Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, Bo Hess.

And now, the end is near.

Felger and Mass, 985, the Sports Hub.

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We come to you from our Town Fairtire Studios in Brighton, reentry Monday, mostly Celtics, but we got into the Brady stuff and some Red Sox items on the board as well. We'll go right back to the calls, Mass, unless you have an opening thought this hour. I have no opening thought. We will defer our opening thought to Alan and Millis on the Red Sox. Go ahead, Alan. I kind of wish you guys had picked up in a minute or two. I'm just looking at the reference for the baseball team, the batting and the pitching. I just can't believe that it's so ill-prepared for this season. And it's like the minute they traded Buckholes, I was like, uh-oh, it's going to be, it's going to be, it was like that giant sucking sound.

Okay, but Alan, you can't second-guess the Buck Colts thing. He's out for the year. I thought he was being sarcastic. Well. Are you being sarcastic, Alan? Somewhat. Okay. Is that all you got? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? This team is terrible. No, they're not terrible.

That's wrong.

They actually just won two of three and they're three games over 500.

No, they're not terrible.

They are. What are we going to do? This team is terrible. No, they're not terrible. That's wrong.

They actually just won two of three and they're three games over 500. No, they're not terrible. They are, you know, they're pretty good. So the question is whether they can be great. And, you know, we expected great. Last year they were good. This year we expected better than that and it's gone the other way a little bit. There's still time here.

If the weekend was some sort of awakening for their offense, they're going to be fine. Okay, that has been a significant problem. But for a team with their payroll and their expectations, boy, they have a lot of holes all of a sudden, don't they? They have a hole at third base. They have pitching depth problem in the rotation. They don't have much of a bullpen at the moment on top of it. Can you stop on the rotation piece? Yeah. Okay. So the fifth starter kind of blows. No, no. I mean depth beyond that. What do you do if you have an injury now? Who does? Okay. Some teams, but a team with a $180 million payroll, $200 million payroll. crew goes seven deep. Would you stop? What do the Cubs do with one injury? I bet their fifth starter blows.

I bet it's better than what the Red Sox have. By what? By degrees. No prospects, no retreads. Okay. The prospects is a different thing. Okay, fine. But if you want to say they have not draft and develop pitching depth, I'm fine. That's a whole different story than their fifth, sixth, and seventh starters. Okay, but I'm just talking about... I'm not going to get on them for that. Because I think that every team has that. Their bullpen, the bullpen deals and what he's given up to have that bullpen? Now, that's a fair second guess on Nebraska. I told you, but there were a lot of holes. a team with their kind of payroll, Mike, should not have four starters.

And I don't have four starters.

And I don't mean four starters in the big leagues.

I mean, in the organization, because that's what they've got right now.

They've got four.

It gets thin, but Kyle Kendrick should not be starting games for this team in May.

I mean, that thing was a beating that he took last week.

And look, maybe he'll be better.

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