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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, everybody. Welcome back to the Mets Up Podcast.

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Speaker 1: If you didn't have enough anxiety going to work on

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Speaker 1: Monday for the new year, let's make it worse. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about players that could replace Pete Alonzo for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season. There is a world where he

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Speaker 1: doesn't come back. It's not a world I want to

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Speaker 1: live in. It's not a world that I hope happens.

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Speaker 1: But the longer this goes on, I think there's a

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Speaker 1: chance that another team could sneak in and go after

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Speaker 1: Peter Alonzo. So me and James have come up with

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Speaker 1: a list of about ten to fifteen players that could

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Speaker 1: theoretically replace Pete Alonzo for the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 1: Before we do get going into this, if you guys

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Speaker 1: We do appreciate you, though, but welcome back, James. I

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Speaker 1: know you're not feeling well, but how are you feeling?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, guys, this is the longest we've gone without doing

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Speaker 3: an episode, like a full week, in months, almost in

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Speaker 3: six months, and I caught the flu really bad around

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Speaker 3: New Years and I've been down so bad. This is

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Speaker 3: the first time in three days I'm not legitimately horizontal,

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Speaker 3: So this is I know I had to get back

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Speaker 3: on get something out for you guys on Monday.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, feel terrible, feel terrible. It's a happy happy

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Speaker 3: You know, I haven't seen you in a long time,

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Speaker 3: but I really just wanted to want to get out

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Speaker 3: here to talks and baseball because I've been just trapped

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Speaker 3: in my room like a like a decrepit little child.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fair. I think I might've been patient zero.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people around me have very very similar

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Speaker 1: no no complaints there on my side. Sorry to hear

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Speaker 1: for some kind of quick like round recap stuff here

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Speaker 1: about pete Alonzo. There's been some rumors that maybe the

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Speaker 1: Angels are interested in Peede Alonzo. There's been some rumors

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Speaker 1: that maybe the Giants could be interested in Pete Alonzo.

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Speaker 1: I think even the Cubs name has been thrown around

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Speaker 1: that teams are more interested in Peede Alonzo than they

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Speaker 1: because those rumors are coming out, because this is a

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Speaker 1: Mets podcast, we have to talk about it, and we

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Speaker 1: where do you want to start?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's like the first place to start

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Speaker 3: is still the best replacement for pe Alonzo is p Alonzo?

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Speaker 3: I know it answer that's still I think that's still

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Speaker 3: a horrible sweat. It's going to be a drag. It's

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Speaker 3: On February twenty seven, the Mets and p Alonzo have

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Speaker 3: come to terms on a four year, one hundred ten

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Speaker 3: I think truly that's where we're going to wind up,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know. It's not guaranteed. It feels less guaranteed,

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Speaker 3: interesting to note that there were a lot more ties

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Speaker 3: And it's a weird thing to say that Alex Bregman

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Speaker 3: Pete back over Alex Bregman as well. Another name that

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Speaker 3: some of the bigger names. We'll start off with some

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Speaker 1: Vlad Junior. This is the weirdest one. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays, while they have so much incentive to keep him,

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Speaker 1: it seems really obvious that Vlad is not signing a deal,

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Speaker 1: The Blue Jays have not been a very good team

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Speaker 3: I feel like the only thing that's keeping the Blue

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Speaker 3: But I mean, this Blue Jays team is again, it's

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Speaker 3: Athleticism, everything. He's the kind of guy you can add

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Speaker 3: of it. But I think because of all of those things,

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Speaker 3: say extension. I don't think the Mets are willing to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which I think that's that's pretty fair, because you

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Speaker 1: an amazing acquisition. Now, on the flip side, someone who

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Speaker 1: a lot of Mets fans have a lot of animosity for.

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Speaker 1: I got something in my eye. Oh my god, what

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Speaker 1: just happened? Nolan Aeronado, take it while I try to

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Speaker 3: I said it in like October, like three days after

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Speaker 3: the Mets were eliminated and people wanted to slit my throat.

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Speaker 1: But it just does a lot of it.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense to me with the fact that Arna

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Speaker 3: on the flu, but it's I really think that a

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Speaker 3: not telling you Nolan ar and Ile was this world.

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Speaker 1: Be there anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and another option of course. Ronnie Mauricio, who we

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Speaker 3: we think Rynan Mauricio can and should do in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five.

434
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Speaker 1: Definitely free agent market. Where do you want to start

435
00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:03,520
Speaker 1: off with some of the guys that are still available

436
00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:04,160
Speaker 1: on the market here.

437
00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,200
Speaker 3: I think the next guy was just Go the biggest name,

438
00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,280
Speaker 3: and I don't know exactly if he is a corner infielder,

439
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,840
Speaker 3: but I think he could be a first baseman, and

440
00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,439
Speaker 3: that's Anthony Santander. We've thrown some during the Anthony Santander

441
00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:14,920
Speaker 3: a few times in the show. He did play seven

442
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Speaker 3: innings a first base of twenty twenty three, didn't really

443
00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,480
Speaker 3: play there much twenty twenty four. But the similar thing

444
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Speaker 3: in my mind for him with Bregman as to I

445
00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,919
Speaker 3: don't know if you're giving up a draft pick for

446
00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:25,800
Speaker 3: a guy that might not be that big of an

447
00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,679
Speaker 3: improvement over some cheaper and more and more foriable options.

448
00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:30,040
Speaker 3: Those are the same things, cheaper and more for the

449
00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,000
Speaker 3: bull shout out the sick brain.

450
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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, but hell yeah.

451
00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,120
Speaker 3: But it's just I don't know the three hundred career

452
00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,600
Speaker 3: on base percent for someone it's gonna cost you a

453
00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,800
Speaker 3: draft pick in multiple years who could fall off literally

454
00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:38,400
Speaker 3: like that.

455
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Speaker 1: Like, I don't know if that I don't know if

456
00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,480
Speaker 1: that's the guy to add to this team. Yeah, I've

457
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,240
Speaker 1: definitely become a little bit uh less interested in Anthony

458
00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,480
Speaker 1: santander Is the offseason's gone up, Like he just feels

459
00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,040
Speaker 1: like better fits for other teams and he can go

460
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Speaker 1: to those other teams in the American League. I don't

461
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,119
Speaker 1: really want to Jays. Yeah, I'm right now, he's not

462
00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,439
Speaker 1: a guy who if they choose him over Pete A.

463
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Speaker 1: LONZOI I'll be pretty frustrated. That would piss me off

464
00:17:59,400 --> 00:17:59,960
Speaker 1: unless it they.

465
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, because like the only way

466
00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,760
Speaker 3: I would like to sign Anthony Santandre.

467
00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:04,560
Speaker 1: Is for a very short term deal.

468
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Speaker 3: Well, they signed for a very short term deal and

469
00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,520
Speaker 3: then you give the draft pick anyway, It's like a shit,

470
00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,080
Speaker 3: why do you give the draft pick for that short

471
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Speaker 3: term deal? Like, I'd rather just I'd rather get another

472
00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:13,439
Speaker 3: guy for a short term deal and not give up

473
00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,479
Speaker 3: a draft pick. So I think that there's a bit

474
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Speaker 3: of a fascination with him right now in the Mets community.

475
00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,639
Speaker 3: The forty home runs last year were Gaby and he

476
00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,359
Speaker 3: had an amazing season. He caught fire a couple of

477
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Speaker 3: times during the summer, and and the switch hitting power

478
00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,040
Speaker 3: there's amazing. There's not many bats like that in the league.

479
00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,760
Speaker 3: But the value proposition for Anthony there just simply does

480
00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:29,520
Speaker 3: not do it for me.

481
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Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. And then some of the other names

482
00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,040
Speaker 1: we have written on this list in terms of free agents, Guys,

483
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Speaker 1: if you're driving your car, grab the steeling wheel tight.

484
00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,040
Speaker 1: If you're at work, just to finish your food before

485
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Speaker 1: we say these two names here because they are disgusting.

486
00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,560
Speaker 1: A couple of Chicago boys. We've got a yoan Mancata

487
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Rizzo. I'll tell you right now, if the

488
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Speaker 1: Mets signed Anthony Rizzo, that sucks. That's like one of

489
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Speaker 1: the worst moves they could make all off season. I'd

490
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Speaker 1: so rather take a flyer on Yanta Mankada. It's an

491
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Speaker 1: odd number year year though. That's the only problem with

492
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,720
Speaker 1: you on mankata, even number of years. The guy's locked

493
00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,359
Speaker 1: in odd number of years. He's bad. And the problem

494
00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,800
Speaker 1: with that is he was really bad last year too.

495
00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,000
Speaker 3: His best Sieason never his twenty nineteen, which I guess

496
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Speaker 3: doesn't count because everyone's best.

497
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Speaker 1: He's never twenty nineteen.

498
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Speaker 3: But I don't know this is even odd thing, but

499
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Speaker 3: it's actually I think you actually have a completely I

500
00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,680
Speaker 3: have an opposite, completely opposite.

501
00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,960
Speaker 1: Oh so he's an odd number guy, odd number guy.

502
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,920
Speaker 1: Bring him in, Bring him in. He doesn't replace Pete

503
00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,199
Speaker 1: Alonzo though, but bring him in.

504
00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:23,600
Speaker 2: No.

505
00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,479
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the Thingyo, Mancata is that as

506
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Speaker 3: you're making a bet on a guy that still has

507
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Speaker 3: good physical tools, who's had like two ish good seasons

508
00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,520
Speaker 3: in the major leagues and just praying catch lightning in

509
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,280
Speaker 3: a battle. But again, this isn't really a modern Mets thing.

510
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,400
Speaker 3: This is more of like a Brewer's a Cubs, a Mariners.

511
00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,200
Speaker 3: This this this is move one of those teams makes

512
00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,320
Speaker 3: to give you a mankata a part time role, a

513
00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,719
Speaker 3: platoon role, because also a switch other you see what

514
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,240
Speaker 3: he can do and see if he can grab more

515
00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 3: playing time. This is something that I don't think the

516
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,199
Speaker 3: Mets would do. But I also don't think that the

517
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 3: Mets would totally poo pooh with if he would, if

518
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Speaker 3: you were to like split time with one of these

519
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 3: other guys at their base, I don't know, Like again,

520
00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,480
Speaker 3: like we're this is we're pretending this is the post

521
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Speaker 3: p alanzo A world. Which is the world I don't

522
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,119
Speaker 3: believes gonna happen on another thing is the world. I

523
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,720
Speaker 3: don't want to live in the other side. It's like

524
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,000
Speaker 3: Anthony zzme. I think that would be complete fucking travesty.

525
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,960
Speaker 3: I don't want Anthony Zonie to see me. I think

526
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,879
Speaker 3: he caught a bad break last year by the Yankees

527
00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,560
Speaker 3: forcing to play a couple months with a concussion.

528
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:12,959
Speaker 1: No one really talks about that very much.

529
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,399
Speaker 3: I guess he can tell me I concussion either, But

530
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 3: they didn't test him either, even though its production dropped

531
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Speaker 3: like a rock. He's just I don't think he's very

532
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,719
Speaker 3: good baseballlayer anymore. He'd be more of a vibes guy

533
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:20,960
Speaker 3: than anything else. I don't think we need the first

534
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,679
Speaker 3: basement vibes guy at this point, definitely not No, we

535
00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,879
Speaker 3: don't need one of those right now. We've got a

536
00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 3: lot of good vibes. It's called a winning winning is

537
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 3: good vibes. That's really what it is.

538
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day. Trademarket a couple more

539
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 1: interesting guys. I'm kind of coming around to the idea

540
00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 1: of Yandi. If there's no Pete Yondi Diaz, he's an

541
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,640
Speaker 1: on base king. He hits the ball super hard all

542
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,920
Speaker 1: the time, doesn't strike out. He's a butcher at first base.

543
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,919
Speaker 1: We know that, but who cares so is Pete. And

544
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,600
Speaker 1: Pete's got great scoops, but he's horrendous defensively otherwise, and

545
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 1: he can't throw a baseball. I love the idea of Yandy.

546
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 1: If it's not Pete, he is a stopgap option where

547
00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,160
Speaker 1: you could get Yondi and still go after Vlad Junior

548
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,479
Speaker 1: next year, because then you would essentially become your DH

549
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 1: flat Junior plays first base. And if that's where the

550
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 1: Mets focus is going and why they're not so aggressive

551
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 1: at getting Peter Alonzo, or maybe that's why they miss

552
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 1: out on Pete Alonzo, feels like probably the best option. Yeah,

553
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: I think it is.

554
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,400
Speaker 3: Also there's a world where Yandi can have a bit

555
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 3: more of a power ceiling, just because Alridy hitting the

556
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 3: ball in the other way city field is not the

557
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 3: worst power alley if it's like deep into the gap, no,

558
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 3: not so much, but like directly down the right field line,

559
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 3: it's not a difficult place to get the ball out

560
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 3: for Reddy's. We've seen Pete do that a lot over

561
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 3: the years. And again like with Yandy Diaz, it's just

562
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 3: this extreme selectivity. It's tons of walks, a four hundred

563
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 3: on base percentage of to the last three seasons, not

564
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,120
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, but just he doesn't swing it miss

565
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,880
Speaker 3: very often. Like it's such a different profile of Pee Alonzo,

566
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 3: but one I think could fit so well in this

567
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,160
Speaker 3: Mets lineup because you're gonna just need you want as

568
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,399
Speaker 3: many on base guy as you possibly can, because you

569
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 3: have Wan solo of course, but also Mark Fientosh's much

570
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:51,879
Speaker 3: more power over on base guy. Like I don't know

571
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 3: where Mark Fianzo's on base percentages wind up, but I

572
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:55,679
Speaker 3: know the power can get up to forty homeless. So

573
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 3: having a guy like Yandy Diaz who's like similar to

574
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,440
Speaker 3: brand Nemo, who can slot either in to the top

575
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 3: of the line up to be a table sether, or

576
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 3: into the middle of the line that can to kind

577
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 3: of like get it going to the bottom of the oither.

578
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 3: I think he fits really well the but your first

579
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 3: bases whatever, he can't really run. What's the contract on

580
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 3: Yandy ds is two more years.

581
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 1: I think is a free agent in twenty twenty seven,

582
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 1: So the twenty twenty seven off seasons, I think you'd

583
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: get two full seasons of Yandy.

584
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 3: And the other thing about Yandi is I will cost

585
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 3: a pretty penny to trade for him. But we also

586
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 3: know that David Stearns has made lots of trades with

587
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 3: the Rays organization, and that's those that's the front office

588
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 3: he's very comfortable in dealing with. I'm very confidently top

589
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 3: of it with David Stearns making trades anybody. I'm not

590
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,360
Speaker 3: scared of the rais in any way, shape or form.

591
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 1: I think it might cost.

592
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 3: I don't know, like one of the mid level pitchers.

593
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 3: It might cost like two exciting relievers. It might cost

594
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 3: one really enticing seven eighteen year old, like a really

595
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 3: enticing one.

596
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 1: Well, they look for tools to raise they want, like

597
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,719
Speaker 1: the guys who have an elite tool and then they

598
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: can figure out the rest. Yeah.

599
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,120
Speaker 3: So I can't even think about who that would buy

600
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 3: you right now. I don't even think I would trad

601
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 3: by us for Yandy. Okay, would you trade Bias for Yandy?

602
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd have to think about it.

603
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 3: I think Bias become like a fringy, like like sexy

604
00:22:58,760 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 3: Top one hundred prospects.

605
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. If that's the guy I move, i'd

606
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,479
Speaker 1: consider trading him right now at what is his newest

607
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 1: peak for Yandi, I'd consider that if we don't have plans,

608
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 1: So this is the if that's the.

609
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 3: Big if ya only if plans was fully gone, like

610
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 3: if Pilands' is still out there. I don't trade anything

611
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 3: for Yandy, absolutely not. No, this is this becomes like

612
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 3: an emergency situation. Now you're dealing without lever, so you

613
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 3: have to make that.

614
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: It's it's March eighteenth, and you're like, holy shit, we

615
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: don't have a first basement. Yea, then now it's an issue.

616
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 3: But I'm just pulling this contract right now just so

617
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 3: we can get some Okay, so, oh so it's actually

618
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,640
Speaker 3: only this year and then a twelve million dollars club

619
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 3: option for next year, so it's a two year twenty

620
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 3: two million, So it is nothing, but probably also not

621
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 3: many years or thirty four years old. It probably wouldn't

622
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 3: even cost that much of trade. I think you could

623
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 3: probably get him for hmmm, who's a commensurate like who's

624
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 3: similar to like the Tyler Stewart range of pitchers that

625
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 3: we trade for Winker last year, Who's.

626
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: Someone in that range? Like he's gonna get more than that?

627
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: The Winker was an expiring contract free agent the age

628
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: you think like Blade did well, I think it might

629
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: be a little too much as well. I don't know,

630
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's an interesting it's tough with an

631
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: older guy like this who's good.

632
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 3: Older guy's highly productive. But I think Yandy Diez would

633
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 3: fit really, really well in this mess lineup. And I

634
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 3: think that in terms of every first basement you can acquire.

635
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 3: I love how unique his skill set is.

636
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not even gonna say the next one.

637
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 1: I'll let you just take the name on the list

638
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: because it's disgusting.

639
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 3: Next one a very attainable trade target, someone who's proven

640
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 3: over the last few years that doesn't really cost that

641
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 3: much on the market, doesn't have the most desirable skill

642
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 3: set despite having some really cool numbers. Sometimes, Luisa Rias,

643
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 3: it doesn't really seem like the Padres are obsessed with

644
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 3: having win in their team next year. They kind of

645
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 3: have this glut, crazy yeah of players that don't really

646
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 3: have any defensive value and cost a little bit too

647
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 3: much money. Like I think when you look at Luisa

648
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 3: Rise and Jake Cronenworth, you're like, a successful tea probably

649
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 3: should only have one of these guys, yeah, squint.

650
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: And you're like they're the same value essentially. Yeah, I know.

651
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people might be yelling at

652
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 3: us right now through through the radios and their headphones

653
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 3: about talking shit about Luisa Rise. But the end of

654
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 3: the day, like, if Luisa Rias had a second tool,

655
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 3: he'd be a very valuable major league player, but he

656
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 3: sadly is one. And the one tool is cool because

657
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 3: he hits the ball and gets on base a lot.

658
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 3: But like last season, when he he hits a little

659
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 3: bit less than he did the year before, or kind

660
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 3: of code name gets a little bit less lucky and

661
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 3: he did with balls and player than the year before,

662
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 3: you see the value dip a lot. And the problem

663
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 3: that value dips loot for a guy who just hits

664
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 3: a lot of singles is that he's very slow, he

665
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 3: clogs up the bases. And then the fact that he

666
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 3: has no defensive value whatsoever. He is one of the

667
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 3: worst defensive players in baseball bar none. So I think

668
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 3: the fact that both those things are true doesn't really

669
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 3: walk ever. I mean, the outbase percentage is still like

670
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 3: the floor is like a three fifty on base, which

671
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 3: is still great. I think this met line could really

672
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 3: use one of those, and Louise Rise again would cost

673
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 3: not very much in terms of prospect capital. He costs

674
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 3: a little bit in terms of money. I think he's

675
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 3: going to make about ten million dollars eleven million arbitration

676
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 3: this year, which is probably a little high for again

677
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 3: a one trick pony. I think it's possible, and I

678
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 3: think it would be really funny to see the divisiveness

679
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 3: among a fan base if he were to be acquired.

680
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I can't have a slightly better version

681
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: of Jeff McNeil, who can't play anywhere in the field.

682
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 1: Just doesn't interest me in the slightest at all in

683
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: terms of a bad he's currently a much better version

684
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: of Jeff mcnill. Well, yeah, sure, McNeil was like ninety

685
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: two WRC plus last year, arrives as five. Sure if

686
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: if he.

687
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 3: Wants up at three fifty on base percent, she's he's

688
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 3: significantly better.

689
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 1: No, I think it's about where he's gonna. Yeah, but

690
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 1: that's not an option I really want to explore right now.

691
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: Tristan Costa's name keeps bringing brought up in the trademarket. Why,

692
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't wrap my head around it.

693
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: But apparently the Red Sox have thought about shopping him.

694
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: I know Craig Breslo, their GM, came out and said

695
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: we are not trading him. But yet his name keeps

696
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: floating around. So I don't know, you should you should

697
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: call about him? I think another guy too. I'll just

698
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: kind of bunch these two younger first basemen together. Spencer

699
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: Torkleson seems like he has no room on the Detroit

700
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: Tigers right now, and especially if they get Alex Bragman,

701
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: he really has no room. I'd love to take a

702
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: shot on Spencer Torkelsen a lot, just even if we

703
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: have Pete Alonzo, I'd love to bring in Spencer Torkelsen.

704
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 1: Torklsen to me, is is the Tigers version of Baby. Yes,

705
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: but it's a different it's a different skill set, but

706
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: it's a lot it's very similar. Traffick Like, yeah, he's

707
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 1: his tree Arizona State was impeccable, but he's I don't know,

708
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: like he's never been. He's never gonna be able to

709
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: be like a really good defensive first baseman. The fact

710
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: that he's getting pushed out by his team doesn't really

711
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 1: bode that well. He made some swing change the second

712
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: half last year, a lot of the Tigers did weirdly.

713
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: As Heason went on, there's a great post from Foolish

714
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: Baseball and Blue Sky about it. But it's also I

715
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: don't know what Torkleson adds to this team. Like I

716
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: think if the Mets are making a move, you have

717
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: to make it for someone who you think can contribute,

718
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: not someone who you're like, I hope we can change

719
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 1: something in catch lighting in a bottle here. He could

720
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: play DH.

721
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 3: He can't play dch I guess. But this year you're

722
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 3: locked in with Starling Marte DH and for twenty million dollars.

723
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 1: Who cares he was just because you haven't. Doesn't he

724
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: asked to play.

725
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess, then, why you with you giving

726
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 3: up for him to give him nothing? They aren't giving

727
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 3: you for free?

728
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: You can take you. Would you do Brett Baby for

729
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: Spencer Turkosen right now? Maybe not? I don't know.

730
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 3: I think I think Brett Bailey can offer more value

731
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: to this team because he brings like again, like I

732
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 3: don't know, Torklesen, if he just can't hit, he might

733
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,239
Speaker 3: not be a major league baseball player. Where Baby at

734
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 3: least I know if he can't hit, he can play

735
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 3: some defense. He can have some value in this major

736
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 3: league club. I think if you go into next season,

737
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 3: I think I'm a little more certain of where what

738
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 3: Baby can do. Like I don't know if I'm I'm

739
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 3: not quitting on Smetal torkles but I just don't see

740
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 3: him as being someone who who exactly fits with the

741
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 3: Met's need right now because the Mets had a good

742
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 3: If everything was a line as Starling Marte wasn't on

743
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 3: the roster, I'd be like, yeah, let's let's mix in Togs.

744
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: I guess a little bit, but I don't know, Like

745
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 3: maybe maybe maybe I'm just being foolish in there. The

746
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 3: costas one is interesting. I don't I don't know if

747
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 3: he ever would get traded. I think it's funny that

748
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 3: him and Vento's were high school teammates, and those two

749
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 3: together with their personalities and they're their way to hit,

750
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 3: would just completely take over the city. I think it

751
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 3: would be wonderful to see all the content that would

752
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: come from those two being together, just like going out

753
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 3: a couple couple of dudes in Manhattan. I think that

754
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 3: that alone would make that move worth it. And he's

755
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 3: an incredible power. Hither that being said, we are going

756
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 3: to we would have to give up a everyone. You're

757
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 3: giving up everything for Tristan Cassus.

758
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: I don't think that's true either. Dude, I really were

759
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: trying to use him. They were like Christian Tristan Cosas

760
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: for Brian wu. We don't got a Brian Woo to

761
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: trade Menderson. No, Yeah, I know, but like if that that's.

762
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, But I'm saying if that's what they want,

763
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 3: But I think that if they are realistic, I think

764
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: the bottom line is the costs rumors is that I

765
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 3: think everyone in Boston knows that Rafael Devers forever home

766
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,479
Speaker 3: has to be first base to be so like, right

767
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 3: now you have this twenty four year old first baseman

768
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 3: who doesn't have another position he can play either, So

769
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 3: it's like, what do we really do here? So I

770
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 3: guess you try to trade for him, get whatever you can.

771
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 3: I also think it's this is the kind of crux

772
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 3: his entire conversation that we've talked about the show a

773
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 3: lot this winter, that the first base market is kind

774
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 3: of bullshit, Like it is, like, I think it's kind

775
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 3: of a bit of an inefficiency right now. And we

776
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 3: said it like when when Nathaniel Lows is a solid

777
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 3: baseball player, it's probably like what the thirteenth best first

778
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 3: base in baseball? Where they come in your list? I

779
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 3: think I had him at eleven. Yeah, So that's what

780
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: I'm saying. When he gets traded for like a pretty

781
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: good lefty middle reliever who wasn't really even really good

782
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 3: in the statute, just really good in his peripherals, and

783
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 3: he gets traded for the eleventh best to first basement

784
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 3: in baseball, that's a miss right there. So I think

785
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: the Red Sox probably offering castes around and like we're

786
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: really not getting what we think is a commenser value

787
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 3: for the guy, but also he's similarly like Pete and

788
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 3: like all these other first base we're talking about, it's coped,

789
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 3: one dimensional player with no defensive value who you hope

790
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 3: has oh my god, hit my computer, but you hope

791
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 3: has an eight hundred ohps. So it's like, I don't

792
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 3: know what that actually gives you in a deal, Like

793
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 3: I just think that's not as valuables some people like

794
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 3: to pretend it is in the open market.

795
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: I will say, I think we're about twenty five thirty

796
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: minutes into this conver I think you guys are starting

797
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: to realize we need to bring beat Alonzo.

798
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,959
Speaker 3: Back on the two other names on this list that

799
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 3: I don't think are very realistic. These are these are

800
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 3: marks two favorites, but Ryan Mountcastle for one, who I

801
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 3: just I just can't see the Orioles training because the

802
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 3: Orioles just seem to, I don't know, be be a

803
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 3: stubborn in the way they're building this team, weirdest team

804
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: ever right now, Like how do you how they are

805
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 3: in such a position where they should be spending money,

806
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 3: like honestly like drunken sailors, where like they have one

807
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 3: hundred free players they should.

808
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: They like the fact they didn't spend this money on

809
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: Corbyn Burns is insane. It's not I think I do

810
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: think they try to. I don't know if they thought

811
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: that was the best I don't. It didn't seem like

812
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: he wants to go back to that badly. Honestly, it's possible,

813
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: but like there's there's been so many guys available, and

814
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: it's like he got Charlie Morton. That's the move you've made.

815
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 3: I mean, I know Charlie Moore's gonna gonna love an

816
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: early bird crab cake at the at the at the

817
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 3: Baltimore restaurant of his choice, but I don't know, Well,

818
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 3: you have a guy like Gunner Henderson in a rookie

819
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 3: contract who, by all intentsive purposes, one of the most

820
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 3: exciting players in baseball.

821
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to. You have to push the chips

822
00:30:58,920 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: around him.

823
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 3: It's kind of a joke that they're not, and I

824
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: feel like they they're in the middle of letting this

825
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 3: window blow past them.

826
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: But that's another reasonhy I don't think they're gonna trade

827
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: Mount Castle little Blue Jays.

828
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 3: But this would be even more egregious in the Blue

829
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 3: Jays because Blue Jays were never really that good, Like

830
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays kind of thought they were better than

831
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 3: they works. They had a lot of flash, but it

832
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: was a very flawed team and a flawed roster the

833
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 3: whole time. And they just kind of they caught lightning

834
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 3: a ball of one year because of Robbie fucking Ray.

835
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: And then like the minor league park one year, and yeah.

836
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 3: They played the min league park for a couple months,

837
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 3: like that was the whole thing. And mar Marcus sent

838
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 3: me had for one year, then he walked out the door.

839
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 3: He was one of their best players because I think,

840
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 3: I mean, Bobaschev was just constantly glazed and overrated, and

841
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 3: that was kind of the whole, the whole problem with

842
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 3: what everyone thought about that team. And they gave a

843
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 3: ridiculous contract to George Springer. Shout out Puster one and

844
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 3: then the last name on this list, the Pie and

845
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 3: the Sky, the dream. But I don't think it's gonna happen.

846
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's anyone's dream besides Mark's. Carlos

847
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 3: Correa just to be baby, just just just to be

848
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 3: the third basement for this team and the port of

849
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 3: the Weacon, to be friends with Lindor, but the contract

850
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: is crazy. The planner fascias and two feet is insane. Truthfully,

851
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 3: it's kind of shocking.

852
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't see that as realistic option.

853
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 3: I also like the Twins are another team was they're so weird,

854
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 3: Like they're another team where I feel like if they

855
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 3: had their exact roster in the National League, they'd be

856
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 3: ready to tear everything down because they know they have

857
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 3: no chance to win. But the American League can squint

858
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 3: and be like if Aaron Judge stubs his toe and

859
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 3: anyone in the Rangers gets hurt, like anyone can kind

860
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 3: of win this league. So I think a lot of

861
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 3: these American League teams are staring each other. Yeah, because

862
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Speaker 3: the Central is just so up for grabs. Everybody about

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Speaker 3: the White Sox can win that division right now. Almost

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Speaker 3: anybody in the Al West can win that division except

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Speaker 3: the Angels. Like there's how many teams that are involved

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Speaker 3: in the American League, which makes it tougher literally, And I.

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Speaker 1: Think the Yankees and the Ranger are the best teams

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Speaker 1: by far, but they're very I think fragile. It's fragile.

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Speaker 3: They're both they're both of their best players by far

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Speaker 3: are literally fragile. If either of those players go down.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what's gonna happen to those teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. But Carlos Cray, I'll keep that

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Speaker 1: dream alive still that he'll play third base one day

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Speaker 1: for the New York Mets. But ultimately we talked for

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes to just tell you that the Mets need

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Speaker 1: to bring back Pete Alonso or they better go ball

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Speaker 1: to the wall for vlat Junior next year, because we've

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Speaker 1: got a gaping hole at the corner position. Either it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be first or third base, whichever one. Mark Viento's

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Speaker 1: doesn't play, and I hope it's filled by Peter A

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Speaker 1: Lonzo and twenty twenty five, and I think it will

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Speaker 1: be still, I do too. I just I just it's

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Speaker 1: going to not be a fun process to get there. No,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be ugly. It's gonna be very ugly. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna get bad. But thank you, guys, Yeah, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you listening, Thank you for watching. Remember if you're

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Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, Mets the podcast, subscribe over there. We

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Speaker 1: do appreciate you. James got something to say. I got

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Speaker 1: Frankie Peppers, but keep the outro going Frankie Peppers for

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Speaker 1: the New Year's okay, but I'll keep doing the outro.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening to us Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, drop

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00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: us a rating, drop us a review, download and subscribe

893
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: and follow us on all our social media mets up

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. But James has got Frankie

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Speaker 1: Pepper's New Year's message for us.

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Speaker 3: Got Frankie Pepper's ringing in the New Year again. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: you guys, that's been so long since episode.

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Speaker 1: But I've been like dead, I've bad me be able

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Speaker 1: to move as nothing's happened. Yeah, nothing's happened at all.

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Speaker 3: But we'd like to get a bunch of episodes out

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Speaker 3: of the week for you guys, because we just love

902
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 3: talking ball and I've been just steaming through just bait

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Speaker 3: only on Ohio State, keeping the blood coursing through my veins.

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Speaker 3: So we're just trying to get through the next Friday.

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Speaker 3: But Frankie Pepper's ringing in the New Year, gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: How you're doing this is Frankie Pepper's my coming to

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Speaker 2: you today to say I hope you will have a

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Speaker 2: very happy and healthy New Year. And like I said

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Speaker 2: last time, I hope when the clock strikes midnight tonight,

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Speaker 2: I'm leaving this on New Year's Eve. When the clock

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Speaker 2: streets midnight tonight, I hope you get to kiss somebody

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Speaker 2: pretty on the lips. So I wanted to give five

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Speaker 2: bold predictions for what's going to happen in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five in the baseball world. I'm not touching anything else

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Speaker 2: because who knows. But the prediction number one is that

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Speaker 2: Frankie Montas is going to have a Louis Sevarino type year.

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Speaker 2: It's not going to be an ace, but he's going

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Speaker 2: to be far better than anybody expects it to be.

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Speaker 2: Prediction number two, the Mets are going to lead the

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Speaker 2: league in war and strikeout to walk ratio. This staff

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Speaker 2: is going to strike out a lot of people, and

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Speaker 2: I think the walks are going to go way down.

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Speaker 2: Prediction number three. The New York They're gonna win ninety

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Speaker 2: seven games. Prediction number four, Peter Lonzo will be back

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Speaker 2: with the New York Mets on a four year, one

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Speaker 2: hundred and ten million dollar deal with opt outs after

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Speaker 2: years king. Prediction number five, the most important one is

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Speaker 2: that the Messed Up Podcast is gonna hit twenty thousand

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Speaker 2: subscribers on YouTube. I know that one that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: So again, boys, Happy New Year, Thank you again for

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Speaker 2: everything this year. I hope you're safe, I hope you're happy,

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Speaker 2: I hope you're healthy, and I will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanks boys.

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Speaker 3: Franky Peppers Herky Peppers crawled inside my brain for that

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Speaker 3: and for that pos content razy that word for word

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Speaker 3: what I said at the top of the show.

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Speaker 1: That's terrifying.

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Speaker 3: But thank you the Frankie, thank you for all those

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Speaker 3: guys stuck with us through the year. New Year's coming

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Speaker 3: out soon. We're gonna have some some wild content coming,

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Speaker 3: especially the months of January February, because it's not going

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Speaker 3: to be much talk about. Do you guys ever have

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Speaker 3: any ideas for us? Hit us up in the YouTube comments,

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Speaker 3: tweet them at us Instagram, us DM comment anything you

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Speaker 3: guys got. We're down to be experimental, some podcast episodes

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Speaker 3: for the next few months, some YouTube video, so we're

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Speaker 3: down try whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's just head this up. You got a good idea,

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Speaker 1: We're really happy to use it. Yep, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to come up with something because we got to make

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Speaker 1: some episodes for you guys. But thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening, Thank you for watching. Follow James on Twitter

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00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: app James underscore Giano draft neck mark with a C.

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Speaker 1: We will catch you all later this week for another episode.

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Speaker 1: Peace out, Peace that guys, thanks for listening. Let's called Mets.