like watching this big kid, like trying to get

out of this Mustang.

Oh, there's plenty of room in that Lamborghini.

Lots of headroom.

Lots of room to stretch out.

That's good move.

Well, Bubba Smith was able to.

That's right.

Police Academy.

That's right.

All right.

So, Chris, one thing you've detailed in the story is that the veterans and the rookies

alike tend to flock, for lack of a better phrase, flocked to Roman Anthony.

At the age of 21, why do you think he has the magnetism that he has had throughout

his pro career?

I think it's a combination of just kind of how he's wired where he's really quietly confident

and the fact that he's been able to deliver on the field at every single level too, where

the moment just isn't too big for him most of the time.

And, you know, I think you even see that where they lose yesterday, fall the two in seven

and he's the one taking questions from reporters.

You know, I don't think you see a lot of 21-year-olds doing that, but it's just something that

comes naturally to him.

And, yeah, I mean, I think it's a combination of the quiet confidence that he has and

just the results that he's shown through, you know, every league thus far.

As for the here and now, you mentioned it, they're two in seven, they're the worst team

in Major League Baseball.

Can you explain what's going on with the Red Sox at all here in the first couple weeks

of the season?

I mean, it looks like they're pretty bad at everything right now, which generally isn't

a very good combination.

But, I mean, you hear about run prevention all off season, right?

Like, that's the buzzword, run prevention, and then starting pitch, it's not getting

it done.

The bullpen doesn't look good.

The defense isn't sharp.

So, I mean, I don't think it's one thing that's killing him right now.

They're just not doing much well.

It's funny when you say run prevention because that was something we all laughed at years

ago.

I think it was, I don't know if it was Theo first trotted that out, but, you know, it sounded

like the, you know, the ultimate in window dressing and marketing.

Now it's become like so common.

And when they construct the team the way they did over this past off season, you just

accept it as fact.

It's like, oh, this is, this is the thing now.

And it's a completely legitimate way to build a baseball team if you fell for it, but

it's easy to see why the people who didn't fall for it felt that way at the time because

you can't really score a bunch of runs.

They scored enough yesterday.

But as you said, Chris, when you couple that with bad pitching, there's, there's no way

to win a baseball game.

No, exactly.

And, I mean, the defense hasn't looked that improved as to, you know, the point they

were trying to sell you on it in the off season, it's like, oh, the impact, the infield's

going to be totally better.

It's going to be a different infield.

But, you know, you still have Trevor's story, a short stop who looks more like September

Trevor's story where he had errors all over the place.

And, you know, that hasn't really been cleaned up either.

So, yeah, I mean, they, they tried to say run prevention, run prevention, run prevention

after they don't sign Alex Breggman.

And then you have Ranger Suarez who you a lot that money to who has two bad starts in

a row now.

And, you know, yesterday, he goes fornings in a, in a game where, you know, you need

some length because the bullpen's already taxed.

So, yeah, just not a lot going right for those guys right now.

Is it too early to worry?

I don't know if you've been around long enough to realize that Red Sox fans tend to panic

quickly.

So I'm wondering, do you think this is one of those times where that's justified?

I think so at this point.

And I mean, I think you've seen, there are two teams in recent history who this has happened

to.

In 2019, and that was the year Don Braske got fired.

And one was 2011, which turned into the chicken and beer year where Francoin ended up getting

out at the end of it.

So I do think there are some red flags here to, you know, you can, you can wave already.

Yeah.

How long does it do things have to continue to go badly for changes to be made?

I think it would have to be a while longer just because baseball is the ultimate, you

know, you can't just focus on the small sample sizes.

And that's what I think decision makers will talk themselves into.

In terms of big decisions, but I mean, small decisions as much as the lineup, I think

you could see change today.

I wouldn't be shocked to Trevor's story gets bounced from the two hole and they start

like tinkering like that, but I think it'd be a while before any sort of like major changes

are made.

Yeah.

The difference between this team, though, and maybe some others is the, you know, this

is a twofold story is that they are built to win this year in, in a lot of ways.

But also they are depending on kids.

And the development of those kids is very, very important because you can't do both.

You can't not win this season and also not develop their kids.

No, absolutely.

And that's kind of what they've tried to sell you on.

And that's why it's a little headscratching when you don't see Marcelo Meyer as an immediate

everyday player when you think that that was like one of the things they had penciled

in there.

I understand they're trying to protect him against lefties to some point, but I mean, at some

point, I think you're, you're going to let him play.

You're going to try and develop him some more.

And how much do you look at core like right now and how much more do you think you start

to look at him for the specific deficiencies that you see defensively and with the way

the team is playing outside of just the individual performances, the pitching and the hitting.

When it comes to the, the on field playing the errors that are being committed.

Well, yeah.

And it's been years now where the defense hasn't really been up to par and he said in

spring training, you know, the errors drive me crazy.

And that's something that I think we're going to get fixed and they still aren't getting

fixed.

And they're not, you know, a lot of these aren't like, I don't know that there's ever

a good error, but there aren't a lot of like, Oh, I understand that one.

You know, some of them are just brutal fundamentally.

So I do think at a certain point, you look back at the manager, but I also think ownership

loves him.

And I think they for a, you know, has, has quite a bit of leash, well, maybe it's time

to fire Craig Brezler.

I mean, after all, he's been there just about as long as Bloom has, right?

And he has been, but think about how unattractive that job was when Brezler took it.

And if Brezler now gets asked at this point, then I think that you're making that job look

even less attractive when they had a hard time filling it last time.

So that's what the Red Sox do though.

They fire GM's.

I mean, how haller it had it for a while.

Technically, he's gone.

I mean, it's, this is what the Red Sox do.

They fire general managers in lieu of firing Alex Cora.

This is how it works.

I mean, it's, it's crazy.

Back and look at the track record for how long these guys actually stay around in that

role where it's, you know, feels like it's three or four years over and over and over

again.

But I don't know at some point if they're going to give somebody actual leeway with it.

And I mean, maybe it's Brezler, but I just don't know how much longer they can make

that job look worse and worse for people on the outside.

Right.

If it's a job that you seem destined to fail at at a high profile, a high profile failure,

then, yeah, obviously that's something qualified candidates might want to shy away from

a bunch of them.

Let go into Chris's point.

I mean, what's it in Brezler?

It was like their eighth choice.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

All right.

And if you look at, like, if you look at some of the previous guys, they ended up getting

fired after doing what ownership wanted them to do where Don Browski was spending a bunch

of money when a championship, you know, built a juggernaut and he gets fired because

the roster looks worse after a year.

They're spending too much.

And with Heimblum, it's, okay, come in, rebuild the farm system.

They're going to make him trade mooky bets, but it's going to, you know, they're going

to get him a long runway to rebuild.

And then, you know, he gets asked as their, like, farm system is better in their rebuilding.

So I don't know.

I think that the ownership group has moved the goalpost a lot on these GMs, president

of baseball operations, chief baseball officer, whatever you want to call any of them, but

I think they moved the goalpost on them a lot.

And I think external candidates see that and they're like, I don't know.

So yeah, if they let Brezlo go right now, I think that job looks almost as bad as it

has ever.

If you're not for Heimblum because he's had an opportunity to really take another

team down there with the strap, so don't, don't feel bad for him.

He's living the dream himself in a market that hates them.

All right.

Well, listen, Chris Mason, great stuff.

Read his profile on Roman Anthony.

And you can, it's good stuff.

It goes back to talks to his parents, talks to former high school teammates, a lot of great

stuff in there.

Read it in Mass Live, Chris Mason.

Thank you for the time, sir.

You got it.

Thanks for having me on.

All right.

Thank you.

It is when they compare the Roman Anthony to the Tom Brady thing you're thinking, yeah.

You know, a lot of kids go to, you know, they don't get drafted at all.

They go to college.

They spend three years in college and then they come out in their, you know, number one

picks in the draft.

It's not exactly an abject failure to be taken.

Second round at high school, especially in the school.

No one.

How dare you?

No one believed in Tom Brady.

Now, the fact that he was a quarterback at the University of Michigan should not change

the, the, the written history that no one believed in him.

The, the only twist to that is the Henson thing.

Is that Drew Henson came in and he, as a senior, had to battle a freshman.

That's the only part of that story.

I'm with you.

I've said it a million times.

It's not like he was at Kent State, like, you know, like he came out of University of

Michigan.

But they did, Lloyd Card did disrespect him there and, you know, he stuck around.

So I, I will give Brady and maybe that, it built him, there is something to that.

Second round in the amateur draft as a, as a high schooler, I'm not, I, I prefer to focus

in on the narrative that no one ever believed in him.

Right.

And yeah, because the senior year and Henson thing, that's legit.

It's when they said no one ever thought I could do it.

When you're a kid from California that gets a full ride to Michigan right in the quarter

back.

Yes.

And you got drafted in baseball.

Yes.

There's, there's no one, no one ever believed in him.

Yeah.

He was a terrible athlete.

I mean, he only was drafted into sports.

All right.

We'll be back in just, yeah, narrative switch.

All right.

We'll be back in just a moment here.

The headlines.

Take it that punch.

Hard to go.

The ticket's not a friend.

You got a bunch of stuff wrong when you talk.

So much for this country.

Touch your in the heart.

These, these countries a bunch of buffoons that don't know the rules.

You ready to hit the sports out?

You know what movie my children really, really like for some reason?

It's mid 90s.

The Jonah Hill skateboard movie, which features the soundtrack, including the far side, which

is playing right now in mid 90s is fine.

I just don't understand why it seems to resonate with them.

Two children that don't watch movies, except for when I make my daughter go to the movies

because it's long form entertainment.

And I have trouble watching things.

I was trying to watch the show Ted on Hulu, which is really funny, actually.

And Seth McFarland writes it and directs it.

He's out of family guy now.

And he's just doing voices for it.

He's basically just pulled himself completely out of the whole creative process of it.

But he's in Ted's very funny.

But I found myself watching it and that's easily consumed.

That's not something that's tough watching.

I mean, it's a comedy.

And it's got the lady that played the prostitute that Frank can always sonny and Philadelphia

proposed to and who described her leather jacket that it was tight like a kind of skin.

And yeah, I've a genital skin, yeah, I can't get myself to watch their mid 90s movie.

It's fine.

But I don't just don't know why my kids liked it so much, but I do, I can't even, but

my point, I can't even sit in watch Ted.

Like I'm looking at my phone and I'm looking at nothing on my phone, I'm achieving nothing.

Even when I'm reading the newspaper or even sports is extensively part of my job, even

when I'm reading the athletic, I am getting, I'm just sitting there reading the athletic

instead of watching TV, I can't, I'm achieving nothing.

I'm not getting anything out of what I'm reading.

I'm not getting anything out of what I'm watching.

I'm just, just in this bubble of, of incoherent thought.

I know it's, and it's, it's so much better sometimes just to leave the phone and like another

room and just have no access to it because I was trying to watch the Bruins.

I'm settling in to watch the Bruins.

I mean, important points at stake here.

And the second the whistle goes and the puck is, you know, skittering down along the board.

It's just in my mind.

I'm thinking it's like, oh, that's icing.

They're going to have to bring it back and it's going to be, I got 30 seconds to kill

here with no sensory input whatsoever.

There's no stimuli.

I got, I got a, you know, I have something coming into my brain and it's like, no, you don't.

They just, just relax, relax the brain a little bit and enjoy it.

I will be doing that, Fred.

Come Thursday.

And when, when I, when I watch the masters, I watch the masters.

I do not find myself having to go to my phone, computer or anything else.

We're looking at minorities.

First tea time is what, which is usually what kids is mind-off.

We all heard it.

We all had a good chuckle.

And there will be something.

On the course even, playing, no, no, no, they got rid of that.

They got rid of, when they used to have the Augusta national caddies, caddy for people

and they could actually make a living, they skittered away from that as fast as possible.

Remember?

I do.

And Mitch Album will remind us again, I'm sure, sometime this week he'll rerun that column

or it'll get...

Well, we'll know when Mitch Album unleashes the beast because when Mitch Album writes something,

the world stops and takes a gander.

I get the Google alert.

Well, absolutely.

I mean, he certainly can hear you reading it.

There was two ears at his.

But there's something about the broadcast that you're missing out on, Fred.

You know, the fact that you don't watch it is...

It's a tradition unlike any other.

Right.

It's a tradition unlike any other in democracies that don't discriminate based on religion or race.

They haven't done that in several years.

No, the master's is good because it shows that not so far away, the weather is not horrible.

Because, by the way, high school baseball seasons underway and Saturday was a good time

to be outside.

Good day to play.

Good day to play.

I just had to wear a winter jacket, a winter hat and gloves.

So that was a lot of fun.

You got the foot warmers inside your shoes.

Yes.

Now, my son only pitches, so I do not have to attend the game this evening, but there

will be a game on Wednesday and it looks like that we will be dipping into the thirties

by game.

Oh, Wednesday is a chilly one.

Yeah.

So I just...

Dan Roach came to one of my son's games last year and which was very nice of him and

all did the coach like that he was there.

Oh!

Did the coach like that Dan Roach was there?

How about that?

Oh, Hachi Machi.

And because Dan Roach is there and it was May and it was snowing.

Now to accumulate, of course, not.

Let's not exaggerate things.

It was just falling from the sky.

Now were they big flakes?

No.

Little flakes.

No big whoop, but it was early May and there was frozen moisture falling from the ground

from the sky.

Percipitation that was not rain.

Air or hail?

Because hail can fall in warm weather areas during warm weather.

No, no, this was full snow.

This was real snow falling and it was May.

And I had a winter jacket on because I had been freezing the game before because again

I stupidly thought it's May, I can put my winter jacket away and then I learned after

that game.

No.

And oh, what time was this game at Fred 8 at night?

Oh, no, no, no.

Four in the afternoon.

Don't worry about it.

It was plenty of daytime left.

Oh, yeah.

Now you couldn't see the sun on the account of the miserable suicide gray that was going

on.

It was, it was, but what color is this guy's suicide gray?

Yeah, that's what the Crayola used to call it.

Rope shop and gray.

But they had to get rid of the, you know, they had to get rid of what they called brown,

the brown, the color that they used to call it.

Yeah, well, or the red color, I'm sorry, they used to call it.

There was a shade of red that they called a named after an ethnicity and they stopped

that much like they had to get rid of suicide gray.

Everyone got all woke and they got rid of that.

All right, when we come back, we were going to focus heavily on Eddie Trunk.

Unfortunately, we had to pivot because you can't hear what he's saying.

And I apologized already off the air for that.

That's not Eddie's fault.

It was the recording's fault.

Yeah, I mean, Eddie was just in too big a place command.

The crowd was too loud.

Yeah.

You couldn't hear anything he was saying.

They were just chanting his name.

But we did come up with something and we all have that for you.

So don't worry, audience.

Something is happening.

We will have that for you in just a moment.