the last time the red sox were in first place or had a winning record don't you know if you know the answer send it in for a long time it's been a long time so that's the good news and we have to  double and could've scored a couple of runs heath the game closer and i think we were leading forty two at the time you know this guy's going to pay off dividends in could be the biting superstar that we're looking for we don't want to fast you know even though many may be getting the duck boats ready already it's a little early it is a little bit early we got a few more games coming up here folks actually got quite a few more games before  return you know and before we do that we're going to go play besides the yankees we have to go play the blue jays and you know and in the meantime another trade was made in one of our wonderful teams that we have jock yog i can't pronounce his name jaeger number sixty eight and you are on your program there former a great penguin and at the age of forty one we're hoping that he's going to give the bruins enough but punch and spark  jackie bradley has brought to boston he's a twitter sensation already and good news is folks pretty soon will be able to see him back here in fenway pack next week  we forgot to slip that in there i forgot to slip that i'm so excited about us winning finally being you know saying that we have a winning team and we have a good manager now with john farrell and things are looking good so you know the t director there mike once again in the booth to mike a fantastic job and mike pretty soon will be back in the guys to be playing in fenway pock how do they usually start what happens i haven't been to a game clippers down folks the best is yet to come yeah you know the red sox have a lot of new players on the team this year they do something which you know have some peculiar names i have no idea who they were i was watching the game yesterday i was looking at the roster i couldn't identify you like really i mean you know we've been bombing enough as it is you know let's try to spice it up a little bit i'll ask again who's on first correct frank all right let me rephrase that what's the guy's name on first base what's on second base frank we're not talking second who's on first absolutely so that's the guy absolutely zone for us you know who i'm asking you who is on first he's the guy he's the first baseman who is the first baseman you're asking me i have no telling you i'm trying to find out who's on first i'm telling you who's the first baseman that's what i'm asking you who is who who is who is who is the guy mike i think we need to take on this mike i got you who's on first who what's on second we're not talking about second i'm just telling you who's the baby who was on the bases there so who's on thank you i'm sorry you are right then losing one second i'm telling you the base me who's on second know who's on first all right then what's the name of the guy first what's on second and the other guy is i don't who's on first ok what's on second me ask you this who's on third i don't know i don't know's on i don't know's on third i don't correct that's right what am i correct about i don't know is on third i don't know i don't frank all right and who's the pitcher tomorrow i want to know today i don't want to know it tomorrow the show's only twenty minutes left that's the catcher who's the catcher today i thought who's on first who's on first today today's the catcher today's the catcher all right who's there who's going to be on first tomorrow i throw it to hope correct you got it thats it good job well done so if there's a ground ball hit to third base i don't know who's on third that's i don't know throws it to who exactly well done actually i thought who was playing for us who was on for correct you just said exactly i just said that if you finally said the right thing  excellent game yesterday let's get serious for one second here ok it wasn't a great game yesterday but i thought the lester pitched a hell of a game and as i had mentioned before i think i even mentioned it as recently as last week that i had lost some of the enthusiasm yes for the game reg with all the talk of jackie bradley not knowing whether or not he was going to make the team exactly that he exactly  but anyway with you know with him there with him making the team that was very good thank you comic gold right there as my camera would say ok but no i mean you know last week we weren't sure if bradley was going to make the team that's right and you know the big rant about that and that's all we heard from everybody who was talking baseball was talking about jackie bradley who we didn't we didn't know and then all of a sudden once they announced over the weekend that he was going to be playing i was suddenly it was like that little switch went off and it's like wow you know one o'clock on monday is going to be appointment viewing that's like appointment they want it i mean that's exactly what my point was trying to make last week is if you don't have this guy playing who is on that team that's going to want joy to watch the game  know i really i mean there's it became appointment viewing for me because i wanted to see what this kid was going to actually do exactly i planned my day and i could i can honestly tell you that if he wasn't playing i wouldn't really care and i would have done what i was going to do and probably listen to it a little bit on the radio and you know i was following along because i have an i pad and you could have social media and they were tweeting along while the game was on and every time jackie bradley did anything it was like you know comments all who never got beyond that right pitching right and he is confident enough toward a walk right so you know you look at that and you go you know the red sox know what they're doing you know finally made a smart decision you know to bring this guy up and it only got better from and those two of those walks against sabbat the who is one of the you know the toughest player to hit with that real you know cutting fastball that he rose that breaking slide or whatever it is and he laid off of that right in a key situation that loaded up the glaces got three hits including a bunch right off the top exactly right right right nobody played it nobody expected it right and you know so they were running you know they were also running i mean that in the later innings they scored those two runs g they looked in a mic and you know you can tell that they look like they took ten guys from a bar in new york city exactly you can see it tell it they you know they didn't have the sponte didn't have the spark they were they were a little bit lifeless and  i'll have to expect a different game tonight you would think so who's pitching tonight buckholtz i think that's going to be another key as to you know whether or not he can do with less to did he had a great spring he did he pitched well he did he did was second second you know major good good good pitcher for the in the spring right and you know bucket you have a good game and he's going against their guy nova i don't know who had a really good year last year right but you know  we should still be right in there and i know i know it buckles pitches well you know i mean game is different in baseball whatever happened first one game earlier doesn't mean anything in this game right but you know hopefully the unit could take a least two out of three from the reds from the yankees that would be my goal and right the way the team looks now they should take three to three exactly it into something to improve their line and the red sox had a lot of hits too they had what ten eleven hits yeah they're in the game and enjoy it had a couple of heater in the japanese kid there as you know where there he came in and got them out in four pitches yeah that's what they were saying this guy who is like the best acquisition for pitching they got all right you know amazing it feels so right yeah the bullpen looks very solid and you know they were playing good in spring training and pharrell said afterwards the way they played tonight is nothing different than the way they played there in the spring which is really good to hear you know it's not like they're trying to turn a switch on they're just playing good consistent baseball now if they continue to do that and you know scrap out those runs i mean they scored what eight runs just today and that's without a home run rate which is somewhat rare these days you know yes because they're always popping home runs to get those scores you would think there would be at least one or two home runs in that game but none the into they scratched it out right and they got some key hits and it will be interesting to see what happens when big papi comes back when you know that if they can insert his power into the lineup and then continue to play that scrappy aggressive ball around him they could potentially be tough to beat they could be they could be you know you know what else is the good news is that i was surprised to see terry francona his new team the indians beat the blue jays for i did not see that forty one i looked it up yesterday i think it was the first game for for the for quite a few teams just that it was right it was their first game and they beat the blue jays lost four to one so there's been a lot of usually ahead of the catcher's pitches or a head that has a yeah that's a very good point that aside this time of the year yeah but as we had talked a little bit off the air that there's a time when you know hitting has been dominant right but there are some prognosticators out there who are saying that this could be a pitcher's year that a lot of good pitchers and that you know the steroids era is starting to dwindle and a lot of these people who were even accuse you get you know some of these people who are hitting the home runs and doing all of this stuff over the last few years the home runs have been somewhat declining someone's have been declining and that you're not going to see the home runs that you used to see over the last ten years or so and that the pitchers are becoming you know younger faster and smarter yeah and they're going for more power i mean i was reading an article in sports illustrated they are saying that that the whatever they call it the cave rate or something has gone up year after year after year from two thousand and eight to now and seven that they are looking for the power pitchers because the batters are striking out at a higher rate than they ever have even so they're still getting big contracts i playing or something and he didn't want to bat his last game of the year because he didn't want to get one hundred strikeouts i mean he felt bad getting one hundred strike gods so you know it's just the game is totally changed it hasn't you know it's becoming i heard a little blip on the radio as we were coming in here and that there was a little blip saying that it's becoming very much a young man's game that a lot of these respects yeah a lot of these kids are coming up you know either new things into the game or they're going a little bit retro and emulating some of the great hitters from the past and i even heard someone i forget who it was make a bold statement that that the t outs and the harpers of the world could revolutionize hitting because whatever they're doing is so unique to what most of the other players are doing that you know with weight shifts and hands positions and like lifting their leg and the training in the shape that they are in because some of these guys are in such tremendous shape that you know that the area that they're attacking the ball i mean they're just they're they're attacking the ball almost like me seeing the yeah there must be some whatever they're doing is that that they just they just when they hit it they're going to hit home months in oh so they're saying that you know that if people were to emulate them copy their style you know do that weight shift and do some of the things that they're doing that that could change the way that people are approaching their heading and that in the past you may have had you few great you had you will even asia hank aaron just stand musicals ted williams y they were saying that they're doing some of the things that they were doing and they're hitting style but if everyone coming up were to copy that you know i think back in the day it was it was a much different mindset about copying other people and cetera now i think it's at the point like hey if he's doing it why can't die because they never had instant replay they never had film they never they you know they can break down you know millimeters of a second new you know to see where their hands are their arms are they a weight shift and they can put that video metrics together and create a hitting machine like try out or like harper you know it's interesting but then i was cutter cutter page yeah there's a cutter that's a kind of a sinking fastball right you know look at that whole line up back in the day with atlanta i mean they had three hall of famers back to back to back they had glavine they had maddox and smoltz three hall of famers right you know that it's a minutes left and i know but before we go on folks i do have to make a shout out and this is to a very special young man that we hope that everyone can throw some white light out talbert he is a nine year old kid and a friend of a good friend of mine who is going to be making his debut into the u s kids golf touring event that's going to be played at blackstone country club this coming weekend nine years old and he's already shooting in the forty's and supposedly he has a great swing he's got great determination to become a good golfer and i have to tell you on you know we are all going to be behind you and everybody who watches the show is going to be throwing you some positive energy good luck all and go go go for it go get it all and so we are as we would like to say  really good record so you know let's hope that so for frank noticed the timing timing so for michael ware door and frank was as always we will see you down the road