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Episode 5: The Game of Baseball with Shay Collins

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Sorry for the odd mic quality, had some issues with my setup and had to change locations.

Agenda for todays pod:

Red Sox: NO MORE LOCKOUT! Holes to fill.

Patriots: A-Rob and Cooper rumors.

Celtics: Compare post deadline hot streak to Red Sox post deadline collapse.

Bruins: Gameday vs CHI. Ahcan in for Gryzelyck.

Agenda for todays podcast:



Bruins: Trade Deadline Targets, OTD, any general news that has broken out

Celtics: Recent surge in the standings, will they continue to be a top 5 team for the remainder of the season? Any general news, OTD

Patriots: A lot of holes to fill, OTD, general news

Red Sox: Lockout news, OTD

OTD’s

Bruins:


2021: Lost 2-1 to NYI in a shootout (Halak went 26/27 in net, Pasta scored lone reg. goal)
1948: NHL President Clarence Campbell expels Billy Taylor of the New York Rangers and Don Gallagher of the Boston Bruins because of gambling associations.

Celtics:


2019: Beat Lakers 120-107. In 35 minutes, Kyrie Irving totaled a statline of 30pts, 7reb, 5ast.
2016: Beat Grizzlies 116-96. In 29 minutes, Isaiah Thomas had a statline of 22pts, 3reb, 5ast.

Patriots:


Acquired OT Trent Brown from LV for a 5th round pick. Brown restructured his contract into a 1yr/$11M deal. {Lead into “A lot of holes to fill” segmeant.}

Red Sox:


2021: Got crushed by TB 11-3 in Spring Training. (Matt Hall had 3 ERs and Philips Valdez and 4 ERs.)
2020: Beat ATL 2-1 in Spring Training. (A shocking good start from Ryan Weber, 4.0IP, 1H, 0ER, 4K)

B’s TDL Targets


Crouse, Lawson
Miller, Colin
Deangelo, Anthony
De Haan, Calvin
Helm, Darren
Domi, Max
Klingberg, John
Leddy, Nick
Kassian, Zack
Fiala, Kevin
Graves, Ryan
Clutterbuck, Cal
Sanford, Zachary
Giroux, Claude
Kapanen, Kasperi
Hertl, Tomas
Dunn, Vince
Krug, Torey
Palat, Ondrej
Miller, J.T.
Dadonov, Evgeni
Dillon, Brendan

Patriots’ holes to fill


WR’s
OL
LB
CB
OC and other coaching positions