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Speaker 1: What's up, Mets fans, What's up listeners of the met

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Speaker 1: Stuff podcast. We are back here with another episode, episode

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Speaker 1: number forty of the met Stuff podcast, after a series

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Speaker 1: against the Washington Nationals. So that compared to what's happened

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks, was fantastic, but you know, there's

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Speaker 1: still some things to take note of there anyway, great

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Speaker 1: series against the Nationals of course, undercast draftneck Mark Mark

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Speaker 1: metst up. And let's talk about those Mets because we

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Speaker 1: just swept the Washington Nationals, which is not much of

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Speaker 1: an accomplishment, but the way that this team has been playing,

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Speaker 1: it feels like we're on top of the world again almost.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a difference of how this episode

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Speaker 2: The last two really, but this is what we were

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Speaker 2: supposed to do. The Mets really couldn't have gone forward

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Speaker 2: with the season of competitive baseball if they did not

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Speaker 2: sweep the Nationals, even after winning the first two games.

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Speaker 2: Heading into Game two just a few hours ago, Ronnie

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Speaker 2: said it himself, like those two games mean nothing if

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Speaker 2: you can't get all three of them here, because they're

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Speaker 2: really really make it up one game when everybody else

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Speaker 2: instead of having all three wins in your bag, especially

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Speaker 2: with how the last game of the series could have ended,

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Speaker 2: it almost ruined my entire day.

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Speaker 1: So we will get to that at some point. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start off with game one. Here. We had

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Speaker 1: for us, but something that maybe is something keeping out

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Speaker 1: for here not been starting games great. Didn't get off

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Speaker 1: to a great start in this one against the Nationals,

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Speaker 1: but it also wasn't a great start in terms of

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Speaker 1: it just started pouring raining immediately. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: why we started this game. This has happened all year long.

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Speaker 2: No, it was like really clear it was going to

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Speaker 2: rain between seven and eight on Tuesday night. Everyone and

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Speaker 2: it was very clear what was gonna happen. The radar

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Speaker 2: of the antithesis of the game that we tried to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because on that night we were going to the

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Speaker 1: It was crazy, and we thought we were gonna have

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Speaker 1: This game started well knowing, I mean, everybody knew. There

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Speaker 1: like at WX Mets and I'll give them a shout

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Speaker 1: I just don't know how this game is gonna start,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And like the other irony of it was that

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Speaker 2: That was a really, really tough way to start this

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Speaker 1: It was an absolute gut punch. I didn't expect Carlos

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Speaker 2: Probably not he asked for the ball, which, like, I

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Speaker 3: But there was just no reason for rich Haill to

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Speaker 2: He's been pitching basically on seven days rest his entire

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Speaker 1: He wasn't. But like you said, I did love the

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Speaker 2: Making me a botch to ground ball and rich Hill

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Speaker 2: showing up players, but I don't think it really was

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Jeff McNeil was frustrated as well.

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Speaker 2: He had a pretty brutal series defensively, but we'll talk

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how many times he's gonna come to the plate

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Speaker 1: rich Hill I feel like has the least amount of

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Speaker 2: If any picture in baseball, I'd probably say even some relievers,

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Speaker 2: I think of a much better shot than rich Hill.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather send Luis Rojas up there.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's not even a question, of course.

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Speaker 1: He was.

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Speaker 3: He was hustling in that drag bunt.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he ran it out. He will give all his effort.

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Speaker 1: That effort's just out of a forty three year old man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 2: He was moving and grooving like and he there were

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Speaker 2: some strides like Richell has a long legs, like he's

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Speaker 3: But he was, he was busted. I give Richell all

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Speaker 2: He didn't really perform super great, but he's a gamer

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Speaker 2: and you can never take that.

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Speaker 3: Away from him.

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Speaker 1: Can't take it away from him. But in the same regards,

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Speaker 1: did put us in quite a hole. But luckily the

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Speaker 2: Rich Hill's first inning, which was the second even stupid

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Speaker 2: there then actually starting the game on Tuesday night was

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Speaker 3: I believe it was a walk. I think he just hit.

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Speaker 2: I don't recall exactly, but when we started suspended game

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Speaker 2: yesterday there was a man on first, nobody out for rich.

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Speaker 1: Hill, Yeah, and he gave up like a quasi double.

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Speaker 1: Dom misplayed it terribly in left field, which we've been

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Speaker 1: it showed there. So it put us in a four

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Speaker 1: He's probably the best offensive player on this team. I

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't say the best at all. You're forgetting the how

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Speaker 2: I think he's probably the catalyst, but he's definitely not

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Speaker 1: I would say the most important. I revised just all

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Speaker 1: who's gone back to like his little base knock kind

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Speaker 1: Jeff mcgeal came up. Yeah, that was great. And then

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Speaker 1: JD big two out double. When we called JD out

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Speaker 1: looked a lot better this series and he got started

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Speaker 2: Definitely, everything that JD did wrong in the last week

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Speaker 2: he just corrected in a three day stretch. Like all

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Speaker 2: of the things we were talking about about his hand

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Speaker 2: being bad, he couldn't hit fastballs, that was all put

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Speaker 2: very well behind him. It makes me more even more

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Speaker 2: so question what was going wrong in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just he maybe just wasn't feeling great like

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Speaker 1: we saw that remember with Pete back into Tampa when

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Speaker 1: That could be what happened with JD. Davis. But luckily

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Speaker 1: for us, he's been hitting the ball better. And then

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Speaker 1: Dick Mountain came back out and just gave up a

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Speaker 1: a clean inning pretty much this entire game.

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Speaker 2: No, he's pitched on four days rest and he only

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Speaker 2: throws ninety miles an hour when he does, with only

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Speaker 2: a fast ball in the curve ball. Like I know,

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Speaker 2: this National's lineup is like a glory not even a

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Speaker 2: glorified Triple A lineup. This is a triple A lineup

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Speaker 2: that includes Wan so though in Josh Bell. But he

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Speaker 1: No, he like as much as cheesy as it was.

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Speaker 2: because Jonathan VR does that he's the wild Card's the

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Speaker 2: And then Brandon Drury, Yeah, God just doesn't get out

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Speaker 1: So without Brandon Drury, we don't get ahead in this game.

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Speaker 3: He blew smoke by one.

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Speaker 2: So though that was like Vince Slider too, it was

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Speaker 1: He just is always due up. I don't know how

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure did?

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Speaker 1: That was interesting for you Mets fans if you aren't

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Speaker 1: That's what was Big Apple. I'm like, one you want

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Speaker 1: I like it. If Wan Soda wants to be a Mets,

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Speaker 1: I will find a place for him. I'll I'll give

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Speaker 2: We play this team again in two weeks, and I'm

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Speaker 1: Do we really want that?

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Speaker 3: Of course, why would not.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Stevenson's gonna play more? And he just absolutely owns us.

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Speaker 3: Taking Andrew Stevenson out and never have and never wil home.

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Speaker 3: My god.

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Speaker 2: But the real story in Game one was the Mets

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Speaker 2: As a team, eleven of our fourteen hard hit balls

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Speaker 2: right now. This is it, Joe Ross as we should

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Speaker 1: Joe Ross and Klaba Slits and and Andres Machado the

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Speaker 2: It was just nice to see frozen ropes being hit

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Speaker 1: Yes, and it push us or put us in a

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Speaker 2: The storm on Wednesday night was biblical, and it literally

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's kind of funny.

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Speaker 1: No, we're not doing this again, which is why we

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Speaker 2: But people like spend their harder and money go to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's a pretty awful feeling. Not everyone has

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Speaker 2: Taking a thirty minutes subway like may like that's nice

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Speaker 1: No, it's nice being twenty five, right, But anyway, we

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Speaker 1: always great at the plate, and was even better, probably

439
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Speaker 1: one of his better offensive games of the year in

440
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Speaker 1: Game two.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, these two literally just put us on their backs.

442
00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,320
Speaker 2: Nimo had all four RBIs in this game. He had

443
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Speaker 2: a massive three run home run the second inning. When

444
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Speaker 2: if you're in a seven inning game you can get

445
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Speaker 2: a three run home run early, it just feels like, Wow,

446
00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,600
Speaker 2: we are completely in control of this. Any lead in

447
00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,960
Speaker 2: the seven inning game feels like a whole different version

448
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Speaker 2: of baseball. But the only reason that home run was

449
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Speaker 2: able to happen because savvy Marcus Stroman antidh argument right here,

450
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Speaker 2: made one of the better baseball plays I've seen this year,

451
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Speaker 2: dropping a drag bun with two outs and VR stranded

452
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Speaker 2: on first base after lead off single and he hoofed

453
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Speaker 2: it out and it got branded Nemo up with two

454
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Speaker 2: men on, and it really felt like Multichool Baseball was

455
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Speaker 2: magical for a moment there.

456
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you love bunting and you love pictures hitting,

457
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Speaker 1: you got a heart on for that one. For me,

458
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Speaker 1: I would have rather seen an actual major league hitter

459
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Speaker 1: in the line, but hey, it worked out, so I'm

460
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Speaker 1: not gonna complain. I'll let it happen because it went

461
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Speaker 1: our way. I'm a fair weather fan with the DH.

462
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Speaker 1: When it works, it works for me, and when it doesn't,

463
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Speaker 1: I get mad. But anyway, huge home run for Nemo,

464
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Speaker 1: and he got another RBI single in the fourth, which

465
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Speaker 1: gave us some insurance which we saw would come in handy.

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Speaker 1: A little bit too.

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Speaker 3: Different game This one's didn't come in handy.

468
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Speaker 1: In this one, well, it almost almost shruma scared us

469
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Speaker 1: a little. Yeah enough, but yeah enough. I'm kind of

470
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Speaker 1: all over the place here with Game two. I know

471
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Speaker 1: I'm jumping all over the place, but I want to

472
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Speaker 1: talk about how bad Sean Nolan is and how the

473
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Speaker 1: nets worse smacking him around, because it was refreshing to

474
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Speaker 1: see eight hits in three innings, but you don't see

475
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Speaker 1: that often, even though it was only three runs at

476
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Speaker 1: the time, but all came on one home run that

477
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Speaker 1: follow the bloop single and a drag bunt, but still

478
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Speaker 1: just nice thing hits, niceing hits, Frozen ropes left frozen ropes.

479
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Speaker 1: They looked very comfortable again at the plate in Game two.

480
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Speaker 1: It was also off of Sean Nolan, who I don't know.

481
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Speaker 1: Sean Nolan sounds like a news anchor, and in Idaho

482
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Speaker 1: we made him look like the pitcher that he is.

483
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Speaker 1: And that's good to say because the Mets have been

484
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Speaker 1: making Braxton Garrett and Matt Moore. Matt Moore looked like

485
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Speaker 1: studs this year, so hey, we hit Sean Nolan, as

486
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Speaker 1: you should. But for this team that's a big deal.

487
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Speaker 2: Yeah, very big deal. And the bigger deal in this

488
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Speaker 2: game was Marcus Stroman having one of his I don't

489
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Speaker 2: want to say his best or most impressive performance of

490
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Speaker 2: the seasons, but his most necessary performances of the season,

491
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Speaker 2: because when we had an early league against the Nationals,

492
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Speaker 2: you just really don't want to give them even a

493
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Speaker 2: second to breathe, and Marcus Stroman did an incredible job

494
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Speaker 2: of keeping them not only off the board, but off

495
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Speaker 2: of the bass pass and most of the innings that

496
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Speaker 2: we played it was easy inning after easy inning form

497
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Speaker 2: Marcus early. He had a very good distribution of his

498
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Speaker 2: four main pitches this game, between the sinker, the color,

499
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Speaker 2: the slider, and the splither. The color was the second

500
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Speaker 2: most throne pitch and back to back starts after he

501
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Speaker 2: didn't really use it that much in May or June.

502
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Speaker 2: He kind of has been tipping up a little bit

503
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Speaker 2: sincely and end of July and August, as he was

504
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Speaker 2: using a lot on April. Has something to keep an

505
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Speaker 2: eye on. I'm also just kind of skeptical. I'm where

506
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Speaker 2: the line is drawn between sliders and cols on Baseball Savant,

507
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Speaker 2: So we could just be throwing a shit ton of sliders,

508
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Speaker 2: which would also be like a fantastic advancement in Marcus

509
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Speaker 2: Stroman's repertoire. I'd love he became like a sixty percent

510
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Speaker 2: slider guy like we saw Cookie do two starts ago.

511
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Speaker 2: And all of those off speeds had multiple whiffs. I mean,

512
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Speaker 2: actually all the pitches had multiple whiffs, but all the

513
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Speaker 2: off speeds had more than multiple. Slider had five on

514
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Speaker 2: nine swings. SPLI there had three on four swings and

515
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Speaker 2: overall it was the third highest whiff rate from Stroman

516
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Speaker 2: in a singular start all season. So it was very,

517
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Speaker 2: very positive development from a guy we were worried about

518
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Speaker 2: less than a month ago.

519
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Speaker 1: No, he was so back and it's crazy because he

520
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Speaker 1: was so dominant for those first five and then the

521
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Speaker 1: sixth the inning came around and just like that, Mets

522
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Speaker 1: fans tensed up a little bit. Here got real tight

523
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Speaker 1: because Shrom he gave a couple hits here and there,

524
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Speaker 1: and we had to bring an Aaron Loop to face

525
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Speaker 1: Juan Soto because of course Wan Soto comes up in

526
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Speaker 1: a big situation as a way one game and Wan

527
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Speaker 1: Soto might have had one of the best at bats

528
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Speaker 1: I could remember in a long time down two and

529
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Speaker 1: by the way, the first strike was not a strike

530
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Speaker 1: at all. It was a horrendous call.

531
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Speaker 2: Thank god we got that strike because getting a strike

532
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Speaker 2: on one, so that changes everything. He'll like will strategize

533
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Speaker 2: as whole that bat around, just how it begins, like

534
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 2: you kind I don't want to say he gets defensive,

535
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,280
Speaker 2: because he doesn't, but he also does because he's able

536
00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,359
Speaker 2: to be defensive while also having power, which is something

537
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Speaker 2: that I don't know who else in the whole world

538
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Speaker 2: could really do. It's not fair, no, but you could

539
00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,280
Speaker 2: just see the whole vibe switch and it kind of

540
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Speaker 2: put Loop in the driver's seat, which was necessary to

541
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Speaker 2: even walk one, so which I thought that should have

542
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Speaker 2: done from the start.

543
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought so too.

544
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they ended up walking him anyway from O two,

545
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Speaker 2: which is just a testament to his ability and his

546
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Speaker 2: play discipline. But that was just so stressful, and then

547
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Speaker 2: luckily we got out of it from Josh Bell instigating

548
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Speaker 2: one of the wildest double players I've ever seen in

549
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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 1: Dude. First off, thank you Josh Bell for like existing,

551
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Speaker 1: because that guy's just like, so not very good. I

552
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,199
Speaker 1: think you like him a little bit more. I'm just like,

553
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,520
Speaker 1: that guy's a little bit more. He's okay, he's just

554
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 1: he like, doesn't even really hit the wall that hard,

555
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 1: I feel like. But anyway, regardless, he hit a ball

556
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Speaker 1: up the middle that I'm like, oh, yeah, the shift,

557
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,040
Speaker 1: we're good. McNeil gets and I'm like, oh easy step

558
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,480
Speaker 1: on second throw to first. McNeil decides to make a toss,

559
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: which was nuts. That was the first crazy thing here.

560
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 2: Jonathan VR came from out of the camera frame to

561
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 2: grab the ball, take three steps, step on the bag,

562
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 2: and then just throw a nice back shoulder past to

563
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Speaker 2: Peter the Lonzo over the safety in the back of

564
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Speaker 2: the end zone. It was like I was screaming at

565
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Speaker 2: my television watching it, and he had like a little

566
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,159
Speaker 2: pure wet from a Josh Bell sliding out of the

567
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Speaker 2: way to tag him right in the shoulder.

568
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Speaker 3: And then they barely even got him too.

569
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of no, no, no, what like

570
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,440
Speaker 1: that happening in that moment, and when Pete made the tag,

571
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I fucking hate this

572
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,880
Speaker 1: team so much, like it's never easy. Why why can't

573
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Speaker 1: it just be easy? And then I mean it was

574
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 1: easy after that, the Diaz was lights out again in

575
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Speaker 1: the ninth I guess the seventh seventhly shut the door

576
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Speaker 1: and the Mets win. We take the series, which is

577
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Speaker 1: something that we had to do. But that left us

578
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Speaker 1: with a little more work to do because we had

579
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Speaker 1: to sweep. Now, we had to sweep. Phillies won one

580
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: game against the Dodgers, so if we really want to

581
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 1: make some ground up here, a sweep is what we

582
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 1: had to do. And Game three we went right back

583
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Speaker 1: at it. No punk line. Amazing. We played a competent team.

584
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Speaker 2: It's interesting that you're talking about the Phillies and instead

585
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:05,919
Speaker 2: of the first place Atlanta Braves.

586
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I guess them too.

587
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 2: No punt lineup in the seond game of double header

588
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 2: was such a breath of fresh air.

589
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Speaker 3: First time.

590
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Speaker 2: I feel like we've done it all season long. Just

591
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 2: to see Brandon Demo and Jeff McNeil, MPI, the Lonzo NJD.

592
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 2: Davis and Jonathan vir who is crazily shockingly one of

593
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 2: the most important players who's been in this team this season,

594
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 2: all to be back in the lineup. It was very

595
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Speaker 2: clear the Met's attitude has shifted over the past two weeks.

596
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Speaker 1: Question for you, what you think Louis Rojas has got

597
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 1: a little more involvement in the lineup now or you

598
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Speaker 1: think it's still sandy.

599
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 2: I think that it's probably an entire organizational shift into

600
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Speaker 2: being like, we can't take it easy anymore. We don't

601
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Speaker 2: care if something goes wrong.

602
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Speaker 3: Season's just over.

603
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,439
Speaker 2: You kind of just have to play like kind of

604
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 2: pushed up against the wall at this point, and luckily

605
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Speaker 2: we did because we needed all hands on deck to

606
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Speaker 2: actually win this game.

607
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Speaker 1: This one was stressful. Now, Trevor Williams made his first

608
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Speaker 1: start as a New York Met and through the first

609
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: three it was actually really good, super efficient. I was

610
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Speaker 1: surprised with how well he pitched.

611
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Speaker 2: I mean it pitch fine, like there was nothing effective

612
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Speaker 2: about it, Like he in the entire adding he only

613
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 2: had two whiffs to go along with two walks and

614
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: two strikeouts. So it was a big deuce's game for

615
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Speaker 2: Trevor Williams and the Nationals. Just like swinging a lot,

616
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Speaker 2: because Trevor Williams throws a lot of not scary pitches,

617
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Speaker 2: generally near the plate. Like he did a good job

618
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Speaker 2: of finding the shadow, something that we've spoken about a

619
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Speaker 2: lot this year with Mets hitters, But Trevor Williams kind

620
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,959
Speaker 2: of lived in that periphery area around the strike. Soon

621
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Speaker 2: it turned out to be great because you kind of

622
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Speaker 2: get a guy to swing, but he can't hit the

623
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Speaker 2: ball as hard as he would like.

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Speaker 1: I feel like to explain Trevor Williams, this sum is

625
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Speaker 1: in the best I texted you. I'm like, after three,

626
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Speaker 1: he just got his first strikeout as a New York Met, Like,

627
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: he just doesn't have that kind of stuff, But he

628
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Speaker 1: was very effective.

629
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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And in those first three innings that

630
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Speaker 2: we talked about being so efficient, Nationals only had three

631
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 2: hard hit balls. So that's like, that's fine for Trevor Williams,

632
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Speaker 2: especially the way the Mets have shifted. I also thought

633
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Speaker 2: it was funny how Trevor Williams had twenty seven pitches

634
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Speaker 2: and three innings and Rich Hill had seventy four.

635
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Speaker 1: And I think that they said that Trevor Williams and

636
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Speaker 1: those three was the fewest amount of Mets pitchers had

637
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Speaker 1: in three innings, and that's seventy four by rich Hill

638
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,400
Speaker 1: was the most of Mets pitchers had three inning.

639
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 2: That's cool. It's a great juxtaposition from two guys who

640
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 2: are like basically exactly the same.

641
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 1: Yin and Yang. One's just a righty and one's a lefty.

642
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 3: Here isn't Trevor Williams Tadded? Do I think another wrong guy?

643
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I feel like if you're on

644
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: a Stephen brawl.

645
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 2: I could be thinking of Stephen Browl. That makes sense.

646
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: That guy definitely is Tadded. And Trevor Williams was a

647
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 1: former pirate.

648
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, of course, Trevor Williams a form pirates.

649
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 2: Did you hear the anecdote they told about Trevor williams

650
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 2: dad on the broadcast today?

651
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: No, but I think I know the story, but tell

652
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: it again for those who don't.

653
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 2: Trevor Williams grew up in the San Diego area, but

654
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Speaker 2: he grew up a Cubs fan because his dad came

655
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Speaker 2: from Chicago and his dad was adolescent when Ernie Banks

656
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: was playing for the Cubs and actually played hookey to

657
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: head to Wrigley Field for a day game, the game

658
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: in which Ernie Banks hit his five hundred home run.

659
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Speaker 1: That's pretty sick.

660
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 3: That's a baseball family.

661
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: That's a baseball family. Yeah, because I remember when Trevor

662
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Speaker 1: Williams signed with the Cubs this offseason or whenever they

663
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 1: got him, it was like a big deal. He was like,

664
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: I'm I'm home.

665
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 2: As big of a deal as Trevor Williams signing with

666
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 2: the Cubs could possibly be.

667
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: Well, not for the Cubs team, for Trevor Williams and

668
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,239
Speaker 1: his family. That's where I met, yeah them.

669
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 2: He actually threw like five or six perfect endings in

670
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 2: his first game with the Cubs.

671
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: And he pitched well against the Mets too. When we

672
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: will face them. That's probably why we traded for him.

673
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: Like that guy's a good picture right there.

674
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 2: Because he can go to minor leagues, which he will

675
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 2: probably next week. That's why we traded for him. Don't

676
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 2: get it twisted.

677
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: Gave us five fiant innings four and Yeah, there was.

678
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 2: A little bit of confusion with him coming out of

679
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 2: the game because that was the inning that we had

680
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 2: to condford their JD back to back doubles, and it

681
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 2: looked like we were gonna have a big inning, so

682
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 2: Lugo started warming up in the bullpen and then just

683
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 2: the way the inning worked out because I think that

684
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: VR was on Yeah, if VR was on Bassis McCann

685
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 2: hit the tailor made double play. Luis Garcia threw the

686
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 2: ball just to the moon. He tries his best job

687
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 2: VR impersonation and couldn't pull it off.

688
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: It was a crazy throw. I just like I was

689
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 1: like thinking about I was listening and I was like, oh, yeah,

690
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: that throw was nuts. It was almost as if he

691
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: tried to throw it like completely out of play.

692
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 2: He's also just not a shortstop, so I understand. But

693
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 2: it turns out there just to be a man on

694
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 2: first and one out with Trevor Williams coming up, so

695
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 2: now it's like a bunch situation. He was cruising along,

696
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 2: so you might as well leave him out there. But

697
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 2: we saw Hash to trust his instincts because Trevor Williams

698
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: was unfit to pitch that fifth inning, and it showed

699
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 2: luckily though. Seth Lugo looked sharp for the first time

700
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 2: in actual weeks and cleaned up the mess very efficiently.

701
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: He looked very good. I don't know if he's still back,

702
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: but he looked good, and that's a very promising sign.

703
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 2: I think he might be pretty back because Gelbzi share

704
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 2: the great little nugget of information that Lugo, I guess

705
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 2: told him directly or that he found out in the clubhouse. Basically,

706
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 2: Seth Lugo thinks that he'd been overthrowing, but not overthrowing

707
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 2: as in like too much effort with his arm. Because

708
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 2: Seth Lugo has a crazy shoulder, crazy elbow. The spin

709
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 2: rates are off the charts high star PM's vinny curveball

710
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 2: and baseball, but he was basically using too much legs

711
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,479
Speaker 2: and that was causing him to get too into all

712
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,479
Speaker 2: of his pitches, get too far on top of all

713
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 2: of them, and that's why he wasn't really as able

714
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 2: to locate over the last few weeks. And Ronnie actually

715
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: corroborated and said that he's gone through similar spells in

716
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 2: his career. Of course not to the same extent because

717
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 2: he can't put the same kind of torque on the.

718
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 3: Ball seth Lugo.

719
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: But I thought it was interesting to hear that explanation

720
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: actually to watch it play out, see Lugo much more

721
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 2: af then he'd been.

722
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, ron was cash money this series, like he

723
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: all year long has been hitting the nail on the

724
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: head with everything, but particularly this series killed it in

725
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: the booth.

726
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: Ron and Gary crushed it today. It was such a

727
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 2: pleasurable listen, like really off the charge. I'm gonna say something.

728
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: I might be all with sacrilege, but I kind of

729
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: just like it when this season I kind of just

730
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 2: like it when it's been these two out there.

731
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna say something sacrilege here too. I agree,

732
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: And I hate to say because I love Keith. Keith

733
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: is the drunkene goal.

734
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, when they have all three it's still cool.

735
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 2: But just the Keith and Gary, I feel like hasn't

736
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 2: really been the bright chemistry.

737
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: This season, Keith isn't bringing a lot to the table anymore.

738
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: It feels like, specifically this year, it just feels like

739
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 1: he's very distant from the game. And I feel like

740
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: we've mentioned this in a couple episodes, but I feel

741
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: like now listening to Gary and ron this series, and

742
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: when you had Gary and Keith in a previous one,

743
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: you can clearly tell that there is a huge difference

744
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: when those two work together. Keith is a great third

745
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: guy as a number two, he just doesn't have that

746
00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 1: insight that ron gives.

747
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 2: I think Keith still has the potential to have that

748
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: insight when he's allowed to be like on the field

749
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 2: and with the guys. Again, like, I feel like Keith

750
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: can pull a lot of personal things. I'm not saying

751
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 2: that Ronnie can't pull them, but that's kind of Keith's

752
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 2: mo o. Like he is, boots on the ground, talks

753
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: to guys, learns things guys will tell. Keith thinks he's

754
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: he's fucking Keitherrnandez is jerrys Ifelz's Keitherrnendez like he is,

755
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 2: But when he can't really do that, Keith is not

756
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: the kind of guy who's gonna be able to glean

757
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 2: very much just from statistics and just from like watching

758
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: and learning and researching. He'll still give his great demonstrations

759
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: to talk about dinfield defense and talk about protecting the plate,

760
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 2: but Ronnie has kind of taken that next step in

761
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 2: baseball analysis where he can kind of.

762
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 3: Just do it all. He's one of the best in

763
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: the business.

764
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's starting to get analytically sound too, which is

765
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: like nice because the Mets booth needs it a little

766
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: bit every once in a while. Need to get a

767
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: little smarter with the status.

768
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 2: They mentioned it this game another time talked about can

769
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 2: for those wOBA versus x wOBA, which I was like, huh,

770
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 2: I can't believe that.

771
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: No, it was nice. It was a really good series

772
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: from a commentary perspective, along with a good series from

773
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: play perspective. NAT's also left in the awful pitcher that

774
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: is Eric Fetty for way too long. But I also guess, like,

775
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: who else are they really gonna pitch? They just don't

776
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: have arms.

777
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: They kind of this is the kind of Eric Fetti's

778
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 2: last shot where they just have to learn, like, are

779
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 2: you a guy who can actually be a four or five?

780
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 2: In this rotation or do we just have to banish

781
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 2: you to the bullpen until your arbitration runs out.

782
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: Well, this is a thing that this Nationals team's gonna

783
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: do a lot of this year, and you saw it.

784
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: I think in Game two, Riley Adams had an app

785
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: back late in the game with an opportunity for like

786
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: a legitimate hit, and they didn't go Ryan Zimmerman or

787
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: herradro Apara off the bench, where anybody with a brain

788
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: would have, especially because you have the catcher on the bench.

789
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: But the Nats want to see what their guys have

790
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: because they're trying to figure out basically who's gonna be

791
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: here and who's not. And I think that's the Fetti

792
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: situation too.

793
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely feed to the fire. If Eric Fetty can't

794
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 2: be a starting pitcher, we have two months to figure

795
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: it out, so let's just do it. But it was

796
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 2: great because this is the rally we just talked about

797
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 2: five minutes ago. We're can Ford the smoke to double.

798
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 2: It felt like old times. JD followed up with the

799
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: same thing. Luis Garcie a crazy person throw Trevor Williams

800
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 2: bunt didn't get the neck of the run. Then the employers.

801
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 2: We're going time traveling here, back in time, back and forward.

802
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: Yes, we're feeling good. We're feeling good except for the

803
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: last thy woo.

804
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 2: You missed the insurance oh VRS home run. Yes, that

805
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 2: was so monumental, little did we know.

806
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: Yes, saved the game. Saved the game because Trevor May

807
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: was bad.

808
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was really bad.

809
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: He's been so good for weeks too, So like I

810
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 2: don't want to put this on him. He has been

811
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 2: literally unhittable since that awful stretch he had in June,

812
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: the whole month of July, and so far in August.

813
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 3: The guy's been one of the best relievers in baseball statistically.

814
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he's been good. And this is going to

815
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: build into what I wanted to say about in high leverage.

816
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say high leverage I think classifies

817
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: as one and two run games where like a tying

818
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: runs at the plate or whatever it is. He's been

819
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: great in games where there's low leverage, that's with like

820
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: with a deficit or when there's a big lead. Trevor

821
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: May is great. These little three run games here, Trevor

822
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: May has been bad and that didn't even include today.

823
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is with Mets pitchers, but

824
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: we seem to have scenarios for every single guy where

825
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: they forget how to be the guy they are.

826
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 2: Definitely, that's also just fun with sample sizes because I'm

827
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: sure that Trevor May has been in many more high

828
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: leverage games and low leverage games. Two medium leverage games

829
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 2: come to mind with Trevor May. That is today and

830
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 2: that is the game in Philadelphia an opening day in April.

831
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but I do feel that Trevor

832
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 2: May is a guy who pitches with a lot of

833
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 2: emotion and he really really almost as much as Diaz's

834
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 2: knees to feel heat in order to be involved. So maybe,

835
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 2: but the medium leverage stat that is a weird little

836
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: tipbit that you've brought here.

837
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's probably nothing to it really. Again, like you said,

838
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: the sample size is so small, but I want to

839
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: find something and that was interesting to me. The other

840
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: issue here was that he did get into trouble and

841
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: Familia had to come in and clean it up, and

842
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: he did get an out. He got that nice pop

843
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: up to the catcher, which is huge.

844
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 3: A great play by McCann.

845
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: Awesome played by McCann, which was quickly wiped away by

846
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: an awful block job by him where he just didn't

847
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: get the hand down. He made a nice block on

848
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: the first pitch of that, and then the second one

849
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: came and he just I don't know if it wasn't

850
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: even like he was lazy getting to it. He went

851
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: to do everything right. He expected it to bounce higher,

852
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: which is something that you never do as a catcher.

853
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: Just bury it in the dirt, get down. You can't

854
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: let it go through the five hole. That's exactly what happened. Yeah,

855
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: right through the wickets.

856
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,239
Speaker 2: It was. It seemed like it was a play that

857
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: James McCann could have made if he weighed like fifteen

858
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: less pounds, if the frame was a little bit tighter.

859
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: I feil mccan could have just gotten on his knees

860
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 2: and everything would have been okay. But this was all

861
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 2: for foreshadowing because allow the run to score. Now it

862
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 2: was four to two. The tying ron was on second

863
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 2: base and met killer Andrew Stevenson steps to the plate.

864
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 2: I fucking hate this guy. Oh I was feeling okay

865
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: at this too. I was like, okay, come on, we

866
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: got this. Familiars got this Andrew Stevenson. We have to

867
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: get him out once, we have to. He was even

868
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: a pest in Game two when he came up and

869
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 2: got a hit for them. He was a pest in

870
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. He's been a pest since he's come to

871
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 2: the major league. And he's not even like the worst player,

872
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 2: Like he hits the ball kind of hard and he's

873
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: a good athlete, but he just hits the dinkiest ground

874
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 2: ball in the entire world. And like Jeff McNeal's very

875
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: clearly a step slow right now, still nursing a hamstring injuries,

876
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 2: he's ripping the cover off the ball, so he has

877
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: to be out there, but he just couldn't get to

878
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 2: like a ball that was hit like maybe seven off

879
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 2: the bat and he just lets slip onto his glove

880
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 2: because he wanted to make it out rather than do

881
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: the safe thing and just put his body in front

882
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 2: of it and block it, like just like McCann should

883
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 2: have done.

884
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: McNeil running after that ball reminded me of like Men's

885
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: League when it's like a fifty year old in such

886
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: a base and they did like that little waddle and

887
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: they like go to reach sound like it's like too far,

888
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: Like obviously he wants to get the ball by no

889
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: means it's just like an issue for jeffmcgeil, But you

890
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: do have to get dirty there, And boy, did that

891
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: ruin my day. The game two didn't matter. I was

892
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: so hot just at the fact that we were even

893
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: in this situation. It should have been an easy sweep.

894
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: And after you made me sweat my balls off in

895
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: game two and what should have been an easy game,

896
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: I just I was losing it. In game three. I

897
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: was like, how, how can't there just be one day

898
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: where it's nice and easy for this team?

899
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 2: Never Game two was pretty easy one by three. It

900
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 2: wasn't really a stress. There was like the one rally

901
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 2: go on, it's not that big of the deal.

902
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: VR gave me a heart attack. I don't think you

903
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: understand how into this game I wasn't Game two. When

904
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: VR threw it, I was ready to just turn off

905
00:33:59,120 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: my TV and go to bed.

906
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no.

907
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: Yes, yes exactly. And it happened again in game three.

908
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: But luckily, our boy, the man, the best power hitter

909
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: on planet Earth, Pete Alonzo, steps up to the plate

910
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: and hits a walk off home run and the Mets win,

911
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: they get a sweep of the Washington Nationals, and every

912
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: single Mets fan can just go yeah, oh, thank god,

913
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: because even though we still would have won the series,

914
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: this sweep is so monumentally important to this team's rest

915
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: of the season run. Here needed it badly.

916
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 2: They just needed to save I don't even like the

917
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 2: vibes the energy. If they would have even lost one

918
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 2: game to the Nationals, especially a gut wrenching loss like

919
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 2: this one, or game one getting down early with your

920
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 2: best picture on the mounds, maybe not best picture, stroman

921
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 2: might be the best picture.

922
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 3: At this point, all the air would have been out.

923
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 2: The little bit of the air that was left in

924
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 2: after the Phillies murdered you over the weekend would have

925
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,479
Speaker 2: been completely gone. You would have been this season would

926
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 2: have just been over. And for them to step up

927
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: and like persevere and really work hard to win three games,

928
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: like it sucks to work hard to beat the Nationals

929
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 2: three times, like the fact you then just below the

930
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 2: Nationals out of the water is frustrating. That it is

931
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 2: upsetting and it probably doesn't bode well for the next

932
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 2: couple of weeks with Mets baseball. But just finding W's

933
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 2: is fine. And this is actually kind of ironic because

934
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 2: this is the conversation that we were having in May

935
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 2: and June and earlier in July, when the Mets were

936
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 2: playing well but not playing well. So maybe we're just

937
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 2: we're just stupid, and we just got suckered into another

938
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: couple weeks of this nonsense.

939
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 3: But I feel okay right now about the Mets.

940
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 4: I do.

941
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm definitely definitely down to get suckered into it. It

942
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: was not fun being miserable. I hate being a miserable

943
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: Met fan. I've done that my entire life.

944
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: You're a bad you tweeted a KFC today.

945
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I told you. I get sucked into it.

946
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I deleted it. I don't want

947
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: to be. It's so easy to get sucked into the

948
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: negativity because what happened with the Phillies and Marlins was bad,

949
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: and then this would have just been the cherry on

950
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: top of like here we are again.

951
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, this definitely would have been the castration of the

952
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: New York Mets, like no doubt about it.

953
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 3: But we're supposed to be the positive guys. That's what

954
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 3: we're here for.

955
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: When when there's even like a possible opportunity to bring

956
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: positive energy, good vibes only we got to bring. When

957
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 2: I saw you tweet the KFC, I was outraged. I

958
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 2: was curious. Yeah, like, you can't do this shit? Fuck him?

959
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: I know I could, I could. I can't do it.

960
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: I gotta stop. It is what is I like? KFC?

961
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: He's a little negative, shockingly, not the most negative Met

962
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: fan by any means. He fell into the trap and

963
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: he brought me in with him. I'm blaming him. I

964
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: saw it. I just shouldn't have been on Twitter. That's

965
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: really what it was. I shouldn't have been on Twitter.

966
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: Let's be positive. You're right, keep the positivity off. So

967
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: now before we get going into our preview, of course

968
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: midweek episodes, we do our prospect report, and we have

969
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: been teasing for weeks that we have some prospect interviews

970
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: coming up. So you're going to hear a prospect report

971
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear an interview from Jalen Palmer. Believe

972
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: he's a top ten prospect in the Mets organization playing

973
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: for the Brooklyn Cyclones right now, local kid. So we're

974
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: gonna run the interview real quick, and then we'll get

975
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: going into the rest of the prospects around the league

976
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,479
Speaker 1: for the team and then the Dodgers preview. So enjoy

977
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: the interview with Jayleen Palmer, our first one of many coming.

978
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: All right, guys, So today we're here with Jalen Palmer

979
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: of the Brooklyn Cyclones, of course Mets prospect. We're gonna

980
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: ask me a few questions, let you guys get to

981
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: know him a little bit more. As a part of

982
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: the podcast, we're gonna start introducing some of the prospects

983
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: on here, give them some interviews. Is a little bit

984
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: of a part two after we talk about the games

985
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: from earlier on in the week. So, Jalen, thank you

986
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. I appreciate it. Recent call

987
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: up to Brooklyn. How you feel and how does it

988
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: feel to call up?

989
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 5: It feels good to be back home. Honestly, it's much

990
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 5: different in Florida. I'm back at home, so it's my

991
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 5: whole ground.

992
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 4: So I love it.

993
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 6: Where are you from in Brooklyn?

994
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 4: Canarsi?

995
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 6: Brooklyn and we saw on your bios used to go

996
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 6: to the high school up.

997
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 4: In Queens Flushing, Holy Cross.

998
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, how was that commute?

999
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 4: That's tough, but we got through it.

1000
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: So you've been playing a little bit of center field,

1001
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: and you know, coming up you were kind of like

1002
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: shortstop their basement. What's that transition been like? What do

1003
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: you think has been the hardest adjustment for you learned

1004
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: to play the outfield little bit more.

1005
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 4: I mean, growing up, I was a cent of fielder.

1006
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 5: So it's just it's just me finding that feeling back

1007
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 5: to be out there on a consistent day. Basic was

1008
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 5: the hardest name, But other than that, it's been a

1009
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 5: smooth transition.

1010
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 1: To be honest, what position do you feel most comfortable aut.

1011
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter where I play well as I get

1012
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 4: by it back.

1013
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 6: I like that, so builds on that. What do you

1014
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 6: what's your favorite tool of yours as a player.

1015
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 4: As a player, it's just how versatile I am.

1016
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 5: I can play anywhere I can at the play if like,

1017
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 5: I can do damage, I can hit for average, I

1018
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 5: can get up the still bases. I can also put

1019
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 5: some balls over the yard. So I find the verse.

1020
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 5: Two guys, it's my best being a versatile player.

1021
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 2: And just talking about your game in general, do you

1022
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 2: have any like baseball idols? You model your game after

1023
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 2: you feel like you modeled.

1024
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 6: Your game after that.

1025
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 4: I'm modeled my game after.

1026
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 6: Even just your favorite players growing up.

1027
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 5: My favorite player is growing up was Barry Bonnes and

1028
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 5: King Griffy, Like both of them had like swag. That's

1029
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 5: they've been themselves on the base of field. So that's

1030
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 5: probably what I'm trying to do. Just be myself, be

1031
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 5: a little swaggy, but not nothing too crazy, but just

1032
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:46,439
Speaker 5: I just feel good.

1033
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: So in terms of like playing the minors this year,

1034
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: you guys have had like interesting rules. You've had like

1035
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: the pickoff rule and I think automatic strike zone as well.

1036
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 4: We had the automatic strike zone in the Florida A League.

1037
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, So how do you feel about the automatic strike

1038
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: zone as a hit or do you like it? Do

1039
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: you feel like it's been accurate this year?

1040
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 5: It's it's consistent, So that's that's the one thing that

1041
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 5: that's a positive is consistent up and down. It's kind

1042
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 5: of borderline for us here is besides the side. They

1043
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 5: gave us a little bit, a little bit of an advantage, but.

1044
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 4: I don't mind it.

1045
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 5: It's because something that's consistent, that's all I care about.

1046
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 5: So I pretty much like it.

1047
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 2: As an athlete a base dealer, did you like the

1048
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 2: pickoff rules?

1049
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 3: Down low? Way as well.

1050
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 5: It definitely gave me, definitely gave me a lot of

1051
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 5: confidence and being on the base faz.

1052
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 4: But I did like it.

1053
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 6: Twenty five steals right, twenty three.

1054
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: New York Guy, we gotta ask you, what's the best

1055
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: life of pizza that you can get in New York?

1056
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 4: New Park Pizza?

1057
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 5: And uh, I think that's Ozone Hard Beach, her Beach

1058
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 5: Queen's best pizza.

1059
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 4: I had it yesterday.

1060
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: Really, are you, because obviously you're New York guy, are

1061
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: you like staying with your family now or are like?

1062
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 1: What's the whole deal with the Olympic situation.

1063
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 5: I can't stay with my family if I want to,

1064
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 5: but I'm pretty much gonna stay with the guys at

1065
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 5: the hotel.

1066
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 4: I don't I don't wanna.

1067
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 5: I don't want to be home home yet that's to

1068
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 5: have a month and a half left to work, so

1069
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 5: I want to stay with the guys team.

1070
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 4: It'sact to stay focused.

1071
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 3: So in St.

1072
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: Lucy, you got to play with Jacob de Grom because

1073
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: he came down for a little bit. What was that

1074
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: experience like having possibly the best player in baseball be

1075
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: hanging out in the locker room?

1076
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 4: It was?

1077
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 5: It was it was crazy and just seeing that in person,

1078
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 5: especially I was at third base as well, so I'm

1079
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 5: senate cut. It's just it's amazing that you see that's

1080
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 5: actually real. It's like see you know TV, like I've

1081
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 5: seen it with.

1082
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 4: My own eyes.

1083
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,720
Speaker 5: But that that's that's a traumatic experience.

1084
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 4: Traumatic traumatic. That's pretty that's pretty cool to have.

1085
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 6: Did you pick his brains? You ask him any interesting questions? N?

1086
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 4: I can't.

1087
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 5: I just let him, let him work, do what he do.

1088
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 5: I don't want to. I don't want to do anything crazy.

1089
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 6: And the other Mets come down to Saint Luci's Yere

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Speaker 6: and rehab assignments. The whole team was hurt.

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00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 5: Seth Lugo was there for ending uh. Syndergard was there

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00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 5: for probably he's he's with us the most, honestly.

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Speaker 4: But there's only those two guys.

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Speaker 1: So you got your first baseball card this year. You

1095
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,879
Speaker 1: got some bowman cards out there. Have you been able

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00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: to pick any up? Like, what's it like to be

1097
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: a player and get your own card? Does it feel

1098
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: like you're almost like like god, damn, this is this

1099
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: is sick.

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00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 4: It's just sick.

1101
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 5: It's sick experience, honestly, but like it really hit me

1102
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 5: into like my friends and family was actually buying these

1103
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 5: cards and like showing me I got you got your

1104
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 5: basically got your basic grind is actually signed, so that

1105
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 5: that's that whole that was. That was a dope moment, honestly.

1106
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Speaker 1: All right, So we're gonna wrap it up here. Thank

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00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: you so much for doing this interview with us. Go

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00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: ahead and plug your social media for everybody to give

1109
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: you a follow, Instagram, Twitter, whatever.

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00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 5: You got Instagram, Twitter at uc JP nine. That's very

1111
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 5: much every Thank you guys for having me.

1112
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being on. Jalen Palmer player for the

1113
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Cyclones, makes you guys follow him and check us

1114
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 1: out on the next episode. So yeah, our first ever

1115
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: interview on Mets Up podcast. Technically Jalen Palmer is our

1116
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: first guest, yes, because that's our first ever interview on here.

1117
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: First time you've ever heard one anyone else's voice besides

1118
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: me and James. Short interview for sure, but it was

1119
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: our first one that we did. We didn't want to

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00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: hold guys too long. I thought it was good. It's

1121
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: really cool to interview a local kid who's also a

1122
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: part of the Mets, and it seemed like he's a

1123
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: pretty talented young player.

1124
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 2: Definitely is also just fun talking to him because he's

1125
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 2: a very like congenial guy, like especially if you guys

1126
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: follow him on Twitter, Instagram now you see JP nine.

1127
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 2: He seems just like a really fun, like cool, down

1128
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 2: to earth dude, and that definitely showing through just from

1129
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 2: us hanging out with him and the interview which is

1130
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 2: shared with all you guys.

1131
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: Yes, and that will be one of our only English

1132
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: interviews coming at you. The next two are gonna be

1133
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: Ronnie Mauricio and Francisco Alvarez in that order, so keep

1134
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: an eye out for those coming in the next few

1135
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: Prospect reports during the midweek, speaking of our friends Ronnie

1136
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: and Francisco Alvarez, because I'm gonna call them our friends

1137
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: now I'm doing that. These are our friends, yeah, friends

1138
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: of the podcast, friends of Mark and James. Francisco Alvarez

1139
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: is hitting, boy, he's hitting. He's looking good.

1140
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 2: This guy's really fucking good. Francisco Alvarez. I don't want

1141
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: to say he struggled in his first couple weeks in Brooklyn,

1142
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: but there was definitely an adjustment that had to be made.

1143
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: And he's never been a guy who really had that

1144
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 2: much power, and of the levels he's gone to, he

1145
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 2: always just had like such a command of the strike zone,

1146
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 2: such a magnificent hit tool. But the power has come

1147
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 2: in heaps since he came to Brooklyn. He has six

1148
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 2: home runs and twenty one RBIs in his last seventeen games,

1149
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: just tearing.

1150
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 3: The absolute cover off the ball.

1151
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 2: He is striking out more so, one of the main

1152
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 2: strengths that people have pulled from Francisco has waned a

1153
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 2: little bit. He's striking out twenty five percent of the

1154
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 2: time over that same seventeen game stretch. But to have

1155
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 2: mammoth power that is completely worth it, especially when there's

1156
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 2: an adjustment one to better pitching and two to no

1157
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 2: longer having robot umpires, because the guy seems to have

1158
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 2: just like a mastery of the strike zone. And I

1159
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 2: want to ask you, Mark, how much longer do you

1160
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 2: think our friend even has with the Brooklyn Cyclones. Now.

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00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: I think by the time that we do make our

1162
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,479
Speaker 1: Bighamton trip at some point, which I think is gonna

1163
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: happen this year, Francisco Alvarez will be there. I can't

1164
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: imagine he's down in single A or high A much

1165
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: longer just because we got to be aggressed with this guy.

1166
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: There's no reason to if he's playing and he needs

1167
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: to go to that next level, we got to push

1168
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,919
Speaker 1: the development forward. The quicker you can get this guy

1169
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: major league ready, the better that is for the Mets,

1170
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: and not just from like a like oh yeah, that's

1171
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: obvious perspective. When you have these young guys who are

1172
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: able to play at like such a young age like that,

1173
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: and you're spending no money on them, that's the money

1174
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: you can spend elsewhere. If we can have Francisco Alvarez

1175
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: as a twenty three to twenty two year old catcher

1176
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: playing at the major league level, being a legitimate player,

1177
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: it saves a shit ton of money that we can

1178
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: spend elsewhere.

1179
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 3: Or just the bat in the line of no matter

1180
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 3: what position he plays, Yeah, we.

1181
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: Just play him anywhere. He's good, he can hit. Let's

1182
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: continue that progression on the way up there, because clearly,

1183
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: as we saw from watching him take VP, he just

1184
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: hits the ball different than everyone else on that high.

1185
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: A team truthfully, and him and Ronnie while their trajectory

1186
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 2: is probably a little bit different right now, like those

1187
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 2: two are what is dragging this Brooklyn Cyclones team along

1188
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 2: the Cyclones are not a very like strong roster top

1189
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 2: to bottom. They're actually one of the worst teams in

1190
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: the High A league that they play in. But those

1191
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 2: two tag teams for a beautiful walk off victory last

1192
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 2: Sunday against the Hudson Valley Renegades, the Yankees sink High

1193
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 2: A team, which is the best team of that league

1194
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 2: by almost fifteen entire games.

1195
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: They are so good, But like that also speaks to

1196
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: the kind of players that have been here, because still

1197
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys in the minor system or

1198
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: the minor league system for the Mets is from the

1199
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: old regime, and as we know, the old regime not

1200
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 1: the brightest. The Yankees Ones, they've got some good players

1201
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: down there, and they also, as we said, the dude's

1202
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: coming off the busts are just a different size than

1203
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:01,919
Speaker 1: our guys.

1204
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 2: Hudson Valley Renegades looked like a professional football team and

1205
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Cyclones looked like a High A baseball team.

1206
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 2: If you guys want to picture painted for you. It

1207
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 2: was a little bit intimidating, especially as two slight young

1208
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 2: men like Mark and I are.

1209
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was one big guy in the Brooklyn Cyclones.

1210
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: It was his name, Bryce monteste OCAs. I'll never forget

1211
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: it because it's a crazy name to just be Bryce

1212
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: and then have like a name with a little bit

1213
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: of flair to it. He was like six foot eight,

1214
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: like two sixty. I'm like, hey, that guy's too big

1215
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: and he pitches. It doesn't make any sense.

1216
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 2: Well, the one other really big guy in the Cyclones

1217
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 2: running Mauricio. He was the hero in that game where

1218
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 2: Cisco Alvarez had the walk off. He hit a game

1219
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 2: tying triple to gf Francisco the opportunity to even drive

1220
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 2: him into win the game.

1221
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 3: And that has been in the midst of a.

1222
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 2: Power surge that's been happening for Rana Mauricio just as

1223
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 2: much as been happening all season. The guy is seven

1224
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 2: extra base hits in his last fifteen games, including triples

1225
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 2: and back to back games, which even as he's adding

1226
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 2: this weight, the guy can still move. He's a freak athlete.

1227
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 2: He's slugging four to fifty one in the season, which

1228
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 2: is all great, and there's tons to like. He's still

1229
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 2: just struggling to actually hit the ball with consistency. He's

1230
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 2: not going to be moving as quickly as Francisco Wilver

1231
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 2: as these two have met in the middle, and they're

1232
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 2: going to a hugg and probably say good bye for

1233
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 2: a couple of years because they're just moving at different speeds.

1234
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 3: And that's okay.

1235
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 2: It takes guys much longer than others.

1236
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,399
Speaker 3: Like that's it. Every single guy develops at their own pace.

1237
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 3: This thing is not linear.

1238
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 2: But there's still just so much to like about running Mariso.

1239
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:18,919
Speaker 2: And then I just want Mets fans, if you're looking

1240
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 2: at the stats in a regular basis, just be patient

1241
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 2: because we're gonna drop the interview next week. And this

1242
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 2: is a guy who, for lack of a better term,

1243
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 2: is an absolute dog. He is a freak of nature physically.

1244
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 2: He wants to be here, he wants to win. He

1245
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 2: has like a New York City vibe and energy.

1246
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 3: And I'm very confident this guy moving forward. I really am.

1247
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: No, he's got confidence out the wazoo, that's for sure.

1248
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: Which that's also a crazy saying. I just pulled out

1249
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: out the wazoo. Where's that coming from? I don't even

1250
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: though I don't even know Ronnie, I like him. Like

1251
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: you said, it's gonna be a little bit slow here

1252
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: he might progress a little bit more with the guy

1253
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: that we interviewed, Jalen Palmer, who's having a bit of

1254
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: a rough go at high a ball. But this is

1255
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: something that has followed him throughout the minor leagues. He

1256
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: has been a high k rate guy. Swinging miss has

1257
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: been the issue. But the weird thing is that he

1258
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: still walks at an incredible rate a ton.

1259
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 2: That might even just be an adjustment that he's made

1260
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 2: because he's such like a tremendous athlete just from being

1261
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 2: in the lethal spot in the order. Just having the

1262
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 2: high of a walk rate kind of makes me think

1263
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 2: that he can't strike out as much as impossible, because

1264
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 2: if you're this good at pitch recognition, you can't continue.

1265
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 2: So that's gonna regress and he's not moving anywhere the

1266
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: rest of the season unless he does some ridiculous shit.

1267
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 2: So let him get used to center field, let him

1268
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: get used to the pitching in Hiya, let him hang

1269
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 2: out with his friends and his family that he's knowing

1270
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: Brooklyn all his life, and just let heep. Letting Jalen

1271
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 2: Palmer develop.

1272
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to be on the fast track by

1273
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: any means. For instance, Squadberez fast track him. Let's keep

1274
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: him going forward, Baby and Vientos some guys that un

1275
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: get a little more hype here. He's looking pretty good,

1276
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: both of them.

1277
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Baby. Rett Baty struggled a tiny bit his first

1278
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 2: couple weeks in Double A, which, as we said, whenever

1279
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,320
Speaker 2: you move up like that, it's gonna be an adjustment,

1280
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 2: especially the jump from hiye to Double A. It's probably

1281
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 2: one of the most vast besides moving from Triple A

1282
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 2: to the major leagues, So you're gonna face a whole

1283
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 2: different level of competition. Even though Brett Bay is ninety

1284
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 2: six years old, so like that makes sense that he

1285
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: would be able to handle that. But he's finally started

1286
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 2: to heat up. He had nine game hitting streak that

1287
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 2: was snapped on Wednesday. The k rate pretty much in

1288
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 2: line where he's been all along. Powers coming.

1289
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 3: Let this guy keep growing and growing and growing and growing.

1290
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 2: It'll come. But the guy who really has made a move,

1291
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 2: We've talked about them all year. He's been very hot

1292
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 2: on Twitter's Mark Viento's this guy continues to absolutely hit

1293
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 2: the piss out of the ball. He's one of the

1294
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 2: best hitters in Double A, even at just twenty one

1295
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 2: years old. He's on par with as I've said, like

1296
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 2: a month ago, last time we really did a deep

1297
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 2: prospect report, Riley Green, Who's Noan widely is a top

1298
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: ten prospect in the game. Fiento's He's had the real

1299
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 2: material change in his projection. His tool has jumped a

1300
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 2: whole grade.

1301
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 3: In my opinion.

1302
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: He's sitting three hundred over his last twenty games, seven

1303
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 2: home runs, twenty two percent strikeouts, ten percent walks. Those

1304
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: are numbers that make me think that he could be

1305
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 2: a New York met next season, be contributing at the

1306
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 2: major league level and just having a k rate sick

1307
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 2: kind of in the low thirties, a place that a

1308
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 2: lot of major league hillers aren'tuccessful. A guy like Patrick

1309
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 2: Wisdom comes to mind. Of course, he's much older than

1310
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 2: Mark Vento's right now, but he was once a herald

1311
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 2: of prospect and a first round pick, and he's turning

1312
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 2: in a great season at the dish with a thirty

1313
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 2: percent k rate, And I think that is Mark Fianza's

1314
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 2: future something that's very possible.

1315
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: Viento's has been heating up as the weather has I

1316
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: think that's something to note Binghamton's local and at the

1317
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: beginning of the year he started to heat up. Now

1318
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,439
Speaker 1: that it's getting warm. His swing has always been something

1319
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: that I've liked, but as you said, there have been

1320
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: some like hit tool consistency issues. He seems to gotten

1321
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: those out of the water. He is something is clicked

1322
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: for him at the plate. He is locked in, and

1323
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: maybe even Beaty getting called up maybe woke him up

1324
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: a little bit too, I could see.

1325
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, some vibes.

1326
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 2: Also, those two have both been mixing in at third

1327
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 2: base and left field and also DH, so it's gonna

1328
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,879
Speaker 2: be interesting to see maybe as Binghamton gets more into

1329
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 2: a stretch run. I think that team actually has a

1330
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 2: decent record. Who's playing wearing games that they're intending to win,

1331
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Yeah, like there is just

1332
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 2: like only if they're only third base in DH in

1333
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 2: like the actual crunch time games, then maybe he's not legitimate.

1334
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:50,439
Speaker 2: But if any of those guys can handle left field

1335
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 2: and do it in games that matter, I think he'll

1336
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 2: do wonders their development, which it would.

1337
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: And then on the pitching side, you've got three guys

1338
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: you want to talk about J T. Gin I think

1339
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: it's what Justin Lasco and Jose Budda. We saw Alasco

1340
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: pitch in Brooklyn when we were at the game.

1341
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 2: We did. He looked good. He mixed I think three

1342
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 2: different pitches. He had a fastball. It's art to tell

1343
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 2: because Brooklyn doesn't really have great amenities, but it seemed

1344
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 2: like he was throwing either a fastball or a sinker,

1345
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 2: a change up in either a slider or a curve,

1346
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: and it all looked fine. And he's an older guy,

1347
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 2: he's twenty four years old pitching at high A, but

1348
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,879
Speaker 2: he's hit a groove over the last month ish, going

1349
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 2: seven starts back. His twenty eight percent strikeout rate, which

1350
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 2: we'll play and we'll probably get him a call to

1351
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 2: Binghamton sometime soon. A guy who has gotten the call

1352
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 2: to Binghamton, who I mentioned about a month or a

1353
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: month and a half ago, Jose Budo. This guy's turning

1354
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 2: into a piece. He's someone who you're gonna start seeing

1355
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 2: a lot in the Mets Top ten prosper reports a

1356
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 2: guy who was already in the top two hundred overall

1357
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 2: prospects on Fangrass. He added a little bit of a

1358
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 2: rough patch his first two starts with double A Binghamton.

1359
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 2: But since he's thrown twelve innings of scoreless ball in

1360
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 2: two starts, twelve strikeouts, six hits, and one walk, he's

1361
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 2: showing off a repertoire that probably will play in the

1362
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 2: Major League at some point in the future.

1363
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: A nine K per nine with a walk rate that low,

1364
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: that's just like a solid back end starter. At the

1365
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: absolute worst, you will be able to find useful enning

1366
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: out of a guy like that.

1367
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.

1368
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 2: When I talked about him for the first time, I said,

1369
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 2: this is a guy who the Mets hope could be

1370
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 2: a back end guy, and the way he's pitch at

1371
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 2: double A makes me think that is incredibly possible. And

1372
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 2: we could maybe see a metropole a before the season's out,

1373
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 2: and if something goes catastrophically wrong or we just want

1374
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: to get guys innings in September, Jose Budo might mix in,

1375
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 2: which it would be nice to see a new guy.

1376
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: And then for the last guy that we mentioned, JT.

1377
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: Ginn unfortunately got touched up a little bit, but again JT.

1378
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: Gin it's gonna be a little bit Kidi Gloves coming

1379
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: off to Tommy John surgery like that now rushing this

1380
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: guy by any means, we're excited about what we see

1381
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: out of JT. Gin because we know the quality of

1382
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: stuff that can be there. But this is going to

1383
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: happen through his progression throughout the minor leagues. He's gonna

1384
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: get shelled, just like every pitcher gets hit at some point.

1385
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was always gonna take a few years with

1386
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 2: him coming off Tommy John surgery. So just the fact

1387
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 2: that he's pitching and he has the philosophy that may

1388
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 2: us even want to draft him in the first place

1389
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 2: is a massive.

1390
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: Win, massive win for us. And he was drafted by

1391
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: the Dodgers too originally, which the Dodgers are interested, we

1392
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: should be interested, which segues perfectly. You see that, you guys,

1393
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: see that segway right there, segways perfectly into our series

1394
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:04,720
Speaker 1: preview here against the Los Angeles Dodgers will home stand

1395
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: this weekend against the best team on paper in baseball. Boy,

1396
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: oh boy, is this going to be hard.

1397
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: I just want us to try. Let's just try to

1398
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 2: win a couple of games here. I'm gonna be there

1399
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 2: Friday night, tomorrow or today, depending on when you guys listen,

1400
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 2: depending when I even edited and get this thing out.

1401
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 3: But our best chance to.

1402
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 2: Win is probably gonna be Friday because we have Tyler

1403
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 2: McGill facing off against Julio Urias, which is just a

1404
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 2: shiver inspiring sentence. That's saying, facing Julio Urias is your

1405
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 2: best chance to win a game. And that is because

1406
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 2: on Saturday we have a matchup of the Walkers Taiwan

1407
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 2: Walker versus Walker Buller No Texas Rangers in Sight and

1408
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 2: Sunday Night Baseball, which is a nice little scheduling quirk

1409
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 2: from Major League Baseball and the ESPN really love those guys.

1410
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 2: We have Carlos Krasko against Max Scherzer, So let's just

1411
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:47,919
Speaker 2: win on Friday and then hope for the best. Yeah,

1412
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 2: one game out of time. Stroman after his press conference today,

1413
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: Joel Sherman, the legend that is him, ask him a

1414
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 2: really stupid question. He's like, you guys looking forward to

1415
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 2: the Giants and Dodgers thing. He's like, well, we have

1416
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 2: another game today, so I'd love to talk about what's

1417
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 2: happening right now now, like we're not looking forward, which

1418
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 2: is the smart answer, But really, the Mets do one

1419
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 2: game out of time, This Dodger series can be daunting.

1420
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 2: This stretch coming off could be nightmare scenario. But that

1421
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 2: being said, it's not unwinnable.

1422
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: Teams still lose. The best teams in baseball still only

1423
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 1: win sixty six percent of the games that they play,

1424
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: So the Mets have a chance.

1425
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 2: And a slant that was completely incorrect about the Mets

1426
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 2: all season, they can't be good teams. The Mets have

1427
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 2: an above five hundred record against National League teams who

1428
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 2: were also above five hundred, so that those are the

1429
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:30,959
Speaker 2: games against the Padres and of the early games against

1430
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 2: the Phillies, the Braves, the Brewers win that series against

1431
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 2: the Brewers. The Mets are not like out of this

1432
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 2: series completely. This isn't These aren't like thirteen unwinnable games

1433
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers, Giants and the Dodgers and then let's

1434
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 2: go bitch got them?

1435
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: I got another one. Hey, a case you guys don't

1436
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,240
Speaker 1: watch the YouTube videos, James kills a lot of flies

1437
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: in his room whenever we're recording by mister Miagi, like

1438
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: catching them and yeah, that one was a thick one.

1439
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 1: So if you're watching the YouTube video, you will see

1440
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: James literally just to smack a fly out of thin air.

1441
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: Which is pretty impressive.

1442
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie the ski though. We just have

1443
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 2: there's a very imperfect amount of space between the wall

1444
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 2: units of my apartment and the outside world. And I

1445
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 2: have a backyard, which in Brooklyn it's a pretty cool thing.

1446
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of skios back there because it's

1447
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 2: trees and grass and shade.

1448
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 3: It's moisture, you know.

1449
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 2: So I get a miski though about once a night,

1450
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 2: so it's always an activity for me to make sure

1451
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 2: I can find him and kill him. Oh my god,

1452
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: it's another one.

1453
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: There's another one.

1454
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 2: I missed that one. I'll get master. Yeah, you'll get

1455
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 2: a I don't remember where we were.

1456
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: We were talking about the Mess Dodger series and then

1457
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: the Giants how like this stretch is gonna be tough,

1458
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: but they can get through it.

1459
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 2: Tru it's not impossible. It's just it's not don't don't

1460
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 2: think about like it's over. And also, if Mets fans

1461
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 2: want something to look forward to after these thirteen games

1462
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 2: of hell against the Dodgers, Giants, Dodgers and Giants, the

1463
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 2: Mets have twelve games of actual heaven against the Nationals, Marlins,

1464
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,399
Speaker 2: Nationals and Marlins. So as bad as this is going

1465
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 2: to be, even if the Mets wind up going four

1466
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 2: to nine this series, for my nightmare scenario, I'm just saying,

1467
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 2: I'm just saying no, I'm just saying that puts us

1468
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 2: to five hundred record, which would it'll be really scary.

1469
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 2: You're gonna I have twelve games after that where you

1470
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 2: can conceivably go ten to two, and that's not really impossible,

1471
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 2: especially with the news this week that Francisco Lindor is

1472
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 2: ramping up baseball activities.

1473
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: He took BP, which is huge for an oblique injury.

1474
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,399
Speaker 2: Huge huge that there was BP without a set back

1475
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 2: apparently that we've heard of yet, and also that Jacob

1476
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: de gram is going to go in for an MRI

1477
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 2: that's going to be either death or life. Basically, at

1478
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 2: some point this week's all Mets fans say a prayer,

1479
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 2: put the quarter under your pillow, any kind of weird voodoo,

1480
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 2: magic superstitions that you guys have, Just siances next few weeks,

1481
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 2: do things, anything that can we could do, because if

1482
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 2: we can get through this series alive, we have twelve

1483
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,919
Speaker 2: games of very winnable baseball and then we do have

1484
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 2: a very big weekend series. I want all Mets fans

1485
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 2: to circle September seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth that if we

1486
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 2: do survive, that's gonna be it.

1487
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 3: That's gonna be the.

1488
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 1: Place got the Phillies, right, Yep, Yeah, there's a third

1489
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: damn man. This last month of baseball, month and a

1490
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: half for the Mets is going to be intense. It

1491
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: is going to be tight. It is not going to

1492
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 1: be easy. But if this Mets team really want to

1493
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: show that they deserve to be in the playoffs and

1494
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: that they deserve to be one of the better teams

1495
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: in the National League and all this talk from the

1496
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, they gotta step up. It's time.

1497
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: There's no more time for fooling around, no more. We'll

1498
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: get there. You just gotta believe. Do what you did

1499
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,280
Speaker 1: this last series. I know we're playing the Dodgers and Giants,

1500
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: so it's not the same as playing the Nationals, But

1501
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 1: the idea is that they came out, they got the

1502
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: job done. Keep it going, don't stop, just give me

1503
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,320
Speaker 1: good games. Fight like you said, just try a little.

1504
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 2: Just just get out there and just play some goddamn baseball.

1505
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 2: I saw a stats today the Mets last three stolen

1506
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 2: bases as a team are Pee Alonzo, Tomas Nito and

1507
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 2: Pee Alonzo. That was Curtzy if Mike Mayer metsmerized, we

1508
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 2: gotta be we gotta be aggressive. You want to be

1509
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, We can't sit back on your heels and

1510
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 2: expect to be the team that is clearly better than

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Speaker 2: us on paper with their best three pitchers pitching.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, they are really really good. Is by no

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Speaker 1: means gonna be easy. But the Mets listen. As Peter

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Speaker 1: Alonzo said, you gotta believe. You gotta believe in them.

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Speaker 3: I believe you gotta believe.

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Speaker 1: Guys gotta believe. And of course this is the place

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Speaker 1: to listen to if you want to hear after every

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Speaker 1: single Mets series. We're gonna do it again after the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers one after the Giants won the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: So make sure you guys are following us on Twitter

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Speaker 1: and Instagram at Mets Stuff. Follow me and James. I'm

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Speaker 1: at draftneck Mark James Jeter had no range, fantastic Twitter

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Speaker 1: user name. Of course, you can listen to us on

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google podcast, watch us on YouTube, YouTube

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Speaker 1: dot com met Stuff podcast. You can find us there

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Speaker 1: for the video version so you can watch James swat Flies.

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Speaker 2: Also plug that we're gonna put the Jaylen Palmer interview

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Speaker 2: separately on YouTube transcribe it because there's some places that

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Speaker 2: audio gets crazy because sometimes professional athletes just don't know

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Speaker 2: what to hold their mic up to their face. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have great subtitles on there. Everyone keep an

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Speaker 2: eye out for that. Interviews can come out next few days.

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Speaker 1: Yes, keep an out for that stuff on the YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: Keep an eye out for our Twitter, Instagram tweets, all

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Speaker 1: that stuff, all the Mets content that you guys want

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Speaker 1: to see, the Mets stuff, boys, that's where you want it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for listening to episode number forty.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully after this Dodgers series, we're feeling great. I would

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Speaker 1: love to. Let's keep an eye on these games, Let's

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Speaker 1: play some good baseball, and that's where we'll wrap it up. Guys,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, Thanks for watching. We'll see you on

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Speaker 1: the next episode of the metted Up podcast.

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Speaker 2: Peace Out, peace out, guys, See you next time.