This, what are you doing that stupid trickery crap for?

Is Felger and Mass?

The continued issue, uh, on 985.

Unbelievable.

The Sports Hub.

My final hour, Felger and Mass.

Felger back in the A-hole chair, as promised.

Right back to your calls.

Jerry in Providence on the Red Sox. Go ahead, Jerry. Felger, I'm so happy you're back. The show is going downhill without you. I agree. This price. Anyway, I don't understand the whole Astros thing with the 65 wins. You guys are comparing the playoff teams that they beat in or they lost, but I feel like if the Yankees have to play the Red Sox in the playoffs, and what does it matter how many times each of them beat Houston or whatever other team? I don't see what, like, that's not even a comparable, that's not a good barometer to... All right, how's head to head then? Head to head's fine. I mean, five to four, but we got a lot of games to play at the

same time. And if you're going to look at it that way, also, the Yankees have lost probably five or six games to the Baltimore Orioles. So that's horrible. I don't think the Red sides are going to lose five games to the Orioles all year. Mas, your thoughts.

Okay, so look, we talked about some of this yesterday, and again, just to give you the short numbers, I think the Yankees right now against Baltimore and Tampa Bay combined are 10 and nine. The Red Sox are 18 and four. It's a big gap, right? So good for the Red Sox. And it may ultimately be the number that decides a division. if the Red Sox and the Yankees go 11-8 head-to-head one way or the other, that might not be enough for New York to overcome the difference that the Red Sox make by beating up on bad teams. Fine. If they face each other head-to-head, which team do you like? The team that has beaten the other one or not? You follow me? In other words, I can look at the Baltimore series, and I can say the Yankees fell asleep, which they do. Right. And that is a credit to the Red Sox that they don't fall asleep against bad teams. But when they go head to head against good teams, the Yankees don't fall asleep, and they're not going to fall asleep in the playoffs. So which team do you like better? And I'll take the team that beats good competition.

And you know what?

I feel that way in every sport. This is like the similar strength of schedule argument with the Patriots. I'll take the team that beats good competition every time. Yeah, absolutely. It's important. I don't think there's any question about it. But I don't think the Red Sox are bad. I mean, to say that you have a winning record against playoff teams, that's what you're looking for.

There's no real style points there. I mean, so the Yankees have a better record against playoff teams, but that doesn't make them, I think you're both, I think you're both favored against other teams. I think you're both playoff ready, if you will. So, yeah, but for a guy that is always yelling about scoreboard, what's more impressive? 20 and 8 against playoff teams or just barely getting by playoff teams at 12 and 11? It's obviously 28. But so New York went into Houston and took 3 or 4. You went into Houston and took 204. I mean, really? So that's, so that one game

there is the difference of, you know, so I'm supposed to call the Red Sox gutless losers because of that? And then Houston went into New York and get killed there too. I just think, what do they beat him? Five out of seven this year? Five and two against Houston overall. So again, I just think that the Yankees, every time they've gone up against iron, the Yankees have come out ahead.

And not just a little. overall. So again, I just think that the Yankees, every time they've gone up against iron,

the Yankees have come out ahead. And not just a little bit, not four to three, five to two, I had five out of seven they won. Okay, Phelps in Brighton on Marcus Mark. Go ahead, Phelps. Hey, how's it going? I agree with Madden's original point that you don't really want to hold smarts, happy, whatever they're against them with as far as the negotiating table goes,

if you like the player. Mad's original point that you don't really want to hold smart, happy, whatever they're against

them as far as the negotiating table goes. If you like the player, I mean, you can give him a little more than he needs to make, but he's talking about that $5 million and in the grand scheme of things, you've got to start looking at the luxury tax. So I decided I'm going to dig into the luxury tax and see what it means. and I can report to you that if I had Malcolm Gladwell in 10,000 more hours, I probably couldn't figure this. It's not for us to figure out, Phelps, because it's just mind-numbing. But those who do report, and B. Rob wrote this, that there's a real tax implication there with Marcus Smart, that the Seltz would be smart not to pay them,

both for future penalties, repeater taxes, things of this nature.

And I buy into that, because I don't think that Witt Grossbeck and his partners,

they're making tons of money and they're rich beyond our wildest imagination.

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