Hello. Hello. How's it going, Ben? Good.

Sam? Yes. Are you hiding? No. Just nobody asked. Nobody asked how it was going.

Is that where you're waiting on? I'm still still waiting. Hold on.

How's it going, Sam? Good. All right.

Good morning, and good morning. Good morning, and come. Good morning.

Two episode one, 31. I'm actually wild. How's it going, Sam?

I'll prospect this daily podcast. Joining us for the second day in a row. Matt Quarry. Hello. Hello.

We are talking about the Red Sox today in our continuing AL East Coast bias tour of 2013 teams.

So we have brought Matt back again because he happened to write those two chapters because he is himself East Coast bias.

I'm a West Coast, but I'm East Coast bias. Yeah. Much like Sam apparently. Yes.

You live further west than any BP staff member, in fact. Wow. Is that true? You've looked at a map.

Yeah. Well, Portland. I said, Portland's further west than San Francisco, or I guess Oakland, which is where Ian lives and further west and Long Beach.

Anyway, yes. So we'll talk about the Red Sox first with Matt and then with Chad Finn from the Boston Globe. First, we will ask Matt questions about the Red Sox and Matt.

Great to about the Red Sox regularly. He also podcasts regularly. And you should you should listen to his podcasts.

We can listen to our podcast with him on it. Matt, you probably wrote a bit in your chapter about what went wrong last season, I guess.

Can you give us the cliff notes version of how you interpret the disastrous 2012?

I think it's sort of a three prong fork of death.

First, you had an unfortunately, I didn't use the term fork of death in the chapter. I wonder if it's too late to add that.

Anyway, there were injuries. The Red Sox had, I believe, more injuries lost more man games to injury than any team in the last five years. I want to say, it might be the second most in that time span, but it's it's a lot. They lost a lot.

So that's one. Another thing is that the star players that were expected to be star players were not star players. Adrian Gonzalez, while he was there, was pretty mediocre. Dustin Pedroia was mediocre and injured.

Kevin Upless was mediocre in the traded. David Ortiz was really, really good and then injured, et cetera, et cetera.

And the third prong, if you will, or even if you want is the dearly departed manager, Bobby Valentine.

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