Will they play by the rules?

Better believe it. This, as we like to say in this program, is Felger and Mass. Suck, suck, suck. On 985. Want to make that clear. The Sports Hub. All right, 403 in the afternoon, Felger-Maz, 98-5, the Sports Hub. Simulcast, as always, across New England and the country on CSN. Let's follow up on some Red Sox sauce. They win last night. But that's not really the story for us before the game. Dave Dumbrowski. Yay, they won, yay. What, that didn't excite you? Nope. Well, why don't you comment on this now? Why isn't it a good thing that they won? Big deal. One game. And the Orioles and Yankees lost too, Maas.

Wopty-do. Mas, if they lost last night, you'd hammer them today.

You're right, I would. But I'm not going to give them credit for winning. So it's only a loss. Like there's only, all they can do is lose in your eyes. Well, they've won 23 times this year.

Am I supposed to be happy every time they win?

Or am I looking at the bigger picture?

I'm looking for them to string wins together.

I'm looking for them to string wins together? I'm looking for them to show me something over the longer term that indicates they are nothing more than just a plotting middling team. Because last night, it was, you know, listen, they scored 11 runs. Good. Show me that you can do it with some level of consistency okay they have not been a consistent team they've not played well consistently

they've not strung together any momentum or any sort of solid play over an extended period of

time you're absolutely right about that mass of course now we're talking okay so d'abrowski

does his pregame interview on nesson last night and gives you a reason why.

How come they haven't been able to get into a flow, Dave?

In Hanley's case, not playing first base, people don't realize at times how much that changes the mix of your club

because at some time we were going to have Chris Younghead at Bats as the D.H. at that point.

So we sat down yesterday for over a couple hours. I sat down with John Farrell, with Eddie Romero, Brian O'Hallor, and Zach Scott. I already talked to some of our scouts that just kind of go over our club to try to get it to fit together a little bit because some of those things, the injuries, and even though guys are playing, like in

Hanley's case, it does affect what you're trying to do. So normally at this time of year, I'd say you think you have a better pulse, but I think we need a little bit more time. We just really haven't flowed as a club. We haven't played as well as I think we're capable of, and I think we need to give ourselves that opportunity. Okay, and in that cut, who does he blame for them not being able to get into the flow.

Hanley.

And I thought it was one of the biggest, like, cheap. to give ourselves that opportunity. Okay, and in that cut, who does he blame for them not being able to get into the flow?

Hanley.

And I thought it was one of the biggest, like, you know, cheap shots, the wrong word. One of the worst excuses I've ever heard. You found it weasily. Totally weasily. Blaming Hanley for the fact that they haven't been able to get their roster right? one guy who can't go on and play first base, or more importantly, doesn't want to.

Won't.

More accurately. Okay, he doesn't want to play. So that's what the, is at the root of everything, Hanley? That is ridiculous. Found it interesting. I mean, I'm glad he's, well, I don't know. He didn't really call him out as sort of the problem.

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