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It is my guy, Lou Merlone, who joins us right now.

The only Sox Insider that I listen to at any point.

Lou, good morning.

Well, good morning, everybody.

I hope everybody had a nice day.

Had a nice day away from it.

It was my wife's birthday. I just got away from the game. We had a beautiful day. Very nice. Did you make dinner for her or go out somewhere? I actually made breakfast for about, I don't know, 12. And then we did a little, we were down in your neck of the woods last night. Oh. Yeah. A little early evening walk around the seaport. Beautiful day. A little Davio's piece. It was nice. Beautiful. Very nice. Did you see A.J. Brown down there by any chance? I did not. Okay. I did not see him, but I heard he's looking for an apartment in one of the buildings. That's just a rumor. What about Roman? I did see a picture of him at the airport, if that means anything. Yeah, rent a car. I saw it. That's what come.

Well, look. I did see a picture of him at the airport, if that means anything. Yeah, rent a car.

I saw it.

Well, Lou, I was talking last week.

I was kind of getting pulled back in, and now, unfortunately, I think I have to be out after this weekend.

Yeah, that was a tough weekend.

In a lot of ways, because it was like, there seems to be like a blueprint when they win and when they lose. And this got turned upside down a little bit over the weekend, right? It was, you know, the bats woke up enough in two of the games. And then Slayton goes out and gives up runs for the first time all year. I mean, Whitlock comes in the sixth inning, and he gives up back-to-back hits, and he kind of gives up the lead, and it's just, you knew something like that was going to happen eventually. Like Chapman's going to blow a game. Whitlock is, and Slayton is, it's just like gut punching right now because of the start that they got off to. and it's like, you just couldn't afford it. It's going to happen. It's just like gut punching right now because of the start that they got off to.

And it's like, you just couldn't afford it.

It's going to happen.

It's just the timing of it was, it's just not great.

Lou, you talk about the timing of it and like you say there's games that you're giving away.

You're up for nothing in the first and you ultimately lose that game.

When when does the organization say we're no longer, we're out of it because the AL is just like, it's wide open.

But when does the organization go like, all right, there's no chance in hell.

No matter what we do, we're going to be able to continue to make a push for a playoff spot.

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