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Speaker 1: and on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, whatever it is, Mets Up Everywhere,

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Speaker 2: Still completely miserable, even crazy talking to my family yesterday,

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Speaker 2: every bout, every single inning of the Mets baseball this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like Reese Hoskins, if we if this series went

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Speaker 1: I have my thoughts and you know, on what was

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Speaker 1: I tweet out earlier in the day, like during the game,

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Speaker 1: And you kind of mentioned it. This is not a

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Speaker 2: William Contraras double two. He was like so athletic sliding

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Speaker 2: The last two times Edward ds pitched it has been

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Speaker 2: And you can't really watch this team and not be like, hmm,

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Speaker 2: But things just did and how many times can they

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Speaker 1: It did a little bit with Pete then hitting the

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Speaker 1: home run in the ninth, like I was like, okay,

430
00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,840
Speaker 1: here we go, a little bit of life. That was exciting.

431
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Speaker 1: But they played what like four four innings maybe of

432
00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,040
Speaker 1: passionate fun exciting like hard and os baseball, and then

433
00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,719
Speaker 1: for the other what twenty three this weekend, it was

434
00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,040
Speaker 1: just like, when is this game gonna end? What time

435
00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,040
Speaker 1: do we go home? When's when's my meal? Wing? And

436
00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,760
Speaker 1: I get to go see my wife? Like, I don't know,

437
00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:02,199
Speaker 1: it's something is not right. Some thing stinks. Reee Hoskins

438
00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:03,960
Speaker 1: is a fucking rat. I thought that was really gonna

439
00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:05,600
Speaker 1: wake him up. It did not. It did not at all,

440
00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,160
Speaker 1: especially because he then completely just pulled our pants down

441
00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,840
Speaker 1: and was like you have a small penis. I'm your daddy,

442
00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,080
Speaker 1: Like I own you guys. Reee Hoskins owns the Mets.

443
00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,800
Speaker 1: There's no there's no ifans or butts around. This fucking

444
00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,920
Speaker 1: owns this organization right now, especially with the way that

445
00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,679
Speaker 1: they handled going about hitting him, which was such a

446
00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:28,639
Speaker 1: fucking mess. I mean, it's it's frustrating because I'm really

447
00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to not go crazy three games into

448
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,800
Speaker 1: the season, but they have not given me anything to

449
00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:37,679
Speaker 1: make me think that it's not gonna be a repeat

450
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Speaker 1: of last year. And I can't. I can't go through

451
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Speaker 1: another season where it's over in fucking May. I can't

452
00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,920
Speaker 1: do that right now. It's no fun. I love baseball

453
00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,520
Speaker 1: so excited it was back. I've had way more fun

454
00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,520
Speaker 1: watching every other team in baseball than literally being in

455
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Speaker 1: person at a Mets game. My highlight so is the

456
00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:56,080
Speaker 1: fact that I got to go to the game with

457
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Speaker 1: my dad on Saturday, Like that was awesome. We have

458
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Speaker 1: to watch baseball with my dad, spend time with him.

459
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,760
Speaker 1: I didn't give a shit about what was actually going

460
00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,960
Speaker 1: on on the field because it was so fucking.

461
00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:06,960
Speaker 2: Terrible, miserably just miserably bad. And there were there was

462
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,240
Speaker 2: a weird feeling in the stadium from the beginning of

463
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Speaker 2: opening day, like there was a joy of being an

464
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Speaker 2: opening day, but just stadium wasn't even full until like

465
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Speaker 2: the second or third inning, and there was no juice,

466
00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,760
Speaker 2: no vibe, no energy the whole time. It was just

467
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,040
Speaker 2: it felt awkward, it felt strange. And then you talked

468
00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,440
Speaker 2: about the Bailey Alpha stuff like this positive from the weekend.

469
00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,000
Speaker 2: Great things from the weekend. Both those guys hit their

470
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,119
Speaker 2: big home run Saturday. I think Alvarez got on base

471
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Speaker 2: six out of ten played appearances this weekend. They both

472
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Speaker 2: showed plenty of emotion when Baby hit that home run.

473
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Speaker 2: He just slapped the hand of them their base coaches.

474
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Speaker 2: I don't remember who to their base coaches, which is

475
00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,119
Speaker 2: bad doing podcasts, but not Anton Richardson.

476
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Speaker 1: It's the other guy.

477
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Speaker 2: The situation their basis sar Ball, Yeah, Mike Sarabaugh, correct,

478
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,000
Speaker 2: there is. But even the situation around Brett Bady playing

479
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,720
Speaker 2: this game on Saturday was fucking bizarre and showed things

480
00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,679
Speaker 2: that we weren't concerned about anymore about process that we

481
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Speaker 2: were concerned about a lot last year where ITAs like

482
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,080
Speaker 2: I couldn't comprehend the process behind that Brett Bailey home

483
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Speaker 2: run in the eighth inning of Saturday's game off of

484
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Speaker 2: lefty Hobie Milner, where Red Bailey is not in the

485
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 2: line to start out of the game because the Mets

486
00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 2: are facing a lefty D. L.

487
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Speaker 1: Hall.

488
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Speaker 2: Dale Hall is a left you who has decent stuff

489
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 2: and has a good pedigree, but he had it is

490
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,399
Speaker 2: not someone I think is like reaching echelon. Yeah, of

491
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 2: a left you where I want to sit players against him.

492
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Speaker 2: But I also understand the thing with Baby, where it's like, okay,

493
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Speaker 2: like we want to put him and we want to

494
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Speaker 2: keep the confidence out. Put him in many situations right

495
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Speaker 2: now as possible to succeed.

496
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Speaker 1: Okay, I get that red Baby whatever.

497
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,360
Speaker 2: The old Bill watsh talk about all time. Put young

498
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Speaker 2: player situations to succeed where they can excel, and then

499
00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 2: when they do that, then you start giving them more whatever.

500
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Speaker 2: But if you're in a situation where you weren't going

501
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,600
Speaker 2: to play Baby against lefties anyway for the first week

502
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 2: of the season, it probably still made more sense to

503
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Speaker 2: put Zach Mark Vantos on this roster over Zach Short.

504
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,040
Speaker 2: We've said a lot of things about Vento's in the show,

505
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Speaker 2: that we don't think he's exactly the highest caliber major

506
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,399
Speaker 2: league player that some people in the world do, but

507
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Speaker 2: also that he just gives you more of an offensive

508
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 2: ceiling zac Short. We know that's Short's a good story,

509
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:51,960
Speaker 2: and Short was on the team for his defense, so.

510
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Speaker 1: That didn't happen.

511
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Speaker 2: So I thought that was weird process first, and then

512
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Speaker 2: it compounded when Zach Short, let's a ball clank off

513
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Speaker 2: his glove that wounds up being a three run error,

514
00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,440
Speaker 2: but get called narrative seven his first innings and met, okay,

515
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,920
Speaker 2: this is bad too, but you knows happen things to

516
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,879
Speaker 2: clank golf clubs. And then Zach Short comes up in

517
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 2: a few innings with two men on and a Rity

518
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,159
Speaker 2: on the mound, and you're like, okay, now I was

519
00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 2: the riting's on the mound. Zach Short grounds out, all right,

520
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 2: I don't think you pinch it for a guy and

521
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Speaker 2: whatever it was the fourth or the fifth inning, I

522
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 2: think was Elvis Pagero, who's just another member of this

523
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 2: Brewers ballpenbergade that wouldn't stop this weekend even without Devin Williams.

524
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 2: Just throw incredible stuff. But okay, whatever, you're not pitch

525
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Speaker 2: hitting that early in the game. And then Zach Short

526
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Speaker 2: comes up again against a Rity in the sixth inning.

527
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Speaker 2: I think it was two out, nobody on, but he

528
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Speaker 2: Stu was still not pinch it for it for Brett Bay,

529
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Speaker 2: so he's like, okay, I guess actually just Zach Short today.

530
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Speaker 2: It'sac Short's getting the game now.

531
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Speaker 1: Whatever.

532
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Speaker 2: Then Zach Short spot comes up again in the eighth

533
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Speaker 2: inning with lefty on the mound, and now suddenly Brett

534
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Speaker 2: Bay comes out of the dugout, saunters out and hits

535
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Speaker 2: a huge home run, crushes the ball, shows tons of

536
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Speaker 2: emotion low in inside pitch yanked it over the fence,

537
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,160
Speaker 2: exactly everything we wants to from Baby lifting the ball,

538
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Speaker 2: pulling the ball, staying in there against lefty. And you

539
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Speaker 2: see how confident, you see how much the team is

540
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 2: buzzing when he does that. You're like, why did take

541
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Speaker 2: Brett Baby, the fourth player appearance of the game from

542
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Speaker 2: that spot in the order against the left handed pitcher

543
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: to finally come in and get this pinch hit appearance.

544
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Speaker 2: So then it's just you get weird that now the

545
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Speaker 2: process is something that also was is being hurt, and

546
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Speaker 2: that was something that I was very confident would not

547
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Speaker 2: be this year. And seeing that, I was like, this

548
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 2: is a strange feeling again. Now things feel a little now,

549
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 2: things feel a little fucked up.

550
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Speaker 1: I honestly, I'll be I'll say the truth. I really

551
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,360
Speaker 1: wasn't even focused on what managerial decisions were necessarily being

552
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 1: made here and there because I was just so unimpressed

553
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: with the actual play that was going on with the

554
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: on the field that like those little bits and pieces

555
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,880
Speaker 1: didn't bother me as much. Right now now you explaining them,

556
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: I can totally see, you know, the fault and not

557
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 1: making these moves here and there, like totally have a point,

558
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: But it was just like man like on the field

559
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 1: so so bad. I don't nobody seemed no they care,

560
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Speaker 1: they care. I'm not gonna say nobody seemed to care.

561
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go there. I'm not. I'm not fank

562
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Speaker 1: to thank But like in the in the same regard,

563
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 1: it's just it's hard to focus on the managerial decisions

564
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: when players really just didn't give you much either in

565
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 1: terms of the actual play on the field, Like, yeah,

566
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Speaker 1: I agree, bet Baty probably should have been earlier in

567
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: that game, But also at the same time, he had

568
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: a pretty awful opening day, and I'm sure that again

569
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Speaker 1: like you mentioned, was to try and keep him in

570
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: this in the situations to succeed the most. But at

571
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Speaker 1: the same time, this again, this is just such a

572
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: weird feel because I have never been three games into

573
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Speaker 1: a season and for lack of a better term, lost

574
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: hope a little bit here or been as frustrated as

575
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 1: I have been three games into a season. But the

576
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: Marlins are the Marlins, geez. The Brewers are a team

577
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: that you mentioned earlier, Like if you want to be

578
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: a playoff team, you're gonna have to be able to

579
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Speaker 1: beat them, and they just simply outclassed us. And they

580
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 1: didn't even really play that well. I feel like at

581
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, like they got hits here

582
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: and there, like a lot of them were like donky

583
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 1: little hits. Ree Hoskins again owned us, Like fuck that guy,

584
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 1: dirty slide. I'm sure you guys might want to hear

585
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 1: more about Reece Hoskins, but we got our asses handed

586
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: to us and he destroyed us. So there's no real

587
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: conversation to have here that won't make us look like assholes.

588
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 1: And I've been looking like an asshole all weekend with

589
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,199
Speaker 1: my ree Hoskins comments, So I'm gonna kind of just

590
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: lay off of that for a little bit. But like,

591
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it was a it's a bad vibe.

592
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: It's a bad vibe. And even though those managerial decisions

593
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: were questionable, I think it almost doesn't matter right now

594
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 1: because he can make all the right decisions and they

595
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 1: still play like this and not beating anybody.

596
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Speaker 2: Sure, but again then we also talked about the fact

597
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,479
Speaker 2: that all these games still wind up being close. And again, well,

598
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's like I'm not gonna like shit

599
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: on Cralsman doz for for his first two games in

600
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Speaker 2: big league manager. It's just seeing these little things that

601
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 2: I thought would be handled, I thought would be just

602
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 2: more cohesive after all this time, I was just like, damn, like,

603
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 2: even the things I really counted on here still didn't happen.

604
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Speaker 2: And another thing I'll just talk about like quickly is

605
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Speaker 2: like Luis Everino having his very bad start, I don't

606
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 2: think it was as bad as as like it seems. Statistically,

607
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 2: if I gave like twelve hits and six runs like that.

608
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Speaker 1: It shocks and looking.

609
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Speaker 2: But I think also was just like like you said,

610
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 2: it was dingson doing through but really hard hit balls.

611
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 2: But it seemed like the whole team was so preoccupied

612
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,400
Speaker 2: with the handling of Reez Hoskins that there wasn't even

613
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 2: again like cohesive game plan for the rest of the Brewers.

614
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 2: And I understand the fact that talked about before that

615
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: they didn't hit Reez Hoskins the first inning they're men

616
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: on base, But then you saw when they threw it

617
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: him in the seventh inning that Johann Ramirez immediately ejected

618
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 2: from the game, which is bullshit because there were no

619
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 2: warnings administers to administer the either side before that. So

620
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: just from throwing at the guy, I don't see any

621
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Speaker 2: reason why someone should be ejected immediately.

622
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Speaker 1: He also wasn't at his fucking head like everybody was

623
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Speaker 1: talking about, like he throw it at his head. It

624
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: was at his numbers on his back, very clearly. I

625
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 1: want to make that note. It wasn't near his head.

626
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: He also ducked down, which made it closer. No fault

627
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: to Reese Hoskins there. He's allowed to be upset about, like,

628
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: oh that's close. Fine, totally. He just got ninety four

629
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: whizzed by him. But all the fans were like, he's

630
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: throwing at his head. Fuck off, you don't know. You're blind,

631
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: You did not see, and Johann Ramirez did not charge

632
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: to go fight Reee Hoskins. If you watch the replay

633
00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,719
Speaker 1: and if you were at the game, the ball hit

634
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: the back, went all the way up in the air.

635
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: He was going to catch it. He went off to

636
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: the left originally, and then he went towards Reez Hoskins

637
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 1: because they started drawing at each other. I want that

638
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: to be known for Johann Ramirez. Okay, back to you, James.

639
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 2: I had White Sox and Angels fans when I mentioned too,

640
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: because they were like, honestly like, we don't even know

641
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: if he was throwing at him, Like if you haven't

642
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 2: watched Johann Ramirez endings, like the ball could literally go anywhere.

643
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 2: I think in this case was pretty clear that he

644
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 2: did throw at him because it was the first time

645
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 2: the game was seemingly out of reach and Reeze Hoskins

646
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: needed one a little bit thrown at him. But again,

647
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:28,919
Speaker 2: she seemed like the team was preoccupied with it, and

648
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 2: it seemed like it was like a cloud over the

649
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 2: whole game. And then the second he started getting hits

650
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 2: off with Severino, it just seemed like everything started as snowball.

651
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 2: And then again like Sevreno line was poor, it wasn't good,

652
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 2: but also like it was just it was it was

653
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 2: a lot of hits. He had no command of a slider.

654
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: He had zero slader West. I don't know if they'll

655
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 2: have a start at the rest of the year with

656
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: no slider West because the pitch was still moving fine,

657
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 2: also lost, he was still good. That Slader was up

658
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 2: to the mid high eighties, the fastball got out to

659
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 2: ninety eight miles an hour. It was just it was

660
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 2: a cold day, windy day, similar to Friday, and it's

661
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 2: just like he didn't have a field but he was

662
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 2: hitting edges, but it's still in the middle of the zone,

663
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 2: and just like all most of the pitches get hit

664
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 2: gegy up. We're against righty's and it was a righty

665
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 2: heavy Brewer's lineup. It was just a lack of being

666
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,719
Speaker 2: able to put guys away. Even the ree Hoskins home

667
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: run the third third thing, whenever it happened. He had

668
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: them O two and he was throwing some sliders but

669
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 2: he couldn't get the exact right spot on it, and

670
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 2: then finally threw one too many and hung it over

671
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: the middle of plate, and Reee Hoskins baptized us. Happy

672
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 2: to everybody, But it was just like there's something was

673
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 2: just something a little off about it, and only it wasn't.

674
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: It wasn't the kind of outing that I would say

675
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 2: is like super doomy and gloomy, but there was definitely

676
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: one where it's just like just get get to another

677
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 2: game like he peppered zone sixty five percent, zone raised

678
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: less than fifty percent for his career, and they just

679
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 2: kept making contact and kept finding the whole, kept making contact,

680
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 2: kept finding the whole, and then he had that stupid

681
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: balk where again like you talk about them wanting it

682
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 2: more like ree Hoskins hits a bloop single one day,

683
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 2: you're just like, come fucking on, like every single thing

684
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 2: is gonna go right for these guys that can go

685
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 2: right for them, and just he winds up coming on

686
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 2: a box that was seemed moderately questionable that everyone it

687
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 2: was even even shocked about. And then also just like

688
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 2: as he was losing his slider, he started throwing more

689
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 2: change ups right handed hitters. And we've talked about this

690
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: a little in the show, that that's a pitch that

691
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 2: is it's another thing as a weird process, because it's

692
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: a pitch that like probably appears to be pretty good

693
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 2: on a spreadsheet or when you're doing pitch by pitch projections,

694
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 2: because change ups just usually have low battered ball quality,

695
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 2: and Severno's changeup moves so much against righties that it

696
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 2: almost becomes weirdly slytherish and I think maybe that's why,

697
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: but also maybe because the slide just wasn't working, so

698
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 2: he's like, I need another tool against right and need

699
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 2: their toolgainst right, need their tool against righties. But then

700
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 2: he was also throwing high singers, which we don't like.

701
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 2: He was also throwing Drew Smith, I think on Sunday

702
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: was also throwing front door sweepers, which is also a

703
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 2: weird thing, like if that thing doesn't really snap if

704
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: you miss a little bit with it, which is the

705
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: same as the high sinker and the same as the

706
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: rights right of change up. If you miss a tiny bit,

707
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 2: that pitch is suddenly so easy to hit. If a

708
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 2: guy stands in against that front door sweeper, the ball

709
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: is going into the upper deck. So just more weird

710
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: process things that maybe it was game planning, but maybe

711
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: it's also just like there that's are overmathing a little bit,

712
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: and you don't want to You want an overmath, you

713
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 2: want a math exactly right. Once you start overmathing, get

714
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: into trouble. But again, the dark cloud over the whole

715
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 2: Sevarino start Felix was the Hoskins thing of people pointed

716
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 2: out online. I think it is true because of how

717
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: your hundred or situation winds up that if you throw

718
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 2: at him, you probably are ejected immediately. And you don't

719
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 2: really want your star that ejected in the first inning

720
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: of a game. You don't want your star the making

721
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 2: these team debut ejected in his first inning with the team.

722
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 2: And you also don't want to lose a starter when

723
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 2: you have nineteen games in twenty days. But then I

724
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: throw this back at you. If you didn't do it

725
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: because you knew that was going to happen, why not

726
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: just prepare for it?

727
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: Why I don't understand.

728
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 2: These guys have processes, and these guys like they warm up,

729
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 2: but like, why not use an opener? Why don't just

730
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 2: your one hundred mirrors on the mount to open the game?

731
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: Why not if you think that Luis ea Rue's gonna

732
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 2: get ejected after ten pitches, why don't you have him

733
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: prepare to start again on Tuesday? Like I understand this process,

734
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 2: and these guys are very strict regimens, and we talk

735
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: about this stuff all the time. You don't want to

736
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 2: disrupt guys ways that they're training. But it's also like,

737
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: if you didn't do something, and again, this all presume

738
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 2: no one in the mesorganization has said this, but it

739
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 2: seemed like this was the case were you didn't throw

740
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: it this guy early because you didn't want your player

741
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 2: to get ejected. Why not prepare for it If you

742
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 2: had this much knowledge of it, you were just aware

743
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 2: this is probably going to happen, then just make a

744
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: different move, like play it like chess, like do something

745
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 2: that they're not expecting because you think something is going

746
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 2: to happen. Like just it's a situation where they're thinking

747
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 2: and they're over there like just focused on the wrong

748
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 2: things where it's not like it's not sports anymore. It's

749
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 2: not reacting, it's not baseball just waiting for something to happen,

750
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: where it's like you have to go make something fucking happen.

751
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: And the whole fucking vibe just pissed me off. It

752
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 2: was the first time I've ever been like rationally mad

753
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 2: at this team. Like it was the end of Sunday's

754
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: game where I shouldn't have been mad about this. It

755
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:24,959
Speaker 2: was like a three four run game whatever it was,

756
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 2: and they pandle in door I'll never say anything bad

757
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: about Towards late in the game, and there was like

758
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 2: a man on second and like there was a foul ball,

759
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 2: just hit I just seem like looking at his nails,

760
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 2: I'm just like, fuck, like what the fuck like talk

761
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: scream yell, Like I'm not screaming yell, but just like

762
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like it just feels like a lack

763
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 2: of engagement in the game that was happening. And it's

764
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 2: just and again, I think I think everybody in the

765
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: team was a fault of this this weekend, whereas Jeff

766
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 2: and Neil standing over a guy that almost everyone in

767
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 2: the rosters had a run in with, and it's just like,

768
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: where the hell are we, Like, let's do something about

769
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: it right now, Like if you don't have to throw it,

770
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 2: Reez Hoskins, you hit him in the face on the

771
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 2: spot and maybe you guys suspended McNeil for a few games,

772
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 2: but you know what, like get suspended for a few games,

773
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 2: like everybody else will pick you up and this team

774
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: will get some life.

775
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: Out of it.

776
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 2: It's just it just it was lackluster. It was lifeless.

777
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: It was painful. No, I think you actually said it

778
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: best that I couldn't have said it any better. You said,

779
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: this team is waiting for something to happen, rather than

780
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: making something happen. And that is exactly how it is

781
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: felt for the last year and a half two years.

782
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: They are waiting for things to happen. They're not going

783
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: out and getting it, they're not making plays, They're hoping

784
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: the plays happen. And it's the same feeling we felt

785
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: this weekend. That's truthfully, that is the exact feel I

786
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: want to get out with this episode, is that this

787
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: team is waiting for things to happen rather than making

788
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: them happen. And that's not a good sign. That's not

789
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: a good sign for a good baseball team. That's not

790
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: a good sign for a great baseball team. And for

791
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: the Mets, a team that's on the borderline of maybe

792
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: making the playoffs, they cannot afford for things to wait

793
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: for them to happen. They need to make things happen.

794
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: That's what the Dimonbacks did. Like that Diamonbacks team on

795
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: paper last year wasn't particularly great, but they made shit happen.

796
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: You look at the Rangers, that team was horrible years ago.

797
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: They made shit happen. They got pictures, They went and putched,

798
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,719
Speaker 1: and they shoved and they hit, and they had rookies

799
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: come up and the rookies came up and played well.

800
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: They were making things happen. And right now the Mets

801
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: are in a world where they're like, well, this is

802
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: you know what, a little bit of our fault maybe

803
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: too here. We're like, Lindor's gonna be fine, He's gonna

804
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: be great. He's good, he's a good ball player. Pete's

805
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: gonna be great. We know he's gonna be alright, nim

806
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: like all these things, but like, fucking do it? Fucking

807
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: show it? Like I know, it's three games into the season.

808
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: Who cares what Princess g Lindor's bating averages? Why can't

809
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: it be like Christianellich's though Christianelch got what like six

810
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: hits this weekend? Like why why do I feel like

811
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: we're always making excuses for our players for not showing

812
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: up when other teams players show up and they fucking play,

813
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,719
Speaker 1: And I feel like sometimes we just don't get that.

814
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: You think, guy like Bryce Terrang, his his jersey was

815
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 2: dery every single time he's on the field. Fucking Bryce

816
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 2: Terrang even Jackson Curio's first ever major league major league

817
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: play appearances, the guy's running hard, he's sliding, he's making plays,

818
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: on defense, he's beating out in the fields sing. It's

819
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 2: just like what the fuck, Like, why aren't we doing

820
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 2: these same things? And just the Mets lack of athleticism

821
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: is so apparently take play a team like the Brewers

822
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 2: that's still so athletic. Another Mets are doing more to

823
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: be athletic, but it's just like it's not there yet.

824
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 2: It's just this roster you're probably another year away from

825
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: like having dread lessison because even our young guys don't

826
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: really run particularly well. We don't have a lightning player

827
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: like Jackson Jurio or like first round picks who are

828
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: sneaking into the lineup again who are really really fast

829
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: and athletic, like South Freelick and Bryce Terrang where it's

830
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 2: just like I like seeing guys run fast. And then

831
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: we've been talked about like making things, have been doing things,

832
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 2: and this has been like a very much an oscillation

833
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: between like a show that we're concerned with numbers and

834
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: concerned projections, show that's concerned with you know, grit and

835
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: baseball and determination, even the numbers. The Mets playoff ods

836
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 2: on Fangress from just this weekend dropped from thirty three

837
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: percent to twenty three percent, a ten percentage point drop

838
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 2: in playoff odds in one weekend. That is a disaster.

839
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: That is so bad.

840
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: You just went went from one to three chance to

841
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: make the playoffs less than one four chance to make

842
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: the playoffs.

843
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: And it felt worse than that.

844
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 2: And also I just don't I don't know how this

845
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 2: ends because of this situation where this team is playing

846
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 2: like shit, and we notice starting rotations patchwork like there's

847
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 2: one you really want a guy who can bank on

848
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: the rotation and the skid like this, who's ending the skid?

849
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 2: Adrian Houser is not ending the skid most in time

850
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 2: is not ending the skid. Like, that's not how this

851
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,919
Speaker 2: rotation is built. You just kind of need to beat

852
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 2: the team one day. You need to play not good

853
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 2: innings to win, and it's just God. Do you see

854
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 2: teams like the Pirates have fun weekends? You see teams

855
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 2: like the Diamondbacks have fun weekends. Even a team like

856
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 2: the Cardinals beat the Dodgers and you couldn't beat the Brewers,

857
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: Like what the hell are we doing here? The Rockies

858
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 2: won a game, we didn't win a game. I guess

859
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 2: the Ashers also didn't win a game, But the Ashers

860
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 2: don't care about baseball TI July fifteenth, Like they don't

861
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 2: even they don't even register the season begins until like

862
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 2: the Alds painful to watch this shit. The Red Sox

863
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: won two games, Red Sox Perpest were awesome, and the

864
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: mester over here just like smack themselves in the face,

865
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 2: like what are we doing?

866
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, it's just it's it was bad.

867
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: I really would love to put this weekend behind us.

868
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: I hope this is the most negative we ever are

869
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: in an episode this year, because I really I hate this.

870
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: This is so not fun to talk like this, Like, yeah,

871
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: we were shills before and we were mister positivity like

872
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: to a fault, and it was awful. It was terrible.

873
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: This is a This is almost as bad of a

874
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: feeling as when we had to lie about how good

875
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: this team was, because it's no fun to come on

876
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: here and be negative. If you want to hear negativity,

877
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: there are so many people out there that you can

878
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: listen to. We don't want to be those guys. But

879
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: at the same time, now that we can be now

880
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: that we can be realistic, now that we can tell

881
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: you the truth, it's kind of our obligation to since

882
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: we've been holding out for about a year and a

883
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: half about this stuff, because boy, oh boy, this is

884
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: eerily similar to what we've been seeing and I cannot

885
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: stand it. I can't. This is not a three game

886
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: issue to start the season. This is an issue that's

887
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: been happening for a long time. And I hope they

888
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: fucking wake up. Wait, I can't believe I'm saying on

889
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: April first, the Mets need to wake up. But they

890
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: do need to wake up right now because the Tigers

891
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 1: are coming into town, who are playing some good baseball.

892
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: They got to beat up the White Sox. They'll kick

893
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: the shit out of us. And I put out a

894
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: tweet talking about how if the Mets get swept by

895
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: the Tigers, I'm gonna do the hot dog straw with

896
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: the beer. In case you guys haven't seen it, there

897
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: was a psychopath at a Yankee game a few years

898
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: ago who took a straw, poked a hole through it

899
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: hot dog. So we had a straw, decided not gonna

900
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: use it, poke a hole through the hot dog like

901
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: like a cylinder, hollowed it out, use the hot dog

902
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: as a straw in his beer. I will do that

903
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: at the next Mets game I go to if they

904
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: get swept by the Tigers, and let me tell you,

905
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. It seems fucking disgusting.

906
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 1: So please, for the love of God, play good baseball.

907
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: Beat this team, because if you don't, we're looking at

908
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: oz and six start and I'm gonna be depressed. I'm

909
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: gonna be I'm gonna be intolerable.

910
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're so willing to have a hot

911
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 2: dog and a beer within four seconds of each other,

912
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 2: a sip in a bite, like, why not just put

913
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 2: them together. It doesn't seem that bad. You get the

914
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 2: salt with the brian and the hops or whatever. It's

915
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 2: not that bad. But the is like even just even

916
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 2: just before we move on a little but like again,

917
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 2: we have to like talk about the brief positives like

918
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 2: Alvarez is awesome, baity thing, the lefty lefty home run,

919
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 2: but also having some weird that bats like, we'll take

920
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 2: the positive you.

921
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: Also, they look good in the field.

922
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 2: This is the most confident Redbaye ever looked in the field,

923
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 2: and seemed like the only play he did make that

924
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 2: was poor. I don't remember if it was Saturday or Sunday.

925
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 2: Early in the game, it was like a Bryce Harangue

926
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 2: swing bun where again you just got caught in no

927
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 2: man's land, clanked off like a Lolan and drive clanked

928
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: off his bare hand. But he was back or he

929
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 2: was either back way back on the grass or he

930
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 2: was way up on the dirt, and it just seemed

931
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 2: like there was like a lot of cohesiveness in his position.

932
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 1: It was really nice.

933
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: He felt like he took that conference with him into

934
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 2: the ditch, which the Aps how felt last year. And

935
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: also briefly, the bullpen actually did look good. I think

936
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: most of the guys came out of the ballp and

937
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 2: Drew Smith a few good innings. Alavino and Horiy Lovaz

938
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 2: did not, but I don't think it was ways that

939
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 2: should be disastrous. Edmund Diaz being back in the mounds

940
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 2: a great feeling. I mentioned deacmon having a good inning,

941
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 2: Johan Ramirez fucking shoutout Johan ro Miraz knowing he was

942
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 2: going to the guillotine, getting spended for three games and

943
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 2: giving what forty five pitches on Sunday and when in

944
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 2: the game the team was down by multiple runs. Michael

945
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: Tonkin gave a few winnings in the game, the team

946
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 2: was down by multiple runs, all that stuff. Nice stuff

947
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 2: maybe if you're ever winning a game, because I'll come back.

948
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 2: In news, brook Ray looked disgusting for his winning and

949
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 2: then just briefly talked about Tyler McGill because he had

950
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: such a Tyler McGill start, and I felt like such

951
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 2: a loser for buying in for like some February Tyler

952
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: McGill starts and seeing the exact same guy onto the

953
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: mound where the sliders still looked fine, the fastballs like

954
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 2: looked better than I think it did. Like last year,

955
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 2: the splither when he had it was good but also

956
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 2: was very inconsistent, And then like the quintessential Tyler and

957
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 2: McGill experience just completely vacuum sealed into a three hour

958
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 2: time span after the game is getting shoulder MRI, which

959
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 2: is like perfect that this year. You know, if we

960
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 2: can just if we can just speed speed run the

961
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 2: whole Tyler McGill thing, it'll be probably better for everyone, sanity,

962
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 2: better for mess Twater in general. But we likely now

963
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: see Jose Budu and Joe Lukes over the next few

964
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 2: weeks because this is not gonna easy for the Mets.

965
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 2: One of the Tigers coming down are a good team.

966
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 2: It's also so perfectly painful that these two teams murdered

967
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 2: the Mets beginning of last year last April, where we

968
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: were all like, oh my god, the Brewers killed us,

969
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the Tigers killed us. Oh my god,

970
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 2: this baseball team sucks. And now it's happening again, but

971
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 2: right in front of her face as beginning of the year.

972
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 2: But we're gonna have nineteen sixteen games the next seventeen

973
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,720
Speaker 2: days against part of that's gonna be the Braves.

974
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: Like fuck, I don't want to do this shit, but.

975
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the Tigers now for a few minutes,

976
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 2: because Tigers are a team that are probably the most

977
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: exciting in baseball this year, one of those teams like

978
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 2: like the Pirates, like the Brewers, that are like they're

979
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: about they I think they could really exceed expectations and

980
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,720
Speaker 2: they look really good right now, like everything's working differently

981
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 2: for the Mets, where nothing is working, and a lot

982
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 2: of exciting players in this team that might not have

983
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: made their way into the national media space yet.

984
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: With the Tigers, you're looking at, let's just go over

985
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: the big names for you real quick. Javier Baiaz has

986
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: looked as bad as you possibly can. You know he's

987
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 1: gonna come in and this weak agen did you stare

988
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: this week guaranteed. Cole Keith rookie second basement, hasn't looked great,

989
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: but he's a good ballplayer. Spencer Porklson good ball player

990
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: and not swinging the bat well. But then like Markana

991
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: is a part of this team. Markana's had a great

992
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: had a great weekend. Riley Green's a really good ballplayer,

993
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: Parker Meadows, Kerry Carpenter. They've gotten big performances out of

994
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: guys like Andy Obonyaz who's hitting the ball really well.

995
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly hit a big home run for them, and

996
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: their pitching is very good. Their bullpen is maybe one

997
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: of the most underrated all of baseball. Like, this is

998
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: not the Tigers team that was last year, even though

999
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: again they beat the pants off of us, which was

1000
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: so so fucking embarrassing and we should have known that

1001
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: the season was dead then. But they're much better this

1002
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: year and they're coming in hot. This is a team

1003
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: that wants to make the playoffs. Like you said, that

1004
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: could surprise a lot of people. This is not an

1005
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: easy series by any means, especially seeing how the Mets

1006
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: just played baseball the last seventy two hours essentially, and

1007
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: the fact.

1008
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 2: That again every team comes to City Field wanting to

1009
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: murder the Mets like we have a target on our back.

1010
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: We don't act like it anymore, Like we have to.

1011
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 2: We have to be bad guys.

1012
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: We have to.

1013
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 2: And I don't want to pull up tabs to do

1014
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 2: the pitching matchups. So can you pull up the tabs

1015
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 2: to the pitching matchups? Cane connection is so bad? But

1016
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 2: I know we have Tarek school Ball coming into town

1017
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 2: this week, and he is the best pitching baseball no

1018
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 2: one's talking about I think, like again, like we were psychopaths.

1019
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 2: We play a lot of fantasy baseball, so like we

1020
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 2: talk about him, we've been knowing about them. But it's

1021
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 2: just like you can see Tyrek school Ball, Trek school

1022
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,439
Speaker 2: Ball throw out fastball and can be like, oh my god,

1023
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 2: And then you're gonna watch their bold the Tiger's bubble come.

1024
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: Then you're gonna remember Shelby Miller, a player that was

1025
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 2: once upon a time trade for Dansby Swanson and duranc

1026
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 2: r Day.

1027
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: I've got the pitching matchups for you. I'll interject here

1028
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: before you get the wax poetic about the pitchers here.

1029
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,399
Speaker 1: So on Monday night, got a We've got a couple

1030
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: of aceofts in this series. Let me tell you about it.

1031
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: We've got Sean and I going up against Ries Olsen

1032
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, Adriene Houser versus Casey miz and and then

1033
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: Wednesday night this is the big one you mentioned Toarik

1034
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: school ball or sorry, it's technically Trek's scooball trek scuball,

1035
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: I always pronounce them wrong to reak school ball, No

1036
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: trek scuoble going up against Mets openings. They started in

1037
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: a so was a Kintana. So yeah, tickets as low

1038
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: as five dollars, and I got a feeling they might

1039
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: go even lower.

1040
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they should be paying us five dollars

1041
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: to go into these games at this point.

1042
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,919
Speaker 1: And also like forty dollars parking? Could that sucks so bad?

1043
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 2: Forty dollar parking is insane? And the Mets, well, they're

1044
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 2: they're high price, their high press luxury and food items

1045
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 2: like wow, now now now lobster rolling a burger seems

1046
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 2: a little fucked up. For forty dollars. But this Tiger's

1047
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 2: team like listening to that pitching where case he might

1048
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 2: as a former number and overall pick he kind of

1049
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 2: went all the way down to the depth, all the

1050
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 2: way down to the depths of hell. And now he's

1051
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 2: come back. He's got more ride in his fastball. He

1052
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 2: ditched his sinker, and the splitter is still good and

1053
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 2: breaking balls are still good. Schooble again, the fastball is amazing,

1054
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: the slider's amazing, and then Reese alson, it's such a

1055
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 2: fun pitcher. A picture I'd love to have in the

1056
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 2: Mets picture. I could kind of see as like my

1057
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: mold forere I hope Mike vast will be comes where

1058
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 2: he has a slide there where VASI, I think he'd

1059
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 2: probably be the curveball. Maybe it's a sweet birds depending

1060
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 2: house developed rees and slider is so awesome and the

1061
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 2: rest of that. He's just such a ball. He's just

1062
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 2: a kitchen sink guy. He just goes out there and pitches.

1063
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 2: He'll hit the spot. He'll surprise you because he has

1064
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 2: four different offerings. He's a very fun pitcher to watch.

1065
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: And then when you get into this Tiger's bullpen, I

1066
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 2: mentioned before Shelby Miller has been remade in the image

1067
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Speaker 2: of God here where he's thrown big time fastballs with

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00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 2: high ride a big slider. Jason Fole. If you guys

1069
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 2: haven't heard the name Jason Foley, get ready to hear

1070
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 2: the name this week because I'm sure he's gonna have

1071
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 2: save opportunities against the Mets. Jason fully threw one hundred

1072
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 2: two mile on nour demon sinkers that will start on

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00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 2: the left handers hip and end up right middle end.

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00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: They will'll be baffled by it with slider strapped gyvers,

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00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 2: sliders dropping off it. Alex Lyingg pitcher who's been demoted

1076
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,439
Speaker 2: because every o the Tiger's pitcher got so good, still

1077
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 2: has an amazing curveball sinker competition doesn't really know the

1078
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: balls going half the time. Bow Brisky, Yes, bow Briskey,

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00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 2: the Tigers had made bow Briskey into a high leverage

1080
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 2: late ending reliever, got through his bbies. It's just there

1081
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 2: a team that they change manager upper management early last season,

1082
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 2: and since it happened on the dime, everything with this

1083
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 2: team has gotten better. And I think we're looking at

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00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: Riley Green as someone's gonna be potentially an American LEU

1085
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 2: All Star this year as an engine towards the middle

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00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 2: top of that lineup, and it's just their team is

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00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: ending right now and the Mets wind up oh six

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00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 2: this season will, for lack of a better term, be

1089
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 2: almost seemingly over with different a team with no starting pitching.

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00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:16,919
Speaker 1: And no edge.

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00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 2: So I don't want to be at that place. And again,

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00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 2: I hate giving you guys podcasts like this because it

1093
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 2: shouldn't be this way. But maybe it's just a part

1094
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 2: of an exercism for me and Mark where we weren't

1095
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 2: allowed to be negative for a year and a half

1096
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 2: and now this was a lot of negative shit that

1097
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: happened at once and it feels awful, but that's the

1098
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 2: game and it sucked.

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Speaker 1: But that was what we all just watched this weekend.

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00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 1: It's terrible. Hopefully they play better. I'm maybe it's because

1101
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning and I'm tired, and I

1102
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: just I don't even care anymore. I don't know. I'm

1103
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: so over this past opening day weekend series. I hope

1104
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: we never have to talk about this again. I hope

1105
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: we can be positive on the next episode. This is

1106
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: not fun for us to do over here, we are

1107
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: going to bring in a new segment that we I mean,

1108
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: it would have been nice if the Mets were winning,

1109
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: we probably had some more funny ones. But since the

1110
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: Mets played like shit, I'll be the first one on

1111
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: this new segment. I don't know. We're gonna call it

1112
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: idiot of the week, bad take of the week, whatever

1113
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: it was. Your boy was just missing left and right

1114
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: in terms of Mets takes this weekend. I quote tweeted

1115
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: the Brewers because they were like ready for opening DISCSI,

1116
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: Mets are gonna win six nothing. Clearly that was not

1117
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: the case. I tweet outa let's go Mets. Fuck Reee

1118
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: Hoskins beat the Brewers. The Mets did not, and ree

1119
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: Hoskins had the game of his fucking life against the Mets.

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00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: And then Game three, I'm like, I've got a fucking

1121
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: drink a lot at Easter because I can't. I can't

1122
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: stand this sea. They're just they're driving me crazy, and

1123
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: they're like, oh man, three games into the season, like

1124
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: you're already getting baseball unfortunate events preceded whatever that fucking

1125
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: Twitter account is where they're like, oops, you tweeted this

1126
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: out and then what happened. Uh, my gambling has been great.

1127
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 1: I've been money with that, but I cannot do anything

1128
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: right when it comes to the Mets. So idiot, take

1129
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: of the week first one for me. It's gonna be

1130
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: all about me, and you know what, I'll do better.

1131
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: I'll do better Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We'll have better tweets

1132
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: in terms of the Mets stuff, hopefully not negative. Yeah.

1133
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: Being this dejected and the team hasn't played the single

1134
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 2: game yet in April is a ship place to be

1135
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: and one I do not envy. First time the Mets

1136
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 2: have been owned three in ten ten years twenty fourteen.

1137
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 2: I think the last time it happened before twenty fourteen

1138
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 2: is two thousand and five, which is just like geez,

1139
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 2: I mean literally has the fact that those are some

1140
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 2: of the worst years to remember in Met's history, not

1141
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 2: really Mets history, but some of the worseries we can

1142
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 2: remember in our lifetimes. But also the fact that it's

1143
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 2: just this something happens once every decade. Now is happening

1144
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 2: against like God, damn that wants to happen. Then my

1145
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 2: yearly opening week schedule tirade. Mets played the Brewers in

1146
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 2: the series and next time Mets played the Brewers is

1147
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 2: the last series of the year. So this Met's entire

1148
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 2: season is one Brewer sandwich. It's one big Brewers oreo.

1149
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: Which is so fucking stupid.

1150
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: And we don't even have divisional game for another week

1151
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: and a half.

1152
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: It's so dumb.

1153
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 2: This whole schedule is so dumb.

1154
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: I hate the Major League Baseball schedule so much.

1155
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 2: But that was my quick tirade.

1156
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair. I mean, we're we're due to

1157
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: be curmudgeonty, like you said, maybe because we weren't allowed

1158
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: to talk like this last year, and it was a

1159
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: season that me and you off camera had a lot

1160
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: of things to say in terms of the play on

1161
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 1: and off the field. Was just it was just so bad.

1162
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: Maybe we need this exorcism. Maybe we had to get

1163
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: the evil out of us because we have not been

1164
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: able to do so yet. So that's gonna be my spin.

1165
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 1: That's gonna have a positive spin for the end of

1166
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: this episode. We had to expel these horrible, awful feelings,

1167
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: get them out. The Mets are oh and three since

1168
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: they got rid of us as the official podcast, which

1169
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: coincidence coincidence, Metsup's not the official podcast of the team,

1170
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: and they're own three to start the year. Haven't won

1171
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: a game yet since that's happened, So I'm not saying

1172
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: to blame blame whoever made those decisions, but hey, just

1173
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: just letting you know that the Mets were not owing

1174
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: three last year to start the season, and we were there.

1175
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I got nothing else, James, you got

1176
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: anything else? While we're in Italy. Apologies to those of

1177
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: you out there if you're listening to this and it

1178
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: sounds a little bit different. The connection's rough right now,

1179
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: we're working through it. We still wanted to get you

1180
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: this episode out, of course, because it's a big one

1181
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: for us, and I'm sure stuff will improve as we

1182
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 1: had going on throughout the season. But last final thoughts

1183
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: and regards here absolutely nothing. Fuck this weekend, Yeah, fuck

1184
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: this weekend. Let's go Mets play better. Guys, Thank you

1185
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: so much for listening and watching. You know what to do.

1186
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: Make sure you follow us on all our social media

1187
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,840
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1188
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1189
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1190
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: channel if you want to see a version of this.

1191
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,919
Speaker 1: If you're listening to us Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, whatever

1192
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: it is, drop us the rating, drops review, download, and subscribe.

1193
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it. Follow James on Twitter at James

1194
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: Underscore Giano. It's so hard for us to interact in

1195
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: good time right now, so I'm just gonna take that

1196
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: from him. You can follow me at Draftnickmark with the

1197
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: c thank you ays for listening, thank you for watching,

1198
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: and we will catch you after the Tiger series. For

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00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:27,879
Speaker 1: the love of God, to win a fucking baseball game.

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Speaker 1: Peace Out, peace out. See you guys next time. H