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Speaker 1: About territory is back Mets manager at Carlost Mendoza joining

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Speaker 1: us right now, Mandy, we really appreciate the time. I

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Speaker 1: know it's a busy week, so let's get right into biz.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling? First of all, are you excited? Nervous?

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Speaker 1: This is like the playoffs happening over the final six

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good to see you guys. Definitely, I'm excited. You know,

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Speaker 2: even though it's been it hasn't been pretty, you know,

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Speaker 3: You know, we have a big week ahead of us

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Speaker 3: starting tonight, and here here we are and beautiful Chicago, getting.

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Speaker 2: Ready for a super important game today.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, every game feels like a playoff game,

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Speaker 3: and he's been like that for the past I don't

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Speaker 3: know how.

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Speaker 2: Many days, but you know, here we are and go

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Speaker 2: sentrim one day at a time.

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Speaker 4: There's a preparation any different for these games. Are you

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Speaker 4: sitting there in your meetings and going, Okay, this is

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Speaker 4: who's available, just like every other day, But then you're like,

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Speaker 4: you know what, I might go to this guy sooner

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Speaker 4: because we are, like you said, in a playoff type

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Speaker 2: As far as the preparation, goes. It's pretty consistent.

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Speaker 3: I think it's just the way you manage games, you know,

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Speaker 3: and then and how much you use guys down the stretch,

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Speaker 3: you know. So I think that's the way we see

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Speaker 3: it is that's the only difference. You know, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: be aggressive when you're taking out your starters or relievers

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Speaker 3: or pinch hitting. It's like, you know, there's not tomorrow

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Speaker 3: for us. You know, it's do what we need to

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Speaker 3: do today to win the baseball game, and then we

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Speaker 3: go about tomorrow tomorrow. And the mentality has been like

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Speaker 3: that for I don't know more than a month. When

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Speaker 3: you're in the big leagues, you know you're trying to

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Speaker 3: win every night. But right now, I think it's just

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Speaker 3: how aggressive and the way you use all of you

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Speaker 4: Do those guys know that to the bullpen guy? Because

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're you're talking about the bullpen. You're not

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Speaker 4: you're not making a wholesale platoon changes in the lineup

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Speaker 4: like some teams. You're talking about the bullpen. Do you

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Speaker 4: have that conversation today when they get there, you walk

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Speaker 4: around the outfield, what is what does that look like?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Of course you got to let them know.

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Speaker 3: You got to give them a headsop, and you know,

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Speaker 3: because they got different routines, you know, and a guy

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Speaker 3: that is probably used to pitching the seventh or eighth,

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Speaker 3: hey man, you could be as early as the fourth inning,

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Speaker 3: so their routine's got to change a little bit. And uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, I'll try and do it myself, are pitching coaches,

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Speaker 3: but we make sure we give those guys ahead stop

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Speaker 3: what we're thinking going into a game, so that way

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Speaker 1: Mandy, you're playing the Cubs, this is a playoff team,

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Speaker 1: and I know you're mostly thinking, hey, we just got

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Speaker 1: to win the games were supposed to win, not only

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Speaker 1: this week, but you know even last week. It's not

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Speaker 1: an excuse, but just the natural human reaction over the

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Speaker 1: weekend from you. I know you were checking out the

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Speaker 1: score at least to see how Cubs Reds was going.

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Speaker 1: Were you surprised, like the Cubs got swept by the

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, anything can happen, man, anybody can beat

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Speaker 3: anybody at any particular day. I was just you know,

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Speaker 3: concenter at it on our games, and uh, we didn't

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Speaker 3: win a series It was tough. It was frustrating for us,

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Speaker 3: the fact that we couldn't win the series against the Nationals.

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Speaker 3: We were, you know, one swing away on Saturday, and

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Speaker 3: then on Sunday we didn't do much as a team,

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Speaker 2: But again, the.

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Speaker 3: Past is in the past and all we could control

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Speaker 3: now is taking care of business today.

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Speaker 4: What is tougher playing a team that's already cleansed in

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Speaker 4: the playoffs, but it's a good team playing a team

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Speaker 4: you're getting. When you talk about preparation pregame for these teams,

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Speaker 4: they're both.

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Speaker 3: They're both tough, you know, and especially not only when

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Speaker 3: when you're playing teams are out of it, but you're

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Speaker 3: playing a team like the Cops that you know, they

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Speaker 3: go bumping and uh Like, it's a completely different game.

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, you have to

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Speaker 3: be ready for uh everything that they can throw at you.

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Speaker 3: Uh in control the teams that you can't control. But

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Speaker 3: we didn't play well against the Nationals. We didn't play

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Speaker 2: Uh. So, you know, for me and for all of

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Speaker 2: those years, win.

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Speaker 1: Today, Mendy, with the state of the starting staff, are

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Speaker 1: you surprised it got to this point based on you know,

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Speaker 1: what it looked like at the start of the season

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Speaker 1: really for what the first month and a half or

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Speaker 1: two and where you are now. Obviously the the youngsters

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Speaker 1: have been a great addition here late. But when you

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Speaker 1: you know, Sega still trying to figure things out in

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Speaker 1: the minors, some guys going down, some guys not looking

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Speaker 1: like themselves from last year, would you be shocked.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not gonna lie. You know, people are ask

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Speaker 3: You know, if we would have asked you that three

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Speaker 3: of these kids there are when I start in the

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Speaker 3: minor leagues are going to be part of your rotation

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Speaker 3: in September, it's like no chance. Maybe one of them,

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Speaker 3: especially with how well we were throwing the ball for

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Speaker 3: the first couple of months and the death, you know,

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Speaker 3: because I kept talking about our death.

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Speaker 2: We lost Manaya in months.

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Speaker 3: The first week of spring training, and we felt comfortable

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Speaker 3: you know, here we are, you know, throwing three kids that,

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Speaker 3: like I said, you would have asked me in spring training,

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Speaker 3: and maybe out of the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: And but you got to give those guys credit.

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Speaker 3: You got to give people in player development a lot

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Speaker 3: of credit because they put themselves, uh in this kid

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Speaker 3: in a position where whatever there was a need here

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Speaker 5: Mandy if if if you guys, I've been saying this

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Speaker 5: for months. I'm sticking with you. You guys are getting in, Okay,

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Speaker 5: I mean I've been saying it for months. You guys

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Speaker 5: I wrote against anybody playing the Cubs. So, uh, you

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Speaker 5: have to win. You have to win these games. But

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Speaker 5: if and when you guys get in, will you start

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Speaker 5: the three? You know, Manaiyah Peterson obviously has been really

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Speaker 5: good for y'all. But I know you you're gonna say, oh,

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Speaker 5: one game at a time, but you've had to have

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Speaker 5: taken a small look at trying to set some sort

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Speaker 5: the to the veterans in that first round series?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean we got to get in right.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: I trust that you're gonna get in. Okay, I've already

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Speaker 5: said I've been banging the drum for a month now, Mandy,

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Speaker 5: so you got to listen to me.

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Speaker 2: I will continue to listen to you. No, I think

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Speaker 2: I don't think we have the locks with me right now.

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Speaker 3: To start thinking, okay, how are we going to line

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Speaker 3: we'll take it one day at a time, and uh

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Speaker 2: All the way down to the last day, who knows, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, and then we're not probably gonna be in a

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Speaker 3: right now, everything's on the table, all hands on deck,

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Speaker 3: and uh, you know we'll make those decisions when we.

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Speaker 4: All right, We've been talking about pitching the whole time.

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Speaker 4: I want to go to the lineup. Can you believe

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Speaker 4: I'm not talking about Wan Soto having career home runs

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Speaker 4: Lynn Door is right about where you thought he would be.

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Speaker 4: Pete's up and down, but banging a bunch of homers,

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Speaker 2: You know, that's you know, it's hard to describe too crazy.

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Speaker 3: Is like you said, I was talking to some of

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Speaker 2: You know, it's like, man like, what's going on? It's weird.

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Speaker 3: It's a strange that the fact that you know we're

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Speaker 2: You know, I just I feel like, you know, everybody

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Speaker 2: talks about our pitch and all that, we've just been

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Speaker 3: And we haven't been playing uh, you know, there's been

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Speaker 1: you had any thoughts of doing anything different and also

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Speaker 3: I mean we think about it, we talk about it,

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Speaker 3: he's good to go. So we haven't done that pretty

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Speaker 3: But here we are, and you know we're doing that today,

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Speaker 3: like I said, and then yeah, I think that's one

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Speaker 2: On Sunday I flipped those two.

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Speaker 3: Uh. You know you're always looking for ways to help

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Speaker 4: Here it's Sanger done for the year. Can you can

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Speaker 4: you comment on that? Is that something that has been

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Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't say he's done. He threw a li

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Speaker 3: He's down in Florida. He threw a LIVP forty five pitches,

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Speaker 3: But I wouldn't say he's done.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there was this time about this time last year,

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Speaker 4: he's there for you. Yesterday off day, I had asked

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Speaker 4: off day based on the struggles that you've had a

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Speaker 4: for you because you're like, I just want to see

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Speaker 4: you know, controlling our own destiny. How was your off

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I know, he was a nice off day here

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Speaker 6: I had the family with me, so he's always good

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Speaker 6: to kind of take that day and reset and get

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the way we see it here, just.

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Speaker 3: Kind of get you mine out of it, disconnect for

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Speaker 5: Mandy. When you we were playing the Nationals, you just

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Speaker 5: brought it up. When when when the guy but Jacob Young,

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Speaker 5: Jacob Young, you know that's his name, made those two catches?

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Speaker 5: Were you like especially the first one the second one

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Speaker 5: Because that's one of the best catches I've ever seen,

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Speaker 5: can't he just kick it a little to the left

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Speaker 2: Elite center fielder that looked like Lionel Messi do it?

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Speaker 3: You know like, oh my, Like I've turned to my

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Speaker 2: But hey, man, like nobody's gonna feel sorry for us.

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Speaker 2: We got to keep going, all right.

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Speaker 4: We see your three rookie pitchers that have stepped up

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Speaker 4: and sprot What is the characteristic that you want to

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Speaker 4: I know I can go to that guy even though

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean they all got at least off.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just they're ability to make adjustments, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, like having an understanding what a lineup, what hitters

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Speaker 3: You know, and especially for guys that are just getting

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Speaker 1: Hey, Mandy, last one at the finish line here. We've

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Speaker 1: seen some of the numbers come out from the Mets

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Speaker 1: Org about the attendance, and the numbers were fantastic, as expected,

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Speaker 1: looked like it lasted for a while, that the vibes

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Speaker 1: like there were more fans and more energy throughout this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, unreal, incredible. I mean we definitely felt it.

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Speaker 3: You know, the appreciation from myself, from our team. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's just off the charge because they packed city field.

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Speaker 3: They were right there. Even there was like week days

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Speaker 3: thank you, and our messages to just continue to believe.

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Speaker 2: Man, Like, I know it's been hard. I know they

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Speaker 3: I mean we get frustrated too, but hey, we got

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to do something special and that's our goal.

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Speaker 1: Manday, thanks for the time. You know, we appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a busy week. Go do your thing.

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Speaker 1: We'll be watching. Good luck.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys,