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

Is Felger in Mass?

The continued issue, uh, uh, on 985.

I just want to see what the fuss is about.

Sports Hub.

I'll probably hate it.

I'm There's Hi, everybody, welcome to the program, Felger and Mazurati on a Thursday, July 26 from our Town Fair Tire Studios, here at the beautiful Beasley Media Group in Dorchester.

Felger here in the A-Hole chair. Maz in the Maz chair. Hi, Maz. Good, you. I just peach. We got Big Jim Murray in the Update Studio, fully loaded program. Stu and Billy Lanny in back. I want to start with some baseball because you were off yesterday. Sure. And some stuff happened yesterday. Did you get any good emails yesterday? I got one from a jackass

who keeps using this voice recognition software

and you can't make hide nor hear of what the guy's saying. Because he just wants to play with his apps and his toys as opposed to just typing it in like a normal human being. Yeah, the typing thing doesn't work for some people. Who could that be? I don't know. Anyway, it was, I thought it was a good email. It felt like a good email on Nathan Avaldi.

And, well, anyway, you weren't here yesterday to enlighten the masses with your opinion of where the Red Sox stand.

And so let's do that here.

I'll just start with a simple question for you.

Red Sox versus Yankees at the deadline.

At the deadline is the state of the Red Sox organization allowing the Yankees to catch up? At the moment, yes. Yep, absolutely. At the moment, yes. And when I say state of the Red Sox organization, lack of prospects, dearth of talent in the organization, luxury tax implications, all vis-a-vis the Yankees. Is this allowing the Yankees to close the gap?

Yes. I mean, it's as if Peter Shirelli's running the Red Sox. Maybe that's a good way to put it. Because you've got bad contracts, no talent in the system, and you know, you get no financial flexibility on top of it. So maybe I can put it in those terms and people can understand it. now again there's there's still some time to go here. So five days, fine. We'll have another discussion. But as of right now, I think the Yankees are improving their team more at the deadline than you are. And so we'll see how that shakes out. But now the, you know, obviously you got to include, if you're talking about the whole deadline,

you got to include Steve Pearson in a conversation. Sure, let's include them. Okay. Yankees is still ahead. Okay, they're still ahead. I mean, at the deadline there are. Yes, obviously. Yes. And that's all I'm gauging them on. I'm talking about the process of improving your team via trade at the deadline. Who do I give the nod to right now, and it's New York?

And so the Evaldi deal, does it hurt the Red Sox? No, of course not. He might be good. He might be average. I mean, to me, he feels like just a guy. Like somehow overnight, he turned into Nolan Ryan. I don't know how the hell that happened. You mean the globe calling it a coup is a little strong? That's a little strong. You know, and this idea that, okay, the guy throws 96, 97. Well, then why has he been with like four or five teams in his career already? If he's so good, why does he keep changing teams? So to me, that's the obvious question. Now, the good news, they didn't give up anything. Because I think Jalen Beeks, and I said this after I watched him pitch in his debut,

just a guy.

Talk about a jag, as you would say in football.

He is the classic jag.

Jalen Beaks, to me, feels like nothing, that the Red Sox have given up nothing.

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