Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, Bob Hess, and now the end is near.

Belgar and Mass, 985, the Sports Hub.

Okay, phones as promised, Steve in the Jeep is going to lead us off this hour on LeBron.

Go ahead, Steve, what do you got?

Hi, guys.

I think LeBron is going to come back big tonight, get his guys involved, and most likely have a triple double at the end of the day, just so they get back on track. But, hey, Murray, I like your Metallica song, but I was thinking of Earle's Court by Led Zeppelin. I'm going to tank the pronunciation, but it's like Bronwn, your stump, or something like that.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

You want to sing that one, Murray, too? I don't know off the top of my head. I actually think that might be one of the acoustic ones that's most, I think. I don't think that fits as well as your freight train coming. Yeah, and that freight train's coming your way tonight. Brendan in Lull on the Red Sox. go ahead Brendan.

Hey guys, how you doing?

Good.

Matt, I don't know if you looked at the top 100 prospects list recently. in Lull on the Red Sox. Go ahead, Brendan. Hey, guys, how are you doing? Good.

Matt, I don't know if you looked at the top 100 prospects list recently, but Kopex,

Espinoza, and Groom are all top 30.

They should have all three of those guys coming up through the system right now, and you currently have one, but I'm not even sure that's safe. But it's easy to

blame Dumbrovsky. I think ownership is to blame, you know, a few years ago, you traded

away Anthony Rizzo for a year and a half of Gonzalez, you know, hitting bloops singles and

complain about playing on Sunday night. And, you know, that blew up in their faces. It's like, how do you let the same thing happen again a few years later? You know, nobody learned their lesson over there. Well, yeah, I'm sorry. I was going to say in the case of the first one, right, that was, you know, Theo Epstein. They were making sort of a calculated risk at that. Like, I look at the GMs more than I do

ownership. And because I think that the baseball ops guy has an ability to go to Henry and say, this is what is best for the baseball operation. And I think a lot of times, believe it or not, Henry is willing to buy into that. I mean, just look at the two, the difference between Theo and Dabrowski. Henry has signed off on both so he clearly empowers the baseball ops guy.

Well, but the last thing we want is the guy that you hired to run baseball ops going to Henry and saying, we want to do this, and Henry's saying, no, I think we should keep the third base prospect because of his range or whatever. No, no, that's the whole idea. You hire the baseball guy, you empower him,

and then you're judging based on the results. And so far, a little sketchy with Dave Dumbowski. But the last thing you want is John Henry overruling his baseball guy. At some point, if there's nothing left in your farm system, you've got to rein them in. Okay, well, or fire him. Say, I mean, what do you want? If you want to just build through the system and bring guys through the system, then you should have kept Charrington. If you want something more

immediate... Okay, well, or fire him. Say, I mean, what do you want? If you want to just build through the system and bring guys through the system,

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