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Speaker 1: Get Up, Get Up? What's Up? Mets fans? Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to a bonus episode of the Mets Stub podcast, the

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Speaker 1: official podcast of the New York Mets. We figured this

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Speaker 1: would be a perfect time to kind of preview the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season, which of course starts for

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Speaker 1: the Mets on Friday with a series against the San

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Speaker 1: Diego Padres, so we'll talk about that series. We also

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Speaker 1: have all the All Star game festivities and just kind

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Speaker 1: of checking in. We have a mailback. We haven't done

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Speaker 1: questions at home. We asked you on Twitter, make sure

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Speaker 1: you're following us at metstup on all our social media.

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Speaker 1: We asked you to send us some some questions. You

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Speaker 1: guys sent us some amazing ones. We're gonna answer it

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Speaker 1: here on this episode of the Mets Up Podcast. If

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Speaker 1: you guys, are not you following us, like I said,

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Speaker 1: follow us on Mets Up. If you're looking for the

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Speaker 1: Which I found out the other day that there were

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Speaker 1: some people who just only listened to us on YouTube, James,

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Speaker 1: which is which is pretty crazy. I knew that.

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Speaker 2: I actually have talked to a lot of people who've

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Speaker 2: shared the exact same sentiment, which is at one time

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Speaker 2: really cool because these are the actual people who know

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Speaker 1: You know this when we go to the ballpark.

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Speaker 2: The other side of that, it's really funny because we

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Speaker 2: get significantly more traffic on Spotify and Apple and everything,

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Speaker 2: So it's cool to know the way that many different listeners, Well, it.

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Speaker 1: Was crazy is I got a DM and they're like,

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Speaker 1: what happened to the podcast? And like, what do you mean?

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Speaker 1: What happened to the podcast? They're like, I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: a YouTube video in over a month. I'm like, it's

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Speaker 1: guy was like, oh my god, that's so crazy. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it. So something I'm going to follow us

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Nope, strictly just follow the YouTube channel. He

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Speaker 1: me on Instagram and was like, what happened? Where is it?

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Speaker 2: We should put out a video, a short one on

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Speaker 2: at the personal YouTube channel. Again, redirect everybody.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna do that because it's appears people

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Speaker 1: that missing. We're missing, missing some people. But hey, New

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Speaker 1: York Mets YouTube channel, that's where it will now be

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Speaker 1: in if you're listening to us, the same places as always,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, audissee wherever you get them.

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Speaker 1: Drop us a rating, drop us a review, download the podcast,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the feed, whatever you gotta do. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna bring in James because we've already been talking. But James,

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Speaker 1: how are we feeling? You know? Second half starts on Friday,

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Speaker 1: big series against the Padres. What's your thoughts?

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Speaker 2: This has been a nice, a nice wind down couple

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Speaker 2: of days here, you know, like the home run derby,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about a little bit like it wasn't that

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Speaker 2: stressful for me. It just happened and was over all

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Speaker 2: But it's just been a nice, a nice recalibration after

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Speaker 2: just stressful, stressful lives of baseball, to be ready to

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Speaker 2: hopefully enjoy what's about to happen.

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Speaker 1: Been the All Star break for us as well. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even with the draft going on, the boys hard work

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Speaker 1: never stops. No days off, as Bill Belichick once said,

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Speaker 1: but literally, yeah, I mean between the MLB Draft and

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Speaker 1: without baseball pretty much today, the day that we're recording,

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Speaker 1: which is Wednesday, July twentieth, is kind of the only

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Speaker 1: day that nothing has been going on sports wise, SP Day,

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Speaker 1: ESP Day forever and ever.

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Speaker 2: This is always the SP Day, the Wednesday after the

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Speaker 2: All Star Game, every single year since the ending of time.

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Speaker 1: You give me so much crap about loving the World

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Speaker 1: Baseball Class. I don't watch the SPS. I just know

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask attention to the SPS. I'm

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Speaker 1: But talk about the All Star Game in particular, I mean,

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Speaker 2: And then you ran into Julio Rodriguez who won just

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Speaker 1: No, Julio's playing for some serious, you know, chunk of

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Speaker 1: But I really do think, honestly, the biggest story of

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Speaker 2: We were watching the home run Derby together in Jersey

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Speaker 2: past so though ten dollars to win two hundred plus

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Speaker 1: He's like, no, diamond hands, diamond hands. Indeed, unfortunately it

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Speaker 2: the question asked of Aaron Judge on All Star Game Day,

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Speaker 2: so it goes as far as we can.

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Speaker 1: It was terrible. Yeah, no, it was visial. I mean

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Speaker 1: why sometimes the players don't like talking to the media,

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Speaker 1: because they just set them up for things like this.

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Speaker 2: That was as so weird that, like, you have this opportunity,

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Speaker 2: David Bednar is just so freaking cool. HOUI rodgri Guez

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Speaker 2: But instead you're just asking really cringey questions.

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Speaker 1: It's terrible. One of the things I do love that

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Speaker 1: But it's funny that now baseball has kind of become

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Speaker 2: Which is fun because other sports have this, because the NBA,

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Speaker 2: but baseball guys don't really have that. Met actually do

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Speaker 2: a very good job with this. With the montage they

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Speaker 2: While the westco are usually wear something fun. Liondora always

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Speaker 2: event because a lot of the Mets really really showed

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Speaker 2: out for this All Star game. Brad Carpe and I

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Speaker 2: want to ask you, who do you think, because this

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Speaker 2: is a compelling question, here was the best dress met?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like the easy answer is Starling Marte,

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Speaker 1: do have to give a shout out to Pete Alonzo.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think Pete had the style in him. I

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Speaker 1: pretty well in terms of how he dresses, and that

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Speaker 1: And I mean, shirtless under a jacket is just it's

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Speaker 2: It'll be cool when Lucas McNeil goes to the All

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Speaker 2: This was this was a trojan horse of Brian Snicker

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Speaker 1: Do you think they definite would have played it? Oh,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not everyone does, except I mean, but Brian Snicker,

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Speaker 2: give us stats again. Johnny stats. This All Star Game

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have thought the NBA All Star Game

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Speaker 1: Well that All Star Game. I think it was the

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Speaker 1: And I think, isn't it the opposite Tory Hunter Robberry Bonds.

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Speaker 1: That's what I mean. Yeah, Tory Hunter, Robberry Jons of

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Speaker 1: the home run and Barry Bonds went out in centerfield

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Speaker 1: and tackled Crab with him. Yeah, which is is a

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Speaker 1: core memory in my mind.

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Speaker 2: One of the most unbelievable moments from the All Star

438
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Speaker 2: Game was seeing Barry Bonds and Ken Griffy Junior on

439
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Speaker 2: the red carpet and seeing that Ken Griffy Junior, right now,

440
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two is a larger human being than

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Speaker 2: Barry Bonds.

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Speaker 1: I would consider letting Barry Bonds DH at the current

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Speaker 1: age that he's at right now. Yeah, if he doesn't,

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Speaker 1: he could be the hitting coach. Yeah, I mean like

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Speaker 1: hitting coach.

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Speaker 2: No, we're not talking about Eric Chopp is doing a

447
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Speaker 2: great job even No, that could get me wrong there,

448
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Speaker 2: but he could come on the staff talk a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Remember when he was with the Marlins. Apparently they

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Speaker 1: did like the home run derby with all the players

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Speaker 1: against Barry Bonds, and Bonds still beat them all when

452
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Speaker 1: he was like fifty, which is just a testament to

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Speaker 1: what a freak of a hitter that guy was.

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Speaker 2: Worst case scenario with Barry Bonds just like let him

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Speaker 2: up there and like just take a walk, you should

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Speaker 2: lead at it. Still bring up the pinch runner. Barry

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Speaker 2: Bonds could be like the pinch hitter in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And you bring on a pinch runner a meal, you're

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Speaker 2: burning two bench spots, but it might be worth it. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so you're changing to the All Star Game. Would be

461
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Speaker 2: the rule that's currently in place, might change the Alstar

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Speaker 2: Game is let Barry Bond still hit. Okay, just let

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Speaker 2: Barry Bonds.

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Speaker 1: Put Barry Bonds on as the universe of the Ah

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Speaker 1: in the All Star Game. No, my, if I had

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Speaker 1: another change in the All Star Game. It's so hard

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Speaker 1: to make rule changes because I just know that everyone

468
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Speaker 1: in baseball is so hyper focused on avoiding injuries, like

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Speaker 1: I would love it. If this is stupid as hell,

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Speaker 1: that's just like we saw. We saw position player pitches

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Speaker 1: like go for it, like someone who could maybe pitch

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Speaker 1: a little bit, okay, like let the shorts up on

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Speaker 1: the mound, like if you used to pitch in high

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Speaker 1: school or something. See if someone could do it, which

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Speaker 1: that'd be stupid because the hitters are so good that

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Speaker 1: they annihilate them. But I'm just trying to think of weird,

477
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Speaker 1: arkad things that would actually appeal to the mass audience

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Speaker 1: while the Players Association are proving it. I've got two.

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Speaker 1: I've got to I think a draft would be really fun.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the busy way to fit make just

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Speaker 1: free content. Is whoever the top vote getters are in

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Speaker 1: each league, then draft like this year would have been

483
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Speaker 1: Judge versus Cunya. I think that's a really cool idea,

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Speaker 1: especially with baseball being so intricate with the drafts. I

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Speaker 1: have another good one.

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Speaker 2: If you take a guy out, we should be able

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Speaker 2: to bring them back into the All Star Game definitely.

488
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Speaker 2: Like some problem I have with the All Star Games

489
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Speaker 2: that we start with starters and you have two winnings

490
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Speaker 2: of the best players in baseball, and then by the

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Speaker 2: seventh is like Jose Travino, and I mean like it's

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Speaker 2: the most intense All Star moments, like especially because you're

493
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Speaker 2: gonna be going against the best relievers anyway.

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Speaker 1: Like I would like to see like.

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Speaker 2: David Bednar versus Sho Haotani, like a matchup that you're

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Speaker 2: not gonna see very often. That's like one of the

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Speaker 2: beauties of the All Star Game. So like maybe giving

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Speaker 2: the starters the first sitting and the last thing, even

499
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Speaker 2: though I don't know how real baseball players would like

500
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Speaker 2: to do that, because in you're cold for three hours

501
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Speaker 2: and you have to do it again.

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Speaker 1: I think they want to I think they want to

503
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Speaker 1: go home too.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's the best point of winning the vote. You

505
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Speaker 2: get to leave ycause no one, no one cares.

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Speaker 1: I think another good one would be eliminate the shift.

507
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Speaker 1: I think whenever you think about it in real baseball,

508
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Speaker 1: that's up to you. I'm not going to try to

509
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Speaker 1: convince you, but there should be absolutely no shifting in

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game whatsoever. That should be an influx

511
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Speaker 1: of offense. I don't know where the national balls were,

512
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Speaker 1: but the balls were not flying yesterday. Overall, like we said,

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Speaker 1: it was pretty good, all right. I have a little

514
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Speaker 1: bit of fun trivia for you. John has confirmed that

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Speaker 1: he already knows the answer to this. But can you

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Speaker 1: name the two Mets to hit a home run in

517
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game? I think one of them is easy,

518
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Speaker 1: and I think one of them is a little bit tough. Ever, ever,

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Speaker 1: there's only two mess to ever hit a home run,

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Speaker 1: which is shockingly by the way, because you get one

521
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Speaker 1: representative every year. I know it could be a picture

522
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Speaker 1: but that's shockingly low.

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Speaker 2: Darryl Strawberry Nope, Piazza Nope, right yep, David right one,

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Speaker 2: thank god.

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Speaker 1: The other guy, I believe one All Star Game MVP,

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Speaker 1: which which is a big hint. Can you give me

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Speaker 1: a decade? Oh man, I think it's the seventies. Let

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Speaker 1: me let me double check because I can find this

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Speaker 1: real Oh no, hold on, wait, finding it really quickly

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Speaker 1: Baseball Reference it was nineteen seventy nine. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: the year. Joe young Blood. No, I like. I like

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Speaker 1: the guests Lee Miszilly, Oh good one, Missilly could try that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so that was a little bit of fun bit of

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Speaker 1: trivia for you there, because Newly Mizilly. Of course, Sean Newlee, Missilly,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean? Of course John knew. The dude

536
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Speaker 1: knows that he's Johnny. He does everything.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. Oh jesus, Oh this is a good question. Actually,

538
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Speaker 2: I want to do this from the out line. If

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Speaker 2: we have a few minutes here, If you could add

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Speaker 2: any other baseball related competition to the All Star festivities,

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Speaker 2: what would you add?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So when I was twelve, I went to Cooper

543
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Speaker 1: Sound Dreams Park, hit three home runs in one game,

544
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Speaker 1: No big deal, humble brag. You hit three in a game,

545
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Speaker 1: opposite field, opposite field power. If the Mets are looking for,

546
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Speaker 1: you know, a nice small right handed bat, I'm available.

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Speaker 2: But it's that was only fourteen years ago. Yeah, it

548
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Speaker 2: was only fourteen years ago. Three home runs in one game.

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Speaker 1: You never forget that. That being said Cooper, sound they do,

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Speaker 1: you know, they do a home run derby for the tournament.

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Speaker 1: They also do a like most accurate Arm competition, which

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Speaker 1: is you stand in the outfield and you basically have

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Speaker 1: like a bullseye at home plate, and based on where

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Speaker 1: you hit it, you get points. I think that's really cool.

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Speaker 1: But I think the one that would be really cool

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Speaker 1: that will never happen is the competition. No, they didn't

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Speaker 1: around the horn competition, so you had like a certain

558
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Speaker 1: pattern you had to follow, but it was whatever team

559
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Speaker 1: could throw it around the infield in the outfield the

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Speaker 1: fastest would be the winners. I think that'd be cool

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Speaker 1: to see with major League baseball players, Like think about it.

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Speaker 1: You'd get like Luiski or May out there, because the

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Speaker 1: guy's got lightning quick hands. You'd be extremely valuable in

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Speaker 1: this sense.

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Speaker 2: This is pretty funny, but I would love to see

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Speaker 2: a race, or just a race. I would like put

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Speaker 2: like the five fastest guys out there, line them up

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Speaker 2: like straight across and home plate, and say run to

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Speaker 2: a line in the center field. I would love to

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Speaker 2: see like all the fastest players in baseball because, like,

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Speaker 2: I think that a lot of times baseball players aren't

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Speaker 2: really appreciated for the incredible athletes some of them are.

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Speaker 2: Some of them, of course are not, Yeah, but a

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Speaker 2: lot of them really are. Like I would like to

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Speaker 2: see the straight up brace. I also think that you

576
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Speaker 2: said throwing accuracy. You cains told that when I was

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Speaker 2: gonna do it. That'd be really cool if everyone's seen

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Speaker 2: that video of each road. I still don't know if

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Speaker 2: it's real.

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Speaker 1: From back in the day with the bats where he's

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Speaker 1: hitting them. That home plate very real. I've done it

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Speaker 1: myself with Bengal on a YouTube video.

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Speaker 2: Really tough, really tough of course at this But that'd

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Speaker 2: be cool. But I don't even know how possible because

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much space you would need. But

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Speaker 2: I would love to see how far these guys can

587
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Speaker 2: huckle baseball interesting, just like one one crow hop and

588
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Speaker 2: just wing it like throw a ball like four hundred feet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what was it. Jackie Bradley Junior right

590
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Speaker 1: threw it from home plate into the center field at Fenway.

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Speaker 1: Pap picture did it too in Cleveland once. But you

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Speaker 1: shall not be named. I'm not named, of course not,

593
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Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean these guys they do really cool stuff.

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Speaker 1: It would be cool to highlight outside of just you know.

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Speaker 1: The home run derby.

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Speaker 2: Is a funny one from John Something that the competition

597
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Speaker 2: to add a home run robbing contest. A machine launches

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Speaker 2: a ball and the outfields have to try and rob them.

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00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 2: That's crazy, but you would know kind of where it

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Speaker 2: was every time, so you're just making a bee line.

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Speaker 1: You kind of lose the hardest probably robbing home run.

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Speaker 2: I feel like for the outfielders the track, the track

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Speaker 2: gets to the spot before it's there. Yeah, at timing,

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Speaker 2: if you're standing there, you know the spot. If it's

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Speaker 2: in the same spot every single time you run to

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Speaker 2: the spot, you wait, you jump.

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Speaker 1: Well, we could create a machine that shoots it in

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Speaker 1: an area and it's up. You gotta track it. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's got like a V shape and it shoots out perfectly.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this machine exists, but we could

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Speaker 1: try it. Why not? You got very careful angle it. Definitely,

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Speaker 1: definitely I think that would I think that would work.

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Speaker 1: What else you got for me here? What else we

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Speaker 1: got besides previewing the you know, San Diego Padres series

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Speaker 1: that's coming up. Well, I guess in some sad news

616
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Speaker 1: here to kind of turn the feels here a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Longtime Mets Spanish broadcaster Juan Alisea died in his sleep

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Speaker 1: on Monday, which unfortunate. Sorry for the loss, you know,

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Speaker 1: of course, thoughts and prayers with the Alicia family. He

620
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Speaker 1: joined the Mets in nineteen sixty nine in the scouting

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Speaker 1: and Community relations department and then became the Spanish broadcaster

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Speaker 1: for the Mets in nineteen eighty two, called more than

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Speaker 1: four thousand games through the twenty nineteen season, and of

624
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Speaker 1: course we've been up in this area a few times.

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Speaker 1: They now have the Spanish radio broadcast booth in City Field,

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Speaker 1: which is named in his honor. So a little bit

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Speaker 1: of sad news, but he was an absolute legend in

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Speaker 1: the game, especially in the Spanish broadcasting. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He began the Spanish broadcast for the Mets in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty two, and I can't imagine that many teams in

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Speaker 2: baseball had broadcast Spanish broadcast before then.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, I would imagine he's got to be one

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Speaker 1: of the most well tenured Spanish broadcasters that there's been

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Speaker 1: in the game of baseball, without a doubt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's that's I would say, a family that's

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Speaker 2: a member of the organization, that would be definitely.

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Speaker 1: Of course, now, before we get going to the San

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Speaker 1: Diego Padres preview, we of course have the estimate, which

639
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Speaker 1: is the little game that me and James play where

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Speaker 1: we talk about what's going on. We have something that

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Speaker 1: our producer John gives us and we try to see

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Speaker 1: who's gonna be closer to it. Right now, James is

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Speaker 1: currently up one nothing on the scoreboard, and I think

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna do the tuxedo I think for Opening

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Speaker 1: Day twenty twenty three. Is that what it's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: I think so, I mean on the Mets, of course,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: So whoever loses this by the end of the year,

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Speaker 1: we'll wear a tuxedo to Opening Day on twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: John's got our question for us this time. Let's hear it. John,

651
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Speaker 1: what's up, fellas, how are you doing? How is Italy

652
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Speaker 1: chat big show? I got my got some fresh gear.

653
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Speaker 1: That's like going Italy again, fresh gear.

654
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Speaker 3: You gotta get some fresh gear. But anyway, Yeah, we

655
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Speaker 3: have a good one here, a topical and timely one.

656
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Speaker 3: So I don't know if you guys are aware, but

657
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Speaker 3: Jeff McNeil's Major league debut, the anniversary of it, is

658
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Speaker 3: upcoming this Sunday against Padres. Jeff McNeil had a base

659
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Speaker 3: hit in his debut and hits over four hundred in

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Speaker 3: his career against San Diego Padres. So I ask you, guys,

661
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Speaker 3: how many hits will Jeff McNeil have in this three

662
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Speaker 3: game series with San Diego? Mark, looks like it looks

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Speaker 3: like you got an answer, Cooking.

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Speaker 1: I'm first. I thought I was gonna get to go

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Speaker 1: second because I went first the last time. I'll go first.

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Speaker 1: This one three one hit a game? Wow? Okay? So yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: Do I play the game and I go two and

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Speaker 1: get I get closer? Do I play four and I

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Speaker 1: take anything above three? Because I'm a homer obviously, and

670
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Speaker 1: I'm biased, and Jeff McNeil's my boy, I'm taking four.

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Speaker 1: I'll just go four, I'll take the over on that

672
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Speaker 1: and we'll see. We'll see hopefully, Jeff, if you're listening

673
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Speaker 1: to this, I doubt it, but maybe you are. I

674
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: need to step up this week. I can't wear a

675
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: tuxedo opening Day. It's just it's it's gonna somehow find

676
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: its way to be the hottest day of the year.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to wear it. We gotta see James

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Speaker 1: in it. So four hits or more, I'll take it.

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Speaker 2: Either the highest day of the year or it's gonna

680
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 2: rain fibaciously. We're gonna have to deal with a taxi though.

681
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Speaker 2: But you better hope with that four pick that he

682
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Speaker 2: he plays against the lefty Blake Snell on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil, that guy could hit lefties with the best

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Speaker 1: of them. I trust in Jeff, no doubt that was

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Speaker 1: a good one.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be fun to do these little weird

687
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: like nippy things all year and see which one of

688
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Speaker 2: these towards X.

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Speaker 1: Though definitely, and of course John will be keeping track

690
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Speaker 1: of it all year long.

691
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Speaker 3: And just to recap the last one, I wasn't with

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Speaker 3: you guys for the last episode the two thirty Guests on.

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Speaker 1: Which was horrible yeah.

694
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Speaker 2: Just also the film people and we guessed how long

695
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Speaker 2: Keat's speech would be and Mark as the first guesser.

696
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Speaker 1: So two minutes and thirty seconds. You know, I didn't

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Speaker 1: really think about it at all. I don't think you

698
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Speaker 1: realized what was going on. I don't think I even

699
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Speaker 1: understood what the question was, because that is an all

700
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: time bad guess, Keith or Nandez. When we were there,

701
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: like we said, we were timing it, it almost took

702
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Speaker 1: them two minutes and thirty seconds when he got to

703
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Speaker 1: the podium to start talking. Yeah, just like he just riffed, Yeah, Keith,

704
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: bad guess. Hopefully I can make some ground up here

705
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Speaker 1: on the next one, because we know I needed. I

706
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Speaker 1: don't want to be wearing a tuxedo. So now, before

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Speaker 1: we wrap it up here, let's talk about that San

708
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: Diego Padre series three game series. Some cool giveaways at

709
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: the stadium I will know really cool. Saturday. They're giving

710
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: away a David Wright Captain America Pop vinyl, which people

711
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Speaker 1: go crazy for. I don't understand the hype around these things,

712
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: but that being said, I do want one, so I

713
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Speaker 1: will be there Saturday getting my David Right Captain America

714
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Speaker 1: Pop Vinyl figure. I know they're very cotable.

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Speaker 2: Sunday I believe is Gil Hodges bibblehead.

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Speaker 1: Yep, gil Hodges Hall of Fame bobblehead. That's another one

717
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Speaker 1: I want. I'm a big bobblehead guy. Bobbleheads are an

718
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Speaker 1: elite thing to collect.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Friday has to be something to the

720
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Speaker 2: mess up to usually do a Friday with a giveaway.

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Speaker 1: No, I think it's just it's just the black jerseys

722
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Speaker 1: and it's the DJ night who I don't know who's djaying,

723
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna get some some rad beats for the

724
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Speaker 1: State Dunes. Yeah, some good vibes. I will say that

725
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Speaker 1: DJs have done a great job. No, I think they

726
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Speaker 1: have actually added a nice element to the games. Yeah,

727
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Speaker 1: Kee keeps us fun. So what are our pitching matchups

728
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Speaker 1: here for the series against the Padres. I don't know

729
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Speaker 1: if ARSA have actually even been announced.

730
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Speaker 2: I don't think they technically have either, but I'm assuming. Well,

731
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Speaker 2: first of all, we know Friday Night shares are okay.

732
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Speaker 2: Friday Night is Max Schezer versus you Darvish. The Mets,

733
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 2: as we know, have struggled with Darvis habitually. Remember from June,

734
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Speaker 2: remember from the Cubs. The Mets don't often do well

735
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Speaker 2: with you Darvish pitching against them. Saturday, the Mets are

736
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Speaker 2: facing off against Blake Snell, who they handled they got

737
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Speaker 2: to but not well enough during the series in San Diego,

738
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Speaker 2: and then Sunday against Joe Musgrove, who has ascended after

739
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Speaker 2: years and years to being one of the better pitchers

740
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Speaker 2: in all of baseball. He gets an ignored the amount

741
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Speaker 2: of called strikes four team or even though the Whiffs

742
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 2: have gone down this year, lost a little bit of

743
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Speaker 2: lost the last few months. But I'm assuming we're gonna

744
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Speaker 2: have Walker and Bassett in some more than those other

745
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Speaker 2: two days.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure which on one. Yeah, I mean, it

747
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Speaker 1: should be a good series. The Padres are still one

748
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Speaker 1: of the better teams in the National League. We saw

749
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Speaker 1: them what.

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Speaker 2: Two months ago now, definitely, they're definitely in the downturn.

751
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Speaker 2: Though since they've had they've had they've had a couple

752
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 2: losing series. Since they've lost two. They lost swept by

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Speaker 2: the Mariners to start the Mariners win streak. They lost

754
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Speaker 2: two or three of the Giants. They just lost three

755
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Speaker 2: in a row against the Rockies before winning a series

756
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Speaker 2: against Diamonbacks.

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Speaker 1: Before the break. Okay, so they're playing. I mean it's.

758
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Speaker 2: Off, but they're just they're really not hitting at all.

759
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: The Dimbacks are not hitting. Diamonbacks haven't scored, they've more

760
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Speaker 2: they scored more than four runs.

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Speaker 1: Twice in the last three weeks of all. That's not

762
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Speaker 1: very good. No, it's not very good.

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Speaker 2: At Machada was blazing hot to start, and he cooled

764
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Speaker 2: down a little. Bitta, he's still not playing. Fantastic, Mets

765
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Speaker 2: got to go through his whole season with that, seeing

766
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Speaker 2: fantastis against them, who was still got one at car

767
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Speaker 2: in the lineup, jerks and profiles out.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna play the series, I believe, which is

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Speaker 1: a big for USA. Is great, fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jay Cromer has actually been blazing hot for the

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Speaker 2: last month and a half. He's gotten back on track.

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Speaker 1: They saw first base. Yeah, you can see him.

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Speaker 2: In the cityfield, which is gonna be really painful form

774
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Speaker 2: the Mets fans out there. Taylor Rogers is significantly pitching

775
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Speaker 2: worse than the last time we saw hims actually ticked

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Speaker 2: over four.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to hear that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we got their three best pitchers. The strength

779
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: of this team is basically these three guys. So we're

780
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Speaker 2: gonna be greeted, uh, very rudely coming out of the

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Speaker 2: deadline facing three. I would say, I'm recording this from

782
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Speaker 2: my apartment in Brooklyn. Haven't done a recording here since

783
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Speaker 2: we came out with the Mets to the few beforehand.

784
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Speaker 2: I edited almost all of it out because it's it's

785
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Speaker 2: complete chaos on the street beneath me. It's so loud,

786
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Speaker 2: I've really knew it. That like three trucks driving like

787
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Speaker 2: a couple of motorcycles. That was just some like so

788
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Speaker 2: awesome music.

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Speaker 1: It's intense. Hey, listen, man, that's the that's the vibrance

790
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: and culture of New York City right there in a microcosm.

791
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: James's apartment. My apartment is a microcosm tiny all right.

792
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: And you know what I promised the mail bag and

793
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Speaker 1: I completely forgot to do it. So we gotta do one.

794
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Speaker 1: We gotta do one. We lied Padres series preview isn't

795
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Speaker 1: the last thing. Let's go ahead and do a couple

796
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: of male bad questions. Everybody wants Trade Deadline, A deep

797
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: deep Trade Deadline podcast episode will be coming. We're so

798
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: so very close. I really do feel like after the

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Speaker 1: Yankee series is when it's gonna be truly appropriate to

800
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Speaker 1: go deep into the trade deadline, because that's when we'll

801
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: be like two weeks away basically, and there.

802
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 2: Will be a two game series. And also after the Yankees,

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Speaker 2: that week is at Marlins at Nationals and then the

804
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Speaker 2: Big Braves series, which we'll figure it out then after Braves,

805
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: but by then the trade down will actually be passed.

806
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 2: But after Yankees the schedule gets relatively softer in terms

807
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: of content, so you'll get the big ones soon. And

808
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 2: we also, I don't know, we can't talk about want

809
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Speaker 2: so of that much.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know how possible is it's probably very

811
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Speaker 1: unlikely that Sodo gets dealt this deadline. I feel like, yeah, yeah,

812
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Speaker 1: I don't know. So fun to talk about though, yeah,

813
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: oh of course I'd love to. Talking trades is fun

814
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: no matter what. It's just we we don't want to

815
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: oversaturate you because we could talk about every single episode.

816
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: That being said, let's take a look at some of

817
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: these male bad questions. One that popped up to me

818
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Speaker 1: right here. It's gonna be from Alex Cohen at a

819
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Speaker 1: Cohen LFGM. What are you guys most excited for in

820
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: the second half in terms of the Mets and also

821
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: for the pod. Congrats on the success of the show.

822
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: Thanks gents, LFGM. Shout out to Alex, longtime listener. That's

823
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: the name I recognize, James, I'll let you take this

824
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: one first.

825
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: Also shoutout Alex definitely a very low listener, active engager.

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Speaker 2: Most excited about the Mets. Just the fact we're going

827
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Speaker 2: to be in a Pennant race like this is this

828
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 2: is what it's all about right here, Like Steve Combob

829
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 2: the team, Billy have to made a lot of moves.

830
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: You sign Max Scherzer. We're just praying, Jacob de Gram.

831
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let them hurt me, but I'm still hoping.

832
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow, but this Wednesday

833
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: we're recording this. You guys will probably listen to this

834
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 2: at or around when he does actually throw again, and

835
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 2: we'll know more. Just keep tracking Anthony to Comos Twitter.

836
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Speaker 2: But I'm just excited to be in a Pennant race.

837
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Speaker 2: With the fact that we're gonna be going up against

838
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 2: the Braves twelve times. You have a slight lead on them.

839
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 2: There's a very very talented talent and deep race the

840
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: National League. Going on these playoff spots, We're gonna be

841
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: seeing a lot of high quality baseball at the time

842
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 2: of the year.

843
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: We have not seen much of that in.

844
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Speaker 2: The last few years, so I'm very excited to be

845
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 2: able to go through that, both as a fan and

846
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 2: as a member of this podcast and see the kind

847
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 2: of content we're gonna be able to liver.

848
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Speaker 1: You guys, Yeah, no, that's a really good answer. I

849
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: would say I'm excited about the return of Jacob de

850
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: Gram and possibly why would you say that, the return

851
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: of Jacob de Gram and possibly the arrival of Franciscoualverrez.

852
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: I think those two things right there are super, super exciting,

853
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 1: just because we've been waiting for a while. First seems

854
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: like for both of these guys. So if they can

855
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: both make it to Queen's at some point this year,

856
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be That's gonna be sick. That would be awesome.

857
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: Imagine imagine seeing those guys in the lineup together. I'm

858
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna feel Great'm gonna get all tingly inside.

859
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 2: Physisco Alvarez, I believe was eight for us first thirty

860
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: four in Triple A and Jacob de Gram just had

861
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 2: soreness in his shoulder.

862
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: So I'm happy that you're excited. Yeah, of course, of course,

863
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: I'm always excited. Gotta look at the future of James.

864
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: Is there any anything in the mail bag that you

865
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: particularly want to shout out here? Ah, the fan in my.

866
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,479
Speaker 2: Computer was buzzing, so I turned off every single tab

867
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 2: except for the stream.

868
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: I'll check it real quick. Okay, while you're looking, I'll

869
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: find another one here. How about this? This one comes

870
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: from side Retired Pod. If the Mets could realistically reacquire

871
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: one former met, who should it be? He said, They've

872
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: done it with Todd Frasier in the past, Asomoji because

873
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: he knows that Todd Fraser memes with me, James, any

874
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: specific met that you think could be interesting that the

875
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: Mets can bring back.

876
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 2: I was just on the side Retired Pod, a couple

877
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 2: of nice guys there, and we did the whole Mets

878
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: history trade episode like since the twenty fifteen World Series.

879
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 2: Is kind of funny because when you go through all

880
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 2: these trades, you realize that the Mets, likely more so

881
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 2: in any team in baseball, are experts at little trading

882
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: guys and then reacquiring them or letting guys walk in

883
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 2: reacquiring them. The Mets, in a span of three years,

884
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 2: thing people forget this, acquired j Bruce in a trade,

885
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 2: traded him for a quadruple reliever who had never heard

886
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 2: from again, re signed him in the offseason for too

887
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 2: much money, and then traded him again to the Seattle marriage.

888
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 2: As far as the pack of Tredman Diaz, which is

889
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: just no other team baseball co pull things off like that,

890
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: the Mets got less in a trade and for Jerry's familia,

891
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: then let's then the Mets gave up for key On Broxy. Yeah,

892
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 2: like could you imagine that those death sentence out loud?

893
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: Like how what other franchise in baseball will do something?

894
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 2: In the Mets thinking getting so little for years familiar

895
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: re signed him for probably a little bit too much money.

896
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: But if there's any met that I could.

897
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 2: Get backs out there, you disrespect dry Ryan.

898
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: He he doesn't bad.

899
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 2: Stuff's actually still in Triple A. I think I forgot

900
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 2: what team is on. I know is Eras in the

901
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 2: three thing. He's like striking out a batty for nine,

902
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 2: But any met I'm gonna panda here just bring.

903
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: Baby.

904
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 2: He could play third. You can play a little bit

905
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,479
Speaker 2: of second, he can mix a little bit of first.

906
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 2: He can hit left handed pitching. He's having a fantastic

907
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 2: season at the dish and the d the Giants play

908
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 2: matchups really well. Is ws plus the things hanging around

909
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 2: one twenty bring wimar Flores home. I would be so

910
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 2: happy to get warmar Flores. And also just because of

911
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 2: the fact that he's such a fit for this roster

912
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 2: right now. Ironically, you took you took the name right

913
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 2: on my mouth.

914
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: I was I was really hoping you weren't gonna say Wilmer.

915
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: I thought you had some weird reliever that you're gonna

916
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: drop on me, or a starting pitcher in the past,

917
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 1: that maybe he's clean things up that you like. It's Wilmer.

918
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: Wilmer does with this team, like really really well. He

919
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: crushes lefties and we just struggle against lefties at times.

920
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: I don't even know if there's a picture that fits that.

921
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: Bill who's in the league right now, who's a form

922
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: of is it familiar again? Round three with bring back Familia?

923
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: That's what's gonna be.

924
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 2: John saying Loop, I guess Loop. I mean he probably

925
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 2: is the Angels. I don't even know what the Angels

926
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,919
Speaker 2: are gonna do. I think the Angels are too.

927
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: Dumb to trade him bring back Cindergart.

928
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: Cinder because Cindergard rental right now in the one year deal.

929
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 2: I think that'd be almost almost like Stromani is where

930
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 2: it feels like he half burned the bridge, which is

931
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 2: really dumb because that he'd be good.

932
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, he would be good.

933
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 2: Okay, that's just that's just turns Kindergarten into like, this's

934
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 2: just this classic James here.

935
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: But Men is like the best reliever. I knew. I

936
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: knew the reliever was coming out, and you're gonna say, like,

937
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: what if he's just like a lockdown seventh a fitting guy.

938
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 2: The pictures tonings out of the pen, tinder Guard was

939
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 2: really leveled out in the last month or so. He

940
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 2: started throwing that slider again. He still has a fantastic command,

941
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: doesn't allow that much hard contact. Even Loop, I know

942
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 2: he had a cold spell in the middle season, but

943
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 2: he's doing like the thing that was in Aaron Loop's

944
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,959
Speaker 2: range of outcomes, where he's pitching to a four era

945
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 2: but he's striking out like twenty five percent of bathers

946
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: and getting a lot of left. He's out like it's possible, Yeah,

947
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: it's possible.

948
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: Did you find uh, did you find one from the

949
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: mailbag that you want to shout out? I don't even

950
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: know that you do it. My computers buzzing right now.

951
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: You can kind of hear these feel bad. Yeah, hot fan,

952
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: Hot fan. We got one last final question here, which

953
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: will be this, this is just fun, a fun personal

954
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: one here. I think favorite Mets moment since y'all started

955
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 1: doing the pod that comes from Peter Kaplan or cap

956
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: Capolin not capol or Kaplin.

957
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 2: Uh.

958
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 1: My favorite Mets moment I think had to be like

959
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: kind of doing all like the fun little promo thing

960
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: that we were doing on the field in the dugout,

961
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: like pretending we were players getting ready. It's really cool

962
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: that basically every game we get to see our promo

963
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: for the podcast up on the JumboTron before the game starts.

964
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 1: Which if you would have told us that a year

965
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: ago when we started this thing, or I guess now

966
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,959
Speaker 1: more like a year and a half ago, I would

967
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: have been like, Okay, yeah, sure, in your dreams, like

968
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: I knew we could do it, but I didn't it

969
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: would happen like this quickly.

970
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 2: I got too, that's it going that that one is true?

971
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 2: But to mine because like very Mets moment. I feel

972
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 2: like he was asking about on the field. But like

973
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: it's been really cool to like actually meet fans. Like

974
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 2: the concepts that there's people out there that listen to

975
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 2: us like regularly and like look forward to this podcast

976
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 2: is pretty amazing and kind of like humbling and shocking.

977
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 2: I gave some stickers to my cousins, hung out with

978
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 2: them over the weekend, and my cousin works at summer

979
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 2: camp and he has Rocking the Mets up sticker on

980
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 2: his phone and everybody knows mess up stickers are exclusive.

981
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 2: It's only Mark and I have them. You gotta, yeah,

982
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: you gotta see us to get access to one. Maybe

983
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 2: maybe you've seen them around Manhattan or Brooklyn. He's kind

984
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: of like Mark and I leaving our little like breadcrumbs

985
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 2: everywhere see where we've been.

986
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: But uh, it's funny to see that.

987
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 2: So he was at columber camp and he just whipped

988
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 2: out his phone to text and someone like grabs his arm,

989
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: was like where'd.

990
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: You get that?

991
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 2: He was like, what are you talking about? He was

992
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: like that sticker he was like, what sticker. He's like,

993
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: the mess up sticker on your phone. He was like, Oh,

994
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 2: this is my cousin's podcast, Like he gave it to

995
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 2: me the other day. He was like what he was like, Yeah,

996
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 2: my cousin James.

997
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: He's like, oh my god, James, your cousin. Like I

998
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: watch them all the time.

999
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 2: So shout out that kid who lives in I don't

1000
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 2: know whether I think they working a I'm camp in

1001
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 2: Monroe somewhere in south central Jersey show.

1002
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: Shout him out. Hit me up on Twitter.

1003
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: If we come to the game, We'll get you a

1004
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 2: We'll get you a sticker so you can match Anthony.

1005
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 2: But like favorite Mets Mets moment on the field, I

1006
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: think probably like we've been had some cool home games

1007
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, like that that first home game that

1008
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: we went through, the Sunday night Shure is there game

1009
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 2: after we shot those first interviews with zeal and Coney

1010
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 2: were really cool because Mets played well. Jose Alvarado game

1011
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 2: up runs like we just had a fun night at

1012
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 2: the ballpark recorded. The cool episode after that was that

1013
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 2: was a good day and that was like the day

1014
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 2: of realization.

1015
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that that was that was really cool. It

1016
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: made everything start to feel very very real for us

1017
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: at a time of like a lot of negotiations and

1018
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: talking going on. Really well, I think I think it's

1019
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: gonna happen, Like I think this is gonna be the

1020
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: real deal and the Mets win beat the Phillies. You know,

1021
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: you know I'm happy whenever we beat the Phillies. And

1022
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: one other series, Yeah, one another series, as the Mets

1023
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 1: have done all year long. James, I think this is

1024
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: a perfect place for us to wrap up this bonus episode.

1025
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: Second half preview, second half talk, all Star game padres, preview,

1026
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: mail bag, whatever you want to call it. I think

1027
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: it was fun.

1028
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, we said it's gonna be twenty mans and it's.

1029
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: For the We just we simply can't. We can't do

1030
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. We got too much to talk about. We

1031
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: love talking about the Mets too much. No, it's fun.

1032
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: I sorry, I sat in my room and worked all days.

1033
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: Was it good. It's a good reprieve. It's a good

1034
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: relaxing way to wind down and finish the day. You

1035
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: guys will be listening to this hopefully in the morning

1036
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: or whatever you do. Let us know, tweet at us,

1037
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: follow us on all our social media at mess Up.

1038
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: Like I said, we just had a TikTok blow up

1039
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: with a Brett Baty interview four hundred thousand views. Can't

1040
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: believe it, So make sure you're following us on all

1041
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: our social media at metas. That's like four point thirty

1042
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, let's go. If you're watching the YouTube videos,

1043
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 1: it's on the New York Mets YouTube channel, so go

1044
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: subscribe to them. If you're listening to us Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

1045
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 1: Google Podcasts, drop us a rating, drop us review, follow

1046
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: the podcast, download it, whatever you gotta do. Follow James

1047
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: on Twitter at James Ciano, follow me at Giraffe neck

1048
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: Mark and that's where we wrap up this episode. Guys,

1049
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: thanks for listening, thanks for watching, and we'll see you

1050
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: on the next episode of the mest Up Podcast. Peace Out,

1051
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: peace out, guys, see you next time.

1052
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: Get Up, Get Get Up, Get Up.

1053
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: M