Kevin Millar’s Red Sox review: WS hopes, Life w/o Devers, Roman era

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Speaker 1: We've got four Champ captain Mallar here?

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Speaker 2: Does that?

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Speaker 1: Can we still say that? Yeah, because that's just the intro.

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Speaker 2: But they won so many though, sin no, no, you can still say it a j when you're just a teammate of those great players. You can say that when you're not the good player. So yeah, O four Champ, continue on, Thank you, Scott. How would you want to be interested? Like a O five Champ rings? But yeah, but the different rings were this big. I'm like, come on, bro, five Champs. You guys gotta have monster.

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing. The difference is the Red Sox have won since then. The White Sox haven't won anything that's in I don't think about it kind that the White Socks have one thing to hang on to.

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Speaker 2: Sorry.

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Speaker 1: I would like to see the rings side by side though.

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Speaker 2: You don't know. I would like every wit. But it looked like my Saint Paul Saints teammate. We have a Saints and then you have the O five. You know, the the White Sox would sit there and steal Still all right, I guess they're going, dude, They're going to say, hey, we swept, we swept.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm here here the Red Sox are.

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Speaker 3: Here, try hard, didn't we yeah back comment Game one helped us a lot.

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Speaker 2: Thank you before Maddy's at home, Like, man, AJ so mean, did you have a five in the first I know what you guys did. It was very very sad and you.

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Speaker 3: Got thrown out a third going second to third. I don't know what you were thinking.

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Speaker 2: At eight bags and twelve years, AJ.

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Speaker 1: Sneaky, sneaky, all right, So do they have a chance this year? The Socks, the Red Sox.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, honestly, God, Bronnie. I was there last week and I looked at you have ten teams that can win the World Series. There's ten due we can sit right here all pick. It's awesome. I think the parody of baseball is awesome right now. Socks are good. They're not like fake good because you have crochet like when you have a stopper and a closer and well yeah, and Chapman's still throwing a hundred too. By the way, who looks amazing. By the way we got in the elevator, I'm like, like, he's handsome. His waist is about twenty eight. Shoulders are like but they have that, they have this, They have a bunch of dudes that know their role. Their young bloods are mature. Now it's a matter of like who's going to be rolling the rock the last three weeks of season. So, yeah, they could win the World Series. They really can win the World Series. And if I was asking you who's your favorite right now today to win the World Series?

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Speaker 1: For me, I pick a National League team, right yeah.

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Speaker 4: I would pick a National League team I think is better than the right now, I'll go Padres.

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Speaker 2: I also take the Dodgers, Okay, And that's that's probably who I would lean up. People like going to sleep and hate on the Dodgers because of that. Are you betting against them? That's all I ask. You know, everybody like you know be like, oh yeah, you know, I got the Mariners. I'm like, right now, for a million dollars, your house is on the line, you're not betting against the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: Well, let me give you a side part of this though, because before the season, there were many people I spoke to that said, if I had Dodgers of the field, I'm taking Dodgers. Do you feel that way, you want the whole field or the Dodgers, I'll take.

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Speaker 2: Take the field right now for that. Yeah, you're right that one will take the house in the field. But still it's still a scary bet because if Mookie's on fire, which you kind of start seeing it, Freddy Free' is Freddy free Otani's weird like he does every thing awesome. And then you still got a staff that's gonna be healthy. I mean, Andrew Freeman, smart dude. They don't want to play great in July and August. They want to hear all the little stuff. They're eight and seventeen, but come September they're gonna be lined up. You have Snell, you have this glass now is throwing one hundred for three innings. It's the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Do you know you're all on in the Red Sox. Would you have said this when Raffie Devers got traded? Would you have said, man, they just made.

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Speaker 1: The greatest move ever.

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Speaker 2: Look at who we got back, and the Red Sox are better now. So you want to be honest, Like said Jered crab As, I told him you're wrong. He was blasting the front office. I was one thousand percent in on this, one thousand percent because if you're not, it's not rocket science.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 2: I paid you three hundred five million bucks. I wanted to play some third base. Want I want to play some first base. So that day you signed your contract, AJ, it's the happiest day of your life. Thirteen years. I've set you up for generation. What changes other than the ego and money or an information from who your agents will all become this weird. You're a ballplayer, bro, I just need you. I need you to play third for us right now. Tristan Cossas went down. I need you to play first for us right now.

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Speaker 1: It's on me.

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Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to be a go glover. Frank Thomas play first, Johnny played first, Mallar played. It's okay. So that's where I have a problem. I don't care who we get. And you know what, we got two hundred and sixty million dollars back to extend Bregman, who's a ballplayer, right, So I love Roffey's a nice kid. But something happened. Something happened. It wasn't like that before I signed that deal. So I always say, money and fame change dudes. Right, go back to you. You were like this young kid trying to play in the big leagues. Booth bondser and Nate what Joe Nathan Yeah, five Champ. Now you got a headset out, you're out here, You're you're like famous now. But what changes? Why can't you become the same guy. That's why I always say to you guys, stay who you are, good dude, be a good teammate, and the game will take care of you. It wasn't turning that and look what happened. Now you're gonna head west. Good luck. And you know Buster and listen, they need offense, perfect storm. They did a great job because he is offense. But all of a sudden you saw the Red Sox become a team my opinion.

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Speaker 5: Do you think they're a better team without him? Do you think? Do you think do you think they would be a better team if if you still had an aircraft carrier Raffi devers in that lineup? That changes how you're even focusing on this lineup and trying to navigate it as an opponent.

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Speaker 2: But look what it's done. It's opened up. You had Yoshida not saying, but he's sitting over here. Can't throw, you only get hit. He can't DH because you won't go play a position, So you you clogged up the scene. So you said it. You said the team. Yeah, they're a better team. Players don't win championships. Teams win championships. In the story. You need good players. But everybody's good in the big viies. I don't care who you are. That's what people forget. I always want to talk about this. You know, two or three stars and every team. But Aj wasn't a star. Bull crap. He wasn't a star. He was a good player. I wasn't my own mind. That's all about, and that's what we all are.

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Speaker 1: We all are.

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Speaker 2: But I'm saying, at the end of day, like Mike Piazza is a star, and you know, Barry Bond's a star, and you know whoever's the star, teams win championships. It's not so yeah, dude, Bevers. They were in last place for three of the four years when he was hitting third. And I'm not putting us all on Bevers, by the way, I'm just giving you examples and factual stuff that he is a great player. But this year something happened, whether he got bummed out with ownership, whether the pregnant thing wasn't communicated to I get all that. It got to release co Two things.

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Speaker 3: First of all, when I played for the Bananas a couple not long ago, I was a star.

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Speaker 1: You were yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then when I do Yellow, when I sell out city cruises like you were stars.

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Speaker 2: We had fourteen people there. It was awesome.

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Speaker 3: We had I did one on Sunday we had seven hundred people. I thought the thing was gonna sink. And by the way, don't tell me money when it changed. If you would have signed a one SODO deal.

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Speaker 2: You'd be flying around and I would have it.

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Speaker 3: Instead of jumping on everyone else's jet, you'd have your own jet that you'd be picking up.

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Speaker 2: Most generous poor guy there is. I'm a fake rich guy, but I mean you know at the end of the day, I'm very generous. And some of these rich dudes with planes like, yeah, help the poor part. You hop on, I'm gonna get you and showed it we need how'd you get out here? Middle seat? Yeah, he was he's two lay, not three hours. No way. You can find one person.

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Speaker 4: If you grind though, you get the upgrades. If you put in enough flights, you get the upgrades.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing for you.

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Speaker 2: Don't elbow space in the middle seat like sir, Yes, sir's mine too.

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Speaker 4: But if you take too many jets, you don't get any points for that. You don't get status for That's like, that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: I have been eighty seven for every commercial flight. Now I don't have any points. That's the problem. You pay the price of ben guys work like you're not the rich guy, or like I'm a poor guy. Oh you got the rich guy's over at Jordan looking, I got the shoes there.

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Speaker 3: I'm poor guys at those places. See, it's nice to be the poorest guy at the club because then, like you said, everyone takes care of you and they feel bad for you. So they look at you and say, oh, you don't have a plane. I have my I have three? Can I fly you somewhere? Great?

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Speaker 2: High high high? Hi?

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Speaker 1: He does both?

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Speaker 2: Granted, joy And there's like a million one million, And you got know, Michael, sounds good. Aga. I'll just let me know when you will get invited again. And it's been a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: This conversation might lead to that. All right.

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Speaker 4: One more on the money side with the Red Sox. Where'd you think of the Roman Anthony extension?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely love it when you meet this kid. I'm not just saying that. When you meet this kid, he is the most mature, level headed, twenty one year old I've ever seen, you know, year and a half ago, all of a sudden that just left high school is gonna play unior calls now and very similar body types. Ten of hitters. Okay got it, so Ah had him. I said, tell Kenny, how quick this happens? My son was canon. It's canaan. He looked at me because I was in high school year and a half ago. In the first three months I stunk, and it's like things go fast, and you're hitting high school pitching. I don't care where you're playing at. High school's still high school pitches eighty three to eighty eight. You might have a guy thrown nine two right to see him. His first game, made the air on his glove. Next day we got forty two outfielders out there and coaches try and show him with the eyewad. Here we go a ball one under his gloved. We made an air. Never said a word, never stray, just it's right there. Bobah Boom does his job, but he has the eye of the strike zone. He controls the barre's box you know his young players. When you don't swing at balls, you're tough out. Roman Anthony, I'm not my huge fan. So not just because of the success, because he didn't come up just bawling, right. He kind of an out of limup and you saw this thing. I saw him just his abs were awesome as a young kid.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of people say he left money on the table. So when you're twenty one, if your son was twenty one years old, and if team comes you and says you maybe could make more, you could maybe four years from now make four or five hundred million. But at twenty one years old, a team comes to you and says, here's eight years, one hundred and thirty, could be over two hundred. Are you telling your son to say no to that?

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Speaker 2: Oh, there's no money left on the table. That's just the typical hate of the society, or basically a debate what money's left. He's twenty one, he just signed an eight year deal. He's gonna be twenty nine, he's gonna sign a five hundred and eighty million dollar deal. There's no money left. He's made seven times more than you and I have in six and a half weeks. In the big leagues. Yeah, like there's no money left, like praise the kid, congratulations, good luck, but like, yeah, they didn't they didn't give that money because they didn't know the character. This character the good family mom, dad or there you saw the sister, I know you did. I mean I'm gonna miss her. She was in the dugout basically, Yeah, no doubt. Those seats are unbelievable, great experience, but no, this is a good dude, man, good family.

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Speaker 5: You were never you were never that uber prospect like like him. You were never that uber prospect like him. What kind of advice would you give him though being a star in Boston because you are a star, you were a star whatever you want to say in Boston.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, honestly, God, it's really when you're just not drinking the kool aid on anything. You're never as bad as you are, and you're never as good as you are. If you could find that happy medium. That takes time to find that. But you just meet somebody, and you know, we meet a lot of dudes. You've had a lot of teammates. There's good dudes, there's guys you're like, eh, I call it. He is an eye contact, very engaging, comes over, shakes your hand. He's not a head down guy. He's very, very engaging. And so I'm in, man, I mean, you know how it is. If if it's not, I'm out. I'm in on this kid. He is special.

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Speaker 4: Here's the outro eighty grade Runner Capvin Malari. He's got three minutes to get to time.

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Speaker 1: I hit it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, get the best, dude. You guys keep rocking.

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Speaker 1: Thank you and I'll see it. You're the man. Let's go have fun.