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Speaker 1: What is up, Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of The Mets the Podcast. The boys are stroking that

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Speaker 1: podcast YouTube algorithm doing a little bit of player previews.

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Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of people do these before, and honestly,

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Speaker 1: i'd be truthful, it doesn't really make a lot of

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Speaker 1: sense in my head. But the boys are playing the

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Speaker 1: numbers game. We're playing the episode's game. We're playing the

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Speaker 1: podcast game here, we're playing the content game. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be dropping some player previews for you guys until the

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Speaker 1: opening day. Basically, as long as we can as many

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Speaker 1: guys as we can talk about on their own, we will.

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Speaker 1: And then we're gonna end up grouping in some players

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Speaker 1: that are in similar positions together that don't really deserve

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Speaker 1: their own episode. Like, I don't know, who's a player

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Speaker 1: that's coming off the top of your head that's probably

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Speaker 1: not gonna get their own episode.

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Speaker 2: James, We're not gonna do the Michael Tonkin episode. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a good one. That's a perfect choice.

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Speaker 1: And Michael, honestly though, maybe with how the bullpen's looking

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Speaker 1: and like we might need a stretch guy, Michael Tonkin

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Speaker 1: could be him. Maybe he gets his own, but at

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Speaker 1: the same time.

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Speaker 2: Maybe know Omar Neva's episode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a better one. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a better one. Omar Nerva is not gonna get his own.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is the Francisco Lindor Player preview episode,

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Speaker 1: glaze Fest, whatever you want to call it. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: act as if you guys don't know anything about Francisco Lindor,

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Speaker 1: you've never heard about him, and we're gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: all the great things about the New York Mets shortstop.

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Speaker 2: Because let's be honest, here's here's where it starts. Get ready.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he is one of the best shortstops in baseball.

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Speaker 1: There's just no way around it. He's at worse at worse.

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Speaker 2: If you, if you like held held my head in

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Speaker 2: the sink, at worst, I'd give you his top three.

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Speaker 2: That's the lowest I could possibly go, and I would

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Speaker 2: I would really fight you on top two because it's

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Speaker 2: just he is. He simply is since he came to

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Speaker 2: the Mets, basically since he came up into the major

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Speaker 2: leagues as a Cleveland then India now technically Guardy and

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Speaker 2: I guess to be PC but it's just he is.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the best shorts house in baseball, and

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Speaker 2: he's really become one of the best players in baseball.

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Speaker 2: And I'm happy we've gotten to a point now where

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Speaker 2: basically the public perception of Mets fans, basically every single

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Speaker 2: person's on board with this and this is the right

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Speaker 2: side of history.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was for a while insane. Again, it

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Speaker 1: the first year wasn't the best for Francisco. It was

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Speaker 1: one of his down years, and he had he did

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Speaker 1: the Carlos Beltron thing, came to New York, got paid,

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Speaker 1: didn't play well, and I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: who saw him have that down covid year got a

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Speaker 1: little bit worried of like, oh my god, did we

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Speaker 1: trade for this guy who's now never gonna be as

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Speaker 1: good as he once was in Cleveland. But the last

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Speaker 1: two years have completely shut that down again. He is

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Speaker 1: not just one of the best short stops in the

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Speaker 1: National League, he's one of the best short stops in baseball,

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Speaker 1: one of the best players in the league, a top

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Speaker 1: twenty five player in my opinion, all of Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: And he's there every single day for the Mets. Wiz

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Speaker 1: he missed like two or three games in his three

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Speaker 1: the durability that he's had as well.

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Speaker 2: He's missed the three games in two years, but he

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Speaker 2: Remember the month right after we got Javier Byas. I

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Speaker 2: think it was a quad. There wasn't no league. He

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Speaker 2: got hurt for something legitimate. I think he even still

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Speaker 2: came back in less time. But again, he simply is

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Speaker 2: one of the best, one of the best players in baseball,

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Speaker 2: and definitely the best player of this Mets team. I

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Speaker 2: wanted to chat a lit code from the great Philly

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Speaker 2: Atado of the late seasons on the Sopranos said that

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Speaker 2: there's five families and a little pigmy thing out in

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Speaker 2: That's technically the group of Mets fans I still don't

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Speaker 2: believe for Cisco Lindor is is like a really good

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Speaker 2: baseball player, and we have to deal with that, and

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Speaker 2: that's fine, but there's a vocal minority. It's just in

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Speaker 2: three seasons as a Met, Lindor seventy seven homers, two

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Speaker 2: org to seventy nine runs, score, two hundred sixty RBIs,

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Speaker 2: fifty seven stolen bases sixteen point eight four. That's her season.

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Speaker 2: That comes out to twenty six homers, ninety three runs,

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Speaker 2: and that's in one hundred and fifty games per year

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Speaker 2: because he did miss those about thirty forty games twenty

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Speaker 2: he's playing one sixty two, you're basically looking at thirty

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Speaker 1: And we've seen the last few seasons like he's been

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Speaker 1: playing at that elite level. And that's just on the

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Speaker 1: offensive side too. Talk about this guy defensively, he's arguably

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Speaker 1: the best defensive shortstop and all of baseball. Again, if

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Speaker 1: There's nothing not to like about this guy, and he

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Speaker 1: I really don't know what else to say about Francisco

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Speaker 2: This is the Glaze episode, so major glays Fest. It's

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Speaker 2: only missed three games in two years. And he found

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Speaker 2: out a couple months ago. He played all of last

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Speaker 2: said specifically happened at spring training. Yeah, so he did

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Speaker 2: literally the whole year of the bones spurn his elbow.

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Speaker 2: And then two years ago, remember he basically broke his

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Speaker 2: of appear. It's like it was like he is there

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Speaker 2: every single day, Like this is what you want from

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Speaker 2: from someone who's become like the face of your franchise

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Speaker 1: Since we've signed him, I mean he's genuinely become the

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Speaker 1: with Francisco Indoor. Oh, he's not worth the three hundred

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Speaker 1: the six more sixth most f war in Major League

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Speaker 1: does like make you almost take a step back and

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Speaker 1: be like, oh shit, because is he actually even better

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Speaker 2: Significantly And that's even like just barely behind Trey Turner

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Speaker 2: and tredeterror is nas goods of defensive player, probably slightly better

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Speaker 2: mega deal with a new team in a new city.

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Speaker 2: Crazy family. Yeah, lots of stuff happened in your ahead

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Speaker 2: also including one of the six best players in league

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Speaker 2: season for Cisco indoors entire career. Like that happened. It's

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Speaker 2: very real, ca' sugercot that like he had a bat

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Speaker 2: Just he's very comfortably one of the ten best position

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Speaker 2: baseball second or third best shorts stop and even a

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Speaker 2: lot of people go back to that contract all the time.

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Speaker 2: Three hundred forty million, like it's a ridiculous contract. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's a good player, but he's only thirty home runs

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Speaker 2: for thre hundred forty million. Blah blah blah. Even since

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Speaker 2: better with every passing offseason. Corey Seeger signed basically the

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Speaker 2: same deal, the same age, and he's disgusting. Corey Seger

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Speaker 2: did things last year to play then, like I don't

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Speaker 2: even know how to describe, Like it was the most

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Speaker 2: amazing thing ever. He won won the World Series MVP,

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Speaker 2: like he played like one hundred and twenty five games

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Speaker 2: and this year he already has another injury. He's already

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Speaker 2: like you're away, that's always gonna happen with Corey Seger,

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Speaker 2: Francisco Indors, like there's a there's a real world where

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Speaker 2: Corey Seeger. That teamers has so many kloky guys that

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Speaker 2: But I'm sure the last few years of that contract

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Speaker 2: through age thirty seven season, you're gonna need to drag

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Speaker 2: might have to knock him out, tranquilize and take him

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Speaker 2: I remember I tweeted as like a meme or as

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Speaker 2: a joke when he signed that deal, But like, thirty

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Speaker 2: five year old second basement of Facisco Indoor is gonna

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Speaker 2: be such a wildly vet And it's true. I feel

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Speaker 2: it like he's gonna still give you up the middle

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Speaker 2: defensive value at the back end of this contract. Now

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Speaker 2: you look at some other contracts signed by short stop

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Speaker 2: Carls Karrey makes one million lesson for Cisco Indoor year, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's insane. That's not close a loot. I'd much rather

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Speaker 2: have Lindor. And then you look at years, like he's

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Speaker 2: only signed to thirty seven. That's huge for a mega deal,

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Speaker 2: not taking guy till forty. Trey Turner signed his deal

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Speaker 2: last year. He signed until forty years old, just had

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Speaker 2: the worst year of his career. I don't want that.

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Speaker 2: Lindor thirty seven is still it's not even gonna be

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Speaker 2: that bad. He might sign another deal after that, another

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Speaker 2: or likes something like Altuve just signed this year, like

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Speaker 2: twenty four million. For a couple of years to four, they.

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Speaker 1: Brandan Crawford still playing, and that guy can't hit for

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Speaker 1: a lot. So like the fact that like Francisco Lindor

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Speaker 1: I don't think the bat's going anywhere. Yeah, Like you

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Speaker 1: just compare him to all the short stops around the league.

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Speaker 1: Like Dansby Swanson got that seven year deal, He's way

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