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Speaker 1: What is up? Mets fans? Welcome back to episode number

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Speaker 1: eighty five of the met Stub podcast, presented by the

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Speaker 1: seven Line. We have a great, fantastic, awesome series to

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Speaker 1: talk about today. The Mets took three of four from

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Speaker 1: the one hundred and seven win San Francisco Giants last year. Yes,

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Speaker 1: a team that we said would be a huge barometer,

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Speaker 1: a big test of how good this Mets team would be.

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Speaker 1: This year, we went out and took three of four

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Speaker 1: and honestly had a chance to take all four games

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Speaker 1: in this series. So many amazing things to talk about

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Speaker 1: from Francisco Indoor and Carlos Carrasco two, just everybody stepping

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Speaker 1: up on this team, Luis Gurm shaving his beard, looking

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Speaker 1: like Buzz Lightier and having a nice series for us.

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Speaker 1: So you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: through all the games, give you detailed recaps what was

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Speaker 1: And without further ado, let's bring in James she Ciano

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Speaker 1: as we are both in house again. I'm getting useless.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting us to the in house episodes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, and I mean, it's only only only

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Speaker 2: short five mile bike rides for me from Brooklyn. Why

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Speaker 2: get a couple of TVs, going for some day baseballs

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Speaker 2: and easy Thursday activity.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine doing ten miles of biking in one day.

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Speaker 1: I did three in Central Park last weekend and I'm

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Speaker 1: how about those Mets? How about those Mets?

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Speaker 2: Man with a great series today today, especially Putting the

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Speaker 2: Bow one. I know we're gonna jump back to start

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Speaker 2: this episode off of Game one, but just being able

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Speaker 2: It's like more, it's a little bit more meaningful, I

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Speaker 1: And it started off really shaky too. This series. We

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Speaker 1: My Monday night was definitely a little bit different than yours. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's just dink and doinks. I said earlier. They know

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Speaker 2: it only took fourteen pitches. These are absolutely Banana's numbers

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean like to think that the Giants,

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Speaker 2: the first game of a double header, which is incredibly

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Speaker 2: what good teams do, and that team is the mental

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Speaker 2: In those first two winnings, he only threw two sliders

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Speaker 2: you guys can hear the scales being tipped in one

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Speaker 2: that's almost as even as it's going to get him.

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Speaker 1: No, it was really nice to see him make that adjustment,

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Speaker 2: There's never a point in the Mets game where you

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Speaker 2: And it seems like this could even be rubbing off

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Speaker 2: They swung it four wift on zero and he got

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Speaker 1: It as the pitch.

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Speaker 2: That has been a phrase I've used before his primary

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Speaker 1: He had to basically throw that one away too, And even.

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Speaker 2: With that, he broke out the curveball. He threw more

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Speaker 2: He varied his pitches in different counts, through more fastballs

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Speaker 1: This was a game that we had circled TYLERR. McGill

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Speaker 2: like Brandon Nemo, who's been so incredibly locked in this season.

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Speaker 2: I do understand that brand Nemo at this point hadn't

435
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Speaker 2: hit in what wasn't five days?

436
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Speaker 1: Yeah, few days, four days.

437
00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,400
Speaker 2: So have a guy who hasn't hit in four days

438
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Speaker 2: and then facing Camila de Valls one hundred two mile

439
00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,320
Speaker 2: an hour fastball and sinker from the depths of Hell. Yeah,

440
00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,880
Speaker 2: I mean slider from the depths of Hell. I could

441
00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,399
Speaker 2: understand how that would be a scary proposition. But just like,

442
00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,760
Speaker 2: strip it all down for a second, logically in your head,

443
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,240
Speaker 2: similar to the Trevor Williams situation from two weeks ago,

444
00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,080
Speaker 2: needing literally just a ball in play to win the

445
00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,640
Speaker 2: game because bottom of the ninth TI game man on third.

446
00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,120
Speaker 1: One out, I ala need the ball in play.

447
00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,440
Speaker 2: Would I rather have Travis Jankowski hitting or Brandon Nimo hitting.

448
00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would pick Brandon with ten times.

449
00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,439
Speaker 2: Out of ten, even if he just rolled out of bed,

450
00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:32,800
Speaker 2: even like I would ask like, brand did you get

451
00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:33,359
Speaker 2: in the cage today?

452
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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, okay, put on some gloves and get to

453
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Speaker 1: the plate. It It was a bizarre decision again ended

454
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Speaker 1: up working out. We'll say he saved it a little

455
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Speaker 1: bit because he made that like that weird double switch

456
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Speaker 1: game with it. Buck. Yes, Buck saved his name. Yah.

457
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Speaker 1: Of course got to mention Buck for everybody out there

458
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Speaker 1: who's never gonna say Buck does anything wrong, that's fine whatever,

459
00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:52,480
Speaker 1: those things right and does things wrong just like every

460
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Speaker 1: other manager in baseball. Yes, it's just interesting with the

461
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Speaker 1: discourse is when yeah, he makes a mistaken as opposed

462
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Speaker 1: to other Mets managers in the past, But I ended

463
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Speaker 1: up working out he'd he'd make a good move though,

464
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Speaker 1: putting it in Nemo for technically the capture spot which

465
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Speaker 1: was the last out, so technical double.

466
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Speaker 2: Switch even without a pitcher being active. So all the

467
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Speaker 2: other National League Baseball fans like me, double switches are

468
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Speaker 2: not dead.

469
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Speaker 1: Yeah, double switches are not that I've never seen a

470
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Speaker 1: double switch for just yeah.

471
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Speaker 2: Well, this is the only time would be pertinent unless

472
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Speaker 2: you're bringing in a hither who does you don't really

473
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Speaker 2: want hitting similar to pitchers in the past, But the

474
00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,119
Speaker 2: fact that the last out of an inning becomes the

475
00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:26,040
Speaker 2: ghost runner. Yeah, Dom pinch hit for McCann who was

476
00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,520
Speaker 2: double switched out for Nimo and then neither winds up

477
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Speaker 2: taking the spot of Jankowski. Yes, so he was technically

478
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Speaker 2: before Nemo and the k is someone else. No, Jenkowski

479
00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,000
Speaker 2: came out of the game because Neimo filled in for Jakowski.

480
00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,640
Speaker 2: So it ended working out because Nemo gets on second base,

481
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Speaker 2: Mets win the game. Our boy Francisco Lindor because he's

482
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Speaker 2: the absolute man. He's so good, game winning hit.

483
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Speaker 1: He had a series. We'll talk about that as we

484
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Speaker 1: move on a little bit more, but my goodness, it's

485
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Speaker 1: just it's nice to see the Mets play well. I mean,

486
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Speaker 1: even out of you know, when the tenth came in

487
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Speaker 1: and did a really good job while making it a

488
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Speaker 1: little close, make a little tight, but that's what happens

489
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Speaker 1: with the guy on the second base. It's always tight.

490
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Speaker 2: Big ups any reliever who gets through that inning without

491
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Speaker 2: giving up a run. That is such a massive victory.

492
00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,040
Speaker 2: Another interesting decision that was made that wasn't really talk

493
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Speaker 2: about again because the Mets won the game handedly and

494
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,880
Speaker 2: the exact that bat worked out. But when you don't

495
00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,280
Speaker 2: give up a run that tenth inning and you're the

496
00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,760
Speaker 2: home team and you only need one run to win

497
00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 2: the game, and based on again the rules of baseball.

498
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,359
Speaker 2: You can only score one run. That was in my

499
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Speaker 2: mind that is a mussbunt situation. That's also a call

500
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Speaker 2: back to just the previous inning when the Mets at

501
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,680
Speaker 2: first and second, nobody out in Luisky or May just again,

502
00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,399
Speaker 2: needing one run to win the game. You move the

503
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Speaker 2: man from second to third, which just went out, and

504
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:32,800
Speaker 2: you give yourself a bad chance to score the run.

505
00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,159
Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil leading off the tenth had that option. He

506
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,200
Speaker 2: was did not square around a bunt and he got

507
00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,040
Speaker 2: quickly got spun around to an h two count, and

508
00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,800
Speaker 2: I was freaking out, losing my mind that we're gonna

509
00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,119
Speaker 2: blow a chance to move Brandon with third base with

510
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Speaker 2: one out. But Jeff McNeil, the professional he is, he

511
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Speaker 2: hit the ground ball second base and we got Brandon

512
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Speaker 2: with third anyway. And then Lindor hit the walk off single,

513
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 2: so didn't we didn't need the bunt anyway. But that

514
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,760
Speaker 2: was another small grape I had about again, you're talking

515
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Speaker 2: about process the inning before you had hither up. I

516
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Speaker 2: know they very different hits l Wisky or Mamy, Jef McNeil,

517
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Speaker 2: but scoring one run wins the game. You can't score more.

518
00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,880
Speaker 2: You're not allowed. So you want to get that guy

519
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 2: from second to third any way you can, and a

520
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 2: strikeout there would have been a true disaster.

521
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, it would have been It would have been bad.

522
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 1: We spent even more than twenty minutes talking about this game, yes,

523
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,920
Speaker 1: and honestly, it's probably gonna be the most robust game

524
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,879
Speaker 1: because sure the rest were pretty straightforward for the most part.

525
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean Game two, we had Shures are on the

526
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Speaker 1: mound and we saw Max schers or guys. We saw

527
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Speaker 1: Max suers are in city field wearing the blue and orange,

528
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Speaker 1: and that is the thirty million dollar man we paid for.

529
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Speaker 1: Holy shit, he's good. Oh my god, this it finally

530
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,000
Speaker 1: felt like he arrived. Yeah. The two starts on the road,

531
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Speaker 1: he pitched.

532
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Speaker 2: Well, well enough to win, but he didn't do things

533
00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,480
Speaker 2: that people around baseball had been accustomed to seeing. Max

534
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,160
Speaker 2: Schurz are due and this time he did, going seven

535
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Speaker 2: innings ten strikeouts.

536
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Speaker 1: There was a stat that they've talked.

537
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Speaker 2: About in this game, Sures are hitting a some kind

538
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,360
Speaker 2: of threshold of ten strikeout games. I want to say

539
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 2: it was like triple digit ten strikeout games or something

540
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 2: insane like that, because they spoke about it a few

541
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Speaker 2: times when he got to ten k but whatever, ten strikeouts,

542
00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,000
Speaker 2: one hit allowed. He took the no hitter through the

543
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000
Speaker 2: fifth inning, which was crazy. This was a game I

544
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 2: had planned to go to but chickened out because of

545
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,600
Speaker 2: the cold weather, so I was a little bit. I

546
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,440
Speaker 2: was kind of shitting myself during this point in the game.

547
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 2: But only allowed three hard hit balls, one walk, one

548
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,200
Speaker 2: earned run.

549
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Speaker 1: Absolute beast. He was just so good and he's a

550
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 1: psychopath as well. He was. He didn't get a call

551
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 1: or two. He didn't like how he pitched. There was

552
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,159
Speaker 1: a foul ball that got hit well, and he screamed.

553
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:26,680
Speaker 1: He was on the mound and screamed whatever obscenity, obscenity

554
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:31,359
Speaker 1: that he smummered, un murmured underneath mud muttered he had muttered,

555
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: murmured whatever it is underneath. His breath was just like

556
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,360
Speaker 1: a foul ball. I was like two hundred and fifty

557
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 1: feet like when his reaction made me think it was

558
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 1: crushed for a home run, foul ball, no damage. I

559
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 1: think he ended up getting the out, but it was

560
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 1: so nice to see him be the player we paid for.

561
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 1: He's so steady, he's so good. This is why we

562
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,360
Speaker 1: have him to pitch big games, to beat good teams,

563
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 1: and he just completely shut down the Giants.

564
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 2: Yes, and it did get a little harry for a

565
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 2: second while he still had that no hither. In the

566
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 2: sixth inning, he did walk back to back players, then

567
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,479
Speaker 2: allowed the RBS single, and that was when he had

568
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 2: the back to back walks.

569
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Speaker 1: That was when the discourse was beginning. Oh, they're gonna

570
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 1: take him out and ruin his no hither. And I

571
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 1: was like, well, this is a very close baseball guy.

572
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 2: I really want to win the game, especially as you know,

573
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 2: he's getting near one hundred pitches and it seems like

574
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:14,919
Speaker 2: they're finally starting to get to him a little bit.

575
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 2: But Scharzer kept the Giants off balance all night. Threw

576
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 2: forty percent fastballs and then a very clean fifteen percent

577
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 2: each slide, the curveball, change up color, just every single

578
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 2: pitch all over the plate, knew exactly where the ball

579
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 2: was going, got thirty three percent wess.

580
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: Overall, the guy was a.

581
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 2: Complete stud, just dominated again one of the smartest teams

582
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 2: in baseball.

583
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Speaker 1: And then backpacking that off of the really strong offense performance, higgybacking, Well,

584
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, Piggy he said backpacking, I say,

585
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 1: I meant to say piggybacking. Yeah, piggybacking. All right, you

586
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: know I'm not backpacking. I'm not backpacking. I never would,

587
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 1: but piggybacking Off the incredible performance, the offense was also

588
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 1: really strong and got to Logan Web quick and early

589
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 1: and knocked him out of this game. For a guy

590
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Speaker 1: who a lot of people considered to be one of

591
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: the top fifteen pitchers in.

592
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 2: This league, the best thing about this matchup with the

593
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 2: Mets with low Logan Web is that they very clearly

594
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: had a plan of attack for him, very similarly to

595
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 2: how the Giants had that Ford Tyler McGill, and they

596
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 2: executed the two perfection. First inning of this game, Francisco

597
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 2: Lindor took a low sinker and just went with it

598
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 2: to the opposite field. It got a single next inning,

599
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 2: as as Royal westcar did the same thing. As this

600
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 2: was going on, the Mets were working deep counts. They

601
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 2: were putting Web behind. Next time Francisco Lindoor came up,

602
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 2: he was very ready for a change up. He acted

603
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 2: it down the line for what I think turned out

604
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 2: to be an RBA double or RBI had scored.

605
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 1: Him a run.

606
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 2: Next inning after that when they finally did chase Logan

607
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 2: web from this game. And the fourth the fourth inning

608
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: of a guy who some people had a cy young

609
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 2: pick before the season, Pilonzo got down oh two.

610
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: He piled off a couple.

611
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 2: Of tough, breaking balls, He looked at a couple of

612
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 2: really close pitches, and he wound up working a walk animo,

613
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 2: if you will, being down oh two, and he more

614
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 2: or less threw his bat on the ground, pumped his

615
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 2: fist and like let out a scream of exalt into

616
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 2: the met's dugout that were banging on the on the

617
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,679
Speaker 2: rail looking back at him, being like, yeah, you did it.

618
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 2: You worked very tough at bad against a very good pitcher,

619
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Speaker 2: and that just to see every single guy in the

620
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 2: team like locked in and to get against the pitcher

621
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 2: who you knew you had to be very very prepared

622
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 2: to beat. Dad talk about vibes, Those are some vibes

623
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 2: and just knowing you have your race on the mound

624
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 2: and you want to do everything you can to get

625
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:10,199
Speaker 2: him a.

626
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: Victory because he deserves it. I think that's a really

627
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: good word to use too. Is that while we talked

628
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: about the processing Game one a little all over the place.

629
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,479
Speaker 1: I will say the players feel very, very prepared for

630
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: every matchup. They feel very unified. This feels like a

631
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: team we saw it at points in different years and

632
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,360
Speaker 1: different seasons at different times, but this team definitely has

633
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: a good feeling. They definitely seem like they're want I mean,

634
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: even like Lindorm McNeil, who might have had a little

635
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: beef and the pass. Those guys are high five and

636
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: they're cheering McNeil smiling when he's getting out. That's something

637
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,959
Speaker 1: I never thought I would see. The vibes are immaculate,

638
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,479
Speaker 1: and I do think a big reason has to be

639
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: with a lot of the guys that they brought in,

640
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: one being Eduardo esco bar Eddie Escobaums is an absolute beast.

641
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: Was he leading the league in doubles right now? There is?

642
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: He's so good. You guys know, I love a good

643
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: double and that's why I was so happy about Eduardo

644
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: Escoborre because I said, doubles machine something the Mets couldn't

645
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: do last year, felt like we couldn't hit doubles and

646
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: he's laying in the league doubles. I'm through the through

647
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: the moon that Eduardo Escobar is playing exactly how I hoped.

648
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 2: Absolutely had the two Ribby double in this game that

649
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 2: winds up chasing logan Web and knocking the logan Web

650
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 2: out in the fourth inning. That's that's again in and

651
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 2: of himself crazy. That was the shortest outing that he's

652
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 2: had since he got good last July. That was July

653
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 2: ninth of last year. That was the last time he

654
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 2: did not complete four innings, and this is just the

655
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 2: second time since July twenty first of last year Logan

656
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 2: Web didn't finish five innings.

657
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: And this is a guy who handled him as pretty

658
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: easy last year. A very different team.

659
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 2: But it just really shows the growth of this offensive

660
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 2: unit that we were able to get to again, someone

661
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 2: who's perceived to be as one of the better pitchers

662
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,360
Speaker 2: in the National League and knock him from a game

663
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: and get into a Giants bullpen who had to pitch

664
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 2: a lot of innings in the first game because Octoba

665
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 2: to leave with an injury.

666
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: Yep. No, the Mets were really, really good. Lindor hitting

667
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: four for nine overall in the double header, pair of doubles,

668
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: steeling bases, driving in runs, almost had a home run yep,

669
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: so close that dude's locked in. He's the MVP player

670
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: we paid for, guys, and he's been unbelievably good. It's

671
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: crazy to say that we have to have this conversation. Yeah,

672
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: but you have to feel so stupid, you have to

673
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: talk about real egg on your face to say how

674
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: bad Lindor was last year and think that was gonna

675
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: be the player he was going to be for this

676
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: New York Mets team. This is the Francisco Lindor I

677
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: think we're ready for. I think this is the Francisco

678
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 1: Lindor we're going to continue to see. He is so

679
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: locked in, he's so comfortable, he's so so good.

680
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,239
Speaker 2: He's just incomplete control of everything going on around him,

681
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 2: seemingly at all times. The way he's working the count,

682
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 2: the way he's taking free basis, the way he's not

683
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 2: striking out, not striking.

684
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 1: Out at all, and he's still walking at like over

685
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: ten percent, like his getting on base streak up until

686
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: Game three, he was on base every game this year. Yes,

687
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 1: that's huge. It's huge for guy hitting at the top

688
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: of the order especially, and that's why Pete and Escobard

689
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,239
Speaker 1: all these guys have these huge RBI numbers too. The

690
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: top of the order is getting on base so much

691
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: in Lindoor is a huge, huge part of that.

692
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's just it's a pleasure to see the guy

693
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 2: that we traded for and paid for excelling for the

694
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 2: first time in his Mets career.

695
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: Looks comfortable, looks really comfortable, looks happy, thrill to be

696
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: a New York Met fitting real nicely. That orange of blue. Yeah,

697
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: so the guy we've been waiting for, Tom Smith. Also

698
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 1: a little bit off the Schneid good RNBI single, which

699
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: is nice because Dom had been struggling early in the season,

700
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 1: hadn't really been making a lot of contact. Look better

701
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: in game two and then we finished it with a

702
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: clean Trevor May save filling in because he has got

703
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: Game one. Yes, Trevor May wait to step up, dude,

704
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: you needed that, no drama, great sweep of the doubleheader, fantastic,

705
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: feeling great going into game three. Yeah, buzzing after this

706
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: game is absolutely buzzing, Absolutely buzzing. We needed to come

707
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: in though, maybe a little more buzzy though, because Game

708
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: three were up, going up. Yeah, we were buzzing. Yeah,

709
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: we were buzzing of course. Game three though, going up

710
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: against Carlos Rodin, who you've heard the boys talk about

711
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: all off season long, is it's my number one target.

712
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: He was a guy I wanted all off season long,

713
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: and he was just really good. Second off season.

714
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 2: What the second off.

715
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, the second off season. He was just really good.

716
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 1: He was sick, he was disgusting, he was unhittable, and like,

717
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: that's kind of the picture that we thought we would see.

718
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: Wherever he goes feels like you've got a nice little

719
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: home in San Francisco. Yeah.

720
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 2: Statistically, right now, Carlos Rodan is the best picture in

721
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 2: baseball and it's pretty evident to see why. And it

722
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 2: even helps him a lot that before he got to

723
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 2: the mound he was handed a very crispy three nothing lead.

724
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, Basketts did not have it early on. They were

725
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: figuring him out, kind of let me go jumping on him.

726
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 2: But this similarly to McGill, where the Giants were like

727
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: locked in hitting fastballs, turning the around some big velocity,

728
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 2: this was a lot of digs and dunks, a lot

729
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 2: of bass hits, guys coming around first to third, shit

730
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: like that. Opening up the game, Trampsky hit the blooper

731
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 2: that cannot just his first game playing in the outfield

732
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: in a couple of days, took a step back and

733
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 2: went up, not being able to get in the ball.

734
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: He did the same thing the next play. Br Francisco

735
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: inndoor bailed him out, just coming across the diamond like

736
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 2: an NFL wide receiver, bursting through the middle of the field.

737
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: Incredible catch on a pop up. And then Darren rufforand

738
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 2: a tough walk or a couple of close calls. Jock

739
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 2: laced a double really only hard hit ball I recalled

740
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 2: basket giving up, and then Crawford bloop, Wilmer flores, nice

741
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: easy base hit and booms three nothing before he could

742
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 2: even blank in the ballpark.

743
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and rodn just shoved me. Yeah, he took that

744
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: lead and shoved down the throat, I mean the nim Okay,

745
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: you saw that, You're like, oh, yeah, it looks it

746
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: looks pretty domin completely overpowered Mets.

747
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 2: Hitters Carls were down stepping on them out with three

748
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 2: nothing lead and the Mets promptly looking uncompetitive with a

749
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: the most strikeout very week, Starling Marte ground ball and

750
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: the Lindor lazy foul pop ups in the first basement.

751
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: You're thinking, oh, this might be a long one. Yeah,

752
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: and then it got at it on the second inning

753
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: where Brandon Belt, the birthday boy, who is statistically horrendous

754
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: on his birthday. I think he's like, oh for eighteen

755
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: and first year he was.

756
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 2: In the big leagues on his birthday, he was sent

757
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 2: down after the game, which that's.

758
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: That's not good vibes. No crush one rush one into

759
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: the Pepsi corner, Coca Cola corner, pepps call whatever whatever

760
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: it's called. Now, down four nothing, just a guess again

761
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: that right, Yeah, I guess I gotta start getting that right.

762
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: I'm confidence called the Pepsi. It is one hundred percent

763
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: of the Coca Cola corner? Was it used to? It used

764
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: to be pepsi undred percent? Okay, that's where it is.

765
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: They made that change a few years then. Not a

766
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: place I frequent too often. Now, I mean, you gotta

767
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: do it more than that me and more than me

768
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: at least. Okay, that's fair. But I also go to

769
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: more games than you. Probably it's true. I'm a man

770
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: who likes to watch a good Tuesday night game by myself. Anyway,

771
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,239
Speaker 1: Down four nothing, ya Shremski RBI single five nothing and

772
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: the Mets were completely just out of stalemate. Couldn't could

773
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: not hit Carlos Redondon. I'm not even mad. I'm not

774
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: even mad. He's just one of He's one of the

775
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: best pitchers in baseball when he's healthy. He looks healthy.

776
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: He was pumping the fastball, everything was working for him.

777
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: He was dominating. You're gonna run into that. It's a

778
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: long season. You can't always hit the best pitchers in

779
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: baseball and knock them out early.

780
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 2: No, He's got a strikeouts to walk ratio of around

781
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: six right now, six strikeouts per walk, which is just unbelievable.

782
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: The Mets only had two hard to ball's the entire game,

783
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: and I don't usually break down the other pitches, but

784
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 2: this is meaningful enough. Carlos Rodonald threw over eighty percent

785
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: fastballs in this game, and almost all of them were

786
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 2: up in the zone, and the Mets had absolutely no

787
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: chance to even find it. They had no semblance of

788
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: a chance against his fastball for most of the game.

789
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 2: Thank god, he won, pitched five innings. They get eight

790
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 2: strikeouts in those five innings. For all my gamblers at

791
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: home out there. But this was just a dominant pitcher

792
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 2: doing dominant things.

793
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: That's what happens. And I think it's also worth noting

794
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: too that while Chris Bassett did have his early struggles,

795
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: he somehow went six innings yeah, and was th was

796
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: a big six innings. As weird as it sounds like,

797
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: you probably shouln't have taken him out anyway, because he

798
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: did settle in and like a hundred pitch Yeah, he

799
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: was like one hundred pitches. He pitched fine after the struggles.

800
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 2: Even during the struggles, he didn't really pitch that bad,

801
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: like he was just like they were just hitting singles

802
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 2: and they were finding Oh, was the only game of five

803
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: hard hit balls the whole whole game, six innings, got

804
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 2: six strikedowns, one walk. Is just they found it. And

805
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 2: it's amazing. In every single game of this series, including

806
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 2: this one, the Mets starter went longer than the Giants,

807
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 2: and that gave them a bullpen advantage that we really

808
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: were able to feel. And that is a big reason

809
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: why the Mets got back into this game, the fact

810
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: that for three straight games the Mets that starting pitcher

811
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: go at least six innings. Your good relievers were ready

812
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: and in the situation like this where you're down by

813
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 2: a few runs early. You need guys to keep the

814
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 2: door shut if you want a chance to get back in.

815
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: And then things got a little bit interesting with fast

816
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: forward here to the seventh inning. Let's let's rally a

817
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: little bit. We talked about rodn getting knocked out of

818
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: the game. Well, he didn't knock out. I shouldn't they

819
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: knock out leaving the game. I left the game on

820
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: his own accord. Gave Kapler and his wizard's cloak. We

821
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: moved him from the game for some reason. Can we

822
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: talk about that real quick. I don't know if you

823
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: guys have seen it on TV.

824
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: Tweet this if you can, but Gabe Kapler for the

825
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: first couple of games this series, Cold Games, Cold Games,

826
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 2: Mind you Night, and gave Kepler as a manager of

827
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 2: San Francisco Cold Place.

828
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: Most of the summer, he was.

829
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 2: Wearing this giant's pullover. It might have been just rigorous

830
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 2: hip up jacklar.

831
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: I think it was.

832
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was some kind of black looking cloak that

833
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 2: went basically to his knees.

834
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: But it was like looked light like.

835
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 2: It wasn't like one of those big thick burley winter

836
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: jack you see walk around New York. It was like

837
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: split in the middle in the back. It looked like

838
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 2: something like a conductor would wear to a symphony, an orchestra.

839
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was split. It had like the tails or

840
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: whatever they call it, an assassin's creed side character. It

841
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: was awkwardly long because you just you saw like his

842
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: calves because he was wearing high socks too. Like I

843
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: think the whole get up black made me visibly uncomfortable.

844
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: I did not like the cloak. I mean, it's gay Kepler,

845
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna do it. He's a little out there. He's

846
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: a little out there, but here we go. Seventh inning

847
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: rally or boy Luis feu or May who had a

848
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: really nice week and got a lot of play this

849
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: weekend as well, which is nice to see because he's

850
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: a good ballplayer. We talked about it last year a

851
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: lot that we thought he was gonna have a really

852
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: big impact on this team last year, and it feels

853
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: like after shaving the beard, the beardless wonder, he got

854
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: on base six times this series. Yes, started three games.

855
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,239
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, that's a really productive guy to have

856
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: on your bench. Played shortstop, played second, we know he

857
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: can play third. Like, he's a really really nice player

858
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: to have here, which is nice to see because we

859
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: called this last year it's just coming into fruition now.

860
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is something we might start to see

861
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 2: a little bit more of because as our traditional dhs

862
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: that we have on this roster, between Dominic Smith and

863
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 2: Robinson Canoe, as they maybe continue not to hit as

864
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: well as some people I'm sure, especially internally, hope they

865
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 2: would hit. If you're not getting big production from a

866
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: bat like that at DH, you might as well just

867
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: get your best defender in the game more often and

868
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 2: then let one of your regular guys get a blow.

869
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,239
Speaker 2: Like Thursday's game Lefrancisco Indoor DH pee Alonzo. Much has

870
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: been made about his success at DH this year. Get

871
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil day, get brand Nemo a day. Then you

872
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 2: mix in the Canoe the Smith. But just as additional

873
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: dhs don't hit, the Mets are going to have the

874
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: opportunity to use the DH the way it's probably most

875
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: advantageous to be used the way that we harped should

876
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: be used in the offseason. By getting better defense out

877
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: there and then giving your stars arrest, we could stay

878
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: more injury free.

879
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: And he's an on base machine. He's an on base machine.

880
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: Two's great at bats. There's very few times, very few

881
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: times it goes down on two three. No, I would

882
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: love actually know what the stat is. But got on

883
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: base one out walk, mccannon struck out. But then Nemo,

884
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: our boy is so good. He's so good. Big two

885
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: out knock. Starling Marte follows it up with an RBI

886
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: single and the place was bumping it. It had the

887
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: feeling of we're gonna do this again. Yes, we are

888
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: gonna do this again. With Lindor coming up to the plate,

889
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: first and third, two outs, Pete on deck, you have

890
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: the meat of your order and starn Marte goes on

891
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: the first pitch steal second, first pitch.

892
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: Tough.

893
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: So we found out why he has the green light

894
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: when Starling Marte wants to steal, he has, he has

895
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: the right to, and after the game he said it's

896
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: because he wanted to get in scoring position. He felt

897
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: that there was a chance to get in scoring position

898
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: with Lindor and Pete coming up to really make this

899
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: game interesting. While he's technically not wrong, no, that's true.

900
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: That's a true statement. He would get in scoring position

901
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: if he's stole second. I think for one of your

902
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: hottest hitters coming up, and even after that, your two

903
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: best hitters on this entire team, and Francisco and Nordon

904
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 1: pi Alonza, Yes, are coming up with the place jumping,

905
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: and we had whoever was pitching was on the ropes?

906
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: Was it Tyler Rodgers at this point, h Tyler Rodgers

907
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: was the eighth inning weirdness. Think it was your boy Leon?

908
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Clemson asshole dominic Leone. I have a

909
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: real hatred for Clemson. Sorry Clemson listeners out there, but

910
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: as a game cock, I have to do it on

911
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,919
Speaker 1: the ropes, getting nice hits, leaving around loud. The place

912
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: was jumping, like we said, sucked the air out of

913
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: the place, and Marte was visibly pissed. He was visibly upset.

914
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, hindsight's twenty twenty. I'm sure if

915
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: he really thought about it a little bit longer. Yeah,

916
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: he's not going. And I don't even know if there's

917
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: a sign that if Buck was managing this game because

918
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: one of these, yeah, one of these, don't run. No,

919
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: we're not stealing. And you saw when he came up

920
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: player in the game, he took like a.

921
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 2: Foot lead and he looks very even like sorry, Marte

922
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 2: usually like he's put poping his chest out. She's a

923
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: changed jersey button open. He looked very like the butt.

924
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: You can see the bye language. He was sullen yes

925
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: the rest of the game after the cost, which I

926
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 2: don't want to see any player in the team ever

927
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: having bad by language. But just like he he got

928
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 2: you do he did something wrong and Charlie Martey again.

929
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: He has earned the credits to have this green Knight

930
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: all the time, and he has earned the credit ability

931
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 2: to say I can steal a base in situation where

932
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 2: it's probably not traditionally expected or even helpful, possibly in

933
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: a way, and I could be able to do it

934
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 2: like I was expecting if Starry Martin is gonna steal

935
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 2: a base there that the picture is so locked in

936
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 2: Francisco indoor.

937
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're getting a running start.

938
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: You're already halfway there before he's even in set, Like

939
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 2: you're you blaze.

940
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: To that base. So it's like a two strike steal

941
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: because at the absolute worst then like next sitting you

942
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: bailed him out of a tough that bad or it's

943
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: a it's a steel where it's like I'm one hundred

944
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: percent going to make it like and you see guys

945
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: like Starling Marte, really savvy veteran base steelers. They know pitches,

946
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: they know they know pictures, they know cadences, they know situations,

947
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: they know when no, they're not being looked at, and

948
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: you can take a mongo lead and just go ballistic

949
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 1: on it. But it didn't happen. It just it felt

950
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 1: like maybe the situation was really big. Sorry Moore tepe

951
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 1: how many times he played in front of a loud

952
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: crowd between the Pirates, Diamondbacks and Marlins A's I'm sure, yeah,

953
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: the a's I'm sure he was vibing. I'm sure he

954
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: was feeling the vible, so he's probably, Oh, man, if

955
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: I could steal a base here, we could really get crazy.

956
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: It didn't end up working out. Again, it's not why

957
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: we lost the game. This narrative something have to talk about.

958
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: And then the eighth inning also got weird because anytime

959
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: Tyler Rodgers, who throws essentially underhand and throws about eighty

960
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: miles an hour, takes the mound, it's gonna get weird.

961
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 2: And he made us look bad multiple times last season

962
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 2: and during the double head so Tyler Rodgers, it seemed

963
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 2: like to this point had the Mets number.

964
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: And Lindor sharp line out, thinking, ooh, it's a hard

965
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: hit ball. We don't really see too many hard hit balls.

966
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: Then Pete got the single. Then Eddie Escobaum got the single,

967
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: and then Mark Cannon gets an RBI Marky Cheerios fiber

968
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: FID like six hundred percent Markee Serio fiber one over

969
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: there getting another hit for us. Great, and now we

970
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,919
Speaker 1: have a situation where there are two men on, we're

971
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 1: down by three runs and JD. Davis due over the play.

972
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 2: J D. Davis started this game against left handed pitcher

973
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 2: calls for Donald it seems to be his role. He

974
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: actually started third bas in this game. We need so

975
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 2: many other things have happened this yeriares. We totally forgot

976
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 2: to mention that j D's Davis like third base yesterday.

977
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 1: Play fine, Yeah he did good.

978
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 2: You had that one play where it was like a

979
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 2: little like little stab he got a little scare of

980
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 2: the ball.

981
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: But hey, JD.

982
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 2: Davis nothing else as an absolute canned. He did make

983
00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: some nice plays over there.

984
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: Whatever. But after Don left the game, J D.

985
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: Davis stayed in to face right handed reliever John Breba,

986
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: and he hit a one hundred and seven mile an

987
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 2: hour screamer that found the left fielder's glove. I don'

988
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 2: remember if he has was in left field this game, whatever,

989
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 2: but whatever hit a very hard line drive. It gets

990
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 2: the right handed pitchers. You're thinking, Okay, Jay Davis is

991
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: a good hitter. Objectively, Yeah, We've never been afraid that

992
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 2: Jay Davis facing right handed pitcher. It's not like he

993
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 2: has insane platoon split. It's not like he's it's not

994
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 2: like he's not good at this, Like this is something

995
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: that seems to be okay.

996
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: And then Robson Canoe came up and pitch hit for him,

997
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: which I really do think in that situation. I know,

998
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: we talk about processing and technically Cano has the advantage

999
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: right because the left handed, right handed, you know platoon thing.

1000
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: In this exact situation, I would say, like, if you've

1001
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 2: put this one at bat in a vacuum, might say, yes,

1002
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 2: there's probably a better likelihood that Robson Cano gets a

1003
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 2: hit off of Tyler Rodgers than JD.

1004
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: Davis.

1005
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 2: But the fact that the Mets now started this brigade

1006
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 2: of pinch hitters coming up after this, especially when Jeff

1007
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 2: McNeil also didn't start this game, similarly to Robinson Cano

1008
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 2: against Carlos were done. It made everything not fit together

1009
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: as well. And also have to mention that Buck Shoalter

1010
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 2: was not managing this game. No, this game was managed

1011
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 2: by committee. The Mets said, between.

1012
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: Hefner's, Chavez and Dick Scott. Yes, so it's a three

1013
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: headed monster that they were self proclaimed, and it kind

1014
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: of showed because really, at the end of the day,

1015
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: if Cano's gonna be the first guy off the bench,

1016
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: that includes McNeil and dom We know the hierarchy. We

1017
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: talked about that before. It's McNeil dom Cano. Yeah.

1018
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 2: Sure, if you looked at the other games in the series,

1019
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: especially back in the weekend when Brandimba wasn't active, Jeff

1020
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: McNeill was leading off.

1021
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. If you think that Jeff McNeil.

1022
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 2: Is better enough, better the Robson can know to lead

1023
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 2: the offl Robinson Cano hit fifth or sixth. It's hard

1024
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 2: for me to reason how or why Jeff McNeil should

1025
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 2: be the third bat off the bench against Tyler Rodgers, and.

1026
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: Especially because McNeil could play third, Yes, and we saw

1027
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: him play third the next inning. He came out to

1028
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: play defensively, which was even more confusing that we then

1029
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: didn't even get to use his pinch it the next inning.

1030
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially also because Dominic Smith pinch hit for Luis

1031
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 2: ki or May yet bad after this. Luis ki or

1032
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 2: May is a left handed Yeah, the and he's had

1033
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 2: some very nice at bats this series, and dom I

1034
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: would say, hasn't had that many nice at bats. So

1035
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 2: for some reason, if you put all these five hitters

1036
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 2: together between J. D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Dominic Smith, Robinson Cano,

1037
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 2: and Luisky Ormey, you said, and we're gonna give a

1038
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 2: bats to guarantee dom Smith the Robinson Cano, I would

1039
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 2: tell you, I don't really know if that's the exactly

1040
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 2: order I put them in. Tyler Rodgers did end up

1041
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: getting out of this unscathed. Robson Cano hit a lazy

1042
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 2: ground ball that didn't wasn't double play, thank god, and

1043
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 2: got the runners over. And then dom Smith came up

1044
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 2: and he did do what he had to do. His

1045
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 2: screamer the Wilmore Floor has left in the air basically

1046
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 2: a snow cone.

1047
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 1: His glove. Wimer Floor is like one of the least

1048
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: athletic athletic people I think I've ever come across. He

1049
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: never made a play like that from that, so I

1050
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: love Wilmer. He never made a play like that at

1051
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 1: the hot corner. Wilmer, No, please, he's the first baseman.

1052
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 1: But he made a huge play. He made an impact

1053
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: this series. Was a ballplayer then.

1054
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: But then now you're in a situation where you just

1055
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 2: pinched hit for two of your infielders between JD. Davis

1056
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: and Luis ki Ormey. So now robs of Cano had

1057
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: to stay in the game for defense, come in play

1058
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: second base. And we've said in the past that there

1059
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 2: shouldn't be that many situations for this Mets team where

1060
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 2: Robinsno's playing defense after the seventh inning, and then without

1061
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 2: using Jeff McNeil's bat, you now had to sub him

1062
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: in to play third rather than second, which is the

1063
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 2: position he's significantly seems like less comfortable at, given the

1064
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 2: fact he's only played five total innings there in the

1065
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 2: last full season since the beginning of pointy twenty one.

1066
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 2: And he was slided into the bomb of your batting order.

1067
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: And the other thing that's confusing too, Yeah, bot by

1068
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: the batting order, he was gonna pinchhit for James McCann

1069
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: if that spot did come up, he was on deck, yes,

1070
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: when Don was up, and now it's just McCann's hitting.

1071
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 2: Because who you're pinch hitting form, and that that's why

1072
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 2: I mentioned that thing before about the cano for JD.

1073
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 2: Pinch hit makes sense in a vacuum, but the fact

1074
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 2: that you had to use Jeff McNeil anyway, if you're

1075
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 2: pinch hitting for j D.

1076
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: Davis and you were gonna be able to save him

1077
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: for a potential at bat later in the game. For

1078
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: James McCann, a.

1079
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: Guy that the Mets have shown a inclination to pinch

1080
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 2: hit four in the past, it just seemed like a

1081
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 2: bad use of three bench players and inefficient use of

1082
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 2: three bench players.

1083
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: Here, and this again could be because Buck was not there.

1084
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 1: I think that's a real passible. Yeah, I think it's

1085
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: a real possiblity. Hefner, Chavez, Dick Scott. I don't think

1086
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: i've any managerially experienced so.

1087
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: No, no, no, there, Eric Schavaz and Jeremy Hefner is

1088
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 2: significantly close to being actual baseball players, he imagines based

1089
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 2: on their age and experience.

1090
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: So maybe it showed mccannon ended up actually walking in

1091
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: the ninth, but that was it. That was ball game.

1092
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: They lost. You're gonna lose games Giants, a one hundred

1093
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: and seven win team. It's stunk because I was winnable.

1094
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 1: But at the same time, two three, at the point,

1095
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: at the moment, you're still feeling good going into Game

1096
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: four with Carlos Carrasco on the mound, going up against

1097
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: Tony desk Lefani, who we know is susceptible to get

1098
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: hit hard yep. And Carlos Carrasco. Man, Wow, yeah, wow,

1099
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: Cookie is freaking back. Oh my goodness. Before you go

1100
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: into the numbers, let's just let's keep in mind here

1101
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: that the Mets got Francisco indoor h and Carlos Carrasco

1102
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: essentially for Andres Jimenez and a Metaizario. I mean, are

1103
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: we are we kidding me? Looking looking Monday morning quarterback here?

1104
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: Theft of the century? Insane, absolutely insane. The way these

1105
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: guys are playing early on in this season. Even even

1106
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: the way they played last season, it was still pretty

1107
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: good trade. It was fine trade. Yeah, It's not like

1108
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: Rosario or gymn has a breaking down barrier, No, and

1109
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: that have these two guys. When Carrasco pitches like this

1110
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: and Lindor swinging the bat like he has, and we

1111
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: saw it in this game too. My god, I mean, Carrasco,

1112
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: this is the guy, yes, we thought we were getting

1113
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: last year.

1114
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 2: This is a guy who could be a very stable,

1115
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 2: middle of the rotation pitcher, a guy who's basically an

1116
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 2: auxiliary to the way he's.

1117
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 1: Pitched so far this season.

1118
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 2: And to have a guy like this in the back

1119
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 2: end of your staff, to be able to trust him

1120
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: to finish off a very good team and just tie

1121
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 2: a bow on a very hard fought series with tons

1122
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 2: and tons of close games, fifty to fifty plays, big

1123
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 2: decisions that impacted every single thing after that, like holy crap.

1124
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 2: And to do it with the cleanest start he's had

1125
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 2: as a Met in the year plus he's been here,

1126
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 2: the first time any Mets pitcher this year's pitched into

1127
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 2: the eighth inning through seven to two thirds, seven strikeouts,

1128
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 2: no walks, goose egg maybe only four hits, allowed two

1129
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: earned runs, and just four hard hit balls against a

1130
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 2: team who usually hits the ball very hard barrel kings

1131
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: from last year. This was Carrasco's first time working into

1132
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 2: the eighth innings in twenty nineteen before his diagnosis. Mind you,

1133
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 2: he retired eighteen in a row. At one point, he

1134
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 2: cruis through the middle innings of this game at a

1135
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 2: time when most pitchers and managers a little bit scared

1136
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,720
Speaker 2: of the pitchers facing line through the third time, Carls

1137
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 2: Grasco was throwing his best ball the entire game, and

1138
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 2: his stuff, every single.

1139
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: Pitch looked just freaking magical.

1140
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: His slyther holy shit. Like we were watching the game

1141
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 2: together and there were a few that you saw just

1142
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 2: duck out of the bottom of the zone that made

1143
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: me like audibly gasp. I was like, that is a

1144
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 2: Carls Carrasco slider I was seeing twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen

1145
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 2: when this guy was a cy young candidate for Cleveland.

1146
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: No, he was absolutely dominant, and he gave the Giants,

1147
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: who we know are one of the smarter teams who

1148
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff differently but it usually works.

1149
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: He gave them a really, really tough time. I means

1150
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: absolute madness. They could not touch this guy. He was

1151
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting. He was great. If he can give us

1152
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 1: seven innings, that's huge, especially when we have this bullpen

1153
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: problem that people like to say, even though we know

1154
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: that's not true. I think the Mets bullpen again.

1155
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 2: I'm knock on some wood right now, but I think

1156
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 2: they haven't given up a run in like ten straight innings,

1157
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 2: fourteenth straight inning, something like that.

1158
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they were. That's huge. That's huge to continue

1159
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: on with this dominant starting pitching that the Mets have

1160
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: had all year long. For a guy like Carlos Rasco

1161
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: to have basically five pitches use them all effectively, yeah,

1162
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: it makes him so much harder face and prepare for.

1163
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: And it seemed like the Giants were pretty much on

1164
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: their heels the whole game, not knowing what pitches were

1165
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 1: gonna come. I talked about the slider.

1166
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 2: That pitch was lethal, like a fifty percent whiffs and

1167
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 2: five more called strikes. That's just they had no chance

1168
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 2: to hit it. His fourcing fastball, actually his most thrown

1169
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 2: pitch in this game, had no whiffs at all, but

1170
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 2: had ten called strikes. The Giants when this pitch was coming,

1171
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 2: either Carrasco died so well in the black, which he

1172
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 2: did many times today, or they just weren't prepared for

1173
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 2: it because he was able to throw in an account

1174
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 2: that surprised him and his change up every single pitch

1175
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: doing their own job, generate just a ridiculous amount of

1176
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 2: soft contact. It was every single thing was working for him.

1177
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 2: This is the guy that thought we were going to

1178
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 2: get last year, and it brings me so much joy

1179
00:45:58,920 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 2: to see him now.

1180
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: Jeremy Hefner, I'll just always, I'll always anytime pitcher does well,

1181
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: it's it's credit to Jeremy Hefner, because we did see

1182
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: him struggle last year. There were struggles, and he looks

1183
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: like just like you said, the picture we were expecting

1184
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: the picture of old for a guy who's a little

1185
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: bit up there and had some issues. He looks absolutely

1186
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: fantastic and the bats. The bats did help a lot

1187
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: to Francisco Lindor. We talked about him having a weekend.

1188
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: We talk about him in the MVP conversation. Right now.

1189
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: I know, with twelve games into the thirteen games into

1190
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,800
Speaker 1: the season, whatever it is, but I will continue to

1191
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: bang that drum until I can bang it no more.

1192
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor is an absolute beast. He's an absolute stud.

1193
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: He is playing like one of the best players in baseball.

1194
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: We saw This has kind of nothing to do with

1195
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: his play right now, but we saw fangrafts adjusted f

1196
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: woar to be now out above average, to say us

1197
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: are he's a four win player last year, the worst

1198
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: year of his career, the worst year of his career

1199
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: is a four win player just generally an all star caliber.

1200
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: We saw him make plays defensively. We saw him swing

1201
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: the bat we didn't talk about because guy is such

1202
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: a great weekend. Who gives a shit about the bat

1203
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: throw that he made? Like it just it doesn't matter.

1204
00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: He was so memeed it we didn't even talk about it,

1205
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: I know. But that's how that's how insignificant it was,

1206
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: because it ended up being okay, made a great play.

1207
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 2: But Jeff McNeal not bunting in the tending of that game,

1208
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 2: I know, and not Francisco Indoor's throw, which made everyone

1209
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 2: have a small heart attack. And I was really sweating

1210
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 2: because the Lindoor haters are chomping at the bit. It's

1211
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: nice that we could forget about those close plays because

1212
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 2: he's doing so much at the plate like that's it's

1213
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 2: it's so nice.

1214
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait for the idiots to

1215
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: stop talking, stop chirping. He's here, he's good, He's an

1216
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: MVP caliber player. This is the three hundred million dollar man.

1217
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 2: There was an article that came out last year in

1218
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 2: the Washington Post that it's just I realed. I think

1219
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 2: the piece is over and over again last year, and

1220
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 2: I'm still calling back attention to it because it was

1221
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 2: by Neil Goldberg, who doesn't seem to know very much

1222
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 2: about baseball, especially baseball statistics, and he gave all these stupid,

1223
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 2: poorly paraphrase, bad sample size, poorly educated numbers on how

1224
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 2: and why Francisco Indoor was actually in a in a

1225
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 2: stretch that meant his career was over. And I shollowed

1226
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: it out after actually the double header, yeah, saying that

1227
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 2: Fancas guy's incredible. And there were two dudes a mess

1228
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 2: fan Yankee fan in the reply. I hope the Messa

1229
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 2: was listening to this. In the replies on that tweet,

1230
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 2: fighting for almost two full days. I love that back

1231
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 2: back and forth, like thirty straight messages about he's good,

1232
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 2: he's bad, he's good, he's bad, he's good.

1233
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 1: These bad different reasons.

1234
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: So just everyone, we got francisic gallendor This guy is

1235
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 2: a true superstar in his own right and such a

1236
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 2: fantastic baseball player that you want on your team.

1237
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: Day in and day out and be glad you have them. Fantastic.

1238
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: We also got a bomb, the first actual bomb of

1239
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: the year from Eddie Esco bombs. I just I love

1240
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: watching this guy play it does. It's my fucking boy,

1241
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: Like I got I gotta get an Escobar shirt or

1242
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: jersey at some point.

1243
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 2: If he makes an Esco bomb shirrets his face like

1244
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: black outline with like the dynamite, think coming out the top.

1245
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: That could be a pretty good one. That's actually kind

1246
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: of cool.

1247
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 2: I like that.

1248
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: If you guys want to see it, let it know,

1249
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: let us know if you're if you made it this

1250
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 1: far and you're listening. But just like having those guys

1251
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: carry this offense. This game was really nice. I mean,

1252
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: Nido even made an impact today. Sack fly we had

1253
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 1: a hit. The Mets did a hit and run with

1254
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: Luis k Or because of course they did it with

1255
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 1: Luiski and Jankowski, which is that's how those guys should

1256
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: be used. Yes, that is what they're good at. The

1257
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 1: Mets are putting their guys and situations to succeed. They're

1258
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: using the players the way they are meant to be.

1259
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: Cana clutch two out to RBI single. I mean Marky Cheerios.

1260
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: I love this guy. Now put the game right out

1261
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: of the reach too. We got very comfortable after that,

1262
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: super super clean win. The way the Mets have played

1263
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,240
Speaker 1: most of their games this year have been really clean wins.

1264
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 1: What's crazy to say is the four games we've lost

1265
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: were all winnable. We were in those games. Yes, we

1266
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: blew a couple of them, those were games we should

1267
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: have won.

1268
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 2: In theory, two we blew, and two we had chances

1269
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 2: to get back in it that we just didn't take

1270
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 2: advantage of.

1271
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm feeling really really good about

1272
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: this team. I'm feeling high.

1273
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 2: I'm feeling high too, and we should be because one

1274
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 2: this is our show, of course, and two we love

1275
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 2: the Mets and an unhealthy amount. But I do want

1276
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 2: to call attention to I told you this the other

1277
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 2: day one of my something that one of my friends said,

1278
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 2: who actually worked for the Houston Astros in a biomechanics department.

1279
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: He's a sharp guy down in Florida.

1280
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 2: But he said that people around baseball, especially this Astros team,

1281
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 2: they have a saying about the Mets, and said, no

1282
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 2: one cares more about the April victories than the new

1283
00:49:59,200 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 2: York Mets.

1284
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: You know what, fuck them, fuck them. April victories matter

1285
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: just as much as September. There is no difference. They

1286
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 1: all mean the same at the end of the season.

1287
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,720
Speaker 1: The more wins you get in April, the more wins

1288
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: you have at the end of the season. So, yeah,

1289
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: be mad at us for being excited that the Mets

1290
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: have the best record in baseball fourteen games into the season,

1291
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: or however many it is, sure, fourteen to fifteen, whatever

1292
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: it is. You know what, that's how good we're feeling.

1293
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: We just know we are the best.

1294
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 2: Mets have the most hits and the most runs in

1295
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 2: the whole league right now. They have played at least

1296
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 2: one more game than most teams. Sure, mind you, but

1297
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 2: Mets have more hits and more runs than any other

1298
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,399
Speaker 2: team in baseball. And could you imagine hearing that eight

1299
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 2: months ago?

1300
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: Can you imagine hearing that a month ago when everyone

1301
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: was talking about how this lineup didn't have enough, it

1302
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: didn't have enough. There's gonna be a Coultrea coming. I mean,

1303
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: we're for sure we're having a great time a now.

1304
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 2: Mark Canda's batting average on balls and play is approaching

1305
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 2: six hundred. He knick get out, no guys on first base,

1306
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 2: every single bad at minimum.

1307
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: He was born to play in New York. Mark Canna

1308
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: was born to be in New York. Met all these guys,

1309
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: it's just everything feels like it's coming together. The vibes

1310
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: are immaculate. Everybody is making an impact at some point,

1311
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 1: which is really really nice to see. I just I

1312
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: feel so good about this Mets, you know, feel so

1313
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: good about for inter school, indoor. Everything is just feel

1314
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: so good.

1315
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 2: We completely handled last year's best team in baseball who

1316
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 2: had five straight and people can say, oh those Las

1317
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 2: year was last year they five straight wins coming into

1318
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 2: this game. There were a lot of team in baseball

1319
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 2: as well. This team, it's hard to beat them. They

1320
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 2: do a lot of things right to take advantage of

1321
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 2: every single mistake that you make. They have a lot

1322
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 2: of hitters, they have a lot of pitchers. They're clutch,

1323
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 2: they're smart, and the Mets just kind of spun them

1324
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 2: around and gave him a spanking.

1325
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: This was a test A plus A plus flying colors,

1326
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 1: right flying colors for the New York Mets. Great series

1327
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: against the San Francisco Giants leading into an away series

1328
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: going up against the diamonbacks. But before we do talk

1329
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: about that, you guys know MIDWEK episode quick prospect report short,

1330
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: one long episode here, so much to talk about with

1331
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 1: the games, but let's talk about some of our guys

1332
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: out here. Yeah.

1333
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 2: Well, first off, I mean instead of Prospect Report, we

1334
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 2: just named this the Weekly Francisco overre segment because the

1335
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 2: guy's just a revelation in terms of baseball. He's actually

1336
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 2: has had a very rough week. His ops has dropped

1337
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: from fourteen hundred to thirteen hundred. So send him down

1338
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 2: some definitely something keep an eye on. Maybe s she'd

1339
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 2: go back to Brooklyn.

1340
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you go back to Brooklyn. Figure it out. The

1341
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: guy doesn't know he's doing. Did you see the fake

1342
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: double he got going up against the Portland Sea Dogs.

1343
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: They have like a green monster in left field, which

1344
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: almost looks bigger than the actual green monster. I think

1345
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: that's just the thing the Red Sox do is they

1346
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: like people to learn how to hit with the green Monster,

1347
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: so all their stadiums have it. He put one off

1348
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: the top of that, so he probably should have could have.

1349
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 2: Had another home run, and he did another home run

1350
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 2: this week, and he had the other ball last week.

1351
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: The scorched off the top of the wall.

1352
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 2: Also, did you see his performance in the Rumble Ponies

1353
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 2: Brawl from Thursday Nights, ripping people off. He got on

1354
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 2: top of someone who threw a punch at his pitcher.

1355
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: So, guys a beast yep, I like it, playing really

1356
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: good baseball. And then let's talk about a guy that

1357
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 1: you mentioned last year. Yes, who's got a little love

1358
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: from Keith Wall this year. Maybe a little premature, bud.

1359
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: He's starting to look right here, Alex Ramirez is tearing

1360
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: up a wall. Yeah, I'm gonna take credit for being

1361
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: one of that.

1362
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 2: I think the first people on the whole Internet without

1363
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 2: makes a comment about Alex Ramirez. A couple of the

1364
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 2: prospect guys out there I know been on him. But

1365
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 2: this guy in Saint Lucie is tearing the absolute cover

1366
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 2: off the ball right now. He struggled there tremendously. Last year,

1367
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 2: he was a batle league I said Mendousley. He was

1368
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 2: a battle league average hit who's striking out more than

1369
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 2: thirty five percent of the time, which he was an

1370
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 2: eighteen year old playing against mostly twenty twenty one to

1371
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 2: twenty two year old. So him even being league average

1372
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 2: with a lot of strikeouts, was like worrisome to the

1373
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 2: fact that maybe won't be a top prospect striking out

1374
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 2: this much.

1375
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: But the fact that he held his own that's a

1376
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: good sign. He's back in.

1377
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 2: Saint Lucie this year, and I'll tell you this guy

1378
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 2: was fucking ready to rumble. He's batting five hundred through

1379
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 2: nine games with a seven to twenty two slog right now,

1380
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 2: four doubles and two triples. Now he's got a ball

1381
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 2: over the wall yet, but that's gonna come. And you're

1382
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 2: the most excited about for Alexramirez.

1383
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: What do you got for me? Through these nine games?

1384
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: My guy is striking out just twelve percent of the time.

1385
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 2: That's unbelievable stuff coming from a guy was striking out

1386
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,879
Speaker 2: the same level over thirty percent of the time last year.

1387
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 2: This is the first step to being a potential top

1388
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 2: twenty prospect, a kind of guy who is has national acclaim.

1389
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 2: And this is the trajector that Alex Chemirez could be

1390
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 2: on if he continues in this toward stretch.

1391
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: And I love to see it growth and development. It's

1392
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: nice to see a player of his age, he's what

1393
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: nineteen years old? I think, yeah, developed like that playing

1394
00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: like he is, he still as young for the league

1395
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: by the one of the youngest players in this league. Yeah,

1396
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: he's a really fun prospect to keep an eye out for,

1397
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: and as we will the entire year during our prospect reports,

1398
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,439
Speaker 1: keep telling you about these young guys. Now, let's finish

1399
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: up the episode here by talking about the Diamondbacks preview.

1400
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: It's simple, it's easy. We saw them last weekend, not

1401
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: too long ago. The Diamondbacks stink. This team is not good,

1402
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: and we need to step on their throats. We have

1403
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: to absolutely dominate them. Yeah, I want to make rattle

1404
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,240
Speaker 1: snake soup after this one. That's got to be disgusting.

1405
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: I couldn't even imagine eating rattlesnake. I bet in the world,

1406
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, I probably in Arizona at the stake

1407
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: and they might have rattlesnake soup at the State. That'd

1408
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: be gross. That almost feel like a bad omen because

1409
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: your team is a Diamondbacks, that's true. Yeah, you make

1410
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: other soup. Giants soup, Yeah, giants soup up rock soup awful.

1411
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: But what are the pitching matchups here, James, I know, no.

1412
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: One day. We both have nobody's schedules Yeah, Saturday is

1413
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: gonna be weird. Neither team has a pitcher schedule for Saturday.

1414
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 2: It made a lot of logical sense for that to

1415
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 2: be Corbyn Martin's day because he threw a twinning relief

1416
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 2: outhing on I think it was Tuesday of this week,

1417
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 2: maybe even Wednesday, but Saturday to.

1418
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: Be your throat. Anyway, you can get three or four

1419
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: out of him. Diamondbacks.

1420
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 2: Somehow Someway sent him down before the game against Nationals

1421
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 2: on Thursday for Matt Davison, who actually probably had a

1422
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,879
Speaker 2: home run. Yea, So Saturday, we're gonna see. It's probably

1423
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 2: been Trevor Williams for the Mets.

1424
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: It could be Taiwan. It could be Taiwan. Taiwan made

1425
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: a rehab start in Jupiter, struck out seven and three innings.

1426
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: I believe looked really good. All good things. Hopefully the

1427
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: arm and the shoulders getting stronger and healthier. See velosity.

1428
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: I didn't see ve Lows on him. I didn't see

1429
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: got the strikeouts. He got the strikeouts. Must have been

1430
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: doing something right. He could make a start Saturday. He

1431
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: is eligible. He could. He's eligible, he could. I'm gonna

1432
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: say no. Yeah.

1433
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 2: And also with the Diamondbacks. I mean, maybe just tore

1434
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 2: Trevor Williams, see what happens. But Friday night is gonna

1435
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 2: be a very interesting game because we have David Peterson

1436
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 2: going up against Zach Gallon. We just saw Zach Gallen

1437
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 2: pretty much shut this down for I think was four

1438
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 2: innings last Saturday. Yeah, the guy who is one of

1439
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 2: i'd say the better pitches in baseball struggles with health

1440
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 2: not so much effect in this. And David Peterson is

1441
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: the guy who I've been pumping his tires a little bit,

1442
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 2: calling him league average as crazy as at my sound.

1443
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 2: This big test for Peterson if he can keep us

1444
00:55:57,960 --> 00:55:59,439
Speaker 2: in a game against the guy who is I would

1445
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 2: say very clearly in like the top twenty five percent

1446
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,839
Speaker 2: of pitchers in the league, starling pitchers at least dal

1447
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 2: give us a lot of confidence to even just start

1448
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 2: Trevor Williams on Saturday and feel okay.

1449
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be huge for David Pearson to come

1450
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: out and then just pitching Sunday for us.

1451
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 2: Sunday is Tyler McGill versus Madison Bumgardner in a pitching

1452
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 2: matchup of two monster humans.

1453
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: Monster humans, two guys that are mean, Yeah, mean dead serious,

1454
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: focused guys. I don't want to piss off by any means.

1455
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,240
Speaker 1: I don't want to make either of those guys angry.

1456
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: But the Mets should come out of this series on top.

1457
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 1: We saw the Dimebacks last weekend. They're not playing any

1458
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: better baseball. They're beating up on the Nationals. I guess

1459
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: kind of. I don't even know if they won. Yeah,

1460
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: whatever it is, the Mets are simply the better team,

1461
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 1: and we always kind of play well in Arizona. I

1462
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: tend to hit the bats come alive, which is nice.

1463
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: And Edwardo Escobar, I'm telling you he's gonna hit a

1464
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: home run this series as well. Yea, but he played

1465
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: well in Arizona. That's gonna be my call. Be the weekend. Yeah,

1466
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: I don't know about Gallon. Maybe Saturday. I'm feeling an

1467
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: Wardo home run, but against probably Caleb Smith, yeah, or

1468
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: whoever Taylor Widener if he's fell on this roster. Don't

1469
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: you slander a game cock? But also, yes, that's fair

1470
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: they could Saturday.

1471
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 2: There were some talks about that being a big prospect

1472
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 2: of the Diemac I think called Ryan Nelson his day

1473
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 2: actually does line up to pitch this Saturday pitch earlier

1474
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 2: in the week, So if it is Ryan Nelson, he

1475
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 2: throws upper nineties heat, he has a good slider, he

1476
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 2: has no k change up, and he's usually around the

1477
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 2: strike zone. That was a big problem for him heading

1478
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 2: into the year, but this year so far it seems

1479
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: to have possibly fixed that issue. Small sample, but he

1480
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 2: looks much better doing it. So that is Ryan Nelson.

1481
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 2: Keep an eye out because he's a guy who does

1482
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 2: have some potential.

1483
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: Keep the good vibes rolling, keep the hits coming, keep

1484
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: the pitching going, and the Mets will not have a problem.

1485
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: Hopefully we get the series win. We should get the

1486
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: series with pray to God and it's a perfect time

1487
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: to wrap up this episode here episode eighty five of

1488
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: the Mets Stuff Podcast, presented by the Seven Line. Thank

1489
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: you guys for listening, Thank you for watching. If you're

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Speaker 1: eighty six of the Mess Up Podcast.

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