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Speaker 1: Can you say sweep?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Mets sweep the Pittsburgh Pirates playing good baseball

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Speaker 2: and Francisco Lindori is still not even hitting, but it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter because the pitching has been fantastic. Harrison Bader,

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Speaker 2: He's unbelievable. Ever since I said that guy sucks, he's

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Speaker 2: proved me wrong. That and so much more to talk

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Speaker 2: about along with the Prospect report on this episode of

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Speaker 2: The Mets the Podcast. Yeah, sweep. How about those Mets?

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Speaker 2: How about those New York Mets sweeping the big, bad,

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Speaker 2: hot Pittsburgh Pirates. They came into City Field, they had leads,

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Speaker 2: they lost them. The bullpen was blowing games, coming back late,

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Speaker 2: Harrison Bader, Brandon Nemo getting some hits, the boys were rolling,

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Speaker 2: the pitching looked good. So many good things to talk

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Speaker 2: about with this previous series against the Pirates. James, before

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Speaker 2: we get going into it, though, what country are you in?

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Speaker 2: Where are you now in the world.

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Speaker 3: I'm in Spain, south of Spain, Punta Umbria, in a

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Speaker 3: It's been a wonderful few days. But that mixed in

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Speaker 3: with Mets, The Mets sweep, the first Mets sweep in

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Speaker 3: almost a full calendar year. Do you remember the last

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Speaker 3: time metswept the series?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so almost a full calendar year. I don't, I don't,

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Speaker 2: I really, I'm gonna be honest. Last season didn't exist.

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Speaker 2: It's no longer in my brain. It's gone.

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Speaker 3: This was one of the last fun times we had.

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Speaker 3: It was May into June, sweeping the Phillies before they

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Speaker 3: got hot again. Last Mets sweep love sweeping teams from Pennsylvania. Though,

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Speaker 3: this team is light years ahead of where they were

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Speaker 3: two weeks ago. They're ten and three in their last

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Speaker 3: thirteen games after starting the season oh and to five.

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Speaker 3: Gary dropped it on the broadcast today. They're only the

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Speaker 3: fifth team in the history of baseball to get over

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Speaker 3: five hundred in their first seventeen games after starting oh

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Speaker 3: to five. Whoa and another team that did that, A

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Speaker 3: team that has eerie similarities to this Mets team, the

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Speaker 3: two thousand and five Mets, A first year Carlos Beltron,

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Speaker 3: the first year of Willie Randolph. Team started on five

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Speaker 3: wound up getting having a fine season, not a great season.

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Speaker 3: And the season that might have gotten them into an

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Speaker 3: expanded playoff field. But it's a precursor to a very

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Speaker 3: very good Mets run at good Mets run. Relatively good

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Speaker 3: which for the Mets is very very important, very big.

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Speaker 1: But this is fucking awesome.

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Speaker 3: Seven comeback wins in the last ten wins. The Pirates

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Speaker 3: scored first in every single game this series, and the

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Speaker 3: Mets wouldn't quit. They came back in every single one.

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Speaker 3: Just awesome being at the park. I kind of missed

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Cityfield was not particularly packed for any of the games,

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Speaker 2: the ender because I you know, we know how the

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Speaker 2: Mets run series normally, that's the one you win and

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Speaker 2: you lose. The middle game, I thought, Okay, Tuesday, Jerry

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Speaker 2: still really not hitting. Brandon Nimo, I know, had some

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Speaker 3: I dropped a tweet after the game today because the

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Speaker 3: Mets are kind of the talk of the league right now.

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Speaker 3: Where the highest team in baseball, and there's no doubt

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Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz is throwing ninety five miles an hour. Francisco

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Speaker 3: Alvarez has five hits in the mets last ten games,

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Speaker 3: Kauaie Sanga hasn't pay which Jad Martinez hasn't hit. And

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Speaker 3: the minor leagues, probably the best healthy pitcher in the

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Speaker 3: But like all these things are happening, and like the

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Speaker 3: and things could very much happen to make this a

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Speaker 3: still just beating up on bad teams. Between the Royals

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Speaker 3: over five hundred. This bullshit in April, Yeah, that's bullshit

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Speaker 3: in April. The Reds might not be good, the Royals

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Speaker 1: We've had. We've had a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of cheapies, but with the rain now, especially that

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Speaker 3: Nemo Alvarez. No, they're not hitting. McNeil's not hitting. Pete's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as we know if you guys have been following

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Speaker 2: me on my personal Instagram draft neck mark. I won't

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Speaker 2: say I'm not saying it. I will not say it.

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Speaker 2: That four letter word about the New York Mets. Not

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm thinking. This team is playing baseball

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Speaker 2: into some of these games. Here. Game one in the ballpark,

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Speaker 2: shout out Clay Jeff mckitts, legend friend of the podcast,

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Speaker 2: got some tickets. He was like, twenty five dollars, you

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Speaker 2: the game, game Cock alumni as well. And it started

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Speaker 2: When you look at those teams, they don't win in

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Speaker 1: There's like a meme.

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Speaker 3: Where he plays these bad teams and he just looks amazing.

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Speaker 3: He gets into trouble, he gets out of it. Also

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Speaker 2: By the way, because I could not visualize what you

432
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Speaker 2: were talking about when you were explaining it to me.

433
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Speaker 1: But it worked, looked pretty good, and people create it.

434
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Speaker 3: We've got two hundred and fifty followers from it. I

435
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Speaker 3: think it's been shared like thousands of times.

436
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Speaker 2: I'll talk you get the numbers.

437
00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get numbers right now. But Mark kind of

438
00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,119
Speaker 3: lying this. We were going around asking Mets fans are

439
00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,560
Speaker 3: hot takes. My whole plan was to see that's insane.

440
00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,520
Speaker 3: Six people said that to their friends. That's sick as fuck.

441
00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,120
Speaker 3: But the whole thing was like seeing how drunk Mets

442
00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,480
Speaker 3: fans were at Opening Day. So we asked Mets fans

443
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Speaker 3: for their hottest take and then we were like, this

444
00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,199
Speaker 3: is how drunk they are, and Mark, very organically not

445
00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,240
Speaker 3: even that drunk, said Drew Smith has the best bullpen

446
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Speaker 3: in the era.

447
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Speaker 1: And then he was like, oh my god, did I

448
00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:30,920
Speaker 1: say it? Let me do it again.

449
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Speaker 3: I'm like, no, no, we're keeping that. You should have

450
00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,399
Speaker 3: said something in that tweet like Drew Smith is the

451
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,480
Speaker 3: best team on the reliever Like that would have been funny.

452
00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,560
Speaker 3: Like you just got to just keep going with that thing.

453
00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:40,800
Speaker 3: But it's okay, we'll get there.

454
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Speaker 2: We'll get there.

455
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll find the way there. But Game two was

456
00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:48,000
Speaker 3: awesome again, like this just really feeling themselves. Like I've

457
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Speaker 3: been going to sleep basically during the fourth or fifth

458
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Speaker 3: inning of most of these games. Game two I didn't

459
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Speaker 3: even want to try and watch it. I had just

460
00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:54,680
Speaker 3: a blong day and I was like, if I start

461
00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,439
Speaker 3: watching Jared Jones, I didn't get too excited, like I

462
00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,119
Speaker 3: have to get to bed. So I just I was

463
00:17:58,119 --> 00:17:59,880
Speaker 3: gonna look at it in the morning. Usually I've also

464
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Speaker 3: been watching full replays in the morning, but this one

465
00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,119
Speaker 3: just wanted to get to the beach early. So I

466
00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,040
Speaker 3: just I watched the quick eight minute YouTube version.

467
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Speaker 1: But I woke up.

468
00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,119
Speaker 3: I Leary texted Marcus said, how the fuck did they

469
00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,000
Speaker 3: do it again? I can't believe they just did it again.

470
00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,439
Speaker 3: Every single day I'd wake up and I look at

471
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Speaker 3: my phone. Mets had another comeback victory.

472
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Speaker 1: Beautiful.

473
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that game. Yeah, you were sleeping because

474
00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,639
Speaker 2: watching Jared Jones come in and just I mean, be dominant,

475
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000
Speaker 2: destroy this team. They had no idea what to do.

476
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,720
Speaker 2: Was like, oh shit, we're in trouble with Jose Quintana

477
00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,520
Speaker 2: on the mound. Also, like you said, being an ace,

478
00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,399
Speaker 2: like being fantastic. I was like, we really need to

479
00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:32,880
Speaker 2: score a run here. We're wasting some of the best

480
00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,199
Speaker 2: pitching Jose Quintan has ever done, just getting back into

481
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,240
Speaker 2: against against teams in the central and this guy looks

482
00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,959
Speaker 2: like an ace. But once they took Jared Jones out

483
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,760
Speaker 2: of the game, everything changed again. Just felt like the

484
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,560
Speaker 2: Mets again. We're able to take a breath, like nice

485
00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,920
Speaker 2: and easy, and they just attacked, attacked this Pittsburgh Pirates bullpen,

486
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Speaker 2: which just they just don't got it. They don't have

487
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Speaker 2: it like that.

488
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Speaker 3: No, And I told you guys about Jared Jones on mondayed,

489
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Speaker 3: Jared Jones is like a Spencer Strider, wasn't a pussy

490
00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,800
Speaker 3: like he is so so ridiculously good. And we got

491
00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,280
Speaker 3: lucky because the Pirates seem to be like kind of

492
00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,960
Speaker 3: reacting to everything that's going on in base part right now,

493
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,280
Speaker 3: where if you throw over ninety seven miles an hour,

494
00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,440
Speaker 3: like you're probably gonna blow your arm.

495
00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:10,800
Speaker 1: Out, So we just hope that you're okay.

496
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Speaker 3: So they said before the game, Derek Shelton, Chrrington, Jared Jones,

497
00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,800
Speaker 3: like it's pure five inning limit. But this is kind

498
00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,959
Speaker 3: of something that annoys me. With like pitching development, like

499
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,680
Speaker 3: trying to at least say, what is pitching injury?

500
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Speaker 1: Why are you counting innings not pitches?

501
00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,560
Speaker 2: And shit, I've never understood why it's an innings limit

502
00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,800
Speaker 2: and not a pitch limit. Because he threw fifty nine

503
00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,720
Speaker 2: pitches in this game through five. That's not five innings

504
00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,880
Speaker 2: of work, that's not the same.

505
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Speaker 3: Five and they were the easiest five innings ever. This

506
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,880
Speaker 3: fifty nine pitches looked like he was in a rocking chair.

507
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,560
Speaker 3: Just throw ninety nine miles an hour the whole time,

508
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,320
Speaker 3: one hit. Mets had one base runner in this game

509
00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 3: until the seventh inning when they actually came back. But

510
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,240
Speaker 3: it's just again, it's so rigid and it's stupid because

511
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:47,760
Speaker 3: but I respect that Jared Jones like this was the plan.

512
00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,640
Speaker 3: I was totally okay with it, Like would you rather

513
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Speaker 3: be shut down September and the answer is no. Like

514
00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,919
Speaker 3: this kind of became popularized during the Strasbourg shutdown like

515
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,880
Speaker 3: about ten years ago now, where it's like, oh, you're

516
00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,200
Speaker 3: in a playoff run and last year Jery Perez gets

517
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,960
Speaker 3: shut down for the mar Lens and then you're like,

518
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,880
Speaker 3: why are shutting down the best pitcher and a team

519
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 3: going to the playoff. Now he's getting Tim John surgery anyway,

520
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,360
Speaker 3: So it's clear that these kinds of things don't work.

521
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,560
Speaker 3: But you gotta be like five Every inning is not

522
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,360
Speaker 3: built the same. If you have a seven pitch inning

523
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,360
Speaker 3: or twenty seven pitch inning with four men on base,

524
00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,159
Speaker 3: those those are different on your arm. There's been a

525
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,439
Speaker 3: lot of studies. Drive Line did one that stressful pitches

526
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,240
Speaker 3: will affect you more than non stressful pitches. So to

527
00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,560
Speaker 3: just have a rigid five innings and done. I'm happy

528
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 3: it happened because it literally won the mess of the game.

529
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Speaker 3: But it doesn't It doesn't seem like the smartest way

530
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 3: to go about these things. No.

531
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Speaker 2: Apparently, Gary Keith and Ron were going off about it

532
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,360
Speaker 2: in Game three when the game started, like I can't

533
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Speaker 2: believe they did that, like talk about killing the development

534
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 2: of a pitcher. They're like, this guy's rolling. You gotta

535
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 2: do this, you're trying to win ball games there, I think,

536
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,280
Speaker 2: I don't know who said it, but they said this

537
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 2: is a team that's perpetually suck in the future, to

538
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 2: which I go, well, their pirates are coming. They're gonna

539
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 2: be here sooner than that, we think. But at the

540
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 2: same time, you are correct, that was a little bit

541
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Speaker 2: short sighted in my opinion, like it lost them the game.

542
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:57,439
Speaker 2: That straight up lost them the.

543
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Speaker 3: Game, literally lost in the game Mets had. I'm not

544
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 3: even being sarcastic or being hyperbolic. They had no chance

545
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 3: to hit Jera Jones in this game. But no one's

546
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 3: had a chance. He had Jared Jones all year. He

547
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,679
Speaker 3: has one of the highest striker recently he has one

548
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 3: of the highest wif races in the league. He threw in

549
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 3: this game, I think, like I think it was something

550
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 3: like ninety four percent of his pitches in the strike

551
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 3: zone and or if just for strikes in general, and

552
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 3: the Mets weren't even close to it. Like that's dominance

553
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 3: that most humans will never be able to see because

554
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 3: they just don't throw it in one hundred miles an

555
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 3: hour with white from him easy freak of nature. I

556
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 3: was talking about Jery Jones like two years ago too.

557
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,800
Speaker 3: This guy's been fucking building slowly since. But one is

558
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 3: the game. But the other thing that one is the

559
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 3: game because Katan was also a five and dive, because

560
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 3: it was just that's he did the Katana things. Seven

561
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 3: pitches that bad read Garrett Garrett. We found something here,

562
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 3: Mets fans. We found something in the read Garrett. Six

563
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 3: strikeouts and two winnings. Like I said before, highest striker,

564
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 3: offend reliever in baseball.

565
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.

566
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,920
Speaker 2: He has been a godsend to this team. It's insane

567
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 2: how he's He's also probably won of the Mets what

568
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 2: three games this year, just like his ability to come

569
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 2: in shut the door whenever he does give us multiple innings.

570
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 2: This is a role that we've both talked about having

571
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 2: like Christian Scotten or Jose Budo if he was gonna

572
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 2: start the season up, or Mike Vast whatever these guys

573
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 2: are gonna be or and we kind of can just

574
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 2: let him be there and we can worry about those

575
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 2: guys now just being starters whenever they're ready, because Reid

576
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 2: Garrett has now filled in that role that again, you've

577
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 2: seen the Brewers have every single year of who's the

578
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 2: guy who can give us two to three innings twice

579
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 2: a week, and that is Reid Garrett. And he's been filthy.

580
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 3: And you know what that makes me think about Reid

581
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 3: Garrett and how the Mets see him, What if they

582
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 3: think he actually might be able to start, because the

583
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 3: way he pitches, the command he has of his off

584
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,399
Speaker 3: speed stuff and his fastball in slyer shapes, even though

585
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 3: he doesn't use them a lot, Like that's actually like

586
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 3: a starter's build right there. That's a starter's repertoire because

587
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 3: he keeps doing this thing. And I've talked about a

588
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 3: few episodes ago the Brave series where he's pitching backwards

589
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 3: and hitters have no idea what to doo. He threw

590
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 3: thirty one pitches in his two inning stint. Only four

591
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 3: of those pitches were fastballs or sinkers. Everything else was

592
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 3: splither gyro slyder or a sweeper, and his primary pitch

593
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 3: was at splither. But it was like pretty even with

594
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 3: all those three off speed pitches. He threw ten splithers,

595
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 3: nine of them outside the strike zone. I think four

596
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 3: of them got swings and misses. The one he threw

597
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 3: in the strike zone was a called strike. Ye like

598
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 3: he was just playing with these guys, like they had

599
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 3: no chance against him. The slide and sweep were pretty even.

600
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 3: Those got tons of whiffs. He got nine whiffs over all,

601
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 3: fifteen swings, only one ball and play in two innings.

602
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 3: One ball and play in two winnings. But it's just

603
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 3: he seems very legit and this just seems like situation

604
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 3: where again that fastball and net sinker. I heard him

605
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 3: talk about them on I think he was interviewed. I

606
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 3: think it was another athletic article by Will Sam. He's

607
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 3: had a great week. Will shout out, Will shout out,

608
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 3: Will great great report there. Hopefully have him on the

609
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 3: show soon. But just garats like that fastball is amazing.

610
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 3: He's got like seventeen eighty inches of ivy B and

611
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 3: the sinker is something he's specifically worked on in the

612
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 3: off season with the tutolage of the Mets at the

613
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 3: pitching lab, just wanting another weapon he could really use

614
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 3: against lefties. He's not even throwing any of these pitches.

615
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 3: All five of them are plus. Maybe the sinker is

616
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 3: not plus, but still just like a soft contact pitch.

617
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 3: At least four of these pitches are plus. The fastball

618
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 3: is really good. He doesn't touch it like I wouldn't

619
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 3: be surprised if we get it actually gets straight. I'm

620
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 3: not like going to push it for it to happen.

621
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 3: Because he's so good in relief, he might just be

622
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 3: the mets second best reliever, but if you could stretch

623
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 3: him out to like fifty or six pitches, like, why

624
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 3: the fuck not at this point, like this bullpen needs

625
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,239
Speaker 3: a glue guy, and he's been the glue guy right

626
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 3: now and there's more ceiling on top of it.

627
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 2: Who would have thought Reed Garret would be the guy

628
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 2: that's getting all this love. Oh the season started, not me,

629
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 2: not me, but then like along with him being the

630
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 2: glue guy keeping it close, shutting him down, then the

631
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 2: Mets actually started to rally once the bed the bullpen

632
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 2: came in, like we said, Lindor great walk, Peter a

633
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 2: Lonzo with a single, and then Joey Wendell, who unfortunately

634
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 2: came in for bet Baty, who looks like he's hurt.

635
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 2: There is no timetable for when he's gonna return. It's

636
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 2: a tight hamstring, something going on with his hamstring, which

637
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 2: Brett stretch drink water when we need you back, we miss, Yeah,

638
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 2: you've been great. Don't get hurt on us now. But

639
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: Joey Wendell, the time traveling baseball player from nineteen twenty,

640
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 2: came up to the plate at the right time and

641
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 2: gets his first big hit as a New York Met

642
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,919
Speaker 2: smacking a double down the line, bringing in everybody on

643
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: the on the double, and the Mets just did not

644
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 2: look back from there because then Jorge Lopez, your boy

645
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 2: Andrew Smith came in and just shut the door. I mean,

646
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 2: that might have been the best inning Drew Chains has

647
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 2: ever had as a Met.

648
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 3: Somebody asked me for trains breakdown because they were like,

649
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 3: what's different about Drew Smith? Like why has he been better?

650
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 3: And there's something is very different about Drew Smith? Right

651
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 3: what He's just completely a new pitch.

652
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: It's a cover Druth.

653
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 3: Smith is now throwing a color that's very in between

654
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 3: his fastball and the Slyder in terms of velosoity, in

655
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 3: terms of movement. It's just is very in between them.

656
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 3: And from last year this year he's knocked fifteen percentage

657
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 3: points off the usage of his fastball, five off his Slyther,

658
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 3: and he's throwing his new color twenty two percent of

659
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 3: the time with a few less change ups as well.

660
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 3: That pitch has forty percent with rate, very very light contact.

661
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 3: He's getting even bad luck on contact on that color.

662
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 3: It should be giving up Like I think it's a

663
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 3: one thirty expected batting average, like like a two fifty

664
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 3: expected slugging. It's amazing and like stuff. Plus says that

665
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 3: that new color is his best pitch, and the way

666
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,239
Speaker 3: he's using it, I think is really interesting as well,

667
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 3: because it's been his early count pitch. Similar to how

668
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 3: this happened with Kodai Sanga last year, where that was

669
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 3: the pitch that took him to the next level that

670
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 3: worked in between his fastball and his splither. Drew Smith

671
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 3: is using this pitch with one strike, with no strikes

672
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 3: with oh one. It's like he's it's mixing into his

673
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 3: bats to basically get him to the slytherer because the

674
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 3: fastball is very good. But we've seen in the past

675
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 3: that he can't really overdue that fastball because when guys

676
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 3: get around on it, they're gonna hit it hard, they're

677
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 3: gonna hit it a long way. Like that's just that's just

678
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 3: the crime of that big, like nice high rising fastball.

679
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 3: But this color mixing in, it's getting him soft contacts,

680
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 3: getting him into an ab at bats quickly, and it's

681
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 3: something that I feel like, just for now, hitters aren't

682
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 3: ready for because it's very new, but it's nice to

683
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 3: have that movement profile right in between. Again, these two pitches,

684
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 3: So just a new wrinkle, soft contact and it's a

685
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 3: weapon and it looks really good and it seems that

686
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 3: it's like really brought him back up to the reliever.

687
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: We always hoped he could be.

688
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 2: Yes, we love Drew chains on this podcast. We know

689
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: where we're always this is a Drew Smith podcast. We

690
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 2: always have been, always will be. All you haters out

691
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 2: there were like Drew Smith, socks, Drew Smith, this this

692
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 2: or that. We've stood by him. Glad to see that

693
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 2: is pitching well and your boy horror he Lopez again.

694
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 2: Another great inning on Tuesday, and another great inning on

695
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 2: game three on Wednesday.

696
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 3: Just super solid. And the last thing from this game

697
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 3: is wegain we get into the end of the sweep year.

698
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 3: This Maxween your stuff is hilarious.

699
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 2: Oh we sat right next to him, like right, we're

700
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 2: right in front of him on Game one. He's awesome.

701
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 2: He's a good dude. And I normally think like that

702
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 2: gimmicky stuff is a little lame at times, but one

703
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 2: I do think he pulls it off. He's killing it,

704
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: he's crushing it. Shout out to Laura two positive Mets fan.

705
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 2: He's a positive Mets fan, and I'm happy to give

706
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 2: light to the guys who are actually real Mets fans

707
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 2: and not those idiots who scream and yell when they lose.

708
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 3: Totally like that, and that's something I just think the

709
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 3: fan base needed to rally. Some dude who's wearing Neon

710
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 3: colors with like crazy hair and a big chain. He's

711
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 3: just having a good time, So Sean Max Wiener think

712
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 3: he's been a lightning rod for Mets fans, which is hilarious.

713
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: That's just this this random dude.

714
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's fun, fun presence to have around the team,

715
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: and I'm happy we got him right.

716
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 2: Now, definitely. And then got to talk some shit about AMBTV.

717
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: What do you got for me here?

718
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: I just have a lot of ALMBT. I don't usually

719
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: watch MPT for Mets games.

720
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 3: Because where we live, I get blacked out, which is

721
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 3: one thing that's what I hate about MBTV, But watching

722
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 3: it day after day, morning after morning here trying to

723
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 3: watch full replays of games and then watch them live

724
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 3: when the timing aligns the way they do the ads

725
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 3: in between innings. Oh, it's the most enraging thing in

726
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 3: the world where they just keep slipping through the same

727
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 3: three highlights the whole time, and all what I'm seeing

728
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 3: is Aaron Judge first from runs a captain in the

729
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 3: April twenty twenty three, a random Will Brennan walk off

730
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 3: hit from June twenty twenty three for no reason, Jordan

731
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 3: Walker's first hit is a major leaguer over and over,

732
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 3: and then the game that they played in the ballpark

733
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 3: where the hat moves around. I hate it where I'm like,

734
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: why I usually watching LBTV. I'm almost never just watching

735
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: one game, and even if I do, it's like the

736
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 3: second thing I'm paying attention to, Like I'm working and

737
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 3: watching LBTV just to watch a picture, but usually it's

738
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 3: like two or three or four on one time, or

739
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 3: I'm like focused on the Mets. Almost every inning they're

740
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 3: missing like four or five pitches to start the inning. Yeah,

741
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 3: we're like, this is the only thing you guys are

742
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 3: meant to do is play baseball games.

743
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: Why are we missing pictures of knitting?

744
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 3: There was even a time where I was playing picture

745
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 3: in picture because I was prepping the podcast while the

746
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 3: end game was ending the volume of the game when

747
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 3: they come back on, because there was still a stupid

748
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 3: ad playing. Sometimes even just the Baseball zen ad and

749
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 3: I'm seeing Mets baseball happening in the picture in picture,

750
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 3: but the baseball zen sounds are going, like, I can't

751
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 3: understand how Willbee continues to fuck these things up here

752
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 3: after year, day after day, and there's just so many

753
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 3: baseball fans who rely on this and it kind of sucks.

754
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 3: Alex fast where you're at. I need some help with this.

755
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: We really need to fix this. Just give me highlights

756
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 3: from this year. How hard could it be?

757
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: The program?

758
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: Current highlights? And give me highlights from the playoffs? Why

759
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: am I only watching highlights were Opening Day twenty twenty three,

760
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 3: Like it's a fucking year ago, dude.

761
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, Aaron Judge Also, first time run as a captain.

762
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: That's not a highlight. That's not a highlight at all.

763
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: Make me want to gag, may want to throw up.

764
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's like saying, oh, Jeff McNeil's first home

765
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: run being a dad, I don't know, Like who cares?

766
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 3: That's more meaningful. So Aaron Judge is what the seventh

767
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,479
Speaker 3: most home runs in the single season baseball history? Now

768
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 3: with this first one run as a captain, why do

769
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 3: we have to glaze this guy for no reason?

770
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge man, he's the face of the Yankees. But

771
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: you know what, we're not talking about the Yankees anymore.

772
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 2: Going on to the last game of the series here,

773
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: game three, I like what you put in the notes

774
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: here fucking feeling themselves And I gotta tell you, walking

775
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: into the stadium today feeling myself too. Got free parking,

776
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 2: got free tickets.

777
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: How did you get the parking?

778
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: Uh? My spot, my spot, Okay, I didn't ask. I

779
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: got my spot that I will never disclose. Everyone. If

780
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 2: you know, you know, But if you don't know, sucks

781
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: to be you because it's free parking. But got free

782
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 2: Parker walked in and brought a water bottle, like I'm

783
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 2: not spending a dollar, gotta have a hot dog. Spent

784
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: seven dollars. I saw the Nathen hot dog, gave a

785
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: little grumble, and I was like, you know what, they're winning.

786
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: I'm feeling good. Let me buy a hot dog and

787
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. After I bought that hot dog,

788
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: the bats woke up.

789
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: I'll say, if you guys are ever on a strike

790
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 3: and never joined the picket line with Mark, because Mark

791
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 3: is gonna cross and scab at the first second he

792
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 3: smells any food or someone gives him any any mid

793
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 3: come of an offer, He'll never He'll never hold the line.

794
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm back to the City Field.

795
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 3: Next Friday, We're gonna go to the first game with

796
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 3: the with the City connect Jerseys against the Cardinals.

797
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 2: Ye.

798
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 3: I'm not spending a dollar, I say this year. Look,

799
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: besides beer, besides beer, I'm I'm a simple man. Besides beer,

800
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 3: I'm plushing blood here. I gotta buy some beer, but

801
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 3: I'm not buying any food or water in that stadium

802
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: all year. I guarantee it.

803
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a bit where it's gonna be. What

804
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: does James bring into the stadium today.

805
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring some wild food to this game. You

806
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: guys are gonna love it.

807
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 3: But I don't know if you knew this either because

808
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 3: you were at the game. I came out before some

809
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 3: of the beat r I was talking about the Mets

810
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 3: wrote sweep on their clubhouse shuffle board table.

811
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

812
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know if that's too much

813
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 3: that I was like, oh, that's just enough. And also

814
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 3: the fact that the Mets are playing shuffle board, those

815
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 3: are our guys. Would be cool, would have been cool

816
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: do shuffle boar content with them when we had the

817
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 3: chance to but no opportunities.

818
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe the new guy's brought the shuffle board in.

819
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 2: You know who, I okay, out of anybody on the

820
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 2: Mets team, who do you think is the who do

821
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: you think is the biggest shuffle board guy? Like? Who

822
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: do you think was like we need to get shuffle

823
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 2: board in here? And then who do you think is

824
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 2: the best and worst? I think this is a good

825
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: little thing here.

826
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: Shuffle board guy.

827
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 3: I want to say Wendell. He's an old school kind

828
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 3: of guy. It's an old school board game. And I

829
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 3: think the best, weirdly is gonna be Harrison bay the

830
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: I think he's good with all the stupid games. And

831
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 3: I think the worst has to.

832
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: Be Pete Noe.

833
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: No, definitely, I was gonna go worst Pete. I was

834
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 2: gonna go shuffle board guy. I think Tyron Taylor is

835
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: bringing in the shuffle board. He's just a good old

836
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: fashioned ball player and I could see him loving loving

837
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 2: a little shuffle board. He's a competitor. That's a competitive game.

838
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 2: I was with you though on the best. Harrison Bader

839
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 2: is definitely like annoyingly good at shuffle board where they're like,

840
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 2: are you playing at home. You know, Harrison Barr is

841
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: probably going out a little bit, hanging out in New

842
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: York City. I'm sure he knows where the best shuffle

843
00:31:59,440 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 2: board is.

844
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 3: Harrison Major seems like the guy again who's knowingly good everything,

845
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 3: like every single game, little video game, yeah, like mini game.

846
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: Like all the little bullshit.

847
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 3: But we talked about in the intro, Tyrone Taylor got

848
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: the big hit in this game, Starling Marte at the

849
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 3: big home run.

850
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: He's just been murdering us.

851
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 3: And for the Starling Marte not hitting second prop against,

852
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 3: He's a killing that's Ever since that.

853
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: Happened, I feel like I see him hit a home

854
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: run every game I go to. I'm like every time,

855
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, I should bet Starling Martete to hit a

856
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 2: home run. I don't do it. He hits one.

857
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 3: I want to play a game with two though. I

858
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 3: don't know if you're paying too close attention to the ballpark,

859
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 3: But if you had the guest right now, what do

860
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 3: you think Tyrone Taylor's batting average and OPS are?

861
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: Tyrone Taylor's batting average in OPS, I think he's hitting

862
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 2: two eighty and I think his OPS is eight eleven.

863
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: You want to be shocked. Yes, three forty one, eight

864
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: forty one?

865
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: Whoa three forty one? Does he get out? Now?

866
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 3: A lot of singles and it's been hot recently. It's

867
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 3: just the guy's awesome. They play hot.

868
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: The bomb is or the coming together.

869
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 3: The Harrison Bayor home run today was like borderline er

870
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 3: gas Mick I was like, I think, how's this happening?

871
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 2: I think Hunter Stratton might have been tipping pitches. I

872
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: don't know what he was doing, but Pete, when he

873
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: scored after I believe the Tyrone Taylor hit, immediately went

874
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 2: over to Harrison Bader talked to him, and Harrison Bader

875
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 2: looked like he was waiting for that pitch. So I

876
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: wonder if Hunter Stratton was tipping pitches, maybe some of

877
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 2: you guys at home could go back and look at

878
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 2: the clips.

879
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,239
Speaker 1: That's a really good catch by you. I like that.

880
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: But other things.

881
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 3: Just talking about briefly this game, because it really wasn't

882
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 3: much talk about because we beat the fucking.

883
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: Breaks up the pit Pirates.

884
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 2: Oh I got something for you though, real quick. Bailey

885
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 2: Falter sneakiest ninety one I've ever seen in my life.

886
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's doing that.

887
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 3: He's doing the four sceneer now because he has that

888
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 3: good arm slot and he's getting the IVB on the

889
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 3: four scene. I always told you I don't think Bailey

890
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: Falters as bads. He gets credit for he's pulling together

891
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 3: a nice little season for the Pirates right now. And

892
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 3: also I feel like I think Ron was talking about

893
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 3: it today but following Jared Jones of Bailey Falters's got

894
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 3: to be hell for opposing hitters because you're just you're

895
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 3: seeing ninety one with the same kind of motion but

896
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: from the other side of the of the arm slot.

897
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 3: Also funny thing, classic Gary moment from the game on Tuesday.

898
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: Definitely.

899
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 3: I don't know if Caught is watching it, but he

900
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 3: described where the term southpaw comes from, which is who

901
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: So traditionally baseball steams, they'd be built like kind of

902
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 3: intentionally for the sun to set over the fence like

903
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 3: behind the stadium, so that with the sunsets there, that's

904
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 3: west sunrises and east sets in the west. So a

905
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 3: lefty is face their shoulders facing there, so the arm

906
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 3: is pointing south.

907
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 1: South prow. Interesting.

908
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I'll buy it.

909
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 3: Funny and then just quick savvy stuff again another game

910
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: where just battled and grinded hard contact, not many wif

911
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: some walks, but just mixed all six of his pitches

912
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 3: and you got to slider outs when he needed them.

913
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 3: Big strike I think it was. I remember if it

914
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 3: was Rowthy or Connor Joe, but he got a big

915
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 3: one with few men on base.

916
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: I think it was the fifth. He got a big

917
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: double playing like the fourth and he was showing a

918
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 1: lot of emotion.

919
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: When O'Neil Cruz hitting one hundred and twelve mile per

920
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: hour line drive one hopper to Jeff mccaneil, he hit

921
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: it so hard that McNeil like knocked it down and

922
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 2: was still able to get a double play with plenty

923
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 2: of time. I couldn't believe how hard that Paul was.

924
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 3: It at least like an eighty fifth percentile runners in

925
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 3: terms of sprint speed.

926
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: But just Luisa Bruners goes out there. It hasn't really

927
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: has his best start yet.

928
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 3: He just keeps pitch, getting getting guys out and not

929
00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 3: giving him bron two point one four ERA in the season.

930
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 3: Luce Evno, he's point one four guys. One of the

931
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 3: best baseball.

932
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 2: He's good.

933
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 3: We told you it was good. Everyone quit on him.

934
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 3: He got babbit the fucking shit. Yep, that first start

935
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: of the year. And now he's just good and this

936
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 3: team is good.

937
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: He's good.

938
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 3: The rotations like patch it together, the bottom, the lineups hitting.

939
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: This is exactly don't say it.

940
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 3: Don't say this is exactly what you want before you

941
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 3: get in a flight to Los Angeles though, just lacked

942
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 3: good vibes, teams feeling themselves. That's gonna be a fun

943
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 3: plane ride either. I'll probably take it today. It's gonna

944
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 3: be a fun plane ride there.

945
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 2: There's there should be some some drinks hat on that

946
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 2: plane ride to LA today. Get the family on the

947
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 2: plane too, have some good time, play some cards, maybe

948
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 2: shoot some dice. I don't know. I hope the Mets

949
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 2: are shooting dice. If the Mets are shooting dice, this

950
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 2: team's win the World Series. I don't care. That's all

951
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 2: I need to know. If they're shooting dice.

952
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: I want to know how much the team is gambling internally,

953
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: and I hope.

954
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: It's a lot. Yeah, probably probably a decent amount. I hope,

955
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 2: you know, I'd hope so, I'd hope that these guys

956
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 2: are playing cards for money, like, have a little stakes.

957
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 2: I want competition, competition is good, and as we see

958
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 2: what the Mets says, there's been a little more competition

959
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 2: coming with the idea of JD Martinez coming. DJ Stewart

960
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 2: wakes up. Brett Baty's like, Okay, I got the spot,

961
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 2: but I know it's not mine forever if I don't

962
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 2: play well, started to hit the ball well. The pitchers

963
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: none of their spots are guaranteed. They're all pitching well.

964
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: The bullpen's stepping up this idea of Weirdly enough, all

965
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: the guys who have like guaranteed spots like Lindor, Nimo McNeil,

966
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 2: guys aren't going anywhere, not hitting at all.

967
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 3: Not doing nothing. And that's again we're talking about at

968
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,479
Speaker 3: the top of the show. It's the craziest thing about

969
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 3: this team. Everything we thought should be happening, really besides

970
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 3: pe Alonzo is not happening. Like if this team had

971
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 3: a Lindor playing well, code I sang A pitching every

972
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 3: fifth day and JJ Martinez the lineup. But they even

973
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 3: have lost a game so far, like I don't know,

974
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 3: like they're just they're rolling and nothing really has gone right.

975
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 3: It's shocking, like again, this is the best do this

976
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 3: every April the mess the best April team in the

977
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 3: history of baseball. So we're trying not to get too

978
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 3: far ahead of our skis, but at least this team

979
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 3: is putting us in a place where we thought they'd

980
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: be in the off season. We wavered for a week

981
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 3: where they're fun, hard nosed, gritty baseball. These guys seem

982
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 3: like they like each other. They seem like they're enjoying themselves.

983
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 3: They're having fun, and they're playing well. They have these

984
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 3: grinded out games, they're finding ways to win, and then

985
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 3: once a week they just beat the shit out of somebody,

986
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 3: and that's is exactly what you want.

987
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 2: It's so much more fun to watch as a fan too,

988
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 2: my God, Like listen, of course winning is more fun.

989
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: The stupid idiot take Mark. But like, even when they're

990
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 2: losing these games that they've lost recently, I haven't been like,

991
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 2: I'm sick to my stomach. I want to I want

992
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 2: to know his dive off my balcony. I've been like, Okay,

993
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 2: you lose baseball games. It's a long season. But they're

994
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 2: playing so much better baseball than they were at the start,

995
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: and really excited to see what they do again on

996
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: a big road trip, which we will talk about in

997
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 2: a second. But first, as you guys know, during the week,

998
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 2: when we do our episodes for the midweek series, we're

999
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and drop a prospect report. We've got.

1000
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 2: We've got a lot to talk about here, James steep

1001
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 2: into the numbers because we got some hitters to talk

1002
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: about today too, But we of course have to start

1003
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 2: it off with the man that is Christian Scott.

1004
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: Christian Scott, Guys, this dude's the truth. He there's no

1005
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: reason he's not in this team yet. There really isn't.

1006
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 3: I understand they want to wait for him. He had

1007
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 3: he's had some issues with home runs I'm gonna talk

1008
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 3: about in a second, but I think there's there's a

1009
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 3: case that he's the best healthy pitcher in the organization

1010
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 3: right now, and I don't know how much longer we

1011
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 3: can go with him wasting these balls to Syracuse because

1012
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 3: it's stupid. He had another start Tuesday night five and

1013
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 3: the thirds, ending seven strikeouts, three hits to earned runs,

1014
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 3: two walks, eleven wist there, mostly on his fastball, and

1015
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 3: interestingly enough, in this game against the Charlotte Knights, the

1016
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 3: White Sox somehow their Triple A teams worst their major

1017
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: league team.

1018
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 2: I was just saying, you think their Triple A team

1019
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 2: could beat their major league team.

1020
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 3: I think in the seven game series they could push

1021
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 3: him to seven if if Nick Nostrini is back in

1022
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 3: the Triple A team because he just got called up,

1023
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 3: but start, yes, exactly, keep him on the Knights where

1024
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 3: he belonged, and then and then just play right there.

1025
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 3: But he gave two home runs the first inning of

1026
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 3: this game, two solo home runs, one to one of

1027
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 3: our favorite players in league, Danny Mendick, and one.

1028
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 2: Then Dick's back in Chicago. That's how you know he

1029
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 2: was a terrible player. Charlotte. Oh yeah, Charlotte, my bad.

1030
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: That's how you know he had no business being on

1031
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 2: the team last year. Jesus Christ, he can't even make

1032
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 2: the White Sox check look up.

1033
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: How many bats?

1034
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 3: Yah, I'll talk about Christan Scott for the Mets last year,

1035
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 3: and also Oscar Colas. The Colas home run was on

1036
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 3: a fastball that was up and away. Just a good

1037
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 3: piece of hitting by colast I got the bad head

1038
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 3: out there and just drove it.

1039
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 2: How many bats not not nearly as many? Okay, he

1040
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 2: had sixty nine played appearances last year.

1041
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 3: Nice, nice, all right, good, But then the Mentic home

1042
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 3: run was on a two strike fastball that was literally

1043
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 3: on his hands. I don't know how he got it out.

1044
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 3: And the mental home run had ninety two mile and

1045
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 3: arrax philosophy, and the co loss was not ninety six.

1046
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 3: I think the baseball and Triple A might be a

1047
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 3: little bit juicy. But after this happened, Christian Scott only threw.

1048
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 3: I gave up one hit the rest of the game,

1049
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 3: and then even with that, so he gave up two

1050
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 3: fastball home runs in this game. He's given up five

1051
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 3: home runs overall Triple A this year. That matches total

1052
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 3: from last year. And that's more walks than he's given

1053
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 3: up in Triple A so far, which I think it couldn't.

1054
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 2: Triple A use the old baseballs. Isn't that the whole

1055
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: thing with trip play two.

1056
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: It's an a legit thing. Yeah, So I don't know.

1057
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 3: It feels like it is ninety two mile in hour

1058
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 3: home run to pitch on the hands. It seems bullshit. Yeah,

1059
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: I spent this week I think a big ped Alonzo video.

1060
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 3: Because he's nearing two hundred home runs, we're gonna do

1061
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 3: like a fuck it all two hundred p lons of

1062
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 3: home runs right when that happens, all.

1063
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: Ready to go.

1064
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 3: But watching a lot of two thousand nineteen home runs,

1065
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 3: I was like, this is this is insane, Like it's

1066
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 3: some home runs where he like golf the ball and

1067
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 3: like low and outside, just like snuck it over the

1068
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 3: right field fence. But Christian Scott then kind of started

1069
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 3: leaning more on his off He pitches earlier in a

1070
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,959
Speaker 3: bass in this game. He never he didn't throw another

1071
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 3: fastball in this game when he was one or or wait,

1072
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 3: I think I might run the wrong thing here, But

1073
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,919
Speaker 3: when he was one or oh oh, he threw much

1074
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 3: more sweepers than fastballs. And overall in the season's up

1075
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 3: to twenty six strikeouts three walks in just fourteen to

1076
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 3: thirty innings with three discussing three walks and twenty six

1077
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 3: strike guys. Five home runs and three walks is weird,

1078
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna chalk it up to the baseball just

1079
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 3: the fact that similar to Jared Jones, how could he

1080
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 3: is with that big old fastball. When you have that

1081
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 3: kind of fastball, you're gonna miss a lot of bass.

1082
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 3: But when they hit it, it's going to go out,

1083
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 3: So I think he's just going to be home run prone,

1084
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 3: which I think is like the only chick in his armor.

1085
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 3: But still just the excitement levels off the trust for

1086
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 3: Christians guy. I think once he gets here, he's going

1087
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 3: to be good. And I think he's gonna get here soon.

1088
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a big star. People are gonna want

1089
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 2: to be there for that one.

1090
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he's it. This is the best. This

1091
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: is the best first real pitching prospect in a legitimate decade.

1092
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 2: It's even chick up the grum. Yeah, those guys, the

1093
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 2: the old the old garb people.

1094
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 3: University of Florida should probably have to answer questions about

1095
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 3: why this guy was a reliever throwing a sinker where

1096
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 3: he's going to enter the league is one of the

1097
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 3: most exciting pitching prospects.

1098
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: They're on high fastballs, baseballs stupid.

1099
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 2: Sometimes they love bunting with like one out and to

1100
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 2: move the guy from second to third, like they just

1101
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:05,919
Speaker 2: do stupid shit at the college level.

1102
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: So it's old school guys being old school at this.

1103
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 3: But it's just just guy throwing a sinker at a ballpen.

1104
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 3: Seems really stupid looking back now, but another one, big guy,

1105
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 3: your guy sec guy, another one, Blade Tidwell. Probably his

1106
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 3: best appearance hasn't met. And I say appearance because it

1107
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 3: wasn't technically a start. He was a piggybacker on a

1108
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 3: Max Chranic rehab star. But five innings, three hits, two runs,

1109
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 3: three walks, ten strikeouts, eighty eight pitches, fifty five strikes,

1110
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 3: fifteen whiffs, and I want to shout out again, my boy,

1111
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 3: shout him out. Last week, Prospect Tilt, he charted this

1112
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 3: Blade Tidwell game just to himself, Tidwell and sprot so

1113
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 3: in high end Double A. There's no stackcast data on

1114
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 3: these guys Triple A and low way we have it,

1115
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 3: so it's a little oreo of no information. Prospect Hill

1116
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 3: has been great for this. Look him up, bunch of

1117
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 3: other guys. Prospect Tilled, He's wonderful. But Tidwell sat ninety six,

1118
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 3: touch ninety seven.

1119
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: Just cruised throughout.

1120
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,399
Speaker 3: Even three of those walks one was intentional. And again

1121
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: he tried these pitches he said two of them basically bullshit.

1122
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 3: They were edge pitches that you just didn't get the

1123
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 3: calls on. Throwing a lot of change ups, which I

1124
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 3: think is big for Blade because he has a couple

1125
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 3: ofstby pitches like the slyler and the curveball. So having

1126
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 3: a change of his nice because we know the fastball

1127
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 3: shape isn't spectacular, but he used a lot of pitches

1128
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 3: and ten strike cats in five innings is not a joke,

1129
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,439
Speaker 3: especially for a guy who's I don't know, he hasn't

1130
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 3: even turned them in the innings the last two years

1131
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 3: and he's starting to cruise through double A.

1132
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: We know Blades, my boy, it was like my top

1133
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: pitcher in that draft, and then Met's got him in

1134
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 2: the second round. That was a pleasant little surprise there.

1135
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: The thing that I've noticed to with the Mets pitching

1136
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 2: prospects is seemingly every single day there are someone striking

1137
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 2: out ten batters. I feel like they're getting an insane

1138
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 2: amount of strikeouts, which means the stuff's gotta be good.

1139
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 3: The pitching latman has two miracles on me. But another

1140
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 3: guy ten strikeouts this week. I had ten strikeouts last week,

1141
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 3: six strikeouts on Wednesday. Dom Hammel, he had a really

1142
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 3: bad numbers start in Syracuse. He's a guy who's started

1143
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 3: slow the last few years. But again, sixteen strike caasts

1144
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 3: now in his last ten and thirds innings pitch. He's

1145
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 3: been very fastball heavy so far, not leaning on that big.

1146
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 3: I don't know if the good pitch is the slyler

1147
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 3: the curveball, but I know he has two variations of

1148
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 3: but one of them is just a hammer. That's like

1149
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 3: ferociously discussing. But he's been leading with his change up

1150
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 3: as his primary offsby pitch so far this season, which

1151
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 3: I feel is probably directive from the organization, where it's like,

1152
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,479
Speaker 3: if this changeup is a real pitch, then we believe

1153
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 3: you'll be a star at the next level. But that

1154
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 3: pitch has been behind the fastball. It's been the best

1155
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 3: pitcher of getting with and it's been the second most

1156
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 3: used pitch. So encouraging that Tom Hamill is figuring out

1157
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 3: the little nooks and cranny he's getting into to become

1158
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 3: major league star.

1159
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: There.

1160
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 2: Yes, and then some other pictures that just quickly talk

1161
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 2: about we got Isaac Groffman. I don't know who the

1162
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,800
Speaker 2: hell is Isaac Groman.

1163
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 3: No, you just really no, So shout out Isaac Groffman.

1164
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,280
Speaker 3: He's a Mets fan, he is getting the pitching development.

1165
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 3: He's a college shooting at Binghamton. He had a great

1166
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 3: threat about Joonah Tong. I'm shouting you about Isaac. He

1167
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 3: DM me afterwards because he was like, hey, talk to

1168
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 3: me about some pitching stuff.

1169
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: He's big.

1170
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 3: Listening to the podcast, I never realized Joan Tong was

1171
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 3: from Canada as he talked about that in his thread,

1172
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 3: and he camped his motion and released to a shorter

1173
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: tile of glass. Now he did him side by side

1174
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 3: videos or treeze frames because it's just so over the

1175
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 3: top and he strived so far down the mound and

1176
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 3: it's big IVB fastball and it's the deep dropping curveball.

1177
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 3: But the thing that kind of separates Tongue, which we

1178
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 3: alluded to last week but now just getting some more

1179
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 3: information on him, it's a cover that falls in between those.

1180
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 3: It's kind of like little gyroslythery, but it's like that

1181
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 3: third pitch wrinkle. So, as a guy in lowe, Jo

1182
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 3: and Tong's three plus pitches, two of them is in

1183
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 3: the fastball in the color of plus plus where the

1184
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 3: curve ball doesn't have great grades but it looks incredible.

1185
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:12,959
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna just choose to trust how it looks.

1186
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 3: Guy looks like a legit piece. I picked him up.

1187
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: My first Dynasty league this week. Oh yeah, first time

1188
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 1: with roster spot.

1189
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 2: You might be one of the only people in the

1190
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 2: world probably.

1191
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 3: It's sixteen teams, fifty five fifty five roster spots, so

1192
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 3: it's a deep one. It's a really deep one. But

1193
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 3: I mean I beat the world to him, so he

1194
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 3: can't do that. Another guy on that same Dynasty roster

1195
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 3: the Goat, the Sproke Goat, Brandon Sproke. Baby, another four innings,

1196
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 3: five k's fastballs up to ninety the eight shadowt prospect

1197
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 3: hillt for another good uh, another good pitch. Tracking on

1198
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 3: this one guy looks great. Another pitching prospect. Never heard

1199
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 3: of this guy. Last pitcher we're going to talk about you,

1200
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 3: ever heard Wilson Lopez.

1201
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 2: I don't know, baby.

1202
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 3: He was touching ninety nine across thirty five pitches for

1203
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 3: Single Life Saint Lucy.

1204
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: The other day.

1205
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 2: It's Alex's cousin, right, Wilson, Yeah.

1206
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 1: Alex's cousin, Wilson.

1207
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 3: He had the fastest five pitches for all of Lowe

1208
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 3: that day. So Wilson Lopez. We still were still waiting

1209
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 3: for the firste hundred mile and hour pich. We still

1210
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 3: haven't gotten that in a while for the Mets. It's

1211
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 3: been over a full year. He got to ninety nine three.

1212
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 3: I'm dying for one hundred miles an hour. But we

1213
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 3: got we almost got there. Maybe next week we do it.

1214
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 3: Maybe next week we get there.

1215
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: All right. On the offensive side now, Alex Ramirez swinging,

1216
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 2: swinging the bat a little bit, swing that a little bit.

1217
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 2: Got the highest batting average among Mets prospects at three

1218
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 2: fifty three, which includes a five hundred babub. So it's

1219
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 2: it's gonna it's gonna calm down a little bit. He's

1220
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 2: gonna get knocked down a couple of pegs here, but

1221
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 2: a two hundred ISO, which is huge for him because

1222
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 2: for those of you know, ISO, isolated slugging basically just

1223
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: tells you how are like puts your weight on the

1224
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 2: extra base, hits the normal slugging percentage does Yeah, it.

1225
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 3: Takes it takes your slugging percentage, but takes out the singles.

1226
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 3: It's your is, it's every extra base that you had.

1227
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 3: It's a math out and the tools is still a job.

1228
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 3: Alexemiraz He's still huge, he's still a beast. He still

1229
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 3: runs fast. He's stolen five bags already, and this kind

1230
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 3: of what happens when you leave Brooklyn. This is why

1231
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 3: we're just begging for ran Clifford to get out of

1232
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 3: the wind, to get off the beach, become a high

1233
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 3: level prospect again. But still a lost strikeouts for Alexemira

1234
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 3: is not many walks, but just this bats of ball

1235
00:45:58,440 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 3: game is definitely gonna be what takes into the main

1236
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 3: And again, well he's lost the ceiling of being a

1237
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,959
Speaker 3: potential like top ten, top twenty prospect in the league.

1238
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 3: He's still a guy who could definitely be major leagu contributor.

1239
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 3: So happy to see him hitting the ball.

1240
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 2: Well, how about your boy Kevin Perata making it onto

1241
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 2: a little prospect report here, he's smacking the ball around

1242
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: down in Double A. Nine oh four ops through thirty

1243
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 2: played appearances. Again everything with a great assault. But he

1244
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 2: is playing really well at Double A. And maybe we

1245
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 2: were a little tough on him just because first round pick.

1246
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 2: You have these expectations. You heard all these great things

1247
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 2: about what kind of hitter he was in college. You

1248
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 2: saw the stats they put up in college, and they

1249
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 2: just didn't show up yet. But also he did deal

1250
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 2: with some injuries. Baseball's also hard. We know that growth

1251
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 2: isn't linear. It's not necessarily just this. You are good here,

1252
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: and you are good here, you keep being good everywhere

1253
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 2: you go. But it looks like he's starting to figure

1254
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 2: something out in Binghamton.

1255
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 3: Another guy where Brooklyn's just a really hard place to hit,

1256
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 3: and he ended last year he's with Brooklyn really well.

1257
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: He got himself to one fifteen.

1258
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 3: WRC plus by the end of the season, which one

1259
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 3: fifteen WRC plus in that league is still like I

1260
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 3: probably like seven forty seven to fifty ops. But just

1261
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 3: doing that and getting this promotion is a really big deal.

1262
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 3: And he's been ridiculously patient this year. I don't know

1263
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 3: if it can sustain twenty five percent walks, twenty eight

1264
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 3: percent strikeouts, So I think it's just him being very

1265
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 3: passive waiting for his pitch. Again, a lot of these

1266
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 3: double these minor league stats are kind of bullshit because

1267
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 3: the team I feel like he's just giving these kind

1268
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 3: of a high level prospect like directives things to work on.

1269
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 3: So maybe the team is just telling prout seemore pitches,

1270
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 3: see more pitches, and we know if you see more pitches,

1271
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 3: you can get to a spot good master of the

1272
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 3: strikes on, but I.

1273
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: Don't know, you get good stuff so far.

1274
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 3: It's hard to evaluate these guys in double A and

1275
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 3: high A specifically because we don't have exit velosities on them.

1276
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 3: But some guys we do have some exit velosities on.

1277
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 3: Of course, the greatest player in the history of the

1278
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 3: Syracuse Matts, his jeris will be in the Raptors one day,

1279
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 3: Mark Fiento's baby. They still is the same section of

1280
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 3: Mets fans that hate Francisco Indors still love Mark Fientos.

1281
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 3: And you know what, guy's got one for the r

1282
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 3: WRSC plus three hundre runs and fourteen rabies and in

1283
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 3: fifteen games of Syracuse hitting the piss out of the ball.

1284
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 2: I mean he crushes. He crushes triple A every time.

1285
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 2: There is never a doubt that he can hit at

1286
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 2: the triple A level. As we know. The problem is

1287
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 2: once you see ve Low, Mark Viento's does not hit.

1288
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 2: So if he's fixed that in triple A, great, I

1289
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 2: don't think we can tell. In fifteen games, I don't

1290
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 2: think he's going to be the Savior by any means,

1291
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: and it definitely makes it almost impossible for him. When

1292
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 2: Jad Martinez hopefully ever plays a game for the Orange

1293
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 2: and Blue, but until then, Mark Fieno's has a chance. Maybe.

1294
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1295
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 3: One thing cool about Vinos is that he's a fourteen

1296
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 3: percent walker right now. That is his highest ever at

1297
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 3: any level. He's playing with twelve games, so that's a

1298
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 3: little trickle. If you can get if you can just

1299
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 3: see more pitches, if you can get a better on

1300
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 3: base guy, everything starts to make a lot more sense.

1301
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: But at least he's in. He's in the crap by

1302
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: the Bond triple A.

1303
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 2: Yep. Nick Morribido something that we've talked about. We saw

1304
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 2: him in the Futures Game, freak athlete putting up good

1305
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 2: numbers to start the year as well, thousand o ps,

1306
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 2: two hundred WRC plus walking as much as he strikes out.

1307
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 2: And that's kind of something that we're noticing with a

1308
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 2: lot of these younger Mets hitters, is that they're all

1309
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 2: getting on base. They're all taking good pitches. Like you said,

1310
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 2: maybe that's the directive with these top prospects, but same

1311
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 2: walkway as a strikeout rate. Same thing with Jet Williams,

1312
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 2: who's having a slow start to the year. But again

1313
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 2: he's what nineteen years old in double A, like he's

1314
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 2: still so still so way ahead of the pack of

1315
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: where you're supposed to be in terms of your development.

1316
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 2: So these little things, again, it's such a small sample,

1317
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 2: it's hard to really tell what's actually sticky and what

1318
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 2: really matters. But that's why you listen to us every

1319
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 2: week talk about because we'll keep updating you as we

1320
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 2: keep going.

1321
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: And the Jet thing.

1322
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 3: A lot of what this development is right now is

1323
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 3: proving he's a legit center fielder. So I think that's

1324
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 3: just again probably like we're comfortable with Jet the plate.

1325
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 3: There's also why in the off season I told you guys,

1326
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 3: I bumped Drew Gilbert the head of JET and my

1327
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 3: overall prospect list, just because I saw Drew Gilbert kill

1328
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 3: double A. I want to see Jet Williams kill double A,

1329
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 3: even though they're very big difference in age.

1330
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: I want to see it happen.

1331
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 3: Hasn't happened yet, But again, just having the play discipline

1332
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 3: and just making maintaining playing in center field is big.

1333
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 3: Another thing about more b though again he's a Saint Lucy.

1334
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 3: We have stack caasts, we have ex of FLACI.

1335
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: Data on him.

1336
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 3: It's running a nearly a forty percent hard hit rate

1337
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 3: with six bat of balls over one hundred miles an

1338
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 3: hour very start of the year. Another guy who is

1339
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 3: becoming one of my favorite prospects and system also Saint Lucy.

1340
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 3: So we have the data. My boy hashus biased mister

1341
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 3: one hundred twelve eggs of laste in the spring breakout

1342
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 3: game four walks, his four strikeouts on the years eight

1343
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 3: percent each way. Because he gets up to the plate,

1344
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 3: he looks at the pitcher, He's.

1345
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: Like, I'm gonna fucking hit you.

1346
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 2: What what were you gonna say?

1347
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: Let's say I'm gonna piss all over this ball.

1348
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 2: Okay, Because I was about to say something that I

1349
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, James, Jam's coming in hot. What's he

1350
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 2: got for us?

1351
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: I just I love the dude.

1352
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 3: Fifty six percent hardhead rate at Saint Lucy, fifteen bad

1353
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 3: of the balls over one hundred miles now five over

1354
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 3: one hundred five miles now do is nineteen years old.

1355
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 3: He's he's built like a brick shit house and he

1356
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 3: loves to hit the ball.

1357
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, d Schwart's also shipping on

1358
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 2: the ball a little bit too, nine seventy three oh

1359
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 2: ps and walking almost twice as much as he strikes out.

1360
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 2: But we do have to talk about one guy, and

1361
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it really quickly. Louisa and Hellicuni is

1362
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 2: looking about as bad as you possibly can.

1363
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're the thirty WRC plus start the year. Three

1364
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 3: percent walks, twenty percent strikeouts.

1365
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 2: Been very this was the fear. This was the fear

1366
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 2: with him.

1367
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also he hit the home run like his

1368
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 3: first minor league at bad season.

1369
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: He's pretty probably.

1370
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 2: Very excited thing that could have happened for his y,

1371
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 2: his career.

1372
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:48,879
Speaker 1: And just he just really a guy.

1373
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 3: But I've been kind of telling people like a guy.

1374
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 3: I'll just metch Toy. The DM people are coming at

1375
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 3: me recently. But just he when I think he was

1376
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 3: built as a prospect just wasn't true. Again, you guys

1377
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 3: have to remember that we traded a legit bag of

1378
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 3: bones and Max Scherzer to get him. And I know

1379
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 3: we paid down a lot of the contract, but we

1380
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 3: gave damaged goods and we gave damage goods with some

1381
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 3: money and they're still paying some of his contract.

1382
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: We're not paying all of it.

1383
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 3: And again Max Scherz is the only thing that could

1384
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 3: have stopped the Rangers from winning the World Series last year.

1385
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 3: The way I'm trying to comp Louise on Hellacuni right now,

1386
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 3: the way I'm trying to describe him is just like

1387
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 3: he my hope for him, my goal for him is

1388
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 3: like a souped up with Merrifield, Like that's his major

1389
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 3: league set, where with Mayorfield, you might he might have

1390
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 3: been ugly and he might not really respect him as

1391
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 3: a baseball player, go Cox, but during his prime, the

1392
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 3: guy was like running like four or five wins a

1393
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 3: season on the terms the first six years of service time,

1394
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 3: I think he had something like thirty War twenty five War.

1395
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 3: If you get something like that, that's a major win

1396
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 3: for player development and his Similar to him and Akunya,

1397
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 3: it's speed. It's not the best play disciplainy, but it's

1398
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 3: probably gonna be a lot of contact. More so for Acuna,

1399
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 3: he has power, but he struggle, struggles to lift the ball,

1400
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 3: and he can play in field, he can play outfield

1401
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 3: at a high level. So if you get a guy

1402
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 3: who's second base, who's left field, who's right field, who

1403
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 3: might be able to mix it in a center and

1404
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 3: short stop in a pinch, who's getting on base. He's

1405
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,720
Speaker 3: stealing bases and he's just keeping the line moving.

1406
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: Again.

1407
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 3: I don't think it's ever gonna be any close to

1408
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 3: the best player on your team if you want to

1409
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,280
Speaker 3: be a very competitive, good team. I think it sucks

1410
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 3: that his last name is Akunya, but I still think

1411
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,479
Speaker 3: there's like a good Major League baseball player in here.

1412
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 3: But just it's just the ceiling. Was probably never a superstar.

1413
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 3: It's a little bit unfair than him, what has been

1414
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 3: placed on him.

1415
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 2: I wish his name was Luis on hell Smith. His

1416
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 2: career would look so much different.

1417
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: Luise on hell Martinez. It was the dream. Whatever, we digress.

1418
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 2: That's the Prospect Report. Guys, though, thank you so much.

1419
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 2: If you are enjoying this stuff, we want to keep

1420
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 2: giving it to you. Just let us know, let us

1421
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 2: know in the comment section, let us know in the DMS,

1422
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,879
Speaker 2: whatever it is. If you're enjoying the Prospect Report. If

1423
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 2: nobody wants to listen to this, we won't do it.

1424
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 2: But if you like it, I think they do like it,

1425
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 2: but just let us know so we keep doing it. Now,

1426
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 2: we're on to the final part of the episode here

1427
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers preview. We're heading out to La to

1428
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 2: get our West Coast trips started. James, as always, you

1429
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 2: have the honors. What are the pitching matchups?

1430
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 3: Pitching matchups in this series? This is gonna be a

1431
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 3: full one from Mets fans on Friday night, so it's

1432
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 3: ten o'clock game. Then we also have a four o'clock game.

1433
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 3: In a four o'clock game, so to afternoon games, we

1434
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 3: don't have to deal with that much. Midnight Mets Friday

1435
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 3: night though, the only ten o'clock game. You guys are

1436
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 3: gonna want to stay up for it because Sean and

1437
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 3: I have versus the Forgotten Sun, the spurns met Yoshinobu

1438
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 3: Yamamo though mister Yamamo, though has not been exceptional. Star's

1439
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 3: major league career probably is a long way to go,

1440
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 3: but not exactly been worth the massive price tag that

1441
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 3: everybody and the expe expectations everybody put on him early.

1442
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, three hundred million dollars. He's paid like the best

1443
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,240
Speaker 2: picture in baseball, and he has not been that. Now, granted,

1444
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: the stuff, the stuff has looked nasty at times. When

1445
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: it clicks for him, you're like, oh, there it is,

1446
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 2: I get it. But he's having the troubles that you

1447
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 2: saw Code I Sega have at the start of last year,

1448
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 2: even where it's just like this is a completely different

1449
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 2: sounds crazy. It is a completely different game than they

1450
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 2: play in Japan. It's just not the same. You have

1451
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 2: to learn how to pitch here, you have to learn

1452
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 2: what the travel the environment, playing outside. Yeah, Like, and

1453
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 2: it's been cold in La too. And I think one

1454
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 2: of his starchs was in Chicago. It was cold. Like

1455
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 2: he's not He's just like where thought I signed for

1456
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Dodgers. What's happening here?

1457
00:53:59,320 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: Shut?

1458
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 3: They money has been really good star his career though,

1459
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 3: so he's kind of bucking all that great.

1460
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1461
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 3: But something weird about Yamo though, is that he throws,

1462
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 3: like we've talked about a lot in this episode that like

1463
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 3: really just quintessential like high rising fastball. But the Dodgers

1464
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 3: do a thing with their pictures game plans where they

1465
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 3: don't like high fastballs as an organization. And one of

1466
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 3: the things that people thought would really help Yamodo's ceiling

1467
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 3: was that he again he didn't throw many like high

1468
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 3: high fastballs in Japan because it's not I think they're

1469
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 3: like round balls, like to keep the ball down, so

1470
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 3: people thought he would kind of locate that fastball up

1471
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 3: similar to what Imnica has been doing so far that

1472
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 3: imanak damn im and they will remember one day.

1473
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1474
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1475
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 3: I had it for months. I stopped saying his name,

1476
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 3: so I lost it. But I've been writing instead of

1477
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 3: saying it. But the Dodgers don't do that because the

1478
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 3: Dodgers just so are afraid of home runs because their

1479
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 3: team is so good that they're like, just keep the

1480
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 3: ball in the park well out hit that we won't

1481
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 3: really care. And if you could see this with guys

1482
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 3: like Walker Bueller and like the way their whole bullpen structured,

1483
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 3: where it's just like we never ever ever zappen Ryan

1484
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 3: Pepio to last year. Now, the raised or high fastballs

1485
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 3: with him, he's geting wiss on it, but we just

1486
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 3: don't want to give home.

1487
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:58,959
Speaker 1: Runs, so ya modo.

1488
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:00,760
Speaker 3: Now, if you look at the heat map on his fastball,

1489
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 3: I think it's because he's kind of stuck in between

1490
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 3: two things he wants to do and he's not executing

1491
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 3: either of them.

1492
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: He's just throwing them down the middle.

1493
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 3: So hopefully the heat map is literally straight down the

1494
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 3: middle on his fastball. It's hilarious to look at. But

1495
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 3: the curve ball is great, the split is great. I

1496
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 3: think all the pitcher is still plus. I think he's

1497
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,760
Speaker 3: STI gonna be a stud, But right now it seems

1498
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 3: like he is just getting used to the game and

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00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 3: it really hasn't been special yet. But we'll see and

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00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 3: then Saturday afternoon. Asof Jose Budover's Gavin Stone, two young

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00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 3: up and coming pitchers, two guys who were kind of

1502
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 3: cast off last year for their respective teams and fan

1503
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 3: bases who are now blistering to start the season. Gaven

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00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 3: Stone has been awesome. He finally picked up an offspeed pitch,

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00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 3: a breaking ball. I think it's a slider mid double

1506
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 3: checker right now. But he was always similar to the Boudou,

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00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 3: a fastball change up guy who the first time he

1508
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 3: came up, major kids were like, Okay, we'll just wait,

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00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 3: We'll just wait for one of these pitches that were

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00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 3: ready to come. But it's a color actually for Gavin Stone.

1511
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 3: So it's the color for Gaminstone. He's making it a

1512
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 3: sinker with the fastball, some slide, there's some curveballs, so

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00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 3: it's mostly that color, and he's been better than who

1514
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 3: was last year. I still think his loful's gold with him,

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00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 3: but we'll see. And then Sunday nine asof Adrian howse

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00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,760
Speaker 3: versus James Paxton nine asof to there.

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00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 2: Over under fifteen walks between those two guys, James Paxton.

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00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 2: I don't know how the other night got through this

1519
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 2: game through six things, but he walked like seven guys.

1520
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 2: It was It was a tough watch.

1521
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: It's a tough watch.

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Speaker 3: But the pitchers aren't really the exciting thing for this

1523
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 3: Dodges team. We are going to face show Heyo Tani.

1524
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 3: We're gonna face Mookie Betts, We're gonna face Freddie Freeman,

1525
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 3: We're gonna face Will Smith, ta Oscar Hernandez, who looks

1526
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 3: like one of the best players in baseball because he

1527
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:24,720
Speaker 3: just gets He gets to pick up all the scraps

1528
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 3: and do whatever the fuck he wants and knows that

1529
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:27,879
Speaker 3: bad because it's always two or three guys on base

1530
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 3: It's just this team comes to a bad It's really

1531
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 3: fun for them. It's not that much fun for us there.

1532
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 3: It's it's it's crazy that we I think we have

1533
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:39,879
Speaker 3: better record them right now too. They just lost they.

1534
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: Just dropped two series in rows. The Nationals, the pod Mine.

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00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marx Nationals Chela Luis Garcia, the best hit in

1536
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 3: the league. But this, this Dodges team, this lineup is ferocious.

1537
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm not excited. Face Mo Betts three seventy with six homers.

1538
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 2: Wokie Betts is a two twenty three o ps plus

1539
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 2: seven Shootani. I'm gonna read out the fun stats, so

1540
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: Showyotani on the year is hitting three forty one with

1541
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 2: a three eighty five on base ten nineteen ops. I'm

1542
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 2: gonna pull up the game or splits here because with

1543
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 2: runners in scoring position, you won't be believe how terrible

1544
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 2: he's been with runners in scoring position, and yet he's

1545
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 2: still hitting. Through fourteen, he has twenty one played appearances

1546
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 2: one hit with runners in scoring position. He is hitting

1547
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 2: point zero five to three with runners in scoring position.

1548
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 2: Otherwise he's hitting four to thirty six on the season

1549
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 2: in fifty plate appearance. It's like he's just he's so

1550
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 2: unbelievably good. This team is disgusting. This team is crazy.

1551
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 2: This is a huge, huge heat check for the Mets.

1552
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 2: This is a good one. I think this is a

1553
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: perfect time to get a heat check too in April,

1554
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: going on the West Coast trip. I'm really excited for

1555
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 2: this one, Like this would be some fun baseball. They

1556
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 2: have the chance to just beat the pants off of us,

1557
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 2: for sure, because this lineup is crazy, but the way

1558
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 2: the must have been playing, I feel better than I

1559
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 2: would have if you stask me at the beginning of

1560
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 2: the season. For sure, I no shit.

1561
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 3: But at the beginning of the season I looked at

1562
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 3: this road trip after the team was owned four I think,

1563
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 3: and I told you I was, like, this could kill

1564
00:57:58,400 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 3: the whole season right here.

1565
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 2: Well might wins going into May.

1566
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 3: Like that's what I'm saying, Like six games on the

1567
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 3: road against these good teams, one very good team, one

1568
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 3: pretty good team, But the Mets always find a way

1569
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 3: to show up and to go to LA even last

1570
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 3: year the worst series of all time, they won the

1571
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 3: series in Los Angeles in April, Like, I think, maybe

1572
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 3: doing this. You used to do this West Coast trip

1573
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 3: always in July. Remember cynder Gard hit those two home

1574
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 3: runs on a week night.

1575
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 2: That was I was that was college summer.

1576
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: I was so drunk that night.

1577
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 2: That was so much.

1578
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: Was doing karaoke at Fourth Street.

1579
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 2: About to say get a mean when you said the

1580
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 2: h what are you doing?

1581
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: My parents listen to show, I'm saying you do it.

1582
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 2: I thought you were just gonna drop that on the

1583
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 2: podcast and like, whoa your parents and my parents listen

1584
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 2: to the show.

1585
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I was doing karaoke, you asshole.

1586
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: But it was a great night.

1587
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 3: I remember with my boy Ryan and we were like,

1588
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 3: we're on our phone. We were like, oh, you should

1589
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 3: sender Guard to another home run. I missed my miss

1590
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 3: pictures hitting. I know you don't miss pictures hityting, but

1591
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 3: Pictures Hitting used to be really fun three times a season.

1592
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 2: But I don't know.

1593
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: Just your show is just win on Friday night. If

1594
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: we can get a win on Friday night, we could

1595
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: be yamamoo.

1596
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 2: I'd like to twit photo a lot.

1597
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: Twitter will be so much fun.

1598
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 2: It will be so much fucking fun to be on

1599
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 2: Twitter that night actually riling up Dodgers fans. They're a

1600
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 2: soft fan base.

1601
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: Oh, we have the meme.

1602
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 3: I had the meme that I may it's already to go. Yes,

1603
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 3: I can't wait for that job there. That's gonna be

1604
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 3: such a good meme. We gotta find the moment we

1605
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 3: gotta find the response, We gotta find the time.

1606
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 2: Trust Twitter is your thing.

1607
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta see.

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00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 3: I mean I also, I'm not gonna awake for any

1609
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 3: of these games. I might have to entrust you with

1610
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 3: a big but with a big bullet in the hollister

1611
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 3: for this one. It's all, don't have to clean out

1612
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 3: my Friday or or you know what.

1613
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: No, just let them float through and then you'll know

1614
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: the moment.

1615
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 2: That true, true, true.

1616
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 3: I'm probably good to Twitter in a much more objective sense,

1617
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 3: but you're really good at riling people up.

1618
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: Still, I am. I do know how to get the

1619
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 2: people going.

1620
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, the tickle of fan base

1621
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 3: a little bit. I know you could do that with

1622
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, but that's a Dodgers preview. Just last thing

1623
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 3: to shotow you guys a lot of support, with a

1624
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 3: lot of people reaching out just saying they love the content.

1625
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 3: Recently since appreciated our own again well, also a lot

1626
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 3: of people reaching out asking if they can do things

1627
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 3: for us, like social media, producing, editing. Someone asked me

1628
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 3: the writing. I was like, dude, there's no writing that

1629
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 3: comes from the show. If I could, if I could

1630
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 3: help you, I would but it's just like Shadow, you guys, like,

1631
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 3: we definitely want to grow this thing at some point.

1632
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: It's just the two of us. Yeah, we just don't.

1633
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 3: We're not spinning enough of a profit to bring anyone

1634
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 3: else on and actually weird than anything. Yeah, I feel

1635
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 3: really bad having you guys do all this work and

1636
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 3: we'd be like, hey, so we're not making anybody. This

1637
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 3: is your working for free, Like yeah, I mean resume

1638
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 3: boosters like we got you for that a couple tweets tonight,

1639
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 3: We'll we'll help you embellish, but just appreciate it, but

1640
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 3: reaching out.

1641
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone liking the content. The views are way up

1642
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: across the board.

1643
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 3: We're getting as many people watching listening as we basically

1644
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 3: ever have, which is crazy because we used to have

1645
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 3: a multi billion dollar arganization spoiling us. But again, Shadow

1646
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 3: you guys. It has been really fun to do and

1647
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 3: it's so much better when the Mets are playing well.

1648
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 2: And shout out to Brian Mets. We got another review

1649
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 2: over on Apple Podcasts five stars. Listen. I'll tell you this,

1650
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 2: the subject could have been better. Among the best Mets podcasts,

1651
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 2: I would have liked it to say the best Mets podcast.

1652
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 2: But hey, we'll take it. We'll take it, Brian, Mets fan,

1653
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 2: because you said some nice things. Mark and James blend

1654
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 2: Analytics with a clear passion for this team consistently a

1655
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 2: great listen, especially with the enhanced latitude now that they

1656
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 2: are in associated with the organization any longer, keep with

1657
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 2: the great work fellas. Brian, Thank you, We appreciate you.

1658
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 3: Shadow you Brian, and again, anybody, if you put a

1659
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 3: review on there, any stars, we prefer it to be fine.

1660
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 3: We will read it as long as it's not as

1661
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 3: long as it's not hate speech what we'll read it

1662
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 3: out there.

1663
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 2: But guys, that's gonna take us to the end of

1664
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 2: this episode. Remember to follow us on all our social

1665
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 2: media at met stuff on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok if

1666
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 2: you want to keep interacting with us past the episode.

1667
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 2: If you want to watch the YouTube video version of this,

1668
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 2: go to the met Stuff podcast YouTube channel. Subscribe over

1669
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 2: there so you don't miss out on any of the content.

1670
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 2: If you're listening to us Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, drop

1671
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 2: us a rating, drops a review, download and subscribe. It

1672
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 2: really does help us grow.

1673
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 1: Follow James on Twitter at James Underscores and me at.

1674
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 2: Draftnick Mark with a C. Thank you guys for listening

1675
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 2: and watching it. We'll catch you after the Dodger series.

1676
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: Peace Out, peace out. See you guys next time. Let's

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01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: com mats