Mike Timlin

He'll be leading it off when we come back.

Mike Timlin, both starters are now out.

As Martinez, four runs, six hits over seven innings, walked one, struck out six.

Timlin on in relief.

Well,

the whole key to this series so far has been Jorge Posada.

He's now gone two for three in the ball game.

Three hits and 12 at bats in the series and a very strong postseason 3-46 average.

But I don't think even outside of baseball, from what I've been told, that, you know, relating to people who aren't on his intellectual level is the easiest for him.

And I just think that's one of these things that the Red Sox sort of struggle to see and they don't want to see it because they just say like, well, he played, you know, and they think like, well, you know, he has the genius of a guy who went to Yale and also the relatability of like Mike Timlin.

And it's like, no, he doesn't.

He has the genius of a guy who went to Yale, but he doesn't have the relatability of Mike Timlin.

That's not that's not who he is.

And what's interesting about Breslow to me is I think he's a classic example of someone who's excellent at managing up.

Lowe.

Mike Timlin.

Johnny Damon.

Okay.

You know, I keep on mentioning them that I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I won't finish.

Mike Timlin.

I mean, I played with so many great players, you know? But we were the core.

We were a group of guys who really cared about each other.

So I got to experience how a lot of players viewed um being a professional and and i had a whole lot of different people telling me how to be professional you know so i had to find my way a lot of the times um and it wasn't until probably 08 when i was with the boston red sox when i had like jason veritech was the first player to really kind of like grab me and talk about thinking different and and coming to the ballpark with a different mindset i was a guy that always worked i always wanted i i had my own way i was i was trying to prep in my own way and figure it out And I was up and down, up and down a lot.

And 08 with Veritech and seeing guys like Josh Beckett, Tim Wakefield, Mike Timlin was huge.

And probably Timlin was probably the first guy that really became a mentor.

Him and Veritech, which are just legends, where they kind of said, hey, this is... your past rookie, your past being young, you've had enough years, even though I was a young player, you know, even though I was like 26, 27, you know, but I still, at that point, I already had like four years.

He'll be leading it off when we come back.

Mike Timlin, both starters are now out.

As Martinez, four runs, six hits over seven innings, walked one, struck out six.

Timlin on in relief.

Well, the whole key to this

series so far has been Jorge Posada.

He's now gone two for three in the ball game.

Three hits and twelve at bats in the series and a very strong postseason three forty six average.