news is not great as if you watch in their winter sports you saw that the the bruins have lost a few games in a row and they're there they're badly in need of scoring so that's good news for them they have their intact their offensive line is intact but of course i think the major story and why we're all sitting here with our red sox what sure it's on it because maybe we can really start to get think about x getting a little bit excited because all next week is opening day opening day opening day so frank maybe the enthusiasm yeah a i don't know i'm looking forward to it a lot's been going on and you know in some ways for me it's been kind of a relatively slow sports week because jackie bradley has been seeming to dominate all of conversations they going to bring him up put him down etc etc and we've talked about it on the last show you know the celtics i agree the celtics have really been on the slippery slope there and they haven't really done anything since kevin garnett got hurt and if there is you know any additional proof needed that the celtics run on kevin garnett you know i don't know what it is yeah i know that they had a to do anything without him they look anemic without him they've got a couple of other players that have been playing you know you know it's you know it's pretty clear that pierce is kind of on his back nine more so on the seventeenth and eighteenth hole you know he's fading fast but hey you know opening day is is monday and you know i'm getting a little bit enthusiastic because i can't wait to see you know what what's going to happen and it'll be interesting to see how they look out there i've watched a little bit of the preseason games think that we should bring to the fans attention here you know is that you know ratings are very important and you know right reason we're here is for ratings so soaks if you turn in for the month of march what we're going to do for with you you can go to certain parts of this studio you need for free and you prefer and to throw it into we are only going to be charging five dollars for a beer so i think that i've always had beer that's a nice generous thing that we can offer  fans to try to keep our a good head and make it like lowered and fight and fight well we will make any profit them but that would just copy in the red sox we are copying the red sox but again how you know i wouldn't say pathetic is the right word but i think i think it's pretty clear that management realizes that their fan base is very unsteady well that's why you know that's why if you talk about the team and trying to build enthusiasm to me you've got to have this kid in the lineup because he's the only one that really will bring the say i want to bring this guy down to the minor leagues for nine days to open the season no no you're totally wrong about that all your sports shows out there you are totally wrong because first of all you cannot afford not to have your best team out there to start the season we're not starting at home especially under the circumstances that we've been dealing with for the past two years exactly the best three years three years according to time karen we've had losing records to open up the season in april last year i think it was either four in ten the year before that it was six in ten and those years that you don't make the playoffs but always we've said before you cannot let opportunity go by the beginning of the season because it can kick you when you know but at the end of the year make the difference between not making the playoffs you know and and making the playoffs so to me it's a no brainer you got to start the season with jackie bradley just a little and there's no reason not to  we've talked about before that you know they need to get off to that start look what happened two years ago when they did make the playoffs by one game and then you know when there's a famous quote that's been thrown around out there and you know nobody seems to know where it comes from but i am going to set the record straight right here this quote came from me i was the one who invented it so let's clear that you are right now now and it's basically what it says is that you cannot win the world series in april but you sure as heck can lose it it seems to be it seems it is rupie this or it is because the more games you lose early in the season the harder it is that you first you have to catch up to the teams that are ahead of you in you know it doesn't seem like the red sox have the stamina and you're in that you know the games that they took for granted right in april you know where they had that losing record and they were playing around with this that they didn't really care and then they turned into the best team in baseball from july on beckon eleven and then the n l and i get on my rant about how critical it is not to lose games in april because they will come back and bite you in the fanny they did come september they did and they said if you look back at some of those other teams even last year you look at look at the the angels with mike trout they sat him down rush like they're trying to do are considering doing with with brad right to start the season and they only lost by what a game or two they would've been in the playoffs you know they're never make that same decision again  no i mean they're saying you know if the counter argument is that who knows if this guy is really going to be my trout you know how many might try to come along in fifty years you know he could i mean he's never faced minor league pitching let alone you know aaa pitching  low major league pitching except down you know spring training but spring training is totally different animal and stuck to majors writing a season and big show but i think it's pretty clear that you know you can't let this opportunity go by you don't have big papi you know so i mean it's not like you can never bring him down if you start the season with slumps that he's not good you can always send them down and you're not going to lose any if you're not going to lose the  boras is the one who is really going to pull the strings unless bradley you know says well hey the heck with you but it's going to be maybe they offered him an extension earlier but it's going to be a given that i guess that when you sign with boras it's automatic you go out into free agent you know you go out there in a free agency and you know as far as the red sox losing control that's in in what two thousand and one thousand nine hundred sixty years it will probably get wiped out meteorite or you know half forty feet of snow and we're all going to suffocate you know who the heck knows what's going to happen between now and two thousand and nineteen it's ridiculous to a and and whether you know if he's planning lights out and if he becomes the hopefully we would think he would become the red sox have the negotiating power to pull him in if they want to and they can you know they can buy him and pay him off and all that other stuff you know i mean if you know if this guy turns out to be that great a player they'll do everything they can to keep him and in the meantime hey you know you know when if you make the playoffs and you win another world championship with it so much the better exact you know you know you just don't know what's going to happen plight they're doing everything in the end they're even admitting i think they've got their real tough to get you to leukemia either lucchino or henry has all but admitted that they expect the streak to stop that's right april tenth i think it's like the a second home game at one o'clock in the afternoon on a thursday or something that you know right they're expecting it to end and they're smart business people and i think for them to you know cut some of the ticket prices not to have raised others and now they're giving away the store with the concessions and all of that so the month of april i mean you know there comes a point where it's like you're almost begging and it appears to me that they're almost begging like please please you know it's like you're coming back like this when these commercial you know please go mean let's look at that let's look at who they playing they're playing three games in new york yankees yeah to start the season then they go to play the blue jays another three games so six games not even a fenway lot of people predicting blue jays to be front runners and then they come back and open up at home against the orioles and then they play the rays so they play teams that were really strong last year all potential players and they all have excellent pitching that's right so they all have excellent pitch and what is the red sox are one of their achilles and victor reno you don't know what to expect from these guys it's a big x factor on a lot of these new red sox players and it's gotten to the point where the red sox are going to be damned if they do damned if they don't i mean it's gone beyond the point almost logical discussion because there are so many heated opinions on it because damned if they do and if they bring him up and he does not perform everybody is going to be see i told you so and then on the other side of that you know he does perform the i told you so yes because it's pretty much i wouldn't say evenly divided but i would say from a fan's perspective the fans want to it's probably ninety ten exactly as far as bringing didn't bring him up until he was twenty seven i believe and he had a scratch and claw to get to where he was so i think he has his own agenda baby i know that i was for joy or they brought him up in september two thousand and six he did horrible yep then they brought him in two thousand and seven started off the season really bad but had faith in him and right around it around and was working for the year right and lead them to help lead them to the world series i mean it's kind of similar to our show when we started here you know we exactly i mean it's a crapshoot i mean you know if you want to do a little bit of a segue it's kind of like you know predicting predicting tomorrow's weather is like trying to predict the games  game because who knew that this florida gulf coast team would come out of nowhere make the sweet sixteen the first fifteen seed ever to do that and you know now they're playing florida but i mean they were footnote two weeks ago you know i mean they they beat florida they could really make some noise you know they you know the sky's the limit for them i suppose i mean there's no team that's super dominant at this point right you know they c give any team a run for their money i'm just disappointed because my pick gonzaga i know got upset and you know i have to find another team that i like saying their name i don't well i can't find any other like gonzaga now there is no other you know but it's a coin toss i mean these are the type of things that you just after in my opinion sit back as a casual fan and just enjoy it and enjoy the sport sure root for your favorite and all that you know it's it's a look it's luck as much as anything else right you know but you know you know there's so let's go back to their going back to the red so i got less their opening day pitcher jon lester yeah and so you know that he's been looking real good and he has been looking good i guess the red sox cuts overbet overbet they picked up vernon wells who had a horrible year last year for toronto given some punch fell i mean he could probably play in yankee stadium because it's got a shot right field porcine go right field he if they actually had a better record and that as long as they don't come back with a losing record right that would give the fans hope is that if they come back with a worse record than that they're going to have to give away the ears  you think how do you think they're going to end up starting out this season i think for engagements i think we had talked about this before and i think that and again it's such a coin toss i'd like to think that he'll play at least five hundred ball you know i'd like to think that that play five hundred ball and i think it's going to come down to the pitching i mean their pitching looks really good yeah but again they need the off ants and like i say lester can go out there and pitch a i'd like to see them come back five hundred three and three yeah but you know prognostication is and they're not been one of my strengths you know i'd like to start the season at least at least a five and five at least for the  it's i'm really baffled i am really really baffled i mean i i don't i don't know i didn't know i do not have enough information for me to say hey i feel confident that the red sox are going to come back you know five in one because yeah i know you know i could argue either side do you think they're playing better in fenway when they come back i think they always play better and i do too and i think they always play better in fenway but they could be one of those cinderella years it could be one of those things where you know everything gels and this turns into you know a money ball kind of a team you know a billy ball money ball kind of a team maybe pajoy that are you know a lot of their they they they have and maybe whatever charrington is logic was for assembling the team the way that he did and i'm sure he did it with his sabermetrics and he used as his computer with his computer nelia whatever the computer is that he uses  i'm sure whatever james and yeah yeah that who knows you know maybe it'll work so i don't know i really don't know i really don't know what's going on we don't know what to expect from the often but i do know that except for jackie brevity we know that he hit i miss i miss the passion that i used to have with with baseball you know i grew up as i told you a hundred times i could walk to fenway park i know and i could you know put you to sleep telling you stories about fenway park and i've lost that passion i don't have that you know must watch you know i mean you know you'd come home from work you do whatever you're doing and you know the game is on a five past seven right know you're scrambling around to this is the get this so you can you know plop down and watch that game i haven't had that in two years now i must put on every once in a while i prefer almost listening to it on the radio so i can do other things you know and i want that passion back i think respected for a lot of people you know i think we all kind of pulled it away from us they took it away from us you know we didn't lose it even during all the chicken and beer and all that stuff with the beckett's and the lackeys and all that stuff i don't think we lost our passion it was taken away from us you know they they disrespected the fans they disrespected the game you know and they had plenty of opportunities to redeem themselves by saying the right there is doing the mayor culpa but in the tail between the legs and basically what many of them did was just stick the middle finger up and said hey you know i know it really is a live a i know they really haven't apologized for it and i'm reading from conus book and i haven't gotten to that part of it but it seems as if the type of manager he is he couldn't change his personality to all of a sudden go in there and go you guys have stuff you know you've got to stop drinking that beer and judge chicken you know concentrate get down this game i'm sick and tired he wasn't like that he was always a man's always a kind of guy that would build people up you know in be on their side and i think from reading it just a little bit and skipping around a little i believe think that they thought even up to the last game of the season that they were going to make the playoffs that they were not concerned you know not have the concern that they should have had yet to have to get down to the last catalyses and absolutely how can you do that how can you do that but that's all that pressure you me everything had to go right for that to happen and it was almost like a lottery ball hitting you know the million dollar i mean who would predict that they lose the game and to stick to almost a half hour later  mikey you know i can't even predict yesterday's course i don't know i don't know but what i hope we feel differently when we are doing this next week is mr mike still in the boat s down folks you're stuck with us for at least five minutes you know but what we want to talk about one thing i want to jump into and i know walter partially don't get mad at me i'm going to talk a little bit golf here but go ahead  i just want to talk about tiger woods i just want to talk about tiger woods and i gave up a feat that that he has done and you know winning his tournament the other day and reclaiming his position has him as the number one golfer in the world years and you know he fell to fifty ninth right you know that the score in the ridicule the abuse etc etc which we don't need to get into his physical injuries he's had for near knee surgeries yeah torn i am not you know i certainly do not condone his life and what he had done and everything that you know he was either accused of or you know the allegations i am not of condone or of that but i  just as as a golfer are and knowing how difficult the game is and knowing the situation that he was in to achieve the level of prominence that he's achieved over the last year or so i just i have to give him his props as an athlete and as  you know not necessarily as a person but as an athlete i have to applaud his his doings yes i mean it's it's a great accomplishment i mean he you know the thing that would help him get back to being number or the people that he needs to help him change his swing going with this putter or whatever it is and when it all comes together for him he's just unbeatable he's just unbeatable and we haven't seen that in a while but what they don't get to the truth will be when the masters comes up more majors where he's in his prime you figure ten more years right and maybe even longer four majors a years ten years that's forty opportunities and it's got plenty of opportunities got plenty of opportunities and know it's just good for the game it's good for the game and it's good that you know golf is getting back on the map and as i said as a golfer i can appreciate his a compliment accomplishments or to have done put it that way now we're down to we're probably down to about thirty seconds or so let's make a quick prediction for opening day next week pick the score and next week all game day that's the pitching i'd say forty three red sox fo