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Speaker 1: back to episode number eighty nine of the met Stub podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by the Seven Line. The boys actually sat with

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Speaker 1: the seventh Line for this series up against the Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 1: We had four including a doubleheader which happened yesterday or

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Speaker 1: actually two days ago now, whenever you guys are listening

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Speaker 1: to this, we split with the Braves. It's not the

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Speaker 1: with the defending World Series champions Atlanta Braves. Of course,

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Speaker 1: a great time to bring in James. James, how you

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling my right, duo. It's been a hectic day,

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Speaker 2: hectic day for your boy, coming from our very late

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Speaker 2: heady yesterday, going to have to edit this to night,

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Speaker 2: and recording my pitcher list First Pitch podcast. We're moving

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Speaker 2: right now, but hey, let's go keep the adrenaline pumping.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Boys are zoom in. The Mets were zoom in.

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Speaker 1: We thought coming into the series kind of got a

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Speaker 1: good baseball. I still don't think we're necessarily in trouble,

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Speaker 1: but Game one weird vibes from the start, especially because

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Speaker 1: Buck got suspended like what five minutes before the game started.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seemed like a very poignant move by Major

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Speaker 2: But Joan Lopez was spending for three games, which might

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think it just gave the Mets weird vibes.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, from the start, we had what Hefner

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Speaker 2: He's so good and he gives so much stability to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he will just come at you with five different

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Speaker 2: Chris Bassett, something that every single team in baseball needs

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you talked about the called strikes, it felt

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Speaker 2: What call was that?

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Speaker 2: Trying to embellish on Hi more because you just kind

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Speaker 2: of went right into it. You didn't explain it.

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Speaker 1: It might have been to end the ending.

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Speaker 1: After the Dansby Swanson walk, he owned up to He's

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Speaker 2: That particular sequence gave Bassett his first stress of the

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Speaker 2: And everyone played it off like I mean, Dansby played

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Speaker 2: I think that's another reason why the umpire actually apologize

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Speaker 2: guilty about that, as he should have, but it didn't

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Speaker 2: really help because from there, the Braves rallied in the

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Speaker 2: sixth while Travis Darnault met killer official met killer. I

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Speaker 2: think they said after after Wednesday's game that he's now

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Speaker 2: like since he left the team, which is just really

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Speaker 1: Absolutely disgusting. And I want to just talk about Darnault

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Speaker 1: He had nothing left in the tank when he was here.

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Speaker 1: Clearly needed a change of scenery. That's just something that happens.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe we let Travis Darnault go.

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Speaker 2: Travis Darnault with the Mets looked like a very bad player.

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Speaker 2: I think it was just the circumstances around his untimely release,

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Speaker 2: beginning of May twenty nineteen, with Brodie Van Wagon and

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Speaker 1: Was making moves. He was like, we gott get rid

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Speaker 2: He accepted the players that he acquired. It was less

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Speaker 2: That's why it was weird that they actually cut him

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Speaker 2: the sixth inning against Bass did the Braves rally? Darnel

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Speaker 2: where the offense again just wasn't really there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there weren't the big hits. I will say there

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Speaker 1: was one big hit, though, and your boy called it,

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Speaker 1: and everyone on Twitter was letting us know. I did

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Speaker 1: call a Mark Canna home run in Game one off

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Speaker 1: of Max Freed. We've had it on the back there.

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Speaker 1: It's not the only thing I called right in this series, though,

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Speaker 2: you in the third ending of this game that the

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Speaker 2: third time the Braves see David Peterson is going to

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Speaker 2: be a rally. And I was having a little bit

433
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Speaker 2: of a stomach day at the ballpark, so I knew

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Speaker 2: I was gonna have to spend like a good quality

435
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Speaker 2: ten minute bathroom sets shout out to all my brothers

436
00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,959
Speaker 2: and sisters and arms with ibs out there, and had

437
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Speaker 2: told Mark, I was like, hey, I'm going in the

438
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Speaker 2: fifth inning because thats gonna be the Brays rally. And

439
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Speaker 2: I went and that was when the home run happened.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, as soon as the air happened, I was

441
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Speaker 1: like Matdilson sitting a home run and be crushed. That

442
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Speaker 1: dude's so freaking good. He's like, does he even care

443
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Speaker 1: about lefty? Lefty? It feels like it doesn't even matter

444
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Speaker 1: to him.

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Speaker 2: Not really. And also internally the meshit have also realized like, hey,

446
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Speaker 2: let's just take out of lefty and bring into left

447
00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,400
Speaker 2: actually have been chasing Shreeves at bat no matter what else.

448
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Speaker 1: Was going on, yeah, or Joe Ellie or Joe Ellie

449
00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,719
Speaker 1: whatever it was again doubleheader, that's probably why they're really

450
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Speaker 1: trying to push the envelope here. Five to four though,

451
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Speaker 1: and then our boy, you know, Adam out of you know,

452
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Speaker 1: he comes into he pitches really, really well. And that

453
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Speaker 1: was for his second straight appearance, right, that was second

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Speaker 1: second straight appearance.

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Speaker 2: He had pitched well. He got blown up on Saturday,

456
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Speaker 2: not blown up, Kroles Forber, had the crazy home run

457
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Speaker 2: off him, didn't pitch Sunday, and that Monday, and now

458
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Speaker 2: Tuesday again. Yeah, Tuesday was a great enning, one of

459
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Speaker 2: the best best endings of the year. Struck out the side.

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Speaker 1: I believe that's swinging miss to Adam duvald on the

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Speaker 1: pitch that I was about sixty inches off the plate

462
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Speaker 1: that he swung at looked like the Todd Frazier swing

463
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Speaker 1: with the Twoki Tusan slider that happened a few years ago.

464
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Speaker 1: Is it was one of the worst swing and misses

465
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Absolutely fill what is that, I say,

466
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Speaker 1: threw a frisbee. Yeah, he threw a frisbee. He was

467
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Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting. And then our boy Drew Chains came in

468
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Speaker 1: and doing the Drew Chains thing. Two innings, scoreless baseball, disgusting,

469
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,359
Speaker 1: second best reliever in the Mets bullpen. I think we

470
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Speaker 1: can put the stamp on that pretty officially.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're definitely gonna get a chance to see if

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Speaker 2: that's true, because again with the May injury, it seems

473
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Speaker 2: like Drew Smith is going to be the guy who's

474
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Speaker 2: going to get a lot more high leverage late inning reps.

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Speaker 1: And he's just he's really taking advantage of it thus far.

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Speaker 1: I was really impressed with those two innings. He's not

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Speaker 1: giving up a single run this entire year. That's I believe,

478
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Speaker 1: twelve straight appearances of scoreless baseball with the Mets for

479
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Speaker 1: Drew Smith aka Drew Chains, and I just every time

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Speaker 1: he comes in to the game. I feel really really

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Speaker 1: comfortable and confident I.

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Speaker 2: Do as well. And it was very important for the

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Speaker 2: Mets to get the two winnings out of Drew in

484
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Speaker 2: this game, with another game coming and no off days

485
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Speaker 2: before or after the series. That was very important from Drew.

486
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Speaker 2: And then Edwin came in slammed the door, looked the

487
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Speaker 2: really good and a great, great team win to the Mets.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great team win. I guess if we had like

489
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Speaker 1: one complaint for this game, because we're gonna do that.

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Speaker 1: There's like this weird portion of the game where Charlie

491
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Speaker 1: Morton was on the ropes and the Mets decided to

492
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Speaker 1: get extremely aggressive and saw twenty six pitches I think

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Speaker 1: in three innings.

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Speaker 2: It was twenty seven something like that.

495
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Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that kept Charlie Morton in the game

496
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Speaker 1: a lot deeper than he really should have been and

497
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Speaker 1: kind of helped too, because then they could go to

498
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Speaker 1: Jesse Chavez, who we can never figure out how to hit.

499
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Speaker 1: I guess kind of just does that to everyone. He's

500
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Speaker 1: kind of a good reliever, yes, And that saved their bullpen,

501
00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,440
Speaker 1: which kind of builds into a little bit more of

502
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Speaker 1: the story here as we keep going. But we had

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Speaker 1: a chance to knock Charlie Morton out. We were swinging

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Speaker 1: on a lot of first pitches. I get it, he

505
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Speaker 1: throws strikes, doesn't really walk guys, but just felt like

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Speaker 1: that at the beginning of the game the Mets were

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Speaker 1: really patient. It was playing off or paying off. And

508
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Speaker 1: then now later in the game they just kind of

509
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Speaker 1: got restless, it felt like, and we're swinging at everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mentioned this verbatim in the preview for the

511
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Speaker 2: Brave Series from Monday, but I said that the Mets

512
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Speaker 2: really wanted to win this series. The goal was knocking

513
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Speaker 2: out one of the Brave starting pitchers very early in

514
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Speaker 2: the double heather and in a game where score five

515
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Speaker 2: runs in four innings and the other team only has

516
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Speaker 2: to use two pitchers, like that, to me is a

517
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Speaker 2: bit of a failure inside of a four game series

518
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Speaker 2: when you're trying to put the team down.

519
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Speaker 1: Definitely, definitely, And it gave different vibes going into Game three,

520
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Speaker 1: although we will say the vibes in the stadium were rocking.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's feeling great. You always feel grea when you win

522
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Speaker 1: game one of the double header. Seven line was there,

523
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Speaker 1: We're feeling good. The Mets had a nice little offensive

524
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Speaker 1: performance there up against Charlie Morton beating the World Series champions,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know it kind of continued on Carlos

526
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Speaker 1: Carrasco on the mound. Was absolutely phenomenal. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it can be understated how important this guy has been

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Speaker 1: to this team. As bad as he was in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, he has completely just gone three sixty, right

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Speaker 1: or one eighty?

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Speaker 2: What do you say three sixties the same?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, he's done a one eighty and he's

533
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Speaker 1: been so good.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, I'm not going to take a victory lap either.

535
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Speaker 2: In Carlos Carrasco. I'm going to take like a victory jog,

536
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Speaker 2: maybe a victory like a victory one hundred meter victories

537
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Speaker 2: have the full lap.

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Speaker 1: You could do the bat flip for like a double

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Speaker 1: off the wall.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, but I don't want to do that. That

541
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Speaker 2: makes that looks pretty bad. Yeah, hustle in the second

542
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Speaker 2: bath flip into a slow it's a bad look. But

543
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Speaker 2: I told everyone to exhibit patients to Carlos Carrasco that

544
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Speaker 2: he was working on a lot of things last year

545
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Speaker 2: that I thought would be meaningful in the long term,

546
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Speaker 2: and it's proven to be true. Like he definitely isn't

547
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Speaker 2: this good a little bit like the way tywe Walker

548
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Speaker 2: started last season, Like Carlos Kraska is not gonna be

549
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Speaker 2: a guy who pitches the whole season to like a

550
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Speaker 2: two eight era, Like he's probably not gonna win eighteen

551
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Speaker 2: games unless something really clicks. But this is exactly exactly

552
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Speaker 2: exactly what we needed from Carrasco last year when he

553
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Speaker 2: was included in the Francisco Indoor trade and then just

554
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Speaker 2: heading into this year with all the question marks surrounding

555
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Speaker 2: our starting rotation. He went eight innings in this second

556
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Speaker 2: game with the double header against the Braves, a game

557
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Speaker 2: that was what two hours and twenty minutes in total.

558
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a quick one, and we were complaining

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Speaker 1: about the first game being so long because remember I

560
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Speaker 1: think like in the first like three innings or the

561
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Speaker 1: first inning whenever it was, I was the most pitches

562
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Speaker 1: ever thrown in a Mets first inning.

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Speaker 2: I believe you saw like a Mets Braves game. It

564
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Speaker 2: was something like there were like eighty something pitches or

565
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Speaker 2: seventy five pitches between the two teams, and the first

566
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Speaker 2: inning we were like, oh, here we go, gonna be

567
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Speaker 2: a long night here at the park and we were

568
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Speaker 2: on the train going home by nine fifteen, but a

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Speaker 2: lot I was doing. Carlos Carrasco working very efficiently in

570
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Speaker 2: the second game, going eight innings, five strikeouts, six hits,

571
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Speaker 2: two walks, Like that is what we need. Let's go, baby.

572
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Speaker 2: The first pitcher in all of baseball to go more

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Speaker 2: than seven innings twice this season is Carlos Carrasco. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone could have made that bet. If

575
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Speaker 1: if you made that bet before the year, you're crazy.

576
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Speaker 1: This is the guy who's locked in for five but

577
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Speaker 1: he has been so when he's on, he's able to

578
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Speaker 1: give us length and especially like you said, in this doubleheader,

579
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Speaker 1: so massive.

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Speaker 2: He's just old school. He attacks hitters. He doesn't really

581
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Speaker 2: over complicate things. Hey look good. This game specifically, it

582
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Speaker 2: was one of the least complicated he's ever made his

583
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Speaker 2: starts with the Mets. With the Mets because he threw

584
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Speaker 2: eighty two percent foresting fastballs and sliders. That is the

585
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Speaker 2: most like, I don't know, the most focus I've ever

586
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Speaker 2: seen Carrasco on two pitches in his tenure with the Mets,

587
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Speaker 2: and he was not perfect. The Braves had lots of

588
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Speaker 2: hard hit balls, lots of them, and again, Carrasco couldn't

589
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Speaker 2: really get a feel for either his sinker, his change up,

590
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Speaker 2: or his curveball. But those two pitches I said, he

591
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Speaker 2: focused on the fastball and the slider. Clearly those are

592
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Speaker 2: two pitches that he knew going into the game he

593
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Speaker 2: was going to have. Each of them had at least

594
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Speaker 2: eight whifs and his whiff rate was over thirty percent

595
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Speaker 2: for the entire game. So with only five strikeouts in

596
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Speaker 2: eight innings, that high wif frate makes you think there

597
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Speaker 2: could be more strikeouts following. And he even isn't that

598
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Speaker 2: sharp and he's getting people out over and over and

599
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Speaker 2: over again. It's it's very comforting to see what we

600
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Speaker 2: have in Carlos Carrasco, and it gives me a nice,

601
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Speaker 2: a nice hope for his floor as the season progresses.

602
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Speaker 1: Yeah, as our back end of the rotation guy, it's

603
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Speaker 1: really nice to have that consistency that we've seen from

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Speaker 1: Carlos carrasco thus far this season. As well as Carlos

605
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Speaker 1: Carrasco's strikeout performances early on in the game got the

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Speaker 1: boys on TV. We got framed up beautifully on S

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Speaker 1: and Y.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like it wasn't an accident.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like someone was like, we're getting We're getting

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Speaker 1: the Mets up boys on there. We had two cameras

611
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Speaker 1: technically on us. We had one you guys will find

612
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Speaker 1: out a little bit in the future about why one

613
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Speaker 1: was on us. The other was the S and Y camera.

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Speaker 1: Boom right on the seven line, right on us, perfectly

615
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Speaker 1: framed up. My phone was blown up. I know yours

616
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Speaker 1: was too. Twitter was going crazy every I think on

617
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Speaker 1: the YouTube video for the Mets recap, we're in it

618
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Speaker 1: as well. We're on it for Twitter doing everything. The

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Speaker 1: oh struck get him out with the seven line. It

620
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Speaker 1: was cool. I think that was the first time I've

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Speaker 1: ever been on.

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Speaker 2: TV actually really for anything.

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Speaker 1: For I mean, like maybe like when I was a kid,

624
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Speaker 1: I maybe got like a quick face on a Mets

625
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: game or a basketball game. But that was the first

626
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Speaker 1: time since Draftnick Mark, I guess has really started that

627
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Speaker 1: your boy got legitimate television screen time.

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Speaker 2: I've had a lot of local news spots in my life.

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Speaker 2: At least three times I've been on local news between

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Speaker 2: Ohio and New York, New Jersey, just like a lah

631
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Speaker 2: Klay Thompson when he was worried about scaffolding a few

632
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Speaker 2: years ago and one of the best Twitter videos ever.

633
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Speaker 2: I was highlighted. I did like thirty five forty seconds

634
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Speaker 2: one time because the turbine and my plane exploded as

635
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Speaker 2: I was taking off in Puerto Rico. Crazy story.

636
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Speaker 1: Don't want to be on the news for that.

637
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Speaker 2: No, I mean everyone to say, thank God, everyone's okay.

638
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Speaker 2: But I was on the news for that. I was

639
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Speaker 2: on the news another time, like pumping myself up for

640
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 2: the Ohio States College Football Championship around twenty fourteen. There

641
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 2: was another time. I'm trying to remember it now, but

642
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Speaker 2: I can. That was I've been a few local local

643
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Speaker 2: TV appearances.

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Speaker 1: I think I now remember I had one and it

645
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Speaker 1: was actually in Houston, Texas, so no one literally would

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Speaker 1: have known because again I would think I was like thirteen.

647
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Speaker 1: Was it Hurricane Sandy, the big one that hit that

648
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: like everybody lost power, got like flooding, flooded basements. We

649
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: were stuck in Texas, me and my family. We were

650
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: just like hanging out in Texas in the summer, so

651
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: and we had yeah, we had to fly back and

652
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: they were like, well you can't because there's Hurricane Sandy

653
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: going on. So I think we like flew into Washington.

654
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: We're in the airport for like eighteen hours or something

655
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: crazy like that, and I got interviewed by a newscast.

656
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, can we can we talk to you?

657
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like twelve, but sure, Okay, asked me

658
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: a bunch of questions, but I just want to go home.

659
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 2: The time I was on the news for the longest

660
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 2: period of time, my close ups off my face after

661
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 2: that turbine thing on Eyewitness news. It had been right

662
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 2: after we graduated high school. And that night I got back,

663
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 2: I was going to a graduation party at my friend's

664
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 2: house and I was walking through her house to go

665
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 2: to the bathroom while her dad was sitting on the

666
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 2: couch like half asleep, watching the news. And as I

667
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 2: walked past him and walk into the bathroom, literally my

668
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 2: face pops up on the news. Says like James Giano,

669
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 2: resident of Westfield, New Jersey, wearing of an Ohio stage

670
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 2: hair and like a backwards Brooklyn Dodger, just hat just

671
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 2: looking like the biggest eighteen year old douchebag you could

672
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 2: draw with a penner. Pencil and he was like, oh

673
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 2: my god, you I was like, oh yeah, it's me.

674
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

675
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: I can't be that got this on here. But and

676
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: beat Bobby Flay.

677
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, beat Bobby play forgot about that. That was a

678
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: paid ex for beat Bobby Flay in the fall. I

679
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 2: was on TV host flash a few times. They got

680
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 2: a line, man, you got more screen time than I have. Yeah,

681
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 2: really face for camera.

682
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: Again. It wasn't a huge offensive showing in this game,

683
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: but the Dom Smith redemption tour continued. He got a

684
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: big double for US, a two run double off of

685
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: Kyle Wright. Dom Smith continues to be swinging the bat better.

686
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll say he's officially back. The

687
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 1: numbers are a little inflated with that four for four

688
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: in a small sample size, but the fact that Dom's

689
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: got what five hits in his last three appearances, that's

690
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 1: a good sign moving forward, especially when we did cut

691
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: Robinson Canoe. He's no longer a part of this team.

692
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: Which do we talk about that?

693
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 2: In the last episode we talked about the fact that

694
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 2: we wanted it to happen soa we would't address it.

695
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: I guess now it's all news.

696
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of old news. But yeah, Robinson Cano's

697
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: cut woo, yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say. The cool

698
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: thing about the Canoe cutting I should say is that

699
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: Billy Eppler went to Steve Cohen and said, what do

700
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: you want to do? When he presented all the options presented,

701
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: all the financials present everything, and Steve Cohen said, made

702
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: make the baseball decision. Love that. That's so sick, Steve Cohen,

703
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: That's all we've wanted. That's all we've wanted from an owner.

704
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: Baseball decisions not financially.

705
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 2: Driven, unbelievable. And now it's it's gonna hurt when Romsicano

706
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 2: inevitably signs like the Yankees of the White Sox of

707
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 2: the Padres and has like a hot week for a

708
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 2: team that really needs a left you bat and has

709
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 2: the ample defensive replacements on their bench unlike the Mets.

710
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: But just block that ROMs Cano not being on this

711
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: team makes them better and that's all that matters for sure.

712
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: Pete of course hit the home run as well. He's

713
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: somehow second in the league in RBIs which also, sorry Martes,

714
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: what third I think in the National League and RBIs

715
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: something it's even crazier especially when I go into some

716
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: stats later on here. Clean game though, clean games start

717
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: to finish, Mets win it, Seth Lugo gets to save,

718
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: and we sweep the double header, feeling really good because

719
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: you can't lose to the Braves in the series. At

720
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: the absolute worst, you're even with them, which is a

721
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 1: pretty good spot to be if you're the Mets, considering

722
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: you have like a what four and a half five

723
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: game lead on the Braves.

724
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 2: I think I think it was more, but it's I'm

725
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: not looking at standings. It's May.

726
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: Fine.

727
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 2: Just win as many game as you can.

728
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: You can keep me level aheaded. That's moving into Game four.

729
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 2: Now, do you forget what happened last year? Like, how

730
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,239
Speaker 2: could you care about the standing of the games up

731
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 2: in May.

732
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: I'm a Mets fan, of course I forget about what

733
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: happens every year. I try my hardest to forget about

734
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: everything that happens every single year. Let me enjoy first

735
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: place in May like I do every year.

736
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: Oh my god, all right, keep going.

737
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: All right? Game four, poop fest.

738
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 2: It was cool.

739
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: Started off cool. McGill was awesome. He actually had thrown

740
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: nine consecutive no hit innings, which that's kind of fun

741
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: a fake way to throw a no hitter. But McGill

742
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: is still so good. He's really good. He continues to

743
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: be really good, and he looked really comfortable, especially early

744
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: on this game against the Braves.

745
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: Definitely, McGill came out of the gates very hot in

746
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 2: this game, as he does very often when he pitches.

747
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 2: But it just kind of accept that Giants game. It

748
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 2: just continues to hammer home the idea that wild Tyler

749
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 2: McGill has looked incredible. He is still very much developing.

750
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: You mentioned it, but he just started looked very high.

751
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 2: It's seven strikeouts through the first four in this game

752
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,719
Speaker 2: and nine through the first five, and it looked like

753
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 2: he was just going to cruise along to another great tiler.

754
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,479
Speaker 2: McGill start. His forcing fastball was missing bats as usual.

755
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 2: I think got nine whiffs on twenty two swings in

756
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 2: this game. That's elite. Some of the best pitchers in

757
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 2: baseball won't do that. Start by star basis, McGill actually

758
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 2: is one of the highest four steam fastball with rates

759
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: in all of baseball, which is the mark of a

760
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 2: guy who has wildly high floor because he can throw

761
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 2: his most basic pitch right out hitters and they won't

762
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 2: hit it. Downside though of this is that his velocity

763
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: was down for kind of It's kind of been a

764
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 2: multiple start thing here. Now. He came off at ninety

765
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: eight ninety nine that we saw him for the first

766
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: two starts of the year, and this was his first

767
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: start all year where he didn't crack ninety seven miles

768
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: an hour. So I don't think this is necessarily a

769
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 2: bad thing about Tyler McGill's like outlook for the rest

770
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 2: of the season. But the writing did seem to be

771
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: on the wall that he wasn't going to be able

772
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: to give prototypical length in this outing, and not even

773
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 2: that he's given prototypical length all year. I don't even

774
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: think he's a mass ninety five pitches in a particular start.

775
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 2: But he worked out of trouble in the fifth inning

776
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 2: when the Braves had two on and none out.

777
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: Pretty impressive that he got out of that too, by

778
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: the way, because he like just he turned into a

779
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: like different gear and he was just dominant, like you're

780
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: you're not beating me. It's not happening. I'm Tyler McGill,

781
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: big drip, big dick, whatever you want to call him.

782
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: I mean he was. He was pretty filthy once his

783
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: back was push up against the wall, which I think

784
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: is big. You talk about development, talk about some high

785
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: leverage situations being able to just kind of nut up

786
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: like that and be better. That's kind of sick, super sick.

787
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: Tyler McGill has that gear and that's one of the

788
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: most encouraging things about the way he pitches. But after

789
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 2: that inning, the brace of the few balls hard. He

790
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 2: was getting less wings a message to get the two strikeouts,

791
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 2: but it seemed like he had to really work for them.

792
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: That would have been if I was mad, yo, I'd

793
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: have been like, all right, this is the time we

794
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 2: should probably not send it back out again. And did

795
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: send it back out again to face the meat of

796
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 2: the braves order for a third time. Metal's not a flyout,

797
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 2: no big deal. And then they were back to back

798
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: to back singles. So bass is low thed one out

799
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 2: and now Buck comes against the ball and brings out

800
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 2: them on the vienna in the game.

801
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: Which is going to be his third appearance in three days,

802
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: fourth appearance in five This is a guy who is

803
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: not It's not something he hasn't done before. He did it.

804
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: I think they said three times with the Red Sox

805
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: last year and was fairly successful, But that sample size

806
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: is so small that it really doesn't matter. Like three

807
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: times over what three hundred and sixty five day stretches

808
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: not anything to really hang your hat on. And for

809
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: a guy like outa Vino, who has such a high

810
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: variance of being able to walk guys, he'll he'll just

811
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: walk guys sometimes he won't have the control that something

812
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: nice always had in his career. As well as you

813
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: could see it with this fastball just had no life.

814
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: You could tell he wasn't sharp, and he got absolutely

815
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: just smashed. He did not look good, and that's gonna happen.

816
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,719
Speaker 1: I'm not pissed it out of Vino. He came in

817
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: and clearly wasn't his best. That's going to happen at times.

818
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: But it is a little bit frustrating that it feels

819
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: like for a bullpen that we thought coming into the

820
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: season had a little bit more depth like this, that

821
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: we made a decision that seemed not the smartest.

822
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it was me personally, I would have brought

823
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 2: Seth Lugo in, But we're splitting Harris. This was really

824
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: just a sophie's choice for Buck with a double Heathery yesterday,

825
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 2: a game on Monday, and a four game series starting

826
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: on probably today Thursday when you guys listening to this,

827
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: So there wasn't really any depth in this ballpen to

828
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: go off of Drew Smith. I'm sure it was unavailable.

829
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 2: Trevor may Is on the il Seth Lugo closed the

830
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: second game yesterday, so I'm sure that Buck wanted him

831
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: for what theoretically would have been a higher leverage situation

832
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: later in the game. But if you're looking at this

833
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 2: game from an objective standpoint, this is Zeros in the

834
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: sixth inning with the bass low than one man out.

835
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,959
Speaker 2: This is the highest leverage I'm sure the game will

836
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: have ever seen. I bet that at bat to Darnault

837
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: where he ended up being walked, had one of the

838
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 2: highest changes to win probably for this whole game, before

839
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 2: the doublele that was hit next. So I personally, if

840
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: Edward Diez is your one hundred percent full time closer

841
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 2: and he can't pitch the sixth inning because that's not

842
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 2: his role, sure you have to bring what I would

843
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: you believe to be your best reliever into what seems

844
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: to be the biggest inflection point in the game and

845
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 2: it didn't happen. Adam on the fino also he could

846
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 2: have gotten out of it. But this is the issue

847
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: with situations where you don't make the perfect decision. You

848
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 2: just make a decision that seems to be the right one,

849
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 2: and it comes at backfire sometimes.

850
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we might be back to that

851
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: Seth Lugo thing of not working two days in a

852
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: row because he worked. He worked two days in a

853
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: row the first two games of the season and then

854
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: we know we hit that weird little rough patch. So

855
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: it seems like because that's the only time he's worked

856
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: two days in a row, that maybe he they're just

857
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: back to doing that, which is such a killer too,

858
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: because he threw eight pitches. He threw eight pitches the

859
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: day before. You gotta be able to come out and

860
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: throw again after the eight pitches. Again, I don't I'm

861
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: sure this isn't the Seth Lugo thing. I'm sure he's not, like,

862
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to be out there. I threw eight yesterday.

863
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: But it is tough, especially when you are being handcuffed

864
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: a little bit because you have lost some depths in

865
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: the bullpen. To not have what is one of your

866
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: better relievers go out there in a situation that makes

867
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: the most sense for him to be out there again

868
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: splitting hairs. Like you said, there were bigger issues in

869
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: this game, like the fact that the Mets continued to

870
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: not hit and have just they've gone ice cold, They've

871
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: been hop they've been cold, they've been hoped, they've been cold.

872
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: Is kind of a developing story here with the Mets.

873
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: It's either they're gonna all hit or nobody's gonna hit.

874
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: And this was just one of those games where nobody

875
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: really hit.

876
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that magnifies the fact that it's a zero

877
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,239
Speaker 2: zero game in the sixth inning with the basis load

878
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: of nobody out in a situation where one or two

879
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 2: runs you did feel like would break the Mets back.

880
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: It eventually turned into seven before you could blink, and

881
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 2: that did certainly break the Mets back. But if this

882
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: was a two to nothing game, and it could have

883
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: been a two another game or three nothing game, the

884
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 2: Mets had plenty of chances. In the first few innings

885
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 2: of this game, Alonzo had that bout men on paciscalndor

886
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 2: came up a time or two of men on I

887
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 2: believe somewhere lower in the order came up with menon.

888
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: I want to say it was Cannon could have.

889
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: Been came up to with some guys on later in

890
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: the game.

891
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 2: There were chances and the Mets weren't able to cash in,

892
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 2: and that made a sixth inning feel like the highest

893
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 2: lever situation possible. Like I was mentioning, because you did

894
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: feel like if you let the Brads get multiple runs

895
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 2: that this game might get out of hand.

896
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't. I don't want to keep you know,

897
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: being the same drum here. But we have talked about

898
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: Buck's decision making. We've talked about the bullpen decision making.

899
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: This is something that we've known has been a thing

900
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: with Buck forever.

901
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 2: But if what you said is true, and it does

902
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: make a lot of sense that Seth Lugo isn't throwing

903
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 2: back to back days anymore, then Adam Alavino's your best

904
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 2: pitcher not named Edwin Diaz, who was available to even

905
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 2: pitch in this game. So it seemed like Buck maybe

906
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 2: was trying to use out of Vino didn't want to

907
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 2: for a third straight day, but knowing that he's his

908
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 2: best shot of the strikeout get through. An ending pray

909
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: to God and then you send Trevor Williams out there

910
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 2: for the seventh and eighth, pray to God you find

911
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 2: a run. He keeps the brais off the board, Like

912
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 2: I think that was the path Buck was trying to

913
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 2: go down. And it does make sense if we know

914
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 2: Drew Smith was not available and if Seth Lugo was

915
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: not so again, I can't really fall Buck for this

916
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 2: not knowing the whole story.

917
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also I think this builds into what is

918
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: I think maybe a concern now is the Mets bullpen depth,

919
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: especially if we're gonna be using Drew Smith as much

920
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: as we are now, because he was kind of like

921
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: an added extra when we came into this year of like, man,

922
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: Drew Smith is gonna be like our third or fourth guy.

923
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: How great is that? Where Drew Smith is now very

924
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: much thrown to the fire. You're gonna be pitching out

925
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: a lot of high leverage situations, especially if Seth Lugo

926
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: can't go two days, especially if Ottavino now kind of

927
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: takes over as more of these high leverage situations. There

928
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: aren't as many quality arms as we thought. And it's

929
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: not because guys aren't good. It's just because we have

930
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: had injuries. Losing a guy like Trevor May is so

931
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: massive to this bullpen and pushes everybody else up one,

932
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,479
Speaker 1: especially when we're carrying two lefties and we have Trevor

933
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,919
Speaker 1: Williams who's kind of like this long mop up role.

934
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: Like there's just a lot of spots that Donnis Medina

935
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: took the spot of Trevor May right now, there's a

936
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: lot of spots that can't really handle the situations that

937
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: we need them to be in, which I think could

938
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: maybe down the line, be a bigger issue for this

939
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: Mets team and maybe something we need to look at

940
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: going forward is acquiring maybe another right hand arm for

941
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: the bullpen.

942
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 2: Or the fact that just maybe the left he's in

943
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: the Mets bullpen can face righty's. I know Travis Darnaut

944
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 2: is notoriously significantly better against Lefti's en righty, so the

945
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 2: exact situation. But Joeli Rodriguez has looked really good over

946
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: the last few weeks. I believe six straight scoreless outings

947
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 2: for him after that real Muto home run, and he's

948
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 2: a guy over the course's career has shown he can

949
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 2: get both righty's and left He's out Jason Shreeve is

950
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 2: a guy who has a relatively deep pitch mix who

951
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 2: has shown over the course's career can get righty's and

952
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 2: lefties out. It seems like one of those two will

953
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 2: have to step up in this Mets bullpen, and maybe

954
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 2: the Mets will have to not be so rigid in

955
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: their use of a lefty enters the game only when

956
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 2: there's a lefty at the plate, because the way Major

957
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 2: League Baseball lineups are ordained, now you're gonna have lefty

958
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: ridy lefty rity basically going down the whole oiler. So

959
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 2: if you're bringing a lefty into face a lefty, there's

960
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: gonna be a righty behind him who's gonna hit him

961
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: better than would hit righty. So at this point, just

962
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: bring in Joeli Rodriguez to face Travis ar know what

963
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 2: the base is loaded, and hope for the ground ball.

964
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 2: Joel Rodriguez has shown the ability to get this year.

965
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't necessarily know if anybody would have been

966
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: questioning the decision if drew. If Adam Outavino was the

967
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: only other option, having pitched, it would have been his

968
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 1: fourth time in five days, Like if out of you

969
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: was fully rested, ready to go, yes, you obviously put

970
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: Autovino in there, and you just what happens happens at

971
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: that point. But the fact that we have two guys

972
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: seemingly that won't be used in higher leverage situations because

973
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: of the left handed arm is a little bit frustrating,

974
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: especially against a Braves team who has one left handed bat,

975
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: and that's Matt Olson. You're not really worried about anybody

976
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: else who's a lefty on that team.

977
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: Yes, at that point, just need someone to get people out.

978
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 2: But I think again this problem is being exacerbated by

979
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 2: the fact that the Mets could not get on the

980
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 2: board against a guy like Ian Anderson, who was absolutely

981
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: not sharp and the slightest he had once walked four Mets.

982
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 2: The ball was around the plate all day, there were

983
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: plenty of balls in play, just for some reason, they

984
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 2: just couldn't really drive anything, couldn't get the round on them.

985
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean more of the story. Here's guys, they

986
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: lost the game. We know this. I got some fun

987
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: hitting stats for you, and by fun, I mean it

988
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: really makes you want to rethink your life, because since

989
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: the trip to Arizona, the Mets straight up stink at hitting.

990
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: And there's a couple guys that are playing well. McNeil

991
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: is still really good doing is his Jeff McNeil thing.

992
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: It doesn't really make sense when you look at it

993
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: on like hard hit rate and all that kind of stuff.

994
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeill has clearly gone back to the game that

995
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: he once played. I think they even talked about that

996
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: fact that he said, Yeah, I know the baseballs aren't traveling,

997
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: so I'm stopping. I don't care about hitting for power anymore.

998
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put the ball and play like I have.

999
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: And it's shown in his numbers. He's back to the

1000
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: old Jeff McNeil got robbed of a home run today

1001
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: by Gamo Heredia as well, who's turning into a rat

1002
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 1: fuck very quickly with the club because former met as well.

1003
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I mean the offense hasn't been great.

1004
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: That really plays into these stats. I'm about to tell you,

1005
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: because Lindor Alonso, Nimo Marte, and Escobar, who are our

1006
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: top five hitters probably in this lineup on any given day,

1007
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: have been really really bad since we went to Arizona. There. Ops,

1008
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: James is under six hundred. If I gave you an

1009
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: over under, you probably would just say over simply because

1010
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: they have to be over six hundred, No. Five fifty six.

1011
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: It's bad over a twelve game stretch for more than

1012
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 1: half of our lineup, the one through five basically five

1013
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: point fifty six with three homers, six doubles. It's nine

1014
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: extra base hits in twelve games from these guys who

1015
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 1: are supposed to kind of be extra base hit machines.

1016
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 2: It's also twelve games times five, it's sixty games theoretically.

1017
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, over sixty Yeah. I didn't even think about it

1018
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: like that. How many walks do you think these guys

1019
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: had in these twelve games?

1020
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 2: Oh?

1021
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: My god, six seventeen. It's a little bit higher. Five

1022
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: hit by pitch, but that's a two seventy nine on

1023
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: base percentage for those five hitters. That's really really bad.

1024
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: The batting average, I know, batting average doesn't matter, but

1025
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: two to h nine, that's really bad. The slugging, the

1026
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: slugging two seventy seven, I mean, Jesus Christ, that's horrible.

1027
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: I looked up into some deeper numbers here. I love barrels.

1028
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: Barrels is one of my favorite stats that you can

1029
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: look at. Basically tells you to hit the ball hard.

1030
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: And you hit at a good launch angle. The Mets

1031
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: have twelve barrels. Which of those five Mets do you

1032
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: think has the most? Oh, God, Nimo, Nemo Nimo with

1033
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: four pete is last with one barrel during that time,

1034
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: one barreled up baseball.

1035
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 2: That's probably the one home run.

1036
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one home run. One hundred and seventy

1037
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: four balls have been put into play by those five

1038
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: guys in this twelve game stretch. One hundred and sixteen

1039
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: of them are considered weak slash bad contact by Baseball Savant.

1040
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: Forty of those are considered to be flares and burners,

1041
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: which are basically bad contact that just falls for hits

1042
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: or falls for a little bluep here in there.

1043
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 2: Full they don't necessarily have to fall for hits. That's

1044
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: just net contact.

1045
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: Four solid contact balls along with the twelve barrels, so

1046
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: that doesn't include barrels. It's just worse but still good contact.

1047
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 1: Eighty eight ground balls of those one hundred and seventy

1048
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: four are put in play. These are all bad, bad

1049
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: numbers that are not great. And I'm not trying to

1050
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: say this guy is falling, but it's I'm gonna spin

1051
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: zone at the end, So don't worry about it. Let

1052
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 1: me keep going here. I'll spin zone at the end.

1053
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: Fifty six hard hit balls, twenty one of those on

1054
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: the ground. That's a hard hit rate of thirty two

1055
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: point one eight percent. I was looking at players who

1056
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: are doing similar things to the Mets offense over the

1057
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: last twelve games, just kind of as a whole. We're

1058
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 1: looking as if the first five batters of this Mets

1059
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: lineup are Elvis Andrews or Jerkson Profar these last twelve games.

1060
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: Those are two of your favorite players, those are.

1061
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: Two of my favorite players are being so horrendously bad.

1062
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: Their barrels per batted ball event is six point nine percent,

1063
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: like nice, cool sixty nine, but also no, not nice,

1064
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: very bad, horribly bad. You know who has a very

1065
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: very similar barrels to bad ball event year.

1066
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 2: Oho, Jerks and Profar.

1067
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: Stop thinking about Jerks and Profar barrels per played appearances

1068
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: four point five percent. You know who else has four

1069
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 1: point five percent? Lindor Jerks and Profar. Jerks and Profar.

1070
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: The one through five over the last twelve thirteen games

1071
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: has been Jerks and Profar. So here's my spin zone.

1072
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: The Mets are still winning games despite having five jerks

1073
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: and profars in the lineup. That's crazy. So I know

1074
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: we're getting extremely lucky. And I think as we dive

1075
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper into these numbers, again, twelve games, it

1076
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: is a small sample. You don't expect this over a

1077
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: full season. The Mets were scalding hot to start the year,

1078
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: But over this second half of the season and the

1079
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: young season that has been the first five hitters of

1080
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: this Mets lineup, who are getting the most at bats

1081
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: and the most played appearances, and are the guys who's

1082
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: to do the heavy lifting, have essentially disappeared and we

1083
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: are still doing pretty well. So just imagine when these

1084
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: bats do inevitably start to produce a little bit more,

1085
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: start to get a little bit hotter, the Mets are

1086
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: going to be fine. So I'm gonna spin the zone

1087
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: this one and say that despite the majority of this

1088
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: lineup being jerkson profar, we are still relatively playing good baseball.

1089
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: I don't know how or why with one guy swinging

1090
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: the bat, well, that's Jeff mcgeil and Luiski or May

1091
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: who hit his first home run of the year, because

1092
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: that guy's a king.

1093
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 2: Guy says something that's just awful. Wait, yeah, why did

1094
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 2: you hear my home.

1095
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: Run late in the game? Late in the game? He

1096
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: hit one today down the right field line. I'm gonna

1097
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: leave that in fucking love Luiski or may some way,

1098
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: somehow he has to play more. He's he's hitting better

1099
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: than all these guys.

1100
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:44,959
Speaker 2: The one thing I want to say, I've got missed

1101
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 2: the home run. I've been moving all day. It's been chaos.

1102
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 2: But this is exactly like sitting in a time machine

1103
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 2: from a year ago. I know. That's exactly how it feels.

1104
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: The Mets are getting magnificent pitching from sources that we

1105
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 2: didn't really expect that we don't really see as the

1106
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 2: most sustainable things in the world, and their bats were like,

1107
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 2: they gotta be better, they gotta be better, they gotta

1108
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: be better. For some reason, they just get very hot

1109
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 2: and cold. They don't hit the ball that hard. Offense

1110
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 2: is down league wide, of course, but it's I'm a

1111
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: little bit scared by the fact that also just they

1112
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 2: just might need another bat with power.

1113
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: They probably need someone who's gonna hit the ball harder consistently.

1114
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: I think Starling Marte has been a bit of a disappointment.

1115
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: If We're gonna really get into this conversation real quick.

1116
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: Just because he looks old. Uh he didn't look old

1117
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: last year with the Oakland and Miami and wherever he was,

1118
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: but he looks old this year. He's getting thrown out steiling.

1119
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: He's not as fast as spread speed numbers are down,

1120
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: the hard contact numbers are down, like all the numbers

1121
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: are down. That's expected. We knew signing an older player

1122
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: that this was a real possibility. We just maybe didn't

1123
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: think it was gonna come this quickly. And I think

1124
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: that the way the lineups constructed right now, you almost

1125
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: have to stop caring about guys' egos and their potentials.

1126
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: Lindor and Pete, I'm fine with thinking three and four

1127
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: every day. Those guys are gonna figure it out. They're very,

1128
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: very good hitters. But a guy like Star Marte, it

1129
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: were two and three. But Glex starring Marte probably has

1130
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 1: to be towards the bottom of the order right now,

1131
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: and you have you have to find a way to

1132
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: get jeffmcneil moore at bats. The way he's swinging the bat,

1133
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: you have to find a way to get more at bats.

1134
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: And even a guy like Mark Canna who I know,

1135
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: we talked about being higher in the order. Wasn't the

1136
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: greatest decision in this time when everyone's struggling, he's still

1137
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: doing the Mark Canna thing. Three hundred three fifty on

1138
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: base four seventeen, slugging, seven sixty seven ops, forty played appearances.

1139
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: So again, it doesn't really what's the word I'm looking for.

1140
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't really like even out. It's not like a

1141
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: real sample size for these stats. But he is doing

1142
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: what he's always done. It's just he's boring. That's Mark Canna.

1143
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: That's why we call him Marky Cheerio's. But the meat

1144
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: of the order here, the top five hitters that we

1145
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: think about when we think about this lineup day in

1146
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: and day out, have been struggling, struggling massively, and I

1147
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: don't know how you fix it. I don't know when

1148
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 1: it will get fixed. But they have to swing the

1149
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 1: bat more because you just you can't have five jerks

1150
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: and profiles in a lineup.

1151
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 2: No, definitely, and a lot of this will fall on

1152
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 2: Pete and Lindor. Those two guys both have to get hot. Francesa.

1153
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: Glendor is an absolutely ice coold. Since we annointed him the

1154
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 2: MVP of the national leagues. We look kind of like

1155
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 2: idiots for that. I took multiple victory laps on Twitter.

1156
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 2: So I'm really hoping this skid doesn't go another week.

1157
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 2: But those are the two guys who are really, along

1158
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 2: with Brandon Nimmo, the only ones I thought, and projections

1159
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: backed me up on this going into the year, were

1160
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 2: going to be like significantly bet in the league, average

1161
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: like potential for twenty thirty forty percent better in the league,

1162
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: gaverage with the bat. Like as much as I love

1163
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: Starling Marte is a player, and as much money as

1164
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 2: the Mets gave him, and as like popular as he is,

1165
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: and how his counting stat's always been great the last

1166
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 2: few years, he's just never really been an elite bat.

1167
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 2: He could be the Leade baseball player without being an

1168
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 2: elite bat. And Starling mart just doesn't really hit the

1169
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 2: ball hard. He hits on the ground more often than not,

1170
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 2: and he doesn't hit for that much power. And now

1171
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 2: the fact he's only fifty percent on a stolen basis

1172
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 2: that makes this thing work a lot better. How he

1173
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 2: gave a crazy, crazy anecdote he got from Wayne Kirby

1174
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 2: today about why Martine's been getting caught more often than not.

1175
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: What do you have for us, Kirby.

1176
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 2: Said, Martine's been getting much smaller leads this year, and

1177
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 2: that's why a lot of the times he's been getting

1178
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 2: called out, it's been by like a step. So you

1179
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 2: would think that was because of a sprint speed lost

1180
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,439
Speaker 2: a step, while he has lost his step. Apparently he's

1181
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 2: a bit confused by the inlets in City Field because

1182
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 2: they changed the inless this year to facilitate NYCFC playing

1183
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 2: sign more games there. So with that, the inlets at

1184
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: City Field are apparently a little bit more, a little

1185
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 2: bit like carved out closer to the bag than most

1186
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 2: other parks in baseball. Sling Marte man and man of principal,

1187
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 2: man of habit. He takes his lead to the inlet.

1188
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,240
Speaker 2: That's what he does. I see the field. That's basically

1189
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 2: a step less of a lead. He's been called out,

1190
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 2: He's he's been thrown out by a step multiple times,

1191
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 2: especially at home. Wow, that isn't that crazy?

1192
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: That is crazy? And I like, as a former player,

1193
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: I can completely relate to that because anytime you start

1194
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: to get past that cutout formercle player, yeah, former high

1195
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: school player. I think everyone knows that by now that's

1196
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: been listening. I will never pretend to be a major

1197
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 1: leaguer former major leaguer, but I think that makes sense

1198
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 1: because once you start getting past the cutout, you're like this,

1199
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: this is a big lead here, Like it's just it's

1200
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: a mental thing. It doesn't really matter how far it

1201
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: actually looks to you. The cutout is usually about what

1202
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: a good lead is. You get to the cutout, that's.

1203
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: A good lead. That's really interesting, and they need the

1204
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 2: sod at that spot because that's where the rest of

1205
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 2: the soccer field kicks in. Wow.

1206
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: I never that's like something I never would have even

1207
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: slightly thought.

1208
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 2: About now and these are kind of things you get

1209
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 2: listening to the mess radio broadcast, Baby how He Rose?

1210
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: That is very intricate. I will say, as rough as

1211
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: the offense has looked, as quiet as the bats have been,

1212
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: we do get those games sprinkled in there. And again

1213
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: that's because we hit singles and that's what's going to happen.

1214
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: But going into the next series, we're going into a

1215
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: great place to really get the bats to warm up.

1216
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: If you're not going to Colorado, let's go to Philly,

1217
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: and the Mets usually swing the bat pretty well in Philly.

1218
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: Everyone likes to hit there. It's a bandbox. And we

1219
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,240
Speaker 1: do have a very very big again four game series

1220
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: going up against the Philadelphia Phillies. I'm tired of seeing

1221
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: this fucking team. But we have been pretty successful against them,

1222
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: so it's been okay.

1223
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty successful against them. And we get Max cherz

1224
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 2: Are in this series, which is a big sigh of relief.

1225
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 2: But before that happens, just take you through the pitching

1226
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 2: matchups Thursday night, likely tonight, when you're listening to this

1227
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 2: Taiwan Walker against Aaron Nola in a matchup that is

1228
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 2: probably the most lopside pitching matchup the Mets have had

1229
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 2: to deal with his entire season.

1230
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Taiwan has looked fine and is once

1231
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: are back, he looked. He's facing the Phillies.

1232
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: Again, only only against the Phillies three three appearances against

1233
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 2: the Phillies, only three appearances of this year, which I

1234
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: don't like.

1235
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: I was just about to say, I don't like that.

1236
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: I don't like that they only three times he's pitched

1237
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: this year has been against the same team. Keep an

1238
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: eye on Taiwan on this game. I think this would

1239
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: be very telling as to how he's pitching right now.

1240
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: Also, something very interesting about this Mets Philly series before

1241
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 2: we take it through the other three pitching matchups four

1242
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 2: game series, all four games with a different start time.

1243
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: Wow, really time? What times do we have?

1244
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 2: Thursday six forty five, so everyone be on the lookouts.

1245
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,479
Speaker 2: Games turned twenty minutes earlier than usual. Friday night seven

1246
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 2: o five normal, Max scherz a Verus Kyle Gibson in

1247
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 2: a game where I will I'll probably break a chair

1248
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 2: if the Mets lose. Saturday afternoon, the four o'clock slate,

1249
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 2: Great time for a ball game. Chris Bassett for a

1250
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 2: Zack Ethlyn another game where I would like to see

1251
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 2: the Mets take advantage, but basket the guy who lost

1252
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 2: them fly ball, so Philly could be dangerous for him.

1253
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 2: And in Sunday afternoon Baseball Mothers Mother's Day Mother's Day game,

1254
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 2: pink bats. Shout all the moms out there, shoutout the

1255
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 2: moms listening to the show. Five New Across Baseball starting

1256
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 2: time on Sundays, Carls carrasco VERSUS Ranger Suarez in a

1257
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 2: game where the bats could also be active.

1258
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: Yes, there's this. This is a really really interesting pitching matchup.

1259
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: It seems like none of them really lined up to

1260
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: be what you'd expect.

1261
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 2: No bass at ethlyent a little bit.

1262
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: And I mean, there's really not too much for us

1263
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: here to talk about with preview in the Phillies. We've

1264
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: played them what twice seven seven times already.

1265
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 2: Times already seven more before the month is out.

1266
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: So you guys know everything you need to know about

1267
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: the Phillies. We know Kyle Schwarber's hot. He remembered how

1268
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: to hit, so that's gonna be fun to deal with.

1269
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: And we know that he did some damage against Taiwan

1270
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: last year. So hopefully Taiwan is able to settle down

1271
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: the bats there a little bit. The Mets swing, I

1272
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be okay. The pitching really has been

1273
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: good keeping out on the bullpen because we do lose

1274
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: a norm there, I'm not I feel good like I

1275
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: think there's a chance that a lot of Met fans

1276
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: are a little bit nervous after what we just saw,

1277
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: because it's always hard to end a series with a

1278
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: really bad taste in your mouth, getting routed by the

1279
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: raid by the Braves nine to two. But this team,

1280
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: despite the offense, being hot and cold, has still put

1281
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: together pretty good performances. The pitching has still been very good.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason that the Mets again shouldn't be able

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Speaker 1: to win a series against Philadelphia Phillies.

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Speaker 2: Here no, or at least again split it because this

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Speaker 2: team seems like they need a jolt in the arm

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Speaker 2: right now. And until we see Francisco indoor pee Alonzo

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Speaker 2: Skarli Marterere, why the westkell bar until see it not

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Speaker 2: staling mart takes, he doesn't hit the ball har until

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Speaker 2: we see Francisco indoor Pilanza Woud while the West Bar

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Speaker 2: start to consistently drive the baseball, it's gonna be hard

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Speaker 2: to score runs because you just kind of have to

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Speaker 2: benefit off good luck and other teams of mistakes. Luckily,

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Speaker 2: the other team's probably gonna make a lot of mistakes

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Speaker 2: in the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Speaker 1: A ton of mistakes, and just go back to the

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Speaker 1: game that we were playing, being in their patient, hitting

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Speaker 1: the right pitches, driving the ball the other way, taking

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Speaker 1: the doubles, taking the triples. Like, I don't think this

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Speaker 1: team's gonna hit a lot of home runs. It feels

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Speaker 1: like they might hit the least mount of home runs

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Speaker 1: maybe in all baseball this year, just how it's constructed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're kind of pacing themselves for that, but again,

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Speaker 2: you weren't gonna hit that many home runs the city

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Speaker 2: field anyway. This was a situation where it seems like

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Speaker 2: benz Alsma kinda saw the riding on the wall and

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Speaker 2: it seems like they might just gotten lucky with the

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Speaker 2: fact that no one can home runs because MLB's screwing

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Speaker 2: with the ball. So maybe the Mets did just lean

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Speaker 2: into contact and that was the plan, and then they

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Speaker 2: kind of caught a little bit of good winter here

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Speaker 2: with the ball being bad. So just keep putting the

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Speaker 2: ball and play. Put them play as much as possible

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Speaker 2: and Mets to the second lowest trick I r in

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Speaker 2: all of baseball. Keep with that, Make the Phillies make.

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Speaker 1: Mistakes, yes, And I think that's a really good way

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Speaker 1: to kind of wrap up this episode here the four

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Speaker 1: game series the Phillies coming up. Mother's Day. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you guys spend some time with the moms. Shouts to

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Speaker 1: the moms, as James said, that is going to be

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Speaker 1: it here for episode number eight nine of the Mets

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Speaker 1: Up Podcast. Thank you guys for listening and watching. Follow

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Speaker 1: us on all our social media at mets up. You'll

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Speaker 1: be able to find us anywhere. Follow James on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at Chetter had No Range, Follow me at t raffneck Mark.

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Speaker 1: Shout to everybody who saw us at the stadium during

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Speaker 1: the seven Line game. Shout to the seven Line and

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Speaker 1: Darren as well for giving us tickets and of course

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Speaker 1: presenting the podcast as well. It's always great to be

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Speaker 1: partnered up with them and meet all the people at

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Speaker 1: the stadium. If you're listening to us, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: Google Podcasts, wherever you listen, drop us a rating, drop

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Speaker 1: us review. It really does help us out and we

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Speaker 1: will see you guys. For episode number ninety of the

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Speaker 1: mets Up podcast, look at us nine to zero. Nice

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Speaker 1: round number. Haven't done that in a few For the

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Speaker 1: Philly series. Hopefully we get another series win here. Still

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Speaker 1: haven't lost one yet though that's positive. See you guys

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Speaker 1: next time.

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Speaker 2: Be's out piece of guys. Sp