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Speaker 1: Get up, Get just get up?

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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 1: Mets fans?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of the Mets Up Podcast,

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Speaker 2: Episode number one fifty nine.

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Speaker 1: We have some things to talk about today.

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Speaker 2: It's been a little bit of a commer week in

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Speaker 2: Mets world.

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Speaker 1: Not too too much going on.

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Speaker 2: There were some press conferences today, We've got some international

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Speaker 2: prospects signings. We also do, unfortunately, have some sad news

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Speaker 2: for you guys. Frank Thomas, one of the original Mets,

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Speaker 2: has passed away at ninety three years old, so, you know,

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Speaker 2: condolences out to the Thomas family. He was there for

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Speaker 2: Old Timers Day. I was lucky enough to get to

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Speaker 2: talk to him for a couple of minutes. Was a

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Speaker 2: really nice guy, obviously a lot of history. Born in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 2: was on the Pirates for a long time of his

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Speaker 2: career along with the Mets.

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Speaker 1: Had some great years with the Mets too, right, James, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Frank Thomas.

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Speaker 3: Frank Thomas led the Mets franchise in home runs in

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Speaker 3: total for the first three years he spent here until

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Speaker 3: ninety sixty five. John also mentioned before that I think

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Speaker 3: he had the single season record until Dave Kingman broke it,

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Speaker 3: which was the eighties.

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Speaker 4: That's correct. And also I just read this. He and

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Speaker 4: Frank the Big Hurt wasn't ducked to the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: Went to Cooperstown signing autographs, and he said, tongue in cheek,

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Speaker 4: my name will always be in the National Baseball Hall.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 5: That's great.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean, like in the brief conversation I

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Speaker 2: had with him, he was a guy who he would

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Speaker 2: just say anything. He was.

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Speaker 1: He was ready to let it loose, you know whatever.

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Speaker 1: He was a smart guy. He was witty. I liked it.

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Speaker 3: He also went to high school in Canada, which is

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Speaker 3: probably pretty abnormal for baseball players in the nineteen fifties

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Speaker 3: and sixties. He had an incredible run with the Pirates

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Speaker 3: two through the nineteen fifties. Yeah, three time All Star.

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Speaker 3: He had one hundred and sixty one home runs from

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Speaker 3: nineteen fifty three and nineteen fifty eight, a parts some

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Speaker 3: very good Pirates teams.

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Speaker 1: It's a high mark for that time, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, he was a great met to having

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Speaker 2: the franchise record for home runs for the first three years.

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Speaker 2: Rest and peace, Frank Thomas. Condolences to the Thomas family.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's unfortunate, but yeah, happy you guys to

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Speaker 2: the ballpark pulling uniform one last time.

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Speaker 1: Definitely that was very cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely something that I'm sure he appreciated. Now to

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Speaker 2: talk about some other stuff going on in Mets world,

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Speaker 2: there was a press CONVERERCE to day reintroducing Adam Otravino

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Speaker 2: and introducing Omar Nirvayez, so we got to see add

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Speaker 2: a little bit some comments from them. You guys know

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Speaker 2: the same really at the end of the day, I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Think it was cool that Norvaya's did specifically mention the

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Speaker 3: opportunity to mentor Francisco Alvarez being a catcher being Venezuelan.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was pretty cool that he was able

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Speaker 3: to make that connection. See that, just see the relative

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Speaker 3: importance of this prospect coming up this year. I'm just

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Speaker 3: really excited to watch Adam Outavino just exist as a

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Speaker 2: Players that I've ever seen. Guy walks around barefoot in

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Speaker 1: Eccentric the right word?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at me getting vocabulary words right today, But

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Speaker 2: eccentric dude, and of course his intro song kid Cutty.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 3: There's also a new opportunity for someone to be eccentric

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's worthy of that, Okay, but it

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Speaker 2: sounds like word. It sounds all right, It sounds all right. Listen,

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Speaker 2: glad those guys are back on Andervis. You know, we've

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Speaker 1: So you guys know, on this podcast, we love talking

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Speaker 1: about depth.

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Speaker 2: It's like one of our favorite things to talk about

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Speaker 2: is all the relievers and all the backup guys that

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Speaker 1: James's guys that you would be going after.

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Speaker 3: The ones who make the most sense right now are

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Speaker 3: definitely Adam Duval, Tommy fam Jerks and Profar. But there's

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Speaker 3: always this weird conundrum that happens to good teams this

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Speaker 3: he wanted the opportunity to try and play, not even

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Speaker 3: every day, but just a lot of days. And you

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Speaker 3: But those three stick out to me just as players

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Speaker 2: No, definitely, I think right now on the roster Khalil

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Speaker 2: terms of relievers, the reliever market is still I don't

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Speaker 1: Chad Green still available. Did he get a big injury though?

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Speaker 2: Matt Whistler is a guy by the way, Tommy John Okay,

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Speaker 2: Matt Whistler, Matt Moore had success. I mean, the names,

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Speaker 3: It's not like what he was in early when he

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Speaker 1: The organization, he still had a great slider. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I Mean, one guy that's really interesting to me is

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Speaker 2: Alex Ray is that he's still available. I know he's

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Speaker 1: That's one of the problems with Alex Rays.

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Speaker 2: But when you're talking about a guy who doesn't have

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Speaker 3: Another couple of reclamation projects like that out there. I

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Speaker 2: The Zach Britton conversation. Not necessarily that the Mets need

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Speaker 2: But Zack Burton would be a nice left handed arm

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Speaker 3: There's two other guys coming off major injuries who both

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of veteran arms available in that bullpen

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Speaker 2: that could fill in these last week. Yeah, like Corey

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Speaker 1: Still dominic Leone your boy from San fran.

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Speaker 2: Oh dominic Leoni another Clemson boy. I can't have too

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Speaker 3: But it's just there's a lot of creativity left on

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Speaker 5: I guys make me feel young. How about that?

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Speaker 1: Seventy two thousand people saw that tweet.

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Speaker 3: podcast we ever did for this show, it was me

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Speaker 3: shouting out how port Luis ki Orma would be in

440
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Speaker 3: March two thousand and one, King Louis Yes, And then

441
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Speaker 3: past that that was when.

442
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Speaker 1: He gets a little dice. People might get uncomfortable.

443
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Speaker 3: The first guy is Darren Ruff, who didn't really ingratiate

444
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Speaker 3: himself to Mets fans last year, but as a guy

445
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Speaker 3: who I think probably still has more skill and potential

446
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Speaker 3: than some people would want to believe and think how

447
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Speaker 3: batt he played last year.

448
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Speaker 1: It's really important.

449
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Speaker 2: To note that he's he's there to crush left handed pitching,

450
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Speaker 2: and after he pitched in Atlanta, he just wasn't the same.

451
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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden he got hurt with

452
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Speaker 2: like the back thing that probably had been lingering for

453
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Speaker 2: a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

455
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Speaker 3: I think he had two extra bays hits in his

456
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Speaker 3: first two games Atlanta series.

457
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Speaker 1: Really good the rest of the way. Yeah, yeah, that

458
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Speaker 1: was that was a rough one.

459
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Speaker 2: Yeah, got him based in the playoff game that he

460
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Speaker 2: started in the playoff game he did.

461
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Speaker 1: That was that was.

462
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

463
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Speaker 3: We were sitting with Vetough for that way. That was

464
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Speaker 3: a massive cheat. That was when we were who's the picture,

465
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Speaker 3: Who's who's the pitcher?

466
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Speaker 2: Morejone, Adrian morrehon Man Moore, John God, we got his head.

467
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Speaker 1: That was song for him a little a little while.

468
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Speaker 1: That was great.

469
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Speaker 3: And then last member of the bench right now is

470
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Speaker 3: clearly who I don't think really anybody expects to be

471
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Speaker 3: a major league player this year. Yeah, based on the

472
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Speaker 3: way he's the way he had a very good twenty

473
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Speaker 3: twenty one in terms of minor league production and came

474
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Speaker 3: up in the major leagues and didn't look incredibly overmatched.

475
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Speaker 1: He wasn't like good, but it wasn't like awful.

476
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Speaker 3: But then last year Treblay really took a step back

477
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Speaker 3: to the point where we're pretty certain we're gonna need

478
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Speaker 3: to add it outfielder, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 2: And of course you still have Vientos and Batty and

481
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Speaker 2: Alvarez's guys that could be floating around too.

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Speaker 3: That's where I was gonna go with this whole conversation,

483
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Speaker 3: because right now those players aren't exactly listed as members

484
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Speaker 3: of the roster. But I do think there is gonna

485
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Speaker 3: be a portion of this season where, first of all,

486
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Speaker 3: the Mets might opt for carrying a five man bench,

487
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Speaker 3: because I do think that they have a lot of

488
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Speaker 3: pictures in this bullpen that are able to give length

489
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Speaker 3: based on the way the roster are gonna shake out

490
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Speaker 3: right now, unless they go through six man rotation, which

491
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Speaker 3: is possible, we don't know. There's legitimate chance that we

492
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Speaker 3: have David Peterson, Eliezer Hernandez, and Tyler Morgill all in the.

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Speaker 1: Opening day bullpen.

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Speaker 3: Those are three pictures with starter's pedigret, who can give

495
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Speaker 3: tons of length any given moment. That will give the

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Speaker 3: Mets an opportunity at some point, depending on how they

497
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Speaker 3: want to shuffle their options, to carry a fifth bench player.

498
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Speaker 3: And I think that would be beneficial just because we

499
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Speaker 3: have a player and Daniel Vogebac who can't really play

500
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Speaker 3: the field, and we have a player Francisco Alt who

501
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Speaker 3: doesn't really have defensive home right now. But the development

502
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Speaker 3: as a hitter is really important. And two, I do

503
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Speaker 3: think his upside as a power bat is something that

504
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Speaker 3: not many other players on this active roster can give.

505
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Speaker 3: So I do think that while the bench looks a

506
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Speaker 3: little funky right now, you're going to see opportunities for

507
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Speaker 3: the mess Carrie five man bench, get the fifth player

508
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Speaker 3: in there on there, whether that be Alvarez or Bathy

509
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Speaker 3: over period of time.

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Speaker 1: There's also a world.

511
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Speaker 3: Where Red Baby could be someone who gets outfield reps

512
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Speaker 3: as the season goes on. Him and Mark Viento's both

513
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Speaker 3: got time there and the upper miners last year double A,

514
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Speaker 3: triple A, and we heard mixed reviews on each, but

515
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Speaker 3: it's it's not like we're gonna have We're gonna want

516
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Speaker 3: to get them developed like time in the line up

517
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Speaker 3: at some point, and neither of them are stout enough

518
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Speaker 3: defensively at their position, their position of choice being third base.

519
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Speaker 3: Baby is better than Viento's. People have said he's at

520
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Speaker 3: least fine there. We saw last year went up and

521
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Speaker 3: down a little bit, but that I think is gonna

522
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Speaker 3: be more of a direction this team goes in terms

523
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Speaker 3: of bench depth than signing a.

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Speaker 1: Lot more guys.

525
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

526
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Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't think it's like I understand

527
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Speaker 2: why people be concerned, like you said, but I think

528
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Speaker 2: it's like weirdly deep. It's it's it's like weirdly deep

529
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Speaker 2: because like we have these three young guys that could

530
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Speaker 2: come up and just just really make an impact.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's also it's also the other side that it's like

533
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Speaker 3: a double edged short to where we thought it was

534
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Speaker 3: weirdly deep last year that it was just a bunch

535
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Speaker 3: of guys who we wound up being disappointed that needs

536
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Speaker 3: to upgrade once the season got going for sure.

537
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

538
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Speaker 4: Another another reason that this bench is deep is you

539
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Speaker 4: have a lot of guys that could play a lot

540
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Speaker 4: of positions. You know, Jeff McNeil can play both and

541
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Speaker 4: the outfield, that opens up options. Leasora can play pretty

542
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Speaker 4: much any and field spot. Other than first base, and

543
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Speaker 4: I bet you if you asked him to do it,

544
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Speaker 4: he could figure it out. We saw Markanna play third

545
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Speaker 4: base when last year him play left. We've seen him

546
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Speaker 4: play center, and I believe he could play a face

547
00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,080
Speaker 4: as well. Yeah, So having that flexibility opens up the bench,

548
00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,480
Speaker 4: opens up your options, and that's I mean, all teams

549
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,240
Speaker 4: strive for that, and the Mets are really in a

550
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Speaker 4: good spot.

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Speaker 5: So eth think Neil is so so key.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to that, especially just the fact that

553
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Speaker 3: we do. Giormy is the lynchpin there because he is

554
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Speaker 3: the only other guy in this roster who can't play shortstop. Yeah,

555
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Speaker 3: and not I don't I don't think that why the

556
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Speaker 3: rest of war couldn't play shortstop or even like I

557
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Speaker 3: don't even think Jeff McNeil couldn't play shortstop. But in

558
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Speaker 3: terms of a guy who's defensively plus there, those are

559
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Speaker 3: the only two. And we have John Sayer player Danny

560
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Speaker 3: Mendick who is going to be sitting in triple A,

561
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Speaker 3: who also can stuff for the shortstop for a little while.

562
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Speaker 3: Like he's that he's that last rung of defense before

563
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,560
Speaker 3: we get into like disaster area shortstop, which I mean and.

564
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Speaker 5: If anyone's wondering so much. It's because he went to you.

565
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Speaker 4: Mass Roll, which is a great school. I'm all about

566
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Speaker 4: the U Mass school system. Danny Mendick.

567
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Speaker 2: Also, what's what's the team the U Mass little one?

568
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Speaker 2: I forget, but I can.

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Speaker 5: Tell you Jack also, yeah, he went to Massle. I'm

570
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Speaker 5: gonna look it.

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Speaker 1: Up, look at I also forgot.

572
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Speaker 3: We also pulled in Jose perrazzas non roster and so

573
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Speaker 3: he's another like little little line of.

574
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Speaker 1: Depth in between short shortstop chaos.

575
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Speaker 2: And he had some fun moments the River the River

576
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Speaker 2: Hawks get the River River. That's that's yeah, that's my

577
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Speaker 2: mass Yeah.

578
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Speaker 5: Okay.

579
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Speaker 3: And also since we recorded last, I believe since we

580
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Speaker 3: record last, we signed timble Castro also non roster invitation.

581
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Speaker 3: He can play corner outfield. He could probably find a

582
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Speaker 3: way to play center. He's just that fast.

583
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Speaker 5: Oh, he definitely plays center.

584
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna be this is you know, pinch runner,

585
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,680
Speaker 3: get in, get some meth lessism out there. And these

586
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,679
Speaker 3: are players who Yeah, it's gonna be Terrance score. But

587
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 3: he could I think it probably do a little bit more.

588
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 3: He could definitely hit a little bit more. You're not

589
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Speaker 3: gonna take it hit a lot, but he can hit

590
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 3: a little bit more so higher ceiling. Yeah, there is

591
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Speaker 3: probably again still room for a legitimate fourth outfield of

592
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Speaker 3: the guys we mentioned before, along with possibly Tyler Naquin

593
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 3: who talked about could possibly be someone who comes back

594
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Speaker 3: just that. But that kind of class of players is

595
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Speaker 3: going to be the one that finishes off this roster,

596
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Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, yeah, maybe if like Lorenzo Caine wants

597
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 3: to just send the bench and play corner outfield, But

598
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Speaker 3: that's the kind of guy's going to be.

599
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Speaker 2: Robbi Grossman, David Paralta. You gotta find someone who's hunting

600
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Speaker 2: a ring of David. Yeah, you gotta find someone who's

601
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Speaker 2: hunting a ring David Parlto's almost fuck me.

602
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Speaker 5: Too good for this because yeah, he's an everyday players.

603
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Speaker 1: I mean, and Duval probably is as well. Profar might

604
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Speaker 1: be as well.

605
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Speaker 5: Profar yeah, Profar race.

606
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

607
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Speaker 3: So's it's hard to convince a guy like that to

608
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Speaker 3: be like, do you want to play?

609
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Speaker 1: You want to play ninety games? Yeah? I don't know.

610
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Speaker 2: Ring Hunterson's people are looking for a world series ring

611
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Speaker 2: that's trying to get their last little piece on their

612
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 2: their mantle place there. Yeah, to switch it up a

613
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 2: little bit from being so dense about baseball. How about

614
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,479
Speaker 2: some things about city Field here, because we just we

615
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Speaker 2: just went on. We just we gave you a lot,

616
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Speaker 2: a lot of information about so many different topics.

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Speaker 1: Stuff. We're trying. We're trying. We love That's what we

618
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Speaker 1: love doing. That's what we love doing.

619
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Speaker 2: A couple of different people chimed in with stuff about

620
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Speaker 2: city Field, about favorite areas in city Field, along with

621
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Speaker 2: you know, uh, if the Coens had everybody out to

622
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Speaker 2: talk about what the project.

623
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Speaker 1: Is around here and what could be going on?

624
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Speaker 2: So uh, I love uncle Steve or I love my

625
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Speaker 2: uncle Steve said, what would you guys like Greg the area?

626
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Speaker 1: Ye that it's Greg.

627
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Speaker 2: What would you like the area around city to look like?

628
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Speaker 2: What sorts of things should that area include? Restaurants, bars,

629
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Speaker 2: et cetera. I think you hit the nail on the head. Restaurants, bars, hotels, restaurants,

630
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Speaker 2: et cetera. Like literally, anything that gives me somewhere to

631
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Speaker 2: hang out before the game. I could get here three

632
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Speaker 2: four hours early and hang out before the game is

633
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Speaker 2: said two like I'm in And there's so.

634
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Speaker 3: Many like new Wisch stadiums that have opened up and

635
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Speaker 3: have these great areas outside.

636
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Speaker 2: As much as I hate to say it, Atlanta does

637
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Speaker 2: it so well.

638
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Speaker 1: The battery is a I've.

639
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 3: Never been down there, but just being at going to

640
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 3: college in Ohio, being going to Cincinnati and Cleveland a

641
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 3: few times for games, there's just a it's like each

642
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 3: one of those has like a strip of bars that

643
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 3: like you walk bar bar bar bar stadium, Like they

644
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 3: don't even give.

645
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 1: You a second to think. And those are like sad

646
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 1: cities Like those aren't even like fine.

647
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Speaker 3: They're sad in terms of if you know the East Coast,

648
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 3: like in terms of middle of America or metropolis.

649
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Speaker 1: Since I probably.

650
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Speaker 3: Like if you're from the you know most of those states,

651
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 3: that's just a dream. I guess you wind up. You

652
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 3: wind up in Cincinnati or Cleveland. You're in the mountaintop.

653
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 3: You climbed, you did it, You've made it.

654
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Speaker 1: You're there.

655
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Speaker 3: We're talking to one of our friends the other day,

656
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Speaker 3: your birthday. Yeah, this friend just moves Cincinnati voluntarily live

657
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Speaker 3: from here.

658
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

659
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Speaker 3: One of my best friends shall I read is sometimes

660
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Speaker 3: listening to this podcast. He lives at Cincinnati right now.

661
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Speaker 3: He just does as a job in an office. Drives

662
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Speaker 3: there with no traffic do you imagine. No, it's that

663
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Speaker 3: traffic coming from a story today.

664
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Speaker 1: Tons of traffic from Brooklyn.

665
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Speaker 3: But I just think just having like a couple of bars,

666
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Speaker 3: people can hang out outside, nice patios, a couple of

667
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 3: tele visions, some appetizer's placed to have nachos.

668
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Speaker 5: I've got a place to maybe throw a parlay down before.

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Speaker 1: Ye well, that's what we were saying too. Are we're

670
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Speaker 1: allowed to say that that was like.

671
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Speaker 5: A particular sports Champions League soccer?

672
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, have to drop a layer two, see

673
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 2: what's going on in person, in person, get it, get

674
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Speaker 2: a ticket.

675
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Speaker 1: That would be nice.

676
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 3: Weekend games, you know, once September comes around, you watch

677
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Speaker 3: some football on Saturday.

678
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Speaker 1: Make it make it a make it an event coming

679
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Speaker 1: to city Field.

680
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to mention the words college football wants

681
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 3: every episode now just because of how much people dislike it.

682
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Speaker 1: Just I'm not talk about just.

683
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Speaker 2: Say college college football. And then here's another one that's

684
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Speaker 2: about city Field. Most underrated part about city Field that

685
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Speaker 2: comes from Pat stats and he said his is the

686
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 2: Bullpen picnic area to which I've never really got in

687
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Speaker 2: time there.

688
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 3: That's that area like downstairs, yea walking the gate that

689
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 3: is actually kind of cool.

690
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: Sneaky spot. You know, it's a great spot.

691
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 3: Also, sneaky spot that we hung out of a lot

692
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 3: last year, all the way off in the top floor,

693
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 3: that picnic area around home plate. Yeah, because there's a

694
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Speaker 3: couple of cool bars there. This sneaky amazing food options

695
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 3: up there.

696
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can get the burrito bowl.

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Speaker 1: Yes, nobody knows about it. I don't know if we

698
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Speaker 1: want to.

699
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Speaker 5: Talk, you.

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Speaker 3: Don't want to get three the ball and it's not

701
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Speaker 3: up there. But they have the sake sandwiches up there.

702
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 3: They have a really really good bar with good beers

703
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 3: and celtzer selection they have.

704
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: They have the gym bean bar as well. They do.

705
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Speaker 3: It's just there's a really good they have the Carvel

706
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: back there and they have some pizza back there. Like

707
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 3: it's a great spot to eat, drink, hangout and it's

708
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Speaker 3: just not really that used. And to have the Arnseni Bros.

709
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 3: Up there too, right next door. It's a good spot.

710
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, mister soft exclusive up there. Can you get that? Yeah?

711
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: Okay, the sea word, No, that must been the old days.

712
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,479
Speaker 1: That was the old day.

713
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 5: Wait, which never mind.

714
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Speaker 1: Let me see my my most underrated spot.

715
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Speaker 2: I really I like where my parents have their like

716
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 2: twenty game pack, which is like it's not underrated because

717
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 2: it's like it's a popular spots. It's the smaller level,

718
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 2: So maybe I won't say that one. I do like

719
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 2: the left field spot where we hang out. Sometimes it's

720
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 2: not a great place, like it's not my number one

721
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Speaker 2: choice to sit, and we've been incredibly unlucky sitting there,

722
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 2: so it's dead to me.

723
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 3: But it's nice and chill game in terms of game outcomes.

724
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 3: And also the last time we sat up there, Mark

725
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 3: got Mark got pooped up.

726
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 2: A pigeon pooped it was but until they lost, until

727
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 2: they lost Game three three, actually unlucky Ques, but it's

728
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Speaker 2: like nice and it's nice and chill up there. There

729
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 2: was a whole click of pigeons that were just pooping

730
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Speaker 2: on everybody.

731
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there were like four of them.

732
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Speaker 5: Maybe it's like good luck, bad luck, good luck bad luck.

733
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Speaker 3: You need an odd number, odd number number, guy, No,

734
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Speaker 3: usually there's if there's one event that happens that's a

735
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Speaker 3: good luck.

736
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, because like the remote needs

737
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Speaker 4: to be on an even number with the volume even everything.

738
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Speaker 1: We're gonna do a side episode next couple of months.

739
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Speaker 1: About all of happy. Yeah, I'm sure there's many more

740
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Speaker 1: than the one we just heard.

741
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Speaker 2: And then we do have a special in person mail

742
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Speaker 2: bag from producer John as Well. He's he's got a

743
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Speaker 2: question that he wants to ask us real quick.

744
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Speaker 5: I certainly do as as everyone knows.

745
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Speaker 4: Obviously, the New York Football Giants or moving on to

746
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 4: the second round. I myself, I am a New York

747
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 4: Jets fan. James is a Jets fan, and Mark is

748
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 4: a Washington Commanders fan. O comis and I've been thinking

749
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 4: about this like this past Sunday. I was watching that

750
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Speaker 4: game with a Giants fan who's a little noxious, but

751
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Speaker 4: I let it slide. I used to hate the Giants,

752
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 4: you know, back in the Rex Ryan days. I was

753
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 4: telling you guys before we started recording, and I don't

754
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 4: feel that way anymore towards them. I don't know if

755
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 4: I've gotten softer in my old age or what it is.

756
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 4: You know, maybe it was just that Giants plus one

757
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 4: thirty five was was real sweet on Sunday, But for

758
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 4: whatever reason I kind of feel I kind of find

759
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 4: myself rooting for them now. They play Philadelphia, a city

760
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Speaker 4: that we don't want to see when anything no like that.

761
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 5: That's across the board.

762
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 4: I know Vet doesn't agree with that, but trust me,

763
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 4: if you're a New Yorker, you do not want to

764
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 4: see the fans of Philadelphia have fun with anything at all.

765
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Speaker 4: And I was wondering where you guys said in't and

766
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 4: fans at home and hopefully we're cool or everyone's cool

767
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 4: that us talking football here New York. It's'll be the

768
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Speaker 4: last five minutes of the podcast.

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Speaker 3: You guys can now if you don't want to hear

770
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 3: a nuanced discussion about the Jets and the Giants fandom.

771
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 3: But we were actually having this conversation on Sunday, We're

772
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Speaker 3: hanging out from Mark's birthday, and I was kind of saying, like,

773
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Speaker 3: I don't for some reason, it's weird, doesn't make any sense.

774
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Speaker 5: It's not true.

775
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 3: But I don't put the Eagles and the Phillies in

776
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 3: the same in the same area for me at all,

777
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 3: because I hate the Phillies so much and I feel

778
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 3: nothing for the Eagles because it's never been a ravaly

779
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 3: with my team. Yeah, and I do objectively like a

780
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 3: lot of players on the Eagles, like I think Jalen

781
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 3: Hurts are super cool and I love his story, like

782
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 3: the way he's developed over the last like seven years

783
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 3: between college, getting bench Forratua, coming back, transferring second round pick,

784
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 3: and rising Like that's just really cool, So you gotta

785
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: get that much better. And like a lot of that

786
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 3: rosters hauled over from the last Super Bowl to be

787
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 3: Tom Brady. So I have a lot of respect for

788
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 3: them there, But I don't, I don't.

789
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: Know, I don't.

790
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: I think I'm rooting for the Giants more than the

791
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 3: fact that they're a local team, just based on the

792
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: fact that how insane of the story it is where

793
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 3: they're going right now, the Giants are objectively have one

794
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 3: of the five worst rosters in the hire ENF.

795
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: And there's no there's no way about that.

796
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: The Giants basically have I think they basically have two

797
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 3: good players the entire team, Like.

798
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: Like I's not even I don't even think that's a

799
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: hot take to me.

800
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 3: It's like Andrew Thomas is incredible, Dexter Lawrence is really good,

801
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,959
Speaker 3: Like Sequon's fine, he's a running back, Daniel Jones has

802
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 3: been incredible. But like, besides that, you have to really

803
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 3: squint to find anybody Thibodeau, of course, but you have

804
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 3: to like really squint to find any kind of useful

805
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 3: talent this team, Like, this team was coached by anybody else,

806
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 3: and last year it was basically ninety percent of the

807
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 3: same roster. Yeah, they will, like objectively when of the

808
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: worst teams the entire league. So I think it's cool

809
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 3: from the underdog perspective more so than the local perspective.

810
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

811
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Speaker 2: My take on is because as a Commander's fan, they're

812
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: both in my division, so this is like nightmare, this

813
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: is hell. But I mean, I think I would rather

814
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: see the Giants than the Eagles because I really do

815
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: loathe the city of Philadelphia.

816
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: It's just absolutely the worst.

817
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: I hate it so much, and I think now I'm

818
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 2: starting to realize why. It's just every team I've ever

819
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: rooted for, the Eagles are direct. It's something Philadelphia is

820
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: direct rivalry competitor. So I really hate that city.

821
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Speaker 1: Can't. I don't want to see them win.

822
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: Although we did the Commanders smack them in Monday Night Football,

823
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 2: so you know that.

824
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: Was Commander is the only team of the NFC Beast

825
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: was still alive.

826
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Speaker 2: I know it's unfortunate, it's really tough, honestly, but I

827
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Speaker 2: respect the Giants because, like you said, the team's not

828
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 2: good and they're playing well, and Brian Dable is a football.

829
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Speaker 5: Guys, a badass.

830
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's really cool. I love he's like.

831
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Speaker 3: He's objectively also like the fourth best coach in the

832
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: NFL already.

833
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: I'd love to find out that. If you think Belichick's dead, yeah.

834
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Speaker 4: I know, I know he's I'd love for him to

835
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 4: be at every single playoff game that he showed up

836
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 4: at and when he was Ranger best he.

837
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Speaker 2: Was because if he's a Mets fan, he has an

838
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 2: open invitation to come talk to the boys and talks

839
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Speaker 2: to baseball.

840
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Speaker 1: I'd love to pick his brain. He's a football guy. No,

841
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, yell at you. Sure, yeah, I'd like to

842
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: be coached up by Brian Dable.

843
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 2: But you can respect what the Giants are doing. You

844
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: can respect that Daniel Jones looks competent, especially when he

845
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 2: had been so so horrible, incredible. Daniel Jones is also

846
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 2: like I'd like this story of him developing like the

847
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 2: way he has recently.

848
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 3: He had to deal with two different coaches in the

849
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Speaker 3: first three years, different schemes, different four different Danie Jones

850
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 3: was like a player who played a lot of football

851
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 3: in college. When you play a lot of football in

852
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: college's direct correlation NFL success. We've learned that the hard way.

853
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 3: With the guys who haven't played that much not being good.

854
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 3: You're seeing a rock perider right now. I started forty games.

855
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: In college, which is literally impossible to do.

856
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 3: You have to start for four years and not leave early,

857
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 3: go to the NFL and never get injured.

858
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: But that's a minute. It's a cool story.

859
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 3: Was going out with the Giants, and I would be

860
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 3: way more into it if I didn't have like three

861
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 3: annoying like friends and cousins.

862
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

863
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 4: That's the thing is when you know the fan base

864
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 4: and then they get a little cocky. And I don't

865
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 4: think Giants fans are there quite yet because this has

866
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 4: been such a cinderella run.

867
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Speaker 5: There, ye win three games. See, I don't want them

868
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 5: to win the Super Bowl.

869
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: No, No, well that's why, I mean, let's be real,

870
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: They're not going to I know, I know.

871
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 3: I'm just saying like that would just beat the Vikings,

872
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 3: who had a negative point of Fani.

873
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think the Eagles double the sacked total

874
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 4: this year. If the Giants win the Super Bowl, I'll

875
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 4: be salty I will not be happy.

876
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to share it, but like they

877
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: can beat the Eagles, they can beat the Eagles all day.

878
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 5: I just want out.

879
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: Well, I hope we're still rolling.

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Speaker 5: I think we are. Yeah, we look good. We're gonna

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Speaker 5: keep going dark.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's like the Oscars, they're telling us

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Speaker 2: to wrap it up. That's fair or playing the music.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to have a New York sports story to

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Speaker 2: talk about.

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Speaker 4: Like, let's be real, it's January fifteenth or seventeenth, whatever,

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Speaker 4: the middle of January.

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Speaker 5: We're not talking Nick, We're not talking race.

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Speaker 1: Your birthday where I didn't even know. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know my birthday birthday.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's nice for the city to rally around

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Speaker 4: the team. And I don't know, I just feel like

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Speaker 4: right now, more than in the past. Maybe it's because

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Speaker 4: the Jets and Giants were a net for so damn

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Speaker 4: long that now it's just nice to see January football

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Speaker 4: in the city for the first time since the Giants

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Speaker 4: went on their boat riding twenty sixteen, which was a

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Speaker 4: long point.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe that's where I've softened on it, But I don't know,

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Speaker 4: I just I feel weird I'm usually a hater of

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Speaker 4: the other team in town.

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Speaker 5: Now I'm not, like, you know, I'm kind of liking

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Speaker 5: the Nets a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna get me started on a whole other conversation.

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Speaker 3: That this was the first Giants playoff victory since the

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, since twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mario Manningham, it's insane, Manningham, that's the one. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's enough football talk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and and the lights are out, so I think

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Speaker 2: it's a perfect time for us to wrap us wrap

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Speaker 2: up this episode The Mets Up Podcast, Episode one fifty nine.

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Speaker 2: Remember to follow us on all our social media app

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Speaker 2: mets up on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. The YouTube video

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Speaker 2: be on the New York Mets YouTube channel. Download subscribe,

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Speaker 2: follow our podcast on Google, Spotify, Apple podcast, wherever it is.

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Speaker 1: The lights just changed. I don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 2: But uh, we'll catch you guys on the next episode The.

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Speaker 1: Mets Up Podcast. See ya, Thanks finally see you guys.

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