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Mazz: Red Sox Making Good TV Show, But Baseball Team? 'I Have No Idea'

BOSTON (CBS) - 98.5 The Sports Hub's Felger & Massarotti opened Monday's show talking Red Sox and the signings of Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval, two players the team never would have signed last offseason because of their age and contract length.

Their team-building philosophy in recent years has been incongruent to say the least.

One year they're inking Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford to max deals, the next trading them away. One year they're making low risk short term deals to good character players, and the next year they're back to signing risky long term deals.

Does this team have a team-building philosophy or not?

Tony Massarotti wonders, and he doesn't know what to make of these recent signings by the Red Sox.

"I have no idea where this thing is going, and at the moment I don't know what is more pathetic: the fact that the Red Sox are trying to buy their way back into my heart, or that they might be succeeding," Mazz said to lead the conversation.

Like the Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessy, Mazz wants the hometown team to be good again and he's glad to see them spending money.

"I'm such a softie. I don't want them to suck again. What happened in the final two months of last year I don't want them to experience again. They were irrelevant. They were a complete non-story and they weren't even worth watching for anything. Zero," said Mazz. "I don't want to go through that again. I don't. So I look at it now and I say well what are the alternatives?"

So while he applauds the team's effort for spending money, Mazz is also skeptical of their intentions and questions their overall team-building mantra.

"Talk about another thing they've turned heel on. How old is Hanley Ramirez?" asked Felger.

"He turns 31 in December," Mazz answered.

"What happened to contracts for players north of 30 years old?" Felger responded. "For the last two years I had the Red Sox and the Red Sox media tell me how to build a team. What happened to all that?"

"What happened was they finished in last. Again, I don't mind breaking rules that you set. But don't sit there and tell me that you are somehow different from the Yankees, because you're not. That's the part that drives me bananas. They try to tell you one thing, but when their backs are up against the wall they will sacrifice everything they allegedly stand for for the TV show. Right now it looks like a good TV show."

Listen below to the full discussion:

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