hello and welcome to another edition of sports wrap i'm frank walsh michael moore for a while so folks thank you for tuning in and hopefully for the next thirty minutes you can sit back and and listen to a little bit of sports and hopefully mike and i can catch up to some of the things that have been going on since our last show but since then as you can see we have this guy in the background here jackie bradley and it appears as though over the first week of the season the jackie too early to give up on this guy let's face it if he doesn't play in the yankee series i don't think they take the eighty series have a yoke in my face i get the thing in the outfield makes great throws the is not hitting but you know i read that they're pitching him differently than they were in spring training so he's specially left handed pitchers right not  not hitting because he's a left handed batter he's just having trouble picking up the ball are there they're making pitches that he's not ready for but i still think that he's going to come around i still think he's important to have on the team any easier against the race and the cold weather probably doesn't help either but big papi is not going to come back quite yet so i would say give this guy another chance another week too long so i think that the law of averages say that he's going to get it hits right i would like to agree with you and i don't know really it's you know i mean it's far as getting his hits but i think that you know we got very caught up in the emotion of jackie bradley because he was doing so well that's true and you know he did play a great game in that first game with the bath the and you know took the walk stole the base made the great catch and yes he was instrumental in winning that yankee series he played a big part in that but i think since then he still has the intangibles you know he still plays to feel well right phil runs the bases well but he does not look good at the bat and i think there's only been  couple of times over the last three games of so that he's been in where he's gotten the ball out of the infield he's not even getting the ball out of the infield so in retrospect it was almost like you know did i did i hop on the bandwagon  get caught up in the emotion or you know should i have listened to the the loo maloney's and listen to the detractors and listen to them but because today which is april twelfth today would have been the day that he made his debut he would have been in here after those nine games and that week would have gone by it cetera now do you think they would have been that much better or that much worse without him in the lineup because you're five in four right now i don't think they would be five in four without him what do you think that big without him five hundred maybe can predict cannava might have done but not as not not the fielder that jackie bradley is so or gomez for that matter so  know i think they probably would have had a losing record four and six well i play nine games so well for five you know three and three and six and four and five so there was no i don't know if you like that instrumental i think he probably took two of the games in the of tease the audience a little bit any yeah and you know we normally don't talk golf that's for the whole to partially guy you know but you know we can certainly ignore it so you know i hope that i was you know i hope our fans and everybody out there you know will will  get back to the yeah we have to get back to that to you know but i think i think our director is setting some fun with us today ok but back to baseball back to baseball back to baseball we can lower of voice so we can actually say you know we can speak up know we can we can speak a normal word but you know we have to be really careful when get into the masters you know we have to ask is rightfully so we don't want to talk about it with rev yeah we don't yeah we don't want the board you know censor the show and ban us from talking about master you have to talk about in a certain way right but anyway i mean you know yeah you know if they said we're sitting here they're five and four or five and four and i don't know how much of a difference jackie bradley would have made whether he was here and not and again i was probably one in one day as far as bringing him up and we were leading the bandwagon but in looking back it's like you know i still think you helped him get off to a good start whether he should stay up or not you can you can do you can argue it back and forth right in the meantime pitching is the key right and if they can pitch ok in that bullpen and pitches ok and they're getting timely hits like last night will middlebrooks went over for no hits right now you've got to get hit from the middle of the lineup and he's not doing are there's like they were in the three percent i think i think they had eighty three percent on their walking pencey not opening day they sold out opening day right right right so and there was a little speculation on that too the reason why jackie bradley they were saying did not play in the opening game was because they wanted to save him for wednesday so that hopefully they would be able to sell that out right and get more fannies into the seat right but even then on the good wednesday when they did show up and they said they were eighty three eighty three percent capacity right now it was a cold night do you think though that made a made a difference if it was like a boy just day i still don't think they were days may have may have not maybe maybe people show up for the five dollar beers and the two maybe one hotdogs maybe but in the meantime i think as far as like you know keeping bradley down just one other point i mean look i think that we are really good examples of that like you know like when we were i have the the off air conversation the timing time i have the time exactly exactly but anyway if i was the street goes i mean you know i was really surprised that they had that fewer number of people i know you  know and i'm sorry to say mike that i don't know if you've been kind of looking around our studio today you know normally normally it's packed normally we have writers in here we have reporters we have to talk refers memories we have we have people who are realize where you are you realize that you're on sports wrap but internationally acclaimed i've always been over here is napping you napping oh my god i don't know what it was like one of the top five reporters that usually follows us oh well did it hit the penny saver that we were passion passion right i think with the masters i think to just to avoid some of the noise and everything i just supposed to clap with one hand that good to hear the sound the one hand clapping you know that's one time a good one my good luck with your chin on that one kid but but anyway round one of the masters what do you think we have made some predictions last week of ready tiger against the field tiger woods everybody says sir is that the golf or is it us mikey i think maybe i didn't get any sleep last night this guy where the other guy go soon as we started talking golf you get up on the left yeah you know i don't know you but it's not be your golf person you to have his credentials taken away but you know it's a gorgeous course it's like oh yeah that's huge golfing and but it's like it draws my attention in because just just the way that they can focus in on the shots the considered one of the most beautiful pieces a real estate in the world it used to be an old i believe it was in azalea farm or us or will you go with the plans aviary topiaries whatever they are whatever the plants are green yeah green house whatever it was i mean so they have acres and acres of just foliage that's supposed to be unbelievable yes and plus bobby jones who made it was one of the greatest golfers of all time played is in the limit look at this guy i mean how insulting is this guy just sitting over there sleeping could you can you could you would please keep your snoring down a little bit yeah we do want to show here man yeah you can find a place to sleep outside and i don't know maybe the security and yeah but anyway bobby jones who designed the course is probably well and forget probably he was the greatest amateur of all time and he chose never to become a professional and remained an amateur think he was a doctor he was a doctor and he had been it was a socialite in a philanthropist and actually he was the one who made augusta what it is today you know you know there's a great movie out there about bobby jones few want to go out there and see it but  yeah it's going to be a great field and the first couple of days you know everybody's playing the getting used to the course but right as we had said before this still nothing better than the masters on sunday and now you know saturday is moving day because that's what everybody wants to get up and down the leaderboard right but sunday at the masters is appointment viewing and is it is the pressure builds going from that that the ninth hole through the the fifteenth sixteenth and you see who gets hot oh yeah you know and talk about irreverence i mean this is masters week and i mean you know if he was at augusta he'd be in shackles now and it's a good thing he as the paper over his face you know because he has more of a face for radio than he does for television is true really true but but you know the tigers played well yeah you know the leader typically on friday there are people who yeah you know he's been up there every year he's he's like has the longest streak i think of making the cut but you know freddie is going to go out there or today or tomorrow ball to make the cut but saturday sunday hill sergio had a good run well was tied with no one behind i think anybody who's within you know the top fifteen twenty you know four five six shots out has a shot by time they all have a shot they all have a shot i mean you know mickelson i think is minus one might now mickelson you know the fourteen year old kid he did you know i'll give you a buck if you can pronounce his name and then another buck if you can spell it i don't even know his last name is that is that tiny thing something i don't know i did some believable or how the heck can we do a show with these kinds of distractions i don't know i don't know and i think it just got lost and but can't find his way out of here they've made some missteps demands on this kid i guess when he came up there was saying that he would get eaten up by the course because he's not a long hitter especially off the tee and that his average drive was like two hundred forty three yards or something yesterday as average was to seventy six which is still low i mean they're hitting at fort the past is that you know if you when i but it's also one beat it is speed right but it's controlled speed right is that if you know everything has to be in sync the hands the head the body the shoulders right waist the legs the knees three quarters as hard as these guys would fall over you know we would fall over and we break our hip so i would fall over because nothing would be in sync and it's like everything else it looks easy it looks effortless and that's why there was good as that we don't need him mike anymore sorry about those distractions folks you know this is this is an unprecedented event especially during masters week when the reverence is the name of the game right so especially when there's like the amen corner on that amen corner yeah i think that's life i get it but it's like thirteen fourteen and fifteen and the reason why they call it amen corner is that if you can play it and play it well and get through with a good score and a man get par you go amen amen then you have made it through but unfortunately depending on how you look at it unfortunately for the viewers and probably the and not only that because it's such a long chorus that you know their second shot or their approach shot into the green is going to stick a little bit more oh so it's not earth old not going to bounce and not going to roll so i heard an interview this morning with phil mickelson saying that he expected the course to be as difficult as it traditionally is but he found it a little softer and a little bit slower so he has to change that is  know thirty forty fifty feet short into the painting the role into supporting the bounces and all that stuff in a god now you can because they can control the ball so precisely that they can go right for the pan you know they could on the green right next to the pin the spin brings it back and there are times we will roll as many as twenty or thirty yards it'll roll right off the green and down a hill right so it's fun to watch it's just fun was a half an hour of camera watching paint dry yes well i think golf is a little more exciting than that but i think you have to operative word a little i'm sure there's a lot of people out there that are really into it but i think the other sports are just it's more it's more exciting especially like i was watching the bruins last night and you know they lost i think they've lost you know two of their last three maybe years  concussion right he's just about ready to come back so i mean those are two key players and you know and people have a crying for chloe because the clothes glued julian's scalp you know they should fire him i don't agree with that i mean jesus christ it's getting close not like he has a losing record there's a very good chance that they'll end at worst in fourth place which means they get home home court right home field have been it been a little bit decided disarray and i think one of the reasons might be is because you know the schedule as you had said that they played what three out of four nights you know they haven't had more than a day off or so since the all star break you know their legs look like man and they're all rubber legged and i'm seventy eight exactly you know yeah but you know it's only about now making it to the playoffs and it's pretty much certain that they've locked up the seven seed so it looks like they're going to play the next and the first round walky has a losing record and there's just not enough games right of them to catch up to us i don't think so you know it's just it's just too bad the celtics are just not jelling at the right time and that's what's sad about it and it doesn't give you a lot of confidence about how about before i'm going into the playoffs right right now you know we are running a little bit out of time but folks i wanted to do it i wanted to update you a little bit about  who i mentioned last week who was playing in the new england tournaments you know he's nine years old playing out there on a big course out at blackstone and very happy to tell you that all when finished in is mighty my cam and we do so michael eric as always says it's a pleasure even with all of these distractions so folks next time we talk hopefully we'll have some more updates about where the red sox are where jackie bradley