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Baseball Isn’t Boring

BIB on the Radio: The Fascination With Caleb Durbin

19 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the latest takes on the Red Sox for Spring Training?

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Make following to you both. And I was talking to a high-ranking official, baseball official, that said that one of the reasons that Giolito may or may not have been signed was because of his take on Marty Supreme when the door closed.

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49.854 - 50.915 Rob Bradford

Oh, no. Makes sense.

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50.935 - 59.468 Keith

Makes a lot of sense. Yeah. I don't want to break that news to you, but there you go. Very powerful podcast. Very powerful.

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I don't know how I feel about that, Keith. That's very unfortunate.

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I know, Adam. I don't know if you want to do that.

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Well, Bradfo, we were talking earlier today about which Red Sox is under the most pressure this year. Which player? Let's not bring in Cora and Breslow and guys like that. Which guy on the field do you think is under the most pressure this year?

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So are we going by Cora, Breslow, and then other or player?

Chapter 2: Which Red Sox player is under the most pressure this year?

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I mean, you can't do that. And because the other part of that is, and obviously the odd man out right now would seem to be Yoshida, and then you integrate Spider-Man Cassis into the mix, who, by the way, looks great. You can't even see his face. I assume that it's him. I know that it's not Caleb Durbin.

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Cheap shot. Who's in that costume? It's either Caleb Durbin or Andy Hart.

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I can't tell. It could be Johan Alviedo. I don't know. Who knows? But he does look... It's kind of striking. I didn't think that he'd be moving around as well as he is, but he is. I don't know how that translates into hitting a baseball, but physically he looks good.

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So my point is that when Casas does come back, and it seems like he's going to be back sooner than later, then add another one to the list. So not only do you have Yoshida as the odd man out, you have Casas also as the odd man out. So to answer your question, there's no chance that all these guys can be on the team, even probably two or three months of the season.

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271.381 - 279.536 Rob Bradford

You mentioned Caleb Durbin. We're trying to get Scrappy-Doo off the ground as his nickname. I don't know if you want to run that by him. Oh, I'd be happy to. Yeah, please do.

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I love running by nicknames.

280.617 - 289.032 Rob Bradford

Please do. He's getting shorter by the day. Scrappy-Doo? Yeah, Scrappy-Doo. He was Scooby's nephew. Yeah, wait. You never watched Scooby-Doo? Yeah.

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This is like, what do you have to explain this to me? Well, you asked. Yeah, I know. You had a follow-up, so I had more information for you. I didn't have a pad of paper to write it down if I'm going to do stuff for you.

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Easy to remember.

Chapter 3: Is Jaron Duran going to be on the team for Opening Day?

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So like some short guys like, yeah, I'm sure. What do you want from me? Yeah. And they'll make jokes. They're in on it. Or they're like insulted by it. Right. Same with ball guys. Some ball guys love it.

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As someone who went up to him after they measured him for the ABS system, and I said, oh, I just happened to be asking you, the shortest guy, what you were measured at. And he said between 5'6 and 5'7, which science would suggest that's 5'6 and a half. But I thought it was more interesting that he said his college put him at 5'8. I said, well, how could they do that?

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Because they ask you to write your height down. What kind of college are we doing? You probably did that, though, Keith, right? I mean, you absolutely put yourself at 6'2", right?

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376.247 - 392.445 Rob Bradford

No, I didn't. You know what's funny is they even tried to – because I think I showed up to college like 5'11", 170. I've since put on like 35 pounds. But I ended college at 190, not to get into the whole specifics. But there was a time where they would go through and they would heighten weight everybody, but they would kind of tweak it.

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So they would make some guys a little bit shorter and, like, way more so they looked bigger. So, like, I might be listed, like, 5'10", 180, even though I was taller and skinnier. Yeah, it's a whole weird thing. So it's kind of the same thing. They're like, 5'7"? No, no, no, no, no. We can't, with a straight face, put you down as 5'7", even though you're 5'6".

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And now you're 5'8", all of a sudden, on, you know, a baseball reference or a college website.

415.358 - 428.534 Keith

Yeah, and so my point is that he's embracing it. And I think in part because when he's running around with his wrestling singlet, which I just assume he wears underneath his uniform because he used to be a wrestler. Like, that's what he looks like, right?

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Hang on, hang on. Yeah, seriously. What weight class did he wrestle in?

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Oh, he told me this. I think it was 160. You didn't take a note on this? Yeah, that would be good. I didn't have my fedora with me. That's why I asked. So I think it was 160 maybe, I think. But I think he said he entered high school at like five feet, which is kind of crazy.

Chapter 4: What is Caleb Durbin's height and how does it affect his role?

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My only regret – Jesus Christ, your phone's ringing.

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No, no, that's our good friend Doug Lane. Your phone's ringing for God's sake, Brad.

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Time-honored tradition, Doug Lane's phone going off in the middle of a broadcast. But the only regret I had was, how did I not film myself for content for me running up and down the highway with a gas tank? That would have been good. My apologies to Odyssey.

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You slap a baseballs and boring sticker on the bumper?

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No. Somewhere on that gas tank I bought, there's a baseballs and boring sticker.

753.534 - 756.338 Rob Bradford

I feel like hitchhiking in Florida, you're just asking for it.

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Isn't that the worst place? That's got to be the worst place, at least in the continental U.S., to run out of gas. Gators are just swallowing you whole. That's got to be terrible.

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I had to run up and down a pit, which I'm wondering if the snake is going to eat me. Terrible. Great way to start the day.

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We were asking about Ken. Somehow we landed on that. But, okay, he's ready for the game. You're looking forward to working with Ken.

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