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All right. One more thing.

What have the Red Sox accomplished so far, Mass? What have they accomplished? They've avoided disaster is what they've done. To me, that's how I phrase it. They haven't really done what they want yet. So, like, if they go out and get their asses kicked by the Astros, I just, I don't feel like they've made a ton of progress. They've treaded water, if that's what happens. So here's the, you know, the day after we gave you a day to celebrate and whip it out and take your pants off and run around, you know, doing the thing. Woo! Okay? We let you do it and we played along. But now it's the day later. Okay, now it's a day later. You know what you've accomplished so far? You've avoided being an embarrassment and you've avoided choking.

You've avoided another six months, eight months, 12 months of ridicule for being a good

regular season team but crapping your pants in the playoffs.

You avoided that.

So I think that's big.

I really do. I think it's now a successful season. It's now a successful season because they avoided complete and utter embarrassment. Yeah. That's a low bar, Murray. Well, considering that the core really didn't change other than the manager in J.D. Martinez. They won 108 games. They were the best team in the American League. And you're saying winning the divisional round, you're now satisfied. And had they lost that ALDS series, the asterisk comes back. I continue to mock the 108 wins, which are weighted because, you know, the AL was. So, Murray, not because, just because you didn't fail doesn't mean you succeeded. Did I say that proper? Yes, you did.

Just because you didn't fall down this... I mean, I should put that on my headstone. Exactly. Yeah, no. Because... Aim higher, Murray. You're better than that. No, half-ass and it's the American way, Mike. And so for this team, in this collection of what I thought were gutless bums, up and down, with the way that they played in the postseason the last couple of years,

I kind of expected the same thing to happen.

They didn't.

So now it's a success.

Have we taught you nothing? bums up and down with the way that they played in the postseason the last couple of years, I kind of expected the same thing to happen.

They didn't.

So now it's a success.

Have we taught you nothing?

Seriously, Murray.

Little little.

You're better than this.

So I look at it and I say, to me, it's about how they play versus Houston and how they

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