Jeff Blair
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The Rays are always going to be a factor.
And then you got the Blue Jays that all of a sudden are spending way more than you are.
And, you know, if you're a Red Sox fan right now, you're looking at this division and you're thinking โ
it's not just this year that it could be getting away from us.
And the other thing is, as Rob Bradford pointed out, the Red Sox philosophy now is we are not going to set the free agent market.
They just simply are not going to go after the best free agent every year.
They're just not.
That is their philosophy.
You know, and you guys are going to get it.
They put a great pitching staff together, but guys are going to get hurt.
You know...
Very seldom are you going to have happened what has happened for the Jays for a couple of years where their pitching staff has been really, generally really healthy.
Sure.
Very seldom do you see that.
Yeah.
If I'm a Red Sox fan, I'm looking at this thing right now and going, sell the team.
He's making all kinds of money.
A couple of years ago, the Red Sox attendance numbers started to go down.
It's crazy.
It's always โ Boston's always going to be a baseball town, but there is a little bit of softening going on there.