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Speaker 1: What is up? Mets fans back here for episode number

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Speaker 1: twenty four of the Mets Uff Podcast. I'm your co

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Speaker 1: host draftneck Mark Mark Luino here with James Sheiano. Jeter

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Speaker 1: had no range talking New York Mets baseball, as we

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Speaker 1: always do after every single series. The Mets just finished

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Speaker 1: up a fantastic four game series against the Chicago Cubs,

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Speaker 1: three wins, one loss, and even that loss really didn't

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Speaker 1: bother me. I'm sure it didn't bother James. If you're

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Speaker 1: a Mets fan bothered by this one, I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's on you at this point because everything with this

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Speaker 1: team is pointing upwards. Everything's trending upwards, and this team's

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Speaker 1: only gonna get healthier, better, playing better baseball, beating better teams.

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Speaker 1: It's looking really good for the New York Mets. Now,

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Speaker 1: before we do get going into all the stuff and

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Speaker 1: all the details, you know, I got to give a

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Speaker 1: us on Twitter and Instagram. Mets up very simple. We

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Speaker 1: keep it nice and easy over there. Everything's been growing.

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Speaker 1: We've been having a great time. James, how are we

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Speaker 1: feeling after the Chicago cub series? First immediate foss? What

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Speaker 2: I feel great. The Mets just took two series from

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Speaker 2: heading into this past calendar week two of the better

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Speaker 2: teams in the National League, and we handled them pretty easily,

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Speaker 2: both Padres and the Cups. I feel very good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, these we were told the Mets can't be good teams.

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Speaker 1: We were told the Mets playing the NLS, so their

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Speaker 1: record doesn't matter because that division is terrible. But you

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Speaker 1: look at the last few series the Mets have had

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Speaker 1: and we're beating teams that are technically above five hundred

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Speaker 1: and are good. I mean, I know the Padres are struggling,

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Speaker 1: but part of the reason they're struggling is because of us.

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Speaker 1: It's because they ran into a good New York Mets

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Speaker 1: team and this Cup seem was hot. They just came

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Speaker 1: off of a sweep against the Cardinals the previous weekend,

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Speaker 1: and what do you know, the Mets stopped them.

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Speaker 2: We did stop them, and again, none of these games

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Speaker 2: really felt like one hundred percent comfortable the whole way.

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Speaker 2: Like these two, the Mets in the Cups were pretty

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Speaker 2: well matched, like there were a lot of close games,

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Speaker 2: a lot of very important plays that happened, some timely hitting,

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Speaker 2: some very good defense on both sides, including the Cups

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Speaker 2: to Night, who did play a pretty clean baseball game.

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Speaker 2: But a lot of the games could have gone every way,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of these games that can go every way,

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Speaker 2: the Mets seem to take them, which is a very

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Speaker 2: good sign for a team.

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Speaker 1: Dude, That's something that the Mets just haven't done in

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Speaker 1: a very very long time, is win the close games.

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Speaker 1: Win the games that we shouldn't even sometimes games that

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Speaker 1: we think are like typical Mets losses. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: talked about the Padres one last time with Diaz coming

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Speaker 1: in for that four out save. We had some scenarios

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Speaker 1: where Eric Sogarden one of the games, almost beat us.

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Speaker 1: He's a typical Met killer, a guy who does nothing

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Speaker 1: all season against anyone, but he shows up against the

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Speaker 1: New York Mets and we get the job done. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we'll get more detail into that, but let's start off

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Speaker 1: with Game four. That's the most recent one here we

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Speaker 1: did last week. Seemed to really enjoy because it's one

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Speaker 1: of our best episodes that we've had. So thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: You got us up to number forty eight on the

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcast rankings for Baseball. That's cool for two reasons.

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Speaker 1: One top fifty podcasts we've been doing twenty three episodes

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Speaker 1: and two forty eight. Jacob de Ground best pitcher in Baseball,

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Speaker 1: Best podcast in Baseball. I think that's how it works.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly how it works. That's exactly how it works.

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Speaker 1: Clean math, Yes, clean math. Don't look it up, don't

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Speaker 1: check any numbers or anything like that. But hey, game four,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about it. It's the most recent one that happened,

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Speaker 1: and there's not a whole lot to talk about. The

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Speaker 1: Mets just simply got beat. That's gonna happen sometimes, especially

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Speaker 1: when the Cubs. Hat did play just a straight up

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Speaker 1: good game baseball, but strumming on the mound, little shaky start,

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Speaker 2: No, he did settle and he made literally one mistake

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he made him look foolish on the first two

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Speaker 1: doesn't care. He will go down swinging. That's Hobby's by

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Speaker 1: his game. Unfortunately, we threw him a strike with two strikes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Stroman just hung him a sly there, Like

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Speaker 2: it worked. The rest of the night. Troman was getting

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Speaker 2: a couple of big home runs this series.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, when he connects with the baseball, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna hit it hard. He takes what I like to

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Speaker 1: hard hacks, like Wilson Contris too, Jock Jock takes some hacks.

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Speaker 1: of these guys, like Anthony Rizzo shorten up with two strikes.

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Speaker 1: Hovey Bias is not one of them.

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Speaker 2: No, Haavey Bias doesn't know a shortening up means.

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Speaker 1: That's not in his vocabulary.

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Speaker 2: don't know if the listeners at home are aware of this,

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Speaker 2: but Javier Bayaz has a tattoo of the Major League

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Speaker 1: Well, it's crazy because like when you wear a jersey

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Speaker 2: He hasn't even made the show yet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Cool. I don't know that's a weird tattoo.

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Speaker 2: I think the albums are the cool. I don't know

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Speaker 2: why they're supporting the league like howl the players. You

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we know what's been going on with

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Speaker 1: all these rules that LMB has just been dropping out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere. I'm shocked that you would put the logo

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Speaker 2: It's really weird. It's not like it's cool like in

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Speaker 1: Like that's not even a person. No, that's an unmarked man.

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Speaker 1: I'm cool with that, but whatever, could you get that tattoo? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm one hundred and fifty pounds. Soaken, But tattoos aren't

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Speaker 1: looking good on this body. All right.

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Speaker 2: Now that we've talked about your body enough, let's go

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Speaker 2: back to the game. Back to Marcus Stroman here. It

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Speaker 2: was a very good game for Stroman. He's been getting

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Speaker 2: cool tonight was the Cubs were lacing the ball like

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Speaker 2: that happened. They put nine balls in play of at

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Speaker 2: up a lot of hard contact, he got tons of whiffs. Troman.

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Speaker 2: We see him do this multiple times this year, where

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Speaker 2: don't want to call him like a flyball pitcher, a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just a guy who's looking to get swing and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which he did. Like his splither had six whiffs

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Speaker 2: which is really cool. It was splitting, as I like

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Speaker 2: One of those three swings, again was a Hovier Bias

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Speaker 1: I wonder. It's also like worth noting that the Cubs,

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Speaker 1: I think the first like four batters only saw eight pitches,

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Speaker 1: which is also crazy. Yeah, because they got the home run.

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Speaker 1: Hobby By saw three pitches in that bat So the

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Speaker 1: lot more with Stroman, especially because he does just pepper

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bryant hit that hard single right before on as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, they were aggressive real early.

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Speaker 2: And another thing that Stroman did on the other side

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Speaker 2: said before, I'll say it again, Marcus, I know you're listening, like,

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Speaker 2: the fourteen fastball is a very good pitch. It's such

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Speaker 2: out with it. The Cubs swung at Stroman's Singer twenty

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Speaker 1: That's that's not a high rate right there.

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Speaker 2: Not that good And they had fourteen foul balls, so

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Speaker 2: but it just wasn't exactly to put the white pitch,

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Speaker 2: And not that it was an issue. No damage was

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Speaker 2: that situation where you could run into trouble.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, like when we go into these

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Speaker 1: Imagine twenty nineteen, even a little bit in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: saying why isn't Edwin Diaz in the game. That's not

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Speaker 1: a sentence that has come out of many Mets fans

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Speaker 1: mout no, and now it's I can't wait to get

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Speaker 1: him in the game. I love having him in the game.

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Speaker 1: I feel such a sense of security when Edwin.

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Speaker 2: Diaz on the mount. I have never ever felt a

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Speaker 2: sense of security in my entire life for a Mets closer,

437
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Speaker 2: excluding Lugo, but he was never actually the closer.

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Speaker 1: Billy Wagner is probably the closest one. But we were young.

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Speaker 2: We're ten, yes, yeah, but he even like wasn't perfect

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Speaker 2: with him Mets, like his best years were with the

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Speaker 2: Astros in the Phillies of course. Yeah, but like some injuries. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like seven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can go.

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Speaker 1: Through the history of Mets relievers, which we won't because

446
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Speaker 1: it's depressing, but Dedwin Diaz is one of the best

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Speaker 1: that we've had.

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Speaker 2: It'll be a nice offseason episode. Maybe a strike episode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, strike episode for twenty twenty two. My god, I

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Speaker 1: don't even want to think about that. Game two though,

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Speaker 1: Game two another Mets win Greig game. Me and James

452
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Speaker 1: were at the game for our boy, Ernesto Alvaledo's birthday.

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Speaker 1: I'm dropping the full name dropping the government name out there, but.

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Speaker 2: Fun fact about Ernesto. He is the biggest Jonathan VR

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Speaker 2: fan in the world. He actually got he wanted the

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Speaker 2: Jonathan VR jersey so bad for his birthday that he

457
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Speaker 2: went to the Mets store and got the VR jersey

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Speaker 2: customized because they were they didn't have it in stock.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He so if you guys want to tweet at

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Speaker 1: him anytime Jonathan VRD does something, well because he really

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Speaker 1: does enjoy watching Jonathan VRD play baseball. He's a big

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Speaker 1: Marlins fan. He got to see him play a little

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Speaker 1: bit last year. Just he always talks about the kind

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Speaker 1: of play that he has and a big fan of his.

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Speaker 1: You can follow him on Twitter, you can send him

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Speaker 1: tweets at sub Tape Underscore. He will appreciate it. He will.

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Speaker 2: It'll make his day.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to make one of our friend's

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Speaker 1: day and just extend the podcast family here. Anytime Jonathan

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Speaker 1: VRD does something well at sub Tape Underscore, let him know.

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Speaker 2: Again at sub Tape Underscore, let him know. But jonathanvred

472
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Speaker 2: the great game on Tuesday Night.

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Speaker 1: Above it all he did, he did, Jonathan Bays three times,

474
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Speaker 1: scored the game winning run. He has evolved into a

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Speaker 1: really good player, so much so that the Mets had

476
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Speaker 1: you been talking about McNeil possibly coming back. McNeil's gonna

477
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Speaker 1: go to the outfield, possibly apparently because Jonathan vir deserves

478
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Speaker 1: to stay in the lineup. His OPS is hovering around

479
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Speaker 1: that seven to fifty to eight hundred range, which is

480
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Speaker 1: a plus offensive player this year, he's playing good enough

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Speaker 1: defense where he's not making he has like a lot

482
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Speaker 1: more range. Well, well, he has a lot more range

483
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Speaker 1: than like Davis. He made his errors, oh compared to JD.

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Speaker 2: Davis. Yeah, great, de.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, his errors come on like you know, a little

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Speaker 1: brain fark kind of stuff. But like he gets the balls.

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Speaker 1: You don't think he's incompetent at third base, You can

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Speaker 1: fool me, then he's a third baseman.

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Speaker 2: It's fine. He also has a ten and a half

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Speaker 2: percent walk grade that will always play at.

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Speaker 1: The top of the batting war. They're always like unheard

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Speaker 1: of from Jonathan VR. The last time he had a

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Speaker 1: walk right in that ratio, I think he was an

494
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Speaker 1: all star back with like either the Astros or the Brewers,

495
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Speaker 1: one of those weird seasons where he was good.

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Speaker 2: No. Twenty sixteen is the last time he had double

497
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Speaker 2: digit walk grade with the Brewers. Right, Yes, you know,

498
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Speaker 2: he's always hovered in that like adish range, but like

499
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Speaker 2: even at three percent bumps, that will make a big

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Speaker 2: difference in games. And it made a big difference on

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Speaker 2: Tuesday night because he continued to get on base. And

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Speaker 2: it's just you see how it affects the opposing team

503
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Speaker 2: when a guy like VRS on bass people are thinking

504
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Speaker 2: about him even on Wednesday. Compares him in the ear Yeah,

505
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Speaker 2: with that gross as a constial, he din't cast steel

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Speaker 2: a stolen base, And.

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Speaker 1: It was huge getting on base two, as you just said,

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Speaker 1: because Pete was able to drive him in for the

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Speaker 1: go ahead, run with that sack fly. Yes, so like

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Speaker 1: he is making things happen. He's getting a start for

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Speaker 1: us at the top of the lineup. Of course, when

512
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Speaker 1: Nimo comes back, that's his spot. But hey, we have

513
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Speaker 1: Jonathan VR on this team and he has been fantastic.

514
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Speaker 2: But Nimo coming back is now and more so an

515
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Speaker 2: if than a when, because he jammed a finger and

516
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Speaker 2: now it's been two months.

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Speaker 1: And has like nerve damage, which just terrifying.

518
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Speaker 2: Ever, who cares the real story? On Tuesday Night, we've

519
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Speaker 2: gone past it is our boy the day man. Oh

520
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Speaker 2: Taiwan Walker slay the night Man dominated on Tuesday Night

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Speaker 2: City Field twelve strikeouts, career high for I will say

522
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Speaker 2: this the best free agent signing of this past offseason.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really comes down to him or like Marcus Simeon.

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Speaker 1: I think those are the two guys that you got

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Speaker 1: to have at the top of the line But here's

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Speaker 1: why Taiwan might or Taiwan might be better. It's because the

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Speaker 1: Mets got him for a couple of years and he

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Speaker 1: is dart cheap. He is basically free. Ten million dollars

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Speaker 1: that's what we pay James. We can, Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: like Taiwan is our bulldog, He's our day man, and

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Speaker 1: he just shoved again. This dude, dude, he the first

532
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Speaker 1: thing was a little rough. He didn't necessarily have it

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Speaker 1: at the start, and they always are. Yeah, we talked

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Speaker 1: about that, like why does he always start off a

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Speaker 1: little bit rough? Maybe he needs to war him up

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. I don't know. But he figures

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Speaker 1: it out and twelve strikeouts. You don't just find your

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Speaker 1: walk your way into twelve strikeouts. That's a good performance.

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Speaker 2: Rojas actually mentioned why this start. At least he could

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Speaker 2: have been struggling at first. Taiwan was actually dealing with

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Speaker 2: a stomach bug leading up to the start, and not

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Speaker 2: that he was in question as to whether he was

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Speaker 2: going to pitch, but they were a little nervous about

544
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Speaker 2: like how long he could go, how effective he would be.

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Speaker 2: And Jack hit one hundred and eight mile an hour

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Speaker 2: single like the second or third pitch of the game.

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Speaker 2: Then Taiwan immediately hit Chris Brian on the hand, which

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Speaker 2: turned out to be good knock. Chris Brian had two games.

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Speaker 2: You can't can't say that's a bad thing. And then

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Speaker 2: he just got out of trouble like he always does,

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Speaker 2: and then it was just like crispy the rest of

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Speaker 2: the way, smooth sailing.

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Speaker 1: He was just dotting everybody up. Like we were talking about,

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Speaker 1: we love the umpire's strike three looking call getting the

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Speaker 1: hips turn those hips blue like Taiwan was getting those

556
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Speaker 1: hips turning all night. He was really good.

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Speaker 2: And Taiwan's had a career high for called third strikes,

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Speaker 2: which even.

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Speaker 1: Plays into more like he was just he was dominating

560
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Speaker 1: these Cubs hitters. They had no shot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The only other mistake after like just besides like singles,

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Speaker 2: was another Hobvier Bias to run.

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Speaker 1: Home run to, which again, stop throwing Hobby Bias strikes. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you are a major league team, you should literally

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Speaker 1: spike four pitches and see if he swings. He probably

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Speaker 1: will swing at at least one at least and oh,

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Speaker 1: if Hobby Bias walks, he walks like it's either gonna

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Speaker 1: be a home run or a strikeout. At this point,

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Speaker 1: throw balls.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then just to dive into Taiwan a little

571
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Speaker 2: bit to get into his outing because it was so good.

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Speaker 2: It was two seems city for our boy. I've been

573
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Speaker 2: calling this pitch a sinker for most of the year

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Speaker 2: because that's how it's listed on Savant and fangrafts. But

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Speaker 2: everyone Mets World has been calling his pitch a two seamer,

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Speaker 2: and the way it was moving, just sliding around the

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Speaker 2: strikes on Tuesday, that is definitely a two seamer.

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Speaker 1: He's got like that Bartolo two seamer going on where

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Speaker 1: it looks like a whiffle ball, except he's throwing ninety

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Speaker 1: three ninety four as opposed to Bartolo's like eighty two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one of his two seamers had twenty one inches

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Speaker 2: of horizontal movement. That's insane.

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Speaker 1: The home plate is seventeen inches wide, so he's literally

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Speaker 1: moving basically from the other's batter's box into the inside

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Speaker 1: corner or the outside corner.

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Speaker 2: Look at this guy knows the home plate dimensions.

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Speaker 1: Definitely didn't just look it up press pause the magic

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Speaker 1: of editing. That never happens though never. But again, this

589
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Speaker 1: is just like that's some old school two seamer action.

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Speaker 1: It was also pretty cool that he was using it very.

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Speaker 2: Differently to right he's and lefties versus lefties, he was

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Speaker 2: keeping it very high, and versus rieties, he was keeping

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Speaker 2: it very low. I don't know if that's plan attack.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that helps with the way it's moving.

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Speaker 2: But I thought was interesting they had a game plan

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Speaker 2: for both sides of the plate. But I digress back

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Speaker 2: to the movement. That pitch freaking crazy average seventeen inches

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Speaker 2: of break high was twenty one average seventeen. That is

599
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Speaker 2: more than familiar sinker. It moves and Familia.

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Speaker 1: Has just like one of the nastiest pitches in baseball

601
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Speaker 1: with that sinker it so much everyone knows that.

602
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Speaker 2: And then again, that two seamer wound up with seven

603
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Speaker 2: whiffs on twenty four swings, which is above average for

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Speaker 2: a two seamer, but more so than that fourteen called strikes.

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Speaker 2: It's nuts crazy. The Cubs weren't even prepared for it. It

606
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Speaker 2: was just whipping and winding all over the places. No

607
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Speaker 2: one knew it was coming. They couldn't hit it. They

608
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Speaker 2: didn't want to hit it. They were scared to hit it,

609
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Speaker 2: scared to swing Chicyle Cubs. He was able to like.

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Speaker 1: Make it look like it was on the outside corner

611
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Speaker 1: and go to the inside to a righty or the

612
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Speaker 1: vice versa for a lefty. That's almost impossible to hit

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Speaker 1: if you're dotting it up, which it seemed like he

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Speaker 1: was that night because twelve strikeouts, it's pretty.

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Speaker 2: Good, absolutely, and more so helping with those strikeouts were

616
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Speaker 2: the fact that he was sprinkling in his four seamer

617
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Speaker 2: and his slyther very very very effectively. Again, fifty two

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Speaker 2: percent of those pitches were two seamers, twenty one percent

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Speaker 2: were four swimmer for sweamers, jesus four seamers. He had

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Speaker 2: three whiffs on six swings with six cald strikes the

621
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Speaker 2: sly The eighteen percent usage four whists on seven swings

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Speaker 2: with two called strikes. All those called strikes makes me

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Speaker 2: think that the Cubs had no clue what was coming

624
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Speaker 2: at them on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 1: No, they looked fooled at the plate literally, Hobby Bias

626
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Speaker 1: and Jock Peterson, those were the two good swings all night.

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Speaker 2: I think you feel like, contrast to the couple two

628
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Speaker 2: that's unfound.

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Speaker 1: I'm not positive that he also just like swings so hard,

630
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Speaker 1: so like he might make it look better because he

631
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Speaker 1: goes up there and actually takes the hardest swing on

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Speaker 1: planet Earth.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, and there were still like a health the amount

634
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Speaker 2: of hard hit balls, like what's gonna happen? He threw

635
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Speaker 2: mostly fastballs in total seventy three percent fastballs almost three quarters,

636
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Speaker 2: So guys are gonna find a way to square that up.

637
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Speaker 2: But now the Mets are just one of the best

638
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Speaker 2: defensive teams in baseball, So like, who really cares? Where

639
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 2: is not going over the fence?

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Speaker 1: We got you covered? Was that ups FedEx? We got

641
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Speaker 1: you covered? Whatever it is, that's the mess defense right now.

642
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Speaker 2: As But if either those guys want to sponsor us,

643
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Speaker 2: we're here.

644
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, but literally everywhere, And luckily for us, the offense

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Speaker 1: did enough. The offense did enough because that would have

646
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 1: been a shame to spoil that Taiwan outing. And we

647
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: tried to a little bit, but Pete stepped up big time.

648
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: Three RBIs, two of which came while I was online

649
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Speaker 1: for food again, which you then banished me back to

650
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: the to go to the concession go back to the

651
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: concession stands, because as soon as I came back, I

652
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,479
Speaker 1: think it out immediately happened.

653
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: But we're not superstitious on this podcast. But we are

654
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 2: a little stitch. I was about to say, you better drop.

655
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: We are a little stitch.

656
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 2: Think I don't know.

657
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 1: Pete's so good. He got that big sack fly that

658
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: we said that Ernie was really happy about to get

659
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: Vr to score. It was good game, and then we

660
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: got to go to Lugo for two.

661
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 2: It was pretty cool that Taiwan was able to just

662
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 2: hand the ball to Lugo and then finish it off.

663
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 2: And it wasn't clean.

664
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Speaker 1: It wasn't clean.

665
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 2: I mean like the first thing was thing was so clean,

666
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 2: clean as a whistle, mister clean pans baby.

667
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: Ninth inning got a little dicey, very dicey.

668
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 2: And it was funny because in the bomb of the

669
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: eighth inning, it flashed on the board that Trevor May

670
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: is warming up in the bullpen. This is before Trevor

671
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 2: May was fixed. Yes, he was fixed on Wednesday. This

672
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 2: is Tuesday.

673
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: This after he got shelled.

674
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 2: We were freaking out.

675
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: We're like, he can't be the guy. No, not tonight,

676
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 1: like we we're gonna blow this one. We can't. So

677
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: luckily he didn't come in for us. Lugo stayed in

678
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: and it got like he was good, but he wasn't,

679
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: and Contreller singled rope the ball. They brought him rous

680
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: Nick to run, which is a smart move, especially with

681
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: the catcher on the bench. Are trying to get keep

682
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: this game going. You have to make that move, and

683
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: then so guard pinch hit for Dan Winkler. Eric Soguard,

684
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 1: who's a lifetime terrible hitter, and he's just makes some

685
00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: bad decisions. Not part of the point here. Yeah, Eric

686
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: Soguard comes up to the plate, puts together good at

687
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: bat and ropes on the right center field and we go,

688
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's happening. It's this is the game.

689
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: I honestly wasn't even like that. It was like, this

690
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: was one of the most in the moment baseball plays

691
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 2: that I've ever went in. This live between like the

692
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 2: seats we had in the mezzanine, like right on the

693
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 2: third base line, the angle the ball was hit. We

694
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 2: were staring right at it. Morisnik was rounding the bases,

695
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: coming towards us like this all happened in a flash,

696
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 2: and we got him.

697
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe they sent him. Shout out to Willy Harris,

698
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: who was the third base coaches. Willy Harris is the

699
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: Cub's third base coach. Shout out to him, who is

700
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: known for his fantastic spectacular home run. Robin Catches had

701
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: a couple for the Mets, did a couple against the

702
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: Mets as a player of the Nationals.

703
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 2: I remember being a big thor in the Mets side.

704
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was not a particularly great player, but he,

705
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: just like Eric Sogard, would cause issues. But luckily Polar

706
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: cut the ball off beautifully in right center. Really should

707
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: limit it to second and third with one out, but again,

708
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: terrible job by Gary DiSarcina Part two over there with

709
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: Willy Harris, but cut it off well, and Diormey made

710
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: a sick, sick relay throw spin turn. His hands are

711
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: so lightning quick, you've seen it in double plays. But

712
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: it really came in here with the relay throw right

713
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,479
Speaker 1: on the money to James mccannon who just went right

714
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: in front of the plate, made the tag, got Maruzik

715
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: at the plate, and that was the ballgame.

716
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 2: This is why Luis Ki Yormey is our guy. Luis

717
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 2: ki or May is not flashy. He's never been in

718
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: a prospect list. ESPN is never going to talk about him,

719
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: and We Network's rarely going to talk about him. Besides

720
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: when he grabs a bat or a spin air twenty

721
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 2: four pitch at bat, Yeah, like he does like weird

722
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 2: wacky shit like that. But more than that, what Kiyormy

723
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: is is fundamentally sound. He does all of the little

724
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 2: things right, and this was a play where all the

725
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 2: little things matter. Give Pollard credit to give McCann credit

726
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 2: to for picking that ball on one hop and getting

727
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: the tag down even though he had about four steps

728
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 2: to do it. It was just a clean play and

729
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: that's how you win close games.

730
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: And I think it's really worth noting too that in

731
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: a ninth inning in this game, even with our guys,

732
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be the defensive like alignment is, you're

733
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: gonna have Polar in centerfielduse Nimo moved to left, get

734
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: Dom out of the game, Pallar and center your may

735
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: most likely will be playing SETE game based, Especially with

736
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: McNeil possibly being in the outfield now and mccamb behind

737
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: home plate. That just shows you, alone, the conscious effort

738
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: that the Mets have had to be a better defensive team.

739
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: If Nimo and McNeil or who Parazza even are there

740
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: at second base, we don't make that play. Ramos, Yeah,

741
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: Ramos a catcher who dropped like three last year. We

742
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: don't need to talk about that. The Mets don't make

743
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: that play without those guys there putting the guys in

744
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: the right spot again to make the plays. Everything is

745
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: clicking right for them. Defensively, you gotta love just a

746
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: smart team.

747
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: Definitely. And again this is the depth, the depth, the

748
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: depth we've been talking about. Can't say enough about it.

749
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: Nope, loved it. And that was luckily how we get

750
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: to win that night. We got one more out. I

751
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: don't remember what the final out was.

752
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: I remember it was like a long at bad Maybe

753
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 2: someone else even got on base, something else happened whatever.

754
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: That was a big play. Yeah, I mean it was

755
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: a lot of hands on the head. We stood for

756
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: ten straight minutes to go to the bathroom.

757
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 2: I had that.

758
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to go to the bathroom at one

759
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: point because I was like, I can't handle this. I

760
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: don't know how long we're gonna take. Luckily we were

761
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 1: good false alarm. But Game three de Grom much different vibe,

762
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: super different vibe because it started off insane. Yeah, because

763
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: through three innings, the only three innings that Jacob deGrom threw,

764
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: he struck out eight. Had a perfect game.

765
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: Yep.

766
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: He Gary said it on the broadcast. Probably had the

767
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: best three innings to start a game in the history

768
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: of baseball. Think about it. You strike out eight of

769
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: the nine batters you face, you're throwing a perfect game.

770
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: The record for striking out guys in a row is

771
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: what nine byceiver? I was eleven, nine to ten, whatever,

772
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: whatever those number is. It didn't come from the first

773
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: to the fourth. No, No one has ever pitched like

774
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: Jacob da Graham did those first three innings. And he

775
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: got out of the game because of a shoulder soreness.

776
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: Before we go into the d Gram injury, which were

777
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: going to be going to go into. I saw a

778
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 2: crazy stat on Twitter the other day, Jacob Degram. I'll

779
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: have you guess how many hits you think Jacob de

780
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: Gram's given up in the first inning this year?

781
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: How many hits?

782
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: Yeah?

783
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: Six? One? That's crazy.

784
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 2: And it was the second batter he faced all season,

785
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 2: Reese Hoskins, who was thrown out at third base.

786
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: Oh, I remember that because I hate Reee Hoskins so

787
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: much with that rat fuck loser. He's another one of

788
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: the rat fucks of this. Yeah, we have a podcast,

789
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: but yeah, Jacob, he's so good, man, He's so good.

790
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: He's literally not a human. And then yeah, again, before

791
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: the thing, he drove in a run too. Yes, he

792
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: now has what six RBIs and has only allowed four

793
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: earned runs on the season.

794
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 2: Ops over eight hundred.

795
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: Oh Tani who like not really but also o Tani who.

796
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: No home runs? Yeah, once Jake hits the home run,

797
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 2: which but now it seems like Jake might not be

798
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,239
Speaker 2: swinging anymore. There's like weird conflicting reports that it kind

799
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: of feels old Mets. Yeah, the way his injury news

800
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 2: has come out today, Thursday, today, yesterday for your listeners

801
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: at home.

802
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: It's like very vague, very weird behind the curtain. No,

803
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: they don't want to let anybody know because he exits

804
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: the game with shoulder soreness, and you go, oh my god, yeah,

805
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: his elbow hurt last game. His shoulder hurts. Now, what

806
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: in the world is going on?

807
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: He's dealt with the lad those are that's like the

808
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 2: trifecta pitching injuries. You don't want to hear. Yeah, shoulder, elbow,

809
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 2: last those are all big issues. It's holy trinity.

810
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: And then today we see tweets that Jacob de Gram

811
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: got examined, no issues and he was on the field

812
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: throwing already. Yes, so I don't know what's really going on.

813
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: I think nobody really knows what's going on besides the

814
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: guys in that Mets clubhouse. It seems like from the

815
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: interview with Jeremy Heffner today and everything, that no one's

816
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: particularly worried about.

817
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 2: Jake Neito is making jokes about him on Twitter.

818
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like no one's particularly worried, but it would

819
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: be nice to know what's going on because he is

820
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: arguably the best player in baseball.

821
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 2: I'm worried.

822
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what I'm saying us Mets fans. It

823
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: seems like the Mets themselves aren't, so I guess that

824
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: should just be a good sign to us of like, hey,

825
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: it's okay, we don't have to have, you know, our

826
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: Stockholm syndrome of the will ponds, where whatever they tell

827
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: us isn't necessarily true.

828
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 2: Well, the Mets injury translations, you know, Yeah, like there

829
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: was a couple of years ago where McNeil had a

830
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: sore hamstring that that he might take some time on

831
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 2: the il translation, We hope he keeps his leg.

832
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: Yes, there's been a list of injuries that we've not

833
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: been told a lot of it, and they've become a

834
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: lot worse. But it seems like de Grom is gonna

835
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: end up being fine so far. Who knows. I just

836
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: I don't like even talking about it because it makes

837
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: me feel so sick.

838
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 2: And also the weird thing is it kind of overshadowed

839
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 2: this game, which wound up being like a fantastic team

840
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: victory where all the boys like rally the round, the

841
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 2: best player being injured, and played another very clean, easy

842
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 2: wired to wire game when they won handedly.

843
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: Mets scored runs and Sean Reid fully gets the win.

844
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: They even changed the win rules so badly in Major

845
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: League Baseball. The fact that the Graham doesn't get the

846
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: win there and Sean reefully does. We love SRF. He

847
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: doesn't deserve the win there. There's no world where he

848
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: pitches less than the starting pitcher and should get the win.

849
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 2: All of my fellow fantasy baseball managers who lost to

850
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 2: Grom last night and didn't get the win, especially in

851
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: the rotisary leagues, but those wins are so damn hard

852
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 2: to come by. It sucked that one really hurt. It

853
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 2: was like a knife in my side.

854
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, but luckily for us, SRAF did come in and

855
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: he got the job done. I think the Mets only

856
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: gave up what two or three hits in total on

857
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: the night. Sean Reefull, I think gave up one of them.

858
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: But while he didn't get any strikeouts, two winnings, no runs.

859
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 2: No runs, but two walks, I think there were two

860
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: or three hard hit balls. Like this was the first

861
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 2: time that Reid Foully looked very mortal, and maybe he

862
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 2: just wasn't sharp from being in the minor leagues. You'll

863
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 2: know how like a demotion like that will wear in

864
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: a guy's mind. Sean Reid Foley. Some games, I bet

865
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 2: they tell him, like be prepared to come in like

866
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 2: the Peterson games to lu Kesey games like these are

867
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 2: the days where Reid Foley's expecting to pitch the Grom games.

868
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: He's probably drinking a beer if he were up like

869
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 2: and he's probably a lot of gum in his mouth,

870
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 2: like he was chilling, probably a big meal. Before the game.

871
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: He was like, you guys want me to pitch for

872
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: de Gram? What happened? Are you up? Fifteen? Like?

873
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 2: Why am I coming in for de Gram? It made

874
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: long relief today, but night played into it.

875
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: Definitely a little bit. I think so because it's weird

876
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 1: if Jagram stepped out on the mound for the fourth

877
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: and they like had him throw a warm up pitch

878
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: and exit with it. Sean Reid Folly would have had

879
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 1: all the time in the world. Yeah, but because they

880
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: pulled him, Sean ree Folly had to go out there

881
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: to do his mide his pitches and he had to

882
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: get going. So that was a weird decision. But you

883
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: were gonna send him out there. You send him out

884
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: there and he just stands there and he goes, ah,

885
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. Yeah, that's a little tight,

886
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 1: but you get semantics. My new shit at this point

887
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because the Mets still got the job done.

888
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: And polar Superman, Batman, iron Man. I don't know what

889
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: to call this dude, but he has been really really

890
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: good for the Mets, really good.

891
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 2: Again. He's mentioned in the offseason he was like been

892
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: really sneaky, like a super good hitter over the last

893
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: three or four years. He's just continuing to be like

894
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 2: a good hitter. He had a couple of weeks out

895
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 2: in San Diego he wasn't really hitting the ball that well,

896
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 2: and then this series just came right back.

897
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, he talked about in Game two. I believe he

898
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: was not happy with his at bats, and he said

899
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: he was pull happy. He felt like he was overly aggressive,

900
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: not swinging at the right pitches. Game three, he completely

901
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: blew that out of the water because he probably had

902
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: his best game as a Met all season. I would say, yeah,

903
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: what a home run in a double?

904
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 2: I think he had. That's three ribbies or two ribbies

905
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, So Kevin Pullar, it's pretty cool

906
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: that he can self diagnose that that. That's a real

907
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: savvy veteran moves impressive.

908
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: Something you get from a guy who's been in league

909
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: for ten years.

910
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 2: Like coming another guy whom went a lot again as

911
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 2: I just had to die and try about him, is

912
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 2: luisky armey good. He's a savvy veteran. He's also still

913
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 2: like has prospect status. It's kind of ironic what this

914
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 2: guy is, but he's just a good hitter.

915
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: Now. That was the guy who hyped up all off seasons.

916
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: I love him. He's our king. We love Luiski Army

917
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: on this podcast, and as a Mets fan, you should too, because,

918
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: like especially if you're like one of those old school

919
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: baseball fans, you gotta love Luiski or May. He doesn't

920
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: wear bad gloves. The dude has, you know, hands made

921
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 1: of stone or not stone. He basically has like old

922
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 1: man hands.

923
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 2: He can he can change his hands. Yes, they're stone

924
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 2: at the box and they're like little pillows in the field.

925
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: Yes, he's just got like he's got rugged hands. You know,

926
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: he's he's a man who works with his hands like

927
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: he's he's the working man's player right there, puts the

928
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: ball in place, slaps it around the field wherever you

929
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: pitch it, and he plays good defense like he would

930
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: have been a star in the nineteen seventies.

931
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he would have been MVP. Yeah, Azzisman, Smith,

932
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 2: Luiski or May that's who. Giormey this year has more

933
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: walks and strikeouts. He's His WRC plus is one nineteen.

934
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 2: I was going into tonight, so we'll go down a

935
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,959
Speaker 2: little bit. But he just does everything right, every single

936
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 2: thing right. I have a weird prediction that I think

937
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: whenever one comes back and his team is very healthy

938
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 2: going through July, August, September, he is going to be

939
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 2: the cream that rises to the top. He's going to

940
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,439
Speaker 2: wind up getting the bats that we thought of VR

941
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 2: and J. D. Davis were going to be getting preseason.

942
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 2: I just can't see a way to take him off

943
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: the field.

944
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: No, you can't, he can't. He plays himself into games

945
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 1: like while he's not getting the extra base hits right now,

946
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: truly not what we need him to do.

947
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: He has none in the year. Don't come. It'll happen.

948
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: He just we don't care about that. He played good defense,

949
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: put the ball in play, do little things, and Luis

950
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: Germay continues to do that, and.

951
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 2: He's hitting the ball harder than he ever has in

952
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 2: his whole career. And like he had pretty good like

953
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: scouting hit grades, like coming through the minor leagues and

954
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 2: people thought this guy was a hitter, like he was

955
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 2: doing that. But now again he's hitting the ball hard

956
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: than he ever has. The extra base hits will come.

957
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 2: I think I really think that his ceiling is a

958
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 2: regular I really do.

959
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that. I mean, listen your May. My

960
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: boy follows me on Twitter. Follow the Mets Up podcast,

961
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: Luise if you're listening, because I.

962
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 2: Wish he'd followed him. His dad follows me, Luis you

963
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 2: or my senior.

964
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: See I can't get the Luis you or my senior

965
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 1: follow His son follows me, who is the major League

966
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: baseball player. The father has no interest in round.

967
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 2: He followed me one time last year when I had

968
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 2: like a big, long tweet about all great things.

969
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: He sounds like I'm putting out my son. Yeah, sounds

970
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: like I'm putting out a guy or may tweet tomorrow

971
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: and tagging his dad. Don't need Luise's attention. I need

972
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: the dad's attention. But the Mets continued to play pretty

973
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: good baseball. Now, we were giving VR a lot of

974
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: credit earlier in the episode. He did have a rough

975
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: game defensively, Yes, back to back errors.

976
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 2: He does that.

977
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: Pete should have dugged that ball out so like technically

978
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 1: even Gary was talking about it like that's a tough error.

979
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: But then the next one, he was completely in his

980
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: head and took way too much time and then made

981
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: a terrible throw and he and Happ give him credit,

982
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: busted out of the box. He's not Manny Machado. He's

983
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: not gonna walk out.

984
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 2: It happened tonight too, Thursday night. On that Lindor play in.

985
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: The eighth inning, Yes, Lindor kind of sat back, Yeah,

986
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: Lindor sat back, then tried to rush the throw because

987
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: Hap is busting a sneaky athlete ian half and he'd

988
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: be watched it. But luckily for us it didn't matter.

989
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: So that's that's a good thing. Pete should have made

990
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: the play in the first place. It's still technically VR's

991
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: error nitpicking at this point though, because who are we

992
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: to complain about Johnson VR with all that he's done

993
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: this season then helping us when we need him. Absolutely,

994
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: and we got Loop in the game as well. Who Loop? There?

995
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: It is? He is?

996
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: He's good, He's so good. Aaron Loop, I tweeted this

997
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: on Wednesday night, has the sneaky is to one point

998
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 2: nine to three era in the history of baseball.

999
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: I was We talked about this at the game, talk

1000
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: about Mets All Star pitchers. Now, Aaron Loop won't be one.

1001
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: He will not be an All Star by no means,

1002
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have the innings or the strikeouts or

1003
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: anything like that. But the Mets now have like a

1004
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: legitimate group of guys where if you were, you know,

1005
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: looking even in the nineties, you go all Star, Tyrone

1006
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: Walker All Star and Marcus Strouwman, Jacob deGrom, Aaron Loop,

1007
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: Edwin Ds. Because those are all guys whose eras are

1008
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: like in the twos and Diaz has just been so

1009
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: nasty as a closer, Like it's so wild, what's happened

1010
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: with this team.

1011
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 2: It's crazy. This back end of the bullpen is so strong.

1012
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: I've been telling you this off the air for weeks now,

1013
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 2: but I think the Mets have one of the best

1014
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: bullpens in the league. If it's not top three, it's

1015
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 2: top five. And if it's not top three or top five,

1016
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 2: it might be one or two.

1017
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: Well, the Mets officially have the best era in baseball.

1018
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: As a team, we're number one now and that's a

1019
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: huge reason because of the bullpen. We have two starting

1020
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: pitchers with five vrs. The bullpen has been locked down.

1021
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: We had a debate about Loop or Justin Wilson at

1022
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: one point, yes, Loop was by far the better player.

1023
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: There were people on the internet telling us that the

1024
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 2: Mets offseason was disaster for not resigning Justin Wilson or

1025
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 2: throwing money at Brad Hand who has saves and it's

1026
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 2: still not good.

1027
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: Which, by the way, is gonna build into a little

1028
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: bit something that we wanted to talk about. We shouldn't

1029
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: take any opinions from who to get from Mets Twitter

1030
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: because We've been seeing some trade stuff thrown out there,

1031
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: which we'll have an episode next our next episode, we're

1032
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: gonna do a little bit of like trade deadline talk,

1033
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: have a little segment there, but people talking about trading

1034
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: for Adam Fraser.

1035
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: What were some of the other guys that you saw

1036
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:41,720
Speaker 2: with Adams Frasier, Robbie Grossman, Josh Donaldson, Josh Allenson's crazy,

1037
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 2: not even close. Who in what world do the Mets

1038
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: need these guys? No, no world, Adam Fraser. We have Luis

1039
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 2: Giromy who's just better, honestly, truly, Yeah, Adam Fraser, he

1040
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 2: has a bower rate under one percent. So again, for

1041
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 2: all the listeners at home, we don't know. We've mentioned

1042
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 2: this a couple of times, so again, if anyone doesn't

1043
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 2: know any of the stats or acronyms that we mentioned,

1044
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: please tweet at us. We'd love to explain. Barrel is

1045
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 2: a ball that is put in play of at least

1046
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 2: ninety eight miles an hour with a launch angle between

1047
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 2: twenty six and thirty degrees.

1048
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: And for those of you at home, that is like

1049
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,919
Speaker 1: basically the optimal launch angle for like a home run

1050
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: type hit.

1051
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 2: The guy is there crushing the ball that when you

1052
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,439
Speaker 2: have a barrel, you have crushed it. So the guys

1053
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 2: who have the high bower rates are the guys who

1054
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: are the best hitters. You look up and down that chart,

1055
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 2: the leaders are Vlad Tatisani Atani like these are the beasts,

1056
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: These are the guys you want to hit. These are

1057
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 2: the guys with power, These guys who can get consistent

1058
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 2: hits time and time again.

1059
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: And remember when we were talking about James McCann's lack

1060
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: of barrels. The guy Adam Frazier that a lot of

1061
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: Mets fans for some reason want us to trade for,

1062
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: which makes absolutely zero sense. None has two barrels on

1063
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: the season. Yes he's hitting three twenty, Yes he has

1064
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: an eight forty four OPS, but it's the fakes three

1065
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: twenty with an eight forty four OPS. Ever, he simply

1066
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: just doesn't hit the ball hard. He doesn't swing a miss.

1067
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: That's like his big thing. That's cool, Yeah, great, He's

1068
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: a scrappy little player. He's a poor man's Jeff McNeil

1069
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: in a sense. But there's no reason for the Mets

1070
00:41:59,360 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: to trade for.

1071
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 2: He's turning thirty, like, there's no reason the Mets. Sorry,

1072
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: we're just moving into our bad take of the week

1073
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 2: rond Yeah, because I mean Game three is over.

1074
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, May came in, was fixed, was sick.

1075
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: Again, Casro good, everyone's good, Bullpen's good. Now, So now

1076
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 2: just trade twitther is one of the dumbest places you

1077
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: could ever be. It's up there with hockey replay Twitter

1078
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 2: and soccer flopping twether. It's a place you just never

1079
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 2: want to find yourself ever.

1080
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I we've been seeing names thrown out as

1081
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: we mentioned, like, let's just go through Adam Frazier. We

1082
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: just went over him. Fully, There's no reason he's turning thirty.

1083
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 2: He doesn't hit the ball hard, he's an average defender,

1084
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 2: and he's going to cost money.

1085
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. We're gonna have to give up players

1086
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: for that.

1087
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 2: Why would he's gonna be arbitration eligible coming off like

1088
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 2: a very good, fake statistical season. I don't want to

1089
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 2: be in the books for that.

1090
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: No, he's gonna be the Pirates All Star most likely. Yeah,

1091
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 1: good for him, Happy for him. Go play in Pittsburgh. Great,

1092
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: you'll be on another team that wants you. But the

1093
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: Mets makes no sense. Josh Donaldson, Do we where do

1094
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: we even get started with?

1095
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 2: Down on that. Josh Donaldson now comes from Evan Robbers.

1096
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 2: I will shout him out by name because he gives

1097
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 2: some pretty bad takes. He is listenable on the radio.

1098
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 2: Him and carr and are excited. They're interesting ish. They

1099
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: don't talk about sports. They don't know anything about sports.

1100
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 2: Their INSIGHT's terrible awful. Anyone who thinks that the Mets

1101
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 2: should trade for Josh Donlinson, and anyone thinks to mention

1102
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 2: even trade for a depth infielders doesn't have any idea

1103
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 2: how his roster is constructed. Like you must have been

1104
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 2: so shortsighted to forget about Robinson Cano that we traded for.

1105
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 2: Like that's almost in the same category as when you're

1106
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 2: talking about Josh Johnson, a guy who's in his mid thirties,

1107
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 2: who's getting paid way too much money and who misses

1108
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 2: games due to injury every single season, a good chunk

1109
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 2: of games.

1110
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: Like, yes, he's a good player, there's no doubt he's

1111
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: still got something in the tank. Oh yeah, but unless

1112
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: the Twins are giving to him to us for free,

1113
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: no players involved, you're gonna pay his entire contract. I'm

1114
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: out there's no reason for it.

1115
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 2: And the other irony of these two infield trade targets

1116
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 2: is that neither of them can play shortstop. If there's

1117
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 2: one hole this Mets team has, it's like legitimate, defensively

1118
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 2: sound backup shortstop. I'm sure Giormy can do it, but

1119
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 2: I think at this point his athleticsis a more favor

1120
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,760
Speaker 2: second and third, he can be probably slightly blow legather

1121
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: short stop. I'm sure of it. Yeah, but that is

1122
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: the one actual infield hole this Mets team has. And

1123
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 2: the fact that people want the mester to give up

1124
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 2: assets for infielders who can't even do that. Like there's VR,

1125
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 2: there's your may j D McNeil, like there's guys who can.

1126
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 2: Proz is doing an admirable job. I don't want Peza

1127
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 2: starting in the NLDS, No, but I would like I

1128
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:18,479
Speaker 2: would be okay if he was on the roster.

1129
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm we're under the impression that our guys are

1130
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy during this time, so like to freak

1131
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: out to grab Adam Fraser doesn't play on this team,

1132
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: by the way, when guys are healthy, Adam Fraser.

1133
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 2: Might not even be in the major league roster. When

1134
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 2: the guys are healthy. If every single guy in the

1135
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 2: Mets active roster is healthy, I would option out in

1136
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 2: freer triple A.

1137
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,240
Speaker 1: I would it's yeah, it's crazy. And then like Robbie Grossman,

1138
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: which yeah, because the Mets need another corner outfield exact.

1139
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 2: Another corner outfielder without power. It's exactly what the Mets

1140
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: name Billy mcginney. We got Billy mcginny.

1141
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: What do we need. Robbie Grossman. Robbie Grossman's a poor

1142
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: man's Brandon Nemo. Yes, literally, he watched the ton doesn't

1143
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: hit for much power. That's about not a great defender either.

1144
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: Like the names that we're seeing on mess Twitter, we're

1145
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: gonna give you some good ones next episode, we're gonna

1146
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: give you some fire trade talk nick talk, because this

1147
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 1: is the stuff. These are some of my best YouTube

1148
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: videos talking about trade talks. James knows all the guys

1149
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: that are the sneaky pickups. We're gonna give you some

1150
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 1: good names. Adam Fraser, Robbie Grossman, and Josh Dolinson will

1151
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: be thousands of miles away from that list. Not it, fam,

1152
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: It's so not it.

1153
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:14,919
Speaker 2: It's so bad.

1154
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: Mets Twitter, we love you, but oh sometimes you are

1155
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:18,959
Speaker 1: so off and real bad.

1156
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 2: Takes and happen we started this segment. It's kind of fun.

1157
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: No, it is fun, like it gets a little it's

1158
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: like a venting is kind of because like we send

1159
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: these tweets to each other from people that we see

1160
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: all week long, and we get to finally like say

1161
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: it out loud and it's like, oh God, like do

1162
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,720
Speaker 1: you agree with me? This? This is dumb, This doesn't

1163
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: make any sense?

1164
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 2: And where do We don't want shop anybody down who

1165
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 2: like you know, as it was also working grinding just

1166
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 2: like us. Yeah, of course want everyone to make a

1167
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 2: name for themselves. But like guy like Kevin Roberts, I

1168
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 2: will shut on him because he is one hundred thousand air.

1169
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: He has a platform. We have a thousand listens, he

1170
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: has hundreds of thousands of listens.

1171
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 2: He's on the radio every single day.

1172
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets paid a lot of money.

1173
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 2: Hunts to talk. And that being said a WF fan,

1174
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 2: we'd love to come on, love to come on.

1175
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, Evan Robertson Carr and will argue all day that

1176
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: the Mets should not trade for Josh Dillinson if you

1177
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: want to have that conversation.

1178
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 2: Josh Donaldson would bring such an element to this team

1179
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: that they don't have. Yeah, third base, new can't move.

1180
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: We have two of them that we would probably trade

1181
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: prospects for which we shouldn't do. Let's got some good prospects,

1182
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: Let's talk about them. Because this is the mid week

1183
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: episode Prospect Review.

1184
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 2: Prospect Report. Every single midwek we're coming at you're talking

1185
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 2: about some prospects, and this week we are going to

1186
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: kind of massage that prospect report a little bit into

1187
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 2: the upper level of the miners guys, especially the pitchers,

1188
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 2: because with Jacob de Grom going down and with three

1189
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 2: double heads coming up in the next seven days. Crazy,

1190
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 2: I can't believe that MB did that. I was gonna

1191
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 2: talk about with the Nationals preview, why did we have

1192
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 2: to have all these in one week. We're playing this

1193
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 2: team so many more times, as.

1194
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: If we haven't played the Nationals in July, August, September,

1195
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: that we never played them Phillies. We never play these

1196
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: teams like a game was running out against like the

1197
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: A's no or like the Twins, the Rockies that like

1198
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 1: we have to make it up all they're in town.

1199
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: We were going to play these teams a lot more

1200
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: the rest of the year for them to schedule all

1201
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: three of these double headers in the seven day span

1202
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: is really fucked up.

1203
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 2: It's egregious. It's an act of violence by Major League

1204
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 2: Baseball and I will not stand for it. Scheduling has

1205
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: been horrible all season. The fact that the Mets played

1206
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 2: a night game tonight. The Mets are going to Washington,

1207
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,720
Speaker 2: the Cubs are going back home to Chicago. Two teams traveling,

1208
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 2: and they said seven o'clock started on Thursday night.

1209
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 1: That makes sense.

1210
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 2: It's so stupid, so stupid. Now back to the Prosser report,

1211
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 2: get it all. That was like ten minutes of whole,

1212
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 2: ten minutes of enting.

1213
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: It was good. Yeah, we needed it so good. We've

1214
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: been so happy, Yeah we usually are.

1215
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 2: But the three guys in the touch on are three

1216
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 2: of the starting pitchers at Sarahcuse, Thomas A. Pookie, Tyler McGill,

1217
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: and Jerry Lykoff names like spelled like Gerrod. But again

1218
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 2: to start with Sapooky, He's the guy I've been talking

1219
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 2: about all year to look for watch out four in

1220
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,720
Speaker 2: the majors. He has gone down his last two starts,

1221
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 2: two worst starts this season, which is like, really sucks

1222
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,359
Speaker 2: because we'd really like to have him for this next week,

1223
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 2: we still might see him even amidst his struggles, because

1224
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 2: we just literally need him. I thought it was interesting

1225
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 2: that he pitched on Wednesday because that basically takes him

1226
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 2: out of play for the Double Heather. I don't know

1227
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 2: who was planning these things. Maybe they're just planning to

1228
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 2: have him for the Monday Double Heather because that's when

1229
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 2: the Wednesday start lines up.

1230
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: I think more so with Zupuki, they're more I think

1231
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: worried about keeping him on his same schedule and getting

1232
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: him into a rhythm, because it seemed like ever since

1233
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: the Mets took him out of that rhythm when they

1234
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: called him up and didn't use him, he hasn't been

1235
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 1: nearly as effect.

1236
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 2: Though, and these last two stars he has eight walks

1237
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 2: and seven to two thirds innings. He's given up nine

1238
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 2: earned runs bad not been very effective. On the other hand,

1239
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 2: this is the guy we want, our boy, Tyler McGill.

1240
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: Shout out, Joe DeMeo, that's his boy. On what's the

1241
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 2: name of the show, Mets Retrospective, I think Mets Prospecspectus.

1242
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: We gotta look it up. We gott give him a

1243
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 1: right shout out. Goddamn it.

1244
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 2: Met's perspective. That's the name the Mets perspective. So I

1245
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 2: had it right, Okay, thank you. That's his boy. He

1246
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 2: was on their web SNY is called web show. They're

1247
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 2: on their show. They have a real television show.

1248
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: I think. I think so too.

1249
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, very impressive love show. Really nice guy. I don't

1250
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 2: know Jacob. I'm sure he's very nice guy too. But

1251
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 2: McGill's been grooving. His last star came last Friday. He

1252
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 2: had seven strikeouts, only gave up two hits, one earned

1253
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 2: run home run, two walks, and five minute thirds innings.

1254
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: After his first rocky start I talked about last week

1255
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 2: in Triple A. It seems like he's acclimated very quickly.

1256
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 2: It seems like since he hasn't pitched since last Friday,

1257
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 2: maybe he's the guy who gets the call this Saturday

1258
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 2: to give some innings during the double Heather along with Reed,

1259
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 2: Foley and Peterson some to watch.

1260
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: They would just have to clear a forty spot, that's

1261
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: the thing.

1262
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, they would. But it's kind of cool that for

1263
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 2: a double head you get a twenty seventh man, So

1264
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 2: it kind of acts like a free tryout for the kid. True,

1265
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 2: I say, the kids, you for the same age. I

1266
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 2: think he might be a year old maybe who knows whatever,

1267
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 2: but won't take an option. He won't send anybody down again.

1268
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 2: You got a clear spot on the forty man, but

1269
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to be cutting people this week, which

1270
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: ye talk about the Nationals preview whatever. The other guy

1271
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 2: who wanted to mention who I shouldn't even mention he stinks,

1272
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 2: Jared Iykoff. I thought coming into this offseason that we'd

1273
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 2: be able to sprinkle the Hefner Ferry dust on him

1274
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 2: and you'll be able to get something there. He's a

1275
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 2: guy who was on my Fantasy Baseball watch lists in

1276
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,240
Speaker 2: deeper leagues. I thought he'd be able to give some innings.

1277
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 2: He's had some good strikeout totals in his career, but man,

1278
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 2: he's been stinking. Yeah. No, he's not a good now

1279
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 2: twelve and runs in his last two starts, spanning eleven innings.

1280
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 2: Like he even just add necessity, could be a double

1281
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 2: heather guy this weekend or next week because we have

1282
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 2: three of them again.

1283
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: And the thing with Ikov too is like you add

1284
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: him to the forty you have and you like take

1285
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: him off of it. The Mets are completely cool. I

1286
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: think losing I coff in a DFA and just getting

1287
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: those innings out of him if they need to.

1288
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 2: So literally four innings one time.

1289
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: Not the cool option, not the sexy option by any means,

1290
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: but it might be the most reasonable one because if

1291
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: you're moving guys and dfane people, he's really uh, what's

1292
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: the word expendable.

1293
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 2: Very expendable. Good word. And then, just as we do

1294
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 2: the prospert report, it wanted to dive into the lower

1295
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: levels of minds a little bit. A guy we have

1296
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 2: not mentioned very much doing this is Mark Viento's, someone

1297
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 2: who's had critical acclaim in the past, but someone who

1298
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 2: I don't really see like a superstar or even like

1299
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 2: a major league regular. Ceiling out of him. The power

1300
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 2: started to come alive, the power that we all know

1301
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 2: that Viento's has, the power that is gonna be the

1302
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 2: calling card that gets into the majors one day. Again,

1303
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 2: that's starting to happen. Three home runs his last six games,

1304
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 2: but his achilles heal man, the strikeouts, he just can't

1305
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 2: stop straking out.

1306
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: And you're striking out a low level. That's cost for

1307
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: concern because at the major league level, as we know,

1308
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: the stuff's only getting better, much better. It's not going

1309
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: to get any easier.

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00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 2: No, he's actually decreased his strikeout rates since June first,

1311
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 2: with only twenty nine point two percent. Pray is still

1312
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 2: so high, really bad. Just I just can't see how

1313
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 2: some successful like that.

1314
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: But to be happy about some of our guys, though

1315
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: Alvarez continues to be sick, yes, Batty continues to be sick, Yes, Mauricio.

1316
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: I mean the three headed monster down there in Brooklyn,

1317
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: which we saw it continues to be great.

1318
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 2: Great. Alvarez had has had a little bit of a

1319
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 2: rocky time coming to the Cyclones up from Saint Lucie.

1320
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 2: His average is not where he's used to having it.

1321
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 2: He's used hitting four hundred. He's hinking about two fifty

1322
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 2: to sixty right now. They still hitting the ball very hard.

1323
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 2: Sack came through today for sports infostats and solutions like

1324
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 2: a lot a lot of stats if you're into stats.

1325
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: They're a great account to follow, very smart stuff over there.

1326
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 2: But they keep a lot of like the stack Caast

1327
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 2: type stats on the minor leagues. They're not publicly available,

1328
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 2: and they dropped top five hard hit rates in the

1329
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 2: minor league today and Alvarez was second and Baby was third,

1330
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 2: which we love to see, Olie, And I think that

1331
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 2: that batflip that went viral last weekend from Alvarez is

1332
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 2: kind of a function of his like relative struggle so

1333
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 2: far in Brooklyn, like a little bit of the ah yeah,

1334
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 2: he let the Demons out let that thing up in

1335
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 2: the air. And also fact that they play six game

1336
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 2: series down in hig A. Yeah, you guys don't like

1337
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 2: each other.

1338
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: No, And as we saw when we saw them play

1339
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: the Hudson Valley Renegades, they almost fought.

1340
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they played to rating games I think twelve

1341
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 2: times this month.

1342
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: That's too many.

1343
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 2: A lot of animosity, I'm sure between athletes, competitors, guys

1344
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 2: who are vying for spots against their against their opponents,

1345
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 2: even their own teammates. So that bat slip, I hate

1346
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 2: that people were kind of getting on him. I understand that,

1347
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 2: like the old men are aguas. Nineteen year old kid's

1348
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 2: got to throw ballop in the air. Let them throw

1349
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 2: the ballot in the air. He's a young kid trying

1350
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 2: to make it. He finally got a big hitting single

1351
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 2: a the hard hit rates. What do you want to

1352
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 2: see from the minor leagues? Maurizio has seventh home run

1353
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 2: of the season the other night. That's morning he's ever

1354
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 2: had in a full season before. It was one hundred

1355
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 2: and seven point five miles an hour off the bat.

1356
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: That's Shah crushed for a guy who's had issues with power.

1357
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 2: And for a twenty year old who hasn't even fully

1358
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 2: filled out yet, that's absolutely insane.

1359
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, the minor leagues, as we've said every episode,

1360
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 1: those that three headed monster, those beasts there at the

1361
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: top of our organization are gonna be leading us. That's

1362
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: the next group of guys that's gonna be coming up

1363
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: with each other. And it's super exciting for the future

1364
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: because see them this year. But they are coming, and

1365
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: they're coming.

1366
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 2: Hot, storming up, storming up.

1367
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: Which now let's talk about the National Series real quick.

1368
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: We got lucky. We're missing Max Scherzer, I yell, which

1369
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: thinks because Max Scherzer is one of the best pitchers

1370
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: in baseball. Like, as a baseball fan, you respect his game,

1371
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: you don't want to see him hurt. But as a

1372
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: Mets fan, you go, oh, thank god, because this national

1373
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: team outside of Max Scherzer.

1374
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 2: Is yeah, and they're missing the ground and they're missing Stromans.

1375
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 2: I don't feel very bad about us missing that Max Scherzer.

1376
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,280
Speaker 2: It's whatever, even Stephen Baby. But we got Lukezy tonight.

1377
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 2: If you're listening on Friday against Joe Ross, who is

1378
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 2: not that good, he's been better this year.

1379
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: He's pitched well against the Mets two. I think so

1380
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: Joe Ross was a guy who had some people's interest

1381
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: in earlier years in his career, but because of injuries

1382
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: and just lack of consistent pitching time, he's kind of

1383
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: fallen into like that, just kind of typical four or

1384
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: five starter.

1385
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 2: That's okay, Yeah, which is fine, that's okay. You need

1386
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 2: guys who are okay yeah, and he's okay. Yeah. I'd

1387
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 2: love to have Joe Ross in the Mets right now.

1388
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 2: I'd be freaking awesome.

1389
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: He'd be giving up somebmitnings for sure.

1390
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then Saturday is going to be a funky

1391
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 2: adventure for the Mets, end the Nationals and the fans

1392
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 2: of both teams alike. We got David Peterson starting the

1393
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 2: one game, and as we mentioned during the Prospect Report,

1394
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 2: we have no idea starting on Saturday. I don't even

1395
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 2: think the Mets no is starting on Saturday. If I'm

1396
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 2: being honest, it might be Sean Reid Foley. But again,

1397
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 2: he threw like what forty pitches. Yeah, he threw through

1398
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 2: two innings so unexpectedly, so he could give some innings.

1399
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 2: That'll be. It'll be rested enough. But I don't know

1400
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen that game. I have no idea.

1401
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one has a clue. And we don't even

1402
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: have a clue. What's gonna happen on Sunday?

1403
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 2: No, no clue. I mean no, Sunday's Taiwan?

1404
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: Is it Taiwan?

1405
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be. He pitched on Tuesday. Oh yeah,

1406
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:31,919
Speaker 2: it is time we were there.

1407
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: What am I doing? These days of the week are

1408
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: all screwed up.

1409
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 2: It's the summer now, and we're gonna be facing against Corbyn.

1410
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 2: Last time the Mets face Corbyn on a Sunday, we

1411
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 2: beat him. We own Corbyn, we do everyone seems to now.

1412
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: It would be nice to have JD back because he

1413
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: really owns Patrick Dorban, But of course we don't have

1414
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: him again.

1415
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 2: The Nationals don't have a started name for the second

1416
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 2: game with double Heather on Saturday either. That's gonna be

1417
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:52,800
Speaker 2: a weird one.

1418
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: That's gonna be wild.

1419
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 2: Seven innings, Have a beer, just enjoy, enjoy whatever happens

1420
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 2: in that game. It's gonna be like it's either gonna

1421
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 2: be one nothing or like eleven six. Yeah, it's gonna

1422
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 2: be We're in for a weird weekend of baseball. Here.

1423
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: In for a weird next couple weeks of baseball just

1424
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: because of the sheer amount of games the Mets played.

1425
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: The Mets have one off day I think before the

1426
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: All Star break now right, They do next Thursday, and

1427
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: then it's just all baseball. So from here on out,

1428
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: the Mets are playing a game every single day. Next

1429
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: seven days, the Mets have three double headers and one

1430
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: off time. Yeah. Thanks, Major League Baseball. Appreciate that schedule.

1431
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: It makes a lot way to go, guys. But Mets

1432
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: are a better team than the Nationals. Wan Soo hasn't

1433
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: been Juan Soto like this year. He's been I don't

1434
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 1: even want to say struggling, because he's still good. He's

1435
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: just not really like hitting for the power that you

1436
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: expected or you saw the last couple of seasons for him.

1437
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: He's going through his little thing. Trey Turners hit a

1438
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: little bit of a rough Patch too, but then Kyle

1439
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: Schorberz started to heat up a little bit. He's been

1440
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: going off with the home runs. Josh Bell still stinks,

1441
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,399
Speaker 1: but has been better than like complete garbage, So that's

1442
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye out for.

1443
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 2: Two.

1444
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: They're just not a better team than the Mets.

1445
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 2: I just don't think they're really that good at all.

1446
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 2: Like I don't even have a National watch. They're just

1447
00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:58,439
Speaker 2: not very good.

1448
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 1: They don't have anybody interesting from the pitching side, and

1449
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: outside of Max Schurz and Cavali. Yeah, but he's he's

1450
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:05,720
Speaker 1: longed down there. Guy. We could talk about k Kvali

1451
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: for hours. That's not an We're not a Nationals podcast though. No,

1452
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: And I'm sure the Nationals guys love Kate Cavalley as well, because.

1453
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 2: If he's if he's my only prospect, I love him too.

1454
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's great. But me should that should take this series.

1455
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting Saturday, as we've said, but really,

1456
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the Mets are the

1457
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: better team. Fully expect to win this series.

1458
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 2: No, no need the Bats need the defense, need Lukezi

1459
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 2: and Peterson to step up, and whoever pitches on Saturday night.

1460
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: All hands on deck, next man Up, Resilient teamch the

1461
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: cliche hour. Yeah, we're gonna drop all the cliches here

1462
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: because the Mets are gonna need him this weekend.

1463
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1464
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: And as we wrap up here, because you know, Mets

1465
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: three out of four from the Cubs, feeling good, still

1466
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: in first place, sitting there with a very comfortable lead,

1467
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: I just want to drop a little something here for

1468
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: you guys. We have made some Mets up stickers, So

1469
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for them.

1470
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 2: Uh.

1471
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,840
Speaker 1: They may or may not be placed in areas that

1472
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: you might be able to find. There could be a

1473
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: couple in our favorite stadium in New York. So if

1474
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: you see Sane anywhere, maybe on a subway, on the

1475
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: back of a sign, at a at a baseball game,

1476
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: take a picture of it, tweet us at it or

1477
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: tweet at us with it. We'll retweet you. We'll drop

1478
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: you all like, we'll give you a comment, we'll give

1479
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: you the clout. So keep an eye out for the

1480
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: Mets up stickers. You're gonna start see them popping up

1481
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: all over New York. That's pretty much gonna take us

1482
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: to the end of episode number twenty four here of

1483
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: the Mets Up Podcast. The long one. But boy do

1484
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: we have a lot to talk about here. Four games,

1485
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: prospect Report, bad takes got us going. Next episode, we're

1486
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: gonna be going over of course the national series, plus

1487
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: a little trade deadline preview. So make sure you guys

1488
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: are following the podcast on Twitter and Instagram mets up

1489
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: so you know when the episodes come out, as well

1490
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: as following us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, wherever

1491
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: you listen to your stuff, you can find us as

1492
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: well as YouTube. Subscribe to the channel we're uploading the

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Speaker 1: videos over there. Give us some love too if you

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Speaker 1: want to see a video version of what we're talking

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Speaker 1: about here. Otherwise, we're gonna wrap up today's episode here.

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Speaker 1: I'm Draftneck Mark Mark Luino here with James Sheiano Jeter

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Speaker 1: had no Range. Thank you guys for listening to episode

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Speaker 1: number twenty four of the Mess Up Podcast and we'll

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Speaker 1: see you next time. Voice crack bye.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.