This is the baseball hour with Tony Mads podcast.

Hey, it's Tony Maz.

Welcome into the Baseball Hour podcast, and let me just answer the first question right away.

Yeah, Mas, why'd you change the name of the show?

This is the baseball reporter show or the old baseball reporter's show.

So here's why we changed the name.

Because there really aren't many reporters on the show anymore.

When we started the program, the idea was to integrate other members of the media who cover baseball.

As time has worn on, it's really just become more of me spouting off, expressing my frustrations

with the Red Sox.

So we've decided to change the name of the show here as we start another baseball season

as the Red Sox embark on 2021.

That said, I'm not going to spend a ton of time explaining why we change the name of the show.

But that is it in a nutshell.

We look forward to another baseball season.

I can tell you I specifically missed a real baseball season last year.

I don't think I realized how much I missed it until it actually happened and the game was

coming back this year.

The Red Sox of 2021 are obviously a very different team.

And we have had the good fortune over the last couple of years, the last few years,

of connecting with Alex Cora at the beginning of the year when he has been manager.

Obviously, he was not a year ago.

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