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Speaker 1: We are here for episode number forty one of the

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Speaker 1: Mets Up podcast. Of course, i'm your co host Draftneckmark

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Speaker 1: here with James Sheiano had no range talking about the

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Speaker 1: Mets series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, if you're

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Speaker 1: watching the video version, you might notice me and James

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Speaker 1: are in completely different places than normal. I'm currently in Boston.

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Speaker 1: U spent the weekend in Boston. Here a little getaway

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Speaker 1: trip with the girlfriend. James is out in Rhode Island,

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Speaker 1: so somehow we both ended up in New England.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter though, because the Mets lost.

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Speaker 1: The Mets got swept by the Dodgers and they were

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Speaker 1: some winnable games.

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Speaker 2: There was also a game that was over before it started,

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Speaker 2: so there's a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Of course, with this series, as always, we're going to

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Speaker 1: go through every single game, all the minute details and

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Speaker 1: everything we want to talk about. As always, if you

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Speaker 1: much the spiel for this episode, episode number forty one.

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Speaker 1: The sever episode James, How we feeling.

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Speaker 3: I mean in life are about the Mets in life.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling okay, yeah, life not bad, having a pretty

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Speaker 3: good week, you know, taking a vacation with the family.

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Speaker 3: My little sister who's in bed right behind me, she's

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Speaker 3: going away to college, back to college, and she's like,

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Speaker 3: she's going away for the first time. It's not that

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Speaker 3: big of deal. She's going back to college at the

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Speaker 3: end of this week. So things are okay. And a

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Speaker 3: really good Cajun fish Breedo last night. That's probably the

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Speaker 3: highlight of my Sunday, well with the highlight of your Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Had some nice Italian food in the North End. Had

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Speaker 1: a nice chicken parmesan I mean no no palm because

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Speaker 1: lactose intolerant of course.

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Speaker 3: Chicken and chicken, chicken and sauce.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, chicken sauce and spaghetti. It was fantastic, great. Why

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Speaker 2: not now in terms of the Mets not feeling as great.

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Speaker 3: Really bad, really awful.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we knew that we weren't gonna win this series.

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Speaker 1: I think, like realistically, I think we knew it was

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Speaker 1: gonna be an uphill battle. But the fact that the

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Speaker 1: first two games were so winnable and then Game three

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Speaker 1: was the classic Mets on Sunday night baseball get embarrassed

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Speaker 1: on national TV and haveing a hitter pitch. It was

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Speaker 3: Two hitters, pitch.

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Speaker 2: Who's the second hitter that pitch?

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Speaker 3: Kevin Polar came in for Dreury must have tacked it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I was done by that point. I

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Speaker 2: It's own.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, brand Jury hit Turner with a knuckleball, and then

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Speaker 3: Matt Bailey hit a home run that to a place

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Speaker 3: Chris Taylor laced the double. I'm sure Max Munsey in

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Speaker 3: was just a really overall embarrassing night. And I don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about the roller coasters of the season.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're feeling good National Series, But that was

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Speaker 1: Phillies had a rough series against the Reds. Braves are

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Speaker 1: still playing good baseball. I think they took two of

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Speaker 3: Which is that even good? Is that good baseball? No?

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Speaker 1: But I mean comparatively, they still have a nice two

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Speaker 3: So the Men swept Honestly, the Braves. Yeah, Friday was

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Speaker 1: where the whole series kind of took a weird tone because,

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Speaker 2: There, which was an absolute joke.

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Speaker 1: I mean, no dom no Confordo, which whatever I mean,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a really disconcerting, like hour and a

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Speaker 3: And it was even ironic because this came on the

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Speaker 3: The first time it looked like the Mets actually had

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Speaker 3: And again I'm talking about gut punches in the intro.

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Speaker 1: The fact that we basically had outmore who's an automatic out,

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Speaker 3: Especially also because the fact that brand Drewy's hitting in

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Speaker 3: They're only four good hitters in the lineup together. They

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Speaker 3: line by line, down the line, I was staring at

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Speaker 3: It seemed incredibly impossible. And I thought that it was

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean you would think that if Matt

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Speaker 2: And he did. I mean, he's good. You've been talking

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Speaker 1: Julio Rios is a really good pitcher, and the Mets

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Speaker 1: want to face albert al Mora, who is a disgrace

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Speaker 1: I'd put it on a tee and have three fielders

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Speaker 3: Now I remember where I was going before. The craziest

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Speaker 3: There's no reason for albert A Moro or Kevin Pilark

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Speaker 3: not believe that they could play center field better than

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Speaker 3: Brandon Nemo. If that's the case, you should have gone

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Speaker 3: out of the trade deadline. You should have gotten Jorge Hilaire,

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Speaker 3: Adam Duval, Corey Dickerson, Eddie Rissario. I'm mostly just naming

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Speaker 3: that's what this team needs. And for some reason that

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Speaker 3: went completely over the Mets head the trade deadline.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I don't know how you can feel

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Speaker 2: I really don't like.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's a good dude, and probably being a

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Speaker 1: little tough on him because he gets to play once

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Speaker 1: every ten days, but boy, oh boy, does he stink.

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Speaker 1: He got option now, so he's not even on the

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Speaker 3: But and he is still a fine fielder. Of course,

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Speaker 3: I perceive that he is the best outfielder of the bunch.

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Speaker 3: Brandon was playing above average center field this season. In

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Speaker 3: terms of OAA. Is that a perfect metric. No, But

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Speaker 3: even from the eye test watching basically every single Mets

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if it wasn't for her boy Tyler McGill

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Speaker 1: Yes, now some positives here. The team did fight back.

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Speaker 2: No. I mean, like, VR can only do so much

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Speaker 2: for us.

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Speaker 1: He's clearly like our best guy off the bench, and

436
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Speaker 1: it has been huge this year for us. But the

437
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Speaker 1: other two guys man the catching spot. McCann, ugh, he's

438
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Speaker 1: just like so not very good.

439
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Speaker 3: He's so good, he's crazy, but not good.

440
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Speaker 1: He's just regressed so hard back to where he was

441
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Speaker 1: in Detroit. And I think I don't remember what point

442
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Speaker 1: in the game he got a hit and it was

443
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Speaker 1: either Ron or Keith. Again, I don't remember who was

444
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Speaker 1: doing the game. I was kind of all over the

445
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Speaker 1: place here in Boston. But I remember them talking about

446
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Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, McCann's going well when he takes that

447
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Speaker 1: ball to right field, Like due, mccainn got beat there.

448
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Speaker 1: That's not him taking it to right field, like that

449
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Speaker 1: was a fastball middle end that he told you that

450
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Speaker 1: he inside out it, like that wasn't a good swing.

451
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Speaker 1: I just don't know what value we're gonna be able

452
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Speaker 1: to get out of these catchers. And when we just

453
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Speaker 1: kind of scrap and say whatever, it's ten million a

454
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Speaker 1: year for with McCann, like we gotta find somebody else.

455
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Speaker 3: That's basically where we're at right now. And that difference

456
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Speaker 3: like was not more stark until we got to this

457
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Speaker 3: series and Will Smith just completely like Dick the Mets

458
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Speaker 3: down for.

459
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Speaker 2: Three games, we have three home runs.

460
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Speaker 3: Three home runs. He had five RBIs before the onslaught

461
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Speaker 3: of problem position players pitching in the eight ninth inning

462
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Speaker 3: of Sunday Nights. I'm not sure what he actually ended

463
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Speaker 3: up with. He'd like almost won two games single handling

464
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Speaker 3: for the Dodgers, and he is one of the best

465
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Speaker 3: offensive catchers in baseball. I was almost anoint him that

466
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Speaker 3: already at this point in his young career. He was

467
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Speaker 3: the reason the Dodgers were comfortable trading a top prospect

468
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Speaker 3: like Hebert Ruiz, a fantastic all round player, to acquire

469
00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,000
Speaker 3: Bax Scherzer and trade Turner as part of the deal

470
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Speaker 3: with Josiah Gray. But it's just it couldn't be more

471
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Speaker 3: clear that he comes up like first of all, in

472
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Speaker 3: the three hole for one of the best lineups in

473
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Speaker 3: baseball and can stare plus relievers in the eye. It's Tywon.

474
00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 3: Walker is throwing a gem to jump ahead and just

475
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Speaker 3: get around on a ball like like a true star.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

477
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Speaker 3: I haven't seen James McCann do that in months.

478
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Speaker 2: Cheers. Mccannon's not gone round on the ball all year.

479
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Speaker 3: He got around the ball a couple times in early

480
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,920
Speaker 3: June he was hot, and Tomas neither did in April

481
00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,320
Speaker 3: May when he was hot. But those two two guys

482
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Speaker 3: since the beginning of July are just being completely incompetent

483
00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,120
Speaker 3: at the plate, and it really shows that the Mets

484
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Speaker 3: have a complete dead spot in this or the day

485
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Speaker 3: in and day out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it was a frustrating game because it

487
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Speaker 1: really was such a chance, such a chance, and the

488
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Speaker 1: bullpen kept us close too. Castro has been looking great

489
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Speaker 1: Drew Smith doing some stuff for us YNC, Diaz has

490
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Speaker 1: been nice in his little scenarios, and even Edwin was

491
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Speaker 1: locked down in an unsafe situation.

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Speaker 3: We have to give the RFP that Drew Smith a

493
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Speaker 3: boy Drew Flow. This seems like his il statement shoulder

494
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 3: inflammation is a bad sign for a guy who's really

495
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,399
Speaker 3: struggled with arm problems in the past. At best, is

496
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Speaker 3: gonna be a month on the shelf and then probably

497
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Speaker 3: just be shut down for the year based on how

498
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Speaker 3: this team is going. But thank you Drew Smith this

499
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Speaker 3: year for really for one making us look really good

500
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,440
Speaker 3: in the Messed Up podcast, for calling you as being

501
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Speaker 3: a future high leverage reliever for this team, and two

502
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Speaker 3: just being an all around great guy.

503
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it stinks to see him at the

504
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Speaker 2: isle like that, especially because.

505
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Speaker 3: We need him. Mess bullpens is belieguered and Drew Smith

506
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,240
Speaker 3: was a really saving grace for us. But the guys

507
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Speaker 3: who were healthy pitch really well. Like you said, Cashro's

508
00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 3: all the way back. Yan CDs has actually proven to

509
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 3: be a piece. He's probably going to assume that Drew

510
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Speaker 3: Smith role of being the unexpected high leverage reliever now

511
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Speaker 3: and Edwin had a fantastic ending, aided by a spunky

512
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 3: young fan out there down the down the third base

513
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 3: line with the why this fattest laser pointer I've seen

514
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 3: since the nineties.

515
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was wild. I've never seen something like that

516
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 2: in a ever.

517
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Speaker 3: Being in this ballpark, we didn't really have any idea

518
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Speaker 3: what was going on. I thought it was just Max

519
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 3: Munsey being like a douchebag like he usually is. So

520
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 3: there was a lot of booze going on. Love f

521
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Speaker 3: Max Munsey, chance and uh. I just really liked that

522
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Speaker 3: Edwin didn't let it phase him and he got those two.

523
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Speaker 3: I really thought that since Edward was having a really

524
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Speaker 3: good inning after the leeloff walked to Billy McKinney that month,

525
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 3: he was trying to pull some bullshit like he does

526
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 3: because he's a snake oil salesman and just get Diaz

527
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Speaker 3: off his roll. But the fact that he has made

528
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Speaker 3: the pitch on O two after a five minute delay,

529
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Speaker 3: I was like, all right, fuck you, he's still involved.

530
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Speaker 3: He also made a great play in that bunch because

531
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Speaker 3: after leeoff walk, they said Dodgers said, Austin Barnes up

532
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 3: the pinch hit to drop a bunt down which is

533
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Speaker 3: kind of a funny move edwind like leapt off the

534
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Speaker 3: mound and made a fantastic play moving towards first base.

535
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Speaker 3: It was great. I got in a fight with a

536
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Speaker 3: dude behind me because section twelve. Those are the rich people.

537
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Speaker 3: Those are not my people. I was really down there,

538
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 3: rates started biting heads off, and he was talking about

539
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Speaker 3: how much Edward sucks, how we're gonna lose the game.

540
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 3: And I'm like, are you a fucking Dodgers fan? Like

541
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 3: are you here rooting for the other team? Like why

542
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 3: in the world are you saying this out loud, like

543
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 3: in my presence right now. My sister in a hotel

544
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:11,399
Speaker 3: room behind me just sneezed.

545
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Speaker 2: It happens, It happens.

546
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna be polite.

547
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Speaker 2: Still, well, the boys are on the road, you know, Yeah.

548
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 3: Boys are on the road. I was so mad at

549
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 3: this dude. I was pissed at him. I was screaming.

550
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 3: His girlfriend gave me like a yeah, you're right.

551
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Speaker 2: I liked.

552
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Speaker 1: I like to picture that, like you snuck into the

553
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 1: rich guy fancy section and giving it to some guy

554
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 1: not not staying a low profile at all.

555
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Speaker 2: You're like, who cares if I get kicked out. I

556
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: get kicked out.

557
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,880
Speaker 3: The Mets had made this massive comeback in the seventh inning.

558
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 3: Revenue snucked down there. If that had not happened, I

559
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 3: would have gone further because I was just so mad,

560
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 3: like I'm gonna get close as possible. I want someone

561
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Speaker 3: to hear me. I was like right where Pete was

562
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 3: screaming and pumping up the fans. I was jacked up

563
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 3: at this point in the game. And I love Edmund Diaz.

564
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 3: I'm like probably the leader of Edwin Diaz. Fanglove He's good,

565
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 3: especially watching guy like Gleam Hendricks completely blow up over

566
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 3: a two week stretch in Chicago like these closes. It's

567
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 3: fickle business here with these high leverage relievers. So I

568
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 3: give very annoyed when a Mets fan who's at a

569
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 3: Mets game is talking badly about the Mets in a

570
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 3: game where the Mets had just made a full run comeback.

571
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Speaker 3: Maybe last night, you can say whatever you want. A

572
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 3: guy Bobby Blunts on Twitter said he had a lot

573
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 3: of things to say that everyone in the ballpark. That's fair,

574
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 3: but the Mets were tie four forth Dodgers the ninth

575
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 3: inning after a miraculous two out rally, like, let's be

576
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Speaker 3: positive at this moment in time, please God.

577
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Speaker 1: Yes, And now it's time to get negative because my

578
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: guy Jerry's Amilia give up a moonshot to Will Smith

579
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Speaker 1: because Will Smith's really really good.

580
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Speaker 2: Now you think that pitch was down the middle. I

581
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 2: think that pitch was.

582
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Speaker 3: It was nice, I said, middle in.

583
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a better pitch than that you're making.

584
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Speaker 1: It seemed like it was like fat it was.

585
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was one of those things where Yarry's

586
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 3: Familia throws a sinker in the wrong spot and it

587
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 3: winds up in the really wrong spot.

588
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Speaker 1: Yes, I can give you that, like it wasn't a

589
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: good spot, but I still think like a little more.

590
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Speaker 1: Credit to Will Smith for hitting that pitch as far

591
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Speaker 1: as he did.

592
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 3: A little bit more, But that was still a pitch

593
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 3: that I would I would not expect like a great

594
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 3: result from that pitch, A thinker that winds up like

595
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Speaker 3: inside on the belt, which is where it ended. Though,

596
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 3: and again credit to Will Smith, the guy's crazy, crazy wrists.

597
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 3: He got a round that ball like nothing else. And

598
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people were pretty frustrated that

599
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 3: this was not Aaron Loop pitching. This inning, especially with

600
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 3: Familia pitching his third consecutive day and air Loop pitching

601
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 3: about three innings in the last week as statistically our

602
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 3: best reliever of this season. That was a little bit confusing.

603
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially because Will Smith does not hit lefty as well.

604
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get on Rojas for that one.

605
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:28,719
Speaker 2: I agreed.

606
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: I think I thought it should have been Loop. I

607
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: was surprised it wasn't, especially when you take a deeper

608
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: look into the numbers. You know, the initial reaction you

609
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: go with the right dues are coming up, we gotta

610
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Speaker 1: go with Familia, but we we know the deeper you

611
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: go into these numbers, they struggle against the lefties. So

612
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: that was a weird call there. It was just a

613
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Speaker 1: weird game management wise. I mean, from the lineup to

614
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Speaker 1: the Loop thing at the end. I like the lineup

615
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: you think is not Rojas's call. We just have been

616
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: under that assumption all year. He's not making the lineups,

617
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: but seemingly he's making the call. So the bullpen and

618
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: that was a pretty bad one.

619
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a frustrating call, especially considering how effective

620
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 3: Aaron Lupa has been. It seems like the Mets don't

621
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 3: really love using him. To start high leverage innings, which

622
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 3: is a kind of a weird stipulation for a reliever

623
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Speaker 3: who's so good and familiar, like he just don't know.

624
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 3: Will Smith just beat him on a pitch and the

625
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 3: Mets had a chance. The Mets guy would run in

626
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,479
Speaker 3: in the bottom of the inning and just again came

627
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 3: down to mccanney, though neither of them could do even anything.

628
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Speaker 1: No, And what was funny is I think I texted

629
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: you like the difference between will Smith and NDO, which

630
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 1: is like a very simple, simplified way to explain it,

631
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: but they essentially got the same pitch. Kenley Jansen threw

632
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Speaker 1: that same pitch ninety one and Jerry Similia threw it

633
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Speaker 1: ninety six. Was sink Will Smith hit it yard till

634
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: Masnedo hit a week pop up till the shallow left field.

635
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 2: It's a difference between those two guys offensively.

636
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 3: And there's a big difference between those two guys offensively,

637
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 3: And really it really show I just the Met's catching

638
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 3: position is such a black hole right now. It's so

639
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 3: frustrating that they dumped ten million dollars into this position

640
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 3: and got nothing out of it. It makes me so mad.

641
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 3: I was like pacing this weekend talking about JT real Muto.

642
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,160
Speaker 3: My Dad's like, take it easy, take it easy. It's

643
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 3: true like this, this was the position he had to upgrade,

644
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 3: and it's just it sucks that James mccannon is so

645
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 3: so mediocre for ten million dollars. It's such a frustrating

646
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 3: fact we're gonna have to deal with for three more seasons.

647
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just, like I said, completely aggressed back to

648
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: the tiger days and it is not going to get

649
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: better anytime soon because he's only going to be getting

650
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: older and that typically doesn't work well for catchers.

651
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: So really really.

652
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: Disappointing way to end game one, but they fought back

653
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: and it had your feeling good going into game two.

654
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,719
Speaker 1: And the start of game two was pretty solid too,

655
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 1: because Taiwan silenced everybody. It got real quiet the side

656
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: the Taiwan Walker haters. I don't even want to say haters,

657
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 1: because we're not haters.

658
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 3: We were just hate Tyon Walker. I just thought he

659
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 3: was tired.

660
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: We were a little more of the truthers I think of, like, hey,

661
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: his arm is just like physically not prepared to pitch

662
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: this much.

663
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 2: But he silenced everybody and he was money to start

664
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 2: this game.

665
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 3: He to use the phrase I use a lot. He

666
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 3: guthered one out Taybe Walker went on the mount and

667
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 3: almost had like a playoff atmosphere after the way the

668
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,719
Speaker 3: Mets lost Game one, the way they were reeling. Taiwan

669
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 3: needed this, The Mets needed this, and he fucking delivered. Man.

670
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 3: He went pitch for pitch with Walker. Bueller, who so

671
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 3: one of the cy young favors in the National League,

672
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 3: one of the best pitchers in all of baseball, and

673
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 3: it was very interesting that he made some major adjustments

674
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 3: as to how he was pitching during this cold spell

675
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 3: and even adjustments from how he was pitching during his

676
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,719
Speaker 3: massive hot streak. He completely pulled the two seamers out

677
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 3: of his repertoire, which is shocking because of how effective

678
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 3: a pitch that is. But if you've listened to this

679
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 3: podcaster a lot of other like really deep, statistically rused

680
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 3: baseball podcasts out there, you'll know that the four seemer

681
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 3: league wide is much more effective than two seemer and

682
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 3: this adjustment worked like a damn charm that four seamer

683
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 3: because all the call strike the two seamer used to

684
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 3: get with eleven also had three whiffs in the game

685
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 3: good for thirty nine percent csw raid, which is elite.

686
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 3: And the other adjustments Taiwan made was really upping the

687
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 3: use of his split change. He'd been using just more

688
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 3: fastballs overall over the first half of the season and

689
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 3: a lot more sliders. He got seven whists on fifteen

690
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 3: sins swings that split change. He was using it very,

691
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,239
Speaker 3: very effectively to come blowing inside to the Dodgers right

692
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 3: handed power bats, and until like the seventh inning, it

693
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 3: fooled everybody. It's great pitch, it's a great pitch, and

694
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 3: it was just electric to watch like him get with

695
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 3: the crowd and really, I don't want to say turned

696
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: back the clock because it was just like two months ago,

697
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 3: but just like really rediscovery that all star form that

698
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 3: made him so successful in the first half.

699
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: What did he have a no hitter through what seven?

700
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 3: Into the sixth?

701
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: I believe into the sixth Okay, yeah.

702
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: Maybe through it maybe through six. I think it was

703
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 3: through six and the seventh was when he gave up

704
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 3: the hits in the home run.

705
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: Yet, yeah, I think that's what it was. It was

706
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: he was really good. He was really really good. That's

707
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 1: what we needed from Taiwan in a big game.

708
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 2: He stepped up for us.

709
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: If he had any doubts about this guy, I think

710
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: he silenced them quite a bit. Still to expect this

711
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: every single game he goes out there unrealistic still, I

712
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: think for the rest of the season. But it shows

713
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: you that there are still some bullets left in that gun,

714
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: in that tank, and that he's he's not done yet.

715
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: He's not done yet by any means.

716
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: No, this is just funny. I think like I might

717
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 3: have been dubbed like a Taiwan Hayther on Twitter. People

718
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 3: are like tweeting at me, like, oh, you think Taiwan's done.

719
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 3: I was like, I never said Taiwan was done. You

720
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: clearly don't listen to anything I say. I love Tywan

721
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 3: Walker and I repeatedly called him the best free agent

722
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: signing of the off season. But again, I didn't think

723
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 3: he would be able to pull back and do this,

724
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 3: and he did. A lot of people in the fancy

725
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 3: baseball community were like, oh bench Tywan Walker was like,

726
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 3: no fucking shit, you betch Tywan Walker.

727
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: He was.

728
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 3: He's looked dead for a month and a half and

729
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 3: he's facing the Dodgers Like, you can't hold that one

730
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: against you, like like tip your hat sometimes.

731
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: No, And of course the guy who like breaks everything

732
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: up was Will Smith again.

733
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 3: Because yeah, well he's just super good.

734
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: He's just gonna be the thorn in our side now

735
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: on that Dodgers lineup as they start to get closer

736
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: and closer to like being competitive with each other throughout

737
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: the years. Now with the Mets, as we hope to

738
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: be one of those teams at the top, I'm sure

739
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: Will Smith's gonna be a thorn in our side every

740
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: single time we face him now.

741
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 3: Throwing everybody's side. Dude, the guy's incredible, Like he's one

742
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 3: of the most impressive young hitters in baseball position aside

743
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: he can't play a good defensive catcher, but the Dodgers

744
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 3: don't really care about that.

745
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: In the slightest No, he did, and that like weirdly

746
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: going back to Game one here, just jumping around a

747
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: little bit. That was a huge reason why Pete was

748
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: able to score on that pass ball, because Will Smith

749
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: is bad defensively, but at the plate he mashes Confordo

750
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: home run.

751
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 2: That was cool. That was nice.

752
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really haven't seen him turn on a ball

753
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 3: like that in like a whole year, so it was

754
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 3: pretty cool to see him seem to get around.

755
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 2: On something long, long time. But that was pretty much it.

756
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 3: That's pretty much it. That was like literally, it's all

757
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 3: these did. We had like four hits otherwise.

758
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kis did not do much. Walker Buler, though, like

759
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: you said, is sick. So like if there is a

760
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: pitcher to not hit, I mean the Dodgers unfortunately have

761
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: like four of them. But Walker Buehler, like I understand

762
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: being stymied by him because he is sick.

763
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, but also like the metster stabbing by everybody,

764
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 3: and like all the starters played this game people and

765
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 3: said it was like, oh, look the starter's played. You

766
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 3: still can't hit all right, Well, Walker Buehler fucking pitched.

767
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 3: I get it. It's just like you can't get two runs,

768
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 3: you can't get like six hits, you can't string anything together,

769
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 3: you can't work a walk. And the other frustrating part

770
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 3: was that the Dodgers' bullpen was beleaguered. Do I use

771
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 3: that word like four times to they? Probably because I'm

772
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 3: a little bit bleagered. The Dodgers had not many active

773
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 3: relievers going to this game on Saturday night, and the Mets.

774
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 3: We were just swinging at everything, playing right into Walker

775
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 3: Buller's hands, making a lot of easy outs. He had

776
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 3: like fifty eight pitches through.

777
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: Five, and I was like, fuck, Like from one time

778
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: the Mets decide to not be patient is when the

779
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: Dodgers have no bullpen.

780
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 3: And the Mets do have pretty good statistics this year

781
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 3: when making contact with the first pitch, like they're just

782
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess that's kind of a scute staff

783
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 3: because we make contact with the first pitch probably pretty

784
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,959
Speaker 3: good pitch. But I don't know. I just wish that

785
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 3: there would have been like an absolute like mood inside

786
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 3: their mind, mood like a plan or a strategy in

787
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 3: their heads, like take pitches, take pitches, take pitches, take pitches.

788
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 3: But even though they take pitches, guys like Phil Bickford

789
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 3: came in the game and made them look foolish. I'm

790
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 3: at bat after at bat.

791
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: To be fair, Philip Bickford has been kind of nice

792
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: this year, but like that's just the entire Dodgers team.

793
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 2: You go there and you're just good.

794
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, like like it's kind of ironic also that

795
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 3: everyone was like, all right, we gotta get to the Dodgers'

796
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 3: bullpen gets to the Dodgers bullpens, their be team bullpen,

797
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 3: their Dodgers be tem bullpen's still sick. I just I

798
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 3: can't deal with Phil Bickford. The guy just looks like

799
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 3: white trash, like he looks like he belongs to the

800
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 3: trailer park. I saw someone put the meme on Twitter.

801
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 3: I think is a Dodgers fan who I follow. You

802
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 3: know that weird picture of like the dude with the

803
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 3: long hair, straggly hair, and like weird, skinny, fat guy

804
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 3: like walking on the beach, one arm up and one

805
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 3: arm down. That's big for it, That's what it looks like.

806
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 3: And he's just breaking off that slider. And the Mets

807
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 3: hitters looked like they'd never seen a breaking ball in

808
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: their lives.

809
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: No, they struggled mightily, just didn't get the offense going.

810
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: And it's a shame because the bullpen and the pitching

811
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: did well again. Castro and Lugo again, you said it earlier.

812
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: Castro so back and Lugo looked clean again.

813
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 3: Super clean. And a lot of people on Twitter, I

814
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 3: think and just in the world alike, were frustrated that

815
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 3: Yenz came out for that tenth inning and not Lugo

816
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: for a second. But I honestly don't hate that decision

817
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 3: at all. I thought that was truthfully the right move

818
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 3: by Dave Jass because Louis Rojas got ejected because that's

819
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,719
Speaker 3: what he does now when the Mets needs the spark.

820
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, La Rojas loves getting tossed, and I love that.

821
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: I love like a little Bobby Cox fire India, where

822
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: it's like, if nothing's going, I'm gonna try to make

823
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: something happen.

824
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to take a shower, get a beer.

825
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 3: But seth. Lugo, as we've said in this podcast a

826
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: few times, has struggled mightily when he pitches the second

827
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 3: inning this year, he's fit. He's a second inning in

828
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 3: four addings in twenty twenty one, and he's given up

829
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 3: at least one run run and three of them. It's

830
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 3: not good, not good. And Yanc came out there and

831
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: didn't give up and run. All he did was give

832
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 3: up the inherited runner. He kind of bared down, and

833
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: it was all because there's just Cody Bellinger had a

834
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 3: laser down the line, mister one Ady Bellinger. So like,

835
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 3: I can't really fault him for giving up one run

836
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,239
Speaker 3: the extra innings, I fault the metter not scoring one

837
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 3: run in the bottom of the inning, Like it's just

838
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 3: it's just because James mccannon, Bran Drewy were coming up,

839
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 3: Like what are you gonna do? These aren't real hitters.

840
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: How many times have we come up in situations where

841
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: we like desperately need runs and it's McCann, Ndo Drury,

842
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: pitch your spot whatever it is, like every time, it's

843
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: never Nimo McNeil, Alonzo.

844
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 2: Never.

845
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 3: It's also ironic that last week we were talking about

846
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 3: the fact that so though came up in all three

847
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 3: games with a chance to win it or at least

848
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 3: hie it. We think, I mean, Nimo did come up

849
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 3: in this inning and he just grabbed it out to

850
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: end the game. But two outs and the man on second.

851
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 3: You just wish, wish that James McCann could have moved

852
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 3: the guy over with two outs, like he loves to

853
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 3: go that way apparently. Why couldn't you just hit the

854
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 3: fucking ground ball?

855
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: Man? It's so annoying, I don't know, man, frustrating rating stuff.

856
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: Bad loss, bad loss, which brought us into Game three,

857
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: and Game three is gonna be real quick we're gonna

858
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna glance over this one. The Mets got smacked,

859
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: what fourteen, sixteen to four, whatever the end final score was.

860
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 3: We talked about it being fourteen to four.

861
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: We talked about Drury and Polar pitching. So you can

862
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, draw draw the lines here and

863
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: connect the dots of what happened in this game.

864
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 2: Mets just got stomped.

865
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: Carlos Carrasco for the third straight start. I think has

866
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: given up a first sitting home run and he just.

867
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: He's a slow starter.

868
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: But like I I'm frustrated, But I also like, if

869
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 1: there's anybody I'm not gonna get frustrated at, it's Carlos

870
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 1: Carrasco because of what he's gone through this season and recently.

871
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's gonna be people that are pissed

872
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: at Carrasco and pissed at us for not being like

873
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: this guy stinks.

874
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: He's got to be better, But like, dude, he probably

875
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 2: shouldn't even really be pitching.

876
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: Like if the Mets had the Grom and Cinderguard back,

877
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: which we thought like we would right now, Carrasco's probably

878
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: still not pitching this year.

879
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 3: Or at least he's pitching more of like a swingman role,

880
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 3: and like these home runs of Carrasco has given up

881
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 3: in the first inning, it was Johns India, who is

882
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 3: now one of the best hitters in baseball, which is

883
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 3: a great call by me. Wan So though, who is

884
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 3: one of the best players in baseball? And this one

885
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 3: was I think Munsey and Justin Turner hit home runs

886
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 3: who have been the best hitters in baseball for a

887
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 3: couple of years now. So it's not And I guess

888
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 3: that's the nature of first sitting home runs because you're

889
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 3: facing the top of an order. So I guess it's

890
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 3: a pretty stupid point by me. But these aren't like

891
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 3: first hitting home runs too, I don't know, like hoy

892
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 3: Park and like and it's like Star, I don't want

893
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 3: to Star Castro, cancel him. But whoever else hits in

894
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 3: the top of the Nationals order these days besides wan

895
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 3: So though, these are like legital all Stars. They're hitting

896
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 3: home runs off Carls Carrasco, and the guy's rusty. It's

897
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 3: just like it's fourth start of the year, Like it's

898
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 3: gonna take a kind of a long time. He's not here,

899
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 3: gonna walk back and just be a lead. I know

900
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 3: Chris Sale was and you saw that firsthand in Boston.

901
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 3: But Chriselle's better than Carlos Carrasco. Christel's younger than Carlos Carrasco. Chrisseel,

902
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 3: there's harder than Carlos carras face the Orioles. So he

903
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 3: also faced the Cedric Mullins that day. There you go like,

904
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 3: even that's easy, and carl It's not gonna get easier

905
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 3: for Carls Carrasco because his next start is gonna come

906
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 3: again against these Dodgers in Los Angeles next weekend. But

907
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 3: I just have a lot of probably being very frustrated

908
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 3: with the way Carols Carrasco's pitch just because of the

909
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 3: fact that he is actually pitching.

910
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: Yes, no, I think it'd be foolishould be upside of him.

911
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: You want to be upset about something this series, it

912
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: shouldn't be Carrasco pitching. Because at the end of the day,

913
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: still Mets scored four runs in a game that wasn't competitive.

914
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: So if this game was close, it feels like the

915
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: Mets probably scored two. Again the offense maybe want to

916
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: show up again. I know we We're facing Max Scherzer,

917
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: who is a probably top three pitcher in baseball, right,

918
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: I think that's where you gotta put.

919
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 3: Him at least five has where you put Walker Bueller?

920
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, But we faced the night before, like

921
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: this team's just so not fair. But sure, there's always

922
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: been good against the Mets, and he didn't necessarily have

923
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: his best stuff, but it just shows you that he

924
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: didn't really need it.

925
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't need it.

926
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: We haven't beat Max Scherzer in city field since twenty sixteen.

927
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 3: I think I was fat that game, really five three

928
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 3: years Yeah, and he threw seven innings of two run

929
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 3: ball with ten trick.

930
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: Guess wasn't that against Hinderguard? And I think Cinderguard gave

931
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: up one run in that game.

932
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 3: I think it was like a big.

933
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: A big duel or whatever. It's tough to beachers or

934
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 2: it really is.

935
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: So I'm not giving Mets excuses, but like, damn, it

936
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: would be cool for this.

937
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: Team to step up, like it'd be sick.

938
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 3: It was also interesting that when Carrasco very clearly didn't

939
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 3: have it, like it seemed like he was gonna come

940
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 3: out of this game early, and the Mets were ready

941
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: to concede, and there were I was a man on

942
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 3: or two men on the bomb the second inning when

943
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 3: the game was still like six to one or like

944
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 3: four to two or something like that, and Carrasco went

945
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 3: up there himself to bunt. The Mets gave up and out,

946
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 3: and the situation where there was a potential rally and

947
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 3: then either think Nimo McNeil, we got out immediately afterwards.

948
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 3: Then Carrasco still came out of the game for Jake Reid.

949
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 3: And then someone asked Carrasco after the game, like, why'd

950
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 3: you go up to the bump for yourself in the

951
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 3: second inning, and he said, I don't know.

952
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that was a weird call. It made

953
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: no sense.

954
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 3: That's ethical, especially when the player. I guess like you

955
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 3: have a short bench always because the Mets just don't

956
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 3: have any good bet players anyway, so you maybe you

957
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 3: don't want to burn a guy in the second inning.

958
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 3: But the guy you didn't want to burn was probably

959
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 3: Kevin Pollar, and he wound up pitching, so maybe you

960
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 3: might well just have let him hit.

961
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, I mean it is what is one positive

962
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: take from this game? Jake Reed some funky little stuff

963
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: looks solid. I think he's earned himself another appearance on

964
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: this team.

965
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: Jeff Hartleeb.

966
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 1: That needs to end. I don't need to see Jeff

967
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: Hartlee pitch ever again. Goodbye. He's just bad. He's just

968
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: not good. The Pirates didn't want him. That's all you

969
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: need to know. They said, please, Jeff Hartleeb, No, thank you.

970
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 3: I was at the bar with my dad last night

971
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 3: in Pacation. He's like, where did you even get this

972
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 3: heartleap guy? I said, the pirates cut him.

973
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 2: He said, you serious, Yep, we should be uninterested in guys.

974
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 3: The pirates told no, very uninterested. And then you know,

975
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 3: the Pirates actually picked up our boy BANDA And he's

976
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 3: been pitching.

977
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 2: Oh he's been doing well.

978
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, he's doing fine. He's doing exactly probably

979
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 3: doing Jeff Hartleeb.

980
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: I think my biggest issue with this game has nothing

981
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: to do with what happened on the field, but what's

982
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: happening later, and that is that the fact that the

983
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: Mets played a Sunday night game against the Dodgers on

984
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: the East Coast and then immediately have to travel to

985
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: the West Coast to go play the Giants the next day.

986
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 2: No off day. That's insane, that's not snow.

987
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: Cindergard made an entire Instagram post about He's like, fuck

988
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: you MLB.

989
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I tweeted bad last night too, because ridiculous. I

990
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 3: was so mad about this last week. I was like,

991
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hold it because it's not gonna be hot yet,

992
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 3: so I scheduled the tweet. I never do this. I

993
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 3: schedule a tweet for Sunday at like six fifteen just

994
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 3: to watch it go. And like the Dodgers are doing

995
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 3: this too, which is even stupid there, but I guess no,

996
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 3: they're not bitchingcause I think they're playing the Diamonbacks at

997
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 3: home tonight and so whatever, or the Pirates are playing

998
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 3: the Pirates at home tonight. The Mets landed in San

999
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 3: Francisco five o'clock this morning, and they usually when this

1000
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 3: is something like this would happen in baseball, like you'll

1001
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 3: send your pitcher ahead of time, just give him his

1002
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 3: own charger just so we can get rest up. But

1003
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: I think that the COVID protocols allowed didn't allow that

1004
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 3: to happen. So Rich Rich Hall, old forty two year

1005
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 3: old Rich Hill, did not sleep. He's been he's pulling

1006
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 3: it all either before pitching against the best team in baseball.

1007
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 3: I just there was a couple more housekeeping things. I

1008
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 3: wanted to say it before. The Mets got their thirteenth

1009
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 3: sack fly the season, the sixth ending last night. So

1010
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 3: that's great, which is everyone remember nineteen the nineteen seventy

1011
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 3: one San Diego Padres. Mets are going for the record

1012
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: for a few a sack flies in the seasons, so

1013
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 3: everyone keep an eye on that one. And Dominic Smick

1014
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 3: walked for the first time in August last night. That's

1015
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 3: like I saw that. My jaw dropped.

1016
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: That's disgusting. It's August fifteenth, yesterday.

1017
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 3: Yes, literally, when he plays played almost every game this month,

1018
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 3: but I'd played about thirteen consecutive games without walking.

1019
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 2: That's so bad. That's Hobby by his levels.

1020
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 3: That's that's even worse. Hobby Bias has walked at least

1021
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 3: once since he came to the Mets in August.

1022
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. Oh man, I don't

1023
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 1: even want to think about that. And now, obviously Lindor

1024
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: the hole there too. I saw this on Twitter as well.

1025
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: Metster twelve and eighteen without Lindor. As much as we

1026
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: want to say like we're missing to Grom, which that's obvious.

1027
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: He's he's the stop gap, he's the one who stops

1028
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: he's losing streaks. But Lindor is clearly such an integral

1029
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: part of this team that even when he's playing poorly,

1030
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: we still need him. So enough about that Dodger series.

1031
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: Let's preview the Giants one here. This is I think

1032
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: probably our closest talent wise outside of the NL East to

1033
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: compare ourselves to, which is weird to say because they're

1034
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: the best team in baseball, but I think like when

1035
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: you look at their roster construction and you go, the

1036
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: Mets could win some games there. I mean, we're not

1037
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: beating the Dodgers right now, we're not beating the Brewers.

1038
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: Probably if we're face him again, maybe the Giants. I

1039
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: don't even feel good saying that. I'm just trying to

1040
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: not be negative because while I took a little bathroom

1041
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: break here for this episode, I was sitting I was like, man,

1042
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: the Mets are really just gonna make like maybe make

1043
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs and then like we're out, Like it's just

1044
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: stop feeling good.

1045
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 3: Nothing's gonna happen past that. But I'm just wanna warn

1046
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 3: Mets fans for how this Dodger Giant series is going

1047
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 3: to feel, because we're gonna get Lamont waited and Darren

1048
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 3: ruffed and Brandon belted and Evan Longori had like just completely.

1049
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 2: Wilmer Flores is gonna come back and kill us a

1050
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: little bit.

1051
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 3: I'm sure, well, he's one hundred percent gonna get a

1052
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 3: big hit tonight off rat Chill of the left y.

1053
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 3: There's no He's probably gonna hit third. They're just the

1054
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 3: Giants are gonna be so frustrating. I love the Giants

1055
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 3: team from a standpoint of like analytical team building, just

1056
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 3: because they have found some marketing inefficiencies far. Hans Ady

1057
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 3: had an interview last week where he mentioned the fact

1058
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 3: that he thinks that he got ahead of everyone else

1059
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 3: in baseball in terms of understanding new model for the

1060
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 3: aging curve, and that's how he was able to sign

1061
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 3: a lot of guys between the ages of thirty and

1062
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 3: thirty five for probably cheaper than market value and able

1063
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 3: and still able to get a ton of production out

1064
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 3: of them. And you look up and down the Giants roster,

1065
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 3: it's a lot of guys who other teams have more

1066
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: or less given up on between again, Lamont Wade, Warmer

1067
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: floor as Darren Ruff, Brandon Belt, who most people in

1068
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 3: baseball would tell you he's never been good, yet he's

1069
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 3: been above average for like eight consecutive years now. In

1070
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 3: the Giants, Buster Posey has returned to all star firm,

1071
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 3: Kirk A. Sally has been a very good backup for them.

1072
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 3: Evlon Gory's returned to form. Brandon Crawford, while he's had

1073
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 3: a very bad second half as having a very good

1074
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 3: season overall. Y Stremski Yastremsky is basically in a platoon now,

1075
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 3: even though he came into the season as the best

1076
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 3: player on the team. You're gonna be so mad watching

1077
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 3: the series, especially waiting up till nine to forty five

1078
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 3: to watch these games. Good, thank god's not ten ten.

1079
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 3: That's a big half hour, But Mets fans are gonna

1080
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Speaker 3: be so fucking upset, especially when Kevin Gassman, who's historically

1081
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 3: been awful, who's great, Logan Webb, who's never been good,

1082
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 3: who's incredible, and Anthony's Laffan historically Benofflan is now very good.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna be so mad inning at Turning, especially when

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00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 3: Jake McGee comes in to close the game. He's throwing

1085
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 3: one hundred ninety three miles an hour fastballs. No one

1086
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 3: can touch them. Tyler Rogers is submarining Sinkers, and you

1087
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Speaker 3: just you're gonna be like, what the hell is happening?

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Speaker 3: But this is just the Giants experience. The Men have

1089
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 3: been lucky to avoid them until August sixteenth. I'm gonna

1090
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 3: be so mad watching these games because they seem also winnable,

1091
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 3: but the Giants are secretly so fucking good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Giants are a little Raised West, They're a

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00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: little Oakland. A's like in that their lineup will not

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00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: make you go oh man, Cody Bell and Mookie Betts,

1095
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: Max Monky, Justin Turner. Like you said, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: Wilmer Flores, Stephen Dugger, Darren Ruff, none of these dogs.

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Speaker 1: Dougger went down, Okay, good, fuck that guy. I hate

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Speaker 1: Stephen Dougger, but that's a personal vendetta, not important. It's

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00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: going to be frustrating, and normally when we see Gabe

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Speaker 1: Kapler and the other dugout, we salivate, we go this

1101
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: guy's an idiot, this guy sucks, but his micromanaging is

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Speaker 1: so perfect for this team because that's how they need

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00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: to be handled, and it has worked for them to

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Speaker 1: be the clear and best even baseball this.

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Speaker 2: Year not gonna be fun. Series, not gonna be fun.

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Speaker 3: His micromanaging really works out because he's supposed to micro manage.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure behind Zied and all of the brilliant analysts

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Speaker 3: that Dodgers have working for them, give Gabe Kapler these

1109
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 3: massive spreadsheets before the game of every single matchup to use,

1110
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 3: so we're gonna get platoons so bad, you're gonna see

1111
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 3: a completely different lineup on Monday compared to Tuesday for

1112
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 3: the Giants because they will make sure that they have

1113
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 3: the advantage in every single game that they're in, and

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00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 3: they do that with platoons.

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Speaker 2: Well run organization.

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Speaker 1: I gave him a lot of crap in the past

1117
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: for keeping guys like Posy Longoria, Brandon Bell, keeping the

1118
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: old guys around, but it is paid off in dividends

1119
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know why. I really

1121
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 2: don't understand it.

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00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how Brandon Crawford all of a sudden

1123
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: is having the best year of his career by and large,

1124
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: Like that guy stunk for like six years.

1125
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Speaker 3: I've told you this off air, and I've tweeted about

1126
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 3: this before, but the Giants employ the most coaches in

1127
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 3: professional baseball, and they seem to employ some very good

1128
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 3: ones because they've retaught every single guy in this team

1129
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 3: had hit. I'll say his name for the fourth time,

1130
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 3: Lamont Wade. Lamont Wade is historically just bad at baseball.

1131
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 3: His ops is like at that over a thousand the month.

1132
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 3: He is the leadoff hitter for the best see in baseball.

1133
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 3: He has like twenty or twelve home runs on the season.

1134
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 3: He was literally a scrapy pick up for the Giants.

1135
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure, minor league contract in the offseason, and

1136
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 3: the guys playing an all star level like whatever model

1137
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 3: the Giants are using to perform to this, to this magnet, like,

1138
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 3: to this level everything baseball sho copied. It's it's astounding

1139
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 3: how they're doing this even without a crazy payroll, without

1140
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 3: real any I don't even know any expensive players the

1141
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 3: entire roster. It's shocking.

1142
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: It is shocking, and this series has the potential to

1143
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: be the nail in the coffin for the Mets, I think,

1144
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: especially because after that we have the Dodgers and Giants again.

1145
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 1: So there's a really good chance here that the Mets

1146
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: are playing for their life this season, that this might

1147
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: be the last meaningful series the Mets play all year,

1148
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: which is super super depressing to say, with how he

1149
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 1: came into the season.

1150
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Speaker 2: But also, we didn't expect to.

1151
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: Have Lindor out for this extended period of time. We

1152
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: didn't expect the ground to be shut down, no cinder

1153
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: guard up to this point, Carrasco to come back late,

1154
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: not making excuses, but this season ended up looking a

1155
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: lot different than we expected. This is a series, This

1156
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: is the most important series of the year by far,

1157
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: if the Mets want to continue to be competitive in

1158
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: the National League, in the nleast and have a shot,

1159
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: which is crazy say because they're only two and a

1160
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: half out of first place, but it feels like a

1161
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: thousand more, especially with the games that are still coming

1162
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: this series.

1163
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 2: They have to win, They have to take two or

1164
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 2: three if they want a shot.

1165
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Speaker 3: I think a six game losing streak with seven more

1166
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 3: ahead against the Dodgers and Giants would would really really

1167
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 3: make me sad.

1168
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna see this. The podcast has been a

1169
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 1: roller coaster of emotions all year. Highs and lows. It'll

1170
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: be like a funeral on a Wednesday or Thursday.

1171
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Speaker 2: If they lose this Wednesday night.

1172
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 3: It would be a sad episode.

1173
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like that's probably where we want to

1174
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: wrap this one up here, right. It's a little short one,

1175
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: it's a little quick one, but the boys are on

1176
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: the road, and really, at the end of the day,

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00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 1: the Mets just got beat.

1178
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Speaker 2: By the Dodgers.

1179
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are in a different class than us Mets fans.

1180
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: We want to be positive, we want to stay happy

1181
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: and excited, but I think this series showed us more

1182
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: than ever that this Mets team is not ready to

1183
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 1: be a World Series contender. We are trying to sneak

1184
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: into the playoffs in the worst division in baseball and

1185
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: we are struggling. We're in third place right now, So

1186
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give a hope that we can't make

1187
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but I do think that it's going to

1188
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: be really hard.

1189
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Speaker 2: So this series is gonna be huge. James, what do

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00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 2: you off for me?

1191
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Speaker 3: The first year that Frank McCort took over the Dodgers

1192
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 3: and the Magic Johnson group, they went eighty six and

1193
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 3: seventy six and they came in second place in division

1194
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 3: and they've won every single division since.

1195
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: We had high expectations. But I think we have to

1196
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: remember that this is a process. It's gonna take a

1197
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 1: little bit of time. Say, we gotta get our guys

1198
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: in there, gotta get the right people in charge, Gotta

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Speaker 1: let Steve Cohen maybe spend a little more money this offseason.

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Speaker 3: More money. I like that.

1201
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a little bit more police, Steve. I know

1202
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: you got those pockets. Let's spend Let's open them up

1203
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 1: next year. But end of the day, Mets Giants, most

1204
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: important series of the year. Hopefully we can come out

1205
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: of it feeling good. If not, it's gonna be a

1206
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 1: somber episode. You'll have to listen to it though. Episode

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Speaker 1: number forty two of the Mets the Podcast next week

1208
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Speaker 1: or next week next Wednesday, Thursday, after the San Francisco

1209
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Speaker 1: Giant series. That's what we're gonna wrap up this one though,

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Speaker 1: the tom sever episode, episode number forty one of the

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Speaker 1: Mets the Podcast. Make sure you're following us on Twitter

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Speaker 1: and Instagram at metstup, on the YouTube channel Mets Up Podcast.

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Speaker 2: James Jeter had.

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Speaker 1: No range me Mark Giraffnickmark on Twitter, Thank you as

1215
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: so much for listening, watching, whatever you do, keep supporting us.

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Speaker 1: We really do appreciate it, and we'll catch you on

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Speaker 1: the next episode of the met Stup Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Peace Out Weave for rating interview guys, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 3: Peace Out