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Say that more slowly because I'm stupid. Pelgar and Mazz on 985. The Sports Hub. Every Friday, we're joined at this time by Christopher L. Gasper of the Boston Globe. What's up, Gasper? What's going on, guys? How are you two? Christopher Lee. We are just peachy. We are coming here from our town fair tire studios. Gaspher, you want to start off by following up on that brawl the other night between the Red Sox and the Yankees. What's your developing opinion on that? Yeah, well, first of all, I mean, look, was it entertaining? Absolutely. And it's great that there's some genuine dislike back in the rivalry. So I love it. So I don't want anybody to misconstrue that. I think it's fun. It's entertaining. That's great.

But to sort of extrapolate what happened and say that it somehow indicates something about the Red Sox and their ability to win in October, that's absurd to me. To me, what means more is that they won the series? I mean, that's more meaningful to me. and the way Rick Porcelo pitched last night

as your number three started.

That means more to me than Joe Kelly deciding to play Sheriff and hit Tyler Austin. It's junkyard Joe to you. Oh, okay. Oh, that's right, the two dogs. Is that what it is? Yeah, it's two dogs. Oh, man. It's Rex and Rover. Oh, I thought it was spot and dot.

Yeah, I mean, I just look, I think everybody sort of overreacted to that situation.

Like, I think Holt overreacted to Austin's slide.

I think Austin overreacted in a situation where it really wasn't going to be a double play and thought he had to go in there hard.

And then I think you have the Red Sox and their relievers, once again,

just like last year, overreacting to the situation. So you don't think it was an ordered hit from Alex Corr? I don't, because if it, here's the thing, if it, if it turned out it was an ordered hit, then much like when on Sunday, when he didn't pull J.D. Martinez for defensive purposes after they took the lead against the raise, I think he made a mistake.

It's much better to do it in the fifth when you have an 8-1 lead than in the seventh when it's a four-run game. Like, why would you, the game was closer. Nice. So I think it was Joe Kelly just sort of taking it upon himself saying, okay, I already have one out in this inning. This guy's up. Now, the only argument you can make is that in the fifth with Hembrie, the guy was the lead-off batter.

But you're up eight to one. You know what I mean? It's like if you're going to hit him in that same game, you have a seven-run lead. That's the time to do it. No, you mean you're down? Am I get the games mixed up? Yeah, they were down 8-1.

Yeah, down 8-1.

Down-it-1.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

So at that point, like, that eight one. Yeah, down eight one. Down at one. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah.

Yeah.

So at that point, like, that's the time to go and do it, not when it's like a four-run game. And at that point, if the Yankees score more runs, they're sort of like, they're moving away from you. So I thought that was the time to do it. And I feel like Joe Kelly just sort of took it upon himself.

Okay, so right, because of the score, you think Kelly basically acted alone.

Can I ask you to, does Vasquez's, you know, inactivity tip that off as well? Maybe. That's what I thought. I mean, it didn't seem like, yeah, I mean, he was a little slow to react. Way slow to react. I mean, if it's called for and everybody's on the same page and they're doing it,

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