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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 1: Metsub listeners back here for episode number forty seven of

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Speaker 1: the mets up podcast. Of course, I'm your co host,

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Speaker 1: Draftneckmark Mark Luiino here with Siano Jeter had no range

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Speaker 1: talking about this New York Mets marathon of a series

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Speaker 1: against the Washington Nationals five games. This is very reminiscent

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Speaker 1: of what the minor league season is looking like this year.

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Speaker 1: Five game series are hell. Five game series are not fun.

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Speaker 1: It's too much against the same team, and it showed

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Speaker 1: in this series against the Mets in the Nationals because

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Speaker 1: every single game just went a little bit too long.

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Speaker 1: There was blown saves all over the place, there was

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Speaker 1: a run score, extra innings. It was a pretty sloppy series,

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Speaker 1: I feel like, in terms of the fact that nobody

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Speaker 1: won a game very cleanly. It was all just kind

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Speaker 1: of back and forth, a lot of fighting, entertaining. I

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Speaker 1: guess if you're a Washington Nationals fan, maybe maybe, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Mets kind of split this series. Three wins,

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Speaker 1: two losses, disappointing if you're a Mets fan. I think

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Speaker 1: if you're a Mets fan, we all knew that you

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Speaker 1: had to at least win four here, and there were

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Speaker 1: four very winnable games. We'll talk about what happened at

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Speaker 1: the end of the series. Of course, before we do

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Speaker 1: how are you feeling autter this National series bad?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a really easy word. You touched on this,

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Speaker 2: but this was a really sloppy series, not a really

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Speaker 2: fun one to watch, especially like over Labor Day weekend.

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Speaker 2: You just kind of want to watch some good, clean baseball,

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Speaker 2: America's pastime, and this series made a mockery of that

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Speaker 1: The most frustrating thing about this series is that the

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Speaker 1: seemed to click this series together. It was very much

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he has our last two triples because

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Speaker 1: Rich Hill was actually like pretty good, maybe his best

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Speaker 2: I thought this was definitely his best star as a Met.

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Speaker 2: And I really think that him and Trevor Williams have

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Speaker 2: But rich Hill has been very, very very important and

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Speaker 2: This game, the fourth consecutive start in which he's done so,

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Speaker 2: and this represented the highest percentage of sliders he's thrown

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Speaker 1: He's a big curveball guy normally right.

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Speaker 2: This first month with the team. He only allowed four

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Speaker 2: And like Dick fucking Mountain dude, four h six ERA

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Speaker 1: Bde big Dick energy for Dick Mountain, He's just like

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Speaker 2: Definitely and this game felt like really good at this point.

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Speaker 2: But of course our offense just completely died after the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he looked like pretty good. I mean, granted, created

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Speaker 1: With the guys that they have, they just sam play.

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Speaker 2: Of those guys in seven withston five strikeouts and two

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Speaker 2: I saw that's probably a reliever that the Mets are

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Speaker 2: like four or five years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which take it for what it is. If we're

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Speaker 1: But as you mentioned before, we talk about Edwin DIA's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think sure, I believe you.

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Speaker 2: But that home run was also just such a cheap oot.

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Speaker 1: You're a lost cause. I don't even I don't even

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Speaker 2: This whole blown save ended up being moot. Just don't

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Speaker 1: No, I mean, yeah, we got some hits from Pete,

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Speaker 1: Best lead off hitter in baseball. He continued it again.

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Speaker 1: the next day, the doubleheader day, and it was off

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Speaker 1: the Mets showed it. We got vr Nimo, Alonso, Lindor

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Speaker 2: Now, this was a great start to the game. I

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Speaker 2: was a great moment. Cosh football was on, I was

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Speaker 2: then pass that Pat Meziga had a base hit, made seven.

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Speaker 1: Nothing, the slowest man in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: My big sack fly. I can't remember. He had two

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of a seven inning game with Stroman on the mound,

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Speaker 2: It was a ground ball to wherever like Javey and

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Speaker 1: He was just like I think he was just like down,

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Speaker 1: Right there, he led Stroman beautifully right in his bread basket.

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Speaker 2: Just have a quarterback, now, just have a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: He went through four straight starts with less than forty

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Speaker 1: Yep, Stroman always finds a way to make an impact

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Speaker 1: He was beside himself. He did. He was like, I

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Speaker 2: that brandon Nimo is receptive to all of the modern

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Speaker 2: training types and technologies that the Mets have, because we

433
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Speaker 2: know that there are some things that he resists in

434
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Speaker 2: terms of like medical science, and it would be just

435
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Speaker 2: the wildest story in the world found out like Brandon

436
00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,080
Speaker 2: Imo doesn't hydrate, it, like he doesn't stretch or some shit.

437
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Speaker 1: I mean, that kind of goes back to what our

438
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Speaker 1: you know, former GM said, I don't know what we

439
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Speaker 1: call Zack Scott, but talking about how there's just players

440
00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,560
Speaker 1: who just refused to listen to the nutrition and the

441
00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,040
Speaker 1: hamstring and these soft tissue injuries kind of all fit

442
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Speaker 1: into that.

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Speaker 2: Narrative definitely, especially when three of the guys who had

444
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Speaker 2: soft tissue injuries this year repeatedly are three of the

445
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Speaker 2: guys who we know have not gotten the COVID vaccine.

446
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Speaker 1: Yes, not that injuries are related to the vaccine, but.

447
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Speaker 2: That, of course it's just a weird it's a weird

448
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Speaker 2: line to.

449
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Speaker 1: Draw there, Yes, weird line to draw modern medicine. Not

450
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Speaker 1: agreeing with it whatever, And then we get to the

451
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Speaker 1: bottom of the seventh inning because of course double header,

452
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Speaker 1: so this is the ninth inning, and we go Lugo

453
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Speaker 1: because Diaz blew the save the other day through a

454
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Speaker 1: bunch of pitches, wasn't ready to go, and he'd been

455
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Speaker 1: pitching a lot recently, a lot of close wins. So

456
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Speaker 1: we went to Lugo. And Lugo has been good all year.

457
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Speaker 1: And I got a little heated when he blew this

458
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Speaker 1: one here because uh spoiler seth Lugo blew the game.

459
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Speaker 1: He gave a two run home run to the newest

460
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Speaker 1: member of the rat fuck Army or whatever he is,

461
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Speaker 1: and Drew Stevenson, who is a certified bum outside of

462
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Speaker 1: playing the New York Mets. I mean, that guy would

463
00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,600
Speaker 1: not even be the fourth or fifth outfielder on this team.

464
00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,520
Speaker 1: Albert Almore gets picked over Andrew Stevenson. That doesn't that

465
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Speaker 1: says a lot about his quality of play. But boy,

466
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Speaker 1: when he plays the Mets, does he remember how to

467
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Speaker 1: play baseball? Because he was an LSU guy like he

468
00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,840
Speaker 1: had talent in college. Clearly the major league level just

469
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 1: doesn't translate. But he goes up against that Orange and

470
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Speaker 1: Blue and he turns into fucking superman.

471
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Speaker 2: It's been like a few weeks since we annoying to

472
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Speaker 2: the new member of the rat Fox Society. So I'm

473
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Speaker 2: happy that we're back on this train.

474
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Speaker 1: And we've both talked about Andrew Stevenson as like we

475
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Speaker 1: hate this guy, but he really hadn't like stabbed in

476
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Speaker 1: us and then twisted and then kind of like shook

477
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Speaker 1: it around a little bit, like he is making mince

478
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Speaker 1: meat with our intestines in there.

479
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Speaker 2: Oh, one hundred percent. He had like three different switch plays,

480
00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,200
Speaker 2: he had a third arm that popped out of his ribcage,

481
00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,439
Speaker 2: and he was just destroying our insides. He for his

482
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Speaker 2: career has a six eighty seven ops against the Mets.

483
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Speaker 2: It's ninety seven.

484
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Speaker 1: That's so insane. How could this be fifty points?

485
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Speaker 2: And he is the most at bats against the Mets

486
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Speaker 2: in any other team in the.

487
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Nationals. No David Martinez. That's a

488
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Speaker 1: classic like old school manager kind of thing where it's like,

489
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,680
Speaker 1: this guy plays well against the Mets, there's no reason

490
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Speaker 1: to it, but he kills him. And he did it again.

491
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Speaker 1: He had a two run home run on Let's talk

492
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Speaker 1: about this too, Lugo one two count goes to his

493
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Speaker 1: freaking change up. I don't understand that pitch call. I

494
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:21,200
Speaker 1: don't understand his curveball is clearly his best pitch by far,

495
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,520
Speaker 1: it's not even close. I don't get the changeup call.

496
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Speaker 2: And he did that the other night, the Tuesday night

497
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Speaker 2: game against the Marlins, where he would I forgot it

498
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Speaker 2: was he Hon Diaz, one of the bad hitters, was

499
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Speaker 2: up that he was just rolling through after a couple

500
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Speaker 2: of guys got on and he was really reluctant to

501
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Speaker 2: go to the curveball with two strikes, he threw a

502
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Speaker 2: change up a fastball in the slider before he went

503
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Speaker 2: with the hook. Doesn't make sense.

504
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Speaker 1: I know it's a left handed bad but like, your

505
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Speaker 1: curveball is so good that you don't have to worry

506
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Speaker 1: about that left hand right hand thing. Also, your curveball's

507
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Speaker 1: at twelve to six. It's a very very traditional twelve

508
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,640
Speaker 1: to six break. It doesn't matter if you're left you're righty.

509
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Speaker 1: It is going to be nasty. The same way to

510
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Speaker 1: either of those guys. I could not, for the life

511
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Speaker 1: of me understand a one two change him. Did not

512
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Speaker 1: get it. You went with your like four worth pitch

513
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Speaker 1: against Andrew Stevenson. I know he's not good but get

514
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Speaker 1: the out.

515
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Speaker 2: Who cares Devil's advocate when you're left handed bathering and

516
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 2: you're facing a righty and that you throw a curveball,

517
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Speaker 2: like theoretically you'll probably see that better out of the hands.

518
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:12,879
Speaker 2: There was more of a chance to sit on one.

519
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,920
Speaker 2: But this is Andrew fucking Stevenson. We're not worried. This

520
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 2: isn't want so though, like, get him out? Why would

521
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 2: being cute?

522
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no one we should be cute again. I

523
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Speaker 1: know he's been great against us, but I think part

524
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Speaker 1: of the reason why is because we just try to

525
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Speaker 1: like outsmart Andrew Stevenson. It makes no sense to me.

526
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Speaker 1: I was furious. I had some hot takes of Ilugo's

527
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Speaker 1: a bum. He's washed. I take those all back.

528
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Speaker 2: I was kind of pissed.

529
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Speaker 1: My day was ruined. My day was ruined. We went

530
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Speaker 1: from nine to nothing to extra innings in that stupid

531
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Speaker 1: little shit, Andrew Stevenson the one to tie it up.

532
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Speaker 1: I was so mad, I was pacing around the apartment.

533
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Speaker 1: I stopped watching. I didn't I didn't even get to

534
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Speaker 1: celebrate what happened in the extra innings because I was

535
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Speaker 1: so mad and said, we still have to win.

536
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Speaker 2: This game.

537
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Speaker 1: I My day was ruined. I was just in such

538
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Speaker 1: a bad mood.

539
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Speaker 2: It was also a gut punch going from blowing this

540
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Speaker 2: game in the seventh to getting no runs in the

541
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Speaker 2: first extra inning. I know.

542
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Speaker 1: That's the other crazy thing too, is that this team

543
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Speaker 1: like it appeared like they just laid down going into

544
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Speaker 1: that eighth inning. Luckily we got out of it, big

545
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 1: gutsy performance there by the Mets bullpen, and we go

546
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Speaker 1: to the ninth inning, and this is where the Mets

547
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Speaker 1: bats we came alive. I guess you could say lind

548
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Speaker 1: Or to run home run huge, absolutely.

549
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Speaker 2: Massive, massive, called this hot street, called the shit out,

550
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 2: this hot streak. He had such a fantastic series. Also,

551
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 2: you said big shouts of the Mets bullpen and run

552
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 2: a shot out. Specifically Trevor May forgetting out of that

553
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Speaker 2: eighth inning, because he pitched a hell of an inning

554
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Speaker 2: after we didn't get a base runner in the fifth,

555
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Speaker 2: the sixth, the seventh, or an eighth besides the automatic

556
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Speaker 2: runner who was Patmask, which is a slap in the

557
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Speaker 2: face that Patzkause the automatic runner, and May did get into.

558
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Speaker 1: A little bit of trouble which he likes to make

559
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Speaker 1: it a little interesting sometimes, but he got out of it.

560
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Speaker 2: He was good, definitely and good shit.

561
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Speaker 1: And then Heath Henbry shut it down because of course

562
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Speaker 1: he did. Yep, but that Lindor home run was huge.

563
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Speaker 1: It seems like this is the at bat that you're

564
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Speaker 1: gonna look back on the Francisco Lindor season and be like,

565
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Speaker 1: he's back, because he really did swing the bat very

566
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Speaker 1: very well this season, this series home runs doubles. He

567
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Speaker 1: was hitting the ball all over the yard, just like

568
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: we saw in my against Miami and New York a

569
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Speaker 1: little bit, except this time it was falling huge home

570
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: run from him. Again. I didn't get to celebrate it

571
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Speaker 1: because I was in just such a bad mood. I

572
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Speaker 1: again ruined day, ruined, Call me a baby, call me

573
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: whatever you want, but I was just beside myself. I

574
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: could have thrown up. How sick I was that the

575
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: Mets blew this game, but they won it eleven to nine.

576
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Speaker 1: Wasn't pretty. Heath Hembury again, I really don't want to

577
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Speaker 1: watch this guy pitch too often because he's a human

578
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 1: reign delay and he just puts my stomach in knots.

579
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 1: But he got the job done. Mets win going into

580
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Speaker 1: the second game of the double header. Now with a

581
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Speaker 1: nice you know, two games in a row against the

582
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Speaker 1: Washington Nationals, We're looking good, We're feeling good. We got

583
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: a chance to win the series right here on Saturday

584
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Speaker 1: with the sweep of the double header, and we punted.

585
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 1: We punted big time in Game three. No Lindor or Hobby.

586
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Speaker 1: I hated it. How'd you feel about it?

587
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Speaker 2: I hated the shit out of the shout out Jim Tressel,

588
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: king of the punts, but especially after the way Bolts

589
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 2: those guys played in Game one, especially with Lindor hitting

590
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Speaker 2: the go ahead home run like less than an hour

591
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: before this lineup, a half hour before his lineup dropped.

592
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Speaker 2: It was brutal. I do still understand giving Lindor like

593
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Speaker 2: one out of every four games off, but fuck that

594
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 2: hurt like hell. But like, why benj having the same game?

595
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 2: Why not alternate them so one of them can play shortstop?

596
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 2: I don't get that.

597
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Speaker 1: It's also like we were at the time. I think

598
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Speaker 1: it was game one, thirty two of one to sixty two,

599
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: Like there was legitimately thirty games left or twenty nine

600
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: games left in the season. There's just no time there's

601
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Speaker 1: no time to play around. There's no time to play

602
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 1: around times running thin, times running out, and especially against

603
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Speaker 1: a team that like these are easy wins, they should

604
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Speaker 1: be easy wins. This is the bottom feeder. You can't

605
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: just give away games to the Nationals. When the Braves

606
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: were playing some tough games against the Rockies, when the

607
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: Phillies were going up against the Marlins where their kryptonite,

608
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: we had opportunity to make up more ground here and

609
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Speaker 1: we punted. I just we don't go through for the throat. Ever,

610
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Speaker 1: this Mets team. That's kind of how I felt all

611
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Speaker 1: year long. We don't go for the throat.

612
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Speaker 2: The Devil's advocate argument against that is that if Lindor

613
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Speaker 2: does reaggravate this oblique issue, the season's over. Ya, like

614
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 2: his season and the Mets season, you can't really risk that.

615
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 2: Like maybe if there's ten games left, he's not sitting anymore,

616
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 2: but with thirty games left to lose, Francisco Lindor, the

617
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 2: way he's swinging the bat right now would be just

618
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: the a shot to the heart. Again, I don't have

619
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 2: problem been benching him specifically, he should be on a

620
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 2: very strict regiment coming off at oblique injury because they're

621
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 2: very serious, they're very easy to reaggravate, and they will

622
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 2: again end his season if it ever happens again, especially

623
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 2: when it looks like he might've been dealing with something

624
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: like this for a very long time before it actually

625
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 2: flared up. Based on the way he hit then versus

626
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 2: way he's hitting now, based on the way he's rotating.

627
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: The bat speed is through the roof now. Even Keith

628
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: and Ron have been like gushing over there, like his

629
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: bat speed is so back, like he is swinging the

630
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: bat like we saw in spring training when he was

631
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: crushing those whole runs.

632
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's all in the hips. Maybe it's all

633
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 2: in the hips. I just don't like the fact that

634
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 2: Hove also said, if you know you're baking in this

635
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 2: game as the rest game for Francisco Lindor, just say them,

636
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 2: And Rojas says, because they played nine innings in the

637
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 2: first game, those two winnings really made that much of

638
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 2: a difference here.

639
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: They were gonna play combined nine innings at some point

640
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: in these two games. So I don't know why, like

641
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: up nine to one that's never been done before. Please

642
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: can't play him anymore. I hated it I hated it.

643
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,239
Speaker 1: I don't think it's Rojas making the call again, I

644
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: think that's very much, especially like with like this this

645
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: rest thing, I think that's very much coming from the

646
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 1: higher ups one percent. I hate seeing people blame Rojas

647
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: for it, but I understand that people are just not

648
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Speaker 1: gonna unders or get it through their head that Rojas

649
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: doesn't have any decision on lineups.

650
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and these two also, this is like nippicking. They're

651
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 2: just like not very good pinch hithers. They have too

652
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: much energy every single time they come up as a

653
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 2: pinch head. This year has been like bad looking at

654
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: Betts and it was again in this game.

655
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, which we'll get to there. Let's talk about what

656
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: actually happened in this game though. Start of the game

657
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: was nice because the best leadoff hitter in baseball, Johnathan Vr,

658
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: gets on immediately and then Michael Confordo hits him in

659
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: we score a run in the first thitn He was.

660
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 2: Beautiful, definitely, and it was a massive sigh of relief

661
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 2: after the way that we blew Game one to start

662
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 2: this game and just be very very like good and

663
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 2: comfortable and strong and aggressive, even after VR had like

664
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 2: such a nice crafty eight pitch walk because he's the

665
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 2: best leadoff hitter in baseball and he has seems like

666
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 2: he's just going to absorb Brandon IMO's powers now that

667
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 2: he's injured.

668
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like a dude who had never been patient

669
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: really in his career, but for some reason with the

670
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: New York Mets in the leadoff spot, Cabayo Loco, he

671
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 1: calms down and he gets in the zone and he

672
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: just plays on another level. Great starts of the game.

673
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: Immediately washed away, immediately washed away. Tyler McGill was a

674
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: little bit off and that came with a Laye Thomas

675
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: home run to deep center field. He crushed it.

676
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: This is one of the funniest calls in my life.

677
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 2: I said, this guy was like pretty good, underrated, and

678
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 2: he dominated us this series. He did.

679
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,199
Speaker 1: He's just home runs. That's all he does against the

680
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: Mets is homeo. He is a good athlete's strong kid.

681
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: Came from the Cardinals organization. Just not enough room there

682
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: for him.

683
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: So I mean, just based on an outfielder leaving the Cardinals,

684
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 2: it's almost guaranteed he's gonna be a superstar. Yeah. Randy A.

685
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: Rose Arena, Dolis Garcia maybe Lane Thomas gets add to

686
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 1: that list. I pray to god he doesn't. But he

687
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: got the Nationals on the board right away to tie

688
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: it up one one, and then Carter key Boom later

689
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: that inning hits a sharp single, scores a run and

690
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 1: the Mets are in a hole. After you're like, okay,

691
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: maybe this is a positive start here after a shit

692
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: show of a game. One Mets came out swinging again.

693
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: We got McGill on the mound and just like that

694
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: we're losing.

695
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: Also, to end the first inning, we had fresh and

696
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: threw with nobody out and JD. Pallar and McNeil all

697
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 2: successfully didn't get anybody home, which was fun because we

698
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 2: do that all the time. Still it as a risp, Yeah,

699
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: still know a risk. It's never heard the risp. And

700
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 2: you gave him Gill some shit, But he actually did

701
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 2: settle down really nicely from like the end of the

702
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 2: first to the fourth. He looked he retired nine to

703
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: a row at one point and then there was like

704
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 2: a dinky single, But I think it might have been

705
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: Key Boom because he now just gets singles all the

706
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 2: time apparently. Yep, it's a fun thing. And he was

707
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 2: a race Withdell playing. He got one, two, three ing

708
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 2: again the next inning, so he was fine for a while.

709
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: And this was the first time that I've watched him

710
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 2: pitch this year and look at that slither and been like, oh,

711
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 2: that could be something that's really good. The something that

712
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 2: was supposed to be really good. This entire time. He

713
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 2: had six whiffs on it in eleven swings, which is

714
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: just super hot fire, pure fuego. He also trusted the

715
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: off speeds a lot more, something I've said time and

716
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 2: time again for the way that Tyler McGill can adjust

717
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 2: to the league adjusting to him and possibly take his

718
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: game to the next level before an offseason of hopefully

719
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 2: further development. First time all year he's thrown the slider

720
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 2: and the change up each of them over twenty percent

721
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: of the time. Fastball also dropped down into the fifty

722
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: percentages as opposed to sixteen seventy percentages, which is massive, massive, massive,

723
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: massive man. But the whole thing was ruined with Alsay's

724
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: Escobar's home run off the fifth inning, which was on

725
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 2: a fastball that was right down in the middle.

726
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like one, you can't give up a

727
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: hit to Alsie. His Escobar that guy thinks he's awful.

728
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: He's I can't believe he's even a major league baseball still. Yeah,

729
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't know where he came from.

730
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: He disappeared like kind of after that World Series, as

731
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: he should have, because he's just not a good baseball player.

732
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: He's not a good fielder, he's not a good hitter.

733
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: There's not much there. He's the classic like old school.

734
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: You love him. He doesn't strike out. He gives you

735
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,959
Speaker 1: a tough at bat, but like nowadays, we know that

736
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: means absolutely nothing. But of course, because he's a Met killer,

737
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: he hits a home run here and gives him a

738
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: four to one lead off of that fastball, like you said,

739
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: right down the cock of the plate, and the Mets

740
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: are looking at a four to one deficit, and that's

741
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: kind of just the story of the game. We got

742
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: a home run for Polar in the sixth inning off

743
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: Josh Rodgers. Josh Rodgers. Is that his name? Jake Johnson?

744
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what is he? Let me look it up.

745
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: Josh Rodgers. Yeah. I mean he's so unimpressive. He's the

746
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: mets kryptonite, soft tossing lefty. We couldn't score more than

747
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: three runs off of Josh Rogers, Andres Machado and Kyle Finnegan.

748
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: None of those guys are very good. We had four

749
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: hits in total of this game. A lot of people

750
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: on Twitter were coming out McGill that, you know, he

751
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: couldn't give us a better start against the lowly Washington Nationals.

752
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: The bigger story here is four hits against Josh Rodgers,

753
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: Andres Machado and Kyle Finnegan. The Mets have a serious

754
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: problem against guys who throw eighty eight. I can't even

755
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: run my head around it.

756
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 2: And that's also had two hits in the first inning.

757
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we had two hits the rest of the game,

758
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: and one of them was Kevin Pillar solo shot or

759
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: two run to run home run.

760
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 2: Run shot to run shot. Second time this series that

761
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 2: Kevin Polar had the hardest hit ball of the game,

762
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 2: which is just really hilarious.

763
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: It shouldn't really be happening.

764
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: I mean, they're both over one hundred and ten, like

765
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 2: there's not They aren't soft hits, like he was smoking

766
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 2: the ball. His hard hit rate has been soaring over

767
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: the last two weeks.

768
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just swinging the bad harder. Now, maybe he's like,

769
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 1: screw it. If I'm gonna hit six forty the way

770
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: I'm doing it now, let's just go up there and

771
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: swing as hard as we can, which we've seen has

772
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: worked with guys in the past, including one of his

773
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: former teammates or two of them, Josh Donson and Jose Bautista,

774
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: who both made that adjustment.

775
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: Just swing hard, Just wing hard, seems easy. But this

776
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: is not the story here. The stories that we just

777
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 2: laid over. It died basically the last three innings.

778
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: Just had no interest in winning this game. Super super

779
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: horrible performance by the Mets. After what was a really

780
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: up and down Game two, really up and down Game one,

781
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: Losing this game just felt like a little bit of

782
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: the icing on the cake getting ready for like what

783
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: was going to be just a really disappointing series. Not good,

784
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: not good. We had a chance to take three and

785
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: rough from the Nationals, three very winnable games, and we

786
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: blew one. Where Josh Rogers started, I can't get over

787
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: that that guy beat us. He's just not good.

788
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: No, definitely not. And when Game four was beginning on

789
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 2: Sundays there, I had a feeling myself that the Mets

790
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 2: like had to respond, like they had to rebound very early,

791
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 2: and they did. Jumped out again to a first sitting

792
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 2: run because we did every game and Jonathan VR just

793
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: loves getting on base, only thing he knows how to do.

794
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 2: And we were all over Josiah Gray for four runs

795
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 2: before like you could even blink.

796
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: Well, it's because Josiah Gray. He's a good pitcher, He's

797
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: got good stuff. The Mets are like, let's hit the

798
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: guy who throws hard and has some good movement on

799
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: his pitches. Josh Rodgers, Kyle Finnick, and Andrews Andres Machado, No,

800
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: thank you, not interested, Sean Nolan, don't even start me

801
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: with Sean Nolan.

802
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 2: Andres Machado might be the fakest name on this team.

803
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: That's just like again, like that's a generic name that

804
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: MLB the show gives to, like the two like Spanish

805
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: Latin descent guys that are on the draft class or whatever.

806
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,479
Speaker 1: It's frustrating, but again, like you said, we got off

807
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: to a hot start this game. Can fodoh to RBI

808
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: single scored, Lindor scored Jonathan Vr. Then Hobby Buye has

809
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,959
Speaker 1: got a single. We were stringing hits together. Jeff McNeil

810
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: sacrificed fly for nothing lead in the first, and again

811
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: things were looking great at who do you know stepped

812
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: up to the play in the bottom of the first

813
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: friggin Lane Thomas and hit his third home run of

814
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: the year. And I believe it's also the third home

815
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: run against the New York Mets this year. I think

816
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: he's only hit home runs against US. And we're like, uh,

817
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: this isn't good. And then I'll see his Escobar gets

818
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: on and Josh Bell hits a home run and you go, oh,

819
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: it's four to three.

820
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: There it goes.

821
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: Taiwan was not sharp.

822
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: I really have to stop saying things out loud about

823
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 2: the Mets, which is a conundrum because we do this

824
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 2: podcast together and as like most of my Twitter persona,

825
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: But I said Lane Thomas was good, that he annihilated US.

826
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 2: I said, Josh Bell's been swinging the bat bether and

827
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: he was all over as the series. He had a

828
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 2: great performance this weekend. And even I forgot to mention this,

829
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 2: but in the middle of Game one on Saturday, I tweeted,

830
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 2: the Mets are back with like the Gary Cohen gift

831
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 2: from the walkoff win on Tuesday and the Mets gave

832
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: up nine runs in jury and exactly that tweet and

833
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: Brandon Nimmo got hurt.

834
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're you're somehow every other team wants

835
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: you to talk about them every other zon. The Mets

836
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: are like, please, James Chiano, keep your thoughts to yourself.

837
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 2: I gotta just shut the fuck up.

838
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just gotta tweet out stats. That's your thing.

839
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: You just gotta tweet out factual information, no opinion.

840
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: Never.

841
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: I think that's what it is, though, But like you, you,

842
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: Laine Thomas, like factually, like there is something there, and

843
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: Josh Bell factually has been swinging the bat better, so

844
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: I think we might have found it. Just stick to

845
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: the actual true information. Lock the key, throw the way,

846
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: throw it away. So yeah, four through, just like that,

847
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: because again, uh, Taiwan was not sharp and was not

848
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: sharp the entire game. But let's keep talking about the

849
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: offense here because we responded immediately in the second and

850
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: the third inning, we got a home run for Jonathan

851
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: Vr because again, he is the best player on planet Earth.

852
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: He's the best player to ever wear the New York

853
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: Mets uniform, the orange and blue. It's Jonathan VR shout

854
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: out our boy Ernie and then Hobby by Hiss in

855
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: the third inning a home run made it six to three.

856
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: So you're like, Okay, the Mets, this, this is what

857
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: they should be doing a bad teams. This is like

858
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: it's coming together. They're playing as a team. They're hitting

859
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: when we need it, they're pitching when we need it.

860
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: Here we go, this might be the turning point. And

861
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: then Taiwan's like, hold on, I have some more runs

862
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: to give up.

863
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 2: I do you want to mention that it's hilarious that

864
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 2: this was basically exactly seven days almost to the minute,

865
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 2: that we were giving shit to Javier Bias because he

866
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 2: started booing. The fans and Mets Twitter went from wanting

867
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 2: him literally to be DFA so willing to offer him

868
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 2: two hundred million dollars in legitimately seven days, and honestly,

869
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: in those seven days, he has turned a season around

870
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 2: quite a bit. Like he was having like an average

871
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: offensive impact before these seven days, and then after the

872
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 2: booing incident, he's been playing.

873
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: Like a mad man. He's been playing, like we said

874
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: again that like superstar potential that everyone talks about with him.

875
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm happy we have n't for that, but

876
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 2: like you were leading in, we do talk about Taiwan

877
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 2: because he just had another weird game, which has been

878
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 2: the absolute story of his second half, literally ever since

879
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: he gave up that stupid home runs to Mike's Nino

880
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 2: in the All Star Game, probably an event that he

881
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 2: never should have been a part of because they wish

882
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 2: he would have had a couple more days arrest the arm.

883
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it shot because the velosity

884
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 2: was still decent. It wasn't like last game where he

885
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: was just throwing super fucking hard, which was cool. But like,

886
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: why is he throwing sixty percent fastballs right now between

887
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: his four semer and his two seamer. I can't wrap

888
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,479
Speaker 2: my head around it. No. Why why?

889
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: I think because that's a pitch that he's thinking he

890
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: can rely on his velocity to get him by with things,

891
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: and that if his command is off just a little bit,

892
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: that he can get away with it. Because he has

893
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: thrown like in the mid nineties, I feel like because

894
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: his command has clearly taken a toll or dip in

895
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: what's happened from the beginning of the season. Now, I

896
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: think there's no doubt in that he's throwing less of

897
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: those breaking pitches because he just doesn't have the feel

898
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: for them. He just doesn't have the control, and he's

899
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: worried about leaving a hangar up there.

900
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 2: And I guess that could be true. But the two

901
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 2: seamer is the one that end up getting hit hard.

902
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 2: The so though single in the fifth that basically chased

903
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 2: Taiwan and brought the Nationals back in this game, which

904
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: is a two seamer right down the dick to he smoked,

905
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: and the fourth seamer was good. He had eight strikes

906
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 2: and just one of them was put in play, which

907
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: that's pretty fucking rare for forceeing fastball. The only one

908
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: be put in play. They're only six five balls, and

909
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 2: he wasn't even missing bastard whiffs. He was just very

910
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 2: good using it to keep the Nationals off balance and

911
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 2: kind of ditting it up a lot of the time.

912
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 2: Just I don't know why this change has happened. I

913
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 2: would love to hear someone ask him er talk to

914
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 2: about where this trade off has come between fourceing fastballs

915
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 2: and two seam fastballs over the last six plus weeks.

916
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: This is why the mess I need to get us

917
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: asking the questions after the game because this is what

918
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: we would want to know, Like, Hey, Taiwan, how'd you

919
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: feel out there? Stupid question? That's a dumb question. That's

920
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: the question that's asked every single day. Hey Taiwan, why

921
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: are you throwing more two seamers and than four seamers?

922
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: What's the reason behind that? That's a great question. That

923
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: is the showing that you're watching the game, that you're

924
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: paying attention to what's going on, and you have a

925
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: question about the approach that he's taking. That gives great insight.

926
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: Not hey Taiwan, you happy with your performance today after

927
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: you give up five runs? Like what a dumb, stupid

928
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: question that all every single reporter loves to ask.

929
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that's like the Michael Barren specialty. I'd

930
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: you feel out there? Micro p what went on your head? Yeah,

931
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 2: it's great, good leading questions from real top TOSH journalists.

932
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: Now we did get some more runs, though you're done

933
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: with Taiwan, right, I mean, there's just.

934
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: Not a lot to talk about goodel It's just yeah,

935
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: weird Pat Moska sackfly in the eighth inning sack fly.

936
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, the fabled sackfly, which also like I don't know

937
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 1: the last time Pat Mezica, but like, I don't remember

938
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: how many times he hits fly balls. That's just not

939
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: something he does often, especially with like the depth to

940
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: get a sacrifice fly. But he gave us the lead

941
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: there in the eighth inning, seven to six, and then

942
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: the ninth inning came around and this is where the

943
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 1: Mets bats woke up. This was so nice to see.

944
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: It was fantastic because they jumped all over the awful

945
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: picture that is Austin both so much so that Keith

946
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: or nanez this this is prime Keith when he starts

947
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: doing this. He saw Austin both come in the game.

948
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, both having a tough couple of days. Here,

949
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: let's see how he performs. Six runs, didn't even get

950
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: an out, he just got absolutely shelled. And Keith goes, man,

951
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: I know it's September, but this is a kind of

952
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: a drmans to get your run out of town. And

953
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: I was like, kay, talk about the guy's job here.

954
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he stinks, but this is the last

955
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: place Nationals team. Let's pump the brakes, like this guy

956
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: is a family.

957
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: That's pretty fucking funny. Lundora the home run spoken hot.

958
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 2: As we've mentioned, and Polar dropped that big grand slam.

959
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 2: That really made me feel comfortable because going into this inning,

960
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 2: I was like, we need three runs. We can't be

961
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 2: winning by one. I'd really not like to be winning

962
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 2: by two any at least three, and Kevin Palar just

963
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 2: made a nice with seven. He didn't have the hardest

964
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 2: hit ball of this game because Peel Alonzo put three

965
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 2: in play over one hundred and eleven and want so

966
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 2: to put one also about one hundred twelve. But this

967
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 2: was the longest hip ball of the game. So Kevin

968
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 2: Polar offensive juggernaut dominating the series. He said, three of

969
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: the six hardest balls of the season in this National Series,

970
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 2: and this is great. He's just smoking the ball in

971
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 2: the last few weeks. And now we're really really, really

972
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 2: really really gonna need him with Brandon Nemo being possibly

973
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 2: done for the year.

974
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, if he's playing like this, the Kevin Pilar slander

975
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: will cease to exist because he's playing like a very

976
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: capable major league player, something we hadn't seen all yet.

977
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 2: No, somebody we hadn't seen for a very long time.

978
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 2: I think a lot of it was probably a comfortability

979
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: with his broken face.

980
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: Oh definitely. I think that it's it's hard mentally, I

981
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: feel like to come back from like your face actually

982
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: being just brutally destroyed.

983
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 2: And it's even impressive that he has done it so quickly,

984
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, No, responding in two and a half

985
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 2: three months from a broken face is wildly impressive.

986
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: No, dude, he's a warrior. There's no doubt. We said

987
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: from the beginning, like the dude is tough. He wants

988
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: to be there. He puts one hundred and twenty five

989
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: percent into every single play. It's just he wasn't good

990
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: to start the year, but he's playing like this. Kevin

991
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: Pallari could play center field for us any time you want.

992
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: If you're gonna hit Grand Slams and doubles and triples

993
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: like this all day, if you're.

994
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 2: Hit the ball on hundred ten miles now, you could

995
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 2: do anything you want. Kevin play, I really don't care.

996
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: Yes, And then to end this game, yan CDs came

997
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: in and shut the door. Yean Ce. I love seeing

998
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: him get more innings. He's good. He's got some stuff. Man,

999
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: you've been talking about him all year. We like yan

1000
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: Ci here.

1001
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Yanze. Got good. Commanded the fastball change

1002
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 2: up is nice. He's a piece, and he's gonna have

1003
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 2: options for the foreseeple futures. It will be a very

1004
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 2: valuable member of the Mets. I'll call him like the

1005
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 2: taxi squad for probably at least for next year, as

1006
00:39:58,560 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: long as those rules don't change.

1007
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: This gave us the series win three to one in

1008
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: the series right now, going into our Labor Day matchup

1009
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: with the Nationals Game five of again this absolute marathon

1010
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: in DC, which was again just sort of hellish. It

1011
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: was pretty sloppy, as we said at the beginning, and

1012
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 1: we had a decent match up here. I mean, Trevor Williams,

1013
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: while he isn't great you mentioned it earlier, has been

1014
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: somewhat of a savior this year, just because he's been

1015
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: able to come in and give us some good enough

1016
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: innings and be good enough for us to keep us

1017
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: in games. And we're going up against Patrick Corbin, who

1018
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: stinks he's bad. He's not very good this year.

1019
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 2: He's been better since like a really horrific April in May.

1020
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 2: He's still not very good. And I would say the

1021
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 2: offense's performance was incredibly disappointing after another hot first inning,

1022
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:38,959
Speaker 2: because that's all the Mets now do after not doing

1023
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 2: it for literally months.

1024
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, p Alonzo scoring an early run for us, which

1025
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: was nice, some really good hitting. A lot of singles though,

1026
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: this is the story of this game. Today was the

1027
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: game of singles. The Mets had twelve hits on the day.

1028
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: They scored three runs, and I mean those runs came

1029
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: from the Peter Alonzo single. Jeff mcfeil grounded into a

1030
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: double play, so that's not even an RBI, and then

1031
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: Peter Alonzo hit a home run. The rest of it

1032
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: was super unimpressive, like, we got doubles, couldn't get the

1033
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: runners in. I think we were again like one for

1034
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: ten or one for twelve with runners in scoring position

1035
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: in this game. Just absolutely no timely, no clutch hitting,

1036
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: and it's a killer. You can't get twelve hits and

1037
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: score three runs. You just can't win many games scoring

1038
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: three runs. It's Major League Baseball. The average team scores

1039
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: four a game, so you should lose those games when

1040
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: you score.

1041
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 2: Three, definitely. And while we're giving the offense shit, I

1042
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 2: just want to shout out Lindor because again the guy's

1043
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 2: smoking hot, man on fire, scalding four hard hit balls.

1044
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 2: So they had two of them are over one hundred

1045
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: and ten miles an hour. I think he did wind

1046
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 2: up with two or three hits, correct.

1047
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: He went two for five. I mean, like, let's just

1048
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: go through the box score real quick, because there were

1049
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: hits all around the place, like we said, but again,

1050
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: we couldn't get the big runs that we needed. Lindor

1051
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: two for five with a run scored as well. We

1052
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: had Alonzo two for four, Hovey Bias two for four,

1053
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: Kevin Polar two for three, McNeil one for four, McCann

1054
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: one for four, Trevor Williams one for two. Like it

1055
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: was all over the place. I just mentioned the pitcher.

1056
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that, but everyone was hidden. It's

1057
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: just not when we needed it, definitely.

1058
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 2: But luckily Trevor Williams is just old school king. He

1059
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 2: goes out there and throws pitches down the middle like

1060
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: Warren Spott and just every single one finds a glove.

1061
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 2: It's such a pleasure. And now I want to say

1062
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 2: it's a pleasure to watch him, but it's very uh,

1063
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: I don't know. I was gushing over trev Williams. Th

1064
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 2: I got nothing but good things to say.

1065
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we shouldn't say it. Every single thing finds

1066
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 1: a glove. I mean, he still did give up ten

1067
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: hits in five innings a lot with two walks.

1068
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: Did what he had to do. Bro It's ripping seventy

1069
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: percent fastballs at ninety two miles an hour, and it's

1070
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: just doing his thing. He's got the options. He's been

1071
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: a good piece. He's good depth, he throws meaningful innings.

1072
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 2: He can step in against a double heather against the National,

1073
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 2: step in for a double heather against the Marlins. Anything

1074
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 2: that Trevor Williams has to do against bad teams, I'm.

1075
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: Here for I like it. That's complete through one one eighty.

1076
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: Is that what you'd say? Three sixty complete turnaround of

1077
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: what you think sixty?

1078
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 2: Williams put you into the exact same spot. I'm STI

1079
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 2: don't like Trevor Williams as a pictuer, but I kind

1080
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 2: of like the change of pace of like I'm old school,

1081
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 2: I'm throwing down the middle. I want to see if

1082
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 2: you can hit it.

1083
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: He's gritty, he's got grit. Bill Belichick would be a

1084
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: big Trevor Williams fan.

1085
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 2: Oh, Trevor Williams could definitely be the like the move's

1086
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 2: high end in the Bill Belichick offense.

1087
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the bad stuff now, because it was,

1088
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: you know, good performance out of Familia, which was nice.

1089
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: Brad Han came in, didn't give up a run, so

1090
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: that's great. Even Luco really good coming off of a

1091
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: tough outing.

1092
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: He was fine. I wouldn't say Lugo was super sharp.

1093
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 2: The Nationals got close to scoring your run. How they

1094
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 2: made an incredible game saving at the time play up

1095
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 2: the middle.

1096
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a sick play. I did forget about that. Again,

1097
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: everything's mush year because five game series.

1098
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 2: But definitely, and there was some mush with the bats

1099
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 2: also in these innings. I want to talk about McNeil

1100
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 2: if you preferenced it before. I had a very big

1101
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 2: opportunity with after Bias and Polar had back to back

1102
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 2: singles in the fourth inning, ground is to a double play.

1103
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 2: He just seems to be very loss at the plate.

1104
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 2: He hasn't hit the ball hard what seems like months.

1105
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: I did some deep dived, some deep digging last night

1106
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 1: with my dad because my dad's like, he's like, something's

1107
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: gotta be wrong with McNeil, and he's nose. I got

1108
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 1: in McNeil's year. The one time earlier in the season

1109
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 1: when I saw the stuff with his uh batting stance

1110
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: and his swing, and he even told me, you're the

1111
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: only one who noticed it. So I was like, let's

1112
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: do some digging. Let's take a look at what's going

1113
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: on with Jeff McNeil swings. I was comparing twenty nineteen

1114
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty one. I was looking at twenty twenty

1115
00:43:55,280 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: one swings. His mechanics are so fucked up, it's une.

1116
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: His hands are out away from his body, close into

1117
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: his body. He's double loading, where if you guys don't

1118
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: know what that means, essentially you go back for your

1119
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: load when you're getting ready for the pitch. And then

1120
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: he's doing it again when he's getting ready to swing,

1121
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: which is causing him to be late and tardy on

1122
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: balls because he's basically kind of wrapping his hands behind

1123
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: his head and the bat around his head so much so,

1124
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: this is the thing that we saw Travis star Nou

1125
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: have issues with while he was in New York met

1126
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 1: which is why you see so many foul balls back

1127
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: to the screen or so many foul balls going the

1128
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: other way from Jeff McNeil he's just not getting around

1129
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: the baseball like he used to. He was never a

1130
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: pull hitter. But you know when McNeil's going well is

1131
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 1: when he's hitting those doubles down the right field line.

1132
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: That's when you know he's pretty locked in. We haven't

1133
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: seen that recently. His mechanics are all over the place.

1134
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: I'd love to see him clean it up, but I

1135
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: don't even know if he knows that he's doing this.

1136
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: I think he's just so much in a mental funk

1137
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: right now with how he's hitting that he's trying to

1138
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: do anything, and unfortunately it seems like it's kind of

1139
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: making it worse. I don't know. He's just got to

1140
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: get back to the basics. Get up, there be short

1141
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: compact to the ball. He's just not doing that right now.

1142
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 2: And that's consolation prize was he played the very good

1143
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 2: left field today.

1144
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: He did. He made a sick play in the seventh

1145
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: inning that we thought or seventh thing ninth inning that

1146
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: we thought would save the game.

1147
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 2: He also made a nice play earlier in the game

1148
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 2: when the gap and there were a lot of people

1149
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 2: on Twitter who were giving the Mets shit because JD.

1150
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 2: Davis didn't play and It's very well documented how good

1151
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: he is against Patrick Corbin's.

1152
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: Got a hit today and his pinch hit he did.

1153
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: Chris has to speak for himself. So I want to

1154
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 2: ask you what you thought of that decision.

1155
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: I played JD. Davis, I play him in left field?

1156
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 2: Are you serious? Yeah?

1157
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: And I know that this is a weird take, and

1158
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: I know I completely stand with the other side. I

1159
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: don't think that there is a wrong answer here because

1160
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: the Mets are in such a weird spot where, yes,

1161
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: the offense had been hitting and we did get twelve

1162
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: hits today, but we need that extra juice with the

1163
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: bat and JD. Davis like literally owns Patrick Corbin. Patrick

1164
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: Corbin is just in debt to JD.

1165
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 2: Davis.

1166
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what he did, but Jad Davis owns him.

1167
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: He just absolutely dominates him. You gotta have that bat

1168
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: in the lineup somewhere. This is where we wish we

1169
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: had the friggin DH because he is so got awful

1170
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: in the field, and Trevor Williams, of course, is a

1171
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: pitch to contact guy. So it's a match made in hell.

1172
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: That is not a good matchup JD. Davis in the field.

1173
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: Trevor Williams on the mound. But I just feel like

1174
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: you gotta roll the dice a little bit here because

1175
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: being safe, as we saw, didn't help us Monday morning, quarterback,

1176
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: I understand what I'm doing, but I also don't know

1177
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: where you put him. I also really don't know where

1178
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: you put him. You can't take out VR. You can't

1179
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: put him in left field because he's got awful out there.

1180
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you might as well have a scarecrow out

1181
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: in left field. I really don't know what to do there.

1182
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: It's tough, but I played JD somehow, someway, I.

1183
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 2: Disagree with you wholeheartedly. I don't think there's any way

1184
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 2: j D should have been the line today. I agree

1185
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 2: it would have been nice to have his bat for

1186
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 2: a lot of these rallies. If he would have been

1187
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 2: in the middle of the orther, things could have changed. But

1188
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 2: the Nationals put so many balls and play against Trevor Williams.

1189
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 2: Nationals had ten hits in five innings and Trevor Williams

1190
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: only had three strikeouts, so the balls were all over

1191
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 2: the baseball field. Having JD. Davis in leftfield's complete liability,

1192
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 2: and you're giving so much of a better opportunity for

1193
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 2: all of those balls that are put in play to

1194
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 2: be either the hits that were out or signals that

1195
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: could have turned the doubles, doubles that could have turned

1196
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 2: into triples. If JA Davis's play in the outfield, he

1197
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 2: just he can't play there. He's so bad. The only

1198
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 2: option would have been to make this be the game.

1199
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 2: If you're timing your sits where Jave orlandor sits, you

1200
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 2: move R and JD gets the spot at third. This

1201
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 2: is something I wish the Mets would have planned for

1202
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 2: and been proactive earlier in the week, so you could

1203
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 2: have guaranteed JD Davis at bat in the lineup at

1204
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 2: a spot where he couldn't kill you defensively, and this

1205
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 2: is where you plan your rest day.

1206
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: We've seen him and Dom go to the wayside. Dom.

1207
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: We understand why he's not hitting well. He's not good

1208
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: in the field. He just has no spot. JD unfortunately

1209
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: has been swinging the bat somewhat well this year, but

1210
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: he is just again such a liability in the field

1211
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: that it's hard to get him in there, especially when

1212
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: you have guys who are swinging the bat well or

1213
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:35,760
Speaker 1: playing defense.

1214
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 2: Especially in the outfield like third base. You can hide

1215
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 2: him a little bit just between shifting, and he has

1216
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 2: a great arm anyway, that's fine. Outfield, he is like

1217
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 2: a lost dog. He doesn't do anything well out there

1218
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 2: at all. It's horrific to watch him play. And there

1219
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 2: were a lot of balls that Jeff McNeal caught today

1220
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 2: and got to in left field that JD. Davis would

1221
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 2: not have.

1222
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: You know, McNeill's actually a very solid left fielder. I

1223
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: love the way he plays left field, especially if you're

1224
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: a person who thinks Dom Smith's been playing a great

1225
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: left field. Watch Jeff McNeil, who, by the way, isn't

1226
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: even a goal glove left He's just about average, maybe

1227
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 1: a little slightly above it, but you can tell he's

1228
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds better than Dom out there.

1229
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 2: Definitely, he's plus drs and left field in his career.

1230
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 2: He's a final fielder. And that was not the reason

1231
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 2: the Mets lost his game to they Nope.

1232
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: Edwin is scaring me a little bit here. Edwin is

1233
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: starting to worry me a little bit because he blew

1234
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: another save. The command was all over the place, didn't

1235
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: even get out of the inning. The Mets blew it.

1236
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: And of course who is right at the middle of it,

1237
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: but Andrew friggin Stevenson. I mean, I have just grown

1238
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,720
Speaker 1: a severe hatred of this man. You shouldn't hate people,

1239
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: but I hate Andrew Stevenson.

1240
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 2: I despise Andrew Stevenson. If he was bleeding out on

1241
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 2: the street, I would take his watch off his wrist.

1242
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't stand this guy. I don't

1243
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 2: want to ever see him play against the Mets again.

1244
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: I can't believe that he's the thorn in our side

1245
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: because he's just not good. He's just not a good

1246
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: baseball player. But he has figured something out against these

1247
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 1: New York Mets. And we almost almost caught a break

1248
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: in this game because I'll see this. Escobar appeared to

1249
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: maybe have slid over home plate on Andrew Stevenson's hit.

1250
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: Upon for the review, I think they made the right call.

1251
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: I think it was too close to say that he

1252
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: didn't touch home plate. I think if I was a

1253
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: Nationals fan and they said he didn't and they reversed

1254
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: the call, I think I would have been up in

1255
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: arms furious, as we've seen with my reactions to replay.

1256
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: So I'm not mad at the umpires. That they didn't

1257
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: get the call one hundred percent right. Maybe it's an

1258
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: insane call to make. The thing that annoys me is

1259
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: that the Mets can't beat the Nationals. Andrew Stevenson's the

1260
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: guy who beats us, and we just we didn't have

1261
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: a chance to make up some huge ground today because

1262
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: I think the next batter a hit game over.

1263
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: Mets lose a stupid hit too little. Think he grabbed

1264
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 2: all at the middle where there was like a miscommunication between.

1265
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, so apparently Andrew Stevehnson was running on the pitch,

1266
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: I think and Lindor kind of got caught in between

1267
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: whether or not he was going to try and get

1268
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: it and go for two, take it himself, make a toss,

1269
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 1: go home. It was all over the place. A lot

1270
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: of people weren't happy with it. Some people were like, oh,

1271
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,760
Speaker 1: he didn't even try, Like dude, we got three runs

1272
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: against the Nationals and Edwin Diaz looked like crap in

1273
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 1: the last stting. It's not his fault why we lost

1274
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: this game. The Mets just can't score for some reason.

1275
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 2: I have a funny stat about Edmund Diaz. All Right,

1276
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 2: hit me tweet from Matt Brownstein. Good Twitter follow guy.

1277
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 2: I just loves tweeting pictures stats about the Mets. I

1278
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 2: might read for Mets Mariz, I'm not sure. Don't quote

1279
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 2: me on that, but Edward dies has now blown seventeen

1280
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 2: saves as a Met. In seven of those seventeen saves,

1281
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 2: he either walked the leadloff batter or hit.

1282
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: Him with a pitch. Yeah, I mean, like, like we've said,

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00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: you can tell from the first batter he faces whether

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Speaker 1: or not it's gonna be a good outing.

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Speaker 2: I also want to say something nice about Michael good

1286
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 2: four though, because on that game tying single, he made

1287
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 2: a fantastic pulay one to get to it, and two

1288
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 2: he picked it on like a very short hop, spun

1289
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 2: his entire body around, and threw a dart strong plate

1290
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 2: right on the glove that Jameson McCann. It literally couldn't

1291
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 2: have been more perfect.

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Speaker 1: No, and like again, that was just because hit good baseball,

1293
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: good base running. Like there was nothing the Mets could

1294
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: have done in that scenario besides get Andrew the rat

1295
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: fuck Stevenson.

1296
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 2: Ow Definitely and before did make a bad play. I

1297
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 2: want to say it was the eighth or the ninth.

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00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 2: I don't recall, but he just didn't get to a

1299
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 2: ball that well in the gap. He got it, he

1300
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,439
Speaker 2: tumbled over, and he gave the Nationals a triple third.

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00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 2: I think that was the eighth not possible.

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00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: I believe that was as well. But yeah, again, but

1303
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: not why we lost the game. The Mets just the

1304
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 1: inability to score plus Edwin going back a little bit

1305
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: to what we've seen in the past before. It's starting

1306
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: to get scary that the games are really starting to

1307
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: matter and that Edwind's starting to fall apart against the Nationals.

1308
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: Maybe he just hates Washington, DC. That's a cursed place

1309
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: for Edwin Dias in the New York Mets. Good thing

1310
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: is we don't have to go back there the rest

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00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 1: of the year.

1312
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a very good thing, because this

1313
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 2: team sucks. I would love to play them for thirty

1314
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 2: consecutive more games because I'm sure that we can sneak

1315
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 2: out a couple of these with their errors, their bloops,

1316
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 2: their poor bullpen, their created players. This is nonsense. That

1317
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 2: the Mets only won three games of five this series.

1318
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: Super super disappointing, super bad, especially when you look at

1319
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: the teams that lost today on Labor Day, the Cardinals lost,

1320
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: the Reds lost, the Phillies won. They smacked the Brewers,

1321
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: which what the fuck?

1322
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 2: But they crushed Woodroff. Yeah.

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00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: Well, Woodroff's has been a little shaky since uh post

1324
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: sticky stuff. He's had some starts where he's looked a

1325
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: little human. But we're not gonna talk too much about that.

1326
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: The Mets had opportunity to gain some ground on some

1327
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: teams today and they didn't. They stayed put. We're still

1328
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,280
Speaker 1: what four and a half back of the Atlanta Braves

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00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: in the National League East.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, the Mets are four back of the Braves

1331
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 2: the National League East.

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Speaker 1: It's just, uh, it's really tough. It's really really tough

1333
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: that the Mets couldn't one take four from the series,

1334
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: an opportunity to take five from the series. They really

1335
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: didn't deserve or shouldn't have lost any of these games

1336
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: against the Washington Nationals. But that's just how it goes. Sometimes.

1337
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: The Mets cake get out of their own way and

1338
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: we come out of the series only with a three

1339
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: to two series win, which is just about almost as

1340
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: bad as it could have been with a positive spin,

1341
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: because we still technically won the series. But at what

1342
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: cost and you mentioned winning this series a lot during

1343
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: this episode. I don't give a fucking shit about winning

1344
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: the series. Of course, to go four in one had

1345
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: to go four and one, had to go four and one.

1346
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I feel like there's gonna be

1347
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: people out there like I've still won the series. Got

1348
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:45,919
Speaker 1: worried about winning every series, and we gotta we gotta

1349
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: win almost every game. Now, it's just gonna be It's

1350
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: gonna be hard.

1351
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 2: That's something you say in May and June. We got

1352
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 2: just win two at three, win two a three. We've

1353
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 2: been a good pace all year. That's where the Mets

1354
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: are at this season. They have like seven more losses

1355
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 2: left if they want to make the playoffs, and you

1356
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 2: can't waste those against the Nationals.

1357
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: Now. Luckily for us the upcoming series here, we're going

1358
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: to Miami and we know that the Marlins are not

1359
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: a very good team. The pitching matchups, how are we looking, James, No.

1360
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 2: It's gonna be the end of the Mets. A nice

1361
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 2: little hot streak here because again we're doing the bang

1362
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: Nationals Marlins, Nationals Marlins. So everyone enjoyed these next three games.

1363
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 2: We got Carlos Carrasco against our friend Edward Cabrera on

1364
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 2: Tuesday night, probably when you're listening to this Rich Hill

1365
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 2: against Sandy Alcntra again, all these pitchers that we just

1366
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 2: saw last week on Wednesday, and then Thursday, Marcus Stroman

1367
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 2: versuses us Laza though, so three two of those three

1368
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 2: pitchers we should definitely hit, even though lazarro did make

1369
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 2: an adjustment in one of his last few starts and

1370
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 2: was just destroying people, throwing way more off speed pitches

1371
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 2: and people don't know what to do anymore, which that's

1372
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 2: something that's troubling.

1373
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if we know he has nasty stuff,

1374
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: he's just gotta be able to control it, which has

1375
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: been a huge problem for his career. Gotta sweep, gotta sweep.

1376
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: We said this with the Nationals, we gotta take four

1377
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: or five now, even more so that we went three

1378
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: and two. This series have to sweep, there is no

1379
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: way about it. If the Mets really want to have

1380
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: a shot here, they have to sweep. Because we got

1381
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: the Yankees coming up, got the Cardinals, the Brewers, we

1382
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: got some tough games coming up here. Got it, beat

1383
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: the bad tim and unfortunately against the Washington Nationals. We

1384
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: didn't do it enough.

1385
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 2: We're seven and three right now in the ten games

1386
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 2: we've played so far against the Nationals and Marlins. And

1387
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,479
Speaker 2: we said two weeks ago that you had to wind

1388
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 2: up being ten and three on that stretch. At worst.

1389
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 2: Nine to four is not getting it done. So win

1390
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 2: these three games. Just win these three games. Yankees intown

1391
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 2: for a massive Subway series weekend. We gotta be hot

1392
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 2: going into that.

1393
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: Gotta be hot. And I know the old adages like

1394
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: one game out of time, you gotta just worry about

1395
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: the game in front of you.

1396
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:23,919
Speaker 2: Win.

1397
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: Met's gotta worry about the rest of the season. You

1398
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: gotta just start winning every game you play, like there's

1399
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: the times running out. I've said this episode Times running out.

1400
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: If this team really wants to make the playoffs, you

1401
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: have to start winning games and please just like beat

1402
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: the shit out of a team. I hate that every

1403
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: game in this series at points was close. And I'm

1404
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: not talking like, oh, the first inning it's zero zero,

1405
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,320
Speaker 1: It's a close game, Like no, Somehow, every time the

1406
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: eighth or seventh inning came around, the Mets were in trouble,

1407
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: or it was getting close, or it was getting back

1408
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 1: into the swing of things so frustrating.

1409
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 2: Sloppy baseball, dude, A lot of sloppy baseball has no

1410
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 2: time to be playing sloppy baseball. Right now. You have

1411
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 2: to play your best ball. Me's are five hundred as

1412
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 2: we sit here on Labor Day, which is much worse

1413
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:01,839
Speaker 2: than I thought they would be. Sixty nine and sixty

1414
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 2: nine record nice, I won't say nice. This is the

1415
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 2: one time I'll say sixty nine and there will be

1416
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 2: no nice because this is a shit record. I got

1417
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 2: you covered with the nice there, that's okay. Also, an

1418
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 2: interesting note about this series. Every single game is starting

1419
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 2: at six forty, So everyone set your watches thirty minutes

1420
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 2: ahead because we're gonna get these games going before seven

1421
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 2: to ten, which.

1422
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 1: I honestly I kind of love it. I kind of

1423
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: love airty million early start.

1424
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 2: We should play every game at six forty, even six thirty.

1425
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 2: I don't know why seven ten is the start time.

1426
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: That we use Primetime. I'm sure it has something to

1427
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: do with that. But we'll be watching these games, we'll

1428
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: be talking about them as always. Now Elephant in the

1429
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:35,840
Speaker 1: room Francisco Alvarez interview as coming the next one. I

1430
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: keep doing it to you guys, this is all on me.

1431
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 1: Tweet at me. James wants it out. I'm home in

1432
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: New Jersey. I don't have the clips on me. We

1433
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: can't upload it now. I just just won't be ready

1434
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: for you guys. And we wanted to make sure that

1435
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: we got this episode out bright and early in the

1436
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: morning because we kept you waiting for the last one,

1437
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 1: and you guys were getting a little antsy. Here, you

1438
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,959
Speaker 1: get a little restless. So we're getting episode forty seven

1439
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: bright and early in the morning, so you're ready to go.

1440
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: What were you gonna say?

1441
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 2: I was gonna say it's my bad to the listeners

1442
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 2: on the late upload before Labor Day weekend. But guys,

1443
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 2: play the first game on Thursday night and I had

1444
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 2: some fun. Couldn't finish the episode after that.

1445
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little peer into the personal life of the

1446
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 1: Mets up boys.

1447
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,320
Speaker 2: And I just want everyone to know that I edited

1448
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 2: almost the entire episode on the train from Manhattan to

1449
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 2: Point Pleasant, where I spent the weekend. So I'm working

1450
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 2: for you guys. We're here, We're here for the listeners.

1451
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: It's dedication. So yeah, Alvarez is coming. I also want

1452
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 1: to give a quick shout out to our guy Bobby Blunts.

1453
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: Hope he's feeling better. He tweeted me on Sunday night,

1454
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: three am. I think this was at either George and

1455
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: Jackson Williamsburg or the other bar that we went to.

1456
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: He took picture of the metstep sticker in the bathroom.

1457
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if he sent you it, but he

1458
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: sent me it at three am, and then like two

1459
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: hours later he got in a super bad car accident,

1460
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: like very very dangerous car flipped over and everything. Luckily

1461
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 1: everyone he was with, Okay, he's okay, just a few

1462
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: cuts and scratches, but you know, want to give our

1463
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,720
Speaker 1: big support there to Bobby Buntz, who's always been supporting

1464
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: the Mets up stuff. Good dude, Glad to see he's

1465
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: doing well, and also glad that he saw the sticker

1466
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: somewhere because we're throwing him up everywhere. So if you

1467
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: guys see it, take a picture and send it to us,

1468
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: we'll retweet it. We will shout you out whatever you on.

1469
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 2: Absolutely shout up b'by Blunts. Loyal fan, loyal fan.

1470
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: That's what we're going to wrap up episode number forty

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00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: seven of the Messed Up Podcast. Guys, thank you guys

1472
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: for listening, Thank you for watching. Make sure you follow

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Speaker 1: a five star rating, drop us a review. It really

1478
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Speaker 1: so far, which has been great growth. Really do appreciate

1480
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: all the new listeners, all the fans, everyone giving us

1481
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: great support. Oh also, one more big shout out. We

1482
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: got her first ever supporter of the podcast on anchor.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Matt Franklin supporting four ninety nine a

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Speaker 1: but it's nice to see that you guys without even

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Speaker 1: us asking, supported it. So shout out to Matt Franklin,

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00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: first ever supporter of the podcast. Big shout to you.

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Speaker 1: If you want to do that for yourself, there will

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Speaker 1: be a link. I believe in the description of the

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Speaker 1: podcast feel free, not necessarily at all. We just appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys listening, but that was cool to see.

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Speaker 2: That was really cool didn't even know that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I found it out the other day. I

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Speaker 1: was looking at I was like, oh, fort for Matt Franklin,

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Speaker 1: my guy, let's go so huge out to him, And yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's where're gonna wrap it up. Guys, Thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: thank you for watching. We'll catch you after the Marlin series.

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Speaker 1: On episode number forty eight of the Messed Up Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Peace Out, peace out, guys, See you next time.