welcome the boston fire department on our guard  hello and welcome to another edition of sports wrap and as you can see from the terrible tragedy in the events that gone on this past week it's going to be a very somber sport trap if you've watched our shows in the past you know that mike and i have told some jokes had some funny beginnings done some funny skits you're not going to see that today and and i are co host of the show and you're not going to see that today either he's just going to see two guys two americans and more importantly t bostonians sitting back and reflecting on everything that has gone on this week and although mike and i were not personally touched by this tragedy we share the agony and the grief of everyone who was so for mike and for me and for everyone here at stoughton media our hearts go out to  them all but as we have done in the past we will survive we will prevail and we will continue to be the great nation that we are we will be boston strong that's one of the reasons i wore this shirt because besides the red sox we have to be boston strong because like president obama said when he was here at that interfaith  are boston in boston is a tough city and they're known to be a tough city and there's plenty of tears and there's plenty of anguish and people are really upset and it's it's like it's like you cannot tear your eyes away from the v set because you're hoping at any minute that this miserable last suspect doesn't deserve to live she will be caught and hopefully taken alive but if not at least he'll be put out of his misery and you know life can go on and we'll find hopefully will still find out what what caused this what caused this horrible tragedy this senseless murder murder of innocent people at the  at the marathon finish line because it's just it just blows your mind away just the initial pictures alone when you see in one side the stands where people are cheering it instantaneously across the way people are dying and crying and limbs are flying in i don't mean to say that in pompeii that i didn't think of this i'm just saying it it's just it's it was just horrible it just blows your mind away and it's a you really can't get your mind around it and  well as to bring this heinous criminal to justice and hopefully it'll be sooner much later rather than much later well said michael and ken and not only the first responders everyone who would like to mention the whole country has rallied around us you know from a heartfelt standpoint we'll get through this and we will survive would you know because just to hear people sing the national anthem like that with the with the passion and you could just sense that there you know all of the anguish and fear and anger and hate that they ha just kind of like just per pours out in the right and that and the way they were able to express themselves right i think it's a good thing i think i heard it on radio and i think that it's a film something personally that should be done more often you know maybe not i mean i know it every game they sing the national anthem but i think you'd be nice and once in a while they had the fans saying it because it just it just brings to mind you're own sense of patriotism and how you can't really take life for granted or  anything for granted in your life once again well said michael and i think that you know one of the reasons why it is impacted both of us is that you know we're we're local guys you know just like many of you are right and just does a point of reference so ladies and gentlemen as we are filming this it is friday afternoon around three o'clock and things are still liquid and flowing and ever changing and right up to the point where we started shooting the show through the culprits are still at large boston is in a lockdown that's right transportation is at a standstill and everybody is walking around just just doesn't make any sense and you know and time to time it and stop a life and stop normal mostly because you know people love sports they identify with their teams and the red sox are not playing tonight the bruins are not playing tonight again feel it you cannot comprehend the size of the magnitude and the stories that you hear and you know the pain and the agony right and the heroism that's right that was shown by this guy every day people  going to go and there they weren't working you know what my nephew actually did go there and came within blocks of that finish line yeah and actually heard the explosions and couldn't figure out what it was and then he saw people coming back towards him running starting to run and he said what's going on and they said there was explosions and people just they didn't wait to find out what it was the rest of that but a lot of people who are very fortunate because you know for whatever reason they just they were they were they were able to not be at their place but yeah a lot of them people unfortunately were there and they wanted to be there they wanted to see their own friends and family past that finish line in but grace of god go i you know that's what i was thinking that's the term i was looking forward to yes right from that by the grace of god go i it's true it's really true or maybe we should shift gears a little bit and kind of tie this into sports before we both turn into puddles yeah i guess there have been a couple of red sox games i think they're going to couple the red sox games i mean maybe you're talking about something that's normal how i think helps you feel a little more normal unfortunately we're not normal so hopefully what we say is normal here you know so you know but it's still in shock mode but i mean i was watching i was watching the red sox game last night because you have to have something to break the break the terror in your mind that you know feeling you know you have to have something so i was watching the game but i wasn't i mean let's them credit they're playing fantastic  watching the game and i'm not feeling it at all i'm not feeling it they're winning and the left is pitching wonderful you know i mean these guys they're they're one hundred for a while i'm committed to what they're doing yeah they're playing while they're playing very well and  re the thing that struck me about that is that they're playing with a team to me that's not nearly as good as the one that was at the start last year and now you know here they are  but bobby valentine and i don't want to get back to him her i mean just you know with the team they had last year the superstars they could get anywhere near that record well they didn't have the pitching for one thing or it goes that they're pitching fantastically they are pitching for you know they've got the lowest playing as a team and i don't think that they were that were a team last year you know and that they didn't have any cohesiveness and there was a lot of bad blood that was stirred up you know and believe it or not coincidentally it all started on patriots day last year when valentine came out and said that eucalyptus was dogging it not playing up to his potential but joya turned around and said we don't do things like that it's right here it started on patriots day it was when he made that comment yeah wow and then you know in addition the red sox that have under the radar you know the celtics made it to the playoffs they're in the seven seeded yeah you know the bruins are starting the bruins and the bruins actually lost the other night but they did what it's for they did anybody remember that you know something i think people you know was great about thanksgiving at the very end i know i was watching that and i was watching the red sox but as the game went on but the great thing about that was when the game was over even though the bruins lost in a shootout both teams stayed on the ice and they were like pounding their sticks and it just just acknowledging everybody you know what a wonderful you know great experience it didn't matter for one night who won or lost the exact just mattered that people were there to support right every you know the support boston really did happen around the league and look at the look at the red sox and i don't know if you would heard the little tidbit how the red sox hung up the i guess they were all to the credit they were all kicking around and talking about having to do something having to do something and i guess gomez walked in and said don't worry i got it ok and he had gone into the equipment manager i guess and told him his idea and they whipped it up right before game time so that was that was jonny gomes and then you look at what happened around the country and all the sports i know and you know all the stadiums and they have the body around the country  playing the you know our beloved theme song here at fenway park and and it affected everybody you know after that everybody you know not a not just in this country this is affects the world and as this unfolds you know let's just hope that you know the spirit of the people and the will of the people you know as it will you know move beyond this you know will will will oh yeah we'll never forget you know we'll always remember and we will always survive and like many other things in tragedies that have happened before us these things tend to get softer you know they never go away but know just get a little less off that or is it softer much much much huge we have bigger but but the us how strong we are and what a great nation we are and what a great group of people we are because it seems like we always come to other than amazing friends alike but i think it's when it comes an humanity if you're here if you're a human being then you feel something for someone who has suffered a tragedy you know if you're really a normal person quote unquote you take out the politics you take out the sports rivalries you take everything except for the fact that you share you know common humanity or you are you have emotions you cry you you laugh and you feel things and you know if you don't then you're not you know these people to me you beyond beyond thinking because it's like this this marathon has gone on for years and years one hundred eighteen years and even more recently and this like this it's always been one of the greatest celebrations of the whole beginning of spring and i think one of the you know maybe one of the first band aids put on the wound was when the boston athletic association within twenty four thirty six hours came out and said that they will run the marathon next year and it will be bigger and better and stronger than ever that was great when president obama's president obama doesn't get enough credit i you know whether you don't like him or not first politics this man to me is the greatest speaker since j he is just an orator born to be like that and he has what he says hits home i mean you know he says but maybe it's best unfortunately when you know it's the worst situations but you have to give him credit because with the marathon running stronger and than ever and harder than ever in strew you know you can't you can't it's not going to keep anybody down because fear can't win if you're just cannot win in this world correct correct and this is really the first attempt since then and i think it's impacting us so hard is because you know you know we live here i mean you know we lived through nine eleven and we have through so many of the horrible tragedies oklahoma city right you know and waco we lived through that and i know when it's wrong on that and you say wow wow but you know you doing the more you know intellectually exactly then you are emotionally very good point from you know and you know and i'm sure people around the country a looking at it and saying the same things but you know they look you know you doing it yeah they feel it but it's more intellectual and emotional exactly and you know just like when we look in the other direction you know it's intellectual and we're trying to intellectually process it but when it hits home it's the other way around and it hits you right in the got i mean oh it's your heart before you go ahead it's almost like he did before your heart in reverse and hit it not the hell out of me this week and then i've been really trying to think  of why you know why i had the reaction and the only thing that i can think of that you know that makes sense is that you know i grew up there i lived walking distance to that marathon and i was it every year growing up probably twenty five thirty times in a row was almost a tradition my buddies would go to the red sox game right and then would walk down to kenmore square and then would walk into town by the finish line and would hang around and watch the stragglers come in i know i used to do that too and of times square is where i used to be my hang up back then but yeah it's a member of few years ago one time along the line i forget exactly when but easter had fallen on  east i think easter with i don't know whatever it was but there was something going on and i ended up being in town sunday night before the marathon and i remember sneaking under the barrier and you know  doing that little pretending that every step that i'm crossing the finish line with my arms out you know like the wind i was the only one of the street because you know they had everything blocked up but back then this with whoever along it was you know you could do that they didn't really or they just shoot you away you know and say i get out of they don't do that but i mean i remember doing that here you know and i'm sure that you know it hit me like a belly punch i was driving and driving up the highway from an appointment and i heard it and i had to pull off to the side of the road and then shortly thereafter i called you yeah i know and you know you would just heard it you were tied up in a meeting and we were out and we have we came out of a meeting with yeah with a financial advisor hopefully he's helping us  and then you're listening to that and just like i was driving home it's like you know it's like they say you have to focus on the road but i was like they are not there you know what it was like and it's been like that it's been like that it's been like  did happen and as i said you know you and i were not personally touched by this we didn't have anybody directly associated with this but thank god you know we share the grief we feel the pain and and i can't remember the last time where you know you hear it again when you're looking out rather than inward out would rather than in would you know you intellectualize the pain you know i feel bad for you all that must be terrible but butt right but i felt the pain there i know you know and i always used to pooh pooh that expression you know the bill clinton feel your pain here you hear no i always used to pooh pooh that because i don't think i really could identify with it no art michael with gore and frank walsh our director in the booth michael ham i can and everybody here and our hearts and prayers go out to everyone affected by this that's right and for