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Speaker 1: What is up?

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Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to the official twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: Mets season preview. Not just me and James, though, friend

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Speaker 2: of the podcast Mets legend Daniel Murphy joining us today.

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Speaker 2: First off, Murph, thank you so much for being here.

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Speaker 2: Excited to talk a little ball with you.

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Speaker 3: DearS Mark, thanks for having me, James, you two.

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Speaker 4: I've enjoyed watching y'all's podcast and I appreciate you bringing

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Speaker 4: me on here for a little Mets preview as the

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Speaker 4: campaign is about to get started.

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Speaker 1: Campaign really is about to get start.

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Speaker 5: We were talking a little bit off air about how

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Speaker 5: fast the end of spring training went for the World

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Speaker 5: Baseball Classic before we get deep into the Mets, Murph,

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Speaker 5: you caught some of those TMUSA games WBC, right, How

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Speaker 5: was the how's the environment out there for the boys

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Speaker 5: in blue?

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Speaker 3: It was good.

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Speaker 4: With my boys and I my oldest Noah and my

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Speaker 4: eight year old Drew made it out to Houston to

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Speaker 4: see him take on the Canadians and we had a blast.

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Speaker 4: It was a great atmosphere. Wanted to catch him on

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Speaker 4: the circuit. So my oldest Noah was born on Opening

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Speaker 4: Day and so we've been kind of making trips, and

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Speaker 4: so with the last two years we've gone to Philly

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Speaker 4: and then last year went to Texas to see The

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Speaker 3: But I was asking them this show.

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Speaker 4: I was like, Hey, you know the Americans are on

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Speaker 4: the circuit right now, you want to try to catch them.

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Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, let's do it. So we boogeed out

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Speaker 4: to Houston. We're able to stay. We end up getting

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Speaker 4: a room at the team hotel, so got to mix

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Speaker 4: it up a little bit with the fellas, ran into

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Speaker 4: some former team Bates Schwarber and Bryce Harper, and then

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Speaker 4: got to see the starter, Logan Web because we have

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Speaker 4: the same agent, and Logan and I hooked up. I like,

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Speaker 4: not that these guys are older, but I like to

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Speaker 4: still around. Makes me feel like I might still be

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Speaker 4: able to fake it, you know what I mean. But

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Speaker 4: I think, like you said, James, the WBC kind of

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Speaker 4: really slingshot at us into the season. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if it was because like the Ringers weren't in camp

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Speaker 4: as much like they were out playing for their teams,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, it's it's here now, and even what feels

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Speaker 4: like a little mini marathon before you know, the big one.

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Speaker 4: You know, this kind of you know iron Man event

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Speaker 3: It did get here quickly.

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Speaker 5: The idea of your of your boys being able to

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Speaker 5: be Yeah, that was Kylee Schwarp. We hung out with

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Speaker 5: him and Bryce Harper and Logan Web's that's amazing for

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Speaker 4: So funny story real quick on that one is there

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Speaker 4: and my son is like, you know, he's asking for autographs.

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Speaker 4: At the same time. Part of the hook of the

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Speaker 4: At the same time, we don't really want you asking

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Speaker 4: And so we go out there, my boys and I

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Speaker 4: Who funny story, real quick, he was in this in

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Speaker 4: And so he looks up, oh Murph, and he comes over,

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Speaker 2: Just hilarious to think of like the security guy being like,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna a little differently just because of that.

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Speaker 2: But there was a guy on Team USA that's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a huge part of this team this year. Noel

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Speaker 2: McLean pitched the Finals, expected to be basically the number

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Speaker 2: two right behind Freddy Prault in this rotation, high expectations.

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Speaker 1: What does that feel like?

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Speaker 2: You think for a guy like him going into camp,

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Speaker 4: I think that having Freddy Prault to brought in is

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Speaker 4: been through the seasons before, know what it looks like

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it definitely isn't just the stuff in terms of

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Speaker 5: But the other big news coming out of these last

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Speaker 5: Bench is going to be the opening date right fielder

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Speaker 5: what about butterflies like that first opening day for a

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Speaker 1: How's that?

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Speaker 5: How's that feel for the young man that first opening day?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think part of it is just a real

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Speaker 4: But when he comes in puts together the at bats

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Speaker 4: I didn't get a chance to talk to him when

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Speaker 4: At the same time, if he's just balling, then run

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Speaker 4: It's always fun that first opening day. You know you're

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Speaker 4: you know, when those Nationals when we're playing them an

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Speaker 2: Not just Carson Bench coming into this lineup now, but

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Speaker 2: so many new names, basically an entirely new team, especially

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Speaker 1: Jorge Polanco at first base.

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Speaker 2: Murph, you're a guy who went from second base, played

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Speaker 4: Well, I think there's confidence because if you can play

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Speaker 3: Usually some of the toughest parts are.

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Speaker 4: Figuring out which balls are yours and which balls aren't.

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Speaker 4: It's not necessarily the case always like that at first base,

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Speaker 5: Technically speaking, when you do make that move from second

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Speaker 3: So I like that idea, and then I would say.

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Speaker 4: Some a bit more workload on them as they're continuing

439
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Speaker 4: to develop defensively while also still wanting to bang past.

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Speaker 5: That even just more broad half this team is new,

441
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Speaker 5: if not more than half it. I think we were

442
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Speaker 5: returning like the fourth or fifth fewest innings and played

443
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Speaker 5: appearances combined if any team the season before in all baseball.

444
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Speaker 5: Yet there are big, heavy, legitimate expectations on what is

445
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Speaker 5: Stars did one of the most expensive rosters in baseball.

446
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Speaker 5: From the bit of time you spent down there in camp,

447
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Speaker 5: were you seeing anything with the guys getting to know

448
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Speaker 5: each other, spending some time together, just kind of learning

449
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Speaker 5: the personalities of who's going to be the brothers for

450
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Speaker 5: the next six months.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a chance to see Clay Holmes as well.

452
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Speaker 4: He was on the WBC team and got a chance

453
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Speaker 4: to talk with him right before they were leaving, probably

454
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Speaker 4: just a couple of days later, And I really enjoyed Clay.

455
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Speaker 4: We've got a chance to speak with each other and

456
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Speaker 4: been in some conferences together in the off season, and

457
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Speaker 4: I think that he'll be a real positive, veteran influence

458
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Speaker 4: for the pitching staff. Along with the amount of work

459
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Speaker 4: that he put in last year coming from the bullpen

460
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Speaker 4: to being a starting pitcher. I think did he grab

461
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Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty innings? On hundred and forty one

462
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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty innings? I'll let you guys kind of

463
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Speaker 4: correct me on that, but like good work that you've had,

464
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Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I mean it's like those are hard

465
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Speaker 4: to come by, Like it's just you don't see many

466
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Speaker 4: guys throwing that many innings, and he as much in

467
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Speaker 4: the modern game. And then when I got into campas sixty,

468
00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:12,000
Speaker 4: they had, oh, look even more impressive. The boys had

469
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Speaker 4: just gone out to the West Coast, I think to

470
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Speaker 4: play the Blue Jays, and I don't know somebody else

471
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Speaker 4: out there, but I was kind of sniffing around and

472
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Speaker 4: just trying to see you know, what was it like

473
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Speaker 4: for the guys that stay back, because those times are

474
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Speaker 4: really really good chances for the players who stayed behind,

475
00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,359
Speaker 4: because the workdays aren't quite as long. Like you get

476
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,280
Speaker 4: your VPN, you get your your your defensive work a

477
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Speaker 4: good a good workout, maybe in the weight room, and

478
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Speaker 4: then you can kind of hang out with each other.

479
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Speaker 4: Maybe you do it at the clubhouse or go out

480
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Speaker 4: and you know, go golfing or something like that. And

481
00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,439
Speaker 4: it did between you know, seeing Juan Soto and Luis

482
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Speaker 4: Robert hanging out together, and you know, Francisco Lindora was

483
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,000
Speaker 4: out there even though he had his cast on. He

484
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,480
Speaker 4: looks like he's doing great right now, ready for Opening Day,

485
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Speaker 4: and so like you could kind of feel that even

486
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Speaker 4: though the faces were new, there was an understanding that

487
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 4: maybe we need to come together because we got work

488
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,399
Speaker 4: to be done this year. The faces are new, but

489
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,879
Speaker 4: the expectations are just as high as they've been since

490
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Speaker 4: you know, Steve Going and David Stearns have been constructing

491
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Speaker 4: these rosters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is exciting to hear because I think every

493
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 2: single Mets fan who's listening to this, and honestly, every

494
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Speaker 2: single Met fan in the world.

495
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Speaker 1: Is got high expectations for this team.

496
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Speaker 2: Whether you like the moves that David Stearns made this

497
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,399
Speaker 2: offseason or not, whether you're excited because we got new

498
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Speaker 2: players or you're sad because we lost some franchise favorites,

499
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Speaker 2: this team does have lofty expectations and with that there's

500
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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure on the guys like Wan Soto,

501
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Speaker 2: Francisco Lindor. You mentioned Freddie Peralta, Soto and Lindor.

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Speaker 1: This is now very much officially their team. These are

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Speaker 1: the guys who are here.

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Speaker 2: Me and James talked about it that are signed under

505
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Speaker 2: contract past what twenty twenty eight?

506
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Speaker 1: James, Yeah, the only two guys.

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Speaker 2: Yes, do you think that now I don't want to

508
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Speaker 2: say like cleaning up the leadership, but do you think

509
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Speaker 2: that because it's very much their team, we could see

510
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Speaker 2: maybe Juan Soto maybe take on a little more of

511
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Speaker 2: a leadership role now that he's not surrounded by a

512
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Speaker 2: bunch of veterans who have been here for seventy eight years.

513
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that as one is, you know, he

514
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Speaker 4: spent last season kind of you know, I wouldn't say

515
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 4: getting his speed wet, but it is like it's it's

516
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Speaker 4: an entirely new organization. You're learning new faces, new names,

517
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Speaker 4: and kind of just the cadence of things. Also, I

518
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Speaker 4: do think at the same time, like Wan was a

519
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Speaker 4: leader when I played with him in eighteen with the Nationals,

520
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Speaker 4: and that somebody that you know one is always going

521
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Speaker 4: to come to work ready and prepared and put in

522
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Speaker 4: a full shift to get ready for the ballgame, like

523
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Speaker 4: he's going to give you everything he's got. You can

524
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Speaker 4: see his intensity on every single pitch, and so you

525
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 4: know his ability that he chooses to not give away pitches,

526
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Speaker 4: I think is a leadership role all of itself, because

527
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Speaker 4: it's difficult to do that. I saw David Wright do that.

528
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 4: I have given away enough pitches in my career to

529
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Speaker 4: know that that's hard to do. So when you see

530
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Speaker 4: the best player in your club, the highest paid player,

531
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Speaker 4: going out there and just laying it on the line

532
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 4: for this pitch right now, it kind of leaves you,

533
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Speaker 4: I want to say, kind of it leaves you as

534
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Speaker 4: no excuse as a teammate. And you know, while one

535
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Speaker 4: last year and maybe in the past hasn't been you

536
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Speaker 4: would say is vocal. I would say maybe more outwardly

537
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Speaker 4: to the media because I wouldn't. It's not like he

538
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,400
Speaker 4: didn't talk when he was in the clubhouse. Like he'll

539
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 4: ball talk with you, no doubt, but it's I think that,

540
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Speaker 4: you know, he'll be more comfortable this year certainly. And

541
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Speaker 4: maybe I don't know if you call me old school

542
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Speaker 4: or what, but like give me the two to eighty

543
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Speaker 4: with the thirty five plus homers and the four hundred

544
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Speaker 4: plus on base percentage, and I'm not going to say

545
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Speaker 4: and you kind of not do what you want, but

546
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Speaker 4: like he's doing exactly what I want him to do,

547
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Speaker 4: Like that's exactly what I want.

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Speaker 1: That's what we say.

549
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Speaker 2: Like at the end of the day, he just shows

550
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Speaker 2: up and performs, performs every single time.

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Speaker 4: Because as a teammates, you really do have yeah, you

552
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 4: really have no excuse for just how he engages on

553
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Speaker 4: each pitch. And I think, James, you're absolutely right in

554
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Speaker 4: that Francisco goes about his business the same exact way.

555
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 4: I think that they enjoy their baseball and express themselves

556
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 4: differently within the lines. But that's how we all do.

557
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 4: I think we just got watching a whole WBC about

558
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Speaker 4: how each individual, you know, country represents and kind of

559
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 4: expresses itself, you know, and I thought it was beautiful.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 4: My buddy, my boys, my eight year old just got

562
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Speaker 4: done playing at SPACEC Stadium down with the Nationals this

563
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Speaker 4: past weekend. And it was a trip to see that

564
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Speaker 4: because I was on that I was on that property

565
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Speaker 4: what like twenty years ago now when it looked like

566
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Speaker 4: a prison.

567
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Speaker 3: And so now it's built for youth baseball.

568
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Speaker 4: And the team we played in the championship, we get

569
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Speaker 4: done and the boys are getting their rings has got

570
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Speaker 4: a Los Agulos jersey on from the Dominican Republican.

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh.

572
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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I go DMA Lost Agulos. I

573
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Speaker 4: was like, let's talk a little ball. I've been down

574
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Speaker 4: there before. I was like, I played for you boys,

575
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Speaker 4: played for Tony Payne, you down there. And so each

576
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 4: culture has a way at how it. You know, we

577
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 4: expressed ourselves individually, and so I think that between Francisco

578
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,640
Speaker 4: and Juan neither both are positive and they'll find their

579
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Speaker 4: way within the confines and the structure of the ball

580
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Speaker 4: club to hopefully lead the team to a division and

581
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Speaker 4: onward to a pennant in a World's Championship.

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Speaker 5: Now I've just now my mind start twirling somewhere else.

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Speaker 5: I want to get back to the mess maybe for

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Speaker 5: a few minutes after. But there was a bit of

601
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Speaker 5: a conversation and Team USA and the WBC just about

602
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Speaker 5: how a little bit I don't know what's the word,

603
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 5: we'd use a little bit more kind, just like corporate,

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Speaker 5: how tight corporate that team felt relatives these other champion

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Speaker 5: baseball Do you did you see that that come through

606
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Speaker 5: when you were watching the game as a former member

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Speaker 5: and champions are part of the Team USA, And do

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Speaker 5: you think that's something that's worth kind of digging into

609
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Speaker 5: deeper about maybe why this exact collection of some of

610
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 5: the best baseball time I've ever seen one field together

611
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 5: struggled to get over a hump in this tournament specifically, I.

612
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Speaker 4: Think the the Americans were just not offensive enough. I

613
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 4: don't think it had I don't think that their inability

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Speaker 4: as an offense to come together kind of cohesively and

615
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Speaker 4: and lean on the opposing pitching staff, and I mean

616
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Speaker 4: really lean on it. I don't think that had anything

617
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Speaker 4: to do with the fact that as Americans we seem

618
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 4: a bit more reserved in our celebrations. I don't think

619
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Speaker 4: that that means that we're reserved at all in our

620
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Speaker 4: intent and what we're trying to do. It's just we

621
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 4: kind of grew up learning our baseball a little bit differently.

622
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Speaker 4: And that's not to say at all that the Dominican

623
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 4: Republic or Venezuela I felt at any moment was showing

624
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 4: us up. They just celebrate and express themselves in a

625
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 4: different way and with their baseball than we do. And

626
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 4: I think that as an American without a doubt I

627
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,439
Speaker 4: can learn. I learned from being down the Dominican Republic.

628
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 4: I learned from Carlos Gomez getting the first base and

629
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Speaker 4: talking to me and like Murphy, when you get a

630
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 4: base hit down here and you drive so many in,

631
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 4: you got up. You gotta celebrate, you gotta pimp that,

632
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, And it's like, all right, go,

633
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 4: may I hear you. At the same time I was,

634
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say fearful, maybe more aware, as like I

635
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 4: don't ever want the opposing team to think that I'm

636
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 4: showing them up or then I'm celebrating at their expense,

637
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 4: because at a certain point I'll be the person on

638
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 4: my back and somebody else is celebrating.

639
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 3: And I don't want that.

640
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to feel like they're kind of, you know,

641
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 4: celebrating and stomping on my face in a way that's

642
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 4: you know what, a little bit not mean spirited, but

643
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 4: just you know, celebrating in that way. And so I

644
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 4: think that that probably led me to be more conservative

645
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 4: than I had to be, like a little more reserved.

646
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Speaker 3: But finally I would say, maate this.

647
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 4: You know, Bryce Harper, I got a chance to play with,

648
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 4: play against Bryce as a young player. I don't think

649
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 4: that that Bryce is really reserved at all in his celebrations. Unfortunately,

650
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 4: in this one, the American offense just didn't give ourselves

651
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 4: as many chances, you know, I think to kind of

652
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 4: to celebrate as we were hoping for. We scored against

653
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Speaker 4: the Italians while we were chasing, got some against the Canadians,

654
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 4: and then after that was pretty much our pitching staff

655
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Speaker 4: and kind of stringing stuff to, you know, trying to

656
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 4: string just a little bit together on offense. And so,

657
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 4: you know, I remember Bryce as he was coming up.

658
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 4: He was someone that was willing to say, like, I'm here,

659
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 4: I put in the work, look at me a little bit.

660
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 4: I didn't have that temperament. I was always afraid that

661
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 4: if you look at me, what if I do something

662
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 4: I'm not supposed to kind of, and so I was more.

663
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: A little bit more fearful of it.

664
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 4: And I do appreciate the freedom at which you know,

665
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 4: some of the Latin American countries and players play with.

666
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 3: I do.

667
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 4: I have a hopefully a healthy, a healthy envy for

668
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 4: how they go out and express themselves.

669
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 3: And just there wasn't that wasn't my game.

670
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 4: You know that it came in out maybe just briefly

671
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 4: in spurts, but there is some some real freedom, I think.

672
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 4: And so, yeah, the Venezuelan team was able to come together.

673
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 4: You could say, uh, you know, that would be probably

674
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 4: maybe part of the reason why they won, you know,

675
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 4: their ability to come together as an offense and kind

676
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 4: of lean on the opposing pitchers and so, but I

677
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 4: don't think that how you know, the Americans go about

678
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 4: their baseball was the reason why we came up short

679
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,239
Speaker 4: this time. It's a difficult tournament's been in to win

680
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 4: and getting more difficult, like more difficult, I would say,

681
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 4: you know, than it was in seventeen, like these like

682
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 4: the Italians in seventeen, like they didn't ball like this,

683
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 4: And so each country is getting better each tournament, and

684
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 4: I think that what a testament to how well the

685
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 4: tournament's been put on and how good the baseball is

686
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 4: that guys are just like looking for to this. But yeah,

687
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 4: it's it's a hard tournament to win, or at least

688
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 4: I'm so, I'm told, you know what I mean.

689
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: The growth of baseball, the growth of baseball I think

690
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: will come from the WBC in terms of globally, where

691
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 2: sometimes Major League Baseball I think has that issue with

692
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: the reach.

693
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: But bringing it back to the Mets here a little bit, talking.

694
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 2: About Carlos Mendoza going into his third year as Mets manager,

695
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 2: let's kind of take him out of the situation and

696
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 2: more talk about the role as a manager, because I

697
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: think from ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of

698
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: us that are listening, watching watching baseball taking it in,

699
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 2: I think we probably put too much pressure on a

700
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: manager and what they do every single day to the

701
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 2: value of how a team performs. So maybe you can

702
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: give us a little insight into again, not what Carlos

703
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 2: Mendoza does, and obviously every manager does things differently, but

704
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: like what is the manager actually doing, Like how much

705
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 2: of an impact is there?

706
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: Is it that important?

707
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: That's kind of a take I feel like it's going

708
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: around baseball right now is that the manager is kind

709
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 2: of replaceable as long as you have the.

710
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 4: Players wrong, in my opinion, wrong like managing like a

711
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 4: group of twenty six men along with the coaching staff,

712
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 4: you know, the weight room staff, and just being able

713
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 4: to coordinate all this is like it's massive because what

714
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 4: you're trying to do basically let's call it, what fifty

715
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 4: people maybe that are, you know coming into the ballpark

716
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 4: every day, forty plus people.

717
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 3: You're trying to put.

718
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 4: Each one of them in the best position to succeed,

719
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 4: with the twenty six guys taking you know, basically the

720
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 4: bulk of that kind of attention, Like those are the.

721
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 3: Ones that we're all here for to succeed.

722
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 4: And so you know, you got guys that are married,

723
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 4: guys that have children, guys that have family stuff going on,

724
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 4: and so like, how can I get to know you

725
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 4: and invest in you in a way that you think

726
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 4: is sincere, Like it has to be sincere. I can't

727
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 4: feel like it's forced or faked to put me in

728
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 4: the best position to succeed. And that takes some real selflessness,

729
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 4: to take some real awareness of what's going on with

730
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 4: your club and the players, and and that that is

731
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 4: so it's creating an environment in which the best players

732
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 4: on the planet can go and express themselves freely and

733
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 4: play well, play with freedom, pay attention to the scoreboard,

734
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 4: and that we haven't even kind of gotten into, you know,

735
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 4: the ballgame and the strategy of it, you know what

736
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 4: I mean, Like, so now I want to put you

737
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 4: in a position to succeed. But also I need to

738
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 4: know that you're paying attention to the ballgame and you're

739
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 4: seeing what's coming, that my coaching staff is conveying the

740
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 4: sort of strategy within this game, series, month, half season

741
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 4: that's going to give us all the best chance to succeed.

742
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 4: And like that's it sounds like it's becoming quite a

743
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 4: thankless job because perhaps maybe as the lineup and somewhat

744
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 4: the bullpen decisions become somewhat more collective in the modern game,

745
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 4: between the manager's office in the front office, there's this

746
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 4: misconception that anybody could kind of do it, and I

747
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 4: just don't buy that in any stretch. Like if you

748
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 4: were to asked me, do you want to manage the

749
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 4: first thing? As like like that sounds overwhelming. I would

750
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 4: want to get in the locker room maybe as a

751
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 4: hitting coach or even in the minor leagues before I

752
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 4: would want to take on that responsibility.

753
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: Or something like that.

754
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 4: And so I think it's a huge, a huge responsibility,

755
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 4: a huge task to take on that. You know, Carlos

756
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 4: is how had two campaigns to practice and get better

757
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 4: at and you know he's also at the same time

758
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 4: got a whole kind of group, like you said, of

759
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 4: new players that he's learning and what are their skills,

760
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 4: what what puts them in the in the best position

761
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 4: to succeed, And and then you got the tactics of

762
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 4: the Bowl game as well, Like there's there's a lot

763
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 4: that goes on to it.

764
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 5: New players and a whole new fleet of assistant coaches.

765
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 5: There's not a lot of similarity into any of the

766
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 5: even the pregame processes, the off the field processes. It

767
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 5: has become thankless. Chris Kershner from The Athletic I believe

768
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 5: put out a piece this week about how Aaron Boone

769
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 5: and Brian Cashman get frustrated that there's this prevailing narrative

770
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 5: that Cashman draws up the lineup, and I think the

771
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 5: tagline was like, there's no fucking way. Like that was

772
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 5: a quote from Brian Cashman in the article, which is

773
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 5: is funny, but like we kind of fans of this

774
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 5: all the time too. It happens a lot in basketball,

775
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 5: Like people talk about Phil Jackson leading those Bulls teams

776
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 5: like to all these championship but like, oh he had

777
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 5: Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippendez, Robin and anyone could have won,

778
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 5: Like if you ever talked to Michael Jordan managing an

779
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 5: ego like that, and like these managers have to do that,

780
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 5: it's amazing.

781
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: But it's just it's BET's team.

782
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 5: It's a very good collection of talented people right now,

783
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 5: people coaches, players, everything, But the difference is to me,

784
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 5: there's to or at least to Mark and I. We

785
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 5: talked about the ten questions yesterday for this team. It

786
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 5: feels like almost the most pressure right now in this

787
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 5: organization could possibly be on Carlos Mendoza and it's it's

788
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 5: going to be a little bit about him navigating all

789
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 5: of this new stuff and making sure he he steers

790
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 5: this ship.

791
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

792
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 4: I think John McGraw used to say when they'd start

793
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 4: a season in the campaign he wanted to start fast.

794
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 4: I'm sure every team thinks that, but so so maybe

795
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 4: part of what David Stearns has done and bringing in

796
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 4: these new faces and they can obviously play, and they've

797
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 4: been productive every place they've been. They're not mercenaries, but

798
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 4: they're new. And it's not Pete Alonso who's been in

799
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 4: the organization since he got drafted and Brandon Demo who

800
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 4: have this kind of decade worth of you know, Mets

801
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 4: foundation within them and not to mention that. Like one

802
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 4: thing you could say about Pete and Brandon is like

803
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 4: they posted like they came and they played and they

804
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 4: were available, and so it will be hard not to

805
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 4: compare throughout the season as a whole Jorge and Bow's

806
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 4: availability to Brandon and Pete.

807
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: I think that.

808
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 4: Furthermore, I'm curious to see how patient, and hopefully you

809
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 4: don't have to find out, but how patient, how patient

810
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 4: the Mets fans are about the defense and the productivity

811
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 4: as a whole, because as you come in as a

812
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 4: free agent player, I guess I would just I would

813
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 4: say it this way, like Jason Bay was given less

814
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 4: patience it felt like from the fans than Lucas Duda,

815
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Some of it has to

816
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 4: do with the amount of money you're making, but like

817
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 4: there's something about home grown, homegrown guys. It's like that

818
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 4: that it feels like fans are more apt to want

819
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 4: to give the benefit of the doubt too. Now you

820
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 4: can endear yourself very quickly to the fans if you're

821
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 4: a whore hate and Bo and Marcus Simien and you

822
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 4: come out and you start the season you know eight

823
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 4: and three, you know what I mean, Like, you know,

824
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 4: just start out winning series and get going and then

825
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 4: and then now it turns away from you're new to

826
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 4: like we're all Mets and we're in this season and

827
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 4: so But at the same time, if you scuffle out

828
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 4: of the gates, the idea that you won't hear about it,

829
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 4: I think is laughable, Like it's yeah, it's I think

830
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,760
Speaker 4: the Mets fans as well, they should, with the amount

831
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 4: of money they pay in their investment, get to get

832
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 4: to kind of say what they want and express themselves

833
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 4: how they see fit during the course of a ballgame

834
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 4: in a season.

835
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we know it well.

836
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: The Mets fans will let you know as soon as

837
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 2: they possibly can how they're feeling, whether you're a good, bad, disappointing, exciting.

838
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 2: We wear a herd on sleep just a little bit,

839
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: and the Mets fans flip quickly, I think faster than

840
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 2: a lot of other fan bases, like people would love Pete.

841
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 2: Then there was that story from early on the twenty

842
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 2: four season where Pete declined that extension that went very

843
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 2: public and I remember sitting had in the decent seas

844
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: I think it was your old club baseball coach, Like

845
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: I had his seats for Christian Scott's home debut and

846
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 2: Pete was getting jeered by fans around there, like screaming

847
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: about the dollars in the sense they declined. And then

848
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: he gets hot, he's the home run, everyone's back in love.

849
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: Like it's just we we go fast in both directions,

850
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 2: Like there's really no stopping a Mets fan from saying

851
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 2: what they want to say. Really hoping that with like Boba,

852
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 2: Schett and Polanco, they just and Luis Robert even because

853
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 2: there's gonna be ups and downs with him, with how

854
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:40,919
Speaker 2: voltaile of a player that he's been in the past,

855
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: Marcus Sime and we know like a little bit of

856
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 2: a slow starter historically sometimes comes out the gates low,

857
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 2: give a little second. I mean we saw it with

858
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 2: Soto last year. He had like an eight forty ops

859
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: through the first couple of months, and people were ready

860
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 2: to scream at him and lose their mind. Would a

861
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 2: waste of money? Then at the end of the year,

862
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 2: you see he's one of the best players in baseball. Again,

863
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 2: So that's just I just hope we can be little

864
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 2: more patient. But also we know that's not going to

865
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 2: be the case.

866
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 3: Eh, Patient, I don't matter. You get to pick. It's

867
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 3: as the players.

868
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 4: It's easier for us because what we should be focusing

869
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 4: on is the scoreboard. And I think that you'll find

870
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 4: that the jeers end up being the loudest when a

871
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 4: strikeout comes with a runner on third and less than

872
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 4: two outs. And so you can work that entire at

873
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 4: bat backwards and say, was there a pitch within that

874
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 4: at bad that you could have pushed this ball forward

875
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 4: and given yourself a better chance to score the run.

876
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 4: Because if you go yolo on this one one to

877
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 4: one fastball and foul it off and then you swing

878
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 4: in a breaker in the dirt, you're gonna hear it

879
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 4: because you're a bad as showing me that you were

880
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,240
Speaker 4: somewhat unwilling to sacrifice perhaps a home or a double

881
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 4: to get the job done. And that's the beauty of

882
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 4: a Mets fan in New York is is they recognize that.

883
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 4: And when they recognize it, we're going to give it

884
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 4: to you.

885
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: Now.

886
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 4: If you go and you strike out with nobody on

887
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 4: in two outs and you're you know what I mean,

888
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 4: And it's it's a different situation.

889
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 3: Type of thing.

890
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 4: Now, if it begins to accumulate and they know the

891
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 4: fans don't feel like they see any adjustments, well then

892
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 4: you're gonna get it again.

893
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 3: But that's okay. I mean, that's fine. They get the

894
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 3: fans get to pick.

895
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 4: It never really bothered me that much because I felt

896
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 4: like if I if I get just the easiest thing

897
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 4: to do is to focus on what the school.

898
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 3: Board was asking me to do.

899
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,760
Speaker 4: It was really the only problem I could solve properly,

900
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 4: because if I'm trying to solve the problem of ensuring

901
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 4: that the fans are cheering for me, that that's just

902
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 4: one The easiest way to do it is to do

903
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 4: what the school board says, and I can't prevent them

904
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 4: from booing because I'm human. The only way that maybe

905
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 4: I can help with that is like play as hard

906
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 4: as I can, play as hard as I can and

907
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 4: pay attention, and then I think that Mets fans without

908
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 4: they give you the benefit of the doubt in those situations.

909
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 5: Murph, You're gonna have a little more exposure than Mets

910
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 5: fans this year. If you guys haven't heard, Daniel's going

911
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 5: to be a lot more S and Y broadcast. Where's

912
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 5: your excitement level for that and how how are you

913
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 5: preparing to be up here a little bit more being

914
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 5: the great Northeast back in City Field.

915
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 4: I'm really excited to get it chance to do the

916
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 4: Nats game at the end of April, and then I

917
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 4: think I'm also going to.

918
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 3: Cleveland. I think Cleveland, Cleveland or Seattle, I forget. So

919
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 3: we have those two series.

920
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 4: It really it gives me a reason to follow even

921
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 4: more closely than I already try to do with the Mets.

922
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 4: Like I guess we were talking before we got on

923
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 4: here about you know, the last couple of roster spots,

924
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 4: and you know, unfortunately Mike Talkman went down. So I'm

925
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 4: trying to pay attention as best I could. And then,

926
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 4: you know, you don't really need many excuses, but I'll

927
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 4: take it. I'll take them as I get them to

928
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 4: listen to to Gary, Keith and Ron They're just they're

929
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 4: so good. I got a chance to do two games

930
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 4: in spring training with with Gary Cohen again, and so

931
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 4: between the broad broadcast the expectations for the season, it's

932
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 4: easy to want to attend to what's going on, and

933
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 4: so I'm going to do that even more closely.

934
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 3: So hopefully. I'm planning on coming in with some you know,

935
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 3: a bit a bit of a running start.

936
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 4: I don't want to be like you know, some you know,

937
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 4: some phony off the street, So I want to have

938
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 4: as best a pulse of the club as I can.

939
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 3: You know, from down here in Jacksonville.

940
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean, you did great in Sprue, so

941
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 2: we're excited to see what you're gonna do during the

942
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 2: regular season when you make your appearances. Last question here

943
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 2: will be let's just talk about the Mets in the

944
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 2: NL East. How do you think they stack up against

945
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 2: the rest of the division, because I think we know

946
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 2: that the Marlins and Nats are in the bottom, but

947
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: it really kind of is a three headed dogfight at

948
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: the top between the Phillies, Braves, Mets.

949
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be interesting to see how the Braves come

950
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 4: out of the gates with the blows to the starting

951
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 4: pitching they've gotten here early days, Like, I'd be curious

952
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 4: to see if they spend some of that profar money.

953
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 4: It's not like they don't have it. There's a little uh,

954
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 4: there's a little lockout preview for you. There a little

955
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 4: labor ball talk. You know, Brave's got fifteen millions, so

956
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 4: spend your meal money, you know what I mean. But

957
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 4: then also at the same time, the Phillies, I think

958
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 4: Wheeler will be a huge deal and how he feels

959
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 4: and looks over the course of the season because of

960
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 4: how stable he's been. But you know, kind of in

961
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 4: my you know, run up to the start of the season,

962
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 4: it sounds like the teams you keep here and is

963
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 4: is really talented or you know, the Yankees, the Blue Jays,

964
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 4: the Mariners, the Mets, the Red Sox, these are you know,

965
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 4: the Tigers. These are some of the teams whose names

966
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 4: keep coming up. So I think the division will be

967
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 4: there for the taking. I'll be curious to see how

968
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 4: the loss.

969
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 3: Of Edwin Diaz.

970
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 4: More, how the loss of Edwin Diaz plays out. I

971
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 4: felt like once that happened that the Mets would end

972
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 4: up being about half a player behind this winter, if

973
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 4: that makes sense, Like just like you know, just maybe

974
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 4: just a little bit, a little bit short. Now this

975
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 4: can also be resolved at the trade deadline, like there'll

976
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 4: be an opportunity there. But it did feel like the

977
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 4: Mets really wanted to retain Sugar and they're inability to

978
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 4: do so. Felt like it left him maybe half a

979
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 4: player player behind, but I also love Luke Weaver and

980
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 4: that addition, and Devin Williams was in New York last year,

981
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 4: so you hope that he can improve upon that, and

982
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 4: so you know, and then offensively, I think they're gonna

983
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 4: need to mash left handed pitching, like I think that

984
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 4: when a lefty is on the menu and pitching against

985
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 4: them is like today, boys we get fat because you

986
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 4: got Robert's gonna have the platoon advantage. Simeon's gonna have

987
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 4: the platoon advantagines like today, boys, we get fat against

988
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 4: these lefties. And then you know it won't be quite

989
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: that way with righty's. But at the same time, if

990
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 4: you're swinging the bat well off the lefties and you

991
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 4: hope that you can carry those abs over against the rightys.

992
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 3: So you know, between that.

993
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 4: Availability, I think on the position player group and comparison

994
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 4: to Nemo and Alonso leaving will be will be interesting

995
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 4: to watch. And then I guess the last one he got, Yeah,

996
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 4: I mean, Manaiah looks like he's going to be in

997
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 4: the bullpen to start, which is you know, hopefully more

998
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 4: innings that you have access to. It's you know, if

999
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 4: I think if the Mets were able to glean I'm

1000
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 4: sure a couple of things, but for last year is like,

1001
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 4: you know, starting pitching length is a big deal at

1002
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 4: any point of the season because of the the lack

1003
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 4: of starting pitching link just taxes the entire staff in

1004
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 4: a way that that kind of crosses months or even

1005
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 4: halves of the season that you carry along with you.

1006
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 4: But exciting times, you know, looking forward to Mendoza getting,

1007
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 4: you know, his third season under his belt. He's got

1008
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 4: a whole new staff with him and a bunch of

1009
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 4: new faces and ding ding like the bell's about to ring.

1010
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 3: Ain't no running from it now. Now.

1011
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 4: The cool part I guess you could say about the

1012
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 4: beginning of the season is you have these built ten

1013
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 4: off days in April, so you kind of get like

1014
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 4: to ease into the season a little bit. As far

1015
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 4: as playing every day, you won't get to ease into

1016
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 4: it as far as you know how much they count.

1017
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 4: You can't win the you can't win the division in April,

1018
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 4: but you can lose it. I guess that's the old saying, right.

1019
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 4: One of those is can't win a game in the

1020
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 4: first but you can lose it. And so you know,

1021
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 4: John McGraw, come out of the gates, fast watch that scoreboard,

1022
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 4: put yourself in a position to win.

1023
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. I mean, especially going out West. I

1024
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 5: say every ic single episode, but how much the team's

1025
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 5: going out West, it's gonna be a good, good excuse

1026
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 5: for them to get together and they really become friends

1027
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 5: on those long flights to San Francisco and then LA

1028
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 5: and then one more time Arizona.

1029
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got that big old pay roll. We'll play

1030
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 4: a little credit card roulette. Have some of these rich

1031
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: guys pay for this, pay for this meal?

1032
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got They got a couple guys on that roster.

1033
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: I can definitely help out some of the rookies on

1034
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 2: this team. Yeah, they're gonna be all right.

1035
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: But Murph, thank you so much for hopping on with us.

1036
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: We really appreciate it.

1037
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 2: If you got anything going on, does your chance to

1038
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 2: let the people know what to check out that you

1039
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 2: want to plug and hope to hear more from you

1040
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 2: and keep you posted.

1041
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: On that stup.

1042
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 3: Uh No, I just uh yeah.

1043
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 4: We're just doing sandlot baseball right now with my boys.

1044
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 4: Got a little ice skating going on with my daughter.

1045
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 4: I would say we could all pray salute for each

1046
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 4: one of us, you know, Sali salude and good community

1047
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 4: amongst us.

1048
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 3: Is the baseball season starts.

1049
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 2: Love to hear that, guys. That's the Mets up season

1050
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: in preview. Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching.

1051
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 2: We'll catch after opening day.

1052
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: Let's go Mets.

1053
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 5: Let's go Mets, guys. Peace out,