Mike Schur

And suddenly you're just like, yeah, how did we think this was gonna work?

They're banking on Trevor's story to match what he did last year, which was a little fluky for him.

And obviously he's been hurt a lot.

But they suddenly it's like it's like a classic baseball delusion where your team makes a bunch of moves and you get excited and talk yourself into them all being really smart.

The real problem, though, is that in those moves like it is highlighted what we've kind of quietly known for a long time, which is that Craig Breslow might be really bad at his job.

He he got a bunch of young guys in a bunch of these trades and then flipped those guys for other guys and again turned cars into paperclips.

Like he had James Tibbs, who was a first round draft choice a few years ago, and he flipped Tibbs to the Dodgers for Dustin May, who was coming off his 11th Tommy John surgery and terrible last year.

And Tibbs is now absolutely mashing for the Dodgers who who need the help.

Yeah.

and then recently i don't know if you saw this but brezla did a press conference about about the moves he makes and he talked about like optimizing performance metrics and all this crap and he just he sounded like the most annoying guy at the mckinsey consulting corporate retreat like that you got you just like if he sat down at your table in the cafeteria you'd like wrap it up real fast and get out of there

And every, essentially every move he has made has, has backfired.

They need some of these guys who showed promise last year to actually have good years.

And so far there's precious little to be happy about outside of WBC hero, uh, William Abreu, who's absolutely destroying the ball, which makes me very happy.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Playing the Jeff Van Gundy role.

Yeah, I mean, nothing beats Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura.

That's the best one ever by far.

Although I will say that if you've never seen this, this is a real Gen Xer memory, but if you've never seen Izzy Alcantara, the Red Sox minor leaguer, in the minors getting hit by a pitch and then kicking the catcher, do you know what I'm talking about?

Oh, I do know what you're talking about.

The back kick of the catcher.