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Speaker 2: Actually, I don't know nothing's going right, So maybe maybe

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Speaker 2: we switch it up here. Let James take the intro

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Speaker 2: because sure ain't working over here by me still doing it.

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Speaker 2: So James, I'm gonna I'm gonna defer to you. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna put you on the spot a little bit here,

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Speaker 2: it's your time take over the intro for us one time.

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Speaker 1: Great love that. What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to another episode of the Met Stuff podcast.

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Speaker 3: The Mets just wrapped up another interesting series out in

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Speaker 3: our nation's capital, Washington, DC. We're gonna talk about it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what we're gonna say about it. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna talk about it because there were still a couple

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Speaker 3: of good things that happened, definitely a couple not so

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Speaker 3: good things that happened, and you just you guys all

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Speaker 3: feel it. Everyone, every Mets fan fields right now. This

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Speaker 3: team's in a funk and we're gonna do everything we

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Speaker 3: can get out of it, starting with me doing the

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Speaker 3: intro of this podcast. So, if you're not following us

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Speaker 3: already on social media at met Stub, m etsdup, Twitter, Instagram,

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Speaker 3: at TikTok, maybe we'll start making tiktoks again.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We did that for a week that we stopped.

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Speaker 3: We got my co host over here, Mark Luino Giraft

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Speaker 3: Neckmark follow him on Twitter draft Neckmark usually say this

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Speaker 3: at the end, but I'm just I don't know what

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Speaker 3: to do for an interest. I'm just saying it whatever,

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Speaker 3: change it up. Yeah, yeah, I don't know this. It

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Speaker 3: was just it was weird also because the series felt

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Speaker 3: one of our best ones in the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 3: with a really good win for the Mets on Mother's

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Speaker 3: Day offense clicked mac shoes are pitched well, and then

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Speaker 3: you come out on Monday a weird four o'clock game,

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Speaker 3: which is just bizarre in its own right, insane.

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Speaker 2: Hated it hated at four o'clock on a Monday. It

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Speaker 2: also like just very much screwed up my entire day

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Speaker 1: I get back.

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Speaker 2: My neighbors are stopping around upstairs with their dog, playing fetch.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like six thirty.

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Speaker 2: When I get here, I can't go to sleep, so

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Speaker 2: Now it's eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, I'm like, oh, the

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Speaker 1: Gotta get my day go.

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Speaker 2: It's just four o'clock game on a Monday. Horrible four

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Speaker 1: We love it. We love it on a Saturday.

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Speaker 3: four'lock is different, different days a week. Even to four

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Speaker 3: just last year the Mets were so good at closing

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Speaker 3: these series out when and like because you're just it's baseball,

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Speaker 3: like even the best teams in the history of the game,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna lose no matter what. Just lose.

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Speaker 3: Lose, like minimum minimum fifty sixty games a year, like

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Speaker 3: We lost this game, and it seemed like last year, well,

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Speaker 3: the Mets always, like every other team baseball, has one

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Speaker 2: I mean, everybody looks and feels tight. The vibes don't

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Speaker 2: Vision in theory is no different than when there are

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Speaker 3: And it's also the fact that they keep having these

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Speaker 3: Just situations like external of baseball are getting so lost

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But then, like, you see some weird teams around them,

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Speaker 2: those guys are tearing it up. I truthfully like one

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Speaker 2: both me and you both believe that these guys can

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Speaker 2: has never happened in Major League Baseball history. I don't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just doesn't it doesn't feel cohesive. Like last year

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Speaker 2: We I mean, we weren't technically, we weren't wrong by

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Speaker 2: very solid. But we are missing that four five and

437
00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,760
Speaker 2: it's it's it's very very important to have those last

438
00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,200
Speaker 2: two guys because it lengthens the bullpen. You don't have

439
00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:54,360
Speaker 2: to use a guy like Tommy Hunter as much, or

440
00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,720
Speaker 2: a dominic leone. You can go to the David Robertson

441
00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,560
Speaker 2: Trew Smith more consistently because the pitchers are going deeper

442
00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,640
Speaker 2: and deeper to the games. I mean not to rub

443
00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,760
Speaker 2: salt in the wound again, but like, look at how

444
00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,200
Speaker 2: the twenty fifteen Royals were built.

445
00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:07,360
Speaker 1: Look at how they were built.

446
00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,120
Speaker 2: That's the exact kind of pitching that you want in

447
00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,160
Speaker 2: a way where your starters are gonna go six seven

448
00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:12,840
Speaker 2: innings and then you can hand it off to the

449
00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,440
Speaker 2: three headed monster in the bullpen of Calvin Herrera.

450
00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:17,760
Speaker 1: Who Way Davis.

451
00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,880
Speaker 2: Why in the world was that like the analogy in

452
00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,800
Speaker 2: the comparison you pick because trying to build a pitching

453
00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,960
Speaker 2: staff after the twenty fifteen put the patches together with miracles.

454
00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,000
Speaker 2: To be fair, that twenty fifteen pitching staff did actually

455
00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,600
Speaker 2: pitch really well, like Edison Volcz and Johnnyquado. Yeah, we're

456
00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,800
Speaker 2: like very much still in their prime during that those

457
00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,479
Speaker 2: years in twenty fifteen, like they had, they got good performances.

458
00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,360
Speaker 2: We just we need to make sure that we have

459
00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,120
Speaker 2: starting pitching. Like That's where I was going with this,

460
00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,880
Speaker 2: because we do have three really good relievers out in

461
00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,080
Speaker 2: the bullpen. We need to get the ball more consistently

462
00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:45,960
Speaker 2: for us to be able to be even more effective.

463
00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,880
Speaker 2: And I think they would love to pitch more too,

464
00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,200
Speaker 2: but they just haven't really been given the opportunity because

465
00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,200
Speaker 2: there haven't been a lot of close games either way.

466
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Speaker 3: And I mean, I mean, the winds are close. Isn't

467
00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,200
Speaker 3: there Saturday Night that the Mets have a one game

468
00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,640
Speaker 3: by more than two runs? Sunday Sunday, of course Sunday

469
00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,760
Speaker 3: they blew out on Sunday. Yeah, Yeah, I felt like

470
00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,120
Speaker 3: they got that monkey off the back. But I talked

471
00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:05,679
Speaker 3: about the status strike on mis walk right a lot

472
00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,840
Speaker 3: in the show. Is really indicative of pitchers success. Starting

473
00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,359
Speaker 3: pitchers is really it's really good. Really, it's a pretty

474
00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,840
Speaker 3: good believers too. But Mets of the third third lowest

475
00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,479
Speaker 3: of all starting pitchers in all the league right now,

476
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,200
Speaker 3: worse than the Royals, worse than the Cardinals, worse than Nationals,

477
00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,440
Speaker 3: only better than the Oakland Athletics and the Colorado Rockies. Yeah,

478
00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,640
Speaker 3: and that's hard, Like, that's just hardening coming for after

479
00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,160
Speaker 3: a year where the starting pitching was so good, game

480
00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,159
Speaker 3: after game it was like week after week, oh, six innings,

481
00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,640
Speaker 3: five innings, six innings, and then again, like I think

482
00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,160
Speaker 3: I feel like it's kind of getting lost in the fold.

483
00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,240
Speaker 3: This bullpen actually has been quite good this year.

484
00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:35,159
Speaker 1: Yes, it's been.

485
00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,200
Speaker 3: It's been real inchmit to this team, Cholot Jeff Brigham

486
00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,560
Speaker 3: for another solid weekend. David Robertson, Like that is something

487
00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,320
Speaker 3: that we can really hang our hats jains amazing.

488
00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,720
Speaker 2: The guys who we expected to be the big the

489
00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,320
Speaker 2: big innings, get the big outs. They've they've done everything

490
00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:50,280
Speaker 2: that we need and more.

491
00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that is a problem that it has become

492
00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,720
Speaker 3: still one of the strengths of this team. It's hard,

493
00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:56,280
Speaker 3: it's hard to get that there. And the other thing

494
00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,560
Speaker 3: is just mentioned its workload. Like the Mets starting pitchers

495
00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,960
Speaker 3: have thrown the third fewest innings in all baseball, and

496
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,480
Speaker 3: a huge part of that is because justin verr Lander

497
00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,440
Speaker 3: Max Scherzer through like twenty five combined innings in the

498
00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,600
Speaker 3: first month of the year. If they're even twenty, maybe

499
00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:10,959
Speaker 3: any team in baseball you take their one and two

500
00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,440
Speaker 3: pitchers off the team for a full month, pitching's going

501
00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,320
Speaker 3: to really struggle for a month. There's no doubt about that.

502
00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,359
Speaker 3: So again, this isn't like all totally like the dooming loom,

503
00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:19,879
Speaker 3: because right now we actually have those two guys in

504
00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,000
Speaker 3: and we're all gonna feel different over these next few

505
00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,639
Speaker 3: weeks with two very good pitchers like being making up

506
00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,320
Speaker 3: forty percent of the games that you play like that,

507
00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,400
Speaker 3: that's a good thing, and that's gonna get help help

508
00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,480
Speaker 3: this team keep it moving. Like we're going into the season,

509
00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,600
Speaker 3: like we're all confident about the entire Mets team as

510
00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,280
Speaker 3: a whole. But we said, if you was just ask them,

511
00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,040
Speaker 3: what's like the strongest aspect about this team, what's the

512
00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,159
Speaker 3: most important thing about it, it would be the fact that, oh,

513
00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,080
Speaker 3: they have two horses in front of the rotation and

514
00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,120
Speaker 3: those guys are gonna keep things moving every single week,

515
00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:44,720
Speaker 3: and that's a huge thing. And we haven't had that

516
00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,359
Speaker 3: yet and now we're gonna start to have that, and

517
00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:47,760
Speaker 3: some of those games are gonna.

518
00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:48,440
Speaker 1: Feel a little bit better.

519
00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,680
Speaker 3: But overall, it's it's kind of harrowing to see how

520
00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,040
Speaker 3: rough this starting rotation has gone compared to the rest

521
00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:57,720
Speaker 3: of the league. The only starting rotations that have to

522
00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,159
Speaker 3: on less innings are the Rockies and the Reds and

523
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,800
Speaker 3: the Race, but there doesn't really count because the rais

524
00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,760
Speaker 3: us an opener once, if not twice, every single week,

525
00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,040
Speaker 3: so you kind of and that's only four less innings

526
00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:07,760
Speaker 3: and once or twice a week the Reds are saying,

527
00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,439
Speaker 3: we purposely want a starting pitcher to throw maximum two innings,

528
00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,320
Speaker 3: and then the Mets still only have four more starting

529
00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:14,160
Speaker 3: pitcher innings in them.

530
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,879
Speaker 1: It's it's just it's rough. It's really rough out here,

531
00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,000
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I just don't know.

532
00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean, like truthfully, a little speechless, a

533
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:28,080
Speaker 2: little speechless because it's just like again, I don't believe

534
00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 2: that this is a bad team. I don't believe this

535
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,320
Speaker 2: is a team that's a five hundred team based on

536
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,080
Speaker 2: the quality of players that we have, Like especially on

537
00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,080
Speaker 2: the offensive side, they have good players, for sure, there's

538
00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:36,880
Speaker 2: no doubt. And on the pitching side, like you said,

539
00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,320
Speaker 2: we had been missing two of our horses, without a doubt.

540
00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,399
Speaker 2: Do it to any team they're going to struggle. I mean,

541
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:41,960
Speaker 2: look at the Brewers.

542
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,439
Speaker 1: They lost Brandon Woodruff and their season has gone downhill

543
00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 1: a little bit.

544
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,080
Speaker 2: That's one of their horses, Like it affects you mightily.

545
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,440
Speaker 2: So like, no, I don't think this team is bad

546
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,560
Speaker 2: by any means. They should not be under five hundred

547
00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:56,600
Speaker 2: like they are. And I think every single person in

548
00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,159
Speaker 2: the organization will tell you that this is not what

549
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 2: they expected. But at the same time, like something's got changed, right,

550
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 2: because whatever has been happening has not been working. So

551
00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,160
Speaker 2: now you know, we're forty forty two games into the season.

552
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,880
Speaker 2: Whatever it is, the adjustment adjustments need to start being

553
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,720
Speaker 2: made to improve upon the play because, like you said,

554
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,760
Speaker 2: now we have our two starting pitchers that are gonna

555
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,399
Speaker 2: be our horses give us innings beautiful, perfect. Now we

556
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,439
Speaker 2: have two days, hopefully a week that we can rely

557
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,640
Speaker 2: on those. Lindor and Peter are still driving in runs,

558
00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,040
Speaker 2: Brandonimo is still getting on base. Sar Martese swinging the

559
00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 2: bat better, Alvarez has looked fantastic. McNeil starting to swing

560
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 2: the bat better too, Like there's there's the pieces that

561
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,240
Speaker 2: even volgel Back, a guy who a lot of Mets

562
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,560
Speaker 2: fans kind of make him a little bit of the

563
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 2: escapegoat here a lot of times for the offense and

564
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 2: feels like but he's been great this year. Like, yeah,

565
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,719
Speaker 2: the power has not been there, there's no doubt, need

566
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,040
Speaker 2: a little bit more power at him, but he's been

567
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 2: getting on based like crazy, and he's still rocking like

568
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:50,679
Speaker 2: a one thirty WRC plus so like there's there's stuff coming.

569
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,360
Speaker 2: But I'm with you guys, like when when's it gonna happen?

570
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:54,720
Speaker 2: I think that's what we're waiting for, is like when

571
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,679
Speaker 2: is it all gonna start to come together? Going back

572
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:57,960
Speaker 2: to what you said at the beginning, James, just it

573
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,719
Speaker 2: doesn't feel cohesive right now. And that's a weird thing

574
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,400
Speaker 2: to say about baseball because it really is such an

575
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 2: individual sport, but right now it feels like we're lacking

576
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 2: the team aspect of it of like everybody's clicking.

577
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 3: At the same time, it's also a little bit less

578
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 3: of an individual sport for a team like the Mets,

579
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 3: just simply because they need more guys doing things on

580
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 3: a consistent basis true score enough runs to be able

581
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 3: to win the game.

582
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 2: And that's actually really well put. I think that's I

583
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 2: really like that. I really like that because I mean,

584
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 2: baseball is an individual sport, and you like, there's so

585
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 2: much talk about three true outcomes in baseball, Like even

586
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,640
Speaker 2: with the shift now being taken away right in theory,

587
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 2: everyone brings up like you have the Giants, who are

588
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 2: a real true outcome team, the Red Sox, like a

589
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 2: lot of these good offenses per se, but the Mets

590
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,400
Speaker 2: because they don't really do the three true outcome because

591
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 2: they kind of lack that home run, extra base hit

592
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 2: kind of thing going on. You're right, the individual game

593
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,200
Speaker 2: becomes a lot more team oriented because it's not just

594
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,959
Speaker 2: on one guy to drive in the run. You need

595
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 2: two or three hits now to get in that runner,

596
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 2: two or three guys on base to get to get

597
00:21:58,920 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 2: that run in.

598
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 3: And again, there was a lot of innings this series,

599
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 3: in this entire season where you somehow have two or

600
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,160
Speaker 3: even three hits inside of an inning and you don't

601
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 3: score a run. That's kind of mooralizing day after day,

602
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 3: especially when yeah, we're like what eleven out of thirteen

603
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 3: games where your opponent has scored no I think it's nine,

604
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,359
Speaker 3: seven to nine games, or opponents scored the running not

605
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,120
Speaker 3: even first in the first inning. And we talked about

606
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 3: as lives, like the mental the mentality of that is

607
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 3: just excruciating, Like it to be down one nothing every

608
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 3: single game off the bat, it's like, oh my god,

609
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 3: this is brutal.

610
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: It's tough. It's really tough playing from behind like that

611
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 1: every single game.

612
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 2: Just again, like I it's we've been saying a lot,

613
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 2: but like just simply have to play better. Everyone's got

614
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 2: to play better. I don't think anybody is one person

615
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 2: is to blame for what's been going on. And I

616
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 2: don't think any one person is to say they've been

617
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 2: saving the season by any means. It's just as a

618
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 2: team as a whole. The Mets, they got to regroup,

619
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,959
Speaker 2: get out of Washington, come back to New York, get

620
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,640
Speaker 2: ready to play the Rays, who is it's not gonna

621
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 2: be an easy series.

622
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Speaker 1: Is the best team in baseball. It's the best team

623
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Speaker 1: in baseball.

624
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 2: So I don't maybe this is what wakes them up

625
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 2: a little bit too, right, Maybe like the fact that

626
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 2: the Raids are coming into town. They're they're the hot

627
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 2: stuff in Major League Baseball. This is a team that's

628
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 2: gonna look to just absolutely smack them around. Maybe this

629
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 2: is like, all right, we get a little bit the

630
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 2: juices going again, playing in what feels more like a

631
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 2: playoff atmosphere. I'm doing like big quotation marks here, but

632
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 2: just like maybe that, maybe that's the spark that they need.

633
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 2: Is like a team that they kind of put a

634
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 2: target on their back rather than them being the team

635
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 2: with the target on theirs because this past month, there's

636
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 2: been a lot of teams that they're supposed to be

637
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 2: better than that they have not beat.

638
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 3: And uh, I just did some quick math here. The

639
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 3: Mets also just it's so funny. It's just so emblematic

640
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 3: if the way the season is going. The Mets in

641
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 3: this series struck out in the games five, seven, nine,

642
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 3: and two times. So the game where the Mets offense

643
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 3: was the best was their game where they struck out

644
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 3: the most. But for four games onost struck out twenty

645
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 3: three times, which is unbelievable. That that hurt me a

646
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 3: lot because I guess sixty eight last week and you

647
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 3: get sixty. Well, the National struck out thirty one times

648
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 3: in this series. So yeah, that's that's a clean fifty four.

649
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 3: That's a fifty four strikeouts in four games between two teams.

650
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 3: That is a ridiculous number. But I that's off to you.

651
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 3: He's not taking the lead six or five lead an estimate,

652
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 3: which I haven't haven't been behind an SMA very often

653
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 3: over the last year.

654
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: No, there's definitely new experience. But it was John Halfvors

655
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: this week. He were missing John again. He's out in

656
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: Boston doing some stuff. I don't know. Fel wait park,

657
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. We know we alway doesn't

658
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: listen to us. So what's what's gonna be our code

659
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: word for this episode? James, We got one to see

660
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 1: if he listens. Yeah, come quat, come quiet?

661
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 2: All right, John, if you if you hear, come quat,

662
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 2: choose the text. But I don't think you're going to.

663
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 2: So if anyone knows that John around the ballpark, Hey, John,

664
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 2: come quat. Yeah, just just shouted at him, shouted at him.

665
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: But he said total innings pitched.

666
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 1: By any relievers in the series.

667
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: And part of the reason was because the Tampa Bay

668
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 2: Rays love to use the bullpen and they love a

669
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 2: good opener, including for the first game of the series

670
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 2: with Jalen Beaks going on the mound.

671
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, something like that.

672
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 3: I haven't I'm looking at the matchups right now, so yeah,

673
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 3: so we would have to put so it's just like, so.

674
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, dishevel does a good word to shovel does

675
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: to explain how I'm feeling right now? Yeah? Right now?

676
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 3: On the schedule is cheery nose fleming and there's an

677
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 3: opening on Wednesday. But is that could that could be

678
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 3: TOAs Bradley coming back up to the Bigs.

679
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Beaks is Beaks is starting tomorrow. He's gonna

680
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 2: eat their opening with Beaks.

681
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, or I have then, so it's gonna be

682
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 3: a big a Beaks Cheery Nose mix and then probably

683
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 3: another thing on Thursday with Fleming. But also the race

684
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 3: pitching is coming to the series also pretty tired, like

685
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 3: they've they've sign multiple guys off the scrapeap this year.

686
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 3: They've rotated through a lot of guys in their minor

687
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 3: leagues like they're they're really reeling right now in terms

688
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 3: of pitching death. It's because they just lost Drew Resmussen

689
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 3: possibly for the rest of the year, which I guess

690
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: we're doing the preview now, Instaid doing the estimate. But well,

691
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 3: I guess i'll explain just let's let's let's just pick

692
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 3: a number real quick. How many pitches by both teams?

693
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Well I gotta do some quick math in

694
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 3: my head. Yeah, I'm gonna go there's a three game series, right, Yeah, man,

695
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, Okay, I got my number.

696
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,919
Speaker 2: M Yeah, I got it. And you know what, I'm

697
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 2: really hoping that a lot of these innings are by

698
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 2: the Rays. I'd love nothing, nothing more than I'd love

699
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 2: to see.

700
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: A complete game by a Mets pitch. Oh my god,

701
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: i'd get me going.

702
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 3: Wait, so this is like so we're kind of thinking

703
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 3: out of I'm getting so confused, right, I was like,

704
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 3: out of fifty four innings is gonna be in this series? Like,

705
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 3: how many are gonna be pitched by believers?

706
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, ryah, oh yeah yeah, yeah, I got I

707
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: got my number. I hate my number now now that

708
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: you said fifty four, we got it, we got it.

709
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: I gotta hate mine too.

710
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 2: I'm going with it ready, yep, three, two, one, show it.

711
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 2: I've got whoa in twenty Wow? All right, so mark me.

712
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 3: Twenty one James twenty and I wrote mine on a

713
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 3: post it note in my child on my childhood desk

714
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 3: in my parents' house in Westfield. Mark wrote his on

715
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 3: a piece of cardboard with what looks like a marker, Yes,

716
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,959
Speaker 3: with a per dry erace marker. I've got all look

717
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 3: at all the estimates that are on this one here.

718
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 3: It's just I don't have papers.

719
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: I don't really know. I don't I gonna have a

720
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: paper for Yeah, you don't, right, you're not You're not

721
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: one who writes, I'm I'm a digital man. Paper is analog.

722
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm a digital man. That's that's that's for forty five

723
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: year old John Bare Yeah, John, John, John's analog. How

724
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,719
Speaker 1: much paper you think John has in his his house? Oh,

725
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: piles of it everywhere. Probably John probably keeps files on deck.

726
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: He's definitely got a file bit right, file cabinet. Oh definitely. Maybe.

727
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: Oh he did just move. Usually when you move you

728
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: get rid of stuff like that.

729
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 3: But I could definitely see John being the one who's

730
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 3: like bringing three boxes of papers he's never gonna touch again.

731
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 2: Big Manila envelopes. I can imagine he's got a lot

732
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 2: of Manila envelopes in his office wherever it is.

733
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, that is the estimate. I've taken the lead,

734
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: which is nice, but six and five would like to

735
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: get a little more more of a lead on James here.

736
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 2: I think we've also decided that the first half punishment,

737
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 2: we're going full full Jersey to the game.

738
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: Right, that's finished. We're just deciding that.

739
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 3: I think I think unless someone in the next maybe

740
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 3: well until one month till June fifteenth, if we can't

741
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 3: get a better punishment from somebody before June fifteenth, and

742
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 3: I've got a bunch of my inbox right now, So

743
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 3: if you guys can think of any or just tweet

744
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 3: them out of us at Metts stub or is at

745
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 3: one of us, any good punishment for the estimate. But

746
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 3: right now, wearing the full kit is totally in the lead.

747
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 3: Click clack, cleats ieblack.

748
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 2: Baby, eyeblacks going on, the Eyeblacks going on. So let's

749
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 2: go ahead and talk about that race series. This is

750
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 2: a team that is near and dear to our hearts. Yes, definitely,

751
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 2: I saw. I was at the twenty twenty World Series

752
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 2: during the COVID year to root on the Rays. Of

753
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 2: course I brought my bad luck, which is just I'm

754
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: sorry raise fans for that one.

755
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: Do love the Rays, love the Mets a lot more.

756
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 2: Obviously still my favorite team, but boy, oh boy, do

757
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 2: you just got to respect what that team an organization does.

758
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: Year in and year out.

759
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: They're amazing. They're amazing. There's just simply no way to

760
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 2: put it. And this team is really really good and

761
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be an easy series.

762
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: No, the Rays are incredible.

763
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 3: And it's kind of funny because I feel like most

764
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 3: of what the Rays have gotten there a lore for

765
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: and like become famous for over the last few years.

766
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 3: Is having like the pitching magic of the pitching science

767
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 3: or the pitching laboratory. But if you look at the Rays,

768
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 3: I'm my dad right now. They are pound four pound,

769
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 3: probably the best offensive team.

770
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: In all baseball.

771
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 3: They hit, They hit the ball hard, They hit a

772
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 3: lot of home runs. They make a lot of good

773
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 3: contact to keep the ball in the air, they barrel

774
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 3: the baseball. It's all just everything the Rays do is amazing.

775
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 3: The Rays have hit eighty one home runs this year.

776
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 3: The team of the next most is the Dodgers with

777
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 3: sixty eight. Dude, have you seen their WRC plus compared

778
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: to everyone else on the season.

779
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm looking, Yeah, one forty one. Highs is one seventeen.

780
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: They have a twenty five point cushion.

781
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: They're twenty five percent better than the second best offense

782
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 2: in baseball.

783
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're unbelievable.

784
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 2: I mean, every organization should strive to get the production

785
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 2: at the Rays do. And even with that, the Rays

786
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 2: are fourth in league with stolen bases at thirty nine.

787
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 2: They are as it lows right now.

788
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 3: They are kind of towards the back end like middle

789
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 3: of the pack and strike out rate nineteenth, highest strike

790
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 3: out rate in all of baseball. Like they are doing

791
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 3: things the offensive side of the ball right now that

792
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 3: is kind of unquestionably some of the best in the league.

793
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 3: And that starts at the top of their order with

794
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 3: Yandy Diaz, Randy Rose Arena and Wanda Franco right now,

795
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 3: probably the best three headed monster in the Higher show.

796
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 3: What these guys have done this season so far is ridiculous.

797
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 3: Wander Franco, we we like to call him something off air,

798
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 3: and I don't think I'm gonna say on the show,

799
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 3: but he's he is. He's like, he's like the saving

800
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 3: grace of baseball. He is what you're not gonna call

801
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 3: him it. I don't think you think you whatever. I'll

802
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 3: just say, you know, if you don't like to cut

803
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 3: it out. Wada Franco's baseball Jesus Wandfranco is what twenty

804
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: even He's a right the right page of maybe twenty

805
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 3: one or even twenty two right now.

806
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: He hits the ball hard.

807
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 3: He's like from last year this year he's made such

808
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 3: incredible striz as baseball player. First of all, statistically, he's

809
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 3: the best minor league player basically, ever in terms of

810
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 3: power production, his strikeout rate, how much better he was

811
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: in league average, especially when you wait that for how

812
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 3: young he was at every single level. A twenty years

813
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 3: old in Triple A, Wonder Franco the one fifty WRC

814
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 3: plus with twelve percent strikeouts, eight percent walks three thirteen

815
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 3: three seventy two five ay three slash. That was all

816
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 3: the way back in twenty twenty one Triple A. And

817
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 3: he got called up that year, and he's been he's

818
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: been a good player when he got called up, Like

819
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 3: even when he came up, people were kind of giving

820
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 3: him a little crap for playing seventy games and all

821
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 3: hitting seventy home runs with two ninety bating average a

822
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 3: twenty year old in major leagues, being like, oh, this

823
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 3: guy's have the star potential everyone said he was, and

824
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 3: he was the best prospect ever and the Ray Saw

825
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 3: was enough tough to give him one over one hundreds

826
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 3: like fifty million dollars off that the biggest contract they've

827
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,959
Speaker 3: ever given by a large margin, one hundred and eighty

828
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 3: two million dollars of guaranteed money to Wanda Franco, who

829
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 3: also is so sure of himself and his talent and

830
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 3: what he is in the league. That he has the

831
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball logo tattooed on his neck, you guys

832
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 3: should take a look at Hobby Bias has it too.

833
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 3: But Hobby Bias has it kind of as like a

834
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 3: barcode in the back of his neck. Wander Franco has

835
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 3: it right here, right where Vladimir d or Flaiemercludierras has

836
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 3: the spider web.

837
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: He is like, I am major League Baseball. That is

838
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: why he is baseball Jesus.

839
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 3: But right now he has seven home runs in just

840
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 3: forty games this year, humpeys for almost earthy of them,

841
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 3: twelve stolen base to go along with that with three

842
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 3: hundred batting average. He is unbelievably just so good at

843
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 3: baseball and even in the field. Like everyone saw that

844
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: highlight that viral highlight him two weeks ago where he

845
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 3: got the ball's second base. It looked like kind of

846
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 3: came up on him a little bit, didn't grab it right,

847
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 3: so he tossed in the air, gave a spin and

848
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 3: took a crow hop and just gut the guy out

849
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 3: at at first, like he can do anything. And then

850
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 3: you bring it back to Randy Rosorano, who's become one

851
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 3: of the most clutched like figures in the legal last

852
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 3: couple of years. Ten homers already in forty games, like

853
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 3: the biggest power out of his career so far, three

854
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 3: twenty average once hav Ney one WRSC plots. He right

855
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 3: now is having the same offensive output as Ronald Kunia.

856
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: And then you have Jon Di Diaz who's like year

857
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: after you gets a little bit better, hits the ball

858
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 3: super hard. Now he's playing it in the air like

859
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 3: this team, they're really good. And then Josh Low, Brandon

860
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 3: Lau Eastach Praise is hitting well like they have this

861
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 3: Taylor Walls right now is hitting as well as as

862
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:24,959
Speaker 3: your Don Alvarez in terms of power production.

863
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: Like they're they're I don't know what they do. I

864
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:27,959
Speaker 1: don't know how to do it. I don't know how

865
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: to do it.

866
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 3: All these guys are ridiculous freaks right now. And it's

867
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Speaker 3: it's it's it's definitely a minefield to get through this

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Speaker 3: batting order there, and it really starts with those guys.

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Speaker 1: At the top.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they just brought in Jake Deekman as well to

871
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: add to that bullpen. And who's filthy, who's nasty. They

872
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 2: they just have a really good team. Their record is

873
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 2: what they're thirty one and eleven. It's pretty good. It's

874
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: a pretty good record. I would say through the first

875
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 2: forty two games of the year, their playoff odds are

876
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: ninety nine point nine percent. Right now, they're making the playoffs. Like,

877
00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 2: if you watch this team, they're very good. I don't listen.

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00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: It's gonna be really tough. It's gonna be really tough.

879
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: It's gonna be really tough the Mets, like we're struggling

880
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 2: with the Nationals, were struggling with the Tigers, Like there's

881
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 2: no there's no hiding it. If you want to beat

882
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: the Rays, we're gonna have to play perfect baseball. We're

883
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: gonna have to play perfect baseball. We're gonna have to

884
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: really hope that the Mets team from the beginning of

885
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two shows up, because that twenty twenty two

886
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,239
Speaker 2: Mets team can put up a fight with this race

887
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: team and beat them.

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00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: For sure. Even the baseball that we have been playing

889
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: can't happen, even the Mets.

890
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 3: As of a month ago, the Mets took a series

891
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers, who have the best record in the

892
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 3: National League, Like this is not, Like this team is

893
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 3: not incapable of success.

894
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: That Justin Verland is pitching on Tuesday.

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00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: Carl I sang, it's pitching on Wednesday, Tyler mcgillver' Josh

896
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 3: Fleming and the Mattine on Thursday, Like you can again.

897
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: The Race team has not again. We were kind of

898
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 3: harping on the hitting right now because the Race team

899
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 3: has struggled pitching wise for a little bit. That's most

900
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 3: because of their ability. Drews Mussen was having a massive

901
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 3: breakout here, looked like a potential cy young candidate. He

902
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 3: went on the io with a flexer was a flexi

903
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 3: strain right flex tenth train. Friday afternoon, out of nowhere,

904
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Springs broke out of the gates looking like an

905
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 3: impact star. He's getting Tommy John surgery. We're missing Shane

906
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 3: McClanahan and who's been incredible, completely out and Zach Eflin

907
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 3: the series, who's been incredibly consistent and a guy that

908
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 3: I've always I've always just dreamed on.

909
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: Zach Eflin. Oh my god, Zach Eflin's so good man.

910
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 3: Zach Efflin, Zach Evelyn twice in his career and now

911
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 3: has made these massive jumps where first he didn't have

912
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 3: he didn't have use of his knees for the first

913
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 3: like for most of his life. First like twenty something

914
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 3: years of his life, got double knee surgery, got the

915
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 3: use of his knee, started following through, got three miles

916
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 3: nowt of nowhere after already being a professional baseball player.

917
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 3: And then he got to leave the Phillies and go

918
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 3: to the team like the Rays, who are pitching geniuses

919
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: and can tell him exactly how the sequence, exactly how

920
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 3: to get the most of every single pitch. And now

921
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 3: he looks awesome. Started and started out, he's great, he's

922
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 3: giving consistent innings. They literally gave him the most money

923
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 3: they've ever given a pitcher in the history of their franchise,

924
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 3: just literally, and like, we know he's not spectacular, Like

925
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: I gush about these pictures that you guys know are

926
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 3: not spectacular. I gush about them because like what they

927
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: are and like what they can do for a team,

928
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: and the fact that he's out there every five days

929
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 3: just being like I'm gonna give you winnings to hold

930
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 3: this clue together while we can mix in openers and

931
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 3: three inning guys and five inning guys and all this

932
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 3: crazy stuff with mclenahan at the top and supposedly you

933
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 3: know Springs and Ris Musim, but they're also going to

934
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 3: get taller glass out soon. TODs might come up and

935
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 3: pitch a game in this series. Go bus you and

936
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 3: I don't know. There's just a lot they're gonna you

937
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 3: gotta gotta buckle down. We're going we're missing those two

938
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 3: guys and right now they're bullpens. It's kind of a

939
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 3: lot of guys who've been thrown together. Jake Deecmon just

940
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 3: called up the street. They just caught Hovey Garrett, who

941
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 3: had great stuff this year. He looked like really good

942
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 3: in his spurts. Peter Fairbanks not pitching right now. Yeah,

943
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 3: a great highlight from Jason Adam over the weekend.

944
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: Looked aught.

945
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 3: He gave up a game winning home run to Aaron

946
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 3: Judge that got caught it the warning track. But Jalen

947
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 3: Beaks like Josh Fleming, like Yann and Cherry knows like this,

948
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 3: you can hit these guys like if you're gonna beat

949
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 3: the Reds this week, let's go score with them.

950
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: Let's go have some fun.

951
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 2: One hundred percent it's gonna we're need some good baseball,

952
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 2: and I mean, I think they're capable.

953
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: They're so capable of playing good baseball.

954
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 2: That's I think where we probably get the most frustrated

955
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 2: of Mess fans is we know that this team should

956
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 2: not be playing as poorly as they are.

957
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: They're not living up to expectations. I think that's where

958
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: the frustration comes from. I surely hope it turns around soon.

959
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: I think it can. I think it can.

960
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 2: Schedule's not gonna get any easier than it just was, though, unfortunately,

961
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: so it's gotta happen sooner than later, and hopefully those soon.

962
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I got nothing else to say, James,

963
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: do you? I got nothing else to say? You want

964
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: to take the outro too? This time? I'll take the

965
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: intro might as well.

966
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 3: Hey, if you guys like we're listening tonight, you gotta

967
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 3: follow us at Mets up, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. Almost forgot

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00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 3: that one. You want YouTube channel, check down on the

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00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 3: Mets official YouTube channel. You want YouTube, you wanta watch

970
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 3: YouTube video, check out the Mets official YouTube channel. Well

971
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 3: else you usually say the intro Follow me on Twitter

972
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 3: at James Unders Courciano follow Mark at.

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00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: Draft neck Mark with the c There you go and

974
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Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I guess that's it, like you go.

975
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 3: To keep your head up, guys, it can beautiful whether

976
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 3: the next couple of days, like head to the ballpark,

977
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 3: is gonna beautiful out there. See Justin Verlander makes his

978
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 3: mess debut, watch wander Franco AKAA Baseball Jesus up, post

979
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 3: and personal because he's a Marvel red Eros. Rain is

980
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 3: pretty fun. Gotta get hot sometime, it's gonna happen.

981
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: Just it.

982
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: Start feeling good, Yeah, start feeling good.

983
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 2: We need some positive vibes here and hopefully the Mets

984
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: turnaround sooner then later. That would be uh be really nice,

985
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 2: specially for us on the podcast Love to Love to

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00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: Be Positive. Have a great episode for you guys, but

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening, Thank you for watching.

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Speaker 2: Whatever you did, We'll catch you guys after the race.

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Speaker 2: Series for the Mets of the podcast, peace Out,