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Speaker 2: What is up, Mets fans? Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 2: of the met stub podcast, Episode number ninety eight, presented

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Speaker 2: by the seven Line. What a nice little series it

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Speaker 2: ended up being out in LA Everyone was very very

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Speaker 2: worried about how we were gonna look against Los Angeles Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: and to be fair, the first two games of the

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Speaker 2: series we lost and we're going, uh oh, maybe people

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Speaker 2: were right, but no, the Mets came back won the

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Speaker 2: last two of the series. We split in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: which I feel like we haven't been able to do

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Speaker 2: in a really long time. Me and James have been

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Speaker 2: to you guys, especially after that crazy exciting Game four.

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Speaker 1: us out. And without further ado, let's bring in James.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Long time no see a right? Good series,

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Speaker 2: great series. We haven't clapped it up in a while,

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Speaker 2: but was especially considering how it started. But we'll talk

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Speaker 2: about that later. Let's talk about the good stuff because

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Speaker 2: Game three and four, the Mets came out and they

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Speaker 2: swung the bats well they pitched well, and particularly in

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Speaker 2: Game four, it feels like everybody made an impact. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: we gotta start a game four because last game of

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Speaker 2: this series on Sunday was one of the more intense

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Speaker 2: Mets games I can remember in recent memory, whatsoever, I

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Speaker 2: haven't been pacing like I was in this game. It

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Speaker 1: Like granted, there have been some type Mets games this year,

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Speaker 1: but this one from pitch one, it felt like we're

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Speaker 2: This was the first Mets game that thought had this

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Speaker 1: It had playoff atmosphere, it did. It had a playoff

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little spiteful move from Turner here hitting a

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Speaker 1: The game where Trevor Williams finally gets shelled. But no,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't believe he got five strikeouts. The

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Speaker 1: The fact that he's been able to take over this

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Speaker 2: The top three hitters are MVP basically like all MVP players.

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Speaker 1: We talked about me and you were saying, Mookie Betsen,

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Speaker 2: Chance he is. If you had to set up any

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Speaker 2: like three consecutive hitters in baseball, I think all three

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Speaker 2: top twelve of your selections.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like everyone's picking my trout. You're probably picking one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they're they're absolutely discussing in the fact that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's the fact that you have to make

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Speaker 1: And like we said, it kept us in the game

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Speaker 2: Seventh home run of the year for Marte. His career

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Speaker 2: because he always hit the ball hars. Yeah, always on

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Speaker 2: kid who tweeted me, that's Stirling Marte tweet about Oh

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Speaker 2: thank god he's on the Mets, and he had six

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Speaker 2: hundred ops at the time at the beginning of the

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Speaker 2: He's just played really well. That's all we need to

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Speaker 2: And this was the only thing we got Agains Julia Reus.

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Speaker 2: We were kind of looked like we were putting the

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Speaker 2: He had Brandon Nemo's number. Yeah, he decided his their

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Speaker 2: Hulio Reus, who just throws curveballs in awkward spots every

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Speaker 2: We've known this for years now, but everyone struggles with

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Speaker 1: We start the getting off though, with the horrible, terrible

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Speaker 2: Now here, starting to cook. And you get that kind

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Speaker 1: That's something that me and you have been screaming to

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Speaker 2: So I personally love that move. I know you like

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Speaker 2: will get the second base in the steel. But you're

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Speaker 2: not assuming that Eddie Alvarez is on deck. Eddie Alvarez,

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Speaker 2: I can't even how many extra base hits you think

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Speaker 2: he has in the last one hundred games played. Three

436
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Speaker 2: and I mean anything, right, Yeah, So basically a situation

437
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Speaker 2: where if Chris Taylor is on first base, there's still

438
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Speaker 2: a very low likelihood that the game becomes tied. And

439
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Speaker 2: he's a guy who does chase a decent amount. This

440
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Speaker 2: is probably the one hole in Chris Taylor's games that

441
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Speaker 2: he will go outside and fish a little bit so

442
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Speaker 2: to put three straight balls in the heart of the

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Speaker 2: plate on a three to two count with not your

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Speaker 2: best pitch to the sinker like that, and then the

445
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Speaker 2: carve ball, though he did end with the curve both

446
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Speaker 2: the best pitch, but again we don't know if this

447
00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,159
Speaker 2: was the plan. Seth Lugo was having some struggle with

448
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Speaker 2: command this inning, but just seeing those three pitches drop

449
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Speaker 2: in get good with on all three laysa double and

450
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Speaker 2: Eddie Alvarez also getting a pitch on the plate merely

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Speaker 2: hitting a single. It was deflating. And then you saw

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Speaker 2: the conversation switch to Buck botch this to which we'll defend.

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Speaker 2: I'll defend Buck on this, which is a great mom

454
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Speaker 2: Seth Lugo has to get out Eddie Alvarez. Yeah, Chris Taylor,

455
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Speaker 2: he's gonna get hits. He's a good hitter, Eddie Alvarez,

456
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Speaker 2: it has like a career average of like one sixty.

457
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Speaker 2: And also giving up a home run to Will Smith

458
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Speaker 2: like that's there's a lot that goes into poor execution,

459
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Speaker 2: but the process here was completely sound. With a couple

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Speaker 2: listeners tweet at me. Process still good after this play,

461
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Speaker 2: which is good because I just hope that now the

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Speaker 2: Mets don't go into like an reverse analytic shell here

463
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Speaker 2: and start like bastardizing the process, because I think that

464
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Speaker 2: really was the right move to make when just execution.

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Speaker 2: What would the Rays do? I think they would do that.

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Speaker 2: I think so too, And I Mookie Betts is going

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Speaker 2: to face any Mets pitcher, I would rather be Edwin

468
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Speaker 2: Diaz first for sure, before anybody else, one of the

469
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Speaker 2: nastiest pitchers in the entire league, or Seth Lugo, like

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Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm picking. And it's funny how

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Speaker 2: this played off of We're gonna talk about a few minutes,

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Speaker 2: but the decision on Saturday night, which was only in

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Speaker 2: the fourth inning when Mookie Bets had found his way

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Speaker 2: to the play for the third time in the game.

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Speaker 2: As Mark mentioned before, he had a ridiculous foul ball

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Speaker 2: off of a David Peace and I think it might

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Speaker 2: have been the slider it was. It was just something

478
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Speaker 2: that hung whatever a pitch on the plate, and it

479
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Speaker 2: took this one foul ball for Buck to make the

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Speaker 2: data driven decision and not let Mooki Bets see David

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Speaker 2: Peas in for a third time with men on base.

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Speaker 2: I could just imagine that people in the Met's R

483
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Speaker 2: and D department were standing up screaming at the TV like

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Speaker 2: thank you. They give the high five, fang high five. Yeah, yes,

485
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Speaker 2: we did it. We did it.

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Speaker 1: Buck listened or Buck understands, because it did seem like

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Speaker 1: he figured out the play in here a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's a little bittersweet even though that's win

489
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Speaker 1: this game. It's now going to start this whole conversation

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Speaker 1: of Oh, Lugo in the ninth he's our eight dinning guy.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear Sala Lakat or John Jashremsky

492
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Speaker 2: talk about something that's nonsense. Oh god, jeez, absolute nonsense

493
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Speaker 2: of Dash is a closer. He's got to pitch the ninth.

494
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Speaker 2: What are we crazy? We should try to tune into

495
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Speaker 2: the Yoshremsky Lakata hour. And I said, why, God, we

496
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Speaker 2: don't want to get dumber. Though. That's the thing, like,

497
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Speaker 2: like I like my level of intelligence, I don't want

498
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Speaker 2: to decrease it. Content content content is Maybe that could

499
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Speaker 2: be a little fun thing we do. One day, we

500
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Speaker 2: watched Selakata and John de Streemsky just talking about the

501
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Speaker 2: Mets on a live stream. What the hell are they're

502
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Speaker 2: talking about? Like wrong, wrong? Wrong, incorrect? Where are they

503
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Speaker 2: going anyway? He could have get Eddie Alvarez. Ouw, that

504
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Speaker 2: was the whole thing. We go to the tenth inning

505
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Speaker 2: game still time you didn't lose? Did he lose? Mark

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Speaker 2: said that loud just ended. I don't care anymore. Yeah,

507
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Speaker 2: I did say that. I was I was I was mad,

508
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Speaker 2: I was perturbed. I was angry, especially because Craig Kimbrel

509
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Speaker 2: was in the game and we just don't touch him historically.

510
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's one of the better relievers like that

511
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Speaker 2: we've seen in the last like ten fifteen years. Statisically

512
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Speaker 2: my best relievers ever. Yeah, and especially against the Mets.

513
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Speaker 2: It feels like we never have any success against him.

514
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Speaker 2: But we have that run around second And the irony

515
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Speaker 2: here is that he had a very clean ninth inning.

516
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Speaker 2: They sent it back out for the tenth because in

517
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Speaker 2: a four game series, Dodger's bullpen was also taxed, and

518
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Speaker 2: immediately not that sharp first second DRD pitch of the

519
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Speaker 2: ending JD. Davis laced a single, no double. Well, it

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Speaker 2: was a single that kind of caught Chris Taylor in

521
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Speaker 2: a short hops with how Markanic got caught a short

522
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Speaker 2: hop earlier in the game, got kind of like around him.

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Speaker 2: The best way to describe that ball Peach Corsey easily

524
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Speaker 2: JD slide in the second, You're like, holy crap, we

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Speaker 2: already got a lead and it's like they didn't just

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Speaker 2: started man a second nobody out Yeah, and then whether

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Speaker 2: it was a strikeout I believe in Canda had a

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Speaker 2: rough Oh yeah, we bads called nasty sliders. Yeah. We

529
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Speaker 2: were like, wow, that was a bad Mark Canda at

530
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Speaker 2: bat like but also lead Kimba, it's also kimberl he

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Speaker 2: was nasty. And then we had the line out Escobar,

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Speaker 2: Escobar shortstop. He did hit it hard, but Jad was

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Speaker 2: caught in the middle of the baseline between second and

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Speaker 2: third double play, and that was kind of like, ooh,

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Speaker 2: only one.

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Speaker 1: Don't really like that. We just went from replacing the

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Speaker 1: guy on second base with.

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Speaker 2: No outs too. We got the whole up and the

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Speaker 2: booth was actually having a small argument during I think

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Speaker 2: it was JD's at bat because Keith was like, needs

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Speaker 2: some more smart baseball from JD got together run and

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Speaker 2: Ronnie and Gary were like, gotta play for at least

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Speaker 2: two here. One run is not ironically one runs probably

544
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Speaker 2: not getted against the Dodgers, But I mean, who are

545
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Speaker 2: we to say that because we have relief ace the

546
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Speaker 2: adonis a Donnas Medina ready for the tenth inning against

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Speaker 2: a couple of scrubs pirates and former pirates, yes, owning

548
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, Trevor Williams former pirate nasty today and donas

549
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Speaker 2: Medina former pirate nasty today. Chason Shreeve has score standing

550
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Speaker 2: on Saturday. There we go, Starling Marte hold run. Oh man,

551
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Speaker 2: look at the pirates own Los Angeles. I think that's

552
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Speaker 2: what we're learning today, especially after that sweep. But man,

553
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Speaker 2: a donnas Medina versus the top of the order, I

554
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Speaker 2: don't think I would have ever made the bet that

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Speaker 2: he would have done as well as he did. I

556
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Speaker 2: was praying to leave with a TI game, but got

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Speaker 2: Mookie had a very intense flat ball. He got Freddy

558
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Speaker 2: Freeman to a nice ground ball to the right side,

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Speaker 2: and then all you gotta do is get Trey Turner

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Speaker 2: out after that. Yeah, but we had a little drama because,

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Speaker 2: of course, because this series was had a little bit

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Speaker 2: of everything. Yeah, Trey Turner, catchers interference on listen, Catcher's interference,

563
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Speaker 2: I think is a good rule in practice, but it's

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Speaker 2: also stupid when you can like literally take a purposely

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Speaker 2: late swing. You can extend your arms all the way back, swing,

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Speaker 2: catch the cat around a pitcher. We're never gonna swing

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Speaker 2: at and just get first base like Trade Turner did.

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Speaker 2: And I also didn't know that you could get catcher's

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Speaker 2: in apperance on the picture that you technically didn't swing at.

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Speaker 2: I guess the bylaws that you offer that it so

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Speaker 2: you can say I intended to swing at it, but

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Speaker 2: he stopped bullshit. Yeah, yeah, which is dumb because if

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Speaker 2: you watch that swing, Trade Turner basically got saved by

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Speaker 2: the catcher's glove because it would have been like a

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Speaker 2: check swing that we have just nicked off the bat

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Speaker 2: and rolled the first base for the end of the game. Yep,

577
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Speaker 2: But so he got the first base, stall second, stole

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Speaker 2: second because turn sick.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome, but ball don't lie though. We faced

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Speaker 1: Will Smith, who obviously hit the home run in the

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Speaker 1: ninth inning, little little nervous not feeling great Donas Medina,

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Speaker 1: but he ends up getting him out with a nasty,

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Speaker 1: nasty little sequence of pitches and we win the game

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Speaker 1: with the Donas media against he struck him out.

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Speaker 2: I mean really impressed with the donas media, someone who

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Speaker 2: we've said looks better than we expected, and this game

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Speaker 2: talk about big old balls for Adonis Medina, my god,

588
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Speaker 2: cahs grandt and also just crazy irony because Trey Turner

589
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Speaker 2: literally took the bat out of his own hands the

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Speaker 2: situation where his team was and and with the main

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Speaker 2: on third, yes and two outs, like there is an

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Speaker 2: argument to whether or not he should have been even

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Speaker 2: intentionally walking in the situation. If it was like someone

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Speaker 2: not Trey Turner, I would be much more inclined to

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Speaker 2: do it because he's gonna steal second base, and he

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Speaker 2: did so We'll Smith. A single from Will Smith will

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Speaker 2: have won the game there. But Trey Turner is literally

598
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Speaker 2: one of the best hitters in all of baseball, and

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Speaker 2: he argued to get on base rather than to hit

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Speaker 2: for a guy Will Smith to come up, who is

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Speaker 2: very good hasn't been up to I think his standards

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Speaker 2: this year is very good. And he got out and

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Speaker 2: the Mets wound up winning a game while Trade Turner

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Speaker 2: stilled on second base, which.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately makes us split the series. Now, as you guys know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna still talk about the other games here. It

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Speaker 1: was just Game four was hot, guys.

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Speaker 2: Guys, no, especially with the four games series, we like

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Speaker 2: to roll with what's hot, and Game four was hot.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the other one though, game three, because after

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Speaker 2: Game one and two, which were snooze fests, honestly, there

612
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Speaker 2: were just bad baseball games for the Mets.

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Speaker 1: We woke up, which was nice, especially getting to start

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Speaker 1: with that Lindor first sitting home run.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and after the first two games there was some

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Speaker 2: not There wasn't a lot of guys falling rhetoric, but

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Speaker 2: there was some of like Mets are being exposed rhetoric,

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Speaker 2: scoring one run and two games off of Dodgers pitching,

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Speaker 2: the only run being a Pilanzo Sole home run, which

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Speaker 2: I shudn't even count because if he's not getting a

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Speaker 2: home run four games, like something else that's got wrong.

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Speaker 2: But Lindor coming back and hitting a home run right

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Speaker 2: away off Walker Bueller, things felt different. It felt like

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Speaker 2: the Mets were engaged and ready, and they were of

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Speaker 2: the same caliber as a Dodgers and ready to share

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Speaker 2: the field with them.

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Speaker 1: So I do believe that these numbers are caught up

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Speaker 1: with today's game, all right, six five. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: these numbers are caught up. This is for the you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the top paid shortstops in baseball, Francisco Lindor,

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Speaker 1: who has what the highest four among all National League

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Speaker 1: shortstops in Major League baseball, which I don't know. I

633
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Speaker 1: heard this guy stinks. I heard he stinks. Wants a

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Speaker 1: lot of money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, makes a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: So he's not very good on the year, nine homers,

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Speaker 1: forty five RBIs. He's even stole seven bases, which is

638
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Speaker 1: like the most quiet seven steals ever, seven for eight

639
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Speaker 1: as well. Yep, two fifty nine average three forty one

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Speaker 1: on base seven to eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: Oh ps.

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Speaker 1: If you're looking at his career numbers, they're about the

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Speaker 1: exact same man. We know that the start of this

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Speaker 1: year average was a little bit lower because of the

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Speaker 1: baseball's being different. Now that the balls seem to be

646
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Speaker 1: flying a little bit more again, we're seeing Lindor's numbers

647
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: go back up, and he's just basically exactly.

648
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 2: What we trade for. Heading into the game today, I

649
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 2: was just looking at this guy, was doing some general

650
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 2: fangraf scrolling I try to do most days. Francisco Lindor,

651
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,679
Speaker 2: if the season ended today, would have had the highest

652
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 2: WRC plus his entire career, including a forth the home

653
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 2: run season.

654
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: But he thinks though it's terrible, he's awful. You don't

655
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: want this guy on your team. He's got nothing. It's

656
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 1: great to see him playing good baseball because he's a

657
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: good player. And we're big Francisco lind Lindor fans here.

658
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: We are not at lind Doork. No, he's quite good.

659
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: Noland Dorks Nolndork's allowed.

660
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 2: But David Peterson, as he kind of does, wasn't that sharp.

661
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 2: He was also not that bad. The issue was that

662
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 2: the floodgates opened the second inning. Yeah, ground ball to

663
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 2: Pete should have been double play ball, and I forgot

664
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,959
Speaker 2: who was running. It was probably fast because almost every

665
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 2: day I think his hands are Alberto That sounds right.

666
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 2: I was gonna gress Taylor, one of those guys. Yeah, yeah,

667
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 2: grandball the Pete could have been easy to double play ball,

668
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 2: and he just sailed to throw a second an he

669
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 2: stayed alive. Peterson is someone who we've seen kind of

670
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 2: be sullen after misplays in the field before that I

671
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,719
Speaker 2: noticed any of that this time. But something that has

672
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 2: effected this game in the past and and goes on

673
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 2: gives a big basis clearing double. The Mookie bets four

674
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 2: runs in because one score in the er, and now suddenly,

675
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 2: after a first sitting home run, a game you felt

676
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 2: like he needed to win, You're down four to one

677
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 2: in the second inning on an error and the guy

678
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 2: didn't pick him up, and things felt bad. But the

679
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 2: Mets do that thing where they answer right back. And

680
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 2: I feel like, especially knowing the context of being down

681
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 2: oh two in this series already, with the murmurs of

682
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 2: this team's really not that good, here come the Mets

683
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 2: that we all knew were eventually gonna come. This is huge.

684
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 2: This was huge, and it gets started with Patrick Mazica,

685
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 2: who works a fantastic walk Because I don't I don't

686
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: really know what to think about Patrick Mezka, but he

687
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 2: seems to make something happen every time he's on the field.

688
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 2: It's a good ballplayer, I think that. Yeah, I think

689
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: that's what it is. He's just a goo good ball player.

690
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 2: It seems like he has been pushed out of a

691
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty share with Needo to more of a

692
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 2: seventy to thirty. We just fine this week. I think

693
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: Mesica only played once. Yeah, I mean especially against with

694
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 2: lefties on the mountain. He will never face a lefty

695
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 2: because Needle played all I mean, he might have played

696
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 2: there as an't remember, but Needle played all three games

697
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 2: in Washington. But this was a good little little walk

698
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 2: for Mezekie here which got the getting started. And he

699
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 2: was that one too. Took some tough pitches against a

700
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 2: very good pitcher and walker Buller and to be the

701
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 2: nine hither and be able to draw that walk that's

702
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 2: like the epitome of a cat and mask game. And

703
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 2: getting off first base with the with the top of

704
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 2: the other behind the mets, top of the other that

705
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 2: has been scorching hat all year long, very very big yep.

706
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: Nimo walked another great at back because it was a beast.

707
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: And then Starling Marte who's been hot, like we said,

708
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: double which was huge. Lindor got a ground ball, and

709
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: then of course it all culminated with that big meat

710
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: Pete Donger.

711
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 2: He's a he's so good. He's literally in the MVP

712
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 2: conversation right now. Literally, of course he's in the MVP conversation.

713
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: He is the most he is the most home runs.

714
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: N RBIs in the National League. That sounds like an mvpick,

715
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 2: and the Pete MVP keeps saying it. This ball was like,

716
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 2: not the easiest pitch to Homer. It was like on

717
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 2: a lo a little bit outside. Yeah, I believe went

718
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 2: down and got the barrel on and just flung it

719
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 2: out to left field. No, Pete was a tiny Dodger fences.

720
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 2: He owns Dodger satan by the way, I think he

721
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: has seven home runs in eleven games there, or.

722
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: Might be seven to twelve now because of four but

723
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 1: pretty good record for Pete Alonso.

724
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: In Los Angeles, pe Alonzo had just made an error.

725
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 2: The guys team I'm not gonna say guys team down

726
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: four one, but he opened up a situation where they

727
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 2: ended up being down, coming up two straight losses. And

728
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 2: you put a four spot right back on these guys

729
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 2: after they put one on you, and you knock Walker

730
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 2: Buehler out of this game in the third inning and

731
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: get to that Dodgers' bullpen. Walker Buleer looked like you

732
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 2: saw a ghosts he did. He fastball's not gata swings

733
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 2: and misses right now. Don't know what's going on with

734
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 2: he just.

735
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: Doesn't have a lot of juice on anything. Nothing particularly

736
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: looked Walker Buehler esque.

737
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 2: No, I mean he is a young guy. He's pitched

738
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 2: a lot the last few years. Big workload between even college,

739
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 2: going through all the COVID stuff. I don't know how

740
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 2: to throwing program work for guys that came up that year.

741
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 2: Workhorse last two winnings. We talked a lot about how

742
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: consistently he was able to go six and seven last year. Yeah,

743
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 2: one of the most consistently in all of baseball is

744
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 2: Wearing's Harris fatigued. These guys are still young. They've paid

745
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: a lot of Baseball's Dodgers team last few years, and

746
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: they only have twenty seven percent of a World Series

747
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 2: to show for it. Yeah, that's true. They did not

748
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 2: win a full World Series. Forgot about that. I almost

749
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 2: forgot that they won a fraudulent series. It's a good

750
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 2: it's more than the mess of won World Series. Yeah,

751
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 2: but almost. It's almost half a World Series. It's almost.

752
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 2: It's a little over a quarter, so a little. It's

753
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 2: over a quarter of a World Series's basically the amount

754
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: of games we played this year that determined the World

755
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 2: Series champion. Oh my god, that's actually hilarious. Yeah right, Yeah.

756
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: Peterson then came back and actually gave us exactly what

757
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 2: I thought we needed, and I really thought this was

758
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 2: going to push him through the game. He gave us

759
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: a clean inning against the heart of the order, which

760
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: is so big shutdown innings after rally already sixty pitches

761
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: this point. Oh yeah, he was, he was. He's nibbling.

762
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: He loves to get three two or two two, it

763
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 2: feels like on everybody. And foul balls, foul balls too. Still,

764
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna defend what Peterson did in this game overall,

765
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 2: Like he didn't get out of the fourth inning, so

766
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 2: you can't really call this like a very good star

767
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: of the overall. But I guess we'll talk about his

768
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: the way he got taken out of the ending once.

769
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 2: I just talk about his game in general. Three two thirds,

770
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 2: two hits, four walk, six k's, but just one and run.

771
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: All those three under and runs, it would have been

772
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: nice if he didn't let those in. But only three

773
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: hard hit balls this whole out. He can get eleven

774
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 2: wis seven of them on his slider, which is becoming

775
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: legitimate outpitch. He was guys are swinging through and he

776
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: wasn't even really able to place it very consistently. It

777
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 2: was just moving so well that when he was able

778
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 2: to put in the right spot a couple even he

779
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 2: left over the plane. Guys just swung through. It's becoming

780
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 2: a very good pitch and the command is rough. But

781
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: the fact that Peterson stuff is now good enough to

782
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 2: at least get him through a Dodgers' lineup, a scary

783
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: Dodger's lineup twice and only give up three hard hit balls.

784
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 2: This is a good thing. And there was a lot

785
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: of stress and there was a high pitch COUMP A

786
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 2: lot of that was bred from the Peter A Lonzo air.

787
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 2: If hete didn't make that error, this could have been

788
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 2: like a legit five or six inning star for pietersnohere

789
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 2: he had six or seven strikeouts against this Dodgers' lineup,

790
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 2: and this development from him is a really, really, really

791
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: big deal and is helping the Mets so much, so

792
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 2: so much during this stretch with Autter Grammin Scherz, I'm

793
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 2: glad you brought that up because I didn't feel great

794
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 2: about how Peterson pitched, and I kind of felt like

795
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 2: we were almost taking step backwards, like we've seen him

796
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 2: step out at some point this year and like, look

797
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: good and give us what we need. And if I

798
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 2: was just a little bit disappointed, but now hearing a

799
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 2: little bit of deeper numbers, I feel better. And the

800
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: irony is that this is a game that could have

801
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 2: gotten away from Peterson and could have been one of

802
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: those snowball games where things went wrong. And that is

803
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 2: all because Mookie Bets came up in the fourth inning

804
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: with men on. Would have been the third time you've

805
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 2: seen him, and we all know the stats were basically

806
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 2: every single hit and every single picture in baseball, the

807
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 2: third time someone sees somebody else, things get very very

808
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: easy for the hither and he came in mentioned this

809
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes ago, laced lace of foul ball.

810
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: Do you remember what I texted you when this was

811
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: coming up. I said, this is a huge mistake. Yeah,

812
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 2: I think, I responded, I agree.

813
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, You're like, well, and you texted me, You're like,

814
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: thank god we got him out of there, because that

815
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: fal ball was scary. That foul ball was like and

816
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: I think buck, like you said we said earlier, even

817
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: when oh yeah, no, no, no, it almost like woke him up, like, oh, yeah, wait,

818
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: this is Mookie Bets against David Peterson, one of the

819
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: best hitters in baseball, going up against the left he crushes.

820
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: But you felt it because Buck was really trying to

821
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: nurse him through this inning because he had like ninety

822
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,959
Speaker 2: ish pitches at the time. Not that you wanted him

823
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 2: to throw another inning, but it's just like it's kind

824
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 2: of embedded in old baseball minds, like we get to

825
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: get this guy through as much as we can and

826
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 2: save the bullpen. But it's so rare to see you

827
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 2: guy taking out of a game in the middle of

828
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: that bad and it's kind of I think, probably a

829
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 2: little bit embarrassing for the pitcher. Did you see his reaction?

830
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 2: I was tracking on my phone was out and about

831
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: he was not happy. I can't imagine it was.

832
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to say he gave Buck lip because

833
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair. I think he was frustrated

834
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: that he got taken out in that spot, and then

835
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: when he came into the dugout, I mean throwing shit

836
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: and slamming shit where I was like, that's interesting. I've

837
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: never seen David Pearson show a motion like that. I've

838
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: seen him kind of like you said, get a little

839
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: down some shoulders.

840
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: I like to see a little fire from him. And

841
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: it's also a situation for Peterson where he knew his

842
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 2: stuff was good on this night. It was just the command.

843
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: And when you're a picture and your command isn't good

844
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 2: from God's commands, usually fine at least, I would say,

845
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 2: league average, you figure that's just an execution problem, like

846
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 2: the just something tiny with my mechanics. I clicked, I

847
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 2: found it, I found it, I found it. I know

848
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: I can get this guy like you don't want to

849
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: be taken out. It's kind of demasculating. And it's the

850
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 2: second start in a row for him too, where he's

851
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: like he wasn't as close as the last one, but

852
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: like on the precipice of getting like that, that win

853
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: per se. Yeah, and I think that is something that

854
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: still reigns important for a lot of these guys. But

855
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: it turned out to be the right move because Colin

856
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: Holderman was able to get Mookie Betts out and this

857
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: led to a string of Mets relievers just simply handling

858
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. It wasn't exactly easy and it wasn't that pretty,

859
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 2: but Holderman out of Vieno chasing Shreeve, Drew Smith for two,

860
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 2: Juelia Rodriguez and Seth Lugo Joey one pitch again, by

861
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 2: the way, yes, one pitch. He does it every time,

862
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: seemingly at least once a week. Those guys combined for

863
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 2: five and a third scoreless innings against this Dodger lineup,

864
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 2: which is awesome, awesome, And when a decision like that

865
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: is made and someone gets upset, you kind of see

866
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: that it has the potential to not spiral a locker

867
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,239
Speaker 2: room or a club, especially now a veteran locker room

868
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 2: of club pass like this one. But it could piss

869
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 2: people off and make people upset. It could have people

870
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 2: second second guesting or thinking otherwise. And it just showed

871
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: that the right process bore the right results, and that

872
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 2: is a big reason the mess won these last two games.

873
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 2: How awesome is it? Though?

874
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: Like Dismet's bullpen, I feel like it's talked about so

875
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: much and it's so under a microscope. I mean, god forbid,

876
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: you see what Miguel Casher was doing, which he blew

877
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: that Yankees game today, which is nice because again a

878
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: lot of Mets fans I still think we're like, where's

879
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: Migul Castro.

880
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 2: I can't believe we don't have that guy. Wow, is crazy.

881
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: Colra Olderban's better than I think Migul Casher right now.

882
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: I think there's an argument to be made about that.

883
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say's better than migul Casher right now. I

884
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 2: think he. I'm big on Holder, but I think hold

885
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 2: Him is really good. But they're like you comparing Miguel

886
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: Castro and Holderman, it's like comparing like tacos and like

887
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 2: I don't even know burritos, like a roopier float. No,

888
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: it's not that, No, it is they both are really good,

889
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 2: and they both have a different purpose. Miguel Castro is

890
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: like a four seamer which throws ninety seven with like

891
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: a white bout slide. Their Holderman is like sinker sinker color,

892
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 2: and he kind of hangs around, makes you swinging miss sometimes.

893
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 2: He's playing a lot of the soft contact game with highvelocity.

894
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 2: They're just such different types of relievers around the zone.

895
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 2: Bgaul Castro's kind of higher, a higher reward with the sliders,

896
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 2: but also tons of walks. Like those guys are very different.

897
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: My point being, how nice is it that we get

898
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: to have Colin Holderman, Ottavino Shree of Joelay, Like these

899
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: guys come in as are back into the bullpen, when

900
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: even just last year we saw Jacob Barnes get some

901
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: significant innings early on. We've seeing guys like Daniel Zamora

902
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: get innings early on. Even before paulsey Will figured out

903
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,240
Speaker 1: how to be good, he was terrible with the Mets.

904
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: He was getting a lot of innings in the past. Like,

905
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 1: it's really nice that this Mets bullpen, which is always

906
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: a question mark amongst Mets fans, seems.

907
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: To be really solid. It's also a situation where it

908
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 2: seems like the narrative has kind of ran out, like

909
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 2: how far past like the truth the Mets has it.

910
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: Team have the ninth lowest bullpen eight in baseball. It's

911
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: pretty good, just behind the Rays and the Dodgers, two

912
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 2: teams who I would say are smart and have good bullpens.

913
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 2: So while it's not always that pretty, and while you

914
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: kind of see the Mets are lacking that true second option,

915
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: especially without Trevor may as he continues to rehab and

916
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 2: get back from injury, this bullpen does tons and tons

917
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 2: of things well. And I would say there again are

918
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: an underrated group just because they happen to be the

919
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: scapegoat for most of the Mets losses and they lack

920
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 2: a second sexy option. Oh for sure, it's it's fun

921
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 2: to make fun of the Mets bullpen because you've been

922
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 2: doing it for the last twenty years. If you're online

923
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 2: or whatever, it's going to be. Even with the ninth

924
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 2: lowest era, the Mets have the second highest k rate

925
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 2: of any bullpen in baseball, and that's sick. Like this

926
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 2: bullpen does a lot of things well and they catch

927
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 2: a lot of shit, And I do get it. If

928
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 2: the Mets do want to go far, they're going to

929
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 2: need a second option to either be acquired or emerge,

930
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 2: because there could potentially be like a I don't want,

931
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 2: a wealth of pitching options possibly could emerge at some

932
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 2: point in the second half. I don't know from where.

933
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 2: I don't know from how, I don't know why, guys,

934
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 2: I don't even I'm not gonna say any names, but

935
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 2: it's possible some guy even through a bullpen session that

936
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 2: was not talked about at all on Saturday, which is really,

937
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 2: shut the fuck up, don't care. This Mets bullpen has

938
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 2: been pitching really well, right now not getting the respected

939
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 2: deserve again. Ninth lows cra second highest strike out rate.

940
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 2: I don't know how to argue with any of those

941
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 2: things from a judging a bullpen's perspective. Both really good.

942
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 2: Great work from them on Saturday to lock down this win.

943
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: Yep, especially because we got the insurance runs from an

944
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: all another Alonso home run, and Wardo Escobar got on

945
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: the board with a home run. The balls were flying,

946
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: the Mets were on the receiving end, and escabomb and

947
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: Esco bomb.

948
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 2: It was good. And you see the Mets play these

949
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 2: games in the heat, balls flying Dodger Stadium pretty easy, relatively,

950
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 2: Parke ten home runs out of and the offense can

951
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 2: get back after two bad games. The other thing, briefly

952
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 2: we should talk about the end of this game is

953
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil. Oh yes, yeah, we should bring that up.

954
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: That in the ninth inning. Oh we didn't even bring

955
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 2: up the Buck whole Zach mckinstrey thing either. Oh yeah,

956
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 2: oh my god. If this is what happens in the

957
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: four game series, they gotta stop giving us good things

958
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: to talk about. We would talking about Max Schuer's again

959
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 2: bit by his dog. Yeah, I mean we shouldn't talk

960
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 2: about that because Mac Suiers has a non story. Because

961
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 2: of his non story, he got bit by a dog.

962
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 2: It's not a baseball jury. Mike Buma, of all people,

963
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 2: was out from blood and Saturday morning. Well he's a catman,

964
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 2: Mike Puma. That's why that makes dogs. He's anti dog.

965
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that anti dog. Mike Booma was anti dog.

966
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say. I wouldn't go that far. Hand to God.

967
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: But we forgot to talk about the Buck thing with

968
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: the ninth inning? Was Zach mckinstree wasn't it was a ninth.

969
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 2: It was the top of the eighth. It was the

970
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: top of the ninth. Sure he it was the top

971
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: of the knife for sure. Because the Dodgers threw in

972
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: the white towel. Dave roberts said on game Dave robertson

973
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 2: were down five, you guys win. Zach mcintrey is gonna pitch.

974
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 2: We don't want to use one of our bullpen arms,

975
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 2: and Buck said, no, no, no. The rule is if

976
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 2: you're gonna put in a position player to pitch, you

977
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 2: have to be down by six or more runs. To

978
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 2: my brain, I went, why didn't you want Zach mcintrey

979
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: to pitch where we'd see we get one or more

980
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 2: runs off of it. But I think the idea was

981
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: that you can use this guy so you can't use

982
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 2: him as much tomorrow, which we saw happen in Game

983
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 2: four because Evan Phillips was supposed to pitch two innings

984
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 2: in Game four, but he was only able to pitch

985
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: one because he had to be used in Game three.

986
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 2: So buck a little bit of manager chess there. Yes,

987
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 2: it ended up working out really well for us, it did,

988
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 2: but it led to one of like the bizarre baseball

989
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 2: sequence as ever, because Dave Roberts didn't know the rule.

990
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody knew this rule. Apparently this

991
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 2: rule was supposed to be put in the play for

992
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and it got put on hold. It finally

993
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 2: actually became a Code of five rule at the beginning

994
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 2: of this year. So not yeah, not blaming any but

995
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 2: if not known this rule, but if you're a mager,

996
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 2: you should know every single rule. That's literally your job.

997
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, and I don't think

998
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the answer. If I'm up fifteen runs

999
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: in the last inning, can I put in? Can I

1000
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: put in luisqu Armory to pitch if I'm up fifteen

1001
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: runs or you have to be losing.

1002
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's just the game that's over six

1003
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,919
Speaker 2: runs of difference. Okay, Okay, I think that's the rule. Okay, gotcha. Yeah,

1004
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 2: because it was a bizarre odd thing didn't end up mattering,

1005
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: of course, no, But it's also it's so weird that

1006
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 2: this Dodger team with this lineup, like you would think, like,

1007
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 2: we why can't we score five runs? I think there's

1008
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 2: also just a world where the Dodgers think, I mean

1009
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 2: it was what the middle ish bottom of the order, right,

1010
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 2: because yeah, I think they were also like get one

1011
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 2: more if we have to score five and sad or

1012
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 2: six or whatever, it's gonna be. Like I think that

1013
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 2: arm was more valuable to them in Game four, a

1014
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: game where they could still see themselves winning, where this

1015
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: one they're like, what smart guys, the Dodgers. I'm sure

1016
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 2: the numbers very smart people. So the win probability is

1017
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: we don't care. We probably the bigger difference in our

1018
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: went probably getting an extra inning I ever got tomorrow.

1019
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: But there's also a situation now where like Grey Keith

1020
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 2: and Ron were losing their minds. They cause, like a

1021
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: Travesy said, it was like one of the most embarrassing

1022
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 2: displays in baseball they could remember. I think I think

1023
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 2: it is embarrassing for the game. It's definitely embarrassing, but

1024
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 2: I don't think it was like as egregious. I think

1025
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 2: it's embarrassing for Dave Roberts. Yeah, sure he botched, and

1026
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 2: he almost had to put one of his pitchers in

1027
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: a legitimately like dangerous situation without warming up. That's that's

1028
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 2: how you read an injury.

1029
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, the umpire sept and we're like, no, no, no, he's

1030
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: gonna get his mess.

1031
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 2: Fans like annoyed about that, And I think that's kind

1032
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 2: of heartless because you're gonna have You're gonna give a

1033
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: player who has nothing to do with the decision of

1034
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 2: consequence for his manager being an idiot. Like that's kind

1035
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: of screwed up. I was. It would have been more

1036
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 2: embarrassing if Zach McKinstry pitched and there was a notice

1037
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 2: from the league because someone with tweeted Jason Bennetti, Mike Petriello,

1038
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: Jeremy Frank really smart would have found this and been

1039
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 2: like that's not allowed. Jeremy Frank I think would have

1040
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 2: been all over that probably the tweet Q Devin think, yeah,

1041
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 2: one of those guys would be all over it. But

1042
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 2: in joy. Yeah, again, it didn't really end up mattering

1043
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: Met's win this game nine to four. Easy. Busy also

1044
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 2: not briefly mention Jeff McNeil after striking in the ninth

1045
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 2: inning of the ending that took twenty minutes to start

1046
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 2: in a five run lead. He did the Jeff McNeil thing.

1047
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 2: He's not been hitting as well the last week as

1048
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 2: he was the week before, so I guess you can

1049
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 2: call it like a mini slump, struck out, screamed to

1050
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 2: his helmet, kind of slammed it, slammed saw slam relatively

1051
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 2: to Jeff mcneils passed. It was. It was a half

1052
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 2: a slam. It was a really thorough place. And he

1053
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: was taken out of the game, yes or shortly after that,

1054
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: and he did not come into the game in game four.

1055
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 2: There were a lot of opportunities when the metsical views

1056
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 2: the left hand to pitch Heather, and Jeff McNeil was

1057
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,439
Speaker 2: not one of them. I do think this Buck's sending

1058
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 2: a little bit of a message, so too I don't

1059
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: know if there's any proof or truth to any of that. Also,

1060
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 2: a tough lefty on the mound, so there's a good

1061
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 2: chance McNeil in a little bit of half of a

1062
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 2: slump win in the plane anyway, Yeah, especially because he

1063
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 2: had all year. He hasn't hit left as well. That's

1064
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: one thing he hasn't done, saying like three sixty against righties,

1065
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 2: against lefties, not so much.

1066
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: But I do think this Buck sending a little bit

1067
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: of a message because in a nine to four game

1068
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: where the Mets are winning and playing well, that was

1069
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: a little bit.

1070
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 2: Of me before we Yes, good, good one right there.

1071
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 2: I know I was around a baseball field this week

1072
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: and I heard a lot of cliches. That's true, But

1073
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 2: I think it's also just when you have a veteran

1074
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 2: manager like Buck, he's like I guarantee you, like Buck

1075
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 2: wrote accountability on a whiteboard like February. They gotta be accountable.

1076
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 2: Everyone's gotta be accountable. And striking out there is not

1077
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: the time to have a tantrum.

1078
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: No, but good win for the Mets. That ended up

1079
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: being the first win of the series. Of course, as

1080
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: we know, we split it. We'll briefly talk about Game

1081
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: one and two. Again, there were seas fests, there were

1082
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 1: poop fests. They were not particularly good.

1083
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 2: See I purposely did not write poop fests ont of

1084
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 2: these games because they weren't exactly poorly played games like

1085
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: these were games that there were opportunities for the Mets

1086
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 2: to have made them more competitive than they weren't possibly

1087
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 2: even win them. Yeah, it was just the fact that

1088
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 2: I think they kind of got bum rushed by playing

1089
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 2: against a team that both pitches well and plays defense well.

1090
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 2: Well yeah, after the spender recall team has done both

1091
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 2: those things in weeks that we've played Braves. Maybe that

1092
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: was the.

1093
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: Beginning of may not a long time Mike Petriello. It

1094
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: even got him to write an article right after Game

1095
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: two talking about how the Mets offense will struggle more

1096
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: against good teams, which I think everyone kind of knows.

1097
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: But that was smart, smart Jay journo right there by

1098
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 1: Mike Petrello, because that's as an easy clicker if you're

1099
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: a Mets fan.

1100
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 2: Mike petrel is a big content guy. He's one of

1101
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 2: the best out there right now, yeaking baseball content. Big

1102
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: Mike Petrello fans if he ever wants to come on

1103
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: the podcast. We know he's a secret Mets fan, so

1104
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 2: he can talk with us whatever you like. But he's

1105
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 2: basically saying, like, yeah, when you play the Dodgers, they're smarter,

1106
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 2: they put guys in better positions. They're a better team

1107
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 2: that better pitchers with better fielding, it's gonna be harder

1108
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 2: to get hits. And I felt like there were so

1109
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 2: many plays in these first two games where you thought

1110
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 2: you hit a fly ball in the gap or one

1111
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 2: that would have dropped in against the Nationals or the

1112
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: Giants or the Phillies, teams that are not very good

1113
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 2: defensively this year, and Chris Taylor was just there, Cody

1114
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: Bellinger was just there, Bets was there, Gavin Locks, Like,

1115
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: these are guys who are good defenders at their positions

1116
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 2: all across the Diamond Trade. Turners one who actually, hilariously

1117
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 2: has not been that good defender this year, but he's

1118
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 2: generally at least slightly by the league average in the past.

1119
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 2: Jama Justin Turner, who can't really move anymore but still

1120
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: has a gun for an arm. You just balls were

1121
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 2: in play and they were making plays like this is

1122
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 2: what good teams do, and you kind of we kind

1123
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 2: of got used to playing those bad defensive teams.

1124
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: And to be fair too, like Tony Gonsolin and Tyler

1125
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 1: Anderson both.

1126
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 2: Shut us down. They're both on different levels right now.

1127
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 2: These guys, hilariously the two best pictures in the Dodgers

1128
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 2: over the last month plus.

1129
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,959
Speaker 1: Tyler Anderson being a guy you were begging the Mets

1130
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: to get this off. Listen to the offseason episodes, guys,

1131
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: James was always saying Tyler Anderson. I'll admit I went

1132
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: Tyler Anderson, Alex cop two guys who would be welcome

1133
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: editions to the New York Mets right now, So keep that.

1134
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 2: I also talked about Decman has been one of the

1135
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 2: best relievers. I talked about Aaron Louping overrated. True, I

1136
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 2: was kind of money with my pitching up. Kakuchu has

1137
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 2: actually been really good. Yeah, you figure I've been capturing

1138
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 2: these guys're the pitching Gary, I'm the hitting guys. How

1139
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 2: it works and Yang. But again Game one, Mester just

1140
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 2: shut down by Gonsolin. He's he is a good picture

1141
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 2: in the midst of a massive breakout. Didn't help Eln

1142
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 2: Door slammed his finger in his hotel door before which

1143
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,760
Speaker 2: is ironic. Guess Steve compoint of that lin door finger

1144
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 2: in a door door in the name if you guys

1145
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 2: got that one. Lol. That feels like literally a month ago.

1146
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 2: Yeah right, this has been the long All these four

1147
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 2: games series are always so incredibly ten o'clock. They were

1148
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 2: just so happened that most of these days and Mets

1149
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 2: we like the only ten o'clock game. So even like

1150
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 2: staying up for these games, I was like, okay, here

1151
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 2: we go almost ready. Yeah, this series felt like forever ago,

1152
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 2: and that Lindor thing that along with the Maxers are

1153
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 2: getting bit by the dog. There was a time where

1154
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 2: I was like, what is happened? Two right hands on

1155
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: the Mets got screwed up? Yeah luckily, I mean we're

1156
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 2: all good. It sounds like, but yeah, that's just didn't

1157
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 2: really hit. Got a few off of what bruisear, couple

1158
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 2: good hit balls, two hits off Tony Gonsolin, one hit

1159
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 2: offf bruis Ar. Rather all three hits that were scattered

1160
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 2: in this game. No base runners in the eighth or

1161
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 2: ninth inning. This is a traveling out west after a

1162
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 2: game the day before. Seems like they were just completely

1163
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 2: a sleep henceive snoozefest and just gota brief to talk

1164
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 2: about Taiwan because he this was one of the hilarious,

1165
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 2: most hilarious stats lines I've seen in a while. Five

1166
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 2: and two thirds innings, pitch only give up two earned

1167
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 2: sixteen hard hit balls, two balls and play the whole

1168
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: game off Taiwan under ninety miles an hour. Scary shit,

1169
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 2: hard hit merchant, Hard hit merchant. You showed me his

1170
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 2: Baseball Savant page. You're like, look at this. It was

1171
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 2: all red with one bar of white and one bar

1172
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 2: of blue. I've never seen anything like that does and

1173
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 2: being the balls in play in that game. If you

1174
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 2: saw that, you would have said ten runs. And crazily,

1175
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 2: he didn't give up any runs before the lineup flipped

1176
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 2: for a third time, which is that This is the

1177
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 2: thing I'm just saying about Tyler Walker for months now,

1178
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 2: basically since he came to the team last year. No

1179
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 2: runs were the first four innings, and he got through

1180
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 2: the beginning of the fifth, and then once Movie Betts

1181
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,479
Speaker 2: came up, he had an RBI and then Justin Turner,

1182
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 2: how were the next hitning, And that's how he gave

1183
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 2: his two runs the third time around the order. If

1184
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: the Mets had enough pitching depth right now and they

1185
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 2: could commit to Tylan Walker being a three to four

1186
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 2: inning guy, basically a sixty pitch guy who only sees

1187
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: orders twice, he'd be incredibly effective. He's so good the

1188
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: first couple of times for the order. They were talking

1189
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 2: about that on the broadcast too. That is Ops just

1190
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 2: the team. Ops goes crazy high, like almost nine hundred

1191
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 2: third time through the first two times cash money and

1192
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 2: last Taiwan update, he again forcing fast ball split change.

1193
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: Split change was really good. It was money diving out

1194
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: of the bomb of zone enough even as a lot

1195
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 2: of these balls were hit hard. That was the pitch

1196
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: getting whiffs. His only pitch with multiple whiffs, and it

1197
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 2: had like five, six, seven or eight. I can't remember

1198
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: the number right now, but that pitch looked really good

1199
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 2: playing off of four. That sits ninety four ninety five

1200
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 2: ish touches ninety six. Sometimes that sounds like a really

1201
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 2: good repertoire for to the four inning guy. Oh definitely,

1202
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: I think Taiwan we'll reconsider when some guys come back.

1203
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: Maybe what he's doing right now though, is very important,

1204
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 2: only two and runs in five to two thirds innings.

1205
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 2: He did touch a six inning is was important for

1206
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 2: the rest of the series. If the Mets would have

1207
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 2: taken him out of early, I don't know if they

1208
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 2: would have won this game, and it might have cost

1209
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: them one of the later games. So everything building on

1210
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: top of each other still worked out. But just crazy

1211
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 2: that there were only two balls and play the whole

1212
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 2: game on nine hours like you got a roller coaster.

1213
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 2: I hit the ball ninety miles. Now that there's only

1214
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 2: two guys that hit the ball about as hard as me,

1215
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 2: which is crazy. That was it for that game. They

1216
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 2: lost really well, Doc just a really good really a

1217
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 2: really good team.

1218
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: And after watching that game, and we mentioned it briefly

1219
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier too, I watched it went Man,

1220
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: They're just good. They're just a really good team, and

1221
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: they probably are better than us, let's be honest.

1222
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 2: For sure, if you like on paper, yeah, but I

1223
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 2: mean power rankings. I think there's no argument for the

1224
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 2: Mets higher win percentage because we know that matters and

1225
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 2: definitely has nothing to do with more games we can played,

1226
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: just beat their two arguably most talented pitchers, and back

1227
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 2: to back games with David Peterson and Trevor Williams on

1228
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 2: the mound for us, those are our back end guys.

1229
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 2: Those are our villains for injuries. I mean donads Medina

1230
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: in the save opportunity, because why not because form Pittsburgh Pirates. Well,

1231
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 2: I of course, then just got run through Game two

1232
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 2: real quickly here because I was having too much fun

1233
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 2: Midgres newsfest. Tyler Anderson like shit, that stinks to throw

1234
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 2: a change ups. You couldn't even get close to touching them.

1235
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 2: He's had good success against the Mets too in the past.

1236
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 2: Remember the Pirates game. Yeah, he's been great against the Mets.

1237
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 2: I was like, these are like an eight inch shot

1238
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 2: out or something something like that. Has also hit a

1239
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 2: home run against the Mets too, Like, I think he's

1240
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 2: hundred percent of home run against the Mets last year.

1241
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 2: I think he just owned with the Mets. Yeah. I

1242
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 2: think it's just that simple, all right, Maybe it is,

1243
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 2: But also bassetting this one wasn't the sharpest fell victims

1244
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:44,720
Speaker 2: of the home run ball and one of the easiest

1245
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 2: place hit home runs in baseball. Gave won the Bellinger

1246
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 2: one to McKinstry. And when you give him home runs

1247
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 2: to those two guys in this lineup, you just realize

1248
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: how deep this roster is. I mentioned that in the Dodgers'

1249
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 2: preview last week. Just there's no second to breathe when

1250
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 2: Zach McKinstry's hitting home run against here with the bomb

1251
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: of the oiler. Lineup is apps loaded. It is a

1252
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 2: long lineup, and it feels like every time you're he's

1253
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 2: up again, He's here again house because once in a while,

1254
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 2: when you're seventy and nine hitters, draw a walk or

1255
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 2: get the Bay's hit and he gets movie bets up

1256
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: to the play a batter, sooner they're they're unbelievable. Alonso

1257
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: got the home run, which is nice, well come up,

1258
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 2: and then the Dodgers got some runs off of Joey

1259
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 2: and to go sick. I mean they just they just

1260
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 2: beat us. Yeah, you weren' gonna win this. This is

1261
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 2: when everyone thought the sky was falling. Well, I shouldn't

1262
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 2: say everyone, some people. Some people thought the sky was falling.

1263
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: Most people, at least for the first time, I felt

1264
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 2: a good a while in the media were not like that.

1265
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:36,240
Speaker 2: They were like, this is chill, yeah, good prominent Mets

1266
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 2: fans for not just jumping off the roof and saying

1267
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 2: the season's over. We didn't check Salakata's. We didn't check

1268
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: Salacata because why would you follow him? He probably deleted anyway, probably, Uh,

1269
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 2: we don't follow Frank, which he I mean, he was

1270
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 2: freaking out, but you guys can't. That's a Frank Fleming. Seriously,

1271
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 2: that's a shtick. We don't know what it is. It's

1272
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 2: a shtick that's been purported. But I do think that's

1273
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: how he really feels. Oh yeah, I don't. Yeah, I

1274
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 2: don't think. I think he's unfortunately a miserable person. Yeah,

1275
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 2: but there is a subsect of Mets fans who was

1276
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 2: completely lockstep with Frank Fleming. Yeah, Like, I'm sure he's

1277
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 2: a nice guy. It's kind of like in the like

1278
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 2: like European nations, where there's like seven political parties that

1279
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: get votes, and then why is it being like a

1280
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 2: plurality winner, Like there is that one faction of like

1281
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 2: those crazy like Germany is the Pirate Party? Just crazy

1282
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,240
Speaker 2: shit like that. You'll see that one subsection of crazy

1283
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: to get like six percent of the vote. And if

1284
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 2: you were like splitting up the Mets fan base, like

1285
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 2: seeing what percent of vote, like the guy's got, Frank

1286
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 2: Clemming would get a percentage of him's content. He is content,

1287
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 2: and but there are Mets fans I think like that,

1288
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 2: and they're we're not gonna we can't get rid of

1289
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 2: him yet. But it was nice to see a lot

1290
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 2: of people sp calm. Some people were not, some people

1291
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 2: thought it was dead. Got some twitter dms. You guys

1292
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 2: know who you are? Who what can the Mets do?

1293
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 2: They get to get on pace with the Dodgers, like

1294
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 2: who were traded for? I was like, you guys, gotta

1295
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 2: watch the next couple of games, and to which we won. Yeah,

1296
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 2: we got right on pace with the Dodgers. In fact,

1297
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: we're ahead of the pace of the Dodgers.

1298
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: Yet we have a higher winning percentage, which means we're

1299
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: the better team, because that's never failed anyone. Right now,

1300
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: right now, at this exact lement, we are the best

1301
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: team in the National League, something that I don't think

1302
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought would happen this late in

1303
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: the season for the Mets. I would think a lot

1304
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: of people would say this after the Dodgers series, losing

1305
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 1: the first two. Colin Coward himself, what a fucking idiot

1306
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: that guy is.

1307
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 2: Let me roast him for a second. I mean, I'm

1308
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 2: not gonna call anybody who has a level of success

1309
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 2: that Colin Coward has an idiot. Colin Gowhard talks to

1310
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: himself about sports four hours a day and gets paid

1311
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 2: millions of dollars. He is success. That guy's brilliant. No,

1312
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 2: he's successful. I don't want to hear what he has

1313
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 2: to say about baseball. He's a baseball idiot for sure. Yeah,

1314
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 2: he tweeted out after they won Game two. Mets Twitter

1315
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 2: was getting a little out of control. This Dodger series

1316
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 2: was needed to restore some sanity. I'm sure Mets fans

1317
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 2: will handle it with grease and humility, to which I go, yep,

1318
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 2: big big middle finger right to you, sit and twist

1319
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 2: whatever you want to say. And this is a new

1320
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 2: copy pasta that I think. I think every time the

1321
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 2: Dodgers lose or to the Mets or whatever it's gonna be,

1322
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 2: I think this is the copy past Oh, if the

1323
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 2: Dodgers lose the next game they play, I'm gonna tweet that. Yeah,

1324
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 2: Mets Twitter is getting a little out of control. Mark

1325
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 2: sent to me. Yeah, I'm gonna book now because honestly,

1326
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 2: we'll leave it in the description somewhere in this episode,

1327
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 2: so you guys can also see it. I quote tweeted

1328
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 2: on my person I might say like Fox Sports was

1329
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:03,479
Speaker 2: getting a little control this this ESPN series, the NBA

1330
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 2: Final Series would needs to restore some sanity. That's funny,

1331
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 2: that's funny. That's funny. Great, great ending to a series

1332
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 2: that could have gone really badly. Shame for the Dodgers.

1333
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 2: Would they go this week two and five? They could

1334
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 2: have beat the Pirates, could bet the Pirates or the Mets,

1335
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 2: and and with the their fan base was described as

1336
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 2: two worst teams in the NL. Yeah. I mean again,

1337
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 2: that's only hot early. We're only a third of the

1338
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 2: way through the season. We've only played more than the

1339
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 2: amount of games that Dodgers played in the regular season.

1340
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 2: They won a championship. What percentage World Series? World Series?

1341
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 2: That happens more than most teams. They have as much

1342
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 2: percentage of the achies have rings exactly. Don't tell Dodgers

1343
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 2: found that? Oh no, I mean, imagine if they won

1344
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 2: the World Series against the Astros too, each tough one

1345
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 2: that was close, those back and forth series. He also

1346
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: got bombarded by the Red Sox the year after that.

1347
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 2: They just just sounds like just sounds like a team

1348
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: that really can't step up to the play when it counts. No,

1349
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, the Dodgers are a team that usually

1350
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 2: do very good in the regular season against the bad teams,

1351
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 2: so once the going gets tough, they seem to fall apart.

1352
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 2: You know that coming into this series, they had played

1353
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 2: majority under five hundred teams. The Mets were one of

1354
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: the first legitimate good teams that they've played all year,

1355
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 2: And I feel like those narratives only build against like

1356
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 2: the Mets. Though, Yeah, of course, but this is this

1357
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 2: is fun because now it builds against the Dodgers. They've

1358
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 2: placed a good team to play a good team at

1359
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: home against Tremor Williams, David Peterson. They split. But yeah,

1360
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to keep talking about the

1361
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 2: Dodgers because I'm sure he's gonna come back to Bias

1362
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 2: and the oh without it down terrible. It's gonna be

1363
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 2: awful when it's the next time we played them and

1364
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 2: they take the first game and we're like, shit, damn it,

1365
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 2: we did it to ourselves. But we're feeling good. We're

1366
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 2: feeling great.

1367
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: The Messas had a crazy, crazy win of Game four

1368
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 1: to split the series, and now we head to San

1369
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: Diego to play those Padres who just recently cut Robinson Cano.

1370
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: So it seems that maybe they're not as stupid as

1371
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: we once thought because they were playing that guy every

1372
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: day for a while, which was crazy.

1373
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 2: Still a pen and pensive organization, though for sure not

1374
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 2: one of the smart ones. But they they're coming up

1375
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 2: three straight wins against the Browers. His team is good.

1376
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 2: They're not great, They're just still not to be trifled with.

1377
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 2: And it's gonna be another rock fight of the series

1378
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 2: to get through.

1379
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I really do think, like we talked about

1380
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, right we said three and seven was

1381
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: our worst case.

1382
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 2: We got two right now. Yes, and I really do

1383
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 2: think we can take two from the Padres without batting it.

1384
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 2: And the Angels have lost eleven games in a row. Yeah,

1385
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 2: they're really really right now. But this Padres series is

1386
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 2: gonna start immediately. We're facing three Vergus starting pictures, no

1387
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 2: off day again. The Mets are likely on the way

1388
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 2: to San Diego right now is the time we're recording this.

1389
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 2: They'll be there by the time you guys listen to this.

1390
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 2: Definitely we were arguing before and maybe you guys tweets

1391
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,720
Speaker 2: this do you guys think the Dodgers fly or bust

1392
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 2: to San Diego from LA and I think it has

1393
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: to be a fly. I think so too. But that's

1394
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 2: like similar distance between like Philadelphia, New York and the

1395
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,919
Speaker 2: Mets usually take a bus to Philly. Yeah, but it's

1396
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 2: just the traffic's just different. The traffic between New York

1397
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 2: and Philadelphi is also usually not good. The park, the

1398
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 2: turn parks are right, it's usually all right, But you

1399
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 2: gotta take a bus out of New York. Think about

1400
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 2: think about getting from Queens, like just getting getting a

1401
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 2: bus across the George Washington Bridge. All right, Yes, that's insane.

1402
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 2: It's in the sane thing to think about. And a

1403
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 2: Sunday evening, you think the traffic on the PCA the

1404
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 2: four or five thing is really that bad? Oh no,

1405
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 2: I'm sure Steve Comen could close down the tunnel to

1406
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 2: get the Mets to go through or whatever it's got

1407
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 2: to be so that there's no traffic. Pacifica's Highway's gorgeous.

1408
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 2: Take a ride with the guys after a big win,

1409
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 2: but big pitching matchups in this series. Game one, one,

1410
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 2: Monday Night, Carls Grasso versus Blake Snell. Snell's freshly off

1411
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 2: the il. He is doing the Blake Snell thing where

1412
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 2: he's good and not good at the same time. Look

1413
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,839
Speaker 2: for us to stack this lineup with Riotyes, because Blake

1414
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 2: Snell is significantly better against lefties than Riothy's. Because he

1415
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 2: really just only has a resort of throwing fastballs and sliders.

1416
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 2: He's starting to mix a change up back and again

1417
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 2: after he removed it from his repertoire last year, because

1418
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 2: I pitched a comic Jacky and Hide for him and

1419
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 2: goes back and forth. But gonna be interesting to see

1420
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 2: what we can do against him. A very patient team.

1421
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 2: I feel like we'll be able to get to him.

1422
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 2: Tuesday night Taiwan Walker versus you Darvish. You Darvish habitually

1423
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 2: just destroys the Mets.

1424
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't matter how much he's struggling, he will

1425
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: figure it out.

1426
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,760
Speaker 2: For this game, get right game for you, Darvish as usual.

1427
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 2: And then Wednesday in another night game which we're gonna

1428
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 2: be grinding and get you guys a podcasts after that one,

1429
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 2: Chris Bassi or shan and Iya in a game of

1430
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 2: two two wiley vets who came from the Oaklands in

1431
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 2: the same offseason. It's gonna be a good, good day

1432
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,399
Speaker 2: for them. I'm sure. Yeah, definitely. Uh. Fun fact about

1433
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 2: the Padres twenty third in shifts this year. I like

1434
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 2: that for a team like the Mets, it puts the

1435
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 2: ball and play. Mets put the ball in play.

1436
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: We saw that whole article about teams not playing the

1437
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: Mets smart. Seems like the Padres don't really play that smart.

1438
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 2: Even if a team like the Padres, who I think

1439
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 2: is modernizing relatively two years past, they're great at prospects,

1440
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 2: they're great at prospects, and they're great acquiring ready made

1441
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,839
Speaker 2: starting pitchers. Like they just pulled as many starting pitcher

1442
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 2: as they could. We're already good, or like we gotta

1443
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 2: get your good, which is why they're good right now. Yeah,

1444
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,760
Speaker 2: and they hired forgot his first name. I think rubyin Diebla,

1445
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 2: who is a pitching coach in Cleveland for a long

1446
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,959
Speaker 2: time who people have had rave rave rave reviews about.

1447
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 2: And the Guardians we know are not the pending pencil team.

1448
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 2: The team uses ample amounts of data. They also have

1449
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 2: many Machado who's playing like an MVP. Yea was incredible.

1450
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 2: Jae Cronwort's annoying as shit. Who else even good in

1451
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 2: that right? Trent Grishams looks terrible.

1452
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure Eric Cosm will be annoying, just because that's

1453
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: that's who he is.

1454
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 2: Jerks and profile like is actually playing well. He has

1455
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 2: the play discipline, He's actually finally married it with power.

1456
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 2: His bower rate, it's significantly higher than before in his

1457
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 2: career and is at a point where it might be

1458
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 2: kind of stable. He looks good. Taylor Rodgers has been struggling,

1459
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 2: but I do think he is still really good. Is

1460
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 2: their bullpen good? Kind of? I mean Luis Garcia, their

1461
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 2: seventh man, is quite good. Nick Martinez is now pitching

1462
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 2: in a hybrid role out of the rotation and the bullpen.

1463
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 2: He has looked decent over all. We're missing Mackenzie Gore

1464
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 2: was a world be there. That's awesome. Thank god were

1465
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 2: missing him. He looks incredible right now. But otherwise in

1466
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 2: that bullpens they still Stammond who. I don't know if

1467
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 2: Craig Stamond's any good. I feel like the Mets always

1468
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 2: hit Craigs. Here's Johnson might still be there. There was

1469
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 2: lost sliders. Yeah, like the team they've they have a

1470
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 2: collection of good players, they don't always put them in

1471
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 2: the best opportunities to succeed. I think the Mets are

1472
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 2: a better team than the Padres. That's a better run team.

1473
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 2: Should win the series, but it's going to be close.

1474
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 2: It was close last year against him, even though we

1475
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 2: took the games from them, and you could argue them

1476
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 2: as kind of might have pitching this vantage in every game.

1477
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,879
Speaker 2: Not really strong between Carrasco, Snell, Basset and I. Those

1478
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 2: are kind of close, especially Basset and I. You could

1479
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 2: argue Chris bass is probably better than Sean ma Andai

1480
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 2: has really good this year, but they're throwing three starting

1481
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,839
Speaker 2: pitchers out there with some legit pedigree, and it's let's

1482
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 2: play play some baseball. Also nice that we miss Joe

1483
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Speaker 2: Musgrove because he's sick. Yeah, he's sick. He hasn't as

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Speaker 2: good this year he was last year. He was also

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Speaker 2: still good, but the fasketball has not been as good.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, probably we're arguably missing the Padricks two best

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Speaker 2: starting pitchers. Okay, I'm cool with that. Go out win

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Speaker 2: another series like the Mets have done all year long.

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Speaker 2: And Taylor Rodgers, I thinks might have pitched three days

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Speaker 2: in a row for these guys, or maybe at least

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Speaker 2: the last two, because he definitely save. It may be

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Speaker 2: one or another. He definitely pitched on Sunday, and he

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Speaker 2: blew another save this weekend. I remember because I bet

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Speaker 2: them and I was mad. I hadn't been fancy. No,

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Speaker 2: actually I bet he blew a saved last Saturday against

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Speaker 2: the pirates. I bet them, and I was mad. Man.

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Speaker 2: The pirates have really been killing you. Killing the pirates

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Speaker 2: have caused me a couple of bets in the last week.

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Speaker 2: It was very annoying. How great Hot Hot half finished

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Speaker 2: the weekend Hot Finish Half Finish just have finished.

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Speaker 1: The boys bought tickets to the Rangers game five as well,

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Speaker 1: so if you're gonna be at that game, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: will be this up.

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Speaker 2: We will be indulging in some adult beverages as well.

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Speaker 2: We're recording another podcast before then. Yeah, oh yeah we are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I forgot all right, we'll talk about that

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Speaker 2: in the next one too. We'll remind you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much though for listening to this episode here.

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Speaker 1: Episode number ninety gave the met Stuff podcast percent one hundred,

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Speaker 1: getting close to one hundred maybe some big news coming

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Speaker 1: out one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Who knows that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep teasing it until it comes out. We're

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Speaker 1: so close, but yeah, present by the seven line. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening and watching.

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Speaker 2: Follow us on social media at mets up YouTube channel

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Speaker 2: messed the podcast if you want to watch the video

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Speaker 2: version of this. If you're listening to us Apple podcasts, Spotify,

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Speaker 2: Google Podcasts wherever you listen, drop us a rate and

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Speaker 2: drop us review, follow, subscribe, download, Do it all really

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Speaker 2: does help us out. Follow James on Twitter at Jeter

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Speaker 2: had no rate, di'd you one of the last time

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Speaker 2: y that's my handle. The follow up to follow me

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Speaker 2: at your raffneck mark and that's where were wrapping up. Guys.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you after the San Diego Padres series out.

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Speaker 2: See you guys next time. Thank