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Speaker 1: mets up listeners? We are back here for episode number

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Speaker 1: forty two of the Mets Up Podcast. Of course, I'm

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Speaker 1: your co host, Draftneckmark Mark Luiso here with James Schiano.

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Speaker 1: Jeter had no range talking about the New York Mets

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Speaker 1: series against the San Francisco Giants this week little West

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Speaker 1: Coast trip. After the horrid series against the Los Angeles Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: this one could have gone really, really bad. Now, it

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Speaker 1: didn't go well, but it didn't go as bad as

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Speaker 1: it could have. So I will take that as my

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Speaker 1: little glimmer of hope, my little sliver of happiness here.

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Speaker 1: But it is feeling a little hopeless here in Metsland

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Speaker 1: because we lost two of three in San Francisco. We

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Speaker 1: are three and a half, four and a half back

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Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Braves right now. It's not feeling great.

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Speaker 1: It's not looking good, and it doesn't really look like

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get better much soon. A lot happened in

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Speaker 1: this series that was super disappointing, a lot of good

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Speaker 1: things to take out from the pitching side as always,

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Speaker 1: but as we've talked about all year long, the hitting

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Speaker 1: it it's become an issue, even more so recently, but

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about every single game in depth.

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Speaker 1: I'm figuring some of you didn't even watch these games

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Speaker 1: So James, perfect time and let's bring you in here.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling. What's your thoughts after this giant series.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling okay, but I just want to apologize to

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Speaker 3: all of our Android listeners to Mark real quick. It's

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Speaker 3: don't let Mark and his iPhone Hubris get the best

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Speaker 3: of you. But I digress. This was a bad series,

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Speaker 3: a pretty awful series. When we were texting to on

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Speaker 1: I said, I felt hopeless.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel slightly better, still not good. I think

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Speaker 3: the game that the Mets won on Wednesday was, for

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Speaker 3: lack of a better word, it's a miracle. Sometimes the

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Speaker 3: old best, the old baseball saying goes it is better

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Speaker 3: We need to make sure our matchups are okay. But

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Speaker 3: all the matchups and enough hitters, enough players just for

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Speaker 3: their lineup rather than their bullpen, and they will manicure

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Speaker 1: It's very reminiscent of Ray's baseball, oakland A's baseball just

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Speaker 3: Fan, definitely, But the rest of what they do with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like it's just it's so weird to

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Speaker 1: Posy and Longoria not so much. But Brandon Crawford's by

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Speaker 1: far having the best season of his career. It's not

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Speaker 3: He made himself thirty million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he just he became a shortstop that he is

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Speaker 1: He played into making even more money. The Giants have

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Speaker 1: Was basically like, we thought we were gonna be a

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Speaker 1: and while it's relatively close, it does feel like they're

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Speaker 3: At least, it's really hard to beat this team. Even

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Speaker 3: They always have something else up their sleeve. They always

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Speaker 3: The Giants might push that just because they have done

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Speaker 3: their ace has been Kevin Goussman this season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin Gosman, who pitched in game won for them.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting because he actually wasn't very sharp in

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Speaker 1: this game. The Mets had plenty of opportunities to jump

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Speaker 3: Definitely, Gossman's taking a massive step back in second half.

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Speaker 3: As I referenced in the last episode, Gary and Ron

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Speaker 3: this is someone who is mortal and he's really a

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Speaker 3: Absolutely and that I feel like is one of the

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Speaker 3: And right when Richell came out of this game, Miguel

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like Miguel Castro has been very hot

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Speaker 3: And that's the other thing that makes the Giants able

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Speaker 3: And it was also just such a lock that Chris

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Speaker 3: Park factors basically means, well, all right, a number is

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Speaker 3: like courses like in the one hundred and twenties, but

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Speaker 3: on stack cast within the park factors that have been aligned.

434
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Speaker 3: Every single type of play has its own factor per ballpark.

435
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Speaker 3: Things like just hits, doubles, walks, home runs, strikeouts, triples

436
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Speaker 3: especially that's one is beefed up in San Francisco like

437
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Speaker 3: America Park, because it's much easier to hit triples in

438
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Speaker 3: places like that. City Field actually has the lowest triples

439
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Speaker 3: park factor in the league, which I found interesting and

440
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of different analysts and a lot of

441
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Speaker 3: different statisticians. Different websites have their own stack cast looks

442
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Speaker 3: just the prettiest and it's the cleanest the sort, even

443
00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,640
Speaker 3: though it's been proven not to be the most accurate.

444
00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,760
Speaker 3: I know that Alex Chamberlain has developed his own, Andrew

445
00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,640
Speaker 3: Perpetois has developed his own. And it's interesting because every

446
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Speaker 3: ballpark is unique, and the often environment in each ballpark

447
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Speaker 3: is different. And this kind of a way that I,

448
00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,520
Speaker 3: as a fantasy baseball player, will try to gain a

449
00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,879
Speaker 3: little advantage in playing certain matchups here and there. But

450
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Speaker 3: it's also something we should all realize because a stat

451
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Speaker 3: like WRC plus, something that makes it so great and

452
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Speaker 3: so universal is that it neutralized as park factors around ballparks.

453
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Speaker 3: But teams like the Mets and Giants, they're playing half

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Speaker 3: their games in ballparks where the park factor is lower.

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Speaker 3: I actually texted this to you today. It was kind

456
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Speaker 3: of a brain blast that I had that I feel

457
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Speaker 3: like we shouldn't use that stat as a measure of

458
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Speaker 3: teams that play in ballparks that are at the extremes.

459
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Speaker 3: And that's why that fangrafts tweet today about how the

460
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Speaker 3: Mets are actually more of an average offensive team than

461
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Speaker 3: a bad one, because their WRC plus is like seventeenth

462
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Speaker 3: in the league. You can't really say that because the

463
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Speaker 3: Mets WRC plus at home is almost irrelevant, even though

464
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Speaker 3: it's still awful because the Mets neutralized batting is terrific.

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Speaker 3: It just doesn't really work because even though we can't

466
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Speaker 3: like score real runs, the fact that we might be

467
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Speaker 3: able to score theoretical runs doesn't help because our ballpark

468
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Speaker 3: still sucks and it always will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, it's like almost imaginary stat at this point

470
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Speaker 1: for the Mets when they're playing at home, especially, that.

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Speaker 3: Was a real statistical tangent. Some listeners. If you like that,

472
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Speaker 3: let me know some listeners. If you don't, also let

473
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Speaker 3: me know, because we haven't really done that in this

474
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Speaker 3: show that much.

475
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Speaker 1: No, we haven't done that too often.

476
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Speaker 3: But just to jump back into this game for a second,

477
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Speaker 3: the Mets had a slight I'm not going to call

478
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Speaker 3: an offensive explosion, like an offensive like blip, an offensive ripple,

479
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Speaker 3: and right after the Giants got on the board here

480
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Speaker 3: actually we took a lead for the first time it

481
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Speaker 3: felt like forever, and we broke our triples drout. Our

482
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Speaker 3: sixty nine game triples drought the longest drought in the

483
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Speaker 3: modern era of baseball, literally the last one hundred years

484
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Speaker 3: of baseball. The twenty twenty one Mets had the longest

485
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Speaker 3: drought from triple to triple. Do you remember who the

486
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Speaker 3: last Mets triple was hit by?

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Speaker 1: I do, because I remember them saying it, and it's

488
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Speaker 1: our boy, Billy Baumb's, Billy McKinney.

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Speaker 3: Billy McKinnie.

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Speaker 1: Who would have thought on this lineup that the guy

491
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Speaker 1: would break up this drout? Is Pete Alonzo? Definitely, Yeah,

492
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Speaker 1: But triples alley Man triples Ali and he literally anybody

493
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Speaker 1: can find a triple there if Pete Alnzo can get

494
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Speaker 1: when anybody can get.

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Speaker 3: One, Pete, I'm conviny does not know how to slide. No,

496
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Speaker 3: he has to do that thing that you do when

497
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Speaker 3: you're like a tween or like an adolescent baseball player

498
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Speaker 3: and you're starting to learn how to slide. You just

499
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Speaker 3: gotta go to the beach and just like dive in

500
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Speaker 3: the sand. You just gotta really get used to just

501
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Speaker 3: getting in there and doing it. Because when Pete slid

502
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Speaker 3: in that triple, he just like falls down three feet

503
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Speaker 3: before the base and she like pops his head and

504
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Speaker 3: just like shakes his whole body.

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Speaker 1: Get him a slip and slide.

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Speaker 3: Get the slip inside, Pete, A Lonzo would have too

507
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Speaker 3: much fun to slip and slide.

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Speaker 1: I listen, that might be something that the Mets need

509
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Speaker 1: to do, something to have a little fun with this

510
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Speaker 1: team here. But we did get a little bit of

511
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Speaker 1: a rally there, Pete with the triple. We got a

512
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Speaker 1: sack fly by Tom Smith, who, by the way, I

513
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Speaker 1: think that's probably all the production we're gonna get from

514
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Speaker 1: Dom for the rest of the year. Sacrifice flies because

515
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Speaker 1: he just simply can't hit the ball very hard. From

516
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Speaker 1: what it looks like. It just doesn't come off his

517
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Speaker 1: bat heart anymore. And the most shocking stat that I

518
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Speaker 1: didn't even realize until watching this game, Dom has twenty

519
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Speaker 1: six extra base hits on the your twenty six. Yea,

520
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Speaker 1: I would have expected Dom to have at least twenty

521
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Speaker 1: six home runs. He should have twenty six doubles to

522
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Speaker 1: this point. Twenty six extra base hits total is awful.

523
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure he had thirty five last year in

524
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Speaker 3: the shortened season.

525
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Speaker 1: That's so bad, Like, oh my god, twenty six extra

526
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Speaker 1: base hits. If you wanted to find anything wrong with

527
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Speaker 1: Dom right there, the power is just gone, non.

528
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Speaker 3: Existent, gone. And while it was still a one run game,

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Speaker 3: as we moved through the seventh and eighth innings, it

530
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Speaker 3: didn't feel great. And then of course Trevor May came

531
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Speaker 3: in the bottom of the seventh, so it wasn't seven

532
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Speaker 3: eighth innings. Actually it was incorrect through the sixth and

533
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Speaker 3: seventh innings. Trevor May came in the bottom of the seventh,

534
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Speaker 3: gave up back to back home runs, the only real

535
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Speaker 3: No Doather home run. Yeah, two back to back pitches.

536
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Speaker 3: I didn't even remember that. God, the only No Dallar

537
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Speaker 3: home run, the second one of the game for Chris

538
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Speaker 3: Bryant was annihilated to left field. I heard like shades

539
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Speaker 3: of the old home run Derby that was there like

540
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Speaker 3: ten years ago. The back back, back, back, back back back.

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Speaker 3: It was Gonzo and then Jonathan Vr, our second best

542
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Speaker 3: power hitter on the team, he hit the two run

543
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Speaker 3: home run. MLBtv actually missed his home run. I didn't

544
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Speaker 3: watch it live. It was still in commercial break even

545
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Speaker 3: though it was the second batter of the inning. But

546
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Speaker 3: there was still no chance. Just what fucking ever at

547
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Speaker 3: that point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you got a nice, nice piece on it.

549
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Speaker 1: It is what it is. It made it five to seven,

550
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Speaker 1: which I even hate saying the score like that. It

551
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Speaker 1: made seven five giants I should really be saying, but

552
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Speaker 1: like it. Just again, this is the feeling that I

553
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Speaker 1: feel like I had a lot this series hopeless. It

554
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Speaker 1: just didn't feel like the Mets were ever gonna have

555
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Speaker 1: enough to come back from this.

556
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Speaker 3: Game, especially when they take a lead, and it was

557
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Speaker 3: immediately giving back up the next inning, punching the.

558
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Speaker 1: Gut, punching the gut, Trevor May has that was his

559
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: sixth earn run in his last two appearances. It was

560
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Speaker 1: again one of those like weird little medium leverage situations again.

561
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Speaker 3: For him, You're kind of right, and Trevor May, like

562
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Speaker 3: most other relievers in the league, it goes up and down,

563
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 3: up and down, up and down. The players is getting oscillate,

564
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Speaker 3: and it's kind of something you have to be aware

565
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Speaker 3: of with relievers the way the world. But let's move

566
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Speaker 3: on to game two, because this game was shockingly even

567
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 3: more frustrating than Game one.

568
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no Mets went quiet in the night Game one

569
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Speaker 1: at the end Game two Marcus Stroman on the mound.

570
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Speaker 1: He's our boy. He's been the second best pitcher on

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Speaker 1: this team, obviously behind Jacob deGrom, but as you said,

572
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Speaker 1: from the beginning of the season, probably the most important. Yes,

573
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Speaker 1: we didn't think it was gonna be because de gram

574
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Speaker 1: goes down with an injury. We just thought he would

575
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Speaker 1: be like that X factor push us forward. Boy did

576
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Speaker 1: he pitch well again?

577
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 3: Boy?

578
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: Is he so back? He has figured something out. It's clicked.

579
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Speaker 1: He's probably fully healthy because he was dealing with those

580
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Speaker 1: like little nagging injuries a bit. But he looked really,

581
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Speaker 1: really good against the San Francisco Giants lineup that gives

582
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Speaker 1: people some trouble. They hit very good offensive.

583
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Speaker 3: Team definitely, And there was like a legitimate adjustment that

584
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Speaker 3: Marcus Truman made ahead of this game. I've been really

585
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Speaker 3: harping on his repertoire for most of the season and

586
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Speaker 3: really trying to show everyone out there that when Marcus

587
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Speaker 3: Stroman is throwing tons of sinkers, something is not really right,

588
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Speaker 3: and you can kind of feel it when he has

589
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Speaker 3: command of his off speed pitches, and he really had

590
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Speaker 3: command of his off speed pitches in this game, especially

591
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Speaker 3: that split change that's just been like trickling and trickling

592
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Speaker 3: and trickling and trickling up as he's gotten more and

593
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Speaker 3: more comfortable with it, and he just annihilated the Giants

594
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Speaker 3: with that pitch. It was the second highest percentage of

595
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Speaker 3: split changes he has thrown in a game all season long,

596
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Speaker 3: and it was only the third time all year that

597
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Speaker 3: his sinker was not his most thrown pitch, as the

598
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Speaker 3: split change actually jumped ahead, and the first time the

599
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 3: split change was the pitch that jumped ahead. The last

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Speaker 3: two times were sliders, and both of those starts were

601
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Speaker 3: in May, so it's been a long time since Marcus

602
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 3: Stroman had featured the pitch that was not his sinker

603
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Speaker 3: in an outing, and it was great. The slider and

604
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 3: the splitter each had seven whifts, and the slider actually

605
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 3: had eight called strikes. It was good for a fifty

606
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Speaker 3: percent CSW rate, which is astronomically high. It's like that's

607
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 3: like the stuff of the best pitchers in the league.

608
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Speaker 3: He wound up with nine strikeouts and seven innings pitched

609
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Speaker 3: through season high one hundred and fourteen pitches. He was

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Speaker 3: really working out there, and he did give up another

611
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Speaker 3: run in that seventh inning, but You can't say enough

612
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Speaker 3: about what Marcus Stroman has done for this team, especially

613
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Speaker 3: over these last three weeks, as we've been pretty aware

614
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Speaker 3: that Jacob de gram is not going to come back

615
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,679
Speaker 3: most likely, and the messag just needed length and needed

616
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Speaker 3: needed top end production a team has not gotten much

617
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Speaker 3: of it. It's got seventeen strikeouts his last two stars,

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Speaker 3: he's had a thirty percent with rate now for three

619
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Speaker 3: starts in a row, and he's just so fucking good.

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Speaker 3: I cannot say enough good things about Marcus Stroman this season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if there were any doubts in Mets fans

623
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Speaker 1: head about if this guy should be back in New

624
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: York Mets uniform for the future, I think they have

625
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Speaker 1: completely gone to the wayside. This is a guy we

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Speaker 1: have to make sure we bring back next year. I

627
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Speaker 1: think one We're not gonna go crazy. We're not gonna overpay.

628
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Speaker 1: Of course, we still need to be smart. If Marcus

629
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Speaker 1: Stroman's asking for thirty five million dollars, I'm sorry, Marcus,

630
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Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna get that from the Mets.

631
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Speaker 1: But if Marcus Stroman is looking for a very reasonable contract,

632
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Speaker 1: which I think he probably will, and I think the

633
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: Mets can definitely give it to him. He's got to

634
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Speaker 1: be back whatever he wants up to, you know, good

635
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: reason he needs to be back on this team because really,

636
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Speaker 1: we technically are still in it for all intentsive purposes,

637
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Speaker 1: but without him, we're definitely not even close.

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Speaker 3: No, something happened to Marcus Stroman, we could just close

639
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 3: up the shop and head hibernate for the winter. It

640
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Speaker 3: would be literally all over. And that's why, like, I

641
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Speaker 3: love watching Marcus strom make these crazy plays off the mound.

642
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Speaker 3: He did the athletic gether just because sick play, just

643
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Speaker 3: Becausejeter can't get to ball. So now we call that

644
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 3: the gether when a guy makes a cool jump throw.

645
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 3: But I just got ah, don't get hurt, fuck shit scared.

646
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Speaker 3: He got a single in this game, he's running the base.

647
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh no, please be okay. Just if anything

648
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 3: happened to Marcus Stroman, it would be an actual catastrophe.

649
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: That would be awful. We cannot handle Marcus Stroman going down.

650
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: But that was kind of it for the good because

651
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: the rest of the game was pretty bad, awful, terrible. Actually,

652
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: Logan Web you're a big fan, big fan, you like

653
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: Logan Webb. You text me immediately that while the Mets

654
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: hitting was abysmal, you pretty much felt like part of

655
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: the reason why was also that Logan Web is a

656
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 1: very good pitcher, better than we thought.

657
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 3: Oh, Logan Web is great. Logan Web has sinkers disgusting,

658
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 3: He's got multiple off speed pitches that he works in.

659
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 3: He's kind of been like this like secret in the

660
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 3: fantasy baseball community for a few years now, because he's

661
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 3: always been like good but hasn't really been able to

662
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 3: like unlock his full potential. And the last six weeks

663
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 3: he has the guy's actually unhittable. The fact that Gousman

664
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 3: has gone down and Web has gone up kind of

665
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 3: also changes the Giant ceiling in a way, because if

666
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 3: they can actually get both of those guys pitching well

667
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 3: at the same time, they could win a playoff series

668
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 3: against a good team. I don't I don't see why not.

669
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 3: I don't see why the Giants with Logan Web and

670
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 3: Kevin Gousman can't beat whoever wins the at least, but

671
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 3: like he's not fucking Justin Verlander, Like, there's no reason

672
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 3: that Logan Web should be out there annihilating people. You

673
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 3: shouldn't like look incompetent against Logan Web. You shouldn't not

674
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 3: be able to touch the ball against Logan Web. And the

675
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 3: Mets couldn't touch the ball. They couldn't touch it at all.

676
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: No Mets offense was horrible, absolutely terrible, And this was

677
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: I think a big tipping point for not just me

678
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: and you, but I think all Mets fans. I think

679
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: that was the game that Mets fans watched and we're like, yeah,

680
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 1: this season's over, Like this team just doesn't have it.

681
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: And I can't say I blame anyone for thinking that

682
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: if you're a Mets fan and you don't have this

683
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: deep information on Logan Web, and even like you said,

684
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: even with how good he has been, still not this good. No,

685
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: you see this performance against Logan Web and the Giants,

686
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: who just on paper don't look like this team that's

687
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: big and scary. You're like, how can how can we

688
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: win this division? We have a we have a deficit

689
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: right now. How are we ever in the lead of

690
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: this division?

691
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't even know, Especially as the Braves and

692
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 3: the Phillies play the Diamondbacks and the Marlins. He feels

693
00:28:58,600 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 3: like now night and night out the rest of the

694
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 3: seas and we're stuck on the West Coast. Playing the

695
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 3: best teams in the National League gets painful. It's really painful.

696
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: We go to the Giants every year to just have

697
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: our season die.

698
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 3: No, we really do. In twenty nineteen, when the Mets

699
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 3: got really hot in July, we went out to San

700
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 3: Francisco and completely croaked. We had that crazy game where

701
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 3: we were down like ten runs in the second inning

702
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 3: and fought all the way back and then Yaz had

703
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 3: a big hit in the of the eighth and the

704
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 3: ninth or the tenth and ended it. And I even

705
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 3: remember back in my youth, like back in like twenty fourteen,

706
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 3: when the Mets had like starting to get like the

707
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 3: like the little tips, little hints of being a very

708
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 3: good team, and we had a series out San Francisco

709
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 3: when the Giants crushed us. That was the last time

710
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 3: we were actually swept in San Francisco twenty fourteen. And

711
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 3: this place has just become like the Giants have become

712
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 3: our boogieman. At and T Park Oracle Park is our cemetery.

713
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't even have to talk about what they've

714
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: done to us. Also, outside of AT and t Park.

715
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: That is gonna be forgotten about. But the best shot

716
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: came in the fourth inning here, and that's pretty much it. Canfordo,

717
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: like low Ki, kind of playing well.

718
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 3: He's pretty hot with bat right now. He's on base

719
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: percent just about five hundred in August. It's pretty good,

720
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 3: playing better.

721
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: JD. Davis little infield single Longoria error which was super weird. Also,

722
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: don't know how Canfordo didn't score on this. It was

723
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: a little weird play. It was a chopper to Longoria,

724
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: so the error wasn't on the hit. The error was

725
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: on the throw to first base because he threw it

726
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: away and Colforda was on second. So on a chopper

727
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: down the line, Longoria charging in, you'd think that Michael

728
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: Confordo would have at least been a little more aggressive

729
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: going to third. It's hard. It's really really hard because

730
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: in that scenario, you don't even know if he has

731
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: a play on JD. Davis. Although JD. Davis runs with

732
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: cement in his cleats, so he's incredibly slow. You always

733
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: have a play on him if you can get to

734
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: the ball. But I think Conforida is probably worried about

735
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: Longoria making like a fake throw to first and just

736
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: back picking him at second. So it was probably the

737
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: right baseball play, but the Mets game was so bad

738
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: that you were like trying to find anything to complain about,

739
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: and that was definitely one thing that you could have.

740
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: And then McNeil got into a double play. When we

741
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: seemingly got a nice break here, McNeil got into a

742
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: double play. And that's because he only hits ground balls.

743
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: And I talked to you about this before the podcast.

744
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: People have been a little hot and cold with McNeil

745
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: this year, a little all over the place with how

746
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: they're feeling about him. I'm still a McNeil guy, pretty

747
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: sure you are too, definitely, but there definitely is an

748
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: issue with how much he hits ground balls. And there's

749
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: this weird in between that McNeil's gotten stuck with where

750
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: he either hits the ball on the ground and he's

751
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: gonna hit like three hundred or close to it like

752
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: he has in the past, or he hits the ball

753
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: in the air and completely kind of gives up the

754
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: average and gives up the consistency. But you might get

755
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: a few more extra base hits, some few more home runs,

756
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been able to seem to find that middle,

757
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: and against two teams like the Dodgers and the Giants

758
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: are two of the most analytically sound teams in Major

759
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: League Baseball, do a ton of shifting. You can see

760
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: why Jeff McNeil went like one for twenty four or

761
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: twenty five in the last two series. It's because you

762
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: just simply can't get a hit against these teams. Hitting

763
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground, it just doesn't work.

764
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 3: Now. They're too smart. The infielders are always in the

765
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 3: right place, and it seemed like there were a lot

766
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 3: of really sharp ground balls that Jeff McNeil hit to

767
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 3: the right side of the infield, and there was always

768
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 3: somebody there is just knock it down, keep it in

769
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 3: front of them and be able to make a play,

770
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 3: especially because he can't run very well right now.

771
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: No, it's it's super tough for Jeff, especially against these teams,

772
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: to have any sort of production when you're not hitting

773
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: the ball in the air. Eighth inning, Pete Alonso, of course,

774
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: as he has he's been our best offensive player all year,

775
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: put the team on his back as he's done all year.

776
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: Hits a home run to give us some life, gave

777
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: us a shot made it three to two, so you're like, hey, maybe,

778
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: but also in the back of our mind, we also knew, like,

779
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: you're just making it a lot more painful and worse

780
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: for us because this team's not gonna come back unlucky.

781
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: And then in this game in the ninth McNeil actually

782
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: got a hit for us in the ninth inning, but

783
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: it was so weird how he roped one too the outfield.

784
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: It clanked off of Yastremski or Slater's glove, whatever it was,

785
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: and somehow Lamont Wade was perfectly placed in left field,

786
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: right behind whoever was playing center, and it fell right

787
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: into his glove and held us double from happening.

788
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

789
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 3: That was also in the crazy ending where Buster Posey

790
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 3: like leapt out of his shin guards to grab the ball.

791
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 3: That would have been a wild pitch.

792
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is tough fountain of youth over there. I

793
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: don't know what they've got, what they're drinking. I would

794
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: love for the Mets to get it. By the way,

795
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: just keep this in mind, the injuries that the Giants

796
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: have had compared to the injuries that the Mets have had,

797
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: and the age of the players that are on the

798
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: Giants I think they're the oldest team in Major League Baseball.

799
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 3: Are by a decent margin.

800
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: Don't see a lot of uh, soft tissue injuries going

801
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: on over there. Whatever they're doing, hydration and stretching wise,

802
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: we need to copy it. And maybe this also goes

803
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: into all the coaching that they have over there.

804
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 3: Too, most coaches in baseball's I said last episode, you

805
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 3: can't really discount that seeing their success.

806
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: You can't seeing Buster Posey move like that when James

807
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: we Can in this game got scratched for backspasms, which

808
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: again like, oh my god, the injuries we get are

809
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: phantom injuries here, so many like not I mean it's

810
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: all non contact, but because it's baseball, but like these

811
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: like weird fighazy injuries that go on.

812
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 3: Forgazy for ezy, And then you.

813
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: See Buster Posey's thirty six years old moving as fast

814
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: as a cat. You're like, how do we get this?

815
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 3: And that that bad is also so annoying because the

816
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 3: umpire was calling ridiculous strikes left and right, and Jonathan

817
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 3: VR hit a ball a mile long foul. It was

818
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 3: just nothing could have gone right, and really nothing went

819
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 3: right this entire game. This was as you alluded to before.

820
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: This felt like a nail in the coffin. When this

821
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 3: game ended at one fifteen in the morning, I just

822
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 3: sat there and I kind of stared for a little while.

823
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 3: I couldn't even believe what was happening. And there were

824
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 3: just some insane stats that came out of this game.

825
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 3: First of all, we have talked about the Mets struggles

826
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 3: at the plate at nauseum this entire season. Marcus Stroman's single,

827
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 3: and I believe it was the fourth or fifth ending

828
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 3: of this game, had the highest expected batting average of

829
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 3: any ball put in play by the Mets.

830
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: The highest can't happen. That can't happen with this lineup.

831
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 3: There's no way that should even remotely be allowed. And

832
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 3: another stat that was crazy. This also ties in Stroman

833
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 3: pitching against Logan Web and just the way that the

834
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 3: Mets bullpen the Giants bullpens are constructed. There was not

835
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 3: a pitch in this game thrown harder than ninety five

836
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 3: miles an hour.

837
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: That's so like, how's that even happen in modern baseball?

838
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I tweeted because I was so shocked,

839
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,760
Speaker 3: and my boy, Mets metrics I've mentioned a few times

840
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 3: this podcast. Everyone follow him. He's a great follow really

841
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 3: knows his shit. I had him a little quarry for me.

842
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 3: And this was only the third time this has happened

843
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 3: in baseball this season. That's crazy crazy A mound and

844
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 3: baseball no pitches over ninety five miles an hour. It's

845
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 3: like basically average fastball philosophy.

846
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: It was probably a matchup between like Kyle Hendricks and somebody.

847
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 3: Oh, Cubs haven't been It has not been the Cubs.

848
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 3: It was a game with the Angels and the Twins.

849
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 3: And there was another one I forgot that he told me.

850
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 3: Maybe it might have been the Rocky bas Maybe so.

851
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 1: Randy Dobna going up against somebody and j whoever it's

852
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: gonna j happ in the first half, and you still remembers,

853
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this was a hopeless game. This left

854
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: a very very bad feeling in every Mets fans stomach.

855
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: You talked about it felt like the nail in the coffin.

856
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: And it led to me bringing up the Terry Collins

857
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: video again, because god damn it, did this team need it.

858
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: Listening to Pete's press conference after the game was so cringey, man,

859
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: so cringe I know we like said like, oh, you

860
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: guys came back and yet you fought. It's because they

861
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 1: played the Nationals. I think we all kind of figured

862
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: that out pretty quickly after watching these last two series.

863
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 4: Here.

864
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: Peep kept the same thing. It's gonna be okay, it's

865
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: gonna be all right. We're out here playing baseball, and

866
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: I believe him that these guys are trying. I don't

867
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: think anybody's dogging it by any means.

868
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 3: Definitely, we have to.

869
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: Come out and say that every single time. I believe

870
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: these guys are playing hard. I believe they're trying their

871
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: best to win. They will, They're pressing. It's obvious. It's

872
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: clear and obvious. But the Kumbayas stuff drives me fucking nuts.

873
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: It drives me crazy because we're what one hundred and

874
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: twenty games into the season now, one hundred and thirty.

875
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: Whatever it's gonna be is Kumbayashit ain't worked. We're a

876
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 1: game below under five hundred or at five hundred, whatever

877
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: it is. Something's gonna change whatever's been going on there.

878
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: I love that they have this chemistry, but fuck damn it,

879
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: it is just it might be almost the demise it

880
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: feels like of this team at times.

881
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 3: That picture has been going around Twitter a lot the

882
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 3: last few weeks, where it's the banner and city Field

883
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 3: and says twenty twenty one, and below it says everybody

884
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 3: was really good friends.

885
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just like it feels like they don't

886
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: want to call each other out, which I don't want

887
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: guys calling each other. I think that's like ridiculous, that's

888
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: too bad, Like you shouldn't be calling out guys by names.

889
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: But like, damn, Pete, like this is your chance. I

890
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: feel like to really step up and be that lead,

891
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: Like the Mets fans are dying for it, just for

892
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: you to be like we played like shit, we need

893
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: to play better. It's unacceptable how we're playing. We gotta

894
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: step the fuck up and like that's it. Walk off

895
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: and be a little pissed, show a little emotion outside

896
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: of like it's gonna be okay, We're gonna be fine,

897
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. We're good players. We're trying, like

898
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: Pete thinks, or at least made it sound like they're

899
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: just getting unlucky when we just know that isn't the case.

900
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 3: That's why I kind of like Stroman's press conference. I

901
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 3: feel like it was pretty raw and authentic, which is

902
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 3: a welcome change from the way most of these guys

903
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 3: speak to the media.

904
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: Yes, Stroman came out and said what that like? Basically,

905
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: I'm tired of answering these questions.

906
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 3: Just walked off. Yeah, which is cool. I like Marcus

907
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 3: Stroman's very authentic guy. And some people didn't like the

908
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 3: way Marcus Stroman handle himself after the game, including one

909
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 3: Tim Healy, who I will I don't even know, I

910
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 3: will nominate for one of the worst people I know.

911
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's so annoying. He's terrible. We should

912
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 3: have been listening to Jason Vargas.

913
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we Who would have thought that Jason Vargas

914
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: would have been so clairvoyant and calling out Tim Healey

915
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: for this that's an SAT word of the week. Also

916
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: bringing back the bad take of the week. We're doing

917
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 1: some callbacks here in episode number forty two, But Jason

918
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: Vargas couldn't have been more right. This guy deserves to

919
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: be punched in the face by a Mets player. I've

920
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: never seen Mets or Eddie team's writers hate the team

921
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: that they cover so much. I mean it feels like

922
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: almost everybody outside of like Decomo and Disha, and maybe

923
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting a few people. I apologize if I am,

924
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: but those are the two that I see the most

925
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: that don't seem to hate this team. Everybody else seems

926
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: to try and find everything wrong and try to get

927
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: under the player's skin and get like the worst headlines.

928
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: What Tim Healey tweeted out and wrote an article on

929
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: was so fucking stupid.

930
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 3: I have the tweet.

931
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: If you want me to read it, yeah, go for it,

932
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: to give it to the audience in case they don't

933
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: know it, because wow, you're gonna read it and just

934
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: be like, what a dick.

935
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 3: So Tim Haley tweeted at eleven o nine this morning,

936
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 3: on the beautiful day of August eighteen, twenty twenty one,

937
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 3: Marcus strom Is numbers last night colon seven innings, three runs,

938
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 3: one hundred and fourteen pitches, retweets of personal highlights within

939
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes of the game ending. For a professional

940
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 3: writer who's paid to do what he does, that's a

941
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 3: very clunky way to end a sentence, very clunky.

942
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: So it just it felt very unprofessional. It felt like

943
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: TMZ was writing. It felt like maybe even a barstool

944
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: kind of article kind of thing. And barstool doesn't even

945
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: take shots at players. Barstool, that's like a big thing.

946
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: They don't do to take shots at players. They'll take

947
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: shots of teams. To take a shot at Marcus Stroman

948
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: for being proud of a nice play he made. I

949
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: feel like, is just so it's so ridiculous. It's so

950
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: petty to take a shot at Stroman, who played a

951
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: freaking amazing game. He could retweet all the stuff he

952
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: wants when he plays like that. I don't give a shit.

953
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 3: I don't think that's what it was, because Marcus Stroman

954
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 3: does that after most of his games. You know, he's

955
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 3: always like very online, and that's what he does. I

956
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 3: guess part of his personality. It's not that a good

957
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 3: and bad thing, it's just how he is. I think

958
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: that Tim Healey took it personally that Marcus Stroman walked

959
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: out of his interview, because of course it's Tim Healey's interview.

960
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 3: It's not every reports interview. Its Tim Heally's interview.

961
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know for a fact now I've got

962
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: a real good feeling. I don't know what happened after

963
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: the game today, and maybe because it's travel they don't

964
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: do too much. But I got a feeling that there's

965
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: not gonna be a lot of guys answering Tim Healey

966
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: questions the rest of the year. I know I wouldn't.

967
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do this for a lot of the beat

968
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: writers in the Mets. If I was a player and

969
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: Tim Heally is like Tim Hely a Newsday Sports got

970
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: a question for you, I would go out next question,

971
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: no comment, and I would just skip it. I would

972
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: never give him a quote never. He's a fucking punk.

973
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: He's an idiot.

974
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 3: Everything you need to know about Tim Healy is in

975
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 3: his banner picture on Twitter. It's a picture of Tim

976
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 3: Tebow doing an interview in a Met uniform and Tim

977
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 3: Healy in the background making a stupid face. Why is

978
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 3: that your picture?

979
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 4: Dude?

980
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 3: You gotta move past Tim Tebow being a New York man.

981
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me here? Can't over yourself.

982
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: It's probably his claim to fame is like I once

983
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: asked Tim Tebow a question. He didn't tell me to

984
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: go fuck myself, so it's too nice. It was so

985
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 1: frustrating because it's like Strowman is such a good guy,

986
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: and I know he gets on people's nerves, but you

987
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: nitpicked him retweeting a play that was a phenomenal play

988
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: that he made after he pitched his heart.

989
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 3: Out great highlights.

990
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: It was so petty. It was so petty and real.

991
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: As a reporter, you're supposed to report the news. You're

992
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: supposed to be a little better than that. Mets beat

993
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: writers stink outside the Coomo and Disha, I feel pretty

994
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: confidence saying the rest of them are all garbage.

995
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 3: Where's the decorum?

996
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:10,919
Speaker 2: Right?

997
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 3: Being a beat writer used to be like a really

998
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 3: professional action, used to like it's a great profession. It

999
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 3: used to be a way that fans, children, people all

1000
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 3: over the country in the world can connect with these

1001
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 3: players because there used to be a time where we

1002
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 3: didn't really have as much exposure to them, without social

1003
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 3: media and without color television and cable and shit like that.

1004
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 3: And I just wish that these guys would actually appreciate

1005
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 3: the job they have. They travel with the Mets and

1006
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 3: not traveling this year, but traditionally they've traveled with their

1007
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 3: teams and talked about sports, like, damn, that's so cool.

1008
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 3: Why aren't you treating this with a little bit more respect,

1009
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 3: Like you're upset that Marcus Jrome is retweeting highlights. Dude,

1010
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 3: move the fuck on, and we should move the fuck on,

1011
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 3: because there was a more important tweet this morning that

1012
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 3: came from mets Land, and it was from our fearless leader,

1013
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 3: Steve Cohen, who was very active online, the most active

1014
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 3: owner in probably all professional sports at this point, and

1015
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 3: he tweeted, I know nine this morning, probably right after

1016
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 3: his coffee, right after he read the journal, just before

1017
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 3: the Marcus opened. It's hard to understand how professional hitters

1018
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 3: can be this unproductive. The best teams have a more

1019
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 3: disciplined approach. The slugging and ops numbers. Don't lie, period,

1020
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 3: tell me where he's wrong. I can't spot. I can't

1021
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 3: find a lie.

1022
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: And I loved it. I loved every second of it. Well, yeah,

1023
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: I guess that's right. I don't love it because him

1024
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,439
Speaker 1: tweeting it means that we're playing like shit. I hate

1025
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: that part.

1026
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 3: So you're right.

1027
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 1: I like what Steve Cohen said here. I've been asking

1028
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: for somebody to say something, and it doesn't seem like

1029
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: Rojas is going to and it doesn't feel like probably

1030
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: any manager in modern baseball is really going to call

1031
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: out a team because you're just gonna lose your clubhouse

1032
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: most likely. So Tony LaRussa did with Yeerman that was

1033
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: pretty terrible, but I like it. I think it need

1034
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: to be said just because it has been this bad

1035
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: and it it's weird. I think a lot of people

1036
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: think that the players are going to be like, oh,

1037
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna play for Steve Cohen. He's gonna call

1038
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: us out. But there's nothing that he said that shouldn't

1039
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: be said. All of it was true.

1040
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 3: I think if you're a player and you see that

1041
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 3: tweet and that makes you not want to be a Met,

1042
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 3: play better. I don't want you to be a Met.

1043
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't. I don't want you on my team.

1044
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 3: There's no reason that an owner demanding excellence should shy

1045
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 3: players away. And that was a take that was coming

1046
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 3: out this morning when on Wednesday morning about this tweet.

1047
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 3: I think that's fucking ridiculous. Players were coming from all

1048
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 3: over the country to sign with the Yankees when George

1049
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 3: Steinbrunner was saying, we don't win a World Series, the

1050
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 3: season is a failure. Like, I think that the right

1051
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 3: type of player will welcome expectations like that rise to

1052
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 3: the occasion pressure makes diamonds. As I've said before, I

1053
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 3: want players who want to win. Steve Cohen does not

1054
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 3: want to own a losing team. That's not what he's

1055
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 3: in this for. Steve Cohen seems like he doesn't lose

1056
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 3: very often.

1057
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: No, in fact, I would say he almost never loses.

1058
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 3: Steve Cohen crushed the Proletaria class in January with the

1059
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 3: whole Robin Hood AMC game stop fiasco. This guy finds

1060
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 3: ways to win, and he probably is a little bit

1061
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 3: frustrated right now, and I don't think this is the

1062
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 3: best way for him. The channelist frustrations. But I mean,

1063
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think worst things could have happened.

1064
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 3: We don't know what happened behind the scenes, if he

1065
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,439
Speaker 3: has tried this behind the scenes first. We've also don't

1066
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: know exactly how Mets players felt about I'm sure they

1067
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 3: an't love it, but I don't know. Some players like

1068
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 3: a challenge, maybe Kevin That made Kevin Pillar respond to that.

1069
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 3: Who knows.

1070
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm wondering if there's anything to read into here

1071
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: too that we've talked about in the past weeks or

1072
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: so about this Mets team. Best teams have a more

1073
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: disciplined approach. Is this may be a little insight into

1074
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: what he's thinking about the coaching staff. Is this a

1075
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: little insight to what he's thinking about the front office.

1076
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: You've talked about it to me, you know, through texts

1077
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: off off the podcast recording. Is Sandy on the hot seat?

1078
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: Are they going to clear house? There's a lot of

1079
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: stuff that could happen with this Mets team because Steve

1080
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: Cohen might not be happy with what's going on.

1081
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 3: I think a big thing that we can glean from

1082
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 3: this is the fact that Steve Cohen's really into a

1083
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 3: couple of different stats that he recently found on Baseball

1084
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 3: Savon with rate ops and slugging and slucking percentage, maybe

1085
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 3: isolated slucking if he's really getting fancy. But it seems

1086
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 3: like you should probably leave the real statistical analysis to

1087
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 3: the statisticians who helps to run this team, and maybe

1088
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 3: he should pull back a teny bit. But again, I

1089
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,919
Speaker 3: kind of agree with you that someone had to say something.

1090
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 3: I don't think it's the worst thing in the world

1091
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 3: that it was the guy who pays the checks.

1092
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: No, and you were hoping that would wake the bats

1093
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: up a little bit here and it didn't. At first,

1094
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 1: got really bad to start this game. I mean, we

1095
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: got a gift, gift from the baseball God said, here

1096
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: you go, Mets. The Giants have played seven days in

1097
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: a row or whatever it is. They've used nine days

1098
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: and nine that's even more. Yes, they've played nine days

1099
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: in a row. They've been using their bullpen a ton

1100
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: Tony Disco gonna leave in the second. Here you go

1101
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: take it. You have to face bullpen guys that are

1102
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: tired and have been overworked for eight innings and nothing happened. Nothing.

1103
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 3: Before the ninth thing of this game, the Met's only

1104
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 3: had three hits and it was one from Alonso, one

1105
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 3: from Nemo, and one from VR.

1106
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: Three of the guys who have been hitting all year.

1107
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 3: Basically, that's really all we can say about the beginning

1108
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 3: of this game from an offensive perspective. But I want

1109
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 3: to talk about my guy mcgil because again, he's good.

1110
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine where this team would be without

1111
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 3: Tyler McGill. I really can't. I don't even I don't

1112
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 3: even want to think about it. I texted you today

1113
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 3: the Mets are only five games ahead of the Rockies,

1114
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 3: which is the scariest thing. I get that that was

1115
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 3: until the Mets one today. That's the scariest thing I've

1116
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 3: seen ever.

1117
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 1: That's that's bad. I gave the Rockies a lot of

1118
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: crap for not trading at the deadline. The Mets aren't

1119
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: much farther, aren't that far away from them?

1120
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 3: No, but fucking McGill, dude, he just rips heathers like

1121
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 3: he always does. Sixty four percent of his pitches today

1122
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 3: were four seen fastballs, and it was more effective than

1123
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 3: it had been in his last handful of starts, getting

1124
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 3: nine wits and seven calls strikes, which is really cool development.

1125
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 3: And I mentioned the last star against the Dodgers that

1126
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 3: seems like the league had called up to his change up,

1127
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 3: because it seems like nobody this podcast included was prepared

1128
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 3: for the devastating order that pitch would have. And he

1129
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 3: just didn't throw very much, only about ten percent of

1130
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 3: his pitches today, So he's adjusting as the league's adjusting.

1131
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 3: He's smart, cerebral, and he understands what's going on. And

1132
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 3: the other just tiny thing I want to mention about

1133
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 3: McGill was that he mixed in a curveball today. Has

1134
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 3: not done that very much through four times, which that's

1135
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 3: not really that meaningful in terms of like a single

1136
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 3: start or in a vacuum, but like if you look

1137
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 3: at the whole picture, the fact that Tyler McGill is

1138
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 3: still developing, he's still experimenting, he's still working, and he's

1139
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 3: trying to outsmart teams before they outsmart him, especially a

1140
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 3: team like the Giants, who are in the running for

1141
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 3: smartest team in baseball. You just love to see that.

1142
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 3: And I really think we might have a legitimate piece

1143
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 3: here and Tyler and McGill.

1144
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: The thing I love about Tyler and McGill, it's up

1145
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 1: here his head.

1146
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 4: All.

1147
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: He's got the talent on the field, for sure, But

1148
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: one thing that's really really hard to teach, as we've

1149
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: seen with some Mets pictures in the past, is the

1150
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: mental side of the game. He had adversities today. He

1151
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: had a tough inning in the third, I believe it

1152
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: was he ran to a little bit of trouble and

1153
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: he got out of it with only one run. He

1154
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: made a nice play hit right back to him. He

1155
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: looked the guy at third, looked the guy at second,

1156
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: kept him there, threw it over to the first and

1157
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: then got out of the inning with only one run.

1158
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: He has the ability, but of course you're gonna get hit.

1159
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's gonna be adversity, but he's able to get

1160
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: through that. He has the confidence, he doesn't get get down.

1161
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: He has good body language, and he believes in his stuff,

1162
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: as he should because the stuff is good. I'm super

1163
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 1: confident with this guy in the mound. I can't believe

1164
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: that nobody seemingly knew that he was gonna even make

1165
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: an impact this year. Nobody, nobody was talking about this guy.

1166
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: And he's been a lifesaver for this team, an absolutely lifesaver.

1167
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: And he was so good again today with six innings,

1168
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: wonder and run. He kept us in a game that

1169
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: we truly shouldn't have been when we had such anemic offense.

1170
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: We should have lost this game. It shouldn't have been

1171
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: even close. But somehow TYLERR McGill was like, nah, I

1172
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: got you, let's do it.

1173
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 3: No, he saved us. He put us on his back,

1174
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 3: as he's done a lot during this cold streak, and

1175
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,479
Speaker 3: the fact that he has taken multiple bad, not bad,

1176
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 3: just not good starts in a row and now seemed

1177
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 3: like he might be coming out of it. That's so

1178
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 3: mentally tough for a kid like this. I say kid.

1179
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 3: I think he's literally he's literally outrage but he's a

1180
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 3: kid in terms of Major League Baseball age and happy

1181
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 3: bad And that was the only thing to talk about

1182
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 3: in this game until we reached the ninth inning.

1183
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,919
Speaker 1: The ninth inning was interesting. Yeah, we got to start

1184
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: off with Pete Alonzo getting drilled in the elbow and

1185
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: I els didn't maybe coming for beat because he seemingly

1186
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: was in so much pain that he couldn't even put

1187
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: on the oven mit over his hand. He was trying

1188
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: to do it, and you could tell he like didn't

1189
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: want to touch his hand at all because he got

1190
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: hit in the elbow, even on the elbow pad, which

1191
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: is crazy, but it must have hit the funny bone

1192
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 1: or something. Pete was in pain.

1193
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:04,439
Speaker 2: He's a gamer.

1194
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: He's not gonna come out of the game. I saw

1195
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: him even say the trader like, I'm not coming out.

1196
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 3: So and X rays were negative, so hopefully we'll foid Aniston,

1197
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 3: which would be just catastrophic.

1198
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that would be catastrophic. So hopefully Pet's all right.

1199
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: If not, I'm guessing Dom's playing first base, but Pete

1200
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: gets it started first base. There we go, and then

1201
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: Canfordo hits a single moves Pete to third, first and third.

1202
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: Nobody out, won out, but I don't remember nobody out.

1203
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: And we got a sacrifice fly from JD. Davis. Now

1204
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: I wish he did a little bit more. I wish

1205
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: we got an extra base hit. But hey, I'm not

1206
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: gonna get greedy.

1207
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 4: Here.

1208
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: We got our fifteenth sackfly of the year.

1209
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 3: No, we got the nineteen seventy one padres and the

1210
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 3: crosshairs right now, only four away from the from the

1211
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 3: fewest sackflies in Major League baseball history. We have to

1212
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 3: do that. This Mets team can't go in the record

1213
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 3: books for the fewest sack flies in the history in baseball.

1214
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 3: I will not let it happen. It can't, it won't.

1215
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: No, I think we're gonna be okay. I think so.

1216
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: Fifteen sackfly JD got us the run in ties the

1217
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: ball game at one apiece. And then there was an

1218
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: interesting decision the ninth inning here one out because of

1219
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: course the JD sack fly. Conforto's on first base. It's

1220
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: a three to two count to Dom who'd been having

1221
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: a He's been fighting against Jake McGee, who only throws fastballs,

1222
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: which is shocking to me from a baseball standpoint that

1223
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: he only throws ninety three, only throws fastballs, and some

1224
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: having a great year, incredible command, and Gary and Ron

1225
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: in the booth, we're talking about you gotta send Confordo

1226
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 1: here right three two, Dom's not swinging to missing. Gotta

1227
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: make something happen, Gonna send Confordo. They did not. Dom

1228
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 1: hit a little hard ground ballup the middle. Brandon Crawford,

1229
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: because he haunts me, he lives in my head, makes

1230
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,959
Speaker 1: a sick play up the middle, diving glove flip, looking

1231
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: as if he's twenty two years old again. And it

1232
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: wasn't a dull play, but it stopped a first and

1233
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 1: third situation, fast and second situation with only one out,

1234
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: changed the whole outcome out of that inning. I wanted

1235
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:46,399
Speaker 1: to know your opinion. Do you think that the Mets

1236
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: should have ran Confordo? Because I think they should have.

1237
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 3: I don't really know, just because the Mets had so

1238
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 3: few base runners this game. I don't know if I

1239
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 3: want to risk the one I have in a type

1240
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 3: ball game when Michael Gofforla represents the go ahead run

1241
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 3: in that situation, I understand fully if you would have

1242
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 3: just because Dom had filed a couple of pitches off

1243
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 3: and COULDFOURTHO had been going a couple of times in

1244
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 3: that bat, so I don't know. It's a touch and

1245
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 3: field thing, Mike. And fourth also was not attempt to

1246
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 3: the stolen base this year, and I don't think Posy

1247
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 3: was in the game yet this point. He pinched it

1248
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 3: later or not, I don't remember. I remember either, but

1249
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't feel that a striking I

1250
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 3: might throw him at all play there with It's just

1251
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 3: been so quinn essential twenty twenty one Mets, and it's

1252
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 3: not that the mess lineup is deep or long in

1253
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 3: any way, shape or form. Jonathan VR was on deck

1254
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 3: and then the black hole began after that, so I

1255
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 3: don't know what could have happened, But I'm fine with

1256
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 3: just keeping a man on first base, especially with the

1257
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 3: like as we've talked about triples alley, if you could

1258
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 3: put anything in the gap against Jake McGee, you want

1259
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 3: Milk and Ford on first base because you will take

1260
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 3: the lead. So I'm okay with it.

1261
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt like he should have been running. It

1262
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: would have changed the outcome of the inning there. But

1263
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: again a little Monday morning, quarterback. He Hindsight's twenty twenty.

1264
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: He could have swung a miss, throw him out, strike

1265
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: him out, throw him out, innings over toy twenty one Mets.

1266
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: But luckily the Mets double switched for Edwin dis going

1267
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: into the ninth and Edwin Diaz was filthy disgusting. Was

1268
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: it seven pitches in the first sitting?

1269
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, ninth thingning? Yeah, the first thing he pitched, he

1270
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 3: out on two pitches.

1271
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, which was awesome. Edwin was just attacking the zone,

1272
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: going after guys and he was fantastic, which brought us

1273
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: to the tenth inning.

1274
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 3: Just another shout out to that rich asshole who I

1275
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 3: sat in front of on Friday night who s Edwin

1276
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 3: Diaz was awful and he should be off this team.

1277
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 3: Just shut shut the fuck up. You have no idea

1278
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 3: you were talking about. I don't know where this team

1279
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 3: would be if not for Edwin Diz this year. He's

1280
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,280
Speaker 3: actually an elite closer.

1281
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: He is.

1282
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 3: Any Met fan who can understand that just has to

1283
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 3: they have to it. There's no more this bullshit with

1284
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:36,320
Speaker 3: Edwin DS.

1285
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: And then he came out for the tenth because the

1286
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: Mets kind of went down pretty easy right in the tenth.

1287
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 3: Yeah did they? No, Well, we should talk about the

1288
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 3: tenth because Patrick Mezica led off with Jonathan VR in

1289
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 3: second base and he just like bunto an eggs of

1290
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 3: last THEE one hundred and fifteen, and Jonathan VR took

1291
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 3: off at first first glance, and he was a dead

1292
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 3: fucking duck sitting at their base.

1293
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jonathan VR. We talked about this in some way

1294
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: earlier episodes. What's his nick? I forget it?

1295
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 3: Uh Coba Jerro Loko, cabal Jero.

1296
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: Loko, the crazy cowboy, crazy worst whatever he is, He's

1297
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: just possibly one of the worst base runners we've ever

1298
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: seen history. But he just can't read the ball, has

1299
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: no clue what happens when someone tries to pick him off.

1300
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: He got picked off in this game by the left

1301
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: handed pitcher, whoever it was. He didn't even move. He

1302
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: just stood there like, ah shit, you got me, Like

1303
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: he had no clue that he was even coming to first.

1304
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: Bad base ringing by him. Also, interesting decision by the

1305
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: Mets to pit or to bunt as the away team

1306
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: to take a one run lead so stupid.

1307
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 3: I couldn't even imagine giving up and out in that situation.

1308
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 3: But I also have one more funny stat about Jonathan

1309
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 3: vr comes from my friend who I mentioned before Mets Metrics.

1310
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 3: If you add Jonathan vr as pickoffs into his stolen

1311
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 3: based success rate, it is under fifty percent. That's horrible,

1312
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 3: so bad.

1313
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: So one of the worst ever.

1314
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,319
Speaker 3: It's really bad. I think about that that extra inding

1315
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 3: game in Miami, he was picked off third from Adam Simber.

1316
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: I can't even remember the last time someone got picked

1317
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: off third ever ever for that no, besides.

1318
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 3: Jonathan VR, I feel like he's like the last three

1319
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 3: pickoff of thirds in like Major League baseball.

1320
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, that kind of killed the end because there

1321
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: goes our guy and runner in scoring position, go to

1322
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: the bottom of the tenth Here Edwin comes out for

1323
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: a second inning. Why was a little more you know,

1324
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: tight in this inning? Still able to get out of

1325
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: it pretty clean?

1326
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Edmund Diez throws so hard and he

1327
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 3: uses the top of the zone so much that whenever

1328
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 3: you make contact, the ball's basically going to the warning track.

1329
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 3: And Buster Posey hit the ball the warning track I

1330
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 3: think the first or second pitch of that inning. And

1331
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 3: that said Mikeystremsky from second to third base with one

1332
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 3: out and he just beared down. He got out of it. Man,

1333
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 3: He got them wait to pop up, and then.

1334
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: It was Longoria walk Longoria. Well, I just remember seeing

1335
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: the pitch that Edwin threw to Longoria that hit him

1336
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: in the hand and he swung and I was like,

1337
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: that's crazy.

1338
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 3: It was literally on his thumb. So they caught bat,

1339
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,919
Speaker 3: I believe, but it was gross. The play by play

1340
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 3: here doesn't matter. Edwin bar down, he got out of it.

1341
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 3: He got us see the eleventh inning, It's shocking that

1342
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 3: neither teams can score the run this first extra inning,

1343
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 3: and we got the eleventh and the mess actually did

1344
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:55,760
Speaker 3: score a run because Michael can four though laced the double.

1345
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 3: The host hit around the team if he the Lonza

1346
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 3: doesn't play tomorrow.

1347
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,320
Speaker 1: No, it was nice to see confour to oh swing

1348
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: the bat better, looking a little more. Michael kinforda wish.

1349
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: I'm still not happy with his bats, but the production

1350
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: is still better right now than we've seen all year

1351
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: from him.

1352
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 3: In the ball, hard getting on base. And then of

1353
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 3: course just because with the Mets, Timmy Lostella matched in

1354
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 3: the ninth inning, immediately first batter off, Yeah, because up

1355
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 3: a run every time he touches the mountain. Now it

1356
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 3: feels like or at least puts base runners on. And

1357
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 3: then we came to the twelfth inning, and I'll know

1358
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 3: if this was like divine intervention or the kinship of

1359
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 3: all living things. But the Mets offense woke up for

1360
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 3: the first time in two weeks.

1361
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about first the absolute Like you called

1362
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: it performance art on Twitter. It was poetry in motion.

1363
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: What was happening in this game? Vr leads off the inning.

1364
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: We can't forget this and ropes what seems to be

1365
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: a double down in the line called fair on the

1366
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: field double Mets score, go ahead run. Everyone's pumped psych

1367
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: The ball was about a foot foul, foot an inch

1368
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: an inch foul, which also, by the way, I like

1369
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: to call by the umpire anything close, you should call

1370
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: it fair so that the play can happen and then

1371
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: you can always reverse it. But an inch foul restarted,

1372
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR strikes out of course, and you're like, ahh,

1373
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: here we go again, the freaking Mats. We I think

1374
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: Gary and Ron were even like this team needs it,

1375
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: but like they really needed that double like moreter than ever.

1376
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 3: And then shockingly, a call back to April, Kevin Polar

1377
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 3: from the Clouds hit the home run for the first

1378
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 3: time since that wicked football game in Cincinnati a month ago.

1379
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: And it's worth noting that Polar got robbed of an

1380
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: extra base hit earlier in the game, where Lamont Way

1381
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: Junior made a sick catch in leftfield, crashing into the wall.

1382
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: It was like everything that could have gotten wrong for

1383
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 1: the Mets in this game was happening. But Polar man

1384
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: a three run home run. Who saw that coming?

1385
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 3: Definitely not me. You.

1386
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: You couldn't have given me as many chances in the

1387
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: world to bet Kevin Pollara hit a home run in

1388
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: this series. I never would have done it. He had

1389
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: in the biggest moment of the game.

1390
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 3: I've been calling for Kevin Polar's had a mistake.

1391
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: As you should have. He's been awful, but he got

1392
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: a huge home run here. Gary's like back in San Francisco.

1393
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 2: Gary.

1394
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: For some reason, I feel like things like Kevin Pilar's

1395
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: is great San Francisco Giant and doesn't realize that he

1396
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: was there for about what forty games, like not even

1397
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: twenty games.

1398
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 3: You I said, like a month ago, there's a a

1399
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 3: a Kevin Polar parvomather and the difference point is people

1400
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 3: over forty five years of age. If you're over forty five,

1401
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 3: you love Kevin Pilar, and if you're under you're like,

1402
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 3: this guy's awful. It's just it. It's like such a

1403
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 3: clear device. It's not even funny.

1404
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: So you know, it is what is. We We got

1405
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: those runs. That was huge, It was nice. And then Trancisco,

1406
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: Welcome to the New York Mets. Rancisco, Francisco. We need

1407
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: to get them in the lineup at same time former

1408
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: first time because McCann is hurt. He was on crutches

1409
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: today apparently, which like that's not.

1410
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:37,959
Speaker 2: Funny, but.

1411
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, like this isn't funny, but like you can laugh

1412
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: at the comedy of that. James McCann was randomly scratched

1413
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: in game two, no info, and then today he shows

1414
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: up at the park with crutches. You can't make it up,

1415
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: you literally can't. But Chancisco, nice double. That got us

1416
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: another run, I think too, to make it six to two.

1417
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 3: And that was really good because even if the Giants

1418
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,959
Speaker 3: had a Grand Slam, then the game would still just betied.

1419
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: Yea, which we know could have happened the Mets. It

1420
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: could have happened, but luckily for USh, Jake Reid. Jake

1421
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: Reid the weirdest throw I've ever seen his like short

1422
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: arm sidearm thing. Gary said it really well, it looks

1423
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: like a guy doing slow pitch softball or fast pitch softball.

1424
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 3: Dude, it looks like Philip Rivers.

1425
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: It does look like Philip Rivers. That's even better. But yeah,

1426
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: Jake Reid, nice cleton inning. This guy has been good

1427
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: in two appearances so far for the Mets, and the

1428
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: Mets win. I don't know how, but the Mets win

1429
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: this game.

1430
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 3: How we didn't feel it. I was delirious the end

1431
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 3: of this game. We need to like take an hour

1432
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 3: between the end of the game and started the podcast

1433
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 3: because I couldn't even see straight.

1434
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: I was exhausted, I was tired. I didn't want to

1435
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: think about baseball for a good hour after that game happened.

1436
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: Because even though that was a great way to end

1437
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: the series, I can't forget what happened before it, and

1438
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: I can't forget what's coming next, which is the Dodgers.

1439
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 3: But before we.

1440
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: Talk about the Dodgers, we have a prospect interview to

1441
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: give you. Guys. Last week during the midweek episode, we

1442
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: gave you Jalen Palmer interview. Today, we've got a very

1443
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: special one. Ronnie Mauricio, number two prospect in the Mets organization.

1444
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: I'd say number two prospect in the Mets organization short

1445
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: stoff for the Brooklyn Cyclones, very much hyped, the top

1446
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: fifty prospect in Major League Baseball. We got him, we're

1447
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: interviewing him. We're gonna cut to that here in a second,

1448
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: so hopefully you guys enjoy it. Next week is gonna

1449
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 1: be Francisco Alverrez, so i't miss it that one. But

1450
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: Ronnie Marisio gave us a great interview. Hope you enjoy it,

1451
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: and we'll be back after the interview with the Dodgers preview.

1452
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: All right, Mets up, listeners, We're back here and we

1453
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: have a pretty awesome interview coming at you. We were

1454
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: talking to Mets top prospect Ronnie Mauricio of the Brooklyn Cyclone.

1455
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 1: Is gonna ask him few questions how the season's going,

1456
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: and get to know Ronnie a little bit more. All right,

1457
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 1: So first question, Ronnie, how's it been being in New York?

1458
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: You know, come from the Dominican Republic. What's it like

1459
00:59:49,960 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: to live in New York as a you know, young kid.

1460
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 4: Like I say, la.

1461
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 5: It says, it's a good life being here in New

1462
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,439
Speaker 5: York City, the city that never sleeps is a great life.

1463
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 2: It's a great life.

1464
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 3: And how how does New York compare it to Florida?

1465
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 3: From Saint Lucis?

1466
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 2: Hey, come on at the New York Florida l No,

1467
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 2: what say?

1468
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 5: There's no comparison? This this uh, you know, the city

1469
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 5: is amazing. Saint Lucie just can't keep up.

1470
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,439
Speaker 3: Basically, what's your favorite thing to do in the city

1471
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 3: so far when you're not playing baseball?

1472
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 4: Square?

1473
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 2: He likes to go eat.

1474
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 5: I'll eat a lot in restaurants, and you know, loves

1475
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 5: to walk around in Manhattan and Times Square, it goes

1476
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 5: and stuff like that.

1477
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So Ronnie was wondering, you know, you've

1478
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: had a big power surge this year. Has there been

1479
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: anything that you've changed in your game that you think

1480
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: has helped lead to this power?

1481
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 2: Auego, No, you're croqu He thinks the power has always

1482
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 2: been there.

1483
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 5: He just needed to put on some weight, right, and

1484
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 5: you know he put that up and now the power

1485
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 5: is just showing more and more.

1486
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 3: Probably helps with all the good restaurants in New York get

1487
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 3: to get the wait in the power. Yeah, so that's

1488
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 3: not that. Who were some of your favorite players growing up?

1489
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 3: And who do you think you model your game after?

1490
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 3: If anybody?

1491
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, so you guys heard that this is his favorite,

1492
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 5: of course, and he would like to model himself after Habike.

1493
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:02,880
Speaker 4: And you know.

1494
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 5: So he thinks they both have a very similar style

1495
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 5: of play. They play with a lot of swag, a

1496
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 5: lot of emotions, right, so you know that's that's what

1497
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Speaker 5: he thinks.

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Speaker 1: This year, you got to participate in major league camp

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Speaker 1: during spring training, work next to Francisco Indoor and other

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Speaker 1: major leaguers. What was that experience?

1501
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 2: Like Como training camp? You know, so you learn a lot.

1502
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 5: It's a tremendous experience being able to play alongside people

1503
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 5: with with that experience and that know the game so well. Again,

1504
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 5: you like, you get to learn a lot just by

1505
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 5: watching them playing with them.

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01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 3: In general, sticking with your game, what do you think

1507
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 3: is your best tool as a player. What's the number

1508
01:02:50,360 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 3: one thing that Ronni Mauricio offers this team.

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01:02:58,560 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 2: Bad?

1510
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: We saw you taking some fly balls earlier during practice.

1511
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 1: Have you been like working on outfielder or sticking the short.

1512
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 2: Stops and practica fly balls afield short stop.

1513
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 4: So lament go ahead fly in LBB.

1514
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 5: He obviously wants to stay at short stop, right, but

1515
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 5: you know he likes shagging fly balls just to have

1516
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 5: fun out there during the warm up.

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01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 4: You know.

1518
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 3: Also playing next to the beach, it gets very windy here.

1519
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 3: Do you notice that when you hit, especially like between

1520
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 3: playing and Brooklyn and playing on the.

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01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 2: Road, does the hel Marico.

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01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:55,440
Speaker 4: Pasamo play and ocording?

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01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 5: So he says, you know, so you know, playing here

1524
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 5: can sometimes get a little, you know, off a little

1525
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 5: because like you know, it's not like you're feeling the

1526
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 5: win necessarily, right, but sometimes.

1527
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 2: The ball just happens to die.

1528
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 5: The ball doesn't fly much here, right, So you know,

1529
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,080
Speaker 5: it's definitely something to get used to your Instagram.

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01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: L Chimy. What's the reason behind is that nickname?

1531
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 6: What's the thekay Okay Okay and coach Okay.

1532
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 2: So that was a nickname.

1533
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 5: It was given when he was like around thirteen U

1534
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 5: you know, playing in one of the academies and whatnot,

1535
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 5: and they noticed that. So there's this coach in one

1536
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 5: of these academies that they that they would call him Chimi, right,

1537
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 5: and apparently Ronnie bears a resemblance to him, and they

1538
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 5: would call it.

1539
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 2: Now they call him and Chimmy. That's really cool.

1540
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 3: This last question got Ronnie, thanks again for talking to us, man,

1541
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 3: really cool. You What was the first thing that you

1542
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 3: bought with your sounding bonus when you got picked up

1543
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 3: by the mets.

1544
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 7: Omers Toyota for runners, Toyota for runner.

1545
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I got a nice set of wheels

1546
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 2: right there, a man, Now we're done.

1547
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 3: You can plug any social media you have right there,

1548
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 3: so our viewers can follow you Instagram, Twitter, anything.

1549
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 7: You want at the ills your name, my plans are

1550
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 7: getting Instagram come on, Jimmy l.

1551
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:38,920
Speaker 4: Uh huh and Twitter and my plants.

1552
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 5: Hey, come on n So On Instagram you can follow

1553
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 5: him L Chimmy E L on the score C H

1554
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 5: I I M I four right, and of course you.

1555
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 2: Know Ronni on Twitter as well.

1556
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: Thank you Ronni again for the interview, Thank you guys

1557
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 1: for listening, thank you for watching, and we'll see you

1558
01:05:53,320 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: on the next episode. So yeah, Ronnie Mauriciod. We thought

1559
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: that there was a chance Ronnie was not going to

1560
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: talk to us. He was just shy, little shy. We

1561
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 1: were told by the Brooklyn Cyclones guy too that Ronnie's

1562
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: a little tough sometimes. He just it depends what kind

1563
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,560
Speaker 1: of mood he's in. And from what we saw, he

1564
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: was sitting in the dugout on his phone a lot

1565
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: like before the game was started, and we're like, yeah,

1566
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 1: there's just no chance Ronnie's talking to us. We completely

1567
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: changed the questions we were going to ask to in

1568
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,439
Speaker 1: case he did take it, and luckily, Ronnie just walked

1569
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:25,919
Speaker 1: right up to us and was ready to go. And

1570
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 1: we had a great interview with Ronnie, like you heard,

1571
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: so big shots him for doing that. I know, I

1572
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: was super impressive with what he had to say, and

1573
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:33,800
Speaker 1: he really did kind of like relax to as the

1574
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: interview went on, which was.

1575
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 3: Nice, dude, definitely, And I don't think he was shy

1576
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 3: at all. When we actually started talking to him. I

1577
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 3: cracked that joke about the restaurants and he really seemed

1578
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 3: to warm up. And our good friend trusty translator Ernie.

1579
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 3: They spoke very good Spanish to each other, even though

1580
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 3: they held from different countries, and everything worked out just

1581
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 3: shockingly well. And then interviewed Ronny and Marisio. I was

1582
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 3: very happy about it.

1583
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 1: Yes, it was awesome. Also huge shout out. Like James

1584
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 1: just said to our friend Ernie at sub Tape Underscore

1585
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: on Twitter, he's a Marlin, so that doesn't really help

1586
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: you guys as Mess fans, but he is the guy

1587
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: who's doing the translating for us in these interviews live

1588
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: good friend of ours. He'd appreciate if you dropped a fall.

1589
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,439
Speaker 1: We'd appreciate if you dropped him a follow as well

1590
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 1: help support the podcast. It's probably gonna be our translator

1591
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 1: for the rest of the time on this thing, if

1592
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 1: I had to guess. So, Ernie, thank you so much

1593
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: for that. Couldn't do this without you. Now to go

1594
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: to the next section here, let's talk about this Dodgers

1595
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: preview because luckily we're not on a six game losing streak. No,

1596
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 1: but we have potential to get right back on one here

1597
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers.

1598
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it almost was. It was pretty close to being one. Luckily,

1599
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 3: the Dodgers pitching staff is kind of in flux right now,

1600
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 3: so on Thursday night we might get a gift and

1601
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 3: it will be like I only know, maybe possibly a

1602
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 3: bullpen day or something of that nature. Because no one's

1603
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 3: named currently because this would be Julio Rias's spot, but

1604
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:49,040
Speaker 3: he has hit the il because Tyler McGill are our

1605
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 3: clutch man right there, just beans him in the caf.

1606
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,440
Speaker 3: He was thinking ahead, stinking ahead, playing the long game. There,

1607
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 3: love that, ty Lore. But so we got Taiwan versus

1608
01:07:57,560 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 3: question Mark tomorrow, Carlos Carrasco and Night versus Walker Bueler

1609
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 3: Rich Hill on Saturday versus Max Schuerzer, and a winnable

1610
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 3: game on Sunday with Marcus Stroman versus the corpse of David.

1611
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 1: Price, Tony Gonsolin healthy, could he maybe pictures on.

1612
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 3: The shoulder fatigue? They had? They played Mitch White picture

1613
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 3: earlier this week, and Andre Jackson made his major league

1614
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:19,800
Speaker 3: debut earlier this week. So I don't know who they're

1615
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 3: gonna find for this game, but it'll it'll probably someone

1616
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 3: really good we can't hit.

1617
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:26,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. I also feel like recently when we own the

1618
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: Los Angeles we have been getting shelled as well. I

1619
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: feel like the last good game I remember there, like

1620
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: outside like the playoff run was when Cindergard hit a

1621
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 1: couple of home runs, but Los Angeles that was twenty fifteen. Yes,

1622
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that feels like it was only a

1623
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:42,840
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Oh my gosh, I'm living in

1624
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 1: the past.

1625
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:44,839
Speaker 3: It might have been twenty sixteen.

1626
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: Regardless when we could do this West coast trip. It

1627
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: is always hell, and it's just even worse that these

1628
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 1: teams are both also awesome now. So it's not gonna

1629
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: be an easy series by any means. Four game series.

1630
01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: Let's I'd like to win it. But am I going?

1631
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 1: Are we going to the way this offense is?

1632
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 3: No, We're basically facing two pitchers who we should really

1633
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 3: really beat between mystery Man Tomorrow Night who actually hold on.

1634
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:12,759
Speaker 3: Fangrass has a different schedule in ESPN, Fangrass has Walker

1635
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 3: Buehler pitching on Thursday Night. Sure's are Friday our good

1636
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 3: friend justin Brule as the opener On Saturday, I have

1637
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 3: of a bullpen game and then Price on Sunday. If

1638
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 3: I were the Dodgers, I would definitely try to split

1639
01:09:24,439 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 3: up Brule and Price just because I feel like both

1640
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 3: of those games the bullpen will be taxed, so I'd

1641
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 3: rather have those be on Thursday and Sunday so I

1642
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 3: can make sure my bullpens survives. Because we know Walker

1643
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 3: Buler Mac sures are gonna throw seven strong. There's no

1644
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 3: way that those guys, there's no chance.

1645
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: So Walker Bueller does throw seven inning.

1646
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 3: He's got six innings every start this year. He's an

1647
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 3: absolute fucking iron man. He's one of the most underrated

1648
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 3: players in all of baseball. So I guess the Dodgers

1649
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 3: schedule is in question. But we're gonna face two hit

1650
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 3: the ball pitchers or just two days of mostly the Dodgers' bullpen.

1651
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 3: So I hope we can win those two games. I

1652
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 3: pray that we can win those two games. And winning

1653
01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 3: those two games would actually mean that we're not completely dead.

1654
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 3: We'll have retained our five hundred record and probably still

1655
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 3: be within five games with thirty five to go, which

1656
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 3: I guess is a win at this point.

1657
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know if it's the

1658
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 1: West Coast and the nine to forty five ten o'clock starts,

1659
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 1: but I am exhausting. There's something different about watching a

1660
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 1: baseball game that starts at ten o'clock. Yeah, Like I'm

1661
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: up until two o'clock every single night. As you know,

1662
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 1: as my old roommate those games when they were over,

1663
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:24,759
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta go to bed. I'm tired.

1664
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: I just I can't even get up off this couch.

1665
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: The West Coast just tires me.

1666
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 3: Out different than anything ever before, because it's like when

1667
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 3: the game's ended ten like your night is still active there.

1668
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 3: You can still like pour a drink, watch something on TV,

1669
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 3: play a video game. Things are still happening. When it's

1670
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 3: one o'clock and your things that things have ended, What

1671
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 3: can you do now? I feel like a dirtbag advice,

1672
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 3: like watch a movie at one o'clock in the morning.

1673
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: That is a little late, exhausting. This West Coast trip

1674
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: is almost over. The nightmare is almost over. I can't

1675
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 1: wait for it to be over. And it'd be nice

1676
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 1: if we end on a good note. Will we probably

1677
01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: not hate to be that guy. It's just unrealistic at

1678
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: this point to think that this Mets team, with this

1679
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: lineup and the anemic offense, is gonna be able to

1680
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: really compete with the Los Angeles Dodgers. As you said

1681
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: in last episode, you compare the two lineups and you go,

1682
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: how can we score more runs than this team? It

1683
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 1: just doesn't make sense.

1684
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,559
Speaker 3: You have no idea how it could be possible.

1685
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 1: I really don't no clue but we're gonna watch I'll

1686
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 1: watch you know to find us here too. Episode forty three.

1687
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: We'll go over the Dodgers series as we always do.

1688
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: So make sure you are listening to us or listening

1689
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: to us and following us on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts,

1690
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 1: Spotify wherever you listen. Subscribe to the YouTube channel Messed

1691
01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: Up Podcast, follow us on Twitter and Instagram app mess

1692
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: Up James, I Know, has a little shout out here

1693
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:38,680
Speaker 1: for someone a little local that he wants to give

1694
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:39,639
Speaker 1: a little quick plug too.

1695
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 3: I do. Before the game I went to last Friday.

1696
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 3: I forgot to shout these guys out in the last episode,

1697
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 3: so I apologize. But my dad and I went to

1698
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 3: a pork store in my neighborhood in nist Williamsburg on

1699
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 3: Graham Emily's pork Store. And I say pork store because

1700
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 3: this is not a deli. This was a pork store.

1701
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:57,639
Speaker 3: There were shanks of meat hanging from the sky. The

1702
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 3: refrigerator that you opened up to get drinks was actual

1703
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 3: the refrigerator where most of the meat stood. My dad

1704
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 3: said there were Italian like drinks and snacks and weird

1705
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:07,679
Speaker 3: anasids they hadn't seen since he was a literal child.

1706
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 3: My dad and this the man who was working the counter,

1707
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 3: lived blocks away from each other in Brooklyn, the neighborhood,

1708
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 3: as they said growing up. They bowled in the same

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Speaker 3: place in their early thirties, and the sandwiches were unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: So Emily's Pork Store on Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg,

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Speaker 3: if anyone lives local New York City, check it out.

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Speaker 3: It's worth the ride. It's a real old school spot.

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Speaker 3: You feel like you're in the nineteen seventies when you

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Speaker 3: walk inside. The sandwiches are phenomenal. The chicken cutlets are

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Speaker 3: grilled to perfection. The hot peppers are delicious. Just give

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Speaker 3: them a shot. They're a wonderful place.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think I'm gonna have to come by. I

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Speaker 1: saw on the Google review pictures it says we've got guanchale,

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Speaker 1: which you like, you said to me when I said, like,

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Speaker 1: that's not an advertisement, that's a brag undred percent.

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Speaker 3: I don't think many people in the world still have guanchadi.

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Speaker 1: So shout out to Emily's Pork Store. They also did

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Speaker 1: is this where you put up a sticker? As well?

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Speaker 3: It did well. I talk to these guys for like

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Speaker 3: twenty minutes. They love the Mets, I love the Jests

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Speaker 3: A memorabilia all over the store. The guy was showing

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Speaker 3: off this bat that he bought for twenty five dollars

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Speaker 3: in the street, A game US bad from nineteen they six,

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Speaker 3: he said, I'm sure some crackheads stolen, but they're they're

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Speaker 3: the homies. Mess up sticker on the front door. So

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Speaker 3: if you go by, say you're a listener, say what's up?

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Speaker 3: Say you love the Mets.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let them know that the Mets the podcast sent

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Speaker 1: you over there if you go there. Also shout out

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Speaker 1: to everybody on Twitter who's been finding our stickers all

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Speaker 1: around the city. We've been placing them in different locations,

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01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 1: not just in New York, but even New Jersey and

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Speaker 1: all over the place. So if you ever see them,

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Speaker 1: make sure you tweet us at Mets up. Or you

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01:13:32,439 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 1: can tweet me or James Draftnickmark Jeter had no range,

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01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 1: whichever one. But I appreciate everybody tweeting that at us

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Speaker 1: when you find it. It's really cool to see that

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01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,719
Speaker 1: you guys are finding our logos and stuff everywhere. Also,

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Speaker 1: remember you want to win this Marcus Stroman card that

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01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: I got here it's like a game. Warn Jersey. We're

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01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: doing a little incentive here. Make sure you go onto

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01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:54,600
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts rate our podcast five stars. We'd appreciate it

1748
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 1: if that's what you actually feel. Give it a good

1749
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: rating as well as drop us a review. We're at

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Speaker 1: eighty reviews or ratings right now. We get to one hundred.

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01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 1: Check the Mets up Twitter. We will be giving away

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01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 1: this Shruman card once it hits one hundred, so do

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01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: that as well, a little incentive to get you guys

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01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 1: to rate and review us. Otherwise, I think that's where

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Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap it up here for the episode number

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Speaker 1: twenty four of the Met Stuff Pod.

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Speaker 3: Twenty four.

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Speaker 1: My god, I screwed up because I said the Met

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Speaker 1: Stuff it was weird. Didn't like it. This we're gonna

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Speaker 1: wrap up episode number forty two of the Mets Stuff Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening. Thank you for watching lengthy outro.

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Speaker 1: But we'll talk to you next time for the Dodger

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Speaker 1: series peace out.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for listening, guys,