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Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode of the Mets

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Speaker 2: Up Podcast. Yeah, this one, this one, we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: some fun, and by fun, we're gonna be a little mad.

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Speaker 1: That was That was bad.

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Speaker 2: That was terrible. That was a nightmare. It was a terrible,

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Speaker 2: no good, awful mad day. Whatever that that book is

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Speaker 2: that we read as a kid, it was about as

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Speaker 2: bad as it could have gone. We've got some stats

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Speaker 2: for you to talk about it. Mets had a nightmare

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Speaker 2: in Seattle. Sleepless in Seattle. That's how it felt, just

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Speaker 2: midnight Mets. No vibes, no juice, no nothing. Literally almost

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Speaker 2: no runs, almost no runs. I'll save the yelling and

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Speaker 2: the ranting for when we do our little five minute

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Speaker 2: time er here, because we're gonna do a five minute

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Speaker 2: rant and then we're gonna talk baseball. We gotta get

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Speaker 2: the bat out. Now that we don't work for the team,

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Speaker 2: we can do this, so we have to do it.

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Speaker 2: we just get going right into or you have anything

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Speaker 2: to say before we let the people go?

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Speaker 1: Why waste time here? We're only gonna put five minutes

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Speaker 1: But five minutes, emotion are you? Are you in charge

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Speaker 1: of the five minute time er here? I'm in charge

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Speaker 1: of the five minute timer. You guys are gonna see

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Speaker 1: the timer if you're watching on YouTube and the timer

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Speaker 1: is going to start right now. That was one of

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Speaker 1: the worst things ever seen life, in terms of baseball,

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Speaker 1: in terms of Mets baseball, in terms of all baseball,

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Speaker 1: in terms of any single fucking sport. I've ever watched

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Speaker 1: a team play at any point in any regular season

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Speaker 1: that was despicably bad. Not There's not one. There's not

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Speaker 1: one glimmer of anything good to take out anything just

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna use that SA two. We're not one modicum

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Speaker 2: of goodness in that entire series. It was bad from

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Speaker 2: the start, bad from the finish, Like they literally got

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Speaker 2: embarrassed scoring one run in three games. Is that's bad?

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Speaker 2: I know the Mariner's pitching is good, but we have

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Speaker 2: a good offense. Where the fuck did it go? Where

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Speaker 2: is everybody? Brandon Neimo is lost? And I like Brandon

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Speaker 2: Nimo I did. My feelings of him as a player

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Speaker 2: haven't changed, But dude, what the fuck?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: Where are you? Where's Pete Alonzo? Where's JD. Martinez? He

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Speaker 2: has disappeared. Francisco Alvert has taken major steps back right now.

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Speaker 2: He is in trouble, I think right now in terms

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Speaker 2: that error and that everybody had the worst body language

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Speaker 2: in the world. Like I understand they've been on a

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Speaker 2: tough road trip and this team's not trying to make excuses,

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Speaker 2: but like, holy shit, what was that?

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Speaker 1: That was a despicable performance. It was bad by language,

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Speaker 1: It was no response to adversity. No, there was no

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Speaker 1: Stop to finish, staying up till ten o'clock to watch

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Speaker 1: these games of course, again, there's no entitlement here, a

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Speaker 1: fandom staying up to watch those games and then not

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Speaker 1: even putting together one good at bad, not being able

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Speaker 2: Leo Revas Leo Revos Even worse, that guy was not

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Speaker 2: a major leader. Alfonso Refas had like two seasons. How

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Speaker 2: could Victor Robles be tormenting us right now? How the

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Speaker 2: fucking would Ward? Why is he in this team? How

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Speaker 2: do they get the waivers to them? What the fuck

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Speaker 2: just happened for three games? And again, of course these

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Speaker 2: pictures are amazing, was fucking awesome. Bryce Middler is disgustingly good.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't shit. You can't score no runs, You can't

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Speaker 2: The bullpen. That was like the kind of thing that

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Speaker 2: our bullpen has been a little bit shaky at times,

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Speaker 2: in Game one, I was like, oh my god, thank you.

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Speaker 1: We spent the whole series. We think it one hit

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Speaker 1: It's impossible. How often could that even happen? I can't,

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Speaker 1: And it's it's crazy. The one run came from Jeff

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Speaker 2: You if you were a betting man, you wouldn't have

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Speaker 2: been like, if the Metsican scored one run this series,

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Speaker 2: how would it happen? Francisco lindoor home run, pete ans

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Speaker 2: playing super bad. The defense was not good this series either.

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Speaker 2: The pitching was not sharp whatsoever. The bullpen at times

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Speaker 2: And I pray to God that this was just a

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Speaker 2: They're exhaust whatever it is, it's still a shit excuse.

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Speaker 2: I think it's still super lated. Other teams travel, there's

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Speaker 2: you can't say that shit. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping that's it because the season starts, it's happening.

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Speaker 2: You can't lose games. Now. We got gifts from the

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Speaker 2: fucking Rockies beating the Braves too. We could have separated

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Speaker 2: The Diamonbacks didn't lose, but the Padres lost the game.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's it's unfathomable how bad they played. It's

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Speaker 2: realization that the momentum is over. Every single good thing

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Speaker 2: Isaac Newton's fucking third law of motion, whichever law it was.

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Speaker 1: But it's over. Everything good that happened has stopped. We're

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Speaker 1: standing still and now there's forty four games left in

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Speaker 1: the season. You have to just you have to just win,

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Speaker 1: Like would you say, boy, you have to be in

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Speaker 1: twenty six out of forty four games. You have to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the season is zero and zero starting tonight, it's

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Speaker 2: any you win any less than that, you're giving it

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Speaker 2: up to the chance of the baseball gods who always

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Speaker 2: constantly say, hey, Mets, fuck you.

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Speaker 1: Baseball gods hate you. We don't want to help you.

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Speaker 2: We gave you Bill Buckner, you get nothing else in

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Speaker 2: win twenty six of these last forty four. If you don't,

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Speaker 2: the season is over. You will be sent home and

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Speaker 2: you will be the laughing soccer major League Baseball game.

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Speaker 1: But past that, it's the shit that we were giving

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Speaker 1: was not going well the series. People were not picking

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Speaker 1: There was not good that bad language. Hitchers were not

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Speaker 1: was over Overga Glaciers fell down, trying to sway with

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Speaker 1: The door makes the error and what they didn't call

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Speaker 1: I hitting an RBI, charging to learn ressavreno on that.

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Speaker 1: But that happened. It seemed like the entire team sluncked

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Speaker 1: make there, but everyone else can't die too, like you can't.

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Speaker 1: We fifteen seconds left. You can't let this whole thing

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Speaker 1: they got back. It's scary that this team is so

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Speaker 1: can't just play consistent day and day out baseball because again,

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Speaker 1: now motion has stopped. It's over, and now five minutes.

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Speaker 1: Now you have to play the season. Now you play baseball,

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Speaker 1: and now you have to find your way. All right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and take a breath.

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Speaker 2: Now, take a breath every ride five seconds, five seconds.

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Speaker 2: I hope you listening in the car at work, watching

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Speaker 2: There's still only a half game out there. Just as

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Speaker 2: much in this as any other team in major in

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Speaker 2: the National League. Right now, the Braves are playing bad baseball.

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Speaker 2: The Podres and Dimbacks don't fucking worry about then. We

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Speaker 2: don't care what's going on until we play them seven.

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Speaker 2: There you go beat them when we play them. Can't

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 2: The Mets have to win, Like we said, forty four games,

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Speaker 2: twenty six games, you gotta get to the a seven

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Speaker 2: not continue to play this bad despite that pitching being

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Speaker 2: horrible this weekend. That's just the Colorado bullshit. Play better,

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Speaker 2: and I think this team can play better. That's why

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Speaker 2: I'm not defcon five. This guy is falling.

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Speaker 1: The seasons over because if you were to say the

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Speaker 1: season's over, being a half game out of a playoff spot,

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Speaker 1: like you're the fakest Met fan in the world.

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Speaker 2: We've had different, way bigger deficits. We've come back from

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Speaker 2: way worse this team is. I do believe in this

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Speaker 2: team being a playoff caliber team. I am concerned about

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Speaker 2: what I saw this weekend. I am concerned about the

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Speaker 2: starting pitching deeper and deeper into the season. But the

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Speaker 2: fact of the matter is this lineup is good enough

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Speaker 2: and is talented enough to put this team into the

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Speaker 1: I think that is the great their bigger picture there too.

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Speaker 1: When people were talking and like May, when the team

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Speaker 1: of the playoffs, spot Dan didn't matter, standing, thing't maten.

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Speaker 1: It's just sacking have points. Now, this is a battle,

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Speaker 1: this is now war like we have. It's us, it's

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Speaker 1: the Braves, and sadly because we low some games in

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Speaker 1: this road trip, we also have the Giants, we have

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals, and for some weird reason we have the Cups.

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Speaker 1: We're one game one to five hundred again or somehow

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Speaker 1: it's just I think we're better than those teams. Thank

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Speaker 1: God this road trip we had the game against the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals that kind of saved the day. If we didn't

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Speaker 1: and we bad. But it's just it's the crime of

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Speaker 1: it is a missed opportunity. Yes, because these were winnable games.

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Speaker 1: Game three of them, Marina series got completely out of control.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is now the point where if it continues

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Speaker 2: of course I love Francisco Alvreus. This doesn't change my

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Speaker 1: It is a smart baseball league. Everyone knows everything about

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Speaker 1: Like it's what I'm saying Michael Carla Williams too, and

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Speaker 1: Like you're not hiding, like if you if you're not

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Speaker 1: That's like almost impossible to do.

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Speaker 2: He was literally Margot Robbie ten out of ten, eleven

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Speaker 1: I mean he might take it like really personally not

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Speaker 1: Between June and July, pictures were throwing him about fifty

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Speaker 1: But bought everyone's favorite media Marvel Buster. Only did I

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna bring this thing back into focus? The first

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Speaker 2: He looks like an old man officially, like it seems

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Speaker 2: like we had that nice spurt. He's helped us out

431
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Speaker 2: hitting wise, whatever he did. But his last thirty games,

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Speaker 2: are you ready for these numbers? Yeah, they're really bad.

433
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Speaker 2: One hundred and six at bats, forty one strikeouts and

434
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Speaker 2: one hundred and six at bats is pretty insane. He's

435
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Speaker 2: walked fifteen times, so it's gonna come out to a

436
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Speaker 2: k rate I think like thirty six or thirty seven

437
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Speaker 2: percent something that he's never never really operated at before

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Speaker 2: two home runs, he's in two seventeen. He always operates

439
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Speaker 2: around a thirty percent strike out right, not when he's

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Speaker 2: at like the last year. Yeah, but he also was

441
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Speaker 2: hitting three hundred last year when he was doing that, Yeah,

442
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Speaker 2: last year he had third percent striker right this year

443
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Speaker 2: is twenty nine percent in the season, Like, yeah, that

444
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Speaker 2: he's always been a relatively higher AH strikeker, but thirty

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Speaker 2: six thirty seven percent six that's the top end two

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Speaker 2: seventeen average, three fifteen on base.

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Speaker 1: Three twenty one sucking.

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Speaker 2: He's like literally doing no damage at the plate over

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Speaker 2: the last month, which that's also concerning too, like he

450
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Speaker 2: was brought here to be part of the middle of

451
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Speaker 2: this order be a big help. I think this is

452
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Speaker 2: also affecting everybody else too, because they're like, I want

453
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Speaker 2: to pitch to the JD Martinez, Brandonimo has been chasing

454
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Speaker 2: Peter lowndso is not playing well. Like it's it's crazy

455
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Speaker 2: how this team they either all hit together or they

456
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Speaker 2: don't hit at all. And right now they're in such

457
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Speaker 2: that nobody's hitting scenario. And that's what makes it feel

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Speaker 2: so much worse.

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Speaker 1: Like end of the day.

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Speaker 2: Again, these three losses happen in April. These three losses

461
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Speaker 2: happened in June. You're like, that shit sucks.

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Speaker 1: Well, they did, I know, but I'm saying like.

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Speaker 2: That sucks, Like it doesn't feel as important because there

464
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Speaker 2: was like no playoff implication at the time. It's just

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Speaker 2: because the fact that there's playoff implication. It feels worse.

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Speaker 1: Can't say I'm playing about J D. Martinez, give it

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Speaker 1: to me. I pause. I hate I hate splits. I

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Speaker 1: think splits are like kind of stupid because you need

469
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Speaker 1: so many bass to figure out splits whenever. And but

470
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Speaker 1: like sometimes you put these things from multi years of players,

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Speaker 1: you can just see things JJ Martinez last year in

472
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Speaker 1: August six oh four ops. Then he went down with injury.

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Speaker 1: He missed the rest of the month. He came back

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Speaker 1: towards the middle September twenty twenty two in August six

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Speaker 1: hundred ops after five nine nine in July twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: In August he had That was when he was amazing

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Speaker 1: that year, seventy to six oh ps. This was lowest

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Speaker 1: than any individual month of the season. Might just be again,

479
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Speaker 1: might be all this old man thing like that's just

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Speaker 1: where it is. It's the swoonest these are these are

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Speaker 1: these are literally the dog days of summer like this,

482
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Speaker 1: this is where you have to get tough. And this

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Speaker 1: is why I am so impressed right now by the

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Speaker 1: time backs of the Padres, what they're doing, the fact

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Speaker 1: that they have found this insane level of Vangerie that

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Speaker 1: the other teams can't seem to match, and they're just

487
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Speaker 1: busting the ass, even again this weekend the Padres. Even

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Speaker 1: the last five games of the Padres, they went to

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Speaker 1: ninth inning trailing every game. And then but then they

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Speaker 1: had a hero Jackson Merrill, fucking twenty twenty one years old,

491
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Speaker 1: Jackson Merril. He put the team on his back and

492
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Speaker 1: he hit big home runs, He got big hits, and

493
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Speaker 1: he won them these games. The team that wasn't even

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Speaker 1: playing that well, but they found ways to win the games,

495
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Speaker 1: and they found ways to shut the door when they

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Speaker 1: were able to take the lead against the Halples Marlins.

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Speaker 1: But you need at this time in a baseball season,

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Speaker 1: you kind of need heroics. You need someone to come

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Speaker 1: up and do something because you're never gonna have the

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Speaker 1: whole team being hot. The Mets having that was it

501
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Speaker 1: was divine, like that's not gonna happen. Like that was

502
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Speaker 1: like how the Rangers won World Series last year with

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Speaker 1: the mess just stated and in July like that's amazing,

504
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Speaker 1: but you can't. You got time that right, It's just

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Speaker 1: it needs something special. And we also we found some

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Speaker 1: stats that this actually might have been the worst three

507
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Speaker 1: game series in Mets team history, which is really scary

508
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Speaker 1: to say, but fine, and that scored one one in

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Speaker 1: three games. Everyone was talking about that. That's also allowed

510
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Speaker 1: twenty two runs in three games. So we went on

511
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Speaker 1: stadhead before the show and we found we grabbed Mets

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Speaker 1: three game spans and teams as we could, as best

513
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Speaker 1: as we could, not day the guys, but we know

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Speaker 1: how to use stat head. So that's three game series

515
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Speaker 1: where they allowed more than twenty one runs and then

516
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Speaker 1: we stored them by run differential at least a twenty

517
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Speaker 1: one run differential. And in the team's history, this was

518
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Speaker 1: the twenty eighth series where they had at least a

519
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Speaker 1: negative twenty one run differential. And it surprised both of

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Speaker 1: us that the worst series the Mets ever played actually

521
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Speaker 1: was last year. And I think Mark and I both

522
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Speaker 1: forgot it intentionally. I think we took a like an

523
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Speaker 1: ice cream scooper and took that part out of our brain,

524
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Speaker 1: like we got rid of that part of the cerebellum,

525
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Speaker 1: like we lobotomized ourselves for most of the twenty twenty

526
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Speaker 1: three season. Anyway, for reasons that sometimes talking about the show,

527
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Speaker 1: some things we will never be able to tell you, guys,

528
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Speaker 1: but a lot of that year's gone from my brain's

529
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Speaker 1: never gonna be there again. So who totally forgot this

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Speaker 1: happened last year a year to the day, both from

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Speaker 1: we're recording this and when you guys listening to it.

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Speaker 1: The Mets had the worst three game stretch in the

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Speaker 1: history of their franchise, where they lost six nothing to

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Speaker 1: the Braves, twenty one three to the Braves, and then

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Speaker 1: seven nothing to the Braves for a laughable, a comical,

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Speaker 1: a hilarious negative thirty one run differential in a three game,

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Speaker 1: two day span, because that was part of the Double

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Speaker 1: Heather as well.

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Speaker 2: But the caveat here is that those twenty were runs

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Speaker 2: that were scored in that one game. It was like

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Speaker 2: off of Luiski or May and pitching, and bat guys

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Speaker 2: were hitting that were pitching, so we did a little

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Speaker 2: bit more. And the reason why we might call this

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Speaker 2: the worst series in Mets history is because out of

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Speaker 2: the games that have a run differential of twenty one

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Speaker 2: or more, this is the only time the Mets have

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Speaker 2: scored one run or less than two runs, ever fewer.

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Speaker 1: Than two runs. Because then the next one where the

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Speaker 1: Mets only scored two runs. Another one I weirdly don't

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Speaker 1: remember because it was the beginning of my senior year,

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Speaker 1: and I think I was, Yeah, it was just who

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Speaker 1: knows what was going on here? The yeah that's had

553
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Speaker 1: three games series against the cub Dwayne Haskins rest in peace.

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Speaker 1: That was amazing season. But yeah, uh, two game series

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Speaker 1: against the Cubs September. They're twelve, thirteen to fourteen twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen where they lost eight to three, seventeen to five,

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Speaker 1: and sixteen to four. Just to give you guys the

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Speaker 1: box score from one of those games, I picked the

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Speaker 1: seventeen to five game just for fun. Let's see what

560
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Speaker 1: we got here. The Cubs were Walker Lockett on the mound.

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Speaker 1: The Cubs were blazing hot. The Mets actually even gave

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Speaker 1: up seven eleven of those runs in the last two winnings.

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Speaker 1: So the Mets entered on the scored at three in

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Speaker 1: the eighth themselves. So the Mets, Oh my god, wow,

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Speaker 1: you do you know who's this is good? This just

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Speaker 1: made me so sad. You'll never guess you started the

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Speaker 1: seventeen to five game for the Mets.

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Speaker 2: Walker Lockett, no, John Neice, no, Dylan g No oo.

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Speaker 2: You gotta think way better, way better, so much better,

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Speaker 2: chickob the grum no little worse, Zach Wheeler worse worse,

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Speaker 2: and get warmer, getting warmer.

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Speaker 1: Matt Harvey yep, and again like this is the game

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Speaker 1: where Matt Harvey. Again the cub scored most those runs

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Speaker 1: off the relief Matt Harvey Chase chased in the in

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Speaker 1: the fifth and the fourth inning after five and runs,

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Speaker 1: four walks, two strikeouts. Jacob Rain was one who game

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Speaker 1: up these runs a third of an inning five in runs,

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Speaker 1: and Jamie Callahan cleaned it up, shouted Sandy Alders in

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Speaker 1: the classic seventeen trade deadline. Here u two and runs

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Speaker 1: at the close that ending out.

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Speaker 2: That might be why I hate Jacob Rain in that game. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: that might be where it started.

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Speaker 1: This is real. Who's who have nonsense? Met? So Jose

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Speaker 1: Rayes leb Off he played second base, Noriaoki hit second,

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Speaker 1: coyeoke As Troupel Cabrera played playing third, hitting third. Gavin

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Speaker 1: Chacchini pinch hit for Cabrera when the game got in

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Speaker 1: the hand and struck out. Kevin Palucki hit fourth and

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Speaker 1: drew three walks, while Leguars hit fifth, jesus A Medrasario

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Speaker 1: hit six. He had three hits to run score, Travis

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Speaker 1: de Herron, Matt Reynolds, Brandon will pinch hit in this game,

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Speaker 1: and then Jacob Rain Matt Harvey, actually, Matt Harvey actually

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Speaker 1: had an RBI.

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Speaker 2: It's honestly criminal that Travis ty Heron was playing over

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Speaker 2: Brandon m on this game.

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Speaker 1: That's insane twenty seventeen. But again, at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, here every Mets fans can rest easy when

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Speaker 1: you're listening to this a Monday Tuesday, whenever you listen

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Speaker 1: to this that this may have been the worst three

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Speaker 1: game series in the history of the franchise. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's great, it's over, it's gone, it happens Edits a

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Speaker 1: fuck out of here. I don't want to talk about

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Speaker 1: this series after this episode. It no longer exists anymore.

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Speaker 2: Zero and zero. We gotta go twenty six and eighteen.

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Speaker 2: That's the magic number. Count it down, twenty six. I'll

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Speaker 2: do one more thing to wrap this series up.

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Speaker 1: I did the classic tweet thing we steal from Worldwide Wide,

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Speaker 1: where it's like, hey, Mets fans in the safe space.

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Speaker 1: That was embarrassing. Sweep leather all out, how are we feeling?

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Speaker 1: Got some good replies, some positive replies, but some really

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Speaker 1: funny negative replies. This is from at Blocks two seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: It's the same crap every year. No matter who the

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Speaker 1: managers or who the players are, all they do is

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Speaker 1: show under pressure from at Reed Garrett Goat. I expect

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Speaker 1: this sweep, but I'm more concerned about the off from

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Speaker 1: this is something This one who's been living in my

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Speaker 1: replies Ben Gamble's burner. I did Ben Gamble play in

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Speaker 1: every game he got on basemore than the pe Alonzo

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Speaker 1: did in one game this series, Mariner legend Ben Gamble. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: then another one like I don't know if we can

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs anymore. I saw this coming. We're facing

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Speaker 1: a Stetson probacly and Logan Gilbert. That's always a match

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Speaker 1: your task. That's a funny one. I new this would

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Speaker 1: be a tough series. One run score. The schlacking to

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Speaker 1: night made it just embarrassing. Hopefully the team gets much

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Speaker 1: needed rest tomorrow. I can't wait to be back home.

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit worried about them, but they have to

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Speaker 1: show us what they're made of these next two series.

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Speaker 1: I will save my judgment for them. Good. That's a

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Speaker 1: good place for the Mets fans start thinking about this

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Speaker 1: because that is the key here. Yeah, that is the key.

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Speaker 2: How they look on Tuesday against the Oaklan days because

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Speaker 2: they the excuses of the travel and this and that,

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Speaker 2: it's it's dead now they can't use that anymore because

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Speaker 2: the travels over it was terrible.

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Speaker 1: The travel sucks again. Tonight, I will say that's A's

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Speaker 1: gonna be landing in New York between seven and eight

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Speaker 1: in the morning. Yes, they do have the whole day

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Speaker 1: to sleep. They can.

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Speaker 2: They can literally sleep all day. They can spend the

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Speaker 2: time with their family, play with their kids, go to

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Speaker 2: Central Park, whatever they want to do. They can spend

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Speaker 2: time doing whatever they want because there is no game

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Speaker 2: on Monday. But as soon as they win, wake up

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday, it's got to be locked.

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Speaker 1: The fucking game. Time beat the piss out of the A's. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Luckily I won't say that. Uh, the Jet players on

647
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Speaker 1: the schedule and the Mets do have the A's coming town.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna save the A's Previously late in

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Speaker 1: the episode, Yes, I think now time to bring a

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Speaker 1: mat for the Matt minute.

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Speaker 2: Gotta bring Hi, Mat for the Matt minute. Let me

652
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Speaker 2: go ahead and click him on in. We upgraded him,

653
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Speaker 2: James gave him his hand me down microphone, the blue

654
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Speaker 2: YETI from the old school days. No sock on it

655
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Speaker 2: though this time a little disappointed. But that's that's Hollywood now, so.

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Speaker 1: Of course, and uh, Matt, it's been a while we've

657
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Speaker 1: met to day.

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Speaker 3: Grateful, grateful for the mic. I did see you yesterday? Great, Mike? Yes,

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Speaker 3: oh yes, did get to me Mark as well? Is great?

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Speaker 4: What you can to dive into the offensive numbers since

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Speaker 4: the All Star Break, not good?

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Speaker 3: Not good.

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Speaker 4: So they're averaging four point one seven runs a game

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Speaker 4: in those twenty three game games. Only eight times in

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Speaker 4: those twenty three games have they scored five or more runs.

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Speaker 4: If you get rid of the two like big offensive

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Speaker 4: outlier games that were fifteen runs against the Twins in

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Speaker 4: the twelve game twelve runs against the Yankees, the number

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Speaker 4: drops to three point twenty nine runs a game over

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Speaker 4: twenty one other games that would rank second to last

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Speaker 4: in all of baseball this year between the Marlins and

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Speaker 4: the White Sox.

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Speaker 3: Which tells you a shit about where that would bring.

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Speaker 4: Nimo is hitting like a buck fifty with an OPS

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Speaker 4: under five hundred in the second half. And to back

676
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Speaker 4: up what Mark said earlier, since the All Star break,

677
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Speaker 4: he's got a two to eighty four on base percentage.

678
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Speaker 4: His slugging percentage is one to ninety. Alonto struck out

679
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Speaker 4: like forty percent of the time his last seven games.

680
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Speaker 4: Lindor has two extra base hits his last sixteen games.

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Speaker 1: I hate the Matt minute. God, this is the worst

682
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Speaker 1: minute ever. Is this buster only? What's happening Brough is

683
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Speaker 1: what you do?

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Speaker 3: Two more.

685
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Speaker 4: Martinez is three for his last twenty four, with ten

686
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Speaker 4: strikeouts in his last seven games.

687
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Speaker 3: And Winker. I mean, I don't want to turn on Winker.

688
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Speaker 4: It's been like twenty eight at bats, but he's just

689
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Speaker 4: confusing me because he's a good hitter, like a good

690
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Speaker 4: major league baseball player, but like he's swinging first pitch

691
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Speaker 4: in situations he doesn't swing first pitch.

692
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Speaker 3: He's taken pitches when he shouldn't be.

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Speaker 4: Taking pitches, and it's I don't know, It's just I'm

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Speaker 4: at a loss.

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Speaker 3: That's where I am. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Someone else just replied to that same tweet as a

697
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Speaker 1: refreshed Twitter, and they say, is something that I didn't

698
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Speaker 1: want to think about it. The other thing I blocked

699
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Speaker 1: out of my mind. But now it feels real. Ever

700
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Speaker 1: since Sang came back and then got injured, feels like

701
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Speaker 1: the energy around this team has changed major No. One

702
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Speaker 1: hundred like that.

703
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Speaker 2: From that moment, you could feel the energy sucked out

704
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Speaker 2: of this team, like, oh shit, like they went from

705
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Speaker 2: being like our aces back just that shut down the

706
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Speaker 2: Braves too. Oh shit, what what are we gonna do?

707
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Speaker 1: Who's pitching for us? What's happening? That's another part of.

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Speaker 4: The seven They had the seven run inning in that

709
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Speaker 4: game too, which I was like gonna potentially put in

710
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Speaker 4: there to like try and make the numbers look even worse.

711
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Speaker 3: But I wanted to go easy on him and not

712
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Speaker 3: go to Doom's day.

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Speaker 1: That was the last time press whatever its looked like

714
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Speaker 1: he was happy. But that that's the fear when your

715
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: team starts to skid like this and you don't really

716
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Speaker 1: have a good pitching staff because there's no stopper, correct,

717
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Speaker 1: Like we just had their best two pitchers pitch in

718
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Speaker 1: the last two games and it was even close. They

719
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: got bullied by pitchers who were actually really good, and

720
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Speaker 1: that's not good. But again, I don't think either of

721
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Speaker 1: them got bullied by the lineups. Like man I just

722
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Speaker 1: didn't have his command, which he does that all the time.

723
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Speaker 1: And sev Reno actually pitched fine. They get like sixteen

724
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Speaker 1: swings and misses. Weeper came back, he got the big strikeout.

725
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Speaker 1: We needed to have Victor Robolas and then then Lindor

726
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Speaker 1: dropped the ground ball. That was a moment where it

727
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Speaker 1: felt like the tide could have turned. But again, it

728
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Speaker 1: comes back to the bats, especially because this team is bats.

729
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Speaker 1: We need to win with our bats like that's supposed

730
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Speaker 1: to be strengthen the team. That's how we were winning.

731
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Speaker 1: We're bludgeting team. We're beating the pitss out of them.

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Speaker 1: That's not happening anymore. And that's why we can't figure

733
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Speaker 1: this out.

734
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Speaker 2: No, it's it was. It was a disaster again. I'd

735
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 2: love to forget it. Said it, forget it, move on.

736
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Speaker 2: Matt gave us the most depressing Matt minute of all time.

737
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Speaker 2: We'll be banishing him. We'll be banishing him back as

738
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Speaker 2: we go to the meeting. Marvel's now, thank you Matt

739
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: for ruining our dead No, you're good, you're good, thank

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Speaker 2: you all right, Media Marvel time. We haven't done one

741
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 2: in a while, and then we will go to the

742
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Speaker 2: Oaklan a series preview. Like we mentioned earlier, everyone's favorite

743
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 2: idiot Buster only gowl Buster, the reason this hole started.

744
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: He came back with a hot one. James, you want

745
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Speaker 2: to read it out again for the people?

746
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I sent it to you today. Let me go

747
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Speaker 1: find it. But first I actually want to put my

748
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Speaker 1: hand up on a media marvel myself. I'll do myself too.

749
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Speaker 1: I have one too, okay, I before we get into

750
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Speaker 1: the fun ones. So it was Wednesday or Tuesday evening,

751
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,479
Speaker 1: six o'clock, six six and seven, around then, rainy day

752
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: in the city. I was rushing around. I was doing

753
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Speaker 1: a fantasy football draft a barrow with some friends. I

754
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: had had that two beverages at the time, which is

755
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: of course no excuse and it's definitely not enough to

756
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Speaker 1: we've made this kind of bera. But a thing flashed

757
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: on this TV at the bar I said Billy Bean

758
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Speaker 1: had passed away. I was like, fuck fucking love Moneyball.

759
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Speaker 1: I love Billy Bean. I used to root for the

760
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Speaker 1: as like all the time when I was a kid

761
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Speaker 1: in the messer out of it reading Moneyball. When I

762
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Speaker 1: was a kid like helped change my whole perspective on

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Speaker 1: baseball and even sports, all this stuff in general. So

764
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Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I have said. I wrote like

765
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Speaker 1: a nice little tweet about it, and then I put

766
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Speaker 1: my phone down on silent, pushed it away, and was

767
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: and was into Weeds fantasy football. I was looking at

768
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Speaker 1: running backs, I was thinking about preseason stuff. And then

769
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Speaker 1: I get a text from Mark. I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of text people because I clicked. I just I was like,

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Speaker 1: do not disturbed. I was like, I'm just clicking my

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Speaker 1: text messages out of reflex and I was like, oh shit, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had the wrong Billy Bean. I have the text

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Speaker 1: six o nine Billy Bean died question marks.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, nope, wrong one Billy Bean without the take

776
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Speaker 2: your tweet down brother. Thirty minutes later and he's like,

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Speaker 2: I just did. Sat on there for what a good

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Speaker 2: thirty forty minutes.

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Speaker 1: On Twitter forty minutes. I had almost forty replies on it.

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Speaker 1: I had a lot of people saying I was being insensitive,

781
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I was just wrong. I'm really sorry,

782
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: but this is not a bit I mean, not sad tire.

783
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Speaker 1: I fucked up. I didn't know about the E and

784
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Speaker 1: I don't know it was bad to hand up I

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Speaker 1: meeting Marveled myself.

786
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Speaker 2: That's fair enough, you know what, I'll medium marvel myself too.

787
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 2: We're not perfect on this podcast. We're pretty close, but

788
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: we're not perfect. I of course I'm my TikTok grind again.

789
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 2: And I was blind ranking MLB teams at one through ten,

790
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Speaker 2: and of course the Mets came up late and the

791
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 2: only spot that was available was two, and they went

792
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Speaker 2: ahead of teams like the Diamondbacks and the Padres and

793
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Speaker 2: teams that have, like I feel like, not lost since

794
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: I made this TikTok, and the Mets.

795
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: Have been losing just kind of insane.

796
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Speaker 2: Uh So hand up, hand up on me a little

797
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 2: bit there too, put them put them a little high,

798
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Speaker 2: was Ryde the wave?

799
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Speaker 1: There you go, so us media marvels. And also Michael

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00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: Kay for thinking there should be a new rule in

801
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: baseball whoa yeah, where where your best player is allowed

802
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: to come up in any situation?

803
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: Of course? Yeah, when when your best player, when you

804
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: have two of the three best players in baseball, be like, yeah,

805
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: I would love in the ninth inning, Aaron Judge and

806
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Speaker 2: Wansota could every time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a what a stupid take.

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Speaker 2: I've heard this before, and I understand the idea that

809
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Speaker 2: there there is an idea of you can decide every

810
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 2: batter has x amount of at bats.

811
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because like it's like basketball where like last game,

812
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Speaker 1: like Steph Curry is lest by Steph Curry has the ball,

813
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: we could see him do something incredible. That's what you

814
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: want to see in sports. But it's like it's like,

815
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: imagine though the situation where they were down by one

816
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: run and like they could said, Aaron Judge is playing

817
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: against JKZ. That would definitely work out right, that would

818
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: probably get a hit, That would definitely they definitely find

819
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Speaker 1: a way to win that game. But I digress. So

820
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Speaker 1: Michael Kay of course, just he lives on the segment.

821
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Speaker 1: But we want to get back to Buster only now

822
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Speaker 1: and pulling up a tweet right now at Buster Only

823
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: because he just finds a way, always, for some fucking reason,

824
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: to just twist the knife and do anything he can

825
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: in any moment to kill the Mets. Francisco Lindor is

826
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Speaker 1: the Mets baramater. Apparently per Lis Sports Elias Sports that

827
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Speaker 1: bad Windor's ops and Mets wins. This year is one

828
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Speaker 1: thousand and thirty nine becaus and losses is four ninety nine.

829
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Speaker 1: The Major's only other qualifier with an OPS over one

830
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Speaker 1: thousand wins and below five hundred and losses is Christian Walker. Okay, thanks, yes,

831
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Speaker 1: what a nothing say?

832
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Speaker 2: You're telling me that the best player on the team

833
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: performs poorly when they lose. I mean again, I'm not

834
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: saying it's the same. I will not say it's the

835
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 2: same because he's still having a phenomenal year. But technically speaking,

836
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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge does have a bigger OPS differential between wins

837
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Speaker 2: in Law and Francisco Indoor. Now that differential is going

838
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: from almost fourteen hundred oh ps and wins to eight

839
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 2: hundred losses, but it is it is still bigger. It

840
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: is still a bigger drop. That's what happens. Crazy to

841
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 2: think that when teams lose, their players play worse, Like

842
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 2: fucking no shit, Sherlock.

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00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: This guy, he did it, He did it.

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Speaker 2: Clap you got it. I'm meagus talking about you again.

845
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 2: But that's also why we've created this so we can

846
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Speaker 2: talk about you and feel better about it.

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00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: You know what I see?

848
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: Francisco Indoor has a thousand oh ps and Mets wins.

849
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 2: I heard this guy can't play in the big situation.

850
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: He doesn't ever do anything to help this team win.

851
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: Seems like he might be one of the best players

852
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: in baseball in the Mets win totally.

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00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: And I think that again, doing wins and losses is

854
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: stupid because of course the by far the best player

855
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Speaker 1: and the team. It just happens. If the team loses,

856
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: he likely played worse they play, the team likely win.

857
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Speaker 1: So I want to go on fangrass and get splits

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Speaker 1: for high leverage situations. And I have a list of

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Speaker 1: players who I have worse stats this year at high

860
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: lever situation based on WRC plus. Francisco Indor Oho. I

861
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: got one, I got one, Give me one. Bryce Harper, Yes,

862
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: Bress Harper has a whopping one WRC plus and high

863
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: level situation. That's a one that's incidite. One hundred is

864
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: average in the stats. So Brece harper'sninety nine percent worse

865
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: than average. Ad Luis Garcia negative six. That's really more

866
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: valuable for him to not step into the box, for

867
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: him to not swing would be much more valuable. JT

868
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 1: real Muto fifteen.

869
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 2: Oh jeezuz, Yeah, Okay, yeah, that's bad.

870
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: Trey Turner thirty eight.

871
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even Bryce Harper on the wins losses split

872
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 2: eleven hundred ops and wins six hundred and losses whoa.

873
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: Crazy and the doors and the door's five hundred, I

874
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: got six. Elie de la Cruz statistically right now one

875
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: of the best players in baseball. He's the most f

876
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: R in the National League WRC plus the high level

877
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: situations forty six. That's good. What's the Lindors? I'm still

878
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: scrolling full the door. I'm just gonna go till I

879
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: find him. Jose Altuve fifty seven, ballplayer, gotta keep going,

880
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: Mark's Favor's second basement, Alzi Albi's sixty Uh, Jill Uh,

881
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: just gonna says more fun. Did you know the man

882
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: who sixty three? I think it might be actually better

883
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: than him for the season. I think that is that's

884
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: actually it's actually not that bad. Jake McCarthy hasn't made

885
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:05,919
Speaker 1: an out in two full weeks, sixty five in high

886
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: level situations, split.

887
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: Ten to seventy one ops and wins six nineteen in losses.

888
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: Like this guy somehow finds a way to reinvent the

889
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: wheel every single time when it comes to talking about

890
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 2: the Mets. But he does it in the most like

891
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 2: trivial way ever, where it's like this, actually, this is

892
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 2: such a nothing stat You're just gonna get the bozos

893
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: who think this matters.

894
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: Anthony sons on there thirty five homers this year, seventy

895
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: five w I supposed to high level situations and then

896
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: tied with Pratiscal Indoor, Matt Olson seventy five.

897
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just like, listen, seventy five is

898
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: not great. I'm not gonna pretend like, no, it's amazing.

899
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 2: If if you wanted to knock him there, that would

900
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 2: have made some sense. But the wins and losses one

901
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: really makes no sense to Gunnar Henderson. Eleven hundred ops

902
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 2: and wins six forty four and losses. We're naming the

903
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 2: best players in baseball, and every single one of them

904
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 2: has a difference of four to five hundred points on

905
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 2: their ops, just like Francisco Indoor, Like, it's so stupid.

906
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 1: Because them not getting the hits and therefore at bats

907
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,280
Speaker 1: is why they lost.

908
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the team played worse. You should inherently

909
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 2: have such worse stats in losses. Automatically your team did

910
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 2: not do enough to win the game. You did not

911
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 2: outscore the other team. The only person I think I've

912
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 2: seen that's weirdly has like almost identical numbers, and it's

913
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 2: because he's like, actually not from this planet is shoeo Tani.

914
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 2: His splits were pretty identical in terms of wins and losses,

915
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: which is just a weird one.

916
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: No, do you know why that is? And this comes

917
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: back to the original point. Shoeotani probably the best port

918
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: than cast in baseball. That's true.

919
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 2: Yea is an eleven hundred ohs and wins eight thirty

920
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 2: four and losses.

921
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: Because sometimes Muki Bets will get the hit, or Freddie

922
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: Freeman or Will Smith or anyone going Taskarnandez, anyone with

923
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: the other six elite hitters in that lineup, We'll find

924
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: a way to get the hit. Whereas these other guys

925
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: who seem to be a little more important to whether

926
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: the team wins are loses like a gunner, like an

927
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: ELI judge, and solo to a lesser degree, it's not

928
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: gonna happen as much. So this is just a stat

929
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: about how much help a player has really realistically to me, yeah, no,

930
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean Tobby win twelve hundred for seven ninety. It's oh,

931
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: you should have a big gap there. Frans goes, Londors

932
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: goes lower, which stanks? What do you got?

933
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 2: Peter Alonzo's oh No. Seven ninety six and wins seven

934
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: ninety one and losses?

935
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 4: Was that?

936
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: Who possible?

937
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 2: I don't even know what man that. I think I

938
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 2: just cost Pete like thirty million dollars there, or maybe

939
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 2: say we hope they hear that.

940
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: I was hoping for Pete. And the last that bat

941
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday, it just hit a solo home run, but

942
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: he did the opposite. He swung it four pitches outside

943
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 1: the strikes.

944
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 2: As my dad said, the worst that bat of Peter

945
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 2: Alonzo's entire career. If you close your eyes, you woke up,

946
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: you saw that. You go, this guy's getting sent down, right,

947
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 2: Like if.

948
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: You were like, let's say you were like Croatian and

949
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: you didn't know anything about baseball, and you were just

950
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: happen to be in New York City on Saturay, Sunday night,

951
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: and you happen to be in a bar and you

952
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: watch that bat, you'd be like, this guy fucking sucks,

953
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: Like why is he playing this game? It's fourth? I

954
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: think we just had to like make make fun. Oh

955
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: I got a really good right now, everyone's favorite player.

956
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: He never does anything wrong, Luisa Rias, Oh yeah, what's

957
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: he can't wait? Tell you this? I love the sloper

958
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: ops and wins. A twenty eight ops and losses five

959
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: sixty five.

960
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 2: Not that great for an ops and wins. It's like

961
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: super okay. I mean it's good ops, good open, good ops.

962
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: Compared to you know, and wins.

963
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: He's like, not that high. This is a great one too.

964
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: Is batting average three fifteen wins, two forty four losses.

965
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: We always find a way to make fun of Riose,

966
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,479
Speaker 1: so lose a rise. Here's a three home runs and wins,

967
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 1: zero runs and losses.

968
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if we're very much in it

969
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 2: like we are, when we come to that Padre series,

970
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I might do a rie Is like hour.

971
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 2: I might call the Oas hour and just do a

972
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: solo just talking about how mid he is for an

973
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 2: hour and.

974
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: No Matt's boy waiting for the finish up. He just

975
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: liked my tweet from before live on the show. But

976
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: all right, it's been a cast episode, so I think

977
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: now it's just time to get into the A series

978
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 1: and give some people some stuff to even think about

979
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: talk about. Just before, first of all, everyone enjoyed the

980
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: off day Monday. I don't want anyone here. After I

981
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: want you to listen to this podcast. Of course, I

982
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: want you to get to the end of this podcast.

983
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: We have another great ten minutes talking about the A's

984
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: and give you more information and you ever need about

985
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: the Oakland A's because we're coping right now. But after that,

986
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: don't think about baseball. I want everyone to go for

987
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: four straight hours. Don't think about baseball, don't go on Twitter, nothing.

988
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 2: James rule. As soon as we get to the Hamptons.

989
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 2: As soon as we get there, no no Mets talk.

990
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 2: No Mets talk until Tuesday. Okay, so full day, no

991
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: Mets talk. Full day, no Mets talk. Once we get

992
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: there one day. As soon as we step foot at

993
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 2: the beautiful house. Virtual handshake, virtual handshake, virtual handshake. No

994
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: Mets talk Monday midnight midnight. We can talk twelve oh one.

995
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: We're right, We're right back to it, and I'll have

996
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: a lot to say, but you gotta keep it to yourself.

997
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: Mets talk midnight, as we're calling, Mets Talk midnight. But

998
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: This A's team is strange because I'm gonna say something

999
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: that you might push against and I was saying it's

1000
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: going into last year and I was way wrong on that.

1001
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 2: But this team is kind of fun. Here's my pushback

1002
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 2: is they're not. But Brent Rooker is fun. Brent Rooker

1003
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: on a winning team would be awesome. And Brent Rooker

1004
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 2: is an awesome guy. I shout out to him. He

1005
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: was a Golden Spikes Award winner in college. Never really

1006
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 2: got a shot with the Twins. Bounced around to them,

1007
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 2: the Royals, he bounced around to a couple of other teams. Finally,

1008
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 2: like everybody does you end up in Oakland at some point.

1009
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 2: They've been playing him and he's been one of the

1010
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 2: best power hitters in baseball. Got to interview him. Incredibly

1011
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 2: nice guy and he was just like he's a baseball lifer.

1012
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 2: He loves the game, loves the sport. And he replies

1013
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 2: to people on Instagram when they said and Twitter when

1014
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: he's they're like, you blew my bed. He's like that,

1015
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 2: like sucks to suck. Shouldn't have bet off me, brother,

1016
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: Like whatever it is.

1017
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: He's a really good ballplayer.

1018
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: He's definitely the best Tenner on this team right now.

1019
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: Twenty nine homers, nine to fifty one ohps, that plays

1020
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: every single place.

1021
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: That's not a ballpark factor nothing. He's a beast.

1022
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 2: The other guy that I think is fun on this team,

1023
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 2: except again the rest of it I don't think is

1024
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 2: Lawrence Butler. Butler's a fun player. I had him on

1025
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 2: my fantasy team earlier in the year because his numbers

1026
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 2: were terrible, but at the time he was still putting

1027
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 2: up crazy high barrel rates. A little secret for you guys,

1028
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 2: like the barrel rates over especially barrel's per played appearance,

1029
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 2: not just barrel rate in general.

1030
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: Shout out to James for teaching me that.

1031
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 2: And I think in this second half or even like

1032
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 2: since June, he's been one of the best players offensively

1033
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 2: in baseball.

1034
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: Uh, last thirty days for Lawrence Butler, because he's been

1035
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: a man on fire since the also break. We're almost

1036
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,959
Speaker 1: exactly thirty days from the All Star break right now,

1037
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: three nineteen three fifty five six sixty four triple slash

1038
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: for over one thousand o ps with nine home runs

1039
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: twenty six RBIs he is and six to one based

1040
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: on top of that, he's a freak of nature. He's

1041
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: six four, two fifteen. He looks like a wide receiver.

1042
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 1: He's he's just he's cool as hell. He swagged down there.

1043
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: He wears the LDU regers got Draagonock coming out of it.

1044
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: He plays an active outfield. He's a west Lake, Atlanta

1045
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: guy too. So the Brays have been born in Jersey,

1046
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: born in Jersey. Yeah, I think North Jersey by Billington. Yeah,

1047
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: I think I weird to play the baseball tournament there

1048
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: when I was like Thirtyington for some reason, for no

1049
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: reason at all. Yeah, I was trying. I was trying

1050
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: to really squeak to keep the career going. But then

1051
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: pass that another again, solid player in this team. He's

1052
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: not wowing you.

1053
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 4: J J.

1054
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: Bildais turn himself into just a good ball player.

1055
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 2: Remember the Fall League we saw Jaj bl Like, I

1056
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: think he's actually gonna be a pretty decent ball player,

1057
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 2: like a way better athlete than we thought. He is

1058
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 2: thirty three doubles on the year.

1059
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: I love a double because he also he's a guy

1060
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: who was a top draft pick from Vanderbilt. It just

1061
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: took him a little while. He on the year, just

1062
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,919
Speaker 1: a solid seven to sixty five ohps He's played every

1063
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: A's game this year except for two one hundred and

1064
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: seventeen one hundred nineteen possible games, hitting third, playing center field.

1065
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: Just a solid ballplayer in those three at top of

1066
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 1: the other, bang bang bang, Well, don't forget to whit's

1067
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: number two in this order a lot no Brooks too.

1068
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, of course Miguel and dehar should have

1069
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 1: won Rookie of the Year over show.

1070
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 2: Hey ton, you never forget thee said that the conversation

1071
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 2: of Miguel and Harper's show, Heyo Tani could go down

1072
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: as one of the greatest Twitter beefs of all time.

1073
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 2: Like that's like, what's the meme where the little kids

1074
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 2: are sitting around, like somebody set out one where it's

1075
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 2: like Miguel and ahar is better than Oltani.

1076
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: With a suffering a friend.

1077
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's uh, he's playing he's actually playing decent.

1078
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 2: He's not hitting for any power, so he's gonna hit

1079
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 2: two home runs this series, but having a decent career,

1080
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 2: Like he's now a major League baseball player for the

1081
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 2: rest of his career because of this.

1082
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: And too hard. It's something funny where the last few

1083
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: years he said, if I'm not gonna hit for a

1084
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: lead power. I'm just I'm not gonna get hit for power.

1085
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: So now he does like the Arise. He fully just

1086
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: sells out for contact and he has a really high

1087
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: swing rate, but he never swings in the misses. He

1088
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: never strikes that, he never takes a walk. And he

1089
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: really started as the spring training. He had a zero

1090
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: percent shrekut r in spring training this year and then

1091
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: he got hurt for two months. He came back, he's

1092
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: just been he said that he's again like for the

1093
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: batting average people, it's too ninety hither he has almost

1094
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: same stats as a Rise seven oh five ohps two

1095
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 1: ninety bating average.

1096
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 2: Right, Cameron's son is on this team, Dazz Cameron as

1097
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 2: Zach Gehloff is a good ballplayer. He's struggling right now.

1098
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 2: Last two weeks he's back a little bit. Yes, but

1099
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 2: his numbers for the year have been bad. That's just

1100
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 2: the like kind of the process of a guy who

1101
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 2: like chases a lot swings and missus.

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00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: But yes, but also again caution people, this A's team.

1103
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: Last year they got shit on, probably nationally, and they

1104
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: get shot a lot because their owner is guard motherfucker

1105
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: A motherfucker. For lack of better term. This is not

1106
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: the John Fisher podcast, anti John Fisher podcast. That guy

1107
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: is stealing the A's from Oaklands. Sad because that's a

1108
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: rich baseball history and a great baseball town. And he

1109
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: will not let them build a stadium there. Piece of shit.

1110
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: He's taken to Vegas where they will have no fans.

1111
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: The city denied it, but he won't fund the stadium.

1112
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: That's pet shit, right. This team is only two games

1113
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: behind the Angels, and this team is only four and

1114
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: a half games behind the Blue Jays. We just want

1115
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: to serius from over the weekend. So they are not good,

1116
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: but they are not a laughing stock. Like you said.

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00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 2: They played baseball good half the time. Yes, and the

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00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 2: The real weakness though is their pitching. Their pitching is

1119
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 2: super hittable, super gettable.

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00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: Who are we?

1121
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 2: Who are we facing in this years I left to do?

1122
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 2: Are we seeing Ross Strippling? Hopefully we luckily.

1123
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: Are gonna see roster Tuesday night half an a soft

1124
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: Paul Black Roman versus Ross Rippling Cityfield debut, which sadly

1125
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: Mark and I are going to miss, but we will

1126
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: can't go Sunday either, Damn miss Paul Blackbiry's first two

1127
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: home starts. Tough. That's such a shame. He's not pitching

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00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: home again for the rest of the month. Oh that sucks.

1129
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 1: But then Wednesday David Peterson versus Joey Estes and then Thursday, Tuesday,

1130
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: Wednesday now Thursday afternoon Jose Katana versus Mitch Spence.

1131
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 2: Joey Estes f Missley a part of one of the

1132
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: just most disgusting trades that we've seen in a while.

1133
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 2: Shane Langleiers or Shae Langleiers, Christian Pasche. Yeah, he's He's

1134
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 2: a major league of Shaylangley. Maybe Ryan Cusick is not. Uh,

1135
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 2: And they traded those guys for Matt Olson, and Matt

1136
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 2: Olson is one of the best first basemen in the league.

1137
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: I'm not playing the well this year, but it's hot now. Yeah,

1138
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: just to give a sense for the pitchers the Mets

1139
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: are facing. Ross strippling. I don't think I don't think

1140
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: he really should be the major leagues anymore. He had

1141
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: a really good run like nine years ago the Dodgers,

1142
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: the back of a pretty solid curve ball that was

1143
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Joey Estes was he Also, he's

1144
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: in the medalson trade too. Was he a different break, No,

1145
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: he was the Maddelelson trade. That's why I brought it up.

1146
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: They made two trades them. He also just handed them

1147
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy. But yes, for many pina. Yeah, estes, he

1148
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: has a new sweep this year is not terrible. He

1149
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: throws a lot of very very lackadats called ninety two

1150
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,240
Speaker 1: mile and now are fourcing fastballs that hitter's a slugging

1151
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: four to forty against this year with a three seventy

1152
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: two expected wOBA against them and only eighteen percent with freight.

1153
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: And then Mitch Spence is what.

1154
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 2: No, no, keep going, keep going, I'll tell you in another second.

1155
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: And miss Spence is just like your classic as guy.

1156
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: I think he's like in his late twenties. I think

1157
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: he just came up. He's got fastball change up and

1158
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: it's not really that impressive, but like he'll pitch you

1159
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: enough contact for sometimes the contact will find gloves.

1160
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, So before we talk about Mason Miller, because that's

1161
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 2: really the only pitcher worth of dam to actually speak about.

1162
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 1: Uh.

1163
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 2: Former meta alert TJ. McFarland will be in the building.

1164
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 2: Shout out book Showalter always keeps his guys around. TJ

1165
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 2: McFarland has appeared in fifty six games, which is crazy

1166
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 2: to say out loud because he's for almost his entire

1167
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 2: career been a bad pitcher. And then Austin Adams wasn't

1168
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 2: met in spring training. One of the first moves that

1169
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 2: David Surns made getting rid of Austin Adams. Samam to Oakland.

1170
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: Austin Adams also, I believe has the record for most

1171
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 2: hit by pitches in a season. I think he hit

1172
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: like nineteen or twenty guys one year in a season,

1173
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 2: which is insane. This year he's hit thirteen and forty innings.

1174
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 2: That's nuts.

1175
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: We he is a pretty good slider though he throws

1176
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: a lot. Also, Michael Atanias in their bullpen is not

1177
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: bad at all, Like he just sits ninety eight as well.

1178
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: Yeah for forty person straker right there are Yeah, this

1179
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,479
Speaker 1: team is taking like minor steps to becoming, like we said,

1180
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: not like laughing stock anymore. It's not even close to that.

1181
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: Like this team in the seven game series would sweep

1182
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: the White Sox maybe maybe gentlemen sweep they body them. Yes,

1183
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: So his team isn't like Michael ton is again for

1184
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: the percent striker er. There's nine miles an hour like

1185
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: this is They're not This team isn't a laughing stock anymore.

1186
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: They're just simply a bad team. Yes, a team that

1187
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: we need to beat.

1188
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 2: And if that has play their baseball that we know

1189
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 2: they can, they will, they will beat them. They play

1190
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 2: like they did against the Mariners, You're gonna get a

1191
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 2: very unhappy, cranky episode at the end of that series.

1192
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: And then lastly, which again we have to talk about

1193
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,879
Speaker 1: Mason Miller. He is he's he's the best. He's such

1194
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: a marvel. History is crazy. It was amazing threat that

1195
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 1: went around a few weeks ago that he I think

1196
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: he diabetic, and he was like, really give him his

1197
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: health problems. He al, wasn't got my baseball anymore. And he

1198
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: came back guard to Webb University, bounced around the minor

1199
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: league's got hurt, got hurt again, got hurt again, got

1200
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: moved to the ballpend this year. Is now become one

1201
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: of the biggest stars in the league.

1202
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 2: So I believe what happened was at Waynesburg University. That's

1203
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 2: where he started off Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. I don't even I

1204
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 2: don't have a clue where that is. That's got to

1205
00:48:58,760 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 2: be somewhere near Pittsburgh.

1206
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: Feel like it.

1207
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 2: Oh, he's from Pittsburgh. Definitely near Pittsburgh. So Waynesburg University.

1208
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 2: He was only throwing I think, like in the high

1209
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 2: eighties at the time, and he constantly felt like shit

1210
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 2: and they didn't know what was going on.

1211
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: Turns out diabetes didn't.

1212
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 2: Know he had it. They started getting him well, he

1213
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 2: started throwing harder and harder. Went to Gardner Webb was

1214
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 2: really good there in college, and then his big his

1215
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: big showcase was at the MLB Draft combine that I

1216
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 2: was at. And I've told you this story multiple times.

1217
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 2: I haven't told it on the podcast yet, but I

1218
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 2: was being a little baseball rat hanging out around there.

1219
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 2: I sat front center when they started doing live at

1220
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 2: bats and this dude, Mason Miller, one of the few

1221
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 2: college pitchers that was at the Draft combine that year,

1222
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 2: steps up to the mound throws a pitch and I'm like, whoa,

1223
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 2: that felt really fast. All of a sudden, you see

1224
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 2: every single scout that was at the combine file in.

1225
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 2: They're like, who the hell is this kid? They pull

1226
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 2: out the radar guns. Ninety eight ninety nine one hundred,

1227
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 2: and you're like, holy shit, this might be one of

1228
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:53,479
Speaker 2: the best picks in the draft.

1229
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: Shout out to me.

1230
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 2: Tweeted about it, Mason Miller, beast and in the best

1231
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,760
Speaker 2: Picks after the first round video Mason Miller for the

1232
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: top one. Hit it out of the park.

1233
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: There you go, yeah, proudly myself heard you tell that

1234
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: story and then just saw how because my numbers were

1235
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,439
Speaker 1: in the minor league. That's a guy in every dynasty team.

1236
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: And I titled him in trades left and right. But

1237
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: his average basketball veloss he is one hundred and one

1238
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: miles an hour. His whip is point eight. For about

1239
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: two and a half full months of this season, his

1240
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: FIP was negative, which I again I don't know enough

1241
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: about that status. How could possibly make him runs? And

1242
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: with the team he's scoring runs while he's pitching strikeout

1243
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: rates forty six percent, which is still I think a

1244
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: little bit blower. Edmond wasn't twenty twenty two. Just put

1245
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: that perspective again, but just put that back there. He's

1246
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: the best whiff right in the league. He throws the

1247
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: hardest fastball. He is the lowest expected batting average. He

1248
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: has one of the best hard hit rates against. He

1249
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 1: is a marvel. I hope we don't see him this

1250
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: I want to.

1251
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 2: I only want to see him if he comes in

1252
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 2: for garbage time because they need to get him some

1253
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 2: innings because they they're getting the break speat off them.

1254
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: But then what again, they beat the Age, They beat

1255
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays this series, so he just got his

1256
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: work in. Yeah, goes. Hopefully we don't see him. But

1257
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 1: if you guys do see him, you'll be seeing something special.

1258
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: But hopefully you don't see him because we're winning.

1259
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if we do, you see him, the game's over.

1260
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 2: That's just how it works. Games over, they win A's win.

1261
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 2: We don't want to see Mason Miller. Anything else to

1262
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 2: talk about with this A's team.

1263
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: We're talked about Geloff. Max Shumans is a little short

1264
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: stop back there. Abraham Toro, who you guys heard last

1265
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 1: episode our Mari and his friend said they thought he

1266
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: was the worst baseball player ever. So also they're never

1267
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: coming back on oh and three, worst best series ever?

1268
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 2: TJ and Mile, I like, you don't like you that?

1269
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 2: Get off of this?

1270
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: Absolutely not? But yeah, no, those guys are great. Just

1271
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they got back to the first place.

1272
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: Good for them. I guess whatever the astros pissed on

1273
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: the Red Sox this weekend, but I think that's the show.

1274
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,799
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1275
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,800
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1276
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,920
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1277
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,040
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1278
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Speaker 2: media at met stuff on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. You

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Speaker 2: can follow James.

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Speaker 1: On Twitter app James Underscore.

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Speaker 2: I'm Draftnick Mark with the c We will catch you, guys,

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Speaker 2: hopefully for a very cheerful, happy positive of this bullshit

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Speaker 2: good episode.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys, watch peace. Hey you guys, see you

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Speaker 1: next time.

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