1
00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:09,880
Speaker 1: Get Up Up, Get Up? What is up?

2
00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,400
Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode of the Mets

3
00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,040
Speaker 2: Up Podcast, the official podcast of the New York Mets.

4
00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:16,960
Speaker 1: Our first remote podcast.

5
00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,240
Speaker 2: This is the first one since joining the Mets that

6
00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,599
Speaker 2: me and James have not been together. We are in

7
00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,920
Speaker 2: different spaces. I'm still out in Queens. James is back

8
00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,000
Speaker 2: home with the family. But we're still going to talk

9
00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,240
Speaker 2: to you about everything Mets that has gone on since

10
00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,920
Speaker 2: the last episode. We got the four game series against

11
00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,519
Speaker 2: the Chicago Cubs. We have some All Star game updates.

12
00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,159
Speaker 2: We have the MLB Draft as well. We've got a

13
00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,440
Speaker 2: couple picks to talk to you guys about. So make

14
00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,520
Speaker 2: sure you stick around so you can hear all about

15
00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,919
Speaker 2: the future Mets as well as the current. So if

16
00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,160
Speaker 2: you're not yet following us on all our social media,

17
00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,800
Speaker 2: make sure you are at metstuff. The boys just dropped

18
00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,519
Speaker 2: a banger TikTok. We had a Brett Baity TikTok. It's

19
00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,040
Speaker 2: doing three hundred thousand views, which is by far the

20
00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,400
Speaker 2: most that we have done on our TikTok. Make sure

21
00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:56,880
Speaker 2: you're following us over there. We got a lot more

22
00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,920
Speaker 2: stuff coming at you as well as our other social

23
00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,520
Speaker 2: media and if you want to watch, it's the video

24
00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,960
Speaker 2: version of this episode. Check us out on YouTube on

25
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,520
Speaker 2: the New York Mets YouTube channel. If you're listening to US,

26
00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,840
Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts,

27
00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,759
Speaker 2: you'll be able to listen to us. Drop us a rating,

28
00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,880
Speaker 2: drop us a review, subscribe to the feed so you

29
00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,560
Speaker 2: don't miss out. And without further ado, let's bring in

30
00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:17,920
Speaker 2: James all the way from New Jersey.

31
00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:19,520
Speaker 1: How are you feeling all the way from New Jersey?

32
00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,000
Speaker 1: Heavy New Jersey Weekend? Over here? It's been acting New

33
00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,560
Speaker 1: Jersey Weekend. Also, you talked about potential future Mets in

34
00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,360
Speaker 1: the outline, you didn't talk about the biggest potential future

35
00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,360
Speaker 1: med wh that that came out as weekn want so though.

36
00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,319
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how can I forget that one? So the

37
00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,640
Speaker 2: biggest future Met of them all? Yeah, Wan Soto, the

38
00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,560
Speaker 2: headline of him being on the trade market being available,

39
00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,760
Speaker 2: and even Sky's name. I don't particularly care to mention,

40
00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,559
Speaker 2: but Andy Martino dropped an article saying that the Nationals

41
00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,320
Speaker 2: think the Mets are a really good fit for Wan Soda.

42
00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:47,720
Speaker 1: Which I don't know.

43
00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,760
Speaker 2: I agree you get that information, but I'm this is

44
00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,800
Speaker 2: one of the few times I'll allow him to spew

45
00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,880
Speaker 2: his nonsense because I agree with it and it does.

46
00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,280
Speaker 1: Benefit the Mets. Absolutely. I don't even we can't like

47
00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,440
Speaker 1: lead talking about want soda. We're not that when everyone

48
00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,080
Speaker 1: knows we're not that baby of a podcast. I just

49
00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,560
Speaker 1: wanted to say it to make sure everyone knew that

50
00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,520
Speaker 1: it would be spoken about at some point.

51
00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk about it later. We'll talk about it later.

52
00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,720
Speaker 2: Let's talk about this Cub series because it was a

53
00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,480
Speaker 2: good one. The Mets obviously won it three games out

54
00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,640
Speaker 2: of the four. Would have loved to sweep a little

55
00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,480
Speaker 2: bit bittersweet there at the end, but the Mets kind

56
00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,840
Speaker 2: of grinded.

57
00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,680
Speaker 1: Their way through this series. It feels like a little

58
00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,760
Speaker 1: grimy one in a good and a bad way. Like

59
00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,880
Speaker 1: the grinding is good, like winning these grinded out games

60
00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,480
Speaker 1: is good. But I also would have preferred to have

61
00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,520
Speaker 1: at least one other game that was like Thursday, where

62
00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:29,359
Speaker 1: you just beat the Cubs.

63
00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, would have loved for a couple ten to one,

64
00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,080
Speaker 2: ten to two games where it's like, oh, I can

65
00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,680
Speaker 2: I can honestly stop watching this game. It's over there

66
00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,600
Speaker 2: in the driver's seat and they're gonna be fine.

67
00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the end of this you've been beating the

68
00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,080
Speaker 1: Cubs eight nothing on Thursday in a very good, easy, clean,

69
00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:44,560
Speaker 1: one of those games you could turn off in the

70
00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,360
Speaker 1: seventh Besides for the great Sny screencaps. We'll talk about

71
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,200
Speaker 1: a second. But you score eight runs in that game,

72
00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,280
Speaker 1: you only score six the rest of the weekend, and

73
00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,440
Speaker 1: you still have a left feeling with that kind of

74
00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,480
Speaker 1: exact same feeling you felt for the last six or

75
00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,320
Speaker 1: seven series the Mets have played, or it's like I

76
00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,760
Speaker 1: really wish someone will get a hit right now.

77
00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,799
Speaker 2: Well, it felt like the Marlins won all over again,

78
00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,320
Speaker 2: where it was like we got all our runs out

79
00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,280
Speaker 2: in the first game and then we were just kind of.

80
00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:06,280
Speaker 1: Halted a little bit.

81
00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,440
Speaker 2: But also it was weird too because of the rain

82
00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,800
Speaker 2: and the wind in Chicago. It was very windy and

83
00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,880
Speaker 2: it was almost impossible to hit a home run after

84
00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:13,360
Speaker 2: the first.

85
00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,760
Speaker 1: Day, which is kind of funny because I kind of

86
00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,040
Speaker 1: talked about being nervous about the opposite thing happening, where

87
00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,200
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I know that like balls in the air,

88
00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:21,680
Speaker 1: a lot for shares are in Taiwan. I really hope

89
00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,120
Speaker 1: the air is not blown out and they was blowing in,

90
00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,680
Speaker 1: and those guys were like exclusively five ball but not

91
00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,160
Speaker 1: not Walker, but shres are I believe got zero ground

92
00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,680
Speaker 1: balls on Saturday night or maybe real. I'm pretty sure

93
00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,280
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, there were two balls that had eggs

94
00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,960
Speaker 1: of large angles under ten degrees, but they were both

95
00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,240
Speaker 1: ruled line drives. Looking back at them, they were both

96
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,760
Speaker 1: kind of those in between line of grounders and balls

97
00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,200
Speaker 1: actually turned out to be singles, which is kind of

98
00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,320
Speaker 1: ironic but really weird, Like the best seemingly your sures are,

99
00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,880
Speaker 1: I guess, especially playing playing Wriggily the way in a

100
00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:47,920
Speaker 1: way that was advantageous to.

101
00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,440
Speaker 2: Him, especially for this series with the wind blowing in

102
00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:51,920
Speaker 2: like that. There was a couple balls that we'll get

103
00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,240
Speaker 2: to at some point where you're like, I thought that

104
00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,320
Speaker 2: was a guaranteed home run and it was thirty five

105
00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:56,160
Speaker 2: feet shore of the wall.

106
00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,480
Speaker 1: Absolutely, but let's quickly run through these games because gonna

107
00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,040
Speaker 1: be very activepisode talk about otherwise. Just we've said multiple times,

108
00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,520
Speaker 1: crossed the Cubs eight nothing kind of exact easy when

109
00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,640
Speaker 1: you want to get against a team you're clearly better than.

110
00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,080
Speaker 1: Brandon Neimo was the star with a home run a

111
00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,040
Speaker 1: double and a single. Four hard hit balls in this one.

112
00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,560
Speaker 1: We love that. We love that all over the field,

113
00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,240
Speaker 1: and that home run was his fourth of July, and

114
00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,400
Speaker 1: he had five the entire year, April, May and June.

115
00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,160
Speaker 2: Which is really cool because that's something that I think

116
00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:23,920
Speaker 2: if you wanted to talk about maybe something that was

117
00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,000
Speaker 2: missing in brandon Neimo's game, it had been the power

118
00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,640
Speaker 2: because having met the guy, having shook his hand, he's

119
00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,320
Speaker 2: incredibly big and incredibly strong. The dude is like a linebacker.

120
00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,520
Speaker 2: So you've always been wondering, like, where is the power

121
00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,360
Speaker 2: going to come? And maybe Naples brandon Nimo has started

122
00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,640
Speaker 2: to hit the ball a little bit harder on a

123
00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,320
Speaker 2: consistent basis, we'll start to see those power numbers, you know,

124
00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,680
Speaker 2: climb up absolutely and.

125
00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,839
Speaker 1: You'd like to see that. Also from this game, Escobar

126
00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,080
Speaker 1: and Marte each had three hard hit balls. Escobar a

127
00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,240
Speaker 1: little foreshadowing for the big weekend he would have. Pilonzo

128
00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,920
Speaker 1: we know, also hit the big home run, and Carlos

129
00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,960
Speaker 1: Carrasco pitch just really smooth against a bad lineup, six ending,

130
00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,320
Speaker 1: six strikeouts, basically no stress the whole time. Forty four

131
00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,000
Speaker 1: percent wis his slitherer but something that was kind of

132
00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,680
Speaker 1: interesting is that his velocity dipped a little bit across

133
00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,400
Speaker 1: the board. He was down a tick on basically every

134
00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,760
Speaker 1: single pitch and got no whiffs on his fourteen fastball.

135
00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,880
Speaker 1: But then I looked at all the velosities from this

136
00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,400
Speaker 1: whole weekend and everyone's vlosity was down. So maybe the

137
00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,440
Speaker 1: block slow gun either slow gun or just maybe just

138
00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,520
Speaker 1: team fatigue getting at the All Star break, or it

139
00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,960
Speaker 1: was just crazy conditions to icgo. Even the Thursday wasn't

140
00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,000
Speaker 1: really that crazy. It's just you know, or even it

141
00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,600
Speaker 1: could just be like it's the Cubs. I don't need

142
00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:26,800
Speaker 1: to be, you know, lack it.

143
00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:28,200
Speaker 2: I don't need to be pumped, and I can take

144
00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,880
Speaker 2: this one a little bit easy, work on some stuff.

145
00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a little disrespectful. True here, the

146
00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,200
Speaker 1: top of the roaders is good, at least top five

147
00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,159
Speaker 1: if tolerable major league players relatively.

148
00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,240
Speaker 2: I mean, like you said, this game was pretty straightforward,

149
00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,760
Speaker 2: It was pretty smooth. It was nice to see Starling Marte,

150
00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,359
Speaker 2: like you mentioned earlier, back in the line up and

151
00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,200
Speaker 2: hitting the ball hard again, because man, when he's in

152
00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,160
Speaker 2: the lineup, this team really does move differently.

153
00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,000
Speaker 1: Absolutely and just you can see how much longer the

154
00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,800
Speaker 1: lineup is with everyone is back in it together. But

155
00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,200
Speaker 1: the highlight from this game as the game got boring itself,

156
00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,160
Speaker 1: and as we Mets fans can rely on with S

157
00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,120
Speaker 1: and Y over the years when a game is boring,

158
00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,640
Speaker 1: you know the booth will not be Because Steve Gelbs

159
00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,080
Speaker 1: went into the Cubs bleachers for it seemed like the

160
00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,040
Speaker 1: first time I think I've ever seen Gelbzy do that

161
00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,920
Speaker 1: kind of go into the pit.

162
00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,800
Speaker 2: To be fair, I don't remember honestly. Like Chicago, it's

163
00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:15,679
Speaker 2: it's always a little.

164
00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,920
Speaker 1: Bit of a blur sometimes definitely, And the Cubs are

165
00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,400
Speaker 1: famous for their patented outfield bleacher cup snakes, where everyone

166
00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,240
Speaker 1: takes their beer cups and they try to stack them

167
00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:26,800
Speaker 1: from the rail the first row all the way to

168
00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,640
Speaker 1: the back and always you see the videos together, we're

169
00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,640
Speaker 1: going around Twitter if the guy's not getting him because

170
00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,800
Speaker 1: the security comes and steals a snake. But this snake

171
00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,480
Speaker 1: got so big, and I think security ended up being

172
00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,960
Speaker 1: powerless to it. And when the snake is more powerful

173
00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,480
Speaker 1: and security, the snake now becomes definitely powerful. And they

174
00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,720
Speaker 1: got that snake going the entire way from the rail

175
00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,840
Speaker 1: up and Gelvesy was holding the part of it, kind

176
00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,440
Speaker 1: of complaining about how heavy it was, which is kind

177
00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,000
Speaker 1: of funny, is their plastic cubs. And he interviewed some dude.

178
00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna call him a dude because that guy

179
00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,960
Speaker 1: was it was hilarious. Such a dude.

180
00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, tell the people what happened Talgrapher. Well, yeah,

181
00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,200
Speaker 2: they were just like interviewing him. He was calling him Gelbsy,

182
00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,000
Speaker 2: he was calling him Steve. It was very like it

183
00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,360
Speaker 2: was a very casual conversation for something that normally when

184
00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,000
Speaker 2: you're talking to a guy on TV, like I feel

185
00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,159
Speaker 2: like people get like really tight, really rigid and really like, yes,

186
00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,200
Speaker 2: I do enjoy this very robotic where this guy was loose.

187
00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,560
Speaker 1: He definitely had a few beers beverage and he was

188
00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,000
Speaker 1: calling them beverages, which were funny. Yes, that's also very

189
00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,880
Speaker 1: funny as we like to call them adult beverages on

190
00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,640
Speaker 1: the podcast. He was just he was directing traffic. He

191
00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,320
Speaker 1: was telling you where the cup snake needs to go.

192
00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,200
Speaker 1: He was telling you need to carry your weight, and

193
00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,120
Speaker 1: he was giving Gelbsy a little little bit of shit

194
00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,480
Speaker 1: because you know, he was kind of not doing the

195
00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,120
Speaker 1: best job by it per se, I mean, Hollywood Gelbs

196
00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,840
Speaker 1: Yankee fan as we know. But he also had just

197
00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,480
Speaker 1: the best SoundBite I've ever heard where kelps. He was like, yeah,

198
00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,480
Speaker 1: we get this thing going. The fifth inning, people start

199
00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,160
Speaker 1: throwing their cups, stacking them together, more and more beverages

200
00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,720
Speaker 1: get drank, and then by the eighth you like to

201
00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,440
Speaker 1: get it all the way back. And then Gelbs was like, oh,

202
00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:46,320
Speaker 1: this is the seventh inning.

203
00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,640
Speaker 2: He's like, you know, yeah, basically the eighth Yeah, yeah,

204
00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,600
Speaker 2: that was a great line. The cup the cup snake

205
00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,600
Speaker 2: really was though, the star of the show in this game,

206
00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,320
Speaker 2: outside of what was going on on the field. Like

207
00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,240
Speaker 2: you said, Mett's had an easy lead at this point,

208
00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,520
Speaker 2: the game was essentially over. And you mentioned I've I've

209
00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,680
Speaker 2: never seen a cup snake get this big because they

210
00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:03,239
Speaker 2: do get.

211
00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,120
Speaker 1: Stopped, every single biggest one ever. Yeah, because they get stopped.

212
00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,360
Speaker 2: But like you said, when you got Hollywood up there, Steve,

213
00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,960
Speaker 2: gellip S and y, you let the show go on.

214
00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,440
Speaker 1: It's also Keith and Gary seem to like just detest

215
00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,360
Speaker 1: the level of drinking that was being done out there,

216
00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,840
Speaker 1: like they were almost like a little bit scared that

217
00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,600
Speaker 1: this really drunk guy was on the mic, and they

218
00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:23,960
Speaker 1: were like, Oh, what's he gonna say? What's again? To say?

219
00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,320
Speaker 1: What's again? To say they were kind of given like

220
00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,560
Speaker 1: the you know, the the Keith and Gary just like

221
00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,880
Speaker 1: fatherly you know, derision to them.

222
00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,160
Speaker 2: Me and my roommate who you're familiar with, the viewers

223
00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,360
Speaker 2: and listeners at home, Alex, my roommate, we were talking

224
00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,000
Speaker 2: about how many cups you think we're in that cup snake,

225
00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,640
Speaker 2: and God, we have no way of knowing, and this

226
00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,360
Speaker 2: would be this would have been a great time for

227
00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,439
Speaker 2: a little bit of our estimates here if we had

228
00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,679
Speaker 2: an actual answer for how many were in that cup snake,

229
00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,920
Speaker 2: because we could get closest to it. But I mean,

230
00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,960
Speaker 2: you gotta gotta assume that's what three four hundred cups.

231
00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,600
Speaker 1: I think more because if you think about it, what's

232
00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,040
Speaker 1: being stacked is simply just like the two millimeter rim,

233
00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's true. Yeah, So it's

234
00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,040
Speaker 1: like you have like this the cup on the bottom,

235
00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,719
Speaker 1: which you're getting like the full eight inches a cup,

236
00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,520
Speaker 1: and then after that you're going millime either by millime

237
00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,760
Speaker 1: they're trying to stackuate the top. I'm assuming there's like

238
00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,320
Speaker 1: thirty rows of seats, each row of seats being separated

239
00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,679
Speaker 1: by two and a half feet, or we're mathing this out.

240
00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,000
Speaker 1: Let's do it. We'll get like, what fifteen hundred cups?

241
00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:17,640
Speaker 1: So many?

242
00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,800
Speaker 2: It was just it seems like too many. Though, that

243
00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:21,599
Speaker 2: feels like too many. Maybe we just get comfortable and

244
00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,600
Speaker 2: we cut it in half. We say seven hundred seven

245
00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,720
Speaker 2: to fifty, and we say there's seven hundred seven to

246
00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:26,280
Speaker 2: fifty cups.

247
00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:27,120
Speaker 1: There a lot of beer.

248
00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,920
Speaker 2: That's like twelve dollars of beer, and the Cubs can't

249
00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:30,960
Speaker 2: afford to pay anybody.

250
00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,600
Speaker 1: It's shocking. How I possible the poor Rickets crying broke

251
00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,400
Speaker 1: at the owner's meetings. Oh god, that was That was

252
00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,760
Speaker 1: start of the show. Tho. This game was very happily boring. Yeah,

253
00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,280
Speaker 1: happily boring, glad for it. Nice and easy.

254
00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,040
Speaker 2: Mets get Game one, rain on Game two, so we

255
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,320
Speaker 2: don't get that day, and then instead we get a

256
00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,600
Speaker 2: doubleheader on Saturday, which was insane.

257
00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also Friday, that rain out of Friday was a killer.

258
00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:54,960
Speaker 1: I was so excited to watch a day game while

259
00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,560
Speaker 1: just like chilling, and I was like, oh crap.

260
00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,240
Speaker 2: And then they done what A streamed on twitch for

261
00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,120
Speaker 2: like the first time in like three months, because I

262
00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,160
Speaker 2: was like, man, it's like lock, yeah, and I don't

263
00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,240
Speaker 2: know what to do. Like it's a Friday, no one's

264
00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,760
Speaker 2: really around because you were back home. Drew was out

265
00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,720
Speaker 2: in Nashville, Ernie. Ernie's doing his you know, aristocratic things

266
00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,640
Speaker 2: that we're not around. But I was like, man, I

267
00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,040
Speaker 2: got nothing to do. Sure, I guess I'll stream and

268
00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:21,959
Speaker 2: talk some baseball talking to him and be draft which

269
00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,920
Speaker 2: we'll get to here in a second. But it was

270
00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,640
Speaker 2: nice that we did get those games though on Saturday,

271
00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,160
Speaker 2: because the weather is always a little bit up.

272
00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,480
Speaker 1: In the air in Chicago. Definitely weird, just weather. It's

273
00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,319
Speaker 1: whole weekend, even the East Coast, it was just dumb humid,

274
00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,679
Speaker 1: like every single night, even right now it's humid. We

275
00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,160
Speaker 1: got a big, big hornern Derby party plan for tomorrow

276
00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:38,680
Speaker 1: at the Schiano cost a lot of people coming over,

277
00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,199
Speaker 1: including Mark and his dad, praying that the rain holds

278
00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,319
Speaker 1: up because we've we've done this almost every single year

279
00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,120
Speaker 1: for the last like five or six years, and that's

280
00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,120
Speaker 1: a lot of fun doing it. But big, the big

281
00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,320
Speaker 1: story at the beginning of Saturday with two games before

282
00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,960
Speaker 1: any of these games got kind of crazy was not

283
00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,000
Speaker 1: the return of Marcus Stroman because we're in Chicago, but

284
00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,439
Speaker 1: just the resurfacing of Marcus Stroman, the Mets facing Marcus Stroman.

285
00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,240
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting that Gary and Keith took

286
00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,640
Speaker 1: the time to address it, more so than I really

287
00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:07,520
Speaker 1: had anticipated that they would.

288
00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,320
Speaker 2: Well, Gary, I think put it very appropriately as to

289
00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:14,600
Speaker 2: maybe why they were addressing it so much, and maybe

290
00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,880
Speaker 2: why Marcus Struman has caught so much heat among Mets

291
00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,000
Speaker 2: fans or just like the media in New York in general.

292
00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,240
Speaker 2: And he was saying, you know, you either you can

293
00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,240
Speaker 2: leave a couple different ways. You can leave and you

294
00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,840
Speaker 2: can go do your own thing, or you can burn bridges,

295
00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:26,880
Speaker 2: and that's why you leave.

296
00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:27,200
Speaker 1: He goes.

297
00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,800
Speaker 2: Marcus Struman did both. He left and he burned bridges.

298
00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,760
Speaker 2: So he left New York with a really sour taste

299
00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:34,920
Speaker 2: in the Mets fans and I think media's mouth, which

300
00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,120
Speaker 2: I somewhat warranted. I know he caught a lot of

301
00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,840
Speaker 2: slack over here in New York at times based on

302
00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,760
Speaker 2: things that he was doing on or off the field,

303
00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,080
Speaker 2: and whether that was warranted or not, I believe the

304
00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,840
Speaker 2: guy's a nice dude. Really, at the end of the day.

305
00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,880
Speaker 2: But that being said, he really just did turn into

306
00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,520
Speaker 2: kind of a diva for absolutely no reason, and he

307
00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,600
Speaker 2: became an easy player to become an enemy of Mets

308
00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:56,640
Speaker 2: fans really quickly.

309
00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this guy who also just kind of pushed

310
00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,120
Speaker 1: his way like the team I was vocal about wanting

311
00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:03,959
Speaker 1: to extend him a contract in the both of us,

312
00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,560
Speaker 1: just just because of the pitcher he is and what

313
00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,080
Speaker 1: he can do. I know the results haven't been there

314
00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,880
Speaker 1: this year, but I do think that's kind of a

315
00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,480
Speaker 1: function of either fatigue from the last few years he

316
00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:13,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if he dealt with injury or COVID

317
00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,360
Speaker 1: while he was after so long both both he had

318
00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,760
Speaker 1: and COVID. But the strikeout ray has also gotten up,

319
00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:19,480
Speaker 1: even though the results haven't been there, But he seemed

320
00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,760
Speaker 1: like he just kind of went scorched dearth and killed

321
00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,920
Speaker 1: any chance he even had. Like if you if you're

322
00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:26,400
Speaker 1: a player and you're looking to sign a contract, you

323
00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,920
Speaker 1: want as many teams competing for your service as possible

324
00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,120
Speaker 1: to drive your price up and to knock one of

325
00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,760
Speaker 1: those teams out. You just seem like you're costing yourself money.

326
00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,640
Speaker 1: And that is something that I don't think I would

327
00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,719
Speaker 1: ever like to do if I was in that position.

328
00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,400
Speaker 2: One of the teams with the deepest pockets too, who

329
00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,680
Speaker 2: again could have had a spot for you on this roster.

330
00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:44,560
Speaker 1: It was. It was bizarre.

331
00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:46,400
Speaker 2: Like you said, he went scorched to earth. He just

332
00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,720
Speaker 2: he always plays with a chip on his shoulder, and

333
00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,280
Speaker 2: for the first time in a while, it felt like

334
00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:51,880
Speaker 2: that chip got a little bit too big and more

335
00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,560
Speaker 2: became of a little arrogance rather than a chip on

336
00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:55,040
Speaker 2: his shoulder.

337
00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure a lot of Mets fans would

338
00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,240
Speaker 1: have loved to have like crushed him, Yes, but didn't

339
00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,559
Speaker 1: happen because the guy is a good picture good Yeah. Yeah,

340
00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:03,960
Speaker 1: We're still stuck in that offense here and there. Sometimes.

341
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,480
Speaker 1: He also had a lot of strike ass against the Mets,

342
00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,079
Speaker 1: which is funny, somebody we were asking to do all

343
00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:07,680
Speaker 1: of last year.

344
00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,080
Speaker 2: Well, the home played umpire Ramone de Jesus really gave

345
00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,800
Speaker 2: him every opportunity in this game.

346
00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,720
Speaker 1: He was getting the greg matic strike zone. To be fair,

347
00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:16,840
Speaker 1: Taiwan did a little bit too, but we don't complain

348
00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:17,680
Speaker 1: when it helps us.

349
00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,680
Speaker 2: He Ramondajezus had one of the worst umpire scorecards I've

350
00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,599
Speaker 2: ever seen in my life. I'm gonna go look it

351
00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:25,200
Speaker 2: up real quick so I can get those exact numbers.

352
00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,240
Speaker 2: But I did seventy six percent or seventy four. Yeah,

353
00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,520
Speaker 2: so that was his called strike accuracy I believe was

354
00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,200
Speaker 2: seventy four percent, and the average or seventy six to

355
00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,280
Speaker 2: seventy seven whatever it was, And the average called strike

356
00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,000
Speaker 2: percentage I believe is around eighty six or eighty seven percent,

357
00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:41,800
Speaker 2: which is just shockingly low.

358
00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,800
Speaker 1: But Joe West said that no, Umpire's blow ninety five. Well,

359
00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:50,440
Speaker 1: Joe West's known truther. Guy's never lied about anything, truthful guy,

360
00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,480
Speaker 1: But that was it was kind of frustrating. But also

361
00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,600
Speaker 1: you can't again, like you said, at least he was

362
00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,520
Speaker 1: like consistently bad like on the umpire scorecard that kind

363
00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,120
Speaker 1: of tells you which which team the halls benefited more,

364
00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,520
Speaker 1: and it was basically a dead heat. So at least,

365
00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,839
Speaker 1: like like you said, Taiwan Tawan also is very good

366
00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,040
Speaker 1: at like kind of understanding the strikes on while he pitches.

367
00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,360
Speaker 1: His command is usually so solid that he can, like

368
00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,520
Speaker 1: fink fit his game plan into what the ump is

369
00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,200
Speaker 1: giving him, and he did that again on Saturday.

370
00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean he ended up pitching well again

371
00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,080
Speaker 2: doing the Taiwan Walker thing, giving us exactly what we need,

372
00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,520
Speaker 2: especially in a doubleheader, you really like to get more

373
00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,400
Speaker 2: than five out of your starter, and him going six

374
00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,720
Speaker 2: for us definitely helped us through this double.

375
00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,080
Speaker 1: Header definitely with five strikeouts, two walks, just one to

376
00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,120
Speaker 1: earn more split changes than fastballs in this one for Taiwan.

377
00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,080
Speaker 1: So different from the slide there we've seen from recently.

378
00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,640
Speaker 1: Slide it was the third most throne pitch, but all

379
00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,960
Speaker 1: three of those pitches kind of grouped at the top,

380
00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,440
Speaker 1: which is the recipe for Tywan Walker becoming this new guy.

381
00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,600
Speaker 1: And I was just pending through some stats today kind

382
00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,440
Speaker 1: of bor just tilling, like waiting for this episode, and

383
00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,880
Speaker 1: he basically has like the exact same stats in the

384
00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,800
Speaker 1: first half this year as he had last year. Yeah,

385
00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,400
Speaker 1: Taiwan's been really good. Quietly, I feel like, super quietly,

386
00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,920
Speaker 1: he's like really playing himself into what could be a

387
00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:56,760
Speaker 1: lucrative winter for him.

388
00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,800
Speaker 2: Definitely, And he just got a do you get Scott

389
00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,200
Speaker 2: Boris this is at his new age now.

390
00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:01,520
Speaker 1: I feel like you've told me that, so I don't

391
00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,240
Speaker 1: know if I'm telling you that You're right, just kind

392
00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,240
Speaker 1: of the echo chamber that you've created. But you think

393
00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:05,800
Speaker 1: told that me.

394
00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,880
Speaker 2: That Okay, yeah, I've ben That means that I did

395
00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,880
Speaker 2: hear that. Then that Scott bors Is and now his agent,

396
00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,760
Speaker 2: so that Scott Boris becomes an agent. That means you're

397
00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,520
Speaker 2: really That means you're really good. That means you're a

398
00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,160
Speaker 2: good player. That means you're gonna get paid. That means

399
00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,600
Speaker 2: that there's something there. Scott Boris doesn't represent bad players.

400
00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,200
Speaker 1: No, we got Boris with Nimo too. This is gonna

401
00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,040
Speaker 1: be fun off season trying to resign these freaking guys.

402
00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,160
Speaker 1: Oh my god, but it's gonna be Yeah, really, Griffin,

403
00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to win. Strowman's pitching well and the cups

404
00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,920
Speaker 1: ball open for some reason, holding us off the board

405
00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,400
Speaker 1: that will. It was nice to see him keep us

406
00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,000
Speaker 1: in this game. Gives a chance to win, but the

407
00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,520
Speaker 1: same annoying thing where the bottomless lineup just wasn't really

408
00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,920
Speaker 1: able to get that big hit. Escobar had a big

409
00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:41,720
Speaker 1: game later, he made a great play to save this game,

410
00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,000
Speaker 1: but the sixth through nine hitters in this lineup had

411
00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,800
Speaker 1: only one hard hit ball on Saturday afternoon, and that

412
00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,560
Speaker 1: one heart the ball was ninety eight miles an hour

413
00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,360
Speaker 1: off Dom Smith's bat. Yeah, it was a bit of

414
00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:51,000
Speaker 1: an abyss.

415
00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,880
Speaker 2: I would say the six through nine spots in this lineup,

416
00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,840
Speaker 2: it was just it was really tough to get anything going,

417
00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,000
Speaker 2: and it just felt like again when we did have

418
00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:59,560
Speaker 2: something going, those guys would come up and they just

419
00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:00,640
Speaker 2: couldn't come through for us.

420
00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,800
Speaker 1: And this tells all this time. We've been talking about

421
00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,160
Speaker 1: this for weeks and weeks and weeks tried they that

422
00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,480
Speaker 1: coming up. Interesting to see what happened, But this game

423
00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,560
Speaker 1: kind of just lulled all the way into extras where

424
00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,760
Speaker 1: we we got how do you wear the ghost run? No,

425
00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,280
Speaker 1: we didn't score with ten to thing, that was it? Yeah,

426
00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,560
Speaker 1: wen't scoring tenth inning and Adam on the Vino pitched

427
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,280
Speaker 1: the ninth, came back out of the tenth, had a

428
00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,440
Speaker 1: fantastic shotdown ending to give us a shot to win

429
00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,720
Speaker 1: this game the eleventh. So in presis of out of vinos,

430
00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:25,680
Speaker 1: there are two winnings, one of them being the tenth

431
00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,720
Speaker 1: with the ghost Runner keeping the Cubs off the board.

432
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,440
Speaker 1: Just he it's crazy to look back at this first

433
00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,640
Speaker 1: half and like kind of even just be able to

434
00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,360
Speaker 1: pinpoint the time and place where he became like the

435
00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,560
Speaker 1: number two man. This bullpen is really bizarre.

436
00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,480
Speaker 2: He's so shut down, he's so good. Like we talked

437
00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:41,800
Speaker 2: about him a lot of the off season. This is

438
00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,600
Speaker 2: someone that we both had circled of, like can we

439
00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,160
Speaker 2: get out out of Vino? Because we know on the

440
00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,600
Speaker 2: stats on Baseball Reference you see the high ra at

441
00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,880
Speaker 2: times in the last few years. You see some walks,

442
00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,200
Speaker 2: and you go, what's so special about him? But every

443
00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,640
Speaker 2: time he dive deeper and deeper into Adam Outavino's numbers,

444
00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,920
Speaker 2: you go, oh, he has like one blow up game

445
00:16:58,120 --> 00:16:58,520
Speaker 2: a year.

446
00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,720
Speaker 1: That screwses Thera. Otherwise he's one of the hardest pitchers

447
00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,240
Speaker 1: to hit in baseball. In terms of relievers, it's not

448
00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,080
Speaker 1: even that. Like I've been preaching to the listeners and

449
00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,600
Speaker 1: to you for a very long time that when you're

450
00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,480
Speaker 1: evaluating relievers, you almost can't take any stat into consideration

451
00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,000
Speaker 1: besides like strikeouts and walks, whiffs. Maybe realistically, and if

452
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,560
Speaker 1: you looked at Adam on the Veno over the years

453
00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,720
Speaker 1: while his era had climbed up, that was a lot

454
00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,320
Speaker 1: of ju the home run ball just again like those

455
00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,800
Speaker 1: big innings, blow up addings, like you said, and you

456
00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,480
Speaker 1: look the strikeouts, they were still there, and you look

457
00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,120
Speaker 1: at the slide there, it was still moving as much

458
00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:26,960
Speaker 1: as it ever has and you look the fastball still

459
00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,600
Speaker 1: had the elite ride and velocity. So this is a

460
00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,000
Speaker 1: guy who very clearly if the ball just falls a

461
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,840
Speaker 1: different way, we'll be an elite reliever and just very

462
00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:33,960
Speaker 1: happy he's doing it for us.

463
00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,600
Speaker 2: And we also have to talk about in this tenth

464
00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,120
Speaker 2: inning because Dom Smith exited the game because he rolled

465
00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,679
Speaker 2: his ankle going back to second base, which I've never

466
00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:41,160
Speaker 2: seen before.

467
00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:42,200
Speaker 1: Hopefully Dom's okay.

468
00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,320
Speaker 2: You know, the ankle, it's always something to keep an

469
00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:45,919
Speaker 2: eye out for, especially the way he rolled it was

470
00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,600
Speaker 2: a pretty brutal role. It looked like really twisted it.

471
00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,280
Speaker 2: Jad Davis comes in to pinch run. This now leaves

472
00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,960
Speaker 2: us with who's going to play first space because Pete A.

473
00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,520
Speaker 2: Lonzo's the DH in this game. Dom Smith's out of

474
00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:57,359
Speaker 2: the game and JD. Davis is in for him, so

475
00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,399
Speaker 2: you have a couple of different options. And can I

476
00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:00,879
Speaker 2: think ran it one point in this game, so he

477
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,720
Speaker 2: couldn't even come in play first base. The Mets like

478
00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,600
Speaker 2: really kind of got handcuffed.

479
00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:05,000
Speaker 1: JD.

480
00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:08,119
Speaker 2: Davis ends up going to first and he makes along

481
00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,520
Speaker 2: with Edwardo Escobar one of the plays of the year

482
00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,359
Speaker 2: where you go Team of Destiny type stuff and Wardo

483
00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,960
Speaker 2: Escobar dives to his left, makes a great play, gets

484
00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,560
Speaker 2: up quickly because he didn't like fully lay out, but

485
00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,560
Speaker 2: somehow still did with the reach, makes a strong throat

486
00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,920
Speaker 2: to first but on a scoop a short hop to JD.

487
00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,640
Speaker 1: Davis, who makes a split stretch scoop. I couldn't even

488
00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,639
Speaker 1: believe it. I don't.

489
00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,080
Speaker 2: I still to this moment am like speechless watching that play.

490
00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,119
Speaker 2: I was screaming, unbelievable JD. Davis, who knew he had

491
00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:38,840
Speaker 2: scoops like that.

492
00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:40,520
Speaker 1: I was listening to this one on the radio. I

493
00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,720
Speaker 1: was on the beach and Wayne was also going crazy.

494
00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,960
Speaker 1: Wayne also found interestingly enough, I believe I remember correct.

495
00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,240
Speaker 1: I grew up in Chicago and a Cubs fan, so yes,

496
00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:49,720
Speaker 1: I feel like it's always funny when you get these

497
00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,040
Speaker 1: announcers like back against their hometown, like listening to like

498
00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,000
Speaker 1: rooting for the Mets. He's like, unbelievable scoop by JD.

499
00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,560
Speaker 1: Davis was very, very funny. But I can't remember with

500
00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,480
Speaker 1: that the tenth eleventh inning when that was the tenth

501
00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:01,560
Speaker 1: so we've still had the eleventh to go.

502
00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, we still had the eleventh to go. This saved

503
00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,240
Speaker 2: the game because basically, if that didn't happen, the game would.

504
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,480
Speaker 1: Have been over. Also, this is something I can't substantiate

505
00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,320
Speaker 1: with stats right now, mostly because I just thought of

506
00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,040
Speaker 1: it at this moment and that didn't do any research.

507
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,280
Speaker 1: And we're also missing our boy Johnny here, Johnny Statohnny

508
00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,480
Speaker 1: Stats producer having a wonderful time galamantic in Italy. I'm sure,

509
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,400
Speaker 1: but jealous. Yeah, it seems like this year the rate

510
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,760
Speaker 1: of scoring in these extra innings has gone down. And

511
00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,879
Speaker 1: this might be anecdotal, but it's something I've seen the

512
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,360
Speaker 1: last few weeks that it seems like these teams might

513
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,880
Speaker 1: be getting smarter defensively and pitching wise how to combat

514
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,879
Speaker 1: the runner on second Because I feel like more and

515
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,840
Speaker 1: more remember that I remember that Yankee game from Pride,

516
00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,000
Speaker 1: they kind of happened, happened when the Yankee Reds game

517
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 1: from this week, that National's Braves game from last weekend

518
00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,680
Speaker 1: to the Sunday. Like, there's been more zeros being thrown

519
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,560
Speaker 1: up in these extra innings than I can recall.

520
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,680
Speaker 2: I think, like you said, teams are just getting smarter.

521
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,159
Speaker 2: I think teams now have had a year plus to

522
00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,439
Speaker 2: work with how do you handle this extra inning? And

523
00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:56,840
Speaker 2: I think there's just kind of a system and like basically,

524
00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 2: if A happens, then B happens, and I think you

525
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,680
Speaker 2: just kind of follow a script in a way.

526
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,399
Speaker 1: That's kind of a good point, but it was this

527
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,760
Speaker 1: got game got tense after that. Once you get no

528
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 1: scoring there get very tense. And that's only able to

529
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,080
Speaker 1: pull up one in the eleventh. But luckily we had

530
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,560
Speaker 1: Edwind Diaz who's just literally unhittable right now. He made

531
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,120
Speaker 1: he made the ghost runner like a complete non issue.

532
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,120
Speaker 2: He's so sick, he's disgusting. He's just like unhittable. And

533
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:22,840
Speaker 2: I'm so happy he's on our team.

534
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, thrilling. Especially with the Josh hades Cole streak. We

535
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,920
Speaker 1: can actually as Mets fans, you can start telling everybody

536
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,680
Speaker 1: that you have the best closer in baseball. It's Edwin ds.

537
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,560
Speaker 1: That's a fact, that's a fact. Edwin Diaz best in

538
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 1: the game.

539
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 2: All Star closer, will be at the All Star Game.

540
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 2: Can't wait to watch him lock it down for the

541
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,160
Speaker 2: National League on Tuesday night.

542
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: Hopefully, and then move on now we'll talk about the

543
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 1: next game. We're dragging on about these boring games here,

544
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 1: we gotta get through. Yeah, we'll move through these. Now, Well,

545
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,080
Speaker 1: let's talk about I want to talk about Max Shares

546
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,119
Speaker 1: are here. I'm all over the place eleven, one of

547
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,640
Speaker 1: our later podcasts recently too.

548
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,879
Speaker 2: Well, it's because you had family party, plus I had

549
00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 2: MLB draft, plus we're remote. It's this one's a little

550
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 2: bit strange, especially going into the All Star weekend. Like not,

551
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,640
Speaker 2: it's a little wonky. We don't particularly get a break

552
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 2: as podcasters because the season doesn't really ever just take

553
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:10,160
Speaker 2: time off.

554
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 1: But this is kind of our semi vacation, even though

555
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 1: the draft is unbelievable. Yeah, and we're gonna do this one,

556
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 1: and we're probably gonna do another episode right before the

557
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 1: Padres series next week, probably something small for you guys,

558
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 1: So there really will be no break in the messed

559
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,359
Speaker 1: up podcast context. But it was very nice that you

560
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 1: got through this double Heather won a big game and

561
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 1: then you have Max sure As are next. Like that's

562
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 1: kind of like if you're doing something as like a

563
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 1: student or a worker, like I have two tasks. One

564
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 1: is really hard, one is significantly easier, or one is

565
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 1: less fun and one is more fun. And you do

566
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: the less one fun one first, and it's hard. You

567
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,399
Speaker 1: don't want to do. It goes against every single thing

568
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: as in your brain saying I want to have fun

569
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,399
Speaker 1: now as much as possible. But when you get it

570
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 1: out of the way and then you have the beautifulness

571
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: in front of you, things feel better.

572
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 2: I was such the opposite student as you could imagine.

573
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,239
Speaker 2: I really didn't like getting in front of things. I

574
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 2: really liked to wait until the last possible minute, like, oh,

575
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 2: this is due at midnight, Okay, tell me at eleven

576
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 2: thirty and I'll get back to you and I'll get

577
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 2: it done by the time. It's not enough time, but

578
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 2: we're but we're closing in. We're getting it close. Yeah,

579
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 2: completely different.

580
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: I'm sure you were a little more studious than me,

581
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 1: and that that was probably a little more. I had

582
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,439
Speaker 1: my ebbs and flows with studiousness while I was in college.

583
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: You know, here and there, whatever happens. But I felt

584
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 1: like in this game, Surezer kind of wasn't the most

585
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 1: locked in. Early he gave up four hits in the

586
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: first two innings. A run came home. There was like

587
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 1: some constant trouble men on bass and then suddenly top

588
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 1: of the third nobody out. Ian Hap steps to the

589
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 1: plate and there's a moment that seemingly locked Max Schuerzer

590
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: and changed the entire game. One of my favorite moments

591
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: I've seen the baseball field his entire season. Going up

592
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 1: against the Madison Bumgarner hands massage from the umpire back

593
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: in April or May whenever that was. But sure there's

594
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 1: a nine pitch battle with Ian Halp strikes him out

595
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: with a fastball right on the black. And the ball

596
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 1: was right on the black. You can look at the

597
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 1: pitch track and you look, you look at the box.

598
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: That ball was right on the black. And Ian Hap,

599
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,959
Speaker 1: I think, has gotten a little bit a little big

600
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 1: for his bridges. Now he's an All Star for the

601
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: first time. And he had a little bit of a

602
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: thing to say with the umpire as he was walking away,

603
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 1: he kept mothering to himself. Umpire threw him out. Exhilarating

604
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: moment for the umpire. Ian Hap spins around, throws his

605
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: helmet like gets his money's worth in the umpire. As

606
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 1: this going on, Max Scherzer looks at him as he's

607
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: stalking around the mound as he does after a strike,

608
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: aut points and says that was an F and strike,

609
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: get off the field. Love it so sick. I was like,

610
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 1: who is this? That's incredible stuff.

611
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 2: Literally I felt the exact same way that you just

612
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 2: explained it, Like I texted my dam like, he's just.

613
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: Not really that sharp to start this game.

614
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: And then that happened and something clicked like you said,

615
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 2: and from then on he was just back to mac

616
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:37,879
Speaker 2: shures are unhittable.

617
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: Absolutely literally after that, gave up four hits in those

618
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 1: first two winnings. Only for the rest of the game

619
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: he gets eight total, But when you look at the

620
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: last few, he really felt like he was cruising. Six

621
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: and a third eleven strike out, twenty one whist with

622
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 1: Leader of the Night Major League Baseball. Just unbelievable performs

623
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: from mister Shuzer. But he said before no ground balls.

624
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: It was weird. It was like none.

625
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, thinking back on it, I don't remember there

626
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 2: being they Probably they flashed.

627
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: They flashed like a banner on sny like in the

628
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 1: seventh inning, right before he came out. I think he

629
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: gave up a grandball single in the semnonnning before he

630
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: came out though, hold him and relieved him. Got to

631
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: have the mini jams man out first. But that was

632
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 1: that was that was cool moment. This is also just

633
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: to give you guys insight to my night. I was

634
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: down the shore this weekend. Did I do one? I

635
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 1: do one night down the shore per year now Jersey

636
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: Shore James, Jersey Shore, James. I do twenty four hours

637
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: a year at the Jersey Shore, No more, no less,

638
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: just exactly exactly twenty four hours worth. And I was

639
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: getting to the bar I was going to as this

640
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 1: inning was going on. I was tracking on my phone.

641
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: My friends are left. They wanted to go into like

642
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: the more the dancy part of the bar, and I

643
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna watch the end of the Mets game.

644
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys in forty five minutes. And I

645
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: sat by myself at the bar and watched this game

646
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: from the seventh inning to the end with these three

647
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 1: guys who came over were gambling, but who had betten

648
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: the Mets earlier and we had we had a wonderful

649
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: time watching it. But I got in right at this

650
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,199
Speaker 1: moment when the seventh inning was going on, and I

651
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: saw that no ground ball thing flash. Also some insight

652
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: from my perspective. I'm texting James throughout this entire game.

653
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: Have no clue.

654
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 2: He's down the shore at a bar, having some adult beverages,

655
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 2: like we've said earlier, So I'm texting him like these

656
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 2: in depth texts. At one point You're like, dude, I can't.

657
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 2: I can't text like this right now. I've had a

658
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 2: few drinks and I it's just a lot we.

659
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: Were I think we're talking about when we're gonna record.

660
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: They're doing some funny in this. I was just like

661
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: I was getting I wasn't. I was getting low level

662
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: baseball analysis back. Yeah, you were. You were giving me

663
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 1: like clearly like dude, I can't handle this right now,

664
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: and I was just fire and back messages. There was

665
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 1: a moment in the now we're just gonna move on

666
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: to extra inning. That's when this game, it felt like,

667
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 1: really started and chaos ensued where Brandon Nimba was the

668
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: ghost runner and he kind of hung out on second waited, waited, wait,

669
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: and the second the ball went across the diamond, I

670
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: think a ball was talking. Marte eventually beat out, if

671
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: I do remember correctly, he just busted ass to third

672
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: and he made it in there and I texted you.

673
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: I was like, that's such a good baseball flight, Like

674
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: I love watching, And I tweeted out Brandon went to

675
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 1: something impressive every single night, and I got three people

676
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: asked me like, what do you even do? I didn't

677
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 1: even know what happened. I was like, I got I

678
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: gotta stop. Listen.

679
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 2: Man, he's he's got that dog in him that's gonna

680
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 2: call up a little bit later in this episode. Yeah,

681
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 2: Nimmo's got that dog.

682
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: This game was this. It was EXCTU ratings, absolute chaos.

683
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: The Mets found a way to score two runs in

684
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: this tenth inning without a hit. Yeah. Pee Alonzo with

685
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 1: the bases loaded on a two strike pitch got nicked

686
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: on his elbow and he just whoop flip. The bat

687
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: walked the first base. He was like, ah, but check

688
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: on wing.

689
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 2: He's got that big elbow guard on and he just went, oh,

690
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 2: it's gonna hit me in the elbow aw man, Ah,

691
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 2: right in the elbow guard.

692
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? Bases loaded hit by pitch.

693
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 1: And then after this, I thought I was kind of

694
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: disappointed because Mark Hanna very uncharacteristically swung at the first pitch,

695
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: hit a dinky ground ball the pitcher. Those two things

696
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 1: I feel like he never does and actually did check

697
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 1: back to the stats. Canna only swings at five point

698
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: three percent of first pitches. That is the bottom fifteen

699
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: percent of the league. Crazy, And you know this is

700
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: funny before we go on this, Tomas Neio over fifteen percent,

701
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: third highest rate in the league for people you see

702
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: at least a hundred pitches. Isn't that bizarre because.

703
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 2: He's had some good at batses year room, I'm like,

704
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 2: good at bat, you worked out a walk, nice.

705
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: But his walker is also at the bottom of the barrel.

706
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: We should maybe stop saying that because it's not sure.

707
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: It's like four percent five percent. Maybe that's why he

708
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: gets so excited when he walks. Yeah, maybe that is it.

709
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: But I thought that was interesting and it did that

710
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: very very strange. But also I guess they did kind

711
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: of feel like had him on the rope jump on a

712
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: fast ball, it just didn't work out and then wind

713
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: up blowing the base again. Luisy Army drew tough walk

714
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: for some reason. I believe it was Michael Gibbons's pitching

715
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: for the Cubs, So I do actually like his stuff. Lie,

716
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: he's been a very good signing for them. Someone else,

717
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: want no, Daniel Norris the pick off you're talking about? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

718
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: he had taken the givens out. The bases are loaded,

719
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: Pee Alonzo on second base, the Cubs with two outs

720
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: and tenth inning down by one. Try the daylight play

721
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: at pie Alonzo, who wasn't really taking that big of

722
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: a lead. Throw the ball in this center field, just

723
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: hand the Mets another run.

724
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: And it looked like this was very much put on

725
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: because right before it there was a mound visit, and

726
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 2: it seemed like the mountain visit was to talk about this.

727
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 2: And he throws into center field gives us another run.

728
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, it ends up being the difference between the

729
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 2: Mets winning this game and going another inning. In extras

730
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: which it's just like David Ross got tossed in this

731
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: game too, so maybe that's a little part of the reason.

732
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: But wait, was your shan Zak got during the tenth

733
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: I remember him chirping with the beer.

734
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 2: Oh oh no, no, you're right, you're right he got

735
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: tossed in game two, because that's he almost got tossed

736
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 2: in Game three.

737
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: Yes, because even after he was also arguing after half.

738
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: I think this whole series was a situation where David

739
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: Ross and the Cups were doing trying a little bit

740
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: too hard. Yeah, Like this was that was just like

741
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: such a baseball Harlough weird moment where you're trying a

742
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: daylight play in the tenth inning, like get the guy out.

743
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: Like I don't even remember who was up. I think

744
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: it was like escobarg or May. It's not someone that

745
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: I'd be running away from trying to get my out.

746
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: Not these guys aren't. Didn't have a good series and

747
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: good players. We'd love every Mets player here, but it

748
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: was it was such a bizarre move and for that

749
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: to have cost them the game like that happened, reverse

750
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: Mets fans would have would need a head on a stake.

751
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that there would be riots, There'd be riots outside

752
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: of City Field if that's the play that they ran.

753
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: Like I could think of times in Mets past where

754
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 2: there have been similar ish situations and something like that

755
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: has happened, and it's like, Okay, I'm gonna turn off

756
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 2: my phone.

757
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay off A twenty for the next twenty

758
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: four hours. But they were chirping so much on the

759
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: dugout too. It seemed like there was a whole conglomeration

760
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: of the coaches who were just being kind of hard

761
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: those and it was like, I don't know, it just

762
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: seemed that seemed like a team that's reeling, like the Cup.

763
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: I think they didn't have expectations year, but probably better

764
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: expectations than they played like. I didn't think that they'd

765
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: think right now they'd be behind the Reds in the

766
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: standings after the way the first three weeks the Pirates, Yeah,

767
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: a good ball club, but the Reds were three and

768
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: twenty two and the Cups are five hundred. Now the

769
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Reds are ahead of them. Just show how to see

770
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: this last two months have gone for the Cups. So

771
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: I do get a lot of guys who are probably

772
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: afraid for their employment or trying to do everything they

773
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: can to maintain it. But to do that in a

774
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: situation where you're only down by one and the Mets

775
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: have no one left in their bullpen besides our king

776
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: Joan Lopez. I can't wait for the stas should be

777
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: built outside City Field. But that was bizarre. And then

778
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: just to get into Yoan for a second, with a legend.

779
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: This guy's building for us legend through forty pitches, two innings,

780
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: ninth and tenth in this game, and got out of

781
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: it with a massive, miraculous double play. Did one of

782
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: the least cobar. Oh my god. They couldn't believe it

783
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: was wisdom too. It doesn't hit ground balls, or for Swindell.

784
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: Schwindell actually had a good series. Couldn't even believe that

785
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: that happened. And it was crazy too. And I was

786
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: talking strangers in the bar.

787
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 2: I don't know who was on third base for the Cups,

788
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 2: but he thought he took or the tying run. He

789
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: was celebrating at home. He've had his hands up.

790
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: He was pumped well Morel's a man of the people.

791
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: If you saw him this series, he was hugging Lindor,

792
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: he was hugging the umpires, he was hugging Pete. He

793
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: was all over the plays. I love watching him play.

794
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: He also made a great catch today on Sunday in

795
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: center field. Well, let's talk about Sunday because the Mets

796
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: win this game. There you go, yeah, they won Game three.

797
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jean has forty pitches by the way,

798
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: just I'm ridiculous his masterclass.

799
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: Before we do get going completely into Game four though,

800
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 2: the Mets are currently on the clock with their second

801
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: round pick, which is probably crazy for you guys to hear,

802
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: because like MLB Draft, how do you get excited? But

803
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 2: that's what me and James live for. You love the

804
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 2: prospect stuff that we do on the podcast. We're about

805
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: to dive into us. But the pick is in for

806
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: the Mets at number fifty two overall. I actually don't

807
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 2: know who's available right now because we've been recording for

808
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 2: the last thirty minutes.

809
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: If Brock porters there, I really want him. I really

810
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: want him.

811
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: But we'll see who they get right before we go

812
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: into game four here. But I mean James your sp one, correct, Mark, Yeah,

813
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 2: Porter is my sp one. I don't actually know if

814
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 2: he's still available or not. Can you are you looking

815
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: that up as well right now? O?

816
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: Farris, Jacob Miller, Jake Bennett, Hunter Barco. That's a strong name.

817
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: Jean Melendez. I was looking up until at Melendez, so

818
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: I do think he's still on the board.

819
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 2: Okay, if they get Brock Porter here, I would be

820
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: I would be through the roof because he was my

821
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: pitcher one in the draft, and we've heard that the

822
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: Mets could be going after a guy like Brock porter Uh.

823
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: They drafted Kevin Parada and Jet Williams. Who will talk

824
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: about here, Uh once we're done wrapping up this series,

825
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 2: because we are getting close to wrapping it up.

826
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: I personally bet Brockporta would be picked under twelve and

827
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: a half. That was a good and I got closing

828
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: line value with a botch That was for the picks off.

829
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: I got murdered in the draft.

830
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: Okay, could you guess who's announcing the pick for the

831
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 2: Mets right now?

832
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: And it's a former player, Andy Chavez. No, I'll give

833
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: you one more guests, give me the timeframe in which

834
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: he played, uh to late twenty tens. Michael Kadire, Rajai Davis?

835
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 2: What raj Davis is announcing the pick and he's literally

836
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 2: saying it right now?

837
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: The pick is? Who is it? Come on, get to it, Rag,

838
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: I need you to be faster. Why are you ted Well?

839
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: Blake Blade Tidwell? I like Blade.

840
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: I like Blade throws really hard. We'll talk about him

841
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: more because I have notes on him. I literally just

842
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 2: scouted him like today, scouted at him, scouted him. Let's

843
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 2: talk about uh, let's talk about two seconds.

844
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: Two seconds. This game stuck just didn't enough again, you can't.

845
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: You can't face Adrian Sampson for a hundred fifteen pitches

846
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: and score two runs. He can't do that. It's not

847
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: allowed to be fair. When was blowing in like crazy lot,

848
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: there were so many flap balls got knocked out. P

849
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: one that got knocked down, when Dori one of the

850
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: got knocked down. Gil mcxicam the McNeil one got knocked

851
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: down really badly too. That Mesica plays. That was such

852
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: a good play by Morell. I was. But as a

853
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: really good ballplayer, he's a great ballplayer. He's some quite good,

854
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: went very.

855
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: Under the radar in prospect circles as a guy who

856
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: just like he has he does all the stuff you

857
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: would like. So I don't know why he did.

858
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: He's he has good size, he hits the ball hard,

859
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: he hits the ball in the air, and he plays

860
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: two positions at basically an elite level and Canadian positions. Yeah,

861
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: like I almost and why he wasn't about the prospect

862
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: It kind of just goes to show, like what these

863
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: prospects lists can miss sometimes because he's fantastic, But just

864
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: as his game was annoying, I'm still super impressed by

865
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: David Peterson. Eight strikeouts and five innings. The guy continues

866
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: to be on top of the strikeout rate leaderboards, like

867
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: since he clicked in the beginning of June. And I

868
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: was just really really impressed by how he got through

869
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: the fourth inning in this game. And while the West

870
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: guard made an error and then Peterson kind of lost

871
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: his command for a little while, ended up walking in

872
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: a run, and he was getting some deep counts. The

873
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: Cubs fans were active, they were cheering, they were chanting,

874
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: and seemed like a situation where the game could have

875
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: gotten out of the hand. And he got a big,

876
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: big strikeout of Nelson Vilaskua. So the nine hitter in

877
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: this line, no one that's like you're really afraid of.

878
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: But just he he got the big strikeout, didn't let

879
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: the inning snowball like something we've seen David Peterson do

880
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: in his prior days before he became elite. And he

881
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: showed a ton, a ton, a ton of emotion, and

882
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: after an inning where he showed a lot of emotion,

883
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: looked like he emptied the tank. We both thought he

884
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: was done he came back out for the fifth inning

885
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: and struck out the one, two, and three hitters in

886
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: the Cubs line in order. Morel Hap and Contrere's Morrell

887
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: Contres have really pissed off Contres, who got really mad

888
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: about that. But he smacked himself in the head like

889
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: ten times seeing that up and down from Peterson being

890
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: able to maintain and stay and while you can pitch

891
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: a exert live every one inning, come back off for

892
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: the next inning and still have your elite stuff. That

893
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: was one of the most impressive things I think he's

894
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: done this entire year. Yeah, I pulled to you.

895
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 2: I was listening to the radio for this portion of

896
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 2: the game because I was looking at apartments out in

897
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 2: Queens because your boy is getting kicked out of his

898
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: apartment in twelve days, so I need to find somewhere

899
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: else to live.

900
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta.

901
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 2: I'm cutting it really close, but I will say I

902
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 2: found a place that I really like, and there's a

903
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: second place that's a backup in case the first one

904
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 2: doesn't work, So I have two spots. The New York

905
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 2: City rent prices are absolutely asinine, and I can't believe

906
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 2: I have to spend this much.

907
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: But shout out of our boy, Jeffrey mckitts, loyal listener.

908
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: I think game cock, I believe right Mark, and we've

909
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: met him at the game, at least i've met him,

910
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: I think once or twice at games. He was dressed

911
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: very proper too. You'll know who you are, Jeffrey. Oh,

912
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: that's him. I believe that's him. Less. I'm misremembering right now,

913
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: but I think that's him. He is. He works real

914
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: estate in the city, and he actually hit me up

915
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: because Mark and I had both been looking for apartments

916
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 1: and he was trying to help. So shout out you, dude. Well,

917
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: I didn't use him. Oh, I've talked him for a

918
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: while about stuff, but he's like, I can because it's hard. Yeah. No,

919
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: And I'm sure he's probably more Manhattan rather than Queen's

920
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, Yeah, he was. He said

921
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: he was talking about the place that was being showed

922
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: in grammar Sy, a two bedroom for like almost eight

923
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: grand that got bit up to ten. It's like it's

924
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: just it's just it's just hell out here right now.

925
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I guess. Really, it's hard, hard, so

926
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: annoying for an apartment. The whole reason we haven't been

927
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: doing more Zoom episodes because the house I lived in,

928
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: I just this whole content thing is very new to me.

929
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: And I was very happy to move from my old

930
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: place my new place, cause my old place was like

931
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: a bit of legal bedroom like one was no window,

932
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: no closets kind of thing. I was just kind of

933
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: kind of trying to trying to make something happen for

934
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: the last few months, kind of like the office that

935
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: you lived in in this apartment, Yeah right, literally, well

936
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: that has a skylight, so we have got in a closet,

937
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: so fancy now the window, but I was living in

938
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: it was like kind of like living in a bucket

939
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: where I had like I had like from above but

940
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 1: very good natural light. But so I was like really excited.

941
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: I got a cheap bedroom in the neighbor in my

942
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: neighborhood I was living in with a closet and a window,

943
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: big room too, enough room for a nice sized desk.

944
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 1: But I just knew to the world of content creation.

945
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: Didn't think about just the whole noise factor. And I'm

946
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: on the main road and it is so loud. Guys

947
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: try and record shows like I was editing for them.

948
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 1: Before the Mets took over, so we haven't done Zoom

949
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: because I want to object a new editor to this

950
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: because it's it's just intense, like all day and all night, motorbikes,

951
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: fast cars, loud radios, people screaming. It never ever stops

952
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: the garbage truck, Like I only I can't believe the

953
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: time they collect garbage in the street. It's absolutely obscene,

954
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. So that's why we have them do more

955
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: Zoom episodes. But I just can't move because the rent

956
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: are so crazy. I just to move into this one,

957
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: even though it's not like a long term least I

958
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: would have, just like it's impossible. So we'll see what happens.

959
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 2: Gonna be spending quite a bit of money to live

960
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 2: in New York City, but that's what I do for

961
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 2: this podcast. I'll stay in the city for you guys

962
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: dedicated to the game.

963
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, New York City is amazing. You know why the

964
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: rent are so good because everybody wants to live here

965
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: because it's Yeah, rent would be low if nobody wanted

966
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: to live here, they'd be like Philly or Atlanta or

967
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: one of those cities you know exactly. Oh, rent so cheap.

968
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: I love living these places. I guess that's a nice

969
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: apartment for nothing. Yes, it's because you have to drive

970
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes to go to go to a fun bar.

971
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: It's not New York City, the best city in the world,

972
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: with the best fans in the world. That's called pandering

973
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: right there. Half of them the Mets fans, not the

974
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: Yankees fans. Okay, yeah, of course that's true. But we're

975
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: talking about David Peterston. Now we have to talk about

976
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: one of our guys who had another bad adding in

977
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: this one, Drew Smith. Drew Smith needs this All Star

978
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: break more than oxygen. It's like, relatively it was a

979
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: relatively bad starting. The stats or the outcome was bad,

980
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: but like he kind of got dinged in dwink a

981
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: little bit because the couple hits that did through at

982
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: the beginning were like they just snuck by the middle

983
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: ens field and it was like if you were in

984
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: a different spot maybe, or if they shifted differently, which

985
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: is also hard with a lot of this Cub team

986
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: because they don't have very good hitters. It's just the

987
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: top of the world is not bad at all. The

988
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: top four can play, Yes, definitely, they can play. They

989
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: can swing it. It was just a little bit of unluckiness.

990
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 2: Plus the slider is definitely a little bit more of

991
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: a spinner right now, I think for Drew Smith, so

992
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: like you said, you also break I think could help

993
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: him a little bit. His arm is still relatively young too,

994
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: in terms of pitching.

995
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: He also not even relatively young. Drew Smith has just

996
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: had a lot of arm trouble in recent years, and

997
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 1: he hasn't really gone through this up and down grind

998
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: of a season kind of yet He's always, including last year,

999
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: he's always had to take time off, so you worry

1000
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: something we might be trending towards. And also I look

1001
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: back at his pitch data and you see the fastball

1002
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: has lost some velocity down from the peak where it

1003
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: was early in the season. And you see that the

1004
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: slider's moving significantly less recently over the last month, especially today,

1005
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: he wasn't moving. It all seemed like no and maybe

1006
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: that was the win, Maybe that was the grip. I

1007
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: don't know. It's a game, but Drew Smith is someone

1008
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: who went from being our number two options bullpen to

1009
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: being someone who now seems like probably should be moved

1010
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 1: back a notch in terms of leverage.

1011
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think maybe just eas in. Trevor ma should

1012
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 2: be coming back soon too, which I think will also

1013
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 2: majorly help this bullpen along with Drew Smith, because that's

1014
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 2: a guy who's going to be high leverage right.

1015
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: From the start. Yeah, and it's just probably just get

1016
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: take this week and we'll see where we're at. But again,

1017
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: the bottom line this game, it looks worse than Drew

1018
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 1: Smith now, but you can't score two runs off Adrian

1019
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: Samson for one hundred and fifteen pitches. Mets in these

1020
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 1: three games after Thursday scored eight runs in three games

1021
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: and to a miracle. It's like you look back at that,

1022
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: you're like, you're very fortunate to have won two of them.

1023
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: That's all great pitching, great defense, But if you could

1024
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: have just scored a miler amount of runs in these games,

1025
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: you will have swept the cups. And that leaves you

1026
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: with that bittersweet kind of frustrated feeling.

1027
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 2: I gotta find that stat. Oh here it is ready

1028
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 2: for this when the Mets have Oh no, that's hitting

1029
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 2: the over What was the stat about scoring over four runs?

1030
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: It was like it was like fifty seven and four

1031
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: or something.

1032
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: I got it, Okay, So this comes from at Mets

1033
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: News Moves on Twitter. I don't know the guy, but

1034
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 2: this is a really cool stat He said that the

1035
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 2: Mets are fifty two and eleven when they score more

1036
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 2: than two runs in a game, fifty two and eleven,

1037
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 2: forty one games over five hundred, just three runs fifty

1038
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 2: two and eleven, and I think if they scored more

1039
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: than four, they basically have lost like two or three

1040
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 2: games this year. So the pitching has been cash money.

1041
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 2: I think that's that's a really fun thing to take

1042
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: out of this. And the defense, which is big, yeah,

1043
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 2: and the offense at times will be ice called like

1044
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 2: we've seen, but even still like they they are not

1045
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 2: as bad as everyone thinks it not as good as

1046
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: everyone thinks, you know.

1047
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just if you get this hot and cold sense,

1048
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: because you're not like the Braves or the Yankees or

1049
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: these teams that barrel up the ball at will, you

1050
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: are kind of succumbed to whether your balls drop or

1051
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: are caught. And like a gay like today, where the

1052
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: wind is blowing in and the balls that could have

1053
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: gone out of the stadium don't, and when Christopher Morell

1054
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: makes a great sliding playing center field and you're hitting

1055
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: the ground balls. You're just not that that's it. Sometimes

1056
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: it's not gonna score a lot of runs, and it

1057
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: just sucks that the Mets seem to have been stacking

1058
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: these games for a couple of weeks now, and you

1059
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: just think, is there is there a way out? Is

1060
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: there a batmark that can get the Mets out of

1061
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: these doll drums? Want soda?

1062
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 2: Well, really, Uncle Steve, give them a call. Call up

1063
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: the learners, right the learners is the Nationals.

1064
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: Owners, the learners, Mike Rizzo.

1065
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, give them a call and say, hey, listen, we

1066
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 2: got a package for you, and we want won soda

1067
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 2: so he can be a Met for life. Because how

1068
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: great would it be that, like, in the span of

1069
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 2: two years to get Max Suers or once from the

1070
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 2: Nationals to the Mets.

1071
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: We're being a little like a tongue in cheek right now,

1072
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: But can I can I ask you a very serious question. Yeah,

1073
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: give me a I'm taking the Mets out of the equation.

1074
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: What do you think is the percent chance that Juan

1075
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: so Though actually is traded in the next two weeks?

1076
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: Next two weeks, I think ten percent chance. I don't

1077
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: think he's traded in the next two weeks. I think

1078
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: this is an offseason trade.

1079
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 2: I think this is an offseason trade one because I

1080
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 2: think the Nationals probably are still going to continue to

1081
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 2: try and get Wan Soa to sign a long term contract.

1082
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: Apparently the reasoning behind it was because it was so backloaded,

1083
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: and that, of course, if you're Wan Soda, that makes

1084
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 2: it really really hard to be traded. Then if the

1085
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 2: Nationals continue to stink, and I'm sure he wants to

1086
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,439
Speaker 2: continue to be on competitive teams and continue to win,

1087
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 2: it's just gonna help him in the long term, especially

1088
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 2: for a guy who may mean he's twenty three, buddy,

1089
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 2: he's on a Hall of Fame track.

1090
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: We know what it is. And also if you're one,

1091
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: so though, I don't want backloaded money, like why are

1092
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: you backloading my money? I should be getting the best

1093
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: contract in the history of the game, Like I'm the

1094
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: most I'm the craziest free agent ever. Scott Boards is

1095
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: not signing a backloading contract.

1096
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 2: Money is worth more now than it is later. So

1097
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 2: I think that he's not gonna get trade at the deadline.

1098
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 2: I think that's a lot of good reporting. I think

1099
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: there is a chance if someone comes in and Wowsden Nationals.

1100
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the Mets. I you drop dropped the baseball?

1101
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: Was baseball? Twirling baseball around?

1102
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 2: Got a baseball next to me too that I've been

1103
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: fiddling around with here, very fid of the episode.

1104
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 1: Got the episode.

1105
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 2: If are you a baseball fan? If you don't have

1106
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: a baseball around at all times?

1107
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: I keep it on my desk at home too. Well.

1108
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 2: Back to wan so Tho, I think for the right

1109
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 2: move he gets or for the right package he gets moved,

1110
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 2: but I doubt that it comes this year.

1111
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: And you kind of have to think about it logically,

1112
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: like thinking about just the trademark and how trades happen.

1113
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 1: There only are probably six ish teams that can trade

1114
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: for wan So though, maybe seven that can trade, and

1115
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: probably only four that can actually are willing even have

1116
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: the capability to lock him up long term and lock

1117
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: him up long term. Is the Mets, the Yankees, the Dodgers,

1118
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: maybe the Padres, maybe the Red Sox.

1119
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 2: I can totally see him being like, if I'm gonna

1120
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 2: give money to one guy, it will.

1121
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: Be this is the one. Yeah, Like they will be

1122
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: arguably the best hitter in baseball. And then if you

1123
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: extend out like who can actually put together a package

1124
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: for so though you have to include the Mariners, the Rays,

1125
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: and the Guardians, and I get because the strength of

1126
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: their farm systems. The sneaky team that can I think

1127
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: put a package together too, Pirates. I think the Rockies good.

1128
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: I guess who they put.

1129
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 2: They've pan Tovar, they have all those young catching prospects

1130
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 2: that are good. They just had a pretty good draft

1131
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 2: and grab some big names as well that are gonna

1132
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 2: be high on prospectless they It's a weird fit for sure,

1133
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 2: but I think the Rockies could be in the conversation

1134
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 2: and they weirdly spend money on Chris Bryant, so why

1135
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 2: not spend more on want Sodo?

1136
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: Well, I guess at that point then the Diamondbacks would

1137
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: be in play as well. Yeah, I think the Orioles

1138
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: technically would be in play as well.

1139
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 2: If there's ever if there's ever a guy, this is

1140
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: the guy you trade everybody for, and you I.

1141
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: Have to imagine that what the Nationals want would be

1142
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,919
Speaker 1: similar to kind of what they got when they trade

1143
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: the war Sers or internal last year. It's gonna be more,

1144
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: of course, but they seemingly want guys who have less risk,

1145
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: and you get less risk the closer you are to

1146
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: the major leagues, definitely, So I have a feeling that

1147
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: they really want a young control arm who has one

1148
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: either being track record of major league success or close

1149
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: proximity to the major leagues or a guy and then

1150
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 1: the whole slew of guys is to have ridiculous upsides.

1151
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: So with the Mets, you kind of can offer that

1152
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: with Peterson McGill. The Mariners can offer that with George Kirby,

1153
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: which would be crazy. The Padres can offer that Mackenzie Gore.

1154
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: The Yankees triple A rotation I've said a lot to

1155
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: you is basically a major league rotation down there with

1156
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: Walda Chuck Schmidt. They have a lot of pitching down there.

1157
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: So I feel like if you could anchor your deal,

1158
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: which this is something I don't think the Rockies can do,

1159
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And the dining back something

1160
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: can do this either, and the Ools maybe can now.

1161
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: But I think that if I'm the Nationals, I would

1162
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: rather keep one so in my division than keep him

1163
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: in my county. Definitely with Baltimore, like that would be

1164
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: hell if you send him to Baltimore and he just

1165
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 1: comes a Hall of Famer. It's like a Mets Yankee trade, like, yeah, yeah,

1166
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: I guess he put less animosity, but still probably miserable

1167
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: for you to answer to ownership in the media. But

1168
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: you have to kind of anchor this negotiation on a guy,

1169
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: and of course I just mentioned guys with vastly different

1170
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: value profiles between David Peterson and George But yeah, it's

1171
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: crazy that the way Peterson's pitch this year kind of

1172
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: does get you in that conversation, and then not many

1173
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: other teams can stack two prospects like Alvarez and Baty

1174
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: on top of each other. While the depth of the

1175
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: Mets pharm system is not great and there probably isn't

1176
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: a lot of quantity they can offer if the Nationals

1177
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: do want quality, it seems like a lot right now.

1178
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy to come out of my mouth

1179
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: and say these words, but theoretically a package of Peterson, Alvarez,

1180
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: Baby Ziegler, pict your next minor league at Marisio Ramirez,

1181
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: that that gets you in the room at least gets

1182
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: a conversation going. I mean, anytime Alvarez is in the conversation,

1183
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: I think people are listening, and it's not that we're saying,

1184
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: let's trade Francis Quad. No, we're not. We're not. We're

1185
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: not advocating training in these people either. We're just saying

1186
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: in terms of like trying to get inside the minds

1187
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: of what these executives think, like trying to like kind

1188
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: of instruct you guys, and what we've learned from just

1189
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: being around this game for a little while, what seemingly

1190
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: gets these things done. Like I don't know what other

1191
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: team can stack to impact offensive prospects like the Mets

1192
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: right now. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough

1193
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: to find one. Like even like the Yankees have Volpi,

1194
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't know the second best hitting prospect like Peraza

1195
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: or I guess Domingas they do, or the Dodgers they

1196
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: have far Taia, but they they just acquire the catcher

1197
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: from the Dodgers. Who is defense first? Like do you

1198
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: think they want another one? Like doesn't make no Kartaia hits.

1199
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 1: He's not defense first, guy, I thought he's defense first.

1200
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: But you also know big hit or big hitter? Really okay,

1201
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: big hitter, which also that kind of contradicts me talking

1202
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: about Alvarez because the national is just trade for Keibert.

1203
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: Ruiz is a fantastic player, but I just I don't

1204
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: see the other I guess. I guess Krtaia and Vargas

1205
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: is a pretty amazing offer. Well, these have more pitchers.

1206
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1207
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 2: I mean really at the end of the day, like

1208
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 2: these wan so to talks for one on this podcast.

1209
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 2: It's just fun because he's one of the best players

1210
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 2: in the league and the Mets will definitely be in

1211
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: the conversations I think, or at least in the rumor

1212
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 2: mill for a guy for a team that could be

1213
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 2: after wan so too, especially after some of the news

1214
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 2: that has been breaking that the Mets seem like they

1215
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 2: would be a really good fit for a guy like

1216
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 2: jan so doa not to mention, he had that Instagram

1217
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 2: post back when he was visiting City Field last year

1218
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: where he was basically like, I don't get to I

1219
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 2: think the rough train was I don't I can't make

1220
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 2: decisions myself. I let God like have the stuff fall

1221
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 2: in place. And it was at City Field with the

1222
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 2: apple in the background. He can't say he wants to

1223
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 2: be on the Mets, but that feels like he said

1224
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 2: he wanted to be and.

1225
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: The other thing about one. So though we've kind of

1226
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: seen this with the players that the Mets have like

1227
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: attracted in recent years Yankees as well, Like there's not

1228
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: that many cities in America that offer as much like

1229
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: Dominican culture as New York. Like I can't even tell

1230
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: you another one. Maybe miac maybe somewhere in Florida where

1231
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: it's actually close in proximity. But like, if you want,

1232
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: you're going to be be ratching people, like this is

1233
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: the place to be. Yeah, that being said, probably not happening.

1234
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: Definitely not this year, at least, I don't think it's

1235
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: a possibility. This theme that has started now seems like

1236
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: these conversations happening are interesting that he could be the

1237
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: most valuable player to ever be traded at least since

1238
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: a Rod outside of Babe Ruth. I guess I get me.

1239
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: We're going way back there. We're going years the dude

1240
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: was traded for a Babe Ruth. You're talking about my

1241
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: I'm talking about boss here, we're talking about the guy

1242
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:59,760
Speaker 1: who was, you know, playing with plumbers. It's eleven thirty

1243
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: five at night. We're starting to get crazy. We're getting

1244
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: into the deep hours. No in the reconditioning my house

1245
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: right now because it's too loud in recording. I'm sweating,

1246
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 1: my sisters, Texan, I'm sweating.

1247
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 2: I've been looking around for where I put my water.

1248
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 2: I seemingly came into this room without my my water today,

1249
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: which is just a mistake. But I don't know enough

1250
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 2: one Soto talk. Let's talk about the last thing here today,

1251
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 2: which is going to be the MLB Draft. Oh, we

1252
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 2: still have the home run derby preview too, we'll talk

1253
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 2: about that. But talk about the MLB draft. Because the

1254
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 2: Mets had three picks in the first two rounds.

1255
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: I believe, at least the first more than we just

1256
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: haven't gone to yet.

1257
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 2: Okay, through the first fifty two that we have seen,

1258
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 2: the Mets have three picks. And with the eleventh pick overall,

1259
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: they went with Kevin Parratta. With the fourteenth pick overall,

1260
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 2: they went with Jet Williams. And with the fifty second

1261
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 2: pick overall, they went with Blade. Don't call me Blake

1262
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 2: Tidwell and Blair think there is a.

1263
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: Blake Tidwell who has been in the league. Like a

1264
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: prosy picture, I feel like Diamondbacks.

1265
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 2: But go on, Uh, fun fact about Blade Tidwell. His

1266
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 2: first name is Jansen Hold.

1267
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 1: Really that's a bad first name. Jansen j A n

1268
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: z E n Jans. I take it back. That's strong,

1269
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: Blade and to z in the name.

1270
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 2: That's strong, and let me tell you something about Blade

1271
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 2: did well too.

1272
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:07,959
Speaker 1: Strong kid throws heat.

1273
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 2: I go really really hard in the draft stuff, and

1274
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: I figure since he's the most recent pick, I'll talk

1275
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 2: about him real quickly. Right handed pitcher out of Tennessee

1276
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 2: Pitching Factory. This past year, they've just had crazy, crazy

1277
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 2: arms and they're gonna have possibly the number one pick

1278
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: overall next year with one of their pitchers. But he's

1279
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 2: a big dude who throws some serious chet. He sits

1280
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 2: in the upper nineties, has a really really good slider

1281
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 2: and a good curveball along with a changeup which is

1282
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 2: probably his second best pitch, and gets a ton of

1283
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 2: swings and misses. I believe it had one of the

1284
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,760
Speaker 2: highest swing and mis rates in all of college baseball.

1285
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 2: He has easy, clean mechanics and he's still getting stronger.

1286
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: Didn't throw a lot of innings this year in college,

1287
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 2: which is why he's kind of falling in that fifty

1288
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 2: ish range. And he has four good pitches, which is

1289
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 2: not really something you find a lot in college pitchers.

1290
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 2: My notes, I said, I don't know why people aren't

1291
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 2: higher on him. I had him as my seventeenth ranked

1292
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 2: prospect in the MLB draft, and this is before the

1293
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: or anybody who was rumored to him. This was just

1294
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 2: me doing unbiased national reporting here. Blade Tidwell was seventeenth

1295
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 2: for me. I thought he was phenomenal.

1296
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything I've seen, I'm not as deep into the

1297
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: draft as you because the MB draft it kind of

1298
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: just frustrates frustrates me because it's not like a grab

1299
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: talent draft. It's about like finakeling your slot money, which

1300
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: kind of makes it like a like a fool's errand

1301
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: to try and predict, even though I was that fool

1302
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: today and just lost plenty of money. Yeah, trying to

1303
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 1: figure out this draft. But I'd like what I see.

1304
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: And also it's so rare that you see a college

1305
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: pitcher with throws with that much heat have a developed

1306
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: change up already at this age, and changeup isn't like

1307
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: really the desirable pitch at this point in baseball, but

1308
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: just having that to go along with functional breaking balls,

1309
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: that seems like this guy has a bit of a ceiling. No,

1310
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: he definitely we have to talk about just the fact

1311
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: that the Mets last year seemed to hit him like

1312
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: seven rip pitchers outside of the first round. So I

1313
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: kind of trust in there pitching scathing and pitching development

1314
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: track record early on with this new regime.

1315
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 2: And to be fair, if there was any like hear

1316
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 2: him say, he's got a good fastball change up, Oh,

1317
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 2: what do the Mets do really well?

1318
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: James? What pitch to the Mets seem to know how

1319
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: to fix slither baby? And that's and that's a pitch

1320
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: that's decent for him. Imagine what minutes with Jeremy Heffner, Yeah.

1321
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 2: Twenty minutes, a little sprinkle of the heftter magic. And

1322
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 2: I'm really excited about Blade tid Well. I really like

1323
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 2: that second round pick. And then let's talk about the

1324
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 2: first round picks, because, like I said, at eleven, we

1325
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 2: went with Kevin Parada catcher out of Georgia Tech.

1326
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: Now, that might, whether it was a blaze, might be

1327
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: a little.

1328
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 2: Confusing for you guys at home, because you're like, well,

1329
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,240
Speaker 2: we have Francis Gualvrez, why would we draft another catcher.

1330
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 2: Here's how it works in baseball, you draft the best players.

1331
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 2: You can never have too many good players because you

1332
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 2: don't know necessarily as good as Francis Gualverres is as

1333
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 2: great as we know he's going to be, there's a

1334
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 2: world where Kevin Parada could be better or Francis Galvarez

1335
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 2: takes a step back. So you always just get good players.

1336
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 2: And a guy like Kevin Parada was one of the

1337
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 2: best pure hitters in the entire draft, and he fell

1338
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 2: to eleven, a guy who was mocked sometimes inside the

1339
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 2: top five. I had him as my number six best

1340
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 2: player in the draft.

1341
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: The dude Rakes a draft guy like a lot hires

1342
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: you than He used to work for sports Invo Solutions.

1343
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: I think he interned with the Mets. Also, he said

1344
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: that he had Parada as a top five player in

1345
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: this draft, and he said currently if he was making

1346
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: a prospectless, he would have the Mets as having the

1347
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: two best hitting catchers in the entire show. Yeah, Kevin

1348
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: is pretty interesting. He has a super weird stance, but

1349
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: it does it doesn't matter because at point of contact

1350
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: and like through his mechanics, everything he gets just like

1351
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: everybody else, all the great hitters. He looks like it.

1352
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 2: He has an insane lower half, his legs and his

1353
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: hips fire through, and he gives him incredible bat speed

1354
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 2: as well, really good eye walked a ton cut down

1355
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 2: the strikeouts in his sophomore year at Georgia Tech. He

1356
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 2: might not be a catcher for the future. That's like

1357
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 2: the knock on Kevin Parada is that maybe he's not

1358
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 2: a catcher. He might be a first baseman. It might

1359
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 2: be a corner outfield guy in the future. But they

1360
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 2: do believe that he's athletic enough where it's not gonna

1361
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 2: be a problem because.

1362
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,919
Speaker 1: He rakes so much. Yeah, that's almost I love hearing

1363
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: that from catchers. When you tell me a catcher can

1364
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: move to another position, that means he's just that good

1365
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,439
Speaker 1: of a hitter. It doesn't the ar rest doesn't really matter,

1366
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: And is he good at all? Behind the dish? He's okay,

1367
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: I mean like it. It's tough because there's no catching

1368
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: defensive metrics in college by any means.

1369
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 2: And depending on who you ask. You asked the Georgia

1370
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 2: Tech coach, you go great behind the plate because that's

1371
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 2: his guy. You ask some experts on MB you know,

1372
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 2: network or whatever. It's gonna be they'll give you some

1373
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 2: differing opinions watching him. I think he's okay, but he's

1374
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 2: also handling college pitching. It's a little bit different. All

1375
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 2: I care about is the dude absolutely mashes. And they

1376
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 2: said he's probably gonna be a middle of the order

1377
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 2: bat for the future, who's gonna hit twenty five to

1378
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 2: thirty home runs a year.

1379
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: It's cool, Like how that sounds.

1380
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 2: I love how that sounds a little bit different than

1381
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 2: the next guy that we took at fourteen. We took

1382
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 2: Jet Williams, who couldn't be smaller. I mean, like, that

1383
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that he's not good by toy. Jet Williams

1384
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 2: is actually quite a ballplayer. My big thing is he's

1385
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 2: got the dog in him. If you don't know the

1386
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 2: Twitter meme, Jet Williams.

1387
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: Has that dog in him.

1388
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 2: He's gritty, he's scrappy, and he is a really good player.

1389
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 2: Experts around baseball love him, love him despite being a

1390
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 2: really really small player. Drawing compsta Jose al Tuve, I

1391
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 2: think strictly because of the size, I don't see it

1392
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 2: with his swing. That being said, he does hit the

1393
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 2: ball hard. He plays a good shortstop, has a strong arm.

1394
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 2: He was ranked where did I rank Jet Williams and

1395
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 2: my thing, I don't rank that twenty eight on my

1396
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 2: rankings for the almby draft prospects. What does it matter

1397
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 2: who am? I doesn't matter absolutely nobody. He rips the

1398
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 2: ball though, and he's a great athlete, doesn't swing and miss.

1399
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,760
Speaker 2: It's one of those things that you can't really explain

1400
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 2: until you watch the guy play. You see five foot eight,

1401
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 2: and however, you know much he weighs, and you get

1402
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 2: a little discouraged because of the size. But he's a

1403
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 2: ripped five eight, he's jacked, and he crushes baseballs absolutely.

1404
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 1: He was ranked twenty one on Baseball America's board. Tidball

1405
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,800
Speaker 1: is actually ranked twenty seven. So the Mets per Baseball

1406
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: America three top thirty players. Parada was their sixth player.

1407
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 1: And something you kind of knows the similarity between Parata

1408
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,399
Speaker 1: and Jet, even though they're vastly different sized and look

1409
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: guys that they both don't have very much swing and

1410
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: miss in their game. They seem like the mess prioritized

1411
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: swing decisions with these guys, which I feel like is

1412
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: probably the hardest skill to master as a prospect. You

1413
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: see a team like the Rays, they also like to

1414
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: prioritize swing decisions and then try to develop the power

1415
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: later on. The Guardians are a team that does that well.

1416
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: Two teams that develop players very very well to these

1417
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: farm systems in baseball. You've seen the Rays do that

1418
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: literally this year in season with Eastak peretis a guy

1419
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 1: who always had great swing decisions but didn't really have

1420
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: exactly the best like hit angle or a spray angle,

1421
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: and they've just fixed that in like twenty minutes. So

1422
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: you see that, and you see you see kind of

1423
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: see like big where we haven't used in a while. Process.

1424
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: You see a process with these two Mets picks. You've

1425
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 1: got a guy with good swing decisions who hit the

1426
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: ball hard. You think you could probably move through the

1427
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 1: system kind of well. And we also see which at

1428
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: Williams that the small guy in baseball might be coming

1429
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: back a little bit. A two Bay started that Bregman

1430
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: is tiny, Mookie Betts is not a big guy. So

1431
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: being in this own draft Tamar Johnson's five eight and

1432
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: he got drafted fourth overall, people love the fit like

1433
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: people just love the value there. So you kind of

1434
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: see this kind of small guy revolution happening pictures too.

1435
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 1: We've talked about I've talked about small pittures a little

1436
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: bit on here in the past. Like you see Spencer

1437
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: streither like looks like one of the most unassuming guys

1438
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: like ever, and you see that as actually a tystical

1439
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 1: advantage to it. So happy with these Mets two picks.

1440
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,280
Speaker 1: The draft is a crapshoot, though, we'll see what happens.

1441
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: I got something free. Height doesn't measure heart. There you go.

1442
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: That's yeah, I have on my wall over there. You

1443
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: guys can't see it out of the frame, you know

1444
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: where that you know what that is?

1445
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 2: Right?

1446
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: What it's Marcus Struman saying I had to use that.

1447
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: That was on a t for me.

1448
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 2: But I got a fun fact about Jet Williams right

1449
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 2: for this one. Hm, So he's from Texas, Jet Williams.

1450
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 2: That's a strong Texas.

1451
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: Name if I've ever heard one as Texas names I've

1452
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 1: heard besides, like, I was think of some corterback and

1453
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,720
Speaker 1: names here with some funny Texas names. You know, Chase Crawford,

1454
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: the guy from the Boys, that's a Texas name. Baker Mayfield,

1455
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield Texas name. Oh god, there's a.

1456
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 2: Lot of text names, but fun fact Jet Williams, not

1457
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 2: actually necessarily a Texas guy, might be a little more

1458
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 2: New York than anyone even knew. He's like from Long Island,

1459
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 2: Port Jefferson, he said, from about ages two to four.

1460
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 2: He doesn't remember he was a young and but he

1461
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 2: lived in Port Jefferson, Long Island. His dad and brother

1462
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 2: both went and graduated from Stony Brook. His brother played

1463
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 2: lacrosse there. So he's actually got a little New York

1464
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 2: blood in him. That's like five points for me, five extra.

1465
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: Points definitely, And just you kind of saw this coming

1466
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: with the mess something actually I predicted to you personally

1467
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: that you have these two picks in the top fifteen

1468
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: to take two bad so you have to think could

1469
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: be fast movers with high floors, which looks like they did,

1470
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: even though Jet is a high schooler. It's the good

1471
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: swing decisions helps me out, and the defensive versatility, and

1472
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: then it seems like you just you just pepper upside pitchers.

1473
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: You get these guys who probably you're not gonna have

1474
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: to pay that much for slot relative to their slot value,

1475
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: and then you just swing for the fences as you

1476
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: can go forward.

1477
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 2: You know, I really like what the Mets have done

1478
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 2: with the draft so far. There are some names that

1479
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 2: I thought that the Mets could have taken at these

1480
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 2: spots that they didn't end up doing. I really trust

1481
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 2: what you know, Tommy Tannis and the Mets player Development

1482
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 2: apartment department has done. They've pulled some guys out of nowhere.

1483
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 2: I mean, what they've done with the international prospects, what

1484
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 2: they've done with the draft guys last.

1485
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: Year have been really, really good.

1486
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 2: So I'm really excited to see what these guys do

1487
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 2: and can't wait to see them. Maybe get to Brooklyn

1488
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,439
Speaker 2: and hopefully you can talk to some of these guys.

1489
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 2: They we have a couple of prospects that could be

1490
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 2: top guys that speak a little more English too, which

1491
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 2: would help buster for some interviews.

1492
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: I mean, are you can come. We're fine with mixing

1493
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: and mixing the languages here. But also just cool to

1494
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: see that. I totally lost my trean thought for a second.

1495
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Cool to see the Mets are gonna

1496
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: have this incredible influx of talent and as they rank

1497
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: generally between the twenty and twenty fifth farm system, you're

1498
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: getting potentially five impact players. I could send the mess

1499
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: prospect ranking up a few slots just off the bat. Yeah, no,

1500
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: it's great and give you more depth to trade from.

1501
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: Of course, which I found out you can't trade draft

1502
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: pis until after the World Series. I didn't know that.

1503
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: I know they thought the opposite of that. Yeah, that's it.

1504
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: It used to be you couldn't trade them for a year.

1505
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: That became a new rule. That's a fix. After the

1506
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: World Series you can trade them.

1507
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 2: But hey, Kevin Parrada, Jet Williams Blade didwell. Welcome to

1508
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 2: New York, Welcome to Queens. I'm sure they'll probably be

1509
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: at the stadium relatively soon because they got drafted as

1510
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 2: soon as they signed.

1511
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can have a nice conversation with you. Guys,

1512
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 1: would love to chat. Yeah, future guests of the Mets

1513
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: Up Podcast. Last thing we're gonna do here. Oh no,

1514
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: we still have Oh we have no serious preview. It's

1515
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: the also serious prieving the Homer Derby at the Home

1516
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: Run Derby. Here we go. I'm gonna let you take it.

1517
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: Then take your preview, all right, we got the hor

1518
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: Run Derby coming up on Monday. Pete Alonzo is looking

1519
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: to become only the second player in the history of

1520
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: the Home Run Derby we started. I believe in nineteen

1521
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: eighty four eighty five. It's either eighty four or eighty five.

1522
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: And I believe Darryl will Or he did Wally Joiner

1523
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: tied CoA champions. Well, we're gonna give We're gonna give

1524
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: Arl Stroup the first ever win. But Pete is looking

1525
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: to become the only the second player ever to win

1526
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: the Home Run Derby in three consecutive years, possibly joining,

1527
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: as we said last Episodeken Gurphy Junior, which I would

1528
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: love to just put those two guys in a room

1529
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: and see what they have to say to each other,

1530
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: become hilarious, two very different people. But Pee Alonzo is

1531
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: the betting favorite right now. I believe he's going off

1532
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: in minus plus one fifty to win this thing, and

1533
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: with the new bracket way they set it up, he's

1534
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: facing off against Ronald the Kunya Junior in the first

1535
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: round and with is an absolutely loaded, loaded home run

1536
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: Derby field.

1537
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, would have been nice to get that one seed

1538
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 2: and face old man Albert Poolhols, which yeah.

1539
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: It just doesn't really seem fair that this is the case. Oh,

1540
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: he's not the one sea because it goes by current

1541
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: home runs yep, I just clicked just clicked out together

1542
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: as a freaking Schwarber gets pool.

1543
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 2: Which is nonsense for a guy who's won back to back,

1544
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 2: he should just automatically get the one and then you

1545
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:49,959
Speaker 2: can rank it again.

1546
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: Also, it's kind of fugazy that they're ranking Ronald the

1547
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: Kuonian in terms of the current home runs. He missed

1548
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: a month and a half the.

1549
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 2: Season with guys hits forty home runs a year, so

1550
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a close first round match. But what

1551
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 2: I do love is that Pete at least has the advantage,

1552
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 2: so he only has to hit one more home run

1553
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 2: than round to Kunya. So if a kunyas thinks Pete

1554
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 2: doesn't have to waste time trying to hit as many.

1555
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: As possible, absolutely take the gas off, relax for a

1556
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: little while. But it's just the home run derby has

1557
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: become such an amazing event since they changed this format

1558
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: to being sick timed and bracketed. You get the minute

1559
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: rather than the ten outs like it used to be,

1560
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: and you just just look at pitchers all day. It's awesome.

1561
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: It's so sick.

1562
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 2: I love watching it. I love the time aspect. Definitely

1563
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 2: put some stress on like I need one home run,

1564
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 2: I got thirty seconds. I also love that you get

1565
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 2: bonuses for hitting the ball, especially far so I think

1566
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 2: two home runs over four fifty in a round you

1567
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 2: get an extra thirty seconds, I believe, which is that could.

1568
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: Be the difference and Pete a Lonzo's gonna handle that

1569
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: no problem. And like this is the home run Derby.

1570
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: They should be like an arcade game. And I kind

1571
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: of like that that these news rules they treated as such.

1572
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: We got Dave Jazz coming back to pitch the Pete

1573
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: for the first time. Long time, I freaking the homer.

1574
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: Since I was a kid, I loved the horm run Derby.

1575
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:54,680
Speaker 1: I've always found a way to try and like get

1576
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: with friends and watch the home run Derby together because

1577
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: it's just such a fun baseball event. I went to

1578
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: it when it was in Queen's believe that's twenty twelve

1579
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: or twenty thirteen with my dad. Un assessments actually won

1580
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: that one, and I was like, this guy could really

1581
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: swing it. He'd be he'd be a good fixture in Queens.

1582
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: It's such a good event. Really, this is one of

1583
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: the few things that Major League Baseball has done a

1584
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: good job with in recent years. Yeah, we won't talk

1585
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: about the futures game. Being on Peacock during peak hours

1586
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: of watching baseball. What even happened, I don't even know.

1587
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: Alvarez hit walked and hit a ball hard to second base.

1588
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 1: They were googling.

1589
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,880
Speaker 2: And eyeing over him. Yander Alonzo and Scott Braun were

1590
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 2: doing the game. They were loving him there, he was

1591
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 2: taking war hacks. They were like, this guy's just one

1592
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 2: of the best hitters you've seen as a prospect.

1593
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: Ever, like he's so sick.

1594
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 2: And then Viento's I think, walked and hit a fly

1595
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 2: ball to center field on a like up and in

1596
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 2: ninety six mile an hour fastball which was out of

1597
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 2: the zone. So I was like, oh, quick bat Mark.

1598
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 2: Vento's could be a guy that could be coming to

1599
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 2: Queens any day now.

1600
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: Literally any day now. But everyone just enjoying the home

1601
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: run derby this we get to see our big first

1602
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: basement maschtangers, like, that's.

1603
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 2: It, okay, outside of Pete, maybe this could be our

1604
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 2: estimate for this episod.

1605
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 1: So we both picked Pete.

1606
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 2: That's our winner. But if you're not picking Pete, if

1607
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 2: you're not allowed to pick Pete. Alonzo, who are you

1608
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 2: picking in this home run derby, I'll give you the

1609
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 2: first pick, and then obviously whoever hits the most home

1610
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 2: runs if they don't win well within.

1611
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: This logical pick here, And I think I'll take the

1612
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: logical pick just because the logical pick is Kylesh Warber,

1613
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: because he just crushes the ball and he gets to

1614
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: go against Albert Poole's in the first round. I'd be

1615
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: shocked if Albert pool has more than like ten homers.

1616
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 1: But that's what my brain is telling me. Now, my

1617
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: heart is telling me. I'm gonna stick with Warbur because

1618
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 1: I want to give you the guy who I'm assuming

1619
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: my heart is telling me, and I want you to

1620
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: pontificate about him. My pick's Julio Rodriguez. That was it.

1621
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:40,439
Speaker 1: He's so much fun.

1622
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 2: He's he's gonna have to beat Pete essentially, he's gonna

1623
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 2: have to beat Peter Racunya if he makes it past

1624
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 2: the first round to get there. But he hits the

1625
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 2: ball so hard, he's so fun, and this feels like

1626
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:52,959
Speaker 2: an event that a twenty one year old, especially like him,

1627
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 2: is living for. That million dollar check is a nice

1628
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 2: little check for him to take home as a guy

1629
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 2: who's on a rookie contract right now, and he's a

1630
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 2: really good hitter, really good.

1631
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 1: He's so good he's already become I'm not even kidding,

1632
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: like one of the best players in baseball.

1633
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 2: Oh definitely. Someone asked me today is he top fifty?

1634
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 2: I'm like, is he top fifty?

1635
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Of course? Who's someone asks you that?

1636
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, someone asked me on twitch, like he's he in

1637
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,439
Speaker 2: your top fifty yet I'm like, he's like top twenty five,

1638
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 2: no doubt right now.

1639
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: All my fantasy baseball people out there, like Julia Rodriguez

1640
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: not even kidding, is like in play the number one

1641
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: overall pick next year. Fat So he's that good. Like

1642
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 1: a lot of that dude stolen bases and like the

1643
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: functionality of five by five fantasy baseball. But he he

1644
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: does so many things and you can see it with

1645
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: your eyes every single day. He's getting better, yep, like

1646
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: in a scary way.

1647
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 2: And he'll be fun to watch on the home run derby.

1648
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 2: It's him versus Sieger. You have Jose Ramirez Versuan Soto,

1649
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 2: schwarberpool holes that we mentioned, and Alonzo Akunya has the

1650
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 2: chance to be one of the best home run derbys

1651
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 2: we have ever seen. Let's go Pete three Pete win

1652
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 2: it thrice become the first ever to do it. That

1653
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 2: would be sick well, first ever win it three times

1654
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 2: in a row. Second, Griffy, No, Griffy won it three times,

1655
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 2: not three times in roh.

1656
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: Interesting, very should corrected me before Just link to the listeners.

1657
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: That's all right, they could. They made it this far.

1658
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: They listened to every single.

1659
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 2: Second of the metstup podcast as we were going on

1660
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 2: what is probably our longest episode since joining the Mets. Here,

1661
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 2: episode one ten of the metstub podcast, official podcast of

1662
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 2: the New York Mets. Thank you guys for listening, Thank

1663
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 2: you for watching.

1664
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: However you do it.

1665
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 2: If you're listening to us, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google wherever,

1666
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 2: follow the feed, subscribe, download it, like, rating, review, whatever

1667
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 2: you gotta do. It really does help us out. If

1668
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 2: you're listening or if you're watching us New York Mets

1669
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 2: YouTube channel, that's where you'll do it. Follow us on

1670
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 2: all our social media at mets up, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

1671
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 2: Follow James at Jamesiano, follow me at your raptneck mark

1672
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,040
Speaker 2: with a C. I got nothing else to talk about here,

1673
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 2: should we wrap it up?

1674
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. I also just want to say I did a

1675
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: radio spot today. For the first time in my life,

1676
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: I did. I did fifteen minutes on ESPN New York.

1677
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: That was crazy cool. There you go. Congratulations. Yeah, that

1678
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: was fun. I have the recording too. I'll probably post

1679
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: on Twitter tomorrow. It was good. We talked a lot

1680
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 1: last shares with da gram Shares de gram so though.

1681
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 2: So there's some extra Mets content for you guys in

1682
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,040
Speaker 2: case you didn't get enough in this hour long episode

1683
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 2: of The Mets Stuff Podcast. We'll catch you after the

1684
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 2: All Star break or maybe emerging the episode after Pete

1685
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:02,919
Speaker 2: a Lonzo wins the home run derby, and we'll see

1686
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 2: you next time.

1687
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 1: Peace, peace out, guys, see you after the derby. Get up,

1688
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: Get Get Up, Get Up.