Oct 4, 2026 · 50 min · 21 segments
Hour 2 - Bradford and Gordo debate what's next for the Red Sox now that their season is done. Why was Sonny Gray taken out of the game and what lessons did they learn in this wild card series?
Rob BradfordHostGordoHost
Okay, that was Wilson Contreras right after the season-ending loss for the Red Sox to the Yankees.
And so you listen to that and the people can say, well, and this is one of the things I don't want to hear them say tomorrow.
That's not why they're emotional because what they're saying is, has basically built up to that point.
It wasn't like, "Oh my goodness, you know, we lost this game and, and we really like should have done it a different way in terms of anal- analytics and this and that." Yeah, well, I'm sure that the Sonny Gray decision pushed them to saying that.
But you don't think that not only in Wilson Contreras or Sonny Gray, that pe- other people in that clubhouse were thinking that exact thing leading into this? Of course they were.
We all...
We've also...
It's not the first time we've heard rumblings of this.
Um, remember the Isaiah Kiner-Falefa, "Oh, there's too many people here at home," quote?
These are all rooted in the same thing.
Like, if you look at the Isaiah Kiner-Falefa thing, like this is a complete guess.
I haven't talked to him about like, "Oh, what did you mean?" And I don't even know if he would tell me the truth.
But what did he mean? Now, if we take everything that we know, it wasn't the media, right? It wasn't a crowded clubhouse.
It wasn't family.
When you, when someone goes out to throw a bullpen session at Fenway Park, there is like 10 people out there with gadgets, with contraptions, and they're all, all mean well, but their jobs are to do certain things.
Okay, that was Wilson Contreras right after the season-ending loss for the Red Sox to the Yankees.
And so you listen to that and the people can say, well, and this is one of the things I don't want to hear them say tomorrow.
That's not why they're emotional because what they're saying is, has basically built up to that point.
It wasn't like, "Oh my goodness, you know, we lost this game and, and we really like should have done it a different way in terms of anal- analytics and this and that." Yeah, well, I'm sure that the Sonny Gray decision pushed them to saying that.
But you don't think that not only in Wilson Contreras or Sonny Gray, that pe- other people in that clubhouse were thinking that exact thing leading into this? Of course they were.
We all...
We've also...
It's not the first time we've heard rumblings of this.
Um, remember the Isaiah Kiner-Falefa, "Oh, there's too many people here at home," quote?
These are all rooted in the same thing.
Like, if you look at the Isaiah Kiner-Falefa thing, like this is a complete guess.
I haven't talked to him about like, "Oh, what did you mean?" And I don't even know if he would tell me the truth.
But what did he mean? Now, if we take everything that we know, it wasn't the media, right? It wasn't a crowded clubhouse.
It wasn't family.
When you, when someone goes out to throw a bullpen session at Fenway Park, there is like 10 people out there with gadgets, with contraptions, and they're all, all mean well, but their jobs are to do certain things.
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