Red Sox Streak Inspires MLB Teams As Trade Deadline Nears

Mark, let's go back to the Red Sox here for a minute and they've won 15 games in a row. They're going for 16 tonight in that doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles. And you know, I guess it's more of a bigger picture question that it is necessarily about the Red Sox, which is I, which is why I think most teams outside of a handful Mark going into next week are going to be paralyzed because I think that a lot of front office executives have to be looking at what the Red Sox did and say if we're only three games out, look at them. They won 15 games in a row. How can we possibly punt if we are the Padres or we are the Blue Jays or we are the Orioles and to me that is kind of I think going to be the story of the trade deadline. I would expect of course trades to be to happen over the next 10 days. But to me Mark, you know thinking anything's going to happen this weekend or early next week. I just simply don't think so. It feels like this is the most teams that I can ever recall being in the mix for the postseason. Well, that's because the American League has been epically bad. I mean, look, this is probably the most mediocre baseball season of my adult life. Save the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nobody is any good. Like I don't even think the Brewers are that good, right? Like I'm sorry, Milwaukee fans. Like I've seen this script before. You win 95 games and you lose in the first round of the playoffs. Like are we really worried about the Brewers making a deep playoff run? I mean, objectively, nobody in the ALO is good. Tampa may be the best team and they ain't that much better. We know how pathetic the Yankees are. The Red Sox have come out of nowhere. The Orioles are still involved in this thing here as far as the wildcard is concerned. And you got, you know, there are only two teams that are currently out of the third wildcard with a positive run differential. Everybody else has a negative run differential. It's been a bad year across Major League Baseball. Nobody is good. So to your point, Craig, everybody's still in this thing because everybody stinks. So it doesn't take much for you to overcome what is the American League at this point in time. National League is probably a little bit more confident, but still not very deep. I mean, after you get past the Cubs and the Phillies, like in the wildcard world, what else are we really talking about here? Like, are you really scared of the Pirates? I mean, the offense is great. Are you really scared of the Pirates, D-backs, Cardinals, and Marlins? I don't think so.