Will they play by the rules?

Who better believe it?

This, as we like to say in this program,

is Felger and Mass. Suck, suck, suck. On 985. I want to make that clear. The Sports Hub. All right, as promised, back to the phones, 404 here in the afternoon, Felger and Maz from our Town Fair Tire Studios in Brighton. Mike and Fall River on Dustin Petroia. Go ahead, Mike. Hi, how you doing?

Good.

I was wondering if... in Brighton. Mike and Fall River on Dustin Petroia. Go ahead, Mike. Hi, how are you doing?

Good.

I was wondering if maybe, and I don't want to say, it's not Pejoria's fault,

but maybe he said, listen, drop it.

It's not a big deal.

It really wasn't intentional.

And then maybe they just said, well, you know what we're going to do it anyways.

Matt, I was talking to Jim. Yeah, so look, here's what I would tell you, that clearly there was a disagreement there on how to handle it.

Pejorius says no big deal.

And, you know, look, I suppose there's one scenario we haven't talked about.

I suppose that behind the scenes, Pejoria could have been saying, oh, that mother, that no good Machado. And then out publicly he's making all, you know, Mr. Happy Face. That's still annoying. But I doubt it. I doubt it. I think that Pejoria, and look, some of it is, we know who Pejoria is. I think Pejoria genuinely felt the way he did on Friday night. Hey, look, the guy slid into me, I get hurt. It happens. This is baseball. Again, we're not playing tidly winks out there. So did someone else say, no, no, no, we can't take that? Probably. And I think that Padraea was, you know, let's let it go. and Farrell or whoever else said, no, we're not going to let it go. So which is fine, except then publicly to point out the player and the manager on the field to an opponent. And it was them. It's such an atrocious look. It's not even fun. Oh, it's bad. It's bad. And again, it's bad ultimately for the health of the team if you want to get into that whole discussion. Like, you want that and bubble

and beneath the service when the Orioles come in here next week? Like, and not only that, but now the schedule is going to intensify a little bit. Okay, with all due respect to the Red Sox, They played dog food up until now.

They had one series against Baltimore at home that was a two-gamer.

They split.

Strike the schedule, Mark.

Yep, here you go.

Right?

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