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Speaker 1: Mets offseason's gonna look pretty chaotic. They have eleven players

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Speaker 1: hitting free agency, ten of which were on the postseason roster. Today,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be telling you our top five players that

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Speaker 1: were unlikely to return for the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 2: Not the guys that we don't want to return, but

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Speaker 2: guys that we don't see returning. That's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: big difference here, because some of these guys we definitely

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Speaker 2: want to come back to the Mets, but which is

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Speaker 2: hard to really squint and see them on this roster

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Speaker 2: next year, depending on how we think they're gonna go

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Speaker 2: about free agency.

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Speaker 1: Yes, do we want to start off with some honorable

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Speaker 1: mentions or we throw those at the end.

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Speaker 2: Honible mentions the end?

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Speaker 1: For sure, starting off with the big stuff number one

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Speaker 1: guy not returning this offseason, I think we gotta start

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Speaker 1: with Sean Manayah. I know a lot of people want

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Speaker 1: him back us too. I'd love to have Sean Mayah back.

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Speaker 1: Jim Boden projected him three year, seventy million dollars. I

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Speaker 1: don't really know if that's there's any truth to that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Jim Boden's really been accurate. I

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Speaker 1: know he's not a front all off his exact anymore,

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Speaker 1: but that's the number that's being thrown around right now.

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Speaker 3: That's more realistic.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like Sean and I is probably gonna

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Speaker 1: get paid this offseason, probably gonna be looking for four

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Speaker 1: to five seasons. I just don't really see how it

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Speaker 1: match that with all the other free agents available right now.

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Speaker 2: And just with the fact that this Mets team has

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Speaker 2: a lot of pitchers to replay, similar to last offseason.

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Speaker 2: So it's more about going out getting the next Shaw Manayah,

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Speaker 2: the next guy who do pay thirteen million dollars for

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Speaker 2: one year and winds up getting in the range of one

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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. You actually that the guy that you

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Speaker 2: can make the adjustments help the ability to turn into

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Speaker 2: like a actual startlingk fronting, starting pitcher who you thought

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Speaker 2: I think if that three for seventy is true, I

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Speaker 2: were in I would highly consider that to bring back

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Speaker 2: Sean Maaya. It's a fair deal, it's a good deal,

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Speaker 2: but I think they're gonna be priced out if he

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Speaker 2: goes to the four years, possibly even the five year

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Speaker 2: but I think Sean ma Andaya can pretty comfortably find

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Speaker 2: himself in that four year range. Like ad one of

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Speaker 2: Rodrigeaz last year, he didn't get the fire, he didn't

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Speaker 2: there's just there's there's not I don't know. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of pitchers for age right now. I think man

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Speaker 2: I might have, weirdly have one of the highest seilers.

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Speaker 2: I think someone's gonna pay up for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just don't think it's gonna be the Mets,

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Speaker 1: especially with all the other arms that we need to feel,

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Speaker 1: like you said, and all the other players that the

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Speaker 1: to have Sean and Iah back feels unlikely, though. Number two,

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Speaker 1: next player we don't think is gonna return in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. This one's gonna break your guys hearts. I

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Speaker 1: think people aren't ready to hear that this guy will

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Speaker 3: But it's Jose Iglesias.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't see a world where it makes

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Speaker 2: No, maybe maybe the Vibes will do it enough, But

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Speaker 2: there there is a world where, like maybe Jose Glacis

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Speaker 2: the Mets still have Jeff McNeil and the roster, and

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Speaker 2: they're gonna pay him a significant amount of money. They

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Speaker 2: twenty five. Ryan Marisio, whenever he gets back to baseball,

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Speaker 2: in time. Right there, I just gave you three other

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Speaker 2: Jose Lazie's had the batting average baseball last year. If

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Speaker 2: guys who probably have better offensive ceiling Jose Glaciers no

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Speaker 2: Vibes are great, the defense is great. It's a it's

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Speaker 2: there's this very little chance he comes back unless he

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Speaker 2: just says, yeah, i'll take it. I'll take a prove

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Speaker 1: Think there might be a team that might just give

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Speaker 1: it might not be really that sticky going into next year,

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Speaker 2: But I think that there's a there's a skill set

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Speaker 2: when you look for everything Jose Glacie has done over

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Speaker 2: where people don't believe in the skill sets. Skill sets

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Speaker 2: probably there, but and more comes back to the Mets

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Speaker 2: that they probably want to give a look before. Besides,

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Speaker 1: Behind the curtain for the boys have worked for the

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Speaker 1: Mets before. The OMG thing might keep him around, though.

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Speaker 2: It definitely might. There's a good chance that they literally

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Speaker 2: That there's a good chance that happens. But I think

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Speaker 1: And I will say this, I'm happy to have him

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Speaker 2: Better opportunity, more money. That's mostly Sean and I were

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Speaker 2: Jose Glacier. I think he's gonna get basically the same

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Speaker 2: be hard for Jose Glaci's to swallow because he was

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Speaker 2: like the lynchpin of this team for this year. But

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Speaker 2: what you do one year doesn't really have a huge

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Speaker 1: Nope, third player, a little bit different vibe here, Jad Martinez.

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Speaker 3: There's no shot he's coming back.

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Speaker 1: I can't if Jade Martinez is back next year, something

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Speaker 2: I don't know about catastrophically wrong, but I think it

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Speaker 2: was just like you shake Ja De Martinez's hands, like

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Speaker 2: thank you for your service, Like you helped change the vibe,

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Speaker 2: change the tenter of this locker room. You really helped

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Speaker 2: Mark Fiento seems like blost me to a good hitter,

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Speaker 2: you give us a couple of really good months of

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Speaker 2: I still just don't take anyway he's backs player. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he even kind of hinted at it

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Speaker 3: And again, when you look.

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Speaker 1: At his season as a taiale of two halves, first half,

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Speaker 1: he was phenomenal. Ten homers, fifteen doubles, two sixty average,

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Speaker 3: That's really good. That's all we could have ever asked for.

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Speaker 1: In the second half, it was a nightmare, one ninety

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Speaker 3: I'm thirty seven years old. This season is.

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Speaker 1: Long, this season is not as easy has it's been

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Speaker 2: You even pay him this year he got what ten

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Speaker 1: Who's our different canning that we can we can trade

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I think the only place we to

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Speaker 2: But I think even Marte is it's just significantly worse

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Speaker 1: True, No, he is much worse. There's no way around that.

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Speaker 3: Martinez. It's gonna be Jesse Winker.

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Speaker 1: And I think the way we have to explain this

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Speaker 1: It was bad outfield defense, but he's yeah, good arm

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Speaker 1: just don't know what his market's going to look like

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Speaker 1: because there's so many of Jesse Winkers kind of available

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll be upset about it, but I won't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if they have one Soto, Honestly, I'll wish the

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Speaker 1: And you can't really think about this offseason. We've said

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Speaker 2: Don't care.

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Speaker 1: But all this guy does is win. All he does

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Speaker 2: All three teams wan So has played on his career,

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Speaker 1: Don't think that's not Scott Boris pushing a little bit

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Speaker 2: If you right now had to give me a defend

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Speaker 1: I think there's a super realistic world where Pete signs

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Speaker 2: One two one two, Yeah, where it's a three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, every team Baseball still thinks Edmond Daz is one

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Speaker 2: of the better closers in baseball, clearly a top five,

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Speaker 2: worst case, top seven kind of guy. I've all relievers

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Speaker 2: in the league. And then you look back at the

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Speaker 2: types of teams, the way the rosters are built that

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Speaker 2: win World Series. The Braves in twenty twenty one are

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Speaker 2: the only team in the last five years to win

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Speaker 2: a World Series with a relief pitcher making more than

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Speaker 2: ten million dollars, and that was Will Smith who made thirteen,

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Speaker 2: which was insane. And then even going past that, you

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Speaker 2: have to go all the way back to the twenty

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Speaker 2: eighteen Red Socks. To have another team with a reliever

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Speaker 2: that made more than ten million dollars in the roster.

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Speaker 2: That was Craig Kimberl. It was one of the best

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Speaker 2: closers of all time depending on what people despite what

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Speaker 2: people think of him. Now now it's thirteen million twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: So to see a twenty million dollar reliever, I know

450
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Speaker 2: baseball's changing a lot, but now these in the less CBA,

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Speaker 2: these contracts almost get a little bit more serious because

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Speaker 2: of how close you get to these luxury tax thresholds

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Speaker 2: and how important it is to how much these teams

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Speaker 2: care about going over those lines, because how much you

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Speaker 2: have to pay in fees and how much your draft

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Speaker 2: pick goes back and the penalties that associate with them.

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Speaker 2: I think if David Stearns gets creative and there's a

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Speaker 2: way to acquire other talented relievers, because other talented relievers

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Speaker 2: will be available, not the ones you're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: buy a free agency, there's no way the Mets sign

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Speaker 2: Tanner's got a fifteen million a year, But creating the

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Speaker 2: relievers out there there getting guys like Ryan Helsley who

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Speaker 2: are on expiring deals with teams that don't really want

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Speaker 2: to pay anybody anymore, like the Cardinals. Dave bednarg got

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Speaker 2: out the Pirates with the team that just doesn't like

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Speaker 2: paying people, There's always going to be options for buying

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Speaker 2: low or just buying mid on relievers who can pay

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Speaker 2: them nothing. To Devin Williams another great one to get

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Speaker 2: for one year rental. But I think the more David

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Speaker 2: Starns look to this balance sheet, there's one area that

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Speaker 2: he wish. He wished he had more budget to spread

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Speaker 2: around and rather than costrey on one player. And I

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Speaker 2: think that player always comes back to Edward Didas. Not

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Speaker 2: a situation where I think he's not gonna be a

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Speaker 2: team next year, that situation where I don't exactly want

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Speaker 2: him to be on the team next year. But I

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Speaker 2: think if there's a creative way to get Edwin Diaz

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Speaker 2: off the team this year and get even some kind

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Speaker 2: of ass set back, I think David Stearns explores that option.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he's twenty one point five million dollars

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Speaker 1: next year. He has a team option for the final

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Speaker 1: year of his contract. But conservatively speaking, Edwin Diaz is

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Speaker 1: due about sixty million dollars from the Mets over the

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Speaker 1: next three years. So sixty million dollars. It's gonna sound crazy,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna put it to you this way, Mets fans,

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Speaker 1: would you rather spend that sixty million dollars on Pete

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Speaker 1: Alonzo or would you rather spend that sixty million dollars

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Speaker 1: on Edwin Diaz? Like I'll even say this, would you

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Speaker 1: rather spend that money on Edwin Diaz or Sean Ma Andyah?

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Speaker 1: Probably Sean ma and I not problem, it's definitely Sean

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Speaker 1: and Iah and I think that's this.

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Speaker 3: We don't think this is gonna happen. That's why it's

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Speaker 3: not on here.

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Speaker 1: But this is just a little thought process, a little

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Speaker 1: look food for thought there about where our heads at,

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Speaker 1: where David stearns head could be at, because he's a

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Speaker 1: smart dude, and we know that he's definitely thinking of

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Speaker 1: every single option to make this team better totally.

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Speaker 2: There's a million options, And there was there was a

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Speaker 2: great post that Mike Janello may TikTok of his interview

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Speaker 2: he did with David Stearns with David Sears became the

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Speaker 2: President last offseason, where Stearns talked about wrestling with the

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Speaker 2: fan in his brain and the executive in his brain

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Speaker 2: and being like, the fan in me is probably gonna

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Speaker 2: get really mad at the executive in me many times

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Speaker 2: when this happens. This could be kind of be like

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Speaker 2: one of those moves where as an executive, this feels

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Speaker 2: like the shrewd cunning way to make this team get

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Speaker 2: more flexible and be able to spend more money in

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Speaker 2: more valuable spots on the fly, while also being like, damn,

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Speaker 2: that would be sad to see. Because another part of

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Speaker 2: this is two other guys I'm sure that David Sharns

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Speaker 2: would love to not have on this team next year,

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Speaker 2: but will be on this team contracts he didn't sign

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Speaker 2: are Jeff McNeil and Starling Marte. I think that these

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Speaker 2: guys will definitely be back next year. And I apologize

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Speaker 2: for telling you guys this, but I think there's almost

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Speaker 2: no way either of those players are office roster on

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Speaker 2: opening Day just because of where their contracts are at

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Speaker 2: and where their relative value is to everybody else in

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Speaker 2: the league. I think Mets fans and baseball fans like,

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Speaker 2: we'll always do this thing where they're like, this guy

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Speaker 2: will be traded by the by the off season. Take

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Speaker 2: this offseason I always re sponunt them who's taking him

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Speaker 2: and trade with you getting back people like we're gonna

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Speaker 2: trade Jeff MacNeil, who's trading for Jeff McNeil, which you

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Speaker 2: get back for Jeff McNeil. People like a bag of ball.

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Speaker 2: So you're just they're taking a salary. Are you paying

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Speaker 2: a salary? You're gonna pay him to play against you?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense either. It's just that these guys

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Speaker 2: the contracts is a little too bloated for them to

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Speaker 2: go anywhere this offseason. Yeah, I know, unless you attach prospects,

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Speaker 2: which I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: Do, which is funny because you want Glaborer at twenty

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Speaker 1: million for one year, but Jeff's making fifteen next year

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Speaker 1: and you think it's too much.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm saying I think there. I mean, we're going

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Speaker 2: I want chess pieces to move around. Do you think

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Speaker 2: Labor is a better offensive player than Jeff? You're the

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Speaker 2: way you hate Labor Tors doesn't make any sense. It's

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Speaker 2: very consistent baseball. It's this is this is the problem

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Speaker 2: when like you make content for too many years and

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Speaker 2: you have to hold yourself to taste you had for years,

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Speaker 2: and there's tons of data that tells you otherwise about it.

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Speaker 2: Guy that clabor Torres, where the Yanks are gonna offer

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Speaker 2: him the qualifying deal, I'm down. I just gonna do

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Speaker 2: one second on glabor Torres. If you offer one more

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Speaker 2: dollars in the qualifying offer, it gets QUALFI offer in

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Speaker 2: their minds. I'm not giving a pick for glabor Tors

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Speaker 2: zero percent she has on that. But it's can be

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Speaker 2: like Severno. Who's the next guy I want to talk

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Speaker 2: about in this list, who I think it's shockingly likely

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Speaker 2: to come back to this team?

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Speaker 3: Me too, Yeah, because I.

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Speaker 2: Don't think that Glaber Torres that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this guy lives in your head.

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Speaker 2: Guy Yankee's on the brain. I don't think that Luis

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Speaker 2: Averno pitched well in this year despite him pitch him

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Speaker 2: well to warrant like a big deal like Manaiah pitched

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Speaker 2: himself into a new echelon of pitchers. Yes, three year,

561
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Speaker 2: four year deal could approach one hundred million dollars at

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Speaker 2: least approaching seventy five million dollars. Louis Evrino didn't do that.

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Speaker 2: Louis Efreno didn't strike as many guys as he could have.

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Speaker 2: He walked kind of little more guys than he expected.

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Speaker 2: The volume was great, but he never really zat back

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Speaker 2: into being anything close to Louis Arena Bold, which was

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Speaker 2: not never necessarily expected. But I don't see anyway where

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Speaker 2: Severno gets more than like a two for thirty five

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Speaker 2: million dollars a year deal. So if that's all the same,

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Speaker 2: probably wants to keep living in New York.

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Speaker 1: It's sever Reno's season so weird because first half was

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Speaker 1: more consistent, but he didn't strike out as many guys

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Speaker 1: as stuff wasn't as good. Second half was less consistent,

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Speaker 1: but he had way more strikeouts in way less innings.

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Speaker 1: So it's again other another tale of two stories for

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Speaker 1: Luis Severino of like what version are you getting? And

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Speaker 1: I still think the jury's out, which is why he's

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Speaker 1: probably more likely to come back as a New York met.

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Speaker 2: But the bottom line is that there's a range of

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Speaker 2: outcomes for sever Reno. That's a guy who's between a

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Speaker 2: four to two and like a three eight era yes,

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Speaker 2: and that guy is going to get I don't know again,

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Speaker 2: like fifteen to eighteen million dollars two year contract on

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Speaker 2: that it's a little bit less than we gave Jose

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Speaker 2: Katana two years ago, which is another guy non in

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Speaker 2: this list because in a similar way to Severno, he's

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Speaker 2: another guy to see a good chance that comes back,

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Speaker 2: because I don't think anyone in the league's offering hose

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Speaker 2: Atana more than one year deal for more than fourteen

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Speaker 2: fifteen million dollars. And if you get the same off

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Speaker 2: from everyone, you just had success here. This is a

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Speaker 2: great clubhouse. You trust everybody in the building, and you

593
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Speaker 2: just don't want to move. Moving sucks for people in

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Speaker 2: their twenties in New York, and then professional athletes moving

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Speaker 2: across the country. No matter who you are, how much

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Speaker 2: money you have, moving fucking sucks. You don't want to

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Speaker 2: do it if you don't have to do it. So

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Speaker 2: and the Messes have a lot of pitchers, they need

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Speaker 2: to a lot of innings, they need to recoup for

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Speaker 2: next year. So I think this was a good chances

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Speaker 2: that they stay in the bargain been with Severino Kantana

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Speaker 2: and maybe spend the money elsewhere another other, another other

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Speaker 2: couple of guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's it. That's what we got for you.

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Speaker 1: Those are our five players we think are most likely

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Speaker 1: to not return for the twenty twenty five season. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: all you listening to the podcast. Appreciate you watching it

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Speaker 1: over on YouTube. Make sure you subscribe to the mess

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Speaker 1: of the Podcast channel over there, drop a lke on

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Speaker 1: the video. Leave some comments you got The comments section

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Speaker 1: been going crazy. The last comment section has been hot.

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Speaker 1: Tell us, tell us how to two we are? Tell

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Speaker 1: us I'm mad you are thus Yeah, because I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of Mets fans finding us, and they're like

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Speaker 1: these guys, they don't want to just bring all the

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Speaker 1: same players back and do it again.

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Speaker 2: But this is fun because we haven't really been able

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Speaker 2: to do off season content a while, and the last

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Speaker 2: time we did do off season content there was a

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Speaker 2: fucking strike. So we actually haven't done a real year

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Speaker 2: off season content with this podcast, so this is actually

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Speaker 2: kind of fun for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess technically the last time we did

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Speaker 1: do off season content, we were signed by the New

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Speaker 1: York Mets.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, pretty pretty good stock right there. Yeah, So

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Speaker 2: we'll see how it goes on again.

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Speaker 1: But thank you guys for listening, thanks for watching. We'll

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Speaker 1: catch you on the next one.

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Speaker 2: Peace out, peace out, see you guys next time. Let's

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Speaker 2: go Mets

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Speaker 1: An