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Speaker 1: What is Up?

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

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Speaker 2: Up Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Just wrapped up a series against.

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Speaker 2: The Braves that didn't necessarily go well, ended it with

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Speaker 2: a win on Sunday Night Baseball, which I guess was nice.

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Speaker 2: That was a good way to end the series, at

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Speaker 2: least better than what we saw from the first three games.

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Speaker 2: As always, me and James are going to talk with

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Speaker 2: you about what happened this series. Honestly, guys, gonna be

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Speaker 2: kind of a big narrative episode. We're gonna just kind

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Speaker 2: of more talk freely about what was going on, vibes, feels,

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Speaker 2: conversations rather than go game by game for this one,

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Speaker 2: because honestly, the first three games, don't really want to

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Speaker 2: talk about them very much.

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Speaker 1: I think we know what happened. We saw the scores,

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Speaker 1: we saw the games.

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Speaker 2: There's not much to talk about in those, So we'll

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Speaker 2: just talk about what we're thinking about with the series

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Speaker 2: and our thoughts and our feelings and all that good stuff.

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Speaker 2: A video version of this, you could get a live

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Speaker 2: reaction of my face in James's face as we talk

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Speaker 2: about this past weekend. If you're listening to US Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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Speaker 2: all the stuff that we do over here. We know

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Speaker 2: being a Mets fan is definitely a different ride than

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Speaker 2: many other teams sometimes, and the fact that you guys

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Speaker 2: still have an interest in listening to the team and

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Speaker 2: listening about what's going on this season, really do appreciate it,

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Speaker 2: because we love doing this podcast for you guys. But before,

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Speaker 2: before we get going into this deeper, James, how are

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Speaker 2: we feeling over there?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know how I'm feeling.

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Speaker 1: This was.

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Speaker 3: A more difficult weekend than most of them, Mets fan

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Speaker 3: We also, we spent a whole day together yesterday with

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Speaker 3: didn't say that. Uh, it's been okay Sunday though, Like

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Speaker 3: it's just it's pain. It was. It was a hard weekend,

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Speaker 3: Mets world.

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Speaker 2: I was at the game with my parents, the game

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Speaker 3: I remember preseason we had just made our infamous as

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Speaker 1: This is a very good Atlanta Braves team.

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Speaker 2: We were again mentioning the people we were hanging out

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Speaker 3: he screams and he's over. You know, you guys know

434
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Speaker 3: who he is. And basically they proved, they prove. They prefaced,

435
00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,399
Speaker 3: like do you guys watch his videos?

436
00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:17,600
Speaker 2: Ha ha?

437
00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:19,000
Speaker 3: They were like, yeah, like a lot of times we

438
00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:20,520
Speaker 3: beat them. We like some guys like to watch the

439
00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,840
Speaker 3: videos and be funny about it. It's like we understand

440
00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,439
Speaker 3: that's like a character. The thing that really got to us,

441
00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,760
Speaker 3: he said, And I'm you know, you guys could go

442
00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,760
Speaker 3: back listen to interview. I'm I'm paraphrasing here, but and

443
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,159
Speaker 3: he didn't even know the guy's name. And I'm not

444
00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:33,560
Speaker 3: gonna use the guy's name either because I don't want

445
00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:34,960
Speaker 3: to bold to him. But Mark and I were tweeting

446
00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,080
Speaker 3: about him a lot this weekend. He had some comments

447
00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,639
Speaker 3: that we especially as as as people we were with

448
00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,119
Speaker 3: the Mets here, will not dignify in any way about

449
00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,159
Speaker 3: a player and the team. He said that when that

450
00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,440
Speaker 3: bald guy on TV, who you guys know what I'm

451
00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,479
Speaker 3: talking about now, said the division was over last year

452
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,080
Speaker 3: and June first, that really got to us and we

453
00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,120
Speaker 3: were like, okay, I think it's over. It's not over. Yeah,

454
00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,120
Speaker 3: And to hear the right basically the best player, I guess,

455
00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,320
Speaker 3: second best player on your main rival say that the

456
00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,960
Speaker 3: team the locker room was galvanized and motivated by something

457
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,320
Speaker 3: that an imbecile said on television is so enraging because

458
00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,560
Speaker 3: it's like damn like finding that motivation there from something

459
00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,560
Speaker 3: that the Mets players didn't even do. And he also

460
00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,280
Speaker 3: made comments and you guys remember this last year William

461
00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,640
Speaker 3: con Treis was playing Narcos as his walk up song.

462
00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,960
Speaker 3: He said, yeah, the Mets really love those little trumpets.

463
00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,720
Speaker 3: Red Madiaz like really taking a shot at the wake

464
00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,040
Speaker 3: the fanfare around the trumpets, and it's like these guys

465
00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,320
Speaker 3: wake up and go to bed hating us, wanting to

466
00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,520
Speaker 3: hurt us. They do. They hate the Mets and they

467
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,679
Speaker 3: want to beat the Mets and they really have a

468
00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,439
Speaker 3: complex now after the way last season ended and the

469
00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,320
Speaker 3: way the season is gone, and it's really frustrating. But

470
00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,800
Speaker 3: right now this is just where we're at. It sucks.

471
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sucks big time. And I really wish that

472
00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,160
Speaker 2: bald headed guy never said anything. I really wish. I mean,

473
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,480
Speaker 2: like the day he did it, me and you both

474
00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:54,560
Speaker 2: were like, what are we doing?

475
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:55,840
Speaker 1: What are we doing?

476
00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:57,760
Speaker 2: It's June, Like we've we've known what the Mets have

477
00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,960
Speaker 2: done in September back in years ago or so, or

478
00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,400
Speaker 2: I guess twelve thirteen years ago now, but like, yeah, like.

479
00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,320
Speaker 3: You said, June, it was June first, and the little

480
00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:07,879
Speaker 3: also behind the scenes to you guys, that was just

481
00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,560
Speaker 3: before we began doing this podcast officially with the Mets,

482
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,480
Speaker 3: and we had a field day with those comments. We

483
00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,760
Speaker 3: said a lot of things about those comments, and you

484
00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,000
Speaker 3: guys probably go back and listen to that you can

485
00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,720
Speaker 3: probably infer what we were talking about. But it it

486
00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 3: to hear a player on another team over a year later, remember, Yeah,

487
00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:28,000
Speaker 3: that moment that basically changed the direction. I want to

488
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,000
Speaker 3: say kind of this franchise in the last eighteen months

489
00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,640
Speaker 3: of Major League Baseball hurts, really hurts.

490
00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:32,800
Speaker 1: Hurt.

491
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 3: Something outside of the team, outside of the control, made

492
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Speaker 3: such an impact.

493
00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,440
Speaker 2: But it also I think, like, again, I hate the Braves,

494
00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 2: but this is this is something that I keep in

495
00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,200
Speaker 2: mind when you're looking at the team and everybody moving forward,

496
00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,360
Speaker 2: is like, these are things that hopefully, like Weeken.

497
00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:48,880
Speaker 1: Someday say that we're doing as well.

498
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,800
Speaker 2: Like that the Mets are playing this eighteen twenty four

499
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,480
Speaker 2: month stretch of one hundred plus win baseball that they're

500
00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 2: smoking their rivals, They're crushing it. They're just beaten the

501
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,880
Speaker 2: living hell out of teams and.

502
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:01,720
Speaker 1: Just destroying them.

503
00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:03,880
Speaker 2: And there wasn't there was a point last year where

504
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,320
Speaker 2: it was like that things at the beginning of the

505
00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,639
Speaker 2: year started off fantastic up to June first, I mean

506
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 2: even through June first, for a while, things were incredible. Yeah,

507
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 2: the team played, I said, we took four or five

508
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,480
Speaker 2: from the Braves. It's exact weekend, It's exact same time

509
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,200
Speaker 2: last year, and it really felt like, yeah, we got them.

510
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:22,720
Speaker 2: And then we went down there, we had tough, fought

511
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,240
Speaker 2: series and went down there a second time and it

512
00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,480
Speaker 2: was like, oh man, but so I love this Mets team,

513
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 2: Like you could feel it all weekend, like there's anger,

514
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,160
Speaker 2: it's frustration, there's is, it's it's upsetting and you could

515
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,359
Speaker 2: just you could feel it. Something happened last September. I

516
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,159
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know where it came from. It

517
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 2: just it just it's just been like that ever since. Yeah, no,

518
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 2: it's uh, it's definitely not no fun. I'm sure that

519
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,440
Speaker 2: nobody's having fun on the Mets side. There's no way

520
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 2: about that. Frustration, anger, disappointment. I think all the terms

521
00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,360
Speaker 2: that you'd get from your parents when like you got

522
00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 2: an F on a test or you know, got caught

523
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,480
Speaker 2: doing something whatever, it was, all those those buzzwords that

524
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,680
Speaker 2: they throw at you. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

525
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,439
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's how everybody feels right now. And you know,

526
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 2: light at the end of the tunnel hopefully coming soon.

527
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,479
Speaker 2: But that was a tough, tough series to watch at

528
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Speaker 2: least though we did get to see Code I Sanga

529
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Speaker 2: on Sunday, very much a bright spot in this team.

530
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Speaker 2: Also great to hear Francisco lindor Is is back and healthy,

531
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Speaker 2: because it started the series off with him having some

532
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:18,959
Speaker 2: some right side soort ofness, I believe is what they

533
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,879
Speaker 2: said ended up being okay, which is huge, huge, plus

534
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 2: love seeing Francisco Lindor play baseball every single day. But

535
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Speaker 2: speaking of Code, bright spining is a bright shining spot

536
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 2: after a rougher sitting really.

537
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Speaker 1: Settled in nice.

538
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this has been a couple of times this season

539
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 3: where we've seen Code I Sanga fight through some early

540
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 3: troubles and that first inning, it's just the big thing

541
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 3: is that the top of the Braves order is so

542
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,400
Speaker 3: ridiculously good. And when rond Dacunia gets on to lead

543
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 3: off an inning and you're just staring at him at

544
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 3: Alson obviously Albi's and Austin Riley, it's like, I don't

545
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 3: know what to do. I gotta really try and you

546
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,679
Speaker 3: could feel that. I think Coli was kind of squeezing

547
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 3: the ball tight with Akunya on base specifically, and just

548
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 3: that's pressure. That's what great base stealers do, and you

549
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 3: have to give credit to Acunya and the Brace for that.

550
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,639
Speaker 3: But it was so easy after that. I think at one

551
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 3: point he retired eleven in a row going through the second, third, fourth,

552
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,120
Speaker 3: and fifth innings like he wound up cruising to six

553
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 3: innings seven strikeouts. Only those three earned runs on on

554
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 3: the the Marcello's doing a basis clearing double in the

555
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 3: first where again like we give a lot of credit

556
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 3: to culture, but still in saying that guy's playing baseball

557
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 3: for this team and the way he's playing it, but

558
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 3: the way the Code I sang is pitching right now,

559
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 3: I'm trying to pull up the league lead isn't r

560
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 3: right now because his hasn't updated for the league, but

561
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 3: I want to see where he's at. Comparative league's three

562
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,879
Speaker 3: to thirty right now, So he's three thirty, but the

563
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 3: National League that he's only behind Blake Snell, Justin Steele,

564
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 3: Merril Kelly is still hanging out there. Was just crazy, Yeah,

565
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,080
Speaker 3: and then Zach Gallen and Zach Gallen. Yeah, so fifth,

566
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Speaker 3: fifth and National leagu gonna run average. It's just an

567
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 3: incredible rookie season for CODEI. He also he kind of

568
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 3: made an adjustment after that first inning tonight, which I

569
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 3: really like to see. In total, he had I lost

570
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 3: my tap. In total, he has sixteen swings and misses,

571
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 3: which is just exactly where he loves all the time,

572
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 3: and that first inning he was kind of pitching back

573
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Speaker 3: in a way where he started that with the season

574
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 3: pitching where it was fast ball's goes forks. Fast balls

575
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 3: goes forks. And then he just started dropping a lot

576
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 3: of curve balls in starting in the second inning. And

577
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 3: the first one he threw, if I remember correctly, was

578
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 3: to start the at bat against Ronald Acuna. His second

579
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 3: time up, the first pitch curveball right there, got a

580
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 3: called strike on him up on one to Counya, and

581
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 3: he just and the second pitch was ghost fork. Suddenly

582
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 3: was oh two. Ended that bat very quickly, very easily,

583
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Speaker 3: and cod I was throwing a bit of a flatter

584
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 3: curveball that was coming in a little bit harder today

585
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 3: that he was getting more call strikes. So he only

586
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,199
Speaker 3: threw five times to get three call strikes with it,

587
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 3: and there was one foul ball pretty good. And I

588
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 3: think that we've seen code I really make these quick

589
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 3: adjustments on the fly. We saw also a lot of

590
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,119
Speaker 3: colors tonight, only one less colored than fastball. It's really

591
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 3: become his primary pitch, which is really cool to see.

592
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 3: And he's throwing that pitch harder right now, with a

593
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 3: tiny bit less movement, but flattening his curveball a little bit.

594
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 3: I think kind of looking forward to be more of

595
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 3: like a get me over pitch, or maybe that's just

596
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 3: adjustment he made in game. You know, maybe he has

597
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 3: his loopy curveball and maybe he was like, now I'm

598
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 3: gonna throw my flat curveball, try and get it in.

599
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 3: Really cool to watch him just on the fly. Really

600
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 3: cool to see him mix set up Another thing the

601
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 3: Code that did in this game that was nice. His

602
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 3: slider pitch that has been a little hot cold development.

603
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 3: It's kind of been moving a little bit better than

604
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 3: his sweeper recently, the sweep or something that he was

605
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 3: trying to lotch the beginning of the year and didn't

606
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 3: work very well. He had six wings and missus Weather.

607
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 3: That's the most he's gotten in the start in his

608
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 3: career so far and the first time he the first

609
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 3: time he's even gotten five since May thirtieth, and otherwise

610
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 3: besides one start with five with tonight Sunday Night with

611
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,640
Speaker 3: six whifts, he's never gotten more than two in any

612
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 3: start as it met. So yeah, I'd be interesting to

613
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 3: see him work on that weapon. I think could be

614
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 3: something he's gonna use going forward.

615
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 2: Besides the just sheer ability that Code is saying has.

616
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 2: I think we now know very much as the chops

617
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 2: to cut it as a pitcher in the in the

618
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 2: majors right now. Base on what we've seen, he's looked great,

619
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Speaker 2: but he's very cerebral. He's always thinking. Like you said,

620
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 2: that ability to make the adjustments on the fly, it's

621
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 2: something that you hear from Granted, Code I like is

622
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 2: a veteran of pitching professionally, obviously because he had the

623
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Speaker 2: career in Japan, but making that adjustment while also being

624
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball learning, you know, how the game's

625
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: played over here comparatively to how it was in Japan.

626
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 2: That's something you hear, like some of the great pictures

627
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 2: in the game and talk about like, Okay, I realized

628
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 2: this pitch isn't working for me today, so I scrapped it.

629
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Speaker 1: I went to another one.

630
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 2: Like that growth that we've seen from code I alone

631
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 2: is just so encouraging for his career.

632
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 3: And just how quickly he's getting better and how easily

633
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 3: he's able to stack these adjustments one on top of

634
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 3: the other and like keep things moving forwards. It's been

635
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 3: such a pleasure to watch him. I really really enjoyed

636
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 3: Code that he's been a massive bright spot for this team.

637
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 3: The entire year and major winning for the front office.

638
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 3: Just having this guy locked up. Really love washing it.

639
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 3: But it was kind of the extent of the excitement

640
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 3: this series. The offense did click a little bit. We

641
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 3: had a nice, nice big inning, six run inning in

642
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 3: Geah on Sunday Night Baseball. Nice year. David Cone talk

643
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 3: about it too. David Cone is a great analyst. It's

644
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 3: really good to hear him talk about teams without the

645
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 3: shackles of Michael Kay and being able to speak freely.

646
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, this you got a series of tough one guys.

647
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 3: It was really tough one.

648
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Speaker 1: Yeah, guya give a shout to Jeff McNeil.

649
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Speaker 3: Two.

650
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Speaker 2: He's been hot recently since August fifth. He's hitting like

651
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 2: three forty or three fifty, with another three for five tonight.

652
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 2: Someone who I mean, I know the season is getting

653
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: a little late now and gotta be realistic here.

654
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Speaker 1: It's not looking great.

655
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: But good to see him swinging the bat better as

656
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 2: we get, you know, later on this season, because he

657
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 2: has had a bit of a disappointing season based on

658
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 2: where we know Jeff can be and what kind of

659
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 2: player he is.

660
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Speaker 1: So happy to see him swinging the bat well again

661
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 1: three for five.

662
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say that he's doing anything in particular

663
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 2: right now because I just I'm I'm not doing that

664
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Speaker 2: to Jeff.

665
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Speaker 1: He's our boy.

666
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 2: But he's playing really good baseball. Take a look at

667
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 2: his stats, so take a look at the game logs.

668
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: That's all say.

669
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 3: Also, for sure shout out Jose Cantana, who I say

670
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 3: it every single episode, but I just to him have

671
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 3: him being like the steadying force in the back of

672
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 3: the rotation. You really really think about where this team

673
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 3: could have been that was happening in April and May.

674
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 3: It really stinks. But giving up a one earned and

675
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 3: six innings on Saturday night, second game of Saturday's double

676
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 3: Heather Heah raised three h three in the season. It's

677
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 3: a really good spot to be for a veteran. And

678
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 3: he has pitched very well, very much up to the

679
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: contract we've given him, and he's been he's been a

680
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 3: really good guy to have a round.

681
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Speaker 1: Yep, No, it's been a it's been a pleasure to

682
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: watch him pitch as well.

683
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 2: So Tim mccashro back came back from injury. Got to

684
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 2: see Timmy low back in the game. So he was

685
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 2: playing a little bit Rafael Ortega was three for four

686
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 2: in this game. Just like some good contributions from everybody

687
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 2: on the field around the team. Seeing Brandon will play

688
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 2: a little left field two, which is interesting, so keeping

689
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 2: out for that as the season goes on. Otherwise, I

690
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 2: think the last thing to talk about with this series

691
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 2: is the estimate to which James ding Ding Ding right

692
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 2: on the money. It was hit by pitches and James

693
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 2: had said four. There was four in this series, so

694
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 2: James is the victor in this one. John, of course

695
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 2: is not with us tonight, so I'm gonna be reading

696
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 2: out the estimate for you guys. We're gonna keep it

697
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 2: nice and simple, keep it easy. Met's going up against

698
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: the Pirates. Will give you the pitching matchups and everything

699
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 2: he needs to know. In a second, total runs, total

700
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 2: runs between the two teams in the three game series.

701
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 2: Maybe now is a good chance for you to say,

702
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 2: who's pitching for us?

703
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have Monday evening seven to ten, Carlos carrasco

704
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: versus Pyrates prospect Quinn Priester. Tuesday also seven to ten,

705
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 3: Battle of Battle of the Lefties over here David Peterson

706
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 3: versus Bailey Falter, and then Wednesday afternoon, one o'clock Tyler

707
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 3: McGill versus johann O Vie though.

708
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 2: Okay, so total runs scored, I'm gonna go with there

709
00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: gonna be some runs this series.

710
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going I got a number. I got my number.

711
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: I wrote it down.

712
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna show it's on a very dirty piece

713
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 2: of paper. There's a lot of scribbles on here. I've

714
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: just been doodling while watching the Mets game. It's the

715
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 2: kind of energy I've got today. Is I'm a real doodler?

716
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I.

717
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 2: Got my number.

718
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 3: I made my first Sunday sauce of the season. Usually

719
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 3: wait till the fall. You got some nice meatballs going.

720
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 3: It was it was a nice day for sauce.

721
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 2: So what do you do for the meatballs? If you

722
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: can't put in like the bread or the bread crumbs

723
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 2: or anything like.

724
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 3: That, I just free bread comb.

725
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: It holds well. Okay.

726
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 3: Usually I just maybe will put like, instead of one egg,

727
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 3: I'll put two. Maybe if it's still a little ry,

728
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 3: I'll do a third egg. And there if I'm really

729
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 3: feeling crazy with a pound of beef, but.

730
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: Money bags over there, using three eggs for your meatballs.

731
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 3: The grocery store a get my eggs act, because I mean,

732
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 3: I feel like if any of you guys are living

733
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 3: New York, you probably understand the plight of like having

734
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 3: like four different grocery stores, like knowing which which grocery

735
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 3: store you get each thing. I don't think they know

736
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 3: about the egg thing I get. I got a dozen

737
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 3: eggs for three seventy nine. I don't think they have

738
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 3: any idea what's going on?

739
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: They got no cool I don't even know. Is it

740
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: still a problem in the egg prices.

741
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 3: I think it's relatively a problem, but not not for me,

742
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 3: not not at the Orange Tree, because the Orange hooks

743
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 3: it up, guys are it's a twenty four hour grocery store.

744
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.

745
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: That's huge for the lifestyle we live.

746
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 3: I know, like there have been a couple of times

747
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 3: I have like a popped in there, like you know,

748
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 3: three o'clock in the morning, get a pinpe Ben Jerry's

749
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 3: like just you know, just because just because you're feeling.

750
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: It, just because you're having a good time. All right,

751
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: I got my number, you guy yours?

752
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 3: I do, all right?

753
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: Three two one, twenty.

754
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 3: Six, twenty Oh okay, interesting things, So James twenty nine,

755
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 3: Marcus twenty six.

756
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: Yes, and James won the last one, so the series

757
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: is now tied. I don't know what the scores, but

758
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: all you need to know is it's uh, it's even.

759
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 2: It's even ask him as a game of streaks, like,

760
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 2: I think I'm on foreign a row right now after

761
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 2: after not winning one for about two weeks.

762
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 3: So that's how it is. That's how the game.

763
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: And love to know the last time, like we've actually

764
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 2: gone back and forth without just like wrap because like

765
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: you go up big, then I tie it, then we

766
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 2: then we kind of keep it close and then like

767
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: someone ends up winning. It's kind of what happened with

768
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 2: the second half one as well. Also, you have a

769
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 2: date for when you're gonna be wearing the jersey hopefully

770
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 2: right I've proposed date. I think I'm the goal is

771
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 2: gonna be again. We I still want to talk to

772
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 2: John cu You think it'd be.

773
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 3: Kind of funny to do on a Friday night, But

774
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 3: I also think it'd be funny the podcast in it.

775
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 3: So I think I think it's gonna be the Peacock

776
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 3: game Sunday, August twenty seventh against the Angels. I think

777
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 3: it it'll be a fun time. The only the only

778
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 3: thing I don't The only thing is a little scaring

779
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 3: me about the estimate punishment for the first half is like,

780
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 3: I don't want to make it like I'm like I'm

781
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 3: showing anybody up, because, like you know, the second half

782
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 3: hasn't gotten that well. I don't really want to make

783
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 3: a big spectacle about myself wearing cleats and baseball pants

784
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 3: at the baseball game. Like I want to just kind

785
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 3: of relax in the upper deck. I don't want to

786
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 3: go in the field. I don't want to know we're

787
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 3: not going on the field. No, no, no, I don't I

788
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 3: do not want. I want to be very respectful to

789
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: everyone in the organization. I don't want to offend anybody here.

790
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 3: Like when you were wearing a tux, see you, that's

791
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 3: like it was stupid, but it was classy and it

792
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 3: was opening day and everyone including John John was wearing

793
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 3: this Joinny threats is silk sat in that day? What's

794
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 3: our what's our word for John's episode?

795
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:41,719
Speaker 2: Uh?

796
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: How about nut meg? Nutmeg?

797
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, John john'son futy he likes fuddy.

798
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, nut meg.

799
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: I'll keeping up the MLS. I think that the Premier

800
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 3: League goes off next week.

801
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: No started this weekend weekend.

802
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Earling Holland is picked up right where he left off.

803
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 2: He scored two goals against Fulham. Big for my Premier

804
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 2: League fantasy team. Yeah, shoutout England. I really like England.

805
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a big fan of England. Recently. I love England,

806
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: but we also hate it a little bit.

807
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 3: I hated it a little bit, but I also really

808
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 3: like it. Yeah, to interesting to economy right now for England.

809
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 3: But uh, previous Pirates series, guys, Pittsburgh Pirates have had

810
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 3: a very bad couple of months of baseball. They were

811
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 3: the darling of April and May, and they've completely fallen

812
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 3: by the wayside. Their offenses drive up, their pitching has

813
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 3: really taken, not even just a step back, three or

814
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 3: four or five steps back. It is not been a

815
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 3: fun summer for the Pittsburgh Pirates. They have showed some

816
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 3: progress this year, and I think they are a team

817
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 3: that is probably closer to competition than I think a

818
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 3: lot of people thought. And they also lost their best

819
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 3: player like the second week of the season in O'Neil Cruz,

820
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 3: who was looking like he was going to put together

821
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 3: what was going to be some kind of some kind

822
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 3: of It's also funny I'm saying all these words. Mets

823
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 3: in the Pirates is the exact same record. Yes, cool, okay, sick.

824
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 3: But it looks like O'Neil Cruz was going to be

825
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 3: putting together what could have in like the big breakouts

826
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 3: season for him, putting all those tools together into being

827
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 3: like a real Marquee player. But hasn't happened so much,

828
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 3: And now they're just kind of having the Pittsburgh Pirates

829
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 3: season that everyone sort of the kind of expects. And

830
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 3: now that's okay, that's the Pittsburgh Pirrates, That's who they are.

831
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 3: That's not no big deal. But there are still a

832
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 3: lot of exciting players in this team. I think there's

833
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 3: a lot of cool things to watch coming to the series.

834
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: Bryan Reynolds has been scorching hot. He's, of course a

835
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 3: really good baseball player. He's just he's just a cosmic pro.

836
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 3: Goes out there, he plays the outfield, switch hit their

837
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 3: hits for power, hits for average. Like He's one of

838
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 3: the more underrated Marquee good players in baseball that I

839
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 3: don't think a lot of people know as much about

840
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 3: as they probably should yep.

841
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: And he's signed that big contract with the Pirates as well,

842
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: so he's gonna be there for quite some time.

843
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: A guy who wants to be in Pittsburgh.

844
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 2: Kind of cool for a young player who's in his prime,

845
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: who had free agency years coming up, being like, no,

846
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: I want to be here. I want to be a

847
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 2: part of this because, like we said, they definitely have

848
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 2: some good stuff coming up. The line got to talk

849
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 2: about the prospects that they got up as well. Henry

850
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 2: Davis not swinging the bat as well as he was

851
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 2: when he first came up, but the former number one

852
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 2: overall pick catcher out of Louisville. They said, you're not anymore.

853
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,239
Speaker 2: You're playing the outfield. We want you out there. So

854
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: he's not playing great, but he crushes baseballs when he

855
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: gets a hold of them. And then of course got

856
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 2: to talk about Dy Rodriguez. My boy, Andy have been

857
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: all over Dy for a while. Former Mets prospect. Unfortunately

858
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: don't have him anymore. He's part of the Joey Lucase trade.

859
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 2: I believe where we got Joey Lucazy in that three

860
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 2: team trade. But Dy has been hot recently, I believe,

861
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 2: playing better of late, but he's also kind of in

862
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 2: that same boat of like remember when Alvarez first got

863
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 2: called up catching at the pro level for a guy

864
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: who also is getting thrown around to three other different

865
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 2: positions of the miners and being a rookie while also

866
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: still trying to hit and playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

867
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: So he has some ups and downs. But he's a

868
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: special player.

869
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 3: And he actually has appeared at first base in one

870
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 3: game this year. But Endy is a prospect. I'm also

871
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 3: I'm very high. He's just an exciting, like explosive, like

872
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 3: twitchy young player. He's like smaller, but you can really

873
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: see the way like his very strong wrists, which is

874
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 3: kind of cool thing to see the young hit. You

875
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 3: could really turn on a ball. But Andy, I think

876
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 3: kind of got very rude a waking to the major leagues.

877
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 3: He's struck out in six was first seven at bats

878
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 3: over two games the first weekend he came up. Since

879
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,719
Speaker 3: that time, though, he's hitting two fifty three twenty three

880
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,439
Speaker 3: for eighty two, so basically a eight hundred ops said

881
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 3: since his first two games of his career. One fifteen

882
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 3: WRC plus and ten percent walkery, twenty seven percent strike

883
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 3: I rate two home runs. I think he is someone

884
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 3: who has some very serious potential. He kind of had

885
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 3: a disappointing year in Triple A this year, especially relative

886
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 3: to where he was the year before, because in twenty

887
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,479
Speaker 3: twenty two in Double A at twenty two years old,

888
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 3: he was one hundred percent bellianly gaverage two hundred WRC plus,

889
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 3: he was walking basically as muchs he was striking out

890
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 3: with a three fifty four to forty six to eighty

891
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 3: triple slash in Double A twenty two year old, and

892
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 3: this year Triple A just he didn't really have it,

893
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 3: but I think it was morally a lot. I think

894
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 3: a lot of focus was given to him on defensive

895
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 3: stuff because I think coming up as a catcher with

896
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 3: a young pitching staff, I think they know, especially with

897
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 3: the Henry Davis thing, which I was I thought would

898
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 3: be kind of cool for both of them to move around.

899
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 3: Because Endy has played to matlefield and some second base

900
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 3: in the minor leagues, he kind of has more of

901
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 3: a utility player frame than a catcher. I'd say, like

902
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 3: he's like six foot six to one, maybe like one

903
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 3: hundred eighty pounds, maybe probably listed below that. I kind

904
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 3: of love the fact that they could have had like

905
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 3: this crazy catching tandem. They're Putt Davis the outfield which

906
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 3: do what you do. That's their organization. But he and

907
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 3: he's very exciting. I also do want to shout out

908
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 3: a former Met who the first month of the season

909
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 3: he had, he was getting a lot of a lot

910
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 3: of stuff on Twitter because he was looking really, really good.

911
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:17,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

912
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 3: Colin Holderman had one, two, three, four, five, six, Yeah,

913
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 3: ten games scoreless streak going on through the end of May.

914
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 3: In early June, his pitches were up in miles an hour.

915
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 3: They was all over pitching ninja. But since then, since

916
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 3: June third, he has a five v RA with a

917
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 3: five FIP, So I think he is probably still the

918
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 3: guy everyone thought he was. Strikeouts have gone down, the

919
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 3: walks have gone up. The amazing velocity that was kind

920
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 3: of kind of supporting him up for a while has

921
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 3: gone away. Mostly he missed a couple weeks of injury.

922
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 3: We know he's had some injury problems in the past,

923
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 3: so I think that's another you know, like the ll

924
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 3: Mets thing. But you won't hear because for the past

925
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 3: two months, cal Holderman's been a five vr guy.

926
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and of course shot your boy Dave Bednar. Are

927
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 2: we gonna we're gonna get to meet Dave this weekend.

928
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna we.

929
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 3: Gonna this week I'm intending tom going it's wrong. Yeah,

930
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna shoot. I'mnna shot my bother. They ross

931
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 3: the text tomorrow, be like, Hey, tell David Dave a

932
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 3: look out for me on Felix. I would really like

933
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 3: to say hi and get that picture Dave. Dave Bednars

934
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 3: just is a hell of a guy. He's just like

935
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 3: he like a lot of times you meet some of

936
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 3: these athletes, not I feel like every guy we've met,

937
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 3: especially every guy in the mess has been incredibly kind

938
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: but also grateful to West. But yeah, some players and

939
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 3: other sports and like I met players and other teams before,

940
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 3: Like one guy I met, Jordan Hicks, not the nice guy.

941
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 3: Yeah he could just say it like Jordan Hicks. Yeah,

942
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 3: he wasn't that much fun. But Dave Bednar is just

943
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 3: like exactly who he is. Like he's born and bred Pittsburgh.

944
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 3: He loves he loves Pittsburgh, loves Pennsylvania, loves the Midwest.

945
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 3: He just drinks light beer. He has a really nice fiance,

946
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 3: I took around New York one night when they were

947
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 3: in town a few years ago. Like, he's just he's

948
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 3: just a hell of a guy, really good guy, nice family,

949
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 3: like just all good people. Love the bed Nars and

950
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: I hope to say had a day this week?

951
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it should be an interesting series. Definitely

952
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 2: keep it out for I'll be at the stadium on

953
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 2: Monday for sure, going with my parents and gonna go

954
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 2: hang out. So if any of you guys are there,

955
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 2: We've been seeing a lot of you guys recently at

956
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 2: the ballpark, so remember say what's up to us. We

957
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 2: have some stickers to give to you guys if you

958
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 2: ever see us. And then of course we'll be there

959
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 2: on Wednesday to record the episode. So otherwise I don't

960
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 2: think anything else, James, you got anything else you want

961
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: to talk about?

962
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: Here? Is it time to wrap this one up?

963
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 3: All good in this Just keep an eye on Quinn

964
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 3: Priesters curveballs, curveball's nuts. It's a really good ques bringing

965
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: him to the major that the rest of the pitch

966
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 3: is not that exciting, but that curveball is nice.

967
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 2: There you go, keep an eye out for Quinn Preesters,

968
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 2: curveball of course always James always got a little something

969
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: for us.

970
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: To keep an eye out for.

971
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: But guys is always thank you so much for listening

972
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 2: and watching. Make sure you follow us on all our

973
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: social media at metstup, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Subscribe to

974
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 2: the New York Mets YouTube channel for the video version

975
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: of our podcast. And if you're listening to us Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google,

976
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 2: whatever it is, drop us a rating, drop us a review,

977
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 2: download and subscribe.

978
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: Again, we really do appreciate all you guys hanging around.

979
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 2: This season's been a little tough, but any of you

980
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 2: that are still listening and watching and supporting, we really

981
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: do appreciate it. It's awesome that we're all we're all

982
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 2: sick in the head together, so we appreciate that. Thank

983
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 2: you guys for watching, and we'll catch you on the

984
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 2: next episode of the Best of podcast.

985
00:37:58,280 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: Peace Out, peace

986
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 3: Out, See you guys next time.