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Speaker 3: Mets manager Carlos Mendoza right now, Mandy, Great to have

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Speaker 4: Really appreciate the time.

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Speaker 3: Last time you were on tons of views and a

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Speaker 3: Great to see you first take us through the litmus

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Speaker 1: What's up? Felis, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Todd cratzy Man, what a great series, you know, Uh,

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Speaker 5: What does that look like going into the series? Do

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Speaker 1: It's a tough matchup.

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Speaker 5: This is a good team, and how do you convey, Hey,

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Speaker 1: They all scart Muncie who you know, he's on fire

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Speaker 2: And then you know you got a Pah swinging by.

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Speaker 1: He's swinging like there's not a soft spot there.

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Speaker 6: Forget about the Dodgers, man, Let's stay in the East.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no. And with Francisco Man, he's a challenge.

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Speaker 1: Man, Like, he's just he's doing.

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Speaker 2: You know, as a catcher, they're receiving him, and you

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Speaker 1: Uh. Too good of a player. There's a lot of

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Speaker 6: I have a couple of quick headers for you. What's

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm a steak guy. I'm a steak guy. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not. I'm all baseball time. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: You know, my wife. I'm not a tea And that's

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Speaker 6: Okay, all right, No, I was scurry. I want to

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Speaker 5: What's the biggest things that's changed? You went from not

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Speaker 5: But what's the biggest thing that's changed for you as

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Speaker 1: What's changed?

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Speaker 2: That's a good question, Crats, because I feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: Know, don't get too high, don't get too low.

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Speaker 2: So just being myself, trying to get the best out

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Speaker 1: And as far as like what's different, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: All right, Tom, I'm gonna give you the last one

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Speaker 3: and stairs right back to the thing that we love here.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you're all baseball.

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Speaker 3: So I'm curious because I think last time we had

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Speaker 3: He's like some of the calls were a little off,

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Speaker 4: So what was your experience did.

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Speaker 3: You know about it going into the season, and once

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Speaker 1: No, I didn't know going.

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Speaker 2: Into it, to be honest with you, but we started

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Speaker 1: When the news came out, we weren't surprised by it.

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Speaker 2: We knew something was up, but as far as like

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Speaker 2: and but that doesn't affect the way you put together

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Speaker 2: a certain lineups. But we saw it at the beginning

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Speaker 5: Mandy, real quick, last one for me, Is it a

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Speaker 1: Are you trying to tick me here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean fair. I mean, is that fair fair?

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Speaker 5: Okay? And is it an rb I or if you

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Speaker 1: I said rb I. Okay, that's about it.

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Speaker 5: I get the tough questions for you, Mandy.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's what Kratz is there for. I like it, Mandy.

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Speaker 3: This was awesome. Always really enjoy this. Good luck this weekend,

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Speaker 3: and we'll catch you again next month.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, good seeing you. Appreciate you, You.

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Speaker 3: Too, appreciate you. Carlos Mendoz a Mets manager with us

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Speaker 3: on FT. Really fun conversation there. And then also, of

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Speaker 3: course we've got a Mets show on the FT Network.

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Speaker 3: If you're unaware, you can check out James Ciano and

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Speaker 3: Mark Luino on Mets Up every single really after every

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Speaker 4: At least, these guys are bringing it