It's still good to know that it can fill me with boiling white-hot rage.

A regular season baseball game can make me feel like I need to go take a walk in silence. And what specifically last night? Oh, well, in the eighth inning, really, the end of that game, Mike, for all intensive purposes, that was a playoff game for the Red Sox last night. Between Red Sox Indians is a measuring stick series for them in Cleveland, and the stupid manager and Brock Holt, like you just heard there with that call,

Fla. Sox last night. Between Red Sox Indians is a measuring stick series for them in Cleveland, and the stupid manager and Brock Holt, like you just heard there with that call, flushed it right down the toilet. And it was more of the manager than anything else. I don't want to hear anyone. Anyone make excuses for that bullpen. It was the stupid manager. Yesterday, I uttered the words, and if we can find them, you want to try to run them again, have at it, because I'm an idiot for even saying them. The bullpen is now feralproof. The bullpen is John feralproof, after how things worked out against this series against the Yankees. Great series. Got me believing. Think the AL East is a luck. Brandon Workman, Addison Reed, Craig Kimbrell, 7-8-9. Even I can do that math, and I barely graduated high school. It was Farrell-proof, until John Farrell spit in my face and every other Red Sox fans last night. And I thought he got away with a move early. Sixth inning. I think it was 99 pitches at Water Rodriguez. He strikes out Jay Bruce, gets himself out of a bit of a jammer.

It looked like he was about to.

He goes and gets him, pisses at whata Rodriguez off. At least that part I'm listening to on the radio, and they're like, oh, well, E. E. Rod looks a little upset with the manager. So I'm like, this makes no sense. Is that your joke as dig? Yes. Just old-time baseball? ball so he's bringing in we know Rodriguez doesn't look really good he looks really angry at

the manager right now he gives up the Yes, a little bit. Just old time baseball. So he's bringing in... Well, you know, Rodriguez doesn't look really good.

He looks really angry at the manager right now as he gives up the baseball. Low ball, too. Brings in Joe Kelly. He's warming up. His first pitch goes off the face of the Empire. The Empire has to leave. It's like a 20-minute delay. Yeah, that was tough. Umpire lives do not matter to Joe Kelly, so I'll high-five him for that one.

So that one doesn't really blow up in his face.

Joe Kelly comes out for the seventh.

I don't like that, but... That was tough. Umpire lives do not matter to Joe Kelly, so I'll high-five him for that one. So that one doesn't really blow up in his face.

Joe Kelly comes out for the seventh. I don't like that, but he skates there, too. Joe Kelly had a great inning in the seventh. But as they're going a commercial, by this time I'm home, and I hear Matt Barnes is warming up. Matt Barnes. Matt Barnes, who we were just talking about on this show about a week ago,

who has a 550 ERA on the road.

Matt Barnes. Matt Barnes, who we were just talking about on this show about a week ago,

who has a 550 ERA on the road. Matt Barnes. Matt Barnes, the eighth inning. Not Addison Reed.

Not Addison Reed, who's been a workhorse, and like his pitch 55 games the last six years, one DL stint.

So hold on what's that. So this, go back over the history, because again, and we'll play you all the sound. Addison Reed was unavailable last night. They're worried about... Because he pitched 12 pitches on Sunday. He was unavailable last night because they were worried about him pitching three days and four nights, and he had pitched the day before. He's a workforce. However, he has someone who pitches a lot of innings typically. 55 games pitch each of the last six years, one DL stint, and at least 25 holes and saves over the last six years. This is what they got him for. I don't trust a lot of the moves that Dave Dombrovsky has made, but this is why you have Addison Reed. He's for the eighth inning, you Dunderhead. Not Matt Barnes. Home. Fine. Fine. Because Matt Barnes, for whatever reason, drinks a magic potion and some elixir before he pitches at Fenway Park, and he's nails. On the road, he's a puk. And he walks two batters, and then out strolls... It was a walk in a single. Walking a single. Sorry, walking a single, and out strolls old tubby John. Nope. Nope, I screwed this one up. I'm going to make a change here. You ass.

And for Heath Hempry, who sucks too, he blew that game for them. I don't want to hear any excuses. Because believe me, I get it. I don't trust a lot of these guys in that bullpen outside of Craig Kimball. But I started to with the way Reid had looked, and especially the way that Brandon Workman had pitched over the weekend. 7-8-9. Workman, Reed, Kimbrel. It ain't hard, John, and he still found a way to FF the whole thing up. Here's Farrell on Addison Reed. Addison Reed was not available tonight and was trying to stay away from Workman as well, given the workload in the previous series, the stress to the pitches that they threw in the New York series. So we went to Barnes in the 8th. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. I thought after

Emory gets a key strike out of Ramirez, looking like we were possibly stemming the tide, first

pitch breaking ball for the base hit. So unfortunately, that's the way it worked out, But Addison Reed was not available tonight. I mean, from the first pitch that Barnes threw, immediately I felt rage because it wasn't even close to the strike zone. Same with the second one. It's like, Jesus, what are you doing? Do you not even know your own team? Do you not know that you can't use this guy in the road?

You go on your old gut.

You're rolling the dice this time. Feeling a little swarthy because you've been a swordsman and it's paid off in the past. It drove... It's a regular season game. It's 1-1-162. They've screwed up things before. Look, that first game in New York a couple of weekends ago, It felt like, oh my God, it's going to unravel just that fast.

I wouldn't surprise me if they somehow won the night with stupid Doug Fister on the mound.

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