As a COVID-19 outbreak rages through their roster, the Red Sox seemingly would rather steer the conversation away from vaccines.
On Wednesday, the Red Sox — presumably by accident — uploaded now-deleted audio to a team website of Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom talking to Kevin Gregg prior to Bloom’s conversation with the media.
In the audio, first reported by the Boston Globe‘s Pete Abraham, Bloom joked that he was about to engage in “the biggest self-own in Red Sox media history” by speaking.
“You can tell me how stupid I was to try to be the pincushion here,” Bloom said, adding that Red Sox team president Sam Kennedy “was like, ‘Well I don’t want this to turn into all about vaccinations.