Speaker 1: What us up. Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode
Speaker 1: of the Mets Uff podcast series Win. Don't let the
Speaker 1: Mets get hot. They've won four of their last five
Speaker 1: baseball games, two of which against the Atlanta Braves. That's
Speaker 1: a team that's in the playoff spot right now. But
Speaker 1: we take two of three from the Kansasity Royals. Crazy
Speaker 1: crazy start to the series. Nice end to the series
Speaker 1: in between a lot of good baseball from very very
Speaker 1: specific New York Mets players, and of course we will
Speaker 1: talk about aj Ewing and Wan Soda and all the
Speaker 1: good guys before we get going into it. Make sure
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Speaker 1: and subscribe. Really nice, nice series. Win. After what was
Speaker 1: a hellish nightmare game on Tuesday, Yeah Tuesday, whatever happened?
Speaker 1: There no sports all round for us. Yeah, patsports are
Speaker 1: and worst awful game OFFI life. But we kind of
Speaker 1: actually fun to watch this Mets team this week. We
Speaker 1: actually got the time of that because when we went
Speaker 1: to go play softball, it was like in the fifth
Speaker 1: inning so the bad things hadn't really happen yet. We
Speaker 1: looked at the phones, We're like, what just happened? But
Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching the Mets on Wednesday and Thursday, which
Speaker 1: is I couldn't really have said that for most of
Speaker 1: the last few months, and I was like, I sat
Speaker 1: down today one I was like, I'm excited to watch
Speaker 1: the Mets play baseball. Like I like the lineup of
Speaker 1: the team right now. I like watching the two pitchers
Speaker 1: on the mound. In the last two days, I was like, there,
Speaker 1: this is actually a cohesive, coherence baseball team. Yeah. What's
Speaker 1: crazy about it is that when this team is getting
Speaker 1: as this team's getting healthier, and we're seeing the good
Speaker 1: players that were supposed to be here actually play on
Speaker 1: this team more often every single day, started to look
Speaker 1: at this team and go, the hell are they this bad? Like,
Speaker 1: I know they're not good yet because the pitching is
Speaker 1: still an absolute mess, but like the offense is at
Speaker 1: least clicking right now, which is really encouraging because that
Speaker 1: was something that was just so hot and cold for
Speaker 1: this team and maybe it still will be down the stretch.
Speaker 1: But having aj Ewing being as good as he is,
Speaker 1: having won Soto being as good as he is, Bobashet's
Speaker 1: hitting it really well, Lindor still isn't even really clicking,
Speaker 1: but like everybody else in this lineup right now is
Speaker 1: pretty much doing some stuff. Yeah, I don't think this
Speaker 1: will be something that's hot, hot and cold moving forward.
Speaker 1: I think we can actually count on the Mets offense
Speaker 1: being a strength the rest of the season like it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be, Which is kind of funny. We've grabbed,
Speaker 1: We've taken ourselves out of the ops league wide cellar.
Speaker 1: We are now twenty eighth in the league wide team
Speaker 1: by the OPS across the league, we are one point
Speaker 1: behind the Blue Jays and three points behind the Diyingbacks
Speaker 1: and Mariagers. So we're we're stone star ray right now
Speaker 1: from having the twenty fifth best OPS and baseball team
Speaker 1: below us, Yes, two teams Padres, Yes, And who's gonna
Speaker 1: hit worse than the Padres this year? Another team has
Speaker 1: fallen like a rock in the last four weeks. Fall
Speaker 1: and it's not the Braves, so fall like a rock. No,
Speaker 1: not the Reds, the rest of the team the resort
Speaker 1: we're chasing. We want to get to the Reds Oriels. No,
Speaker 1: not the Orioles. The Reds have a seven hundred team ops.
Speaker 1: I want to be there by the week after the
Speaker 1: All Star break was just falling like the Twins. No
Speaker 1: twins are Twins are surging? Tigers? No Tigers are also surging.
Speaker 1: No Angel actually still hit. They just can't pitch as now.
Speaker 1: Guards Oh okay, yeah they so, I just don't even
Speaker 1: pay attention to the Guardians. They haven't had even had
Speaker 1: a major league hither in their lineup yet. And even
Speaker 1: if you split out for starting with May first, the
Speaker 1: mess of the eighteenth best ops in the league. Don't
Speaker 1: you get hot? If you go to June first, it's
Speaker 1: the fifteenth best right there. Seventh third of the ops
Speaker 1: the teams is June first. Again, it doesn't feel real
Speaker 1: because of how poorly this team hit early in the season.
Speaker 1: But if you look at those lineups compared to these lineups,
Speaker 1: and then you think about aj Ewing and what he's
Speaker 1: doing right now, plus Carson benj wants so the being
Speaker 1: there every day, Bobashd having a three twenty average and
Speaker 1: eight to fifty ops since June first, You're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this team can't really hit. Oh I saw you tweet out,
Speaker 1: I think on Tuesday or Wednesday night, whatever night, it
Speaker 1: was about how it's crazy that in this disaster lost season,
Speaker 1: we're seeing like a twenty one year old pop off
Speaker 1: and be like a really really good player, like a
Speaker 1: four or five win per player probably for this team,
Speaker 1: and it's just gonna go completely to waste because we're
Speaker 1: not going to make the playoffs. Not gonna make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but we need things to hang on to in the
Speaker 1: lit season, and aj Ewing is something we should be
Speaker 1: defiantly hanging on to. Like aj Ewing as of the
Speaker 1: game on Wednesday night, he had five home runs in
Speaker 1: two weeks. He had home runs in three out of
Speaker 1: five games in back to back nights. The fact that
Speaker 1: right now his one hundred and sixty two game pace
Speaker 1: is watch something like twenty home runs, thirty five steals,
Speaker 1: two seventy eight ten ops while playing great ef in
Speaker 1: the center field and second base, flashing at second base
Speaker 1: like he's probably the best second basement on the roster defensively, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he probably is. Like it's just bet he
Speaker 1: hasn't been bad, but he's been he's better. No, it's
Speaker 1: very very different. Brett Bay versus Aja Ewing. I mean again,
Speaker 1: like we're maybe maybe this is an entire referendum on
Speaker 1: how much COVID fucked up these guys developments, but like
Speaker 1: how or it's just how special of a player in
Speaker 1: a prospect Ewing is, but it's watching a player like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, yeah, he's ridiculously good. And just to go
Speaker 1: a little chronological order here, So it started on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Ajewing in the lead off spot, four for four, hit
Speaker 1: the home run off of Seth Lugo early on, just
Speaker 1: doing everything that he possibly could try and make this
Speaker 1: Mets team win. And to be fair, the offense absolutely
Speaker 1: showed up. Ewing was incredible. Sodo three RBIs with that
Speaker 1: big home run. Who else Carson bench two for three
Speaker 1: on the day, Like there was just good performances. Horiy
Speaker 1: Polanco back in the lineup almost almost hit a home run,
Speaker 1: like Dolphins was chugging. It was just we couldn't pitch
Speaker 1: for the life of us. Tyler Tolbert fucking unbelievable. Tyas
Speaker 1: Tolbart's in the history books forever major League Baseball, hitting
Speaker 1: twelve straight at bats, half of them did not leave
Speaker 1: the infields. But that's that's just kind of Baseball. I
Speaker 1: want to get in at this game quickly because I
Speaker 1: wanted to reference other parts of this game later on,
Speaker 1: because we have a few media marvels again, especially about
Speaker 1: Matt ceiling Ger. Ceiling Jer. Yes, ceiling Cher, ceiling Jer,
Speaker 1: not ceiling Ger. But the big thing I think to
Speaker 1: take away from this game is thank you Austin Warren.
Speaker 1: It was a nice few months and Billy Eppler somewhere
Speaker 1: smiling with a really random forearm. Strange, and that's to
Speaker 1: get up the new reliever on Wednesday, which is I mean,
Speaker 1: I I don't know how random it truly was, though,
Speaker 1: because Austin Warren was apparently inconsolable after like the MRI stuff,
Speaker 1: because he was very worried that he was gonna get
Speaker 1: Tom John again. And he's already had it, I think
Speaker 1: once in his career, so at least like for him,
Speaker 1: he feels good. But yeah, I don't Austin Warren four
Speaker 1: to six cra after this one. It's kind of crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was. There was a line from me he had
Speaker 1: trade value, like he probably still has that hint of
Speaker 1: trade value, but I guess he needs to be healthy.
Speaker 1: But will Salmon put a piece in his his article
Speaker 1: about Austin warren't going to the IL just a Mets
Speaker 1: News recap the Mets putting right hand reliever for Austin
Speaker 1: Warre in a fifteen day injured list. According to people
Speaker 1: familiar with the situation who are not authorized to speak
Speaker 1: freely on the topic, the specific nature of the injuries unknown. Interesting.
Speaker 1: That's just a very weird line about it. Hen is
Speaker 1: a bizarre one. But again, the big thing to take
Speaker 1: from this game, apart from aj Ewing being awesome, the
Speaker 1: offense being awesome, I just I'm really just tired of
Speaker 1: Code I Sanga, and even more so, I think I'm
Speaker 1: also getting a little bit tired of the Mets use
Speaker 1: the usage pattern with Code I Sanga. Well, it makes
Speaker 1: no sense because for the longest time ever, Code I
Speaker 1: Sanga basically needed to pitch on five days rest, then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he wasn't. Then we're gonna just
Speaker 1: jump to twenty twenty six now and Code I Sang
Speaker 1: as a starter not good, goes to the bullpen, still
Speaker 1: using though in a long relief role out of the bullpen,
Speaker 1: and then he pitches twice in three days basically and
Speaker 1: throws what one hundred and thirty hundred forty pitches over
Speaker 1: the two days. I think it was only about one
Speaker 1: hundred five, because last Friday in Atlanta, I think it
Speaker 1: was forty four and this was sixty one if I
Speaker 1: remember right. But the whole thing right now with cod
Speaker 1: is if are you going to make him reliever or
Speaker 1: you're trying to keep him stretched out? And it seems
Speaker 1: like a decision like this means you're in between those
Speaker 1: two decisions. And I wonder if that sounds like any
Speaker 1: other guy in this Mets bullpen right now? Can I
Speaker 1: find one other player like that? Yeah, we get five
Speaker 1: more minutes and they'll figure that one out. But that
Speaker 1: one I liked a little more, especially when he comes
Speaker 1: down this one. He's not thrown harder than usual, like
Speaker 1: we saw him pop a few hundreds last week, and
Speaker 1: this time he's not a hundred. I think ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Did he pop on hundred. I think
Speaker 1: he did pop one hundred. I don't know. He pitches
Speaker 1: and I gets I get mad. I'm just watching balls
Speaker 1: getting absolutely tanked off of him. But this time he's not,
Speaker 1: So then it's like, what is the actual plan here?
Speaker 1: I'm saying it's just the beginning of the season. I
Speaker 1: think CODI still has plenty of values. You want to
Speaker 1: make him a one ending believer, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a great time to do that. Ye cause the trade
Speaker 1: deadline's coming up and just under a month. If you
Speaker 1: guys didn't know, it's a good time and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: when you can pay this got thirteen mill next year?
Speaker 1: But he might be a shutdown reliever like this. Do
Speaker 1: you want to remember Luke Weaver? Remember what happened he
Speaker 1: went from the bullpen to the rotation rotation in the bullpen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: or even if you believe in code I still as
Speaker 1: a startup, Okay, grab him for a reliever right now
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year, and then work on
Speaker 1: it during year spring training. Not ours anymore. I'm saying
Speaker 1: you guys can figure this out. He's doing a very
Speaker 1: very small amount of money next year. It's thirteen or
Speaker 1: fifteen million. That's pennies for a guy who had you
Speaker 1: see that he did twenty twenty three. Did you see
Speaker 1: that season? He was one of the thirty best pitchers
Speaker 1: on the planet. Giving you a bargain, don't accept this
Speaker 1: trade right now before I take it back, But it's
Speaker 1: just it's just painful to again there. I think he
Speaker 1: is broken mentally, he's pitching poorly physically, and now I
Speaker 1: think they're not helping the situation either. No, it's a
Speaker 1: complete mess, and I'm so tired of watching him pitch
Speaker 1: for the New York Mets. Good again. It's a shame
Speaker 1: that this game got so out of control that we
Speaker 1: couldn't really relish the fact that aj Ewing, after a
Speaker 1: few weeks of playing a lot better back in the
Speaker 1: leadoff spot, now just play it, fucking stamp that he's
Speaker 1: an elite baseball player. Oh, he's so ridiculously good. Everybody
Speaker 1: in the lineup got to hit that night except Francisco Indoor.
Speaker 1: I think he breached baso. Then he drove walk? Did
Speaker 1: he drove walk? He drew walk. I want to see
Speaker 1: I always like to do this when guys still have
Speaker 1: small samples and they have huge games. I want to
Speaker 1: see how much Jewing stats changed in the one game
Speaker 1: to jump like twenty something points after going oh for
Speaker 1: four on Monday and that win against the Braves two
Speaker 1: point fifty nine average, four hundred slug seven forty two
Speaker 1: ops after four for four with a home run up
Speaker 1: to two seventy six averages, seventeen points of batting average,
Speaker 1: seventeen points of on base percentage. Funny though it moved
Speaker 1: up the exact same amount. That's been very funny. Thirty
Speaker 1: one points of slug for the eight Yeah, for the
Speaker 1: eight points of ops. That's crazy, crazy, unbelievable. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Aju went greats. Just a shame that the Mets couldn't
Speaker 1: win a game where they scored twelve runs. I think
Speaker 1: Steve Garrett said that was like one of the first
Speaker 1: times in history they scored eleven runs at home and
Speaker 1: did not win. I think it was the first time.
Speaker 1: I think they were like, I'm just gonna say, like
Speaker 1: a thousand and oh, and then that was the first
Speaker 1: loss where they've scored twelve. There's no way the message
Speaker 1: square thousand runs at home, eleven runs at home. I'm
Speaker 1: but it's even shittier that you look back in the series,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, you won the next two games, like
Speaker 1: you could actually be writing a five game winning streak.
Speaker 1: Grind now about to play another awful team in the
Speaker 1: Red Sox, because Wednesday was a fun baseball game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Christian Scott awesome, he looked really, really good. Again he
Speaker 1: was dominant. He struck out Carter Jensen to end the
Speaker 1: fifth and screamed off the mound. Jensen give him a
Speaker 1: little bit of a stare down. James, were watching this
Speaker 1: game on TV or was this a radio for you?
Speaker 1: I was watching It's called NBC game. Did you hear
Speaker 1: Do you hear Keith talking about Randy Dobnach. It was
Speaker 1: driving me fucking insane, dude, total opposite. I loved it
Speaker 1: so much that I I incorporated into my write up
Speaker 1: about Randy Dobnach. I mean, hell the game, Randy Dobnach,
Speaker 1: hell of a game by him. I literally said, this
Speaker 1: is my description for Randy Dobnack. This is what you
Speaker 1: guys got to stay on with the world the World
Speaker 1: Player news page and we have our our tag guys
Speaker 1: on there so you can see the ones I wrote.
Speaker 1: And I like to add a little flair in these.
Speaker 1: Dobnak put together an old school start working the edges.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even start. It was it was appearance, damn it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not a start, not a start. I'll go back and
Speaker 1: change that. Working the edges with a sinker and deeper
Speaker 1: secondary pitches keep the mets off the board that's announce it.
Speaker 1: Keith and Nandis was particularly impressed by ten pitch battles
Speaker 1: one so in the fifth inning, but doms easily could
Speaker 1: have walked in with two has nobody on. He definitly
Speaker 1: could have done that, but kept going after him. Eventually
Speaker 1: forced to pop up and so fucking slammed his back
Speaker 1: with the course because he've watched Randy dobnak pitches and
Speaker 1: how am I not hitting the nuke off of this guy?
Speaker 1: Keith was treating him like he was Prime Greg maddox.
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Speaker 1: Keith had an all time series we've been saying, and
Speaker 1: when Keith and Garry are there together without Ron to babysit,
Speaker 1: it's special and we'll talk about that get back to
Speaker 1: the media marvels towards the end of this. But it
Speaker 1: was at the same time frustrating but also nice to
Speaker 1: see Christian Scott go up against it and battle. Scott
Speaker 1: also had almost a thirty pitch second inning, and then
Speaker 1: he's done this a few times this season when he
Speaker 1: gets into a lot of trouble early but just kind
Speaker 1: of gritzing grinds his way through the next few and
Speaker 1: I liked how much he went to his color in
Speaker 1: this one because the fastball sweep were great, but this
Speaker 1: time I thought was the best. At least he was
Speaker 1: the most confident in his color that he's been all year.
Speaker 1: Got a bunch of called strikes, got to a weak contact.
Speaker 1: He's thrown to twenty percent at the time to left
Speaker 1: these and four straight starts and this time throwing at
Speaker 1: thirty percent of thirty five percent of time for them
Speaker 1: his highest into second Star of the year in May. First. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good pitch. I don't I don't love when he
Speaker 1: uses against righties. I don't like righty cutters against right
Speaker 1: handed batters. Ever, it feels like code. I did a
Speaker 1: lot of that. But uh, he going through I think
Speaker 1: he went through like four but almost. I think two
Speaker 1: of him got put into play for art contact. I
Speaker 1: think they got smoked. But yeah, Christian Scott looked great.
Speaker 1: And like we were talking about, is there another type
Speaker 1: of guy that Mets are doing the code? I sang
Speaker 1: a thing too, Tobias Myers, And what's so confusing about
Speaker 1: him is Okay, so if he's gonna be a two
Speaker 1: winning guy, he's throwing slower than he ever has. The
Speaker 1: velo is way down, Like my dad was texting me,
Speaker 1: He's like, I swear this guy like touched ninety five
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, and he had touched it, but he sat
Speaker 1: like ninety three, five to ninety four. This year, he's
Speaker 1: in the mid ninety twos and most of this game
Speaker 1: felt like he was touching ninety one. Yeah again, because
Speaker 1: I think they're also being a little bit irregular with
Speaker 1: how he's using him in a triple A. I think
Speaker 1: they said he only had one appearance the whole time
Speaker 1: he was down and he threw, I'll get you the
Speaker 1: worklove of that in a second. But and then I
Speaker 1: was surprised that Gary and Keith was surprised that after
Speaker 1: Tobias Myers gave up a run, gave up the lead
Speaker 1: in the sixth inning, he came back out for the
Speaker 1: seventh When they mentioned Minter and Raley being available and
Speaker 1: Devin Williams and Luke Weaver, all those guys, Williams the
Speaker 1: only got not available. I take that back, but everyone
Speaker 1: else was available. Almost everyone else got up in the
Speaker 1: bullpen that game. And then Myers puts guys on base,
Speaker 1: but did like that he kind of again gritted his
Speaker 1: teeth and got through an inning when he put guys
Speaker 1: on base. He made some big pitches, he hit some spots,
Speaker 1: and he looked really excited after getting through that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Mester showing life at least considering like where the
Speaker 1: season's at. I do like seeing the guys care about
Speaker 1: what's going on, seemingly playing hard throughout the entire game,
Speaker 1: which is nice. Brooks really came in, did a really clean,
Speaker 1: easy job. Nice and easy for Brooks. And then of
Speaker 1: course we had that insane inning where the Francisco leonor
Speaker 1: Oopsie almost came back to bite us, but luckily it
Speaker 1: did not. We did not have to deal with that. Wait,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go through these Tobias Myers game logs again.
Speaker 1: Oh in Syracuse. Yeah, So when he went down to
Speaker 1: Syracuse the first week of June, June fourth through an
Speaker 1: inning in the third, June seventh through two, June eleventh,
Speaker 1: two and two thirds. Then he comes back to the
Speaker 1: major leagues after June seventh. He then pitched the June
Speaker 1: fifteenth through one and one third. That was when he
Speaker 1: got blown up by the Reds. Yep. Then five days
Speaker 1: later came into another blowout against the Phillies, gave up
Speaker 1: a few runs two to third. So faced a love batters,
Speaker 1: face ten eleven batterest ten batters. Then the Cubs again
Speaker 1: got smacked around, face ten batters over two winnings five days.
Speaker 1: That was three days later, then five days later, smacked
Speaker 1: around by the Phillies again. And then he goes back
Speaker 1: and sits for six days. There's three innings in the minors,
Speaker 1: comes back here, there's two winnings. It just it seems
Speaker 1: like he's getting like long reliever workload, but not long
Speaker 1: reliever consistent appearances. No, it's there. They're fucking around with him.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand why we're completely mishandling. Tobias
Speaker 1: Myers Hans had a spot in the season where keep
Speaker 1: talking about it like wins, losses don't matter anymore. No,
Speaker 1: what matters his player developed. So I like a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that Andy Green has said about all of
Speaker 1: these guys. We'll talk about that later maybe too, But
Speaker 1: that's why I like set it off there for the
Speaker 1: second inning. Let them show you something. I was like
Speaker 1: off the third do that too. I don't care if
Speaker 1: we win this game, but it was yeah, nice team
Speaker 1: work through that, nice him work through that. And then
Speaker 1: Brett Baty of course, with the big hit in this one,
Speaker 1: which was nice. Clearing the bases, which was huge for us, right,
Speaker 1: that was this game. That was this game. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: he clear the bases? I think there, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think it was basic two guys on for a second.
Speaker 1: He got both home, Yeah, he got he got the
Speaker 1: hit in the in the gap or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: But Brett Baby's been swinging the bat better. Op to
Speaker 1: six hundred with Joss the whole this whole thing being
Speaker 1: a two I rally was nice because Field haven't had
Speaker 1: these all year. And then we did it again on Thursday.
Speaker 1: La Door got started, like you said, though he didn't
Speaker 1: he wasn't really hustling on the infield hit by Polanco,
Speaker 1: and that was that was a strange look. I will say,
Speaker 1: shocked that Gary and Keith did not get on him more.
Speaker 1: I don't again, I don't particularly got him this much.
Speaker 1: They they said ooh, they made note of it, but
Speaker 1: then also said like Keith kind of like brushed off,
Speaker 1: was like yeah, but like he should have been out
Speaker 1: at first by one hundred feet. So, like I thought
Speaker 1: that was an interesting take from Keith. I just didn't
Speaker 1: expect it from him. I've kind of also been more
Speaker 1: so deferring to their instincts on it. Again, they might
Speaker 1: know something else about his calf injury right now, what's
Speaker 1: going on with him that we don't because we're not there.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, like, you do want to
Speaker 1: be busting it because you have you think you have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to score the run. But a play like that,
Speaker 1: like I understand the guy breaking it down, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: said it from both sides. Both sides are sides are
Speaker 1: wrong and right? And then also it doesn't hope that
Speaker 1: the guy running it down first base busting it was
Speaker 1: Hori Polanco coming back from the injury. I gotta say like,
Speaker 1: even though like the production hasn't been crazy from Horriy
Speaker 1: Polancos so far in the very very small sample, I
Speaker 1: do like the way that he swings it. I like
Speaker 1: his at bats. They're so much better than some of
Speaker 1: the other guys who've had a DH this year. No,
Speaker 1: incredibly competitive at bats, professional, he goes and it takes
Speaker 1: a good swings. Nice having you to switch hither low
Speaker 1: in the order. Andy Green say, Lanthon is a lineup
Speaker 1: which I very much agree with, and also like that
Speaker 1: this rally on not this really rally ended but finished
Speaker 1: with a jose quass on the Mount Brooklyn's finest. He's
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn. Yeah, where do you go to? He went
Speaker 1: to the high school Brooklyn. I'll get you right now.
Speaker 1: I'll forget. They mentioned that in the broadcast yesterday. If
Speaker 1: I think Gelvis was talking about it, I just tuned
Speaker 1: him out. Grants Oh my god, my neighborhood. Yeah, Grant
Speaker 1: Street High School. Yeah, Oh my god, is that? What
Speaker 1: is that high school right by where we play softball.
Speaker 1: It's close to it. Oh my god, it's remarkably close
Speaker 1: to it. That's crazy. So probably knows Alvarado. I think
Speaker 1: there's a pretty good chance a similar age and they
Speaker 1: grewup in a similar neighborhood at a similar time. At
Speaker 1: that time, they were also elite athletes. So that's that's
Speaker 1: so funny. Wow, I know I know exactly where this
Speaker 1: high school is, But I digress. Other big news in
Speaker 1: this game Xavian Curry. He did it. He did not.
Speaker 1: His appearance I saw came through a big way. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's also nice that they didn't go to Luke Weaver there.
Speaker 1: Just give give. Let the guy's alarmed rest just in
Speaker 1: case the hall comes through it just in case because
Speaker 1: we're seeing I think someone tweeted out I don't know
Speaker 1: if this was a real article or not, or what
Speaker 1: it was, but that the Pirates really want Luke Weaver. Great. Wow,
Speaker 1: I really want that thirty four with overall pick. I
Speaker 1: want more than that for Luke Weaver. But one thing
Speaker 1: plus that, Yeah, that's for Brooks Raley. The thirty four.
Speaker 1: I'm locked in on that. That's one hundred Brooks really
Speaker 1: like they're not We're not getting Florentino off them, but
Speaker 1: who could we? Who could we get hired? I would
Speaker 1: love Florentino.
Speaker 2: That happened.
Speaker 1: Pirates prospect for Luke Raley, Luke Weaver, Wow, I have
Speaker 1: different baseball? Was crazy? I combined two guys on our
Speaker 1: team's name to make a different baseball player. I mean,
Speaker 1: you you try to still bet on traits for Wyatt Sandford.
Speaker 1: I don't know much about why at Sandford. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're going. You try to get Thomas Harrington as
Speaker 1: someone who's probably a back end guy, but like he's
Speaker 1: close and maybe you can make a change. Is the
Speaker 1: time for Antoine Kelly? I mean hopefully was he with Milwaukee?
Speaker 1: Do I have that right. I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: might have been a different Antoine Kele that that is.
Speaker 1: If that's the same guy, that's no, it's definitely different guy.
Speaker 1: I think that was Antonine with an eye because he
Speaker 1: had let got you, got you, got you. Sammy Steffer,
Speaker 1: local kid in New York, New York Mets fan growing up.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, it was me all the time during the
Speaker 1: Mets run. He was DM and me. It's very funny.
Speaker 1: He's in the pirates order. I forgot about that. They
Speaker 1: have some guys. I mean, hey, they got they got
Speaker 1: two catchers in the Yankees last year for Bednar true
Speaker 1: grab one of the catchers be just the case for
Speaker 1: Francis Gaurey's insurance. About Hunter Barco, I think he's all
Speaker 1: too good, Okay, all right, yeah, I mean maybe I
Speaker 1: made that. Barco and Herrickton probably aren't that different. I
Speaker 1: went for Harrington. But yeah, all right, that was great talk.
Speaker 1: We're a lit up in the random trade talk. And
Speaker 1: then Thursday, shout Jared Young, Happy birthday, Jared Young. Shout
Speaker 1: out Jared Young. Love to see a happy birthday from him.
Speaker 1: Two doubles on his birthday, Gary said the last met
Speaker 1: to have two extra base hets on the birthday. Was
Speaker 1: luis Ki or May twenty twenty? Whoa, what's Luiski? Or
Speaker 1: May up too? I think he's was he the diamondback
Speaker 1: system he get caught. I feel like he was at
Speaker 1: one point, you know, good for good for Jared Young,
Speaker 1: good for Luiski or May a little Mets lore right there.
Speaker 1: Jor May is in triple A with where is he is?
Speaker 1: He might not be un arrested. It might not be
Speaker 1: an a roster Sorry, Louise, He's great to an awesome,
Speaker 1: great player. Great game by the Mets on a Thursday
Speaker 1: as well. Shout out Sean and I is seven inning
Speaker 1: Sean first time so twenty twenty four, and I got
Speaker 1: to seven the second time. He got the six innings
Speaker 1: in a month. So many strikes the assignment again, not
Speaker 1: that the Bets were winning this game early, but he
Speaker 1: just kept it in the zone. Another guy who with
Speaker 1: the color looked good, even though sweeper was kind of wacky.
Speaker 1: Just this is this is perfect. This is the Sean
Speaker 1: and I that we kind of all we ever wanted.
Speaker 1: Mid rotation Sean. I think he has to start his
Speaker 1: spring training in January because he needs a full like
Speaker 1: three months before he gets ready to start pitching it again. Well,
Speaker 1: there's apparently been some murmurs about that. Really, the Baseball
Speaker 1: Prospective guys had to like mentioned about that one of
Speaker 1: the for All You Kids out There podcasts that apparently
Speaker 1: the Mets kind of yanked him around a little bit
Speaker 1: in the offseason about his training and his program. He
Speaker 1: started getting ready a little bit too late, but apparently
Speaker 1: it was possibly under their advice, and the Mets advice. Possibly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then they assured him that the rotation spot will
Speaker 1: be fine. Then he still acclimated slowly to the season,
Speaker 1: and then he got to mo, it was a whole
Speaker 1: weird situation. Well, we should change that because it didn't work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever they start in January. I like July, Sean, I
Speaker 1: don't like April, May, June. I also think it was
Speaker 1: nice that the Mets got us ready for second base
Speaker 1: Aja Ewing. Yes, he's he will be playing second base,
Speaker 1: probably right after they also break when Louis Roberts activated,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna play more than he has already. He
Speaker 1: looked legitimately good there, like there weren't that many chances,
Speaker 1: but that ball he got up the middle from I
Speaker 1: don't remember if that was Tolbert or Lofton, whoever it was.
Speaker 1: I was like, how the fuck did he get to
Speaker 1: that ball? Like, he's a good athlete, He's got good range,
Speaker 1: he can get to a bunch of balls. Like. I
Speaker 1: love watching aj Ewing play and now being able to
Speaker 1: see him at the major league level play some second base.
Speaker 1: I fully believe he's gonna be completely fine there, if
Speaker 1: not good at the position, I almost think that there's
Speaker 1: a chance that like, like he could be like as
Speaker 1: good as a second baseman as he's a center fielder.
Speaker 1: And then we have the opportunity, depending on where benj
Speaker 1: wins up defensively, to actually have options with team building
Speaker 1: over the next two years, or even just late game
Speaker 1: substitutions things like this, be able to mix match, maneuver
Speaker 1: all this stuff because he's he's just like, he's just
Speaker 1: a great baseball player. And you saw the Mets do
Speaker 1: some maneuvering and changing up the defense too late in
Speaker 1: the game where Lindor came in to play shortstop. What
Speaker 1: were you gonna say? I was saying, I was like,
Speaker 1: why they do this? Yeah, Lindor came in to play shortstop.
Speaker 1: Bret Baby went back to second and then aj Ewing
Speaker 1: to center field. Yeah, I was like, I was that
Speaker 1: just to give Lindor to say he got credit for
Speaker 1: the game because he's missed so many this year. They
Speaker 1: like to play his games up. I thought, sure, you
Speaker 1: want him at short you want him at shortop. He's
Speaker 1: better defensively there than Bob. But I was just like,
Speaker 1: why are we doing all this stuff right now in
Speaker 1: a four run game? It didn't make the most sense.
Speaker 1: But I like seeing guys moving around. We have there's
Speaker 1: prospect reports up until like a year ago that was
Speaker 1: like a j Ewing is probably still a better infielder
Speaker 1: than outfielder very much so. The outfield things relatively new
Speaker 1: for him. He's just he's just he's just really good
Speaker 1: at everything. Like it's just nice to see a player
Speaker 1: come up and be like, oh, you're really good at everything.
Speaker 1: Finishes a series at an eight oh two ops, damn good. Crazy.
Speaker 1: This This offense is also, I guess said before this
Speaker 1: office going to get rolling like this. At least we
Speaker 1: probably got a taste of it with I think they
Speaker 1: said the six runs in five straight games, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get a taste of this office of playing this bullshit
Speaker 1: chaos baseball, Like we played like three of these games
Speaker 1: in the last week, like these ten eight yeah, fourteen sevens,
Speaker 1: Like we're gonna start seeing some football scores and that
Speaker 1: if if you're gonna suck the days when we don't,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do chaos pitching. Sure, I want to see
Speaker 1: his offense just mash their way to like nonsense. Well
Speaker 1: is that gonna lead us a little bit into a
Speaker 1: media marvel because I again I've talked, We've talked about
Speaker 1: it every episode. I feel like, but like I'm watching
Speaker 1: the Mets right now with such a different outlook than
Speaker 1: I was even two weeks ago with this team. Ever
Speaker 1: since they fired Carlos Mendoza a weight it's been lifted
Speaker 1: off my shoulder. But uh, I've been watching this team
Speaker 1: and like just enjoying watching Mets baseball, even if they're
Speaker 1: not playing good or they're doing the nonsense. Like again,
Speaker 1: can't stand to watch code I sang a pitch, but
Speaker 1: I'm not like mad about it where I would come
Speaker 1: onto this podcast and it probably bother me until I
Speaker 1: wake up the next morning. Yeah, definitely, like even like
Speaker 1: as of a week ago, like that series in Toronto,
Speaker 1: I was like, you couldn't hit them, Why couldn't you
Speaker 1: hit them? But now you can hit now. I just
Speaker 1: I like a lot of things that Andy Green has said.
Speaker 1: I feel like the team is kind of molding with
Speaker 1: him a little bit. He talked about Ewing specifically, and
Speaker 1: about Scott and being like, do you want these players
Speaker 1: to get to the next level? Like you have to
Speaker 1: challenge them like their competitors. And I do like the
Speaker 1: fact that that seems to be much more of in
Speaker 1: their lexicon in their conversations, where Mendoz every single day
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, these guys are really good, they're
Speaker 1: doing really good things. We just need them to turn
Speaker 1: the corner. It's like, no, sometimes use a push back
Speaker 1: on them, so they push back on you. I think
Speaker 1: seeing the again, it's it's not one hundred percent fair
Speaker 1: because the team is simply better right now than it
Speaker 1: was for most of the year that Carlos Mendoza had.
Speaker 1: But team's got way more juice, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: There's more pep in the step. The step, there's a
Speaker 1: little more energy, there's a little more power behind it.
Speaker 1: And like you said, I like what Andy Green has
Speaker 1: been saying. I really wish the man's made the move earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like so much of that is also just
Speaker 1: ewing in Bench, like getting to this spot. Of course
Speaker 1: you'll look at the opportunity they've now gotten with Andy Green. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So which, by the way, for all the people talking
Speaker 1: about that, David Stearns makes the lineup. It's crazy how
Speaker 1: as soon as the manager changes the lineups go completely
Speaker 1: different and they're much better. And I really give Andy
Speaker 1: Green and Carson Bench credit because it must not have
Speaker 1: been a very easy conversation to put you in as
Speaker 1: a leadloff guy, even though he better profiles as a
Speaker 1: leadoff guy. For Carson Bench, I think Bench better profiles
Speaker 1: in the middle of the other guy. Like I love
Speaker 1: him hitting fourth and fifth. What we always say about
Speaker 1: the fourth spot line of marks second off, second leadoff,
Speaker 1: that's exactly for Carson Bench for a second leadoff, and
Speaker 1: he was great there. And but again, like being able
Speaker 1: to gracefully swap those guys spots where they're actually fit better.
Speaker 1: That takes really good communication skills, and it's nice a
Speaker 1: guy like Andy Green was able to do that. Who's
Speaker 1: probably gotten to know these two guys specifically a bit
Speaker 1: better than Mendoza actually did, or probably anyone else in
Speaker 1: that front office around the coaching staff. Yeah, it made
Speaker 1: a good chance. Maybe with the exception of Gomez because
Speaker 1: he was in I think he'd crossed over with them
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn for a year and he might have That
Speaker 1: was like, it's it's cool to see this, and it's
Speaker 1: just when you have guys like this and they're becoming
Speaker 1: cornerstones and building blocks. A lot was made earlier this
Speaker 1: week about the Baseball America prospect rankings coming out and
Speaker 1: the Mets dropping to the twenty fourth ranked farm system
Speaker 1: people being like David Serans has done it again. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a second. We graduated like basically three
Speaker 1: top fifteen prospects in the whole game this year. Specifically,
Speaker 1: if you like, if adri Ewing was still in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues, if he was still in Triple A and
Speaker 1: he had a three twenty batting average there and a
Speaker 1: nine hundred OPS, he would be in the futures game
Speaker 1: this weekend and the Mets just with him alone would
Speaker 1: probably jump up like nine spots in that prospect rank. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but James, you lack the ability to understand context. That's
Speaker 1: why you know these people that say these things about
Speaker 1: the Mets farm system and David Stearns and all that,
Speaker 1: it's because they actually know more ball than you. They
Speaker 1: definitely didn't forget about all the great young players that
Speaker 1: literally graduate from the top of the system. Now Devil's advocate.
Speaker 1: The farm system now that that exists, is properly ranked
Speaker 1: at twenty four, one hundred percent. This season, the Mets
Speaker 1: system has lacked the growth and development that we would
Speaker 1: have liked to see that we saw from a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys last year. Yeah, we were hoping to
Speaker 1: see more. So again and worse than that, we've had
Speaker 1: steps back from the guys that we thought will be
Speaker 1: the next guy's on top. Like right now, although hasn't
Speaker 1: say Tucci been hot, like hasn't he been actually really
Speaker 1: good in double A, blazing hot in double A. But
Speaker 1: there's still Santucci still has the same change up thing
Speaker 1: going on right now. But again, being really good results
Speaker 1: wise is great because most of the system right now
Speaker 1: is not. He is someone that can hang our hats on,
Speaker 1: and like Ellim Payne, is probably a fringe top Hunter guy,
Speaker 1: but he's been colder since the red hot starts of
Speaker 1: the season. With Saint Lucy like tong I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody knows what to do a tongue right now, and
Speaker 1: he's just what to do. I think he's the first
Speaker 1: guy who doesn't really know exactly what to do at
Speaker 1: this moment. Clifford strikes out half. His playe appearance is
Speaker 1: almost like a mus straight so laser. I think did
Speaker 1: not help, though it did. Really we're hoping it did.
Speaker 1: Maybe seeing it too well, he's trying to hit a
Speaker 1: two wood. But it's a weird time right now. But
Speaker 1: I do think that it's really easy to forget. And
Speaker 1: we said this two episodes ago last week whenever it
Speaker 1: was like how much Young Town's actually on this roster
Speaker 1: right now, and that that's something to hang hats on.
Speaker 1: It's a very very young lineup like today, let's take it,
Speaker 1: or let's do the lineup that had probably didn't need
Speaker 1: the second very one, very he said, very very young.
Speaker 1: It's very young. Well, I don't know, because listen, like
Speaker 1: a j Ewing's what twenty one? Yeah, Wan Soto's twenty seven, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're just twenty eight, yeah, okay, Lindor's thirty one,
Speaker 1: thirty two yeah, yeah, something like that. Carson Benge's twenty four,
Speaker 1: I think till twenty three, now twenty three, twenty four,
Speaker 1: he's young. Hory Polanko's in his thirties. We know that
Speaker 1: Jared Young is thirty, I believe turned thirty one today.
Speaker 1: Nice Brett Baty's twenty seven or twenty eight, that's I
Speaker 1: don't want that same And Princes Squawfers is twenty four, like,
Speaker 1: that's the oldest guy in this lineup? Is Francisco Lindor
Speaker 1: every single day, sign me the fuck up? Yeah, baby
Speaker 1: is twenty six. Again, who knows what's gonna happen with
Speaker 1: the future of a guy like him, Guys like Fiano's
Speaker 1: who are young, but what not really holding our breath
Speaker 1: for either of those guys to become everyday dudes, but
Speaker 1: just simply having building blocks of Ewing and benj I
Speaker 1: think that should really ease fans minds about the fear
Speaker 1: of where this farm system ranking has gone. I would
Speaker 1: hope so like, right now we're in a spot where
Speaker 1: like it would be great to have a still an
Speaker 1: incredible farm system, but we got bigger problem right now,
Speaker 1: there's a conceivable chance that neither of those two guys
Speaker 1: would have come up this year just based on how
Speaker 1: recently they were draft and how much how quickly they
Speaker 1: accelerate through the system. If those two were both in
Speaker 1: Triple A right now, top ten farm systems, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. That's why this like red Lays are
Speaker 1: kind of stupid. They'd be like, the Mets have two
Speaker 1: top ten prospects, it's one of the best farms in baseball.
Speaker 1: You'll just humor me for a second. Here, I was
Speaker 1: talking fantasy baseball trades with someone and in a dynasty league,
Speaker 1: and I want Vladdie because I think Laddie's gonna pop
Speaker 1: off here. I think it's happening anytime soon. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'll give you Jackson Merrill for him. He's like,
Speaker 1: I want prospects, like he'd be the number one prospect
Speaker 1: in baseball. He's twenty three years old. Like, I think
Speaker 1: that's a big a big miss. With a lot of
Speaker 1: people in dynasty baseball, they really overshoot for prospects and
Speaker 1: undershoot for just young baseball players. Yeah, I like Jackson
Speaker 1: Merrill is twenty three years old. It plays every single
Speaker 1: day et center field for the Padres. It's not a
Speaker 1: great year, but that would be one of the top
Speaker 1: prospects in the league if he was in Triple A,
Speaker 1: easy top two, top three prospect. That's fun. I have
Speaker 1: the Futures Game this weekend. I'm really happy that Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball just did a whole sta games during it
Speaker 1: again and stacked every single game in baseball during the
Speaker 1: MLB draft. Why why would all start? We have an
Speaker 1: All Star Game weekend All Star Game break, and we go,
Speaker 1: but we don't want it too much of a break,
Speaker 1: not for certain days that there's certain things we want
Speaker 1: to make sure we're not highlighting this and you even
Speaker 1: see this is way this is one of the most
Speaker 1: off topics baseball things we've ever done this podcast. You
Speaker 1: see the changing the bat regulations in high school insane, Dude,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to swing minus fives and minus
Speaker 1: six and six is insane. Something's gonna get hurt, like
Speaker 1: really badly, and someone's going to it is someone's gonna die.
Speaker 1: Friend of mine. Nay four too great rider reds for
Speaker 1: Pitcher's list. He was like, huh at the time when
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is trying to get rid of eighteen
Speaker 1: year olds high school kids in the draft, when they're
Speaker 1: making totally changing the types of bats they're allowed to
Speaker 1: use really make it much more difficult to evaluate them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, so it's that's like a tinfoil cap moment
Speaker 1: for all the bullshit con on Major League Baseball right now.
Speaker 1: But the other two media marvels and we'll get you
Speaker 1: guys out of here previous years, and I think we
Speaker 1: probably got Frankie. But there was a really cool moment
Speaker 1: for the Mets on Tuesday where mentioned it before. Thirty
Speaker 1: one year old, longtime minor league journeyman tons of organizations
Speaker 1: but grew up on Long Island. Matt Cielinger got Mets,
Speaker 1: acquired them from the Tigers last week, and he came
Speaker 1: up to pitch his major league debut and in his
Speaker 1: first inning got rocked, got crushed, whatever, And then you
Speaker 1: know what, this dude had the medal the plumb to
Speaker 1: come back out the next inning after getting lit up
Speaker 1: in his major league debut and he threw scoreless inning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's sick. That's that's incredible achievement for that dude.
Speaker 1: He got to the major leagues, he pitched for his
Speaker 1: hometown team. I know literally that he had tons of
Speaker 1: people French from other organizations, family in the stands, and
Speaker 1: then for some reason a lot of the usual suspects
Speaker 1: right now in the Mets beat world who just have
Speaker 1: like Frank the Tank disease r And he did it
Speaker 1: as well, talking about like it's this dude from Farmingdale
Speaker 1: State College, like the season's fucking over, Like how about
Speaker 1: how cool of a story it is about that this
Speaker 1: guy made it to the majors. Yes, in a perfect world,
Speaker 1: I don't ever want to be the team where we're
Speaker 1: doing these kind of things and having these kind of moments.
Speaker 1: It would be great if we just had winning, but
Speaker 1: this team's not doing that sort of dump on this kid,
Speaker 1: Like I don't get it. It's eviler than me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, cooler, Yeah, great. Imagine if you debuted
Speaker 1: next year. I'd be the happiest fucking person ever. I'm good.
Speaker 1: That's it. But like even like like I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: call it one person by name, Mike Facara from the Post,
Speaker 1: like he creates it seems like another quality pick up
Speaker 1: for David Sterns And it's like, dude, like read the
Speaker 1: room for a second, Like sure, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: you taught that. Yeah, we like he got like he's
Speaker 1: not even not even blame Mike forcar for going for engagement.
Speaker 1: I don't even think he cares about that, And I
Speaker 1: think he's an idiot. It's just I don't think he's
Speaker 1: an idiot. I think he was. It's just someone being
Speaker 1: very negative about the job of the front office. And
Speaker 1: they're a very, very very disappointing season. But you're misconstruing
Speaker 1: where your anger should be going and where it should
Speaker 1: be coming from. And now you're kind of dumping on
Speaker 1: a dude who grew up a Mets fan on Long Island,
Speaker 1: who his major league debut after like a lot of
Speaker 1: hard work to get there. It's a really it was
Speaker 1: a really shitty comment. He did something that not many
Speaker 1: people in the history of the world have ever done,
Speaker 1: which is throw a scoreless ending at the major league level.
Speaker 1: That's unreal. And Steve Gelp said yesterday that inside that
Speaker 1: clubhouse and the bullpen, they were really commending him. And
Speaker 1: you make a addything like that, you know, after that
Speaker 1: first inning, you're cut. You're not making it. You're not
Speaker 1: going to be on the team tomorrow. There's no chance.
Speaker 1: And to still have like the mental fortitude to throw
Speaker 1: that scoreless ending and then get the commendations from the
Speaker 1: rest of that bullpen. It's cool ass moment. Apparently told
Speaker 1: that he's like, I send me back out there. I
Speaker 1: want to go, send me back out there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this. And he went scoreless, and apparently all the
Speaker 1: guys after the game came up to him were like,
Speaker 1: you fucking rock, like you know, you did so much
Speaker 1: for us, and look, it helped the Mets win the
Speaker 1: rest of the series. By the way to him just
Speaker 1: taking another inning, the arms were fresh for the rest
Speaker 1: of the series, which was a huge problem going into Tuesday. No,
Speaker 1: it does something, and that's a cool moment. Even even
Speaker 1: a team like this can rally around like damn, like,
Speaker 1: look at the opportunity we have, like on top of
Speaker 1: the changing mental dynamics with the firing of a manager,
Speaker 1: Like any little bit helps for a team that's been
Speaker 1: in this much disarray all season. So it was cool
Speaker 1: to have that moment. And it was really cool for
Speaker 1: Ceiling to throw that second inning scoreless. Yeah, no, love
Speaker 1: to see that. All the tweets shitting on him, lame
Speaker 1: Mark Fiento's fractured bow in his hand hit by pitch.
Speaker 1: I guess he will be on the Mets this year
Speaker 1: for the rest of this season, onto the injured list.
Speaker 1: That answers that one. Who even who even comes up?
Speaker 1: Ryan Mauricio. I guess Ryan Resis comes back up. And
Speaker 1: I think because the injury and how many days have
Speaker 1: been sent down, I actually think his option doesn't get used.
Speaker 1: There's a weird clause with that. Oh no, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Christpher Morel. They're gonna want to get bring up
Speaker 1: a rady Christopher Morel season. Let's go like, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna bring it back up Lendo some riso. They're gonna
Speaker 1: hit lefties. You want someone who can be in the
Speaker 1: line up against lefties? All right, well that's gonna be Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got Wagonman Wagman time once again. And then last
Speaker 1: thing I want to met you. It is because it
Speaker 1: went anxiously viral. Keith and Gary when they're in the
Speaker 1: booth together, they're gonna be talking about nonsense. That was
Speaker 1: an all timer from Keith talking about how the lineage
Speaker 1: of his name is burnt out. It's over, it's done.
Speaker 1: I got it here. So this is from the game
Speaker 1: on This was this was actually Tuesday night yes, this
Speaker 1: when the game was tied in the sixth Ding nine
Speaker 1: to night, Keith goes into a diet tribe with Gary.
Speaker 1: My two were in their fourties. They're not going to
Speaker 1: have kids. I won't go into with one of them.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. So the line is burnt.
Speaker 1: It's burnt. It just burned down. Keith talking about that
Speaker 1: his his lineage will not persist. And I have not
Speaker 1: seen many baseball tweets go this viral in a long time.
Speaker 1: It got people commenting from like the man sphere, from
Speaker 1: like the political realm, like a lot of the Mets
Speaker 1: people jumped in there, and I had the good quotes
Speaker 1: with of it, like it was really dark but really funny,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of great. Yeah, I mean it's in
Speaker 1: a season that's lost. Those are the quotes I like
Speaker 1: from Keith way more than I like him Glaze and
Speaker 1: Randy Dobnak, I like them both again, so it's all
Speaker 1: in the same. And then him and Gary talking about
Speaker 1: Casey Stangle today and talking about Jewish summer camp for
Speaker 1: kids in the city, Like all of it goes together,
Speaker 1: and you kind of forget that if you're not watching
Speaker 1: these Mets games every day. These other broadcasts aren't doing
Speaker 1: this stuff. No, of course not. Who are we talking
Speaker 1: to that said that their friend, Oh shot out our
Speaker 1: buddy Klay. He said his friend from Atlanta, Atlanta was
Speaker 1: watching the Mets Braves game with him at his family's
Speaker 1: house and he really got to hear Gary Keith ron
Speaker 1: for the first time, and he goes, they're incredible. He's like,
Speaker 1: these guys are the best. There's a great quote here
Speaker 1: from Dave Sessions, who's been he's been coming, he's been
Speaker 1: working mb dot com for a long time. He goes,
Speaker 1: I've been outlayering this. I actually enjoy a little existential
Speaker 1: nihilism on my broadcast. Vince Kelly, Like Vince Kelly's famous line,
Speaker 1: he's listed this day today, aren't we all? But like
Speaker 1: it's fun, Like there's one hundred and sixty two baseball games,
Speaker 1: like yesterday for the Rangers, they were down eleven nothing
Speaker 1: in the eighth inning. They're doing tarps off three sections
Speaker 1: in the upper deck. And it wasn't even just like
Speaker 1: the Young College because going tarps off, I saw a
Speaker 1: few like there are these four of these fifty dwoes bellies.
Speaker 1: Harry Gray Harry Chess and Kyle h Goshioka comes in
Speaker 1: to pinch hit for Jock Peterson because hey, gosh, Joka
Speaker 1: is the designated position player pitcher and they were getting
Speaker 1: smoked by the Angels. Gotshio comes in, hits a home run,
Speaker 1: makes eleven one, and fireworks the tarps off. Guys are
Speaker 1: acting like they just won the World Series. And then
Speaker 1: got Yoga comes on the mound, hits the first bat
Speaker 1: and it gives them two runs, gets a double play
Speaker 1: to get out of the inning, and it was just
Speaker 1: they were just funny, Like it's just, I don't know,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games, met season is fucked.
Speaker 1: Like it's good to have some fun with this stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm definitely trying to have fun watching the
Speaker 1: Mets now and these the lineup and the Ajwing and
Speaker 1: Carson bench and watching Wan Soto be the best player
Speaker 1: in baseball right now, Like it's that's really fun to watch.
Speaker 1: It's it's at least a really good reason to tune in,
Speaker 1: and those guys make it give you a real extra
Speaker 1: bonus to tuning it, all right, James, next series coming up,
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Speaker 1: League Baseball. All right, what are the pitching matchups, James,
Speaker 1: you said we're not getting all the lefties. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we definitely getting Sunny Grand Friday, and right now as
Speaker 1: the schedule lines up again, Payton totally on Sunday Saturday.
Speaker 1: I try to get there. Yeah, you're in together, which
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I can't do it Sunday. I
Speaker 1: gotta be on a boat, a boat something with a boat.
Speaker 1: DC's got a friend four birthday more the exact same birthday.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest birthday celebration ever. But we're gonna get
Speaker 1: so who pitched, So we're getting Sunny Gray Friday. He
Speaker 1: last pitched for them Saturday. Oh no, Sandoval's pitching today. Oh,
Speaker 1: Patty Sentinel's back. Patrick Sandval pitched today against the White
Speaker 1: Sox shot the Irish Panda, So then we would get
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a Ranger. I think we're gonna get Ranger,
Speaker 1: but then he go on the injured list with a groin.
Speaker 1: He's not officially yet, Okay, so I guess then we
Speaker 1: will get him, but maybe they haven't formally announced that.
Speaker 1: So I guess we are scheduled to get the two
Speaker 1: lefties then, but then we're going to have McLean Friday,
Speaker 1: Freddy Saturday Sunday. Okay, I spoke then, gay man, I'm
Speaker 1: so happy. I'm busy on Saturday, right, I mean Saturday,
Speaker 1: I mean four o'clock Saturday. Lot's gonna be going on.
Speaker 1: I need Mets on the phone locked in. It's coming home.
Speaker 1: But this Red Sox team is, of course playing the
Speaker 1: best ball of their season. Of course, two weeks ago
Speaker 1: they swept the Yankees. After that they've lost a series
Speaker 1: to the Nationals, and then now since they swept the Angels,
Speaker 1: and right now they're playing the White Sox with a
Speaker 1: chance to sweep them and are winning two one in
Speaker 1: the eighth inning, and they are as a team. They
Speaker 1: pitched really really well. They do everything else big question marks.
Speaker 1: But Payne told you we're going to see on Sunday's
Speaker 1: awesome sunny. Grays had an amazing season. If Rangers Warez
Speaker 1: is healthy enough to pitch him, then check on right now.
Speaker 1: He's also had an amazing season. And we know the
Speaker 1: fits Rangers wares can put you in as an opposing fan.
Speaker 1: And then the other side of the ball questions, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't really hit, and Wilson Contreres got hurt and
Speaker 1: has to serve his suspension at some point. Suarez on
Speaker 1: the other list officially today. Okay, so then we're not
Speaker 1: seeing Rangers. We're probably gonna see Brian Beayo. Then here
Speaker 1: might see Brian beao Who. Sorry, that's the Sodoo game.
Speaker 1: That's the Sodo game. You better be taking him on FanDuel.
Speaker 1: I think Wilson Tras is gonna have to serve his
Speaker 1: suspension soon as well. Uh, they think it's still an appeal.
Speaker 1: But the field got brought down today from seven games
Speaker 1: to five, So yeah, maybe we won't even see him.
Speaker 1: That would be great. That would really help the Mets
Speaker 1: win some baseball games, that's for sure. Wilson Contrarass is
Speaker 1: by far. He's not in the lineup today, so I
Speaker 1: guess it began today. So yeah, we're not gonna see
Speaker 1: Wilson trast weekend. He's by far the Red Sox best sader,
Speaker 1: not even close. Other names to keep an eye out for,
Speaker 1: Saddan Rafaela. His bats are chaos, but he plays better.
Speaker 1: They've been better, but they're still chaos. He plays up
Speaker 1: there closest to Picrow Armstrong in terms of centerfield defense. No,
Speaker 1: he's a. He's a really, really fun player and this
Speaker 1: year he's this is so far the most consistently he's
Speaker 1: ever gotten on base as a big leader. That's a
Speaker 1: big deal for Him's got great speed and again, like
Speaker 1: Mark said, chaos, but plenty of power and speed there
Speaker 1: Caleb Durbin, who was part of one of the worst
Speaker 1: moves Mets fans. It's it's easy to forget how bad
Speaker 1: other teams offseasons were as well. Yes, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: traded Kyle Harrison, who he now has some elbows hornis,
Speaker 1: but I think he still might be an All Star
Speaker 1: alternate for Caleb Durbin, who has Andrew Montasterio Andrew forgot
Speaker 1: Shange Rones also in the br rotation. He is really good.
Speaker 1: But Durbin heading into like the middle of June was
Speaker 1: like a one ninety batting average in five hundred ohps.
Speaker 1: Now we said much better lately he's become a very
Speaker 1: consistent performer for them. But he's a very fun new one,
Speaker 1: and we we will have the left he's on the
Speaker 1: mound this series, I don't think so, so we won't
Speaker 1: see romy no terrifying. Might get some Sung Chay Chang though, yeah,
Speaker 1: we might get Sung Chay Chang, former Met Met legend,
Speaker 1: is a legend. Yeah, No, I think he was in
Speaker 1: the system for like nine days. Chase spring almost positive,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take maybe in the spring. He's he's
Speaker 1: never played a game for a Mets affiliate. Well, you're
Speaker 1: a brave, solid player as well, good outfield defender. Despite
Speaker 1: the horrible throw he made two weeks ago on something
Speaker 1: at baseball against the Yankees, drown know what was going
Speaker 1: on there? Similar to the Jack Kaggleon throw against Carson
Speaker 1: Benjana on Tuesday League home run was crazy? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was crazy WRO. But Red Socks also just they have
Speaker 1: a good bullpen Tyrone Tyrone Guerrero throws one hundred two
Speaker 1: miles an hour. Garret what Locke is nasty? Our aldes
Speaker 1: Chapman still throws a one hundred miles an hour. Like
Speaker 1: this is a This team is everything except the lineup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't know Met's play the baseball they did
Speaker 1: against the Royals and the Braves. I think they could
Speaker 1: win this series very easily. Yeah, and you know what
Speaker 1: it's there's some people online who are talking about the
Speaker 1: concept of tanking right now. Yes, like, oh, the Mets
Speaker 1: are having these great games for the tank. Fuck that shit,
Speaker 1: this is base talking. I don't care, Like, sure, if
Speaker 1: we get a top six pick, we don't get the penalty,
Speaker 1: what you know what? What fucking ever, I'd like to
Speaker 1: see this team play better than five hundred baseball with
Speaker 1: the new manager, have momentum going into next year, because
Speaker 1: even if you feel like the season's over early, you
Speaker 1: set the tone for the next season seeming what the
Speaker 1: Marlins are doing right now to a lesser degree the
Speaker 1: Pirates two years ago to Blue Jays. You can't really
Speaker 1: play good baseball without playing good baseball. And if you
Speaker 1: look at this Mets team, it's gonna be all the
Speaker 1: same guys next year. For all the people that hate
Speaker 1: how the Mets played early in the year and then
Speaker 1: the non hustle and this and that, you want to
Speaker 1: see the Mets go out and win games and miss
Speaker 1: the playoffs probably five games, and be like, damn, what
Speaker 1: a waste of a season. That's what you should want.
Speaker 1: I want to feel like I want to feel even
Speaker 1: worse in September when the Mets actually grind out to
Speaker 1: get the seventy six wins, and that makes me feel
Speaker 1: miserb it's gonna hit like crack. Yeah, that's going perfect.
Speaker 1: And even just one last thing. I totally forgot to
Speaker 1: mention it for all the Mets fans that were chanting
Speaker 1: for Brandon Nemo's name the other night, what is wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Guys? Are you not well? First of all,
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful to the two breakout stars on this team,
Speaker 1: and Carson Ben and a j Ewing. Outfield has been
Speaker 1: the least of our problems. Since j Ewing came up,
Speaker 1: the Mets have I think a top three outfield by
Speaker 1: both accumulated war total and by ops in all of baseball.
Speaker 1: What if I told you that every single Mets outfielder,
Speaker 1: including Carson Ben and a j Ewing have a by
Speaker 1: far better stat line than Brandon Neimo this year. Like,
Speaker 1: what are we chanting that for? Well, I guess we're
Speaker 1: chanting that because if Brandimo still here, ajuwn would still
Speaker 1: be in the minor leagues and the Mets would have
Speaker 1: a higher ranked farm system. That's true. I forgot, so
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. That's actually the perfect way I
Speaker 1: want to end. Remember, we could have had a higher
Speaker 1: ranked farm system if we kept Brandon Nemo. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: again fine to miss Nemo. He was a great Met,
Speaker 1: but to be chanting his name during a game where
Speaker 1: j Ewing had the best game of his career. You
Speaker 1: guys are not ballknbers. Mets fans have been having bad
Speaker 1: looks recently. Not good. Now, you guys listening to this,
Speaker 1: you know that people are about Yeah. Besides, maybe some
Speaker 1: of people get YouTube algorithm of day light and you
Speaker 1: guys are in our comments. You'll let us know about it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure yours. Yeah, but although of you guys listening,
Speaker 1: Frankie Peppers, even if you guys hate us, we're happy
Speaker 1: you listen. Yeah, we have Frankie Peppers. Frankie, no Frankie today,
Speaker 1: It's okay, got on too quick, Frankie. We're sorry. When
Speaker 1: whenever you send me the voicemail, let you know, but
Speaker 1: sorry you missed it. Big shout out to my girlfriend,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to her turning third today, joining the club
Speaker 1: like the rest of us, we're gonna have some fun,
Speaker 1: go each age. Why what can I say that it's horrible?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Usually I feel like that's that's what
Speaker 1: leap it out. Maybe able to bleep it out? Is
Speaker 1: that bad? I mean honestly bleeping. It might be even
Speaker 1: funnier because it might be looking like I'm trying to
Speaker 1: save you because you do something well, it's funny at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, so that's good but happy guys.
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