Brian Windhorst

What happened in 2017 has no bearing on 2017.

They didn't blow the second-half lead yesterday because of what happened in 2016.

True.

I throw that nonsense out.

Well, the thing is it's unusual for snap judgments in baseball because, first off, you know, the whole thing about it is it's such a long, long season that, you know, you have a bad April and you say, well, let's see how May and June goes and maybe half of July before we decide anything.

And it's not really a – it's sort of a much slower, more calm measure of

I'm not adept enough about baseball to know.

Did the Red Sox have enormous expectations this year?

So they're... This...

It goes in waves.

This year we had a relatively calm year.

We only had one coach fired during the season.

That was Willie Green in New Orleans.

Actually, there was an expectation that there could be six or eight coaches fired.

And I talked about it with people behind the scenes for weeks.

As soon as the trade deadline ends in February, behind the scenes, people say, well, what front office is going to come open and what coach is going to come open?

And what's happened, Tony, is that some teams that were, I think, very likely to fire their head coach, including your hometown Washington Wizards, Brian Keefe.

They kept him.

and have not done it.

And then, like, I'll just be honest with you, a lot of, you know, the Orlando Magic underachieved so significantly during the season that a lot of people felt that Jamal Mosley, their coach, would be fired within seconds