Felger & Mazz

Felger & Mazz

The Boston Red Sox are on a bit of a hot streak and find themselves in the hunt for a wild card spot in the American League playoffs. Matt McCarthy joined Felger and Jim Murray on Monday’s Felger and Mazz and gave his thoughts on the Red Sox recent streak and how he thinks all the wins are a bad thing.

Are the Red Sox winning too much? 

Felger: How do you like your Boston Red Sox, Mattt McCarthy?

Matt McCarthy: I don’t like them. I don’t like them one bit. They’re winning a little bit too much.

Felger: Why?

Matt McCarthy: They’re winning too much and it’s going to get Chaim Bloom extended, but they’re not winning enough or I don’t think they’re capable enough of winning to actually make it worthwhile. You know what I mean? Like, here’s the thing, if I actually really believed in the Red Sox, if I believed in what they were going to do at the deadline, going out and improving the team and actually trying to win a World Series or trying to go on a nice little run in October, then I’d say this is great. They’re playing great baseball. But what good is this when the trade deadline rolls around in two weeks, if you go on a run, you beat the hell out of all these bad teams and you’re in it, to your point, Mike, you’re in it, you’re only two games out. What good is it going to do you if they kind of middle it at the trading deadline the way they’ve done it, well, really for the last three years? Like, I cannot stand the direction and the philosophy of this franchise and I just don’t believe in it. Plain and simple. So pardon me for not getting all excited over these last few weeks.

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    Matt McCarthy: You know how many games they’ve picked up in the standings?

    Felger: Well, not many.

    Matt McCarthy: Yeah, one. One. Based on at least the last time we chatted. They were three out, now they’re two out.

    Felger: I can’t remember the last time we chatted, but what is important is that they are now in the fourth spot. They’ve climbed over two or three teams that were ahead of them. So it’s only a game, but there’s now no one between them in the third wild card.

    Matt McCarthy: Right. So the difference is that the Yankees are starting to fall off and the Yankees aren’t playing great baseball. Now the Yankees are talking about trading for Shohei Ohtani and the Red Sox are talking about trading for well, nobody. Trevor Story’s coming back. Chris Sale’s coming back. That’s what they’re going to sell you on. Here’s the thing, Mike, I don’t believe in this team. I don’t believe in this philosophy. However, you say it all the time, I believe it, I obey the scoreboard. If you’re in it at the deadline, you’re a game out at the deadline and you’re like legitimately in it, okay, I’ve been proven wrong on this team go out and buy. And buy aggressively and try and make a run. Try and go to October, try and give you something to be excited about. They’re not going to do that. They’re going to buy and sell at the deadline. They’re going to do exactly what they did last year. They’ll trade Adam Duvall, but they’ll bring somebody in because he’s kind of free and they’re just going to middle it forever and ever and ever. And that’s the problem here. So, I would like to be excited about what the Red Sox are doing. I cannot be excited about what the Red Sox are doing because I know that Chaim Bloom will not take advantage of this and they will continue to empower him. This winning streak does nothing except empower Chaim Bloom, and that is bad for the future of the Boston Red Sox.

  • Audio

  • Listen to Felger and Mazz from 2-6 every Monday-Friday on 98.5 The Sports Hub, with hosts Mike Felger, Tony “Mazz” Massarotti, and Jim Murray “Big Jim”. You can listen live in the Sports Hub App and subscribe to their podcasts here. Follow @FelgerAndMazz on Twitter to keep up with the show!

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