WEBVTT - Mets Swept by Red Sox, Francisco Lindor Error, MLB Draft Update | 588 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.960 What is up? Mets fans? Welcome back to another episode 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:04.360 of The Mets The Podcast. A nice series sweep to 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.920 end the first half of the season. Couldn't have found 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.000 a better way to end the first half, which has 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.520 been an absolute nightmare. The Red Sox somehow did and 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.800 didn't kick our teeth in at the exact same time, 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.680 which is crazy. Mets stunk it up. Let's talk about 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:19.200 it before we get going into it. Make sure you 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.760 are subscribed to The Mets the Podcast if you want 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.560 to see MLB draft content. That will be our next episode. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.800 We'll briefly talk about things today, but we're gonna go 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:28.920 way more in depth on the next one, so make 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:30.880 sure you are subscribed to us over on YouTube to 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.840 see that, as well as to our audio feed on Spotify, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.000 Apple podcasts, Google podcasts wherever you get them. Drop a rating, 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.239 drop a review, download and subscribe. How about that series James. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.920 Horrible Deflating Miserable Baseball Like there wasn't even a second 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.559 where I was having I talked about how much fun 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.120 the end of that Royal series was Drinks and a half. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.360 Not a fun series to watch. Mets in Red Sox 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.000 offense that we said was going to be so good 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.960 terrible once again, Absent completely disappeared this entire series. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.720 Yeah, they I mean from the start, they just kind 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.200 of did absolutely nothing off of the Rip, which is 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.200 a real shame because I will say, like, it's kind 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.119 of crazy on that game on Friday Night to get 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.080 ten hits and score two runs like it. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.759 Was eleven honestly, but yeah, something like that. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.040 It's just so many hits and everyone in the lineup, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.600 I think, except like Jorge Polanco and Alvarez basically got 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.040 hits in this game and we still only score two runs. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.560 The Mets do find new ways to lose every single night. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:22.520 It is fascinating. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.759 It also felt like, I mean, the big story heading 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.559 into this game was the fact that the Red Sox 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.160 delayed leave of Chicago, did not get to City Field 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.120 until five oh five on Friday, had to push the 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.080 start time of the game back like forty five minutes, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.640 just so just so Sonny Gray actually warm up and 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:38.200 pitch hot take. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.320 That's not our problem. I don't think that should be 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:42.600 the Mets problem. I think that should be the Red 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.319 Sox problem. I know that's I think it's a call it. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.480 Major League Baseball makes and that's something I'm sure that's 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.520 in the all right, that's yeah, someway. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.680 But I do feel like because Noel McLay and clearly 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.240 was affected by the delay of the game and not 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.440 being read and we've seen this before with him somewhat 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.680 there's been rain stuff, he wasn't sharp at the start 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.120 of the game. I know errors were kind of the 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.120 big issue here for him, especially because Wan Sodo missing 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.680 that fly ball in left field was infuriating, But it 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.360 is interesting in a world where like I know what 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.440 the circumstances were for the Red Sox and why they 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.400 showed up late, but it does end up also theoretically 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.000 punishing the team that was ready to go. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.240 Yeh somewhat theoretically. I also think that McClain just wasn't 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.440 sharp because there have been games like this over the 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.400 last few months where, specifically in this game, something that's 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.399 happened to him a bit lately. The breaking balls were 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.000 just kind of absent, and I did like that he 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.120 responded by buzzing more fastballs and locating those really well. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.680 So it's nice to see Nolan McLain get around get 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.600 through it, like after that drop the flyball, then the 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.760 two runs on the Yoshida double number double off the 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.919 tarp like he shut them down after that, It's fine. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.760 It enlightened me. Could the baseballs being different have an 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.000 effect on Nolan McLain's breaking balls. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.040 Because it does seem sense. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.320 It seems like as soon as those baseball started getting weird, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.040 Noel McLain's breaking balls also started not being nearly as 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:52.639 good and. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.079 Ready for altice. Yeah, it's just kind of the way again, 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.200 everyone's dealing with different balls right now as well, so 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.280 I can't we can't blame it for our own hardships. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.880 But right now, based on what we've seen lately, the 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.520 reporting from you know, Sarah's going on right now about 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.840 the drag of the baseball, it's apparently it's apparently flying 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.480 further than it did at the peak of twenty nineteen. Wow, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.720 that's crazy. And that effects batted ball quality, not so 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.160 much of like the way the bum you know, grips 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:17.840 spin and all that stuff, but it will affect that too. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.280 It's a different baseball, so I'm sure that is something, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.839 but you can't blame that. I do like that Nolan 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.120 McLain after the game, like he's he's fantastic in front 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:25.880 of the media. He's like, that's not an excuse. He's like, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.720 he's like I pitched fine, Like I could have been better, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.680 but that was his team. Game one. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.640 We lost this, I mean still struck out seven and 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.160 at the end of the day one, So to making 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.280 that play and left field does change a lot of things, like. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:36.720 The entire game inexcusable. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.560 It's one of the few times in our entire life 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.760 where me, you, everyone listening to this can say I 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.200 could have caught that baseball. I could have made that play, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.440 and the guy getting paid seven hundred million dollars did not. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.320 Yeah, there's also there's there's so many weird instances in 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.520 the middle part of this game. There were so many reviews, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.760 and there was the back to back review of this 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.760 stolen based second base, which was Connor Wan, which is 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.880 why is he stealing second base? And then sunk j 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.840 Chen and Carson bench car best sunk Chay Chang is 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.720 yeah right, He's Honestly, this Red Sox team is really annoying. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.880 And I say that in the most polite way possible, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.360 even just jump around. I don't think we have to 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.240 supergo game by game that series like they're they're playing 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.159 with an attitude right now that I wish this Mets 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.400 team could adopt for any stretch I don't even want 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.040 to say in general over the second half where one defensively, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.600 they're outrageous right now. Yes, the way this team's aligned 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.960 with Durban the third, like with William Brady and Saddan 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.560 in the outfield, it's like, what you It's hard to 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.040 get the ball down there and there's great arms everywhere. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.080 There was that instance I don't remember if that was 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.600 Friday or Saturday, where we had I think was so 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.560 the one third with zero one out or oh yeah, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.200 but youing on third and we just kept hitting fly 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:41.960 balls the guys with great arms. We couldn't run on them, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.520 couldn't send them. But the way that the game concluded 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.120 on Sunday, which is past the Fraciscal indoor era, which 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.200 will definitely get to because that was horrible. The Red 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.520 Sox very abnormally played for one run the top of 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.240 the tenth, and Gary and Ron were talking about be like, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.920 you don't see this very often, like usually the road 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.000 team plays for multiple runs because you assume the first run. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.400 And Ron was like, this team feeling so good right 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.039 now and they feel like to have such a mental edge. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.479 They want to put the pressure on the Mets, make 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.919 sure they gets that inning with the lead and worked 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.080 out perfectly for them. They like they sunned us in 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:12.320 that inning. That was embarrassing. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.320 Yeah, I mean, I know Polanco and Bishek got to 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.400 taken that bat in that one, But like, yeah, when 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.240 I see Terenz, Brett Bady and fucking Zach Short again, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.479 I can't even believe this guy is back on this roster. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.960 It's not really fair to him. He's stung one, but like, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.840 give me a fucking break at this point, what are 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.839 we doing? Like, I felt like a lot of stuff 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.839 when you but back to my point, when you see 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.760 those guys at bottom of the roster, yet one run wins 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.960 the game, that's obvious. Those guys aren't winning it for you. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.560 Going back to now where I want to rant, like 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.400 we think we're playing for twenty twenty seven. Why are 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.160 we playing Zach Short even for a second in this season? 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.640 I don't get it. Yeah, you're not wrong about the 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.200 useless player who has no impact on this team ever, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.080 and he should never have an impact on this team. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.400 He's been on the Mets organization twice in the David 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.400 Stearns era, and it is both times made gotta be 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:58.279 a negative impact? 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.599 Is it to just preserve the Ronnie Mauricio option? 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.960 Who fucking cares? We just saw that the White Sox 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.760 dunked on us with the Pirates trade for the thirty 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.480 fourth pick. The Pirates clearly had no interest in Ronnie 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.800 Mauricio probably tells you that nobody has an interest in 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:13.279 right now. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:14.880 And there were a lot of reports that the Mets 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.080 were gunning for that pick, and as the Mets draft 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.080 got kind of weird over the weekend, they definitely wanted 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.320 more bonus money, just because it's very difficult for our 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.120 situation signing guys with the qualifying offer and moving your 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.600 draft slot back ten spots, like you don't have as 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.120 much from not even close to the same war chess 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.160 as other teams. But maybe it's just for the week 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.040 and then after the trade deadline, if Ronnie's still on 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:34.880 the roster, then you just burned the option at that point, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.560 Like it's this is the classic David Searns trying. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.160 To thread the needle. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.159 But there's just there's so many tiny, like frustrating moments, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.960 like not even all the times of Friday and Saturday 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.120 where there were guys in running, guys in scoring position, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.679 and there weren't big hits, Like I got frustrated. Probably 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.920 shouldn't have by the aja ewing backwards k on Saturday, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.280 as I think England was going into at the time, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.840 but I was like just stressed. I was just like 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.120 Crossye trying to watch both it. Once. I was in 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.920 a crowd of English people at USh Out a Dog 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.280 and Bone, great English bar at their that they're in 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.880 twenty fifth. They had a whole block part of the 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:07.400 TV's outs. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:08.039 It looks sick. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.120 Couldn't believe how many English people showed up there and 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.720 they were just like, let you bring cornerstore delly drinks, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.960 you hang out in our alleyway. But I was the 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.760 only person. They're watching the Mets on my Phone's almost 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:17.440 like is that the Mets? 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.320 I was like, yeah, get out of here, like I'm 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.640 actually stop bothering me. I'm a sick fuck. And even 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.080 though the Mets are forty and fifty five at the 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.240 time of watching this game and there's the World Cup on, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:27.800 yes I am watching the Mets, I was. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.840 Like, no, this guy is you'reewing. He's great there's twenty one. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.600 He's really coming to his own. He's a huge at 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.320 bad for him with two outs and guys on base. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:34.640 They want to see what he does and he wanted 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.520 his worst at bats in weeks bang backwards K, sit down, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.200 son I hate the backwards K. I hate the backwards 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.440 K in that situation and challenging the last woman was 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.880 very blatantly a strike this one with the first two. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.440 So I can't say didn't take the battle of the shoulder, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:47.960 but that was a that was a painful at bat. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.160 Even again, like Sonny Gray, he got like two swings 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.000 and misses on Friday off, no sleep, and we just 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:54.920 can't break through and get the big hit when you've 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.160 hit every sing guys run on base every single ending. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.400 No, there's very few redeeming qualities in this game or 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.760 in any of the games this weekend, just because I mean, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.320 you get swept is not really great. Crazy that now 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.040 code I was saying, are you're back to one inning now? 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.400 Yeah, but that's also like oh cool, I think but 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.600 if they do it, but also does it even matter 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.240 because the season's over? So like no, I think this, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.320 I think this is the best path forward for sure, 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:18.119 Like I don't want anything. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:18.920 You know what he did. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.200 He took out all the other pitches, he only threw 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.760 fastballs and goes for it. He went through nine pitches, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.120 so we didn't have to see that much. But he 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.000 also didn't get the fastball like over ninety six really 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.080 that much, so we'll still see what goes on. But 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.120 I did like, again, this is the version of the 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.640 one inning code that we're gonna get a chance to 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:34.240 see now. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.040 Yes, which is probably the best version of him because 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.000 the other versions really bad. I think we're past it. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.520 We don't need to see that one anymore. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.480 I guess also too, we should talk about Zach Thorton 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:45.240 because I think that was. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:46.920 Yes, yeah, let's talk about Zach. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.400 That was the best thing that came out of this 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.040 weekend for the Mess is that Zach Thorton was phenomenal. Again, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.440 he's great on Sunday back to back stars where he's 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.480 completed six innings, so it starts to having two weeks apart. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.000 Don't ask David Stearns why that was, but he was awesome, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.960 Like he just kind of showed up from the get go, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.480 was throwing strikes, attacking hitters living on the edges, just 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.559 color cut their color color decent, fat not afraid the challenge, guys, 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.040 this is Boston line that is very challengeable. It's not 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.719 like it's not further. His row looked fantastic, confident, was 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.280 in now those innings quick. It was really nice to 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:16.880 watch him work. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.560 He's thrown seven innings twice, six six innings twice. Did 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.200 he not go seven in the last game? 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:24.360 I thought that was six as well. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.160 Yeah, give me a check on that real quick. Yeah, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.680 I gotta come because it will completely alter what I'm 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.760 gonna say, completely, completely, all completely, completely changed the vibe 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:33.679 of what I want to say. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.840 Zack Thornton. His last start was six All. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.720 Right, Well, Zack Thorton's thrown as many seven inning appearances 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.240 as Freddy perraulta this season. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.560 Yeah, but still yeah, that's terrifying. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.480 Yeah, that's bad, that's not good. But also at the 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.440 same time positive spin zone. I love what I'm seeing 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.320 out of Zack Thornton. I think there's no world where 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.560 he shouldn't be on the major league roster for the 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.959 rest of the season. Like he is proven in this 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.440 short sample that we've seen that he is at least 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.920 a capable starting pitcher that can go out every five 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.320 days and give the Mets a theoretical chance to win 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.640 a baseball game like he was awesome, two hits, two walks, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.720 Fredy per alta walk, five Like, give me Zach Thorton 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.440 every five days right now. I want to see him. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.680 This is this is the playing for twenty twenty seven. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.679 These are the kind of con the concepts that I 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.000 want the Mets to do moving forward instead of playing 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.959 Zach short in every single game of the series. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.520 I wanna talk about Freddy in a little bit. But 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.240 that's what we'll get to the negative section. We were 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.560 trying off airon Mark and I to find comps for 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.800 Zach Thorton because kind of odd to be a LEFTI 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.680 that's like, not just like a lefty with a color, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.680 a lefty that's almost exclusively a color pitcher mixes mostly 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.800 color as four seemers and sweepers. No one that kind 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.200 of stuck out to me. He's he got lit up 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.080 on Sunday, But I do like him. Robert Gasser, okay, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.560 because he also sits lowish nineties with a decent fastball shape, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.599 but he's he pushes his sinker way more. That's a 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.720 good pitch and he has a great change up, and 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.600 that's the thing that we're both lamenting that we hope 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.199 Thoron can figure it out. Because if Thorton can't wind 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.880 up developing a change up, he's suddenly a guy that 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.560 I think that can that can be in a major 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.120 league rotation. I'm not expecting to start off for Robert Gasser. Yeah, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:09.240 Josh Yeah, David Star, Josh Hayter, trade baby, Like Dylan Dodd. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.760 The best versions of Dylan Dodd that ever existed is 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.600 like he kind of helps something you hope for there 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.400 we're talking about Kyle Freeland, but just it's weird to 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.640 get these lefties that focus so much on their color 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.480 but don't have very wide repertoires off that pitch. It's 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.439 usually like it's usually like a fun toy left he's developed. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.480 When they've hit the roadblock and can't get right, he's 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.720 out for Thornton is the thing he relies on, but 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.760 there's there's definitely something to work with. And also just 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.120 love pitching with confidence. I think we saw him not 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.920 do that in that first start two months ago against 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.720 the Nationals and these last two tries. Maybe that's something 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.559 with the major league coaching getting through him. They're like, hey, 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.080 challenge you guys in his own It's okay. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.920 Many people have this problem. I want to eat healthy. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.120 I have the willpower, I don't have the time and 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.120 the organization. I need help. What do you do? 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.360 I mean, you go to Factor. I got two boys 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.280 that are looking for the games, and they always come 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.480 in the house, which I'm looking for food. 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Head to Factor Meals dot com. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:35.120 Slash Foul fifty off and use code Foul fifty off 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.800 to get fifty percent off and free daily greens per 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.079 box with new subscription only while supplies last until nine 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.559 twenty seven, twenty twenty six. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.480 Yeah, I mean, at the absolute worst in an organization, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.760 that doesn't really have starting pitching right now and definitely 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.040 is gonna have less as the season goes on. Probably 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.839 should see what you got, was zach Thornton, Like, we 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.240 have to figure out what we're looking at going into 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.200 twenty twenty seven. And so far in the three three 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.040 four starts, has he made four starts? 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.080 Now this was a third. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.920 Okay, in three starts, we have a sub one whipping 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.600 a sub three ra I know it's an incredibly small sample, 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.520 but like, those are things that we need to find 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.720 out more about it. Because the sample is small, you. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.240 Probably should have more than three starts in the last three. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.440 Months without a doubt, without a doubt. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.280 And that's why it was. It feels strangehows when you 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:20.600 got sent down at the last one. I know that 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.200 David Turns right now is playing the bullpen swapping everybody game, 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.640 but thread the needle. Over these last two weeks, it 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.480 felt like there were plenty of instances where I would 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.280 have liked to have had zach Thoron on the mound. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.200 And it's different than some of these other addings. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.640 Yeah, instead of being like, hey, CODI can you throw 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.679 eighty after two days of rest? 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.880 Yeah, it's the whole thing is so weird because the 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.839 team makes me so deflated, so weird, I was, it's 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.920 exhausting being a Mets fan. We were like a little 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.640 bubbly on Thursday after the last podcast, and this the 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.880 punch in the guts. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.640 That's and we've done this a few times the season. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.400 They start to play well, we start to believe, and 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.720 then they were like, wait, hold on, we're still the 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.160 twenty twenty six New York Mets. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:56.920 So the day of the Knicks parade, but Mark and 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.760 I were actually excited and just happy in the world 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.120 the Knicks. The Mets had just had a pretty good 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.160 few weeks of baseball and got themselves to thirty four 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.920 and forty one. Sis Golden Door was about to return. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.520 We were like, you know, we made that whole video 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.760 for you. Guys. Hey, if this team gets on a run, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.440 here's how you do it. You can still claw your 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.840 way back into this. Since that happened, the Mets are 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.640 six and sixteen. Carls Mendez has been fired, the team 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.320 has and that even comes with coming into this series 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:22.400 winning four out of five. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.880 Yeah, that was even possible. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.200 So there was a stretch over that period of themester 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.760 two and twelve, right after we made that video, Oh 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:31.280 two weeks. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.440 We have to stop making videos. I think. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.320 I don't think that could happen contractually, but we just 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.120 maybe have to be stopping so defiant about the way 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.240 that we're saying these things, because it's the second there's 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:41.800 even a glimmer of hope with this team. You have 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.080 a series like this against the Red Sox where you're miserable. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.120 I tried to get up early on Sunday and get 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.040 my article done. I was likeking for nbc'd be like, 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.120 you know, I do. I kind of wanted to go 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.880 to this game. It was a gorgeous day. I have 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.600 a pretty free day. Got the All Star break this 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.840 week because so much need rest and relaxation, and I 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.160 was like, I'm not gonna get done time. I don't 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.040 want to get in the G train right now. So 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.480 I was watching that ninth inning, I was like, that 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.080 got him not in the ballpark right now. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.840 Yeah, Devin Williams sucks, dude, I know. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:06.440 I like. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:07.240 I honestly like. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.600 I yeah, yes and no, yes and no, because here's 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.080 the here's the where he sucks, and here's where he 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.640 doesn't Francisco Lindoor makes a routine play, turns the double 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.960 play games over. We don't have to talk about it. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.680 Where he does suck though, is that still walk? Two 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.920 guys still gave up two hits Like any sort of 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:28.200 adversity that comes towards this team, they have zero ability 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:29.480 to adjust and get through it. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.520 And this was the huge critique that people in the 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.800 Yankee world had about Devin Williams last year. They were like, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.400 the stuff is still like the people who were fair 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.800 about it, Yes, the stuff is still great. He's going 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.640 to get the strikecasts, the swings and misses, and you 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.920 felt it for some of those outings right when you 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.560 got taken out of the closer role last like like 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.320