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Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to a special episode the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five Mets season Preview.

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Speaker 3: We are a few days away from opening day out

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Speaker 2: that's a lot to say. James ready to talk about

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Speaker 2: the Mets season. I'm so ready to talk about the

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Speaker 2: Mets season. I can't wait talk about the Mets season.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Where do we want to start?

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Speaker 1: Where are we going first year?

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Speaker 2: I feel like pitching, right, that's kind of where we

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to talk pitching because Diacomo drops the

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Speaker 3: fact that it was reported that the Mets announced it

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Speaker 3: I think it's just it's so funny to see the

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Speaker 3: the fact that this Mets team, how much hoopla fan

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is the David Sterns blueprint. He has

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Hefner, Listen, mcgil griffin, Canning, even Clay Holmes.

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Speaker 1: These guys like they're probably not gonna be All stars, They're.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's also so cool just with Holmes, because again,

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Speaker 3: like put all that together and there's just I don't

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Speaker 3: Mendoza said he looked good. The journalist said he looked good.

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Speaker 3: That's all great stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I feel like there's also always so much

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Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, just because Code I think, is gonna

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Speaker 2: This isn't a detriment to Code. I Sanga starting Game

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? Relax?

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Speaker 2: Take it easy again. Things are very very fluid, especially

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Speaker 3: I do think it means that the Mets have a

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Speaker 3: That bass is kind of gone now, Sanga said through

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Speaker 3: where we've already seen Holmes, McGill, Canning, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's saying good too. He's very lucky.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be making his first appearance inside the Lone

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Speaker 3: Yeah, true minor league team. Also, mcguil last don look

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Speaker 3: There was some drop and some drop in, some sweep

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Speaker 3: I just want to I just I need to start

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Speaker 3: Canning that night too. It's just this rotation is going

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Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon whenever, that was that Dadaniel Nunias will start

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Speaker 1: He can play the position.

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Speaker 2: They don't really have any qualms or concerns right now

433
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Speaker 2: about his ability to play it at.

434
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Speaker 1: A league average level.

435
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Speaker 2: It seems I'm not gonna pretend like Bate he's gonna

436
00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,520
Speaker 2: be a great second basement. But it seems like they're like,

437
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,920
Speaker 2: he's he's gonna be out there. We trust him enough,

438
00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,800
Speaker 2: that's okay. The other thing too about this Luisan Helicunya

439
00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,360
Speaker 2: situation was with the Anthony the Como article. Now, for

440
00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,960
Speaker 2: ball knowers, like everyone who listens to this podcast and

441
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Speaker 2: watches on YouTube, you guys know that James had this

442
00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,080
Speaker 2: months ago, back in what August, when we were talking

443
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Speaker 2: about Luisan hell possibly coming up, you had.

444
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Speaker 1: To take that maybe he's just bored.

445
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Speaker 2: We know Francisco Lindor said this when he originally came

446
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Speaker 2: up with Cleveland, that his numbers in Triple AY. He

447
00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,520
Speaker 2: was just like, I just don't care. I know I

448
00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,440
Speaker 2: should be at the major league level. I'm just waiting

449
00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,240
Speaker 2: for my time to get called up, basically in passing

450
00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,520
Speaker 2: the time. And now we kind of have it confirmed

451
00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,040
Speaker 2: that Luisan Hellacunia is doing the same thing, maybe even

452
00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:58,800
Speaker 2: in spring training, where he's like these games don't matter,

453
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Speaker 2: Like who gives a shit? And you know what, all

454
00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,920
Speaker 2: the weirdos giving Luis on Helocunya crap and saying he's

455
00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,760
Speaker 2: not a hard worker this or that, it almost feels racist.

456
00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,800
Speaker 2: Who cares? It's spring training? What does anyone care about

457
00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,760
Speaker 2: a guy playing hard at spring training? Playing hard at

458
00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,760
Speaker 2: Triple A. We saw him at the major league level.

459
00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,760
Speaker 2: He's more than a capable player. This is a guy

460
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Speaker 2: at the end of last season people were crying for

461
00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,680
Speaker 2: to make sure that he was on the major league roster.

462
00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:24,600
Speaker 2: But now that he said, but now that there's a

463
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Speaker 2: theory that he's bored at Triple A, he's bored in

464
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Speaker 2: spring training, people are up in arms. It's such bizarre behavior.

465
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Speaker 2: I can't get behind it whatsoever.

466
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Speaker 3: I mean again, part of this backtracking, it's good to

467
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,400
Speaker 3: have baseball players who are going hard all the time.

468
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Speaker 3: I think that's probably like the preferred way baseball player

469
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Speaker 3: can play. That in spring training. I don't even I

470
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Speaker 3: don't care, don't get fucking hurt. No, but this is

471
00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 3: the conundrum of spring training. We say it all the time, openly, honestly.

472
00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,160
Speaker 3: If you're playing well in spring training, it matters a lot.

473
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Speaker 3: If you're playing bad in spring training, you're just working

474
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Speaker 3: on things. Like there's no in between right there, Like,

475
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Speaker 3: that's fine. We take the good results in spring training

476
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Speaker 3: and we ignore the bad ones.

477
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like that's a spring training don't look at

478
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Speaker 1: his numbers.

479
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Speaker 3: Ignore And this is also to me so funny that

480
00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,200
Speaker 3: from that Tacoma article, and again everyone should read it

481
00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,840
Speaker 3: because I think the way that he advertised it on

482
00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,760
Speaker 3: Twitter kind of was was bathing the interaction. He's done

483
00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,120
Speaker 3: that a few times in the last couple of weeks.

484
00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,760
Speaker 3: He did that about Edwin Diaz, like, oh, edwind Diaz

485
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Speaker 3: is in the same picture anymore because he was sorting

486
00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:15,840
Speaker 3: ninety five and spring training start. I think Toacomo was

487
00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,520
Speaker 3: out there and get the clicks right now. But read

488
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Speaker 3: the article because it talks about Francisco Lindor saying like

489
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Speaker 3: insinuating maybe he wasn't playing will triple A because he

490
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Speaker 3: was bored, which is again the exact take I had

491
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Speaker 3: almost an entire calendar year ago right now, but that

492
00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:30,879
Speaker 3: this can happen to players like Akunyan. This was the

493
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,199
Speaker 3: there for Acunya in a totally different light originally the

494
00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,320
Speaker 3: fact that here they had so many bright lights on

495
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Speaker 3: him as a prospect because his brother is one of

496
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Speaker 3: the best players we've seen a baseball and last generation,

497
00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,280
Speaker 3: like the name he carries puts a lot of weight

498
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Speaker 3: just on him as a player, and he did have

499
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Speaker 3: some good Triple A results. He got traded to a

500
00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,520
Speaker 3: franchise I was going to expertise trip to the major leagues,

501
00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,680
Speaker 3: and last year he did get called up and it

502
00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:54,200
Speaker 3: was awesome. Helps the Mets, helped the Mets get to

503
00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,240
Speaker 3: the playoffs so much in his short period of time,

504
00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,639
Speaker 3: like literally saved the season, everything, all the fun we

505
00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,080
Speaker 3: had last October. Luis Hilk, He's a big reason why

506
00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,359
Speaker 3: that was even able to happen. When when fa Cisco

507
00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,520
Speaker 3: Lindor went down an injury, all hope felt lost. Yeah,

508
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,000
Speaker 3: like we don't have a short stop. BRD and Louis

509
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,639
Speaker 3: and hillacuniy the lights came on, he did it. And

510
00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,040
Speaker 3: Francisco Lindor said that literally, he said that literally in

511
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Speaker 3: this article from the como that when when the bright

512
00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,560
Speaker 3: lights come on, he's a better player. The fact that

513
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Speaker 3: the captain of this team, the leader of this team,

514
00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,960
Speaker 3: is saying that to the team's top beat report there

515
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,960
Speaker 3: that makes me think that this is something that maybe

516
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,280
Speaker 3: Louis and Helacunia has shared with the other guys. Like

517
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,720
Speaker 3: that might not be the best look. I understand some

518
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 3: people being a little bit frustrated with it, but also

519
00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,800
Speaker 3: there's there's probably something inside Louis and Lacunia that he

520
00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:34,760
Speaker 3: is ready to be a big league grade to some degree.

521
00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,040
Speaker 3: I think also there's something to Lindor being so frank

522
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Speaker 3: about it and just telling Dacomo about this, where it's

523
00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,880
Speaker 3: like him being like he's a dog, like I don't

524
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Speaker 3: care how he plays in spring training. I mean Lindor again,

525
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Speaker 3: his numbers are horrendous in spring training himself. He clearly

526
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Speaker 3: doesn't care about his performance in spring training either. Like

527
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,800
Speaker 3: I think people were looking way too deep into this one.

528
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,040
Speaker 3: Let the guy play. He was phenomenal last year. Let's

529
00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,720
Speaker 3: give him another chance before we start calling him a

530
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 3: late which is just a bad look. And it's also

531
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,040
Speaker 3: funny because this is literally the antithesis of Brett Bailey,

532
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 3: where Brett Baby goes to Triple A and he hits

533
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 3: the piss out of the ball like he's gonna get

534
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 3: He's gonna get that Jersey retired at Eyracuse. One day,

535
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,800
Speaker 3: he come to spring training. He dominates, but he's got

536
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Speaker 3: to the major leagues. He's never been able to get

537
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:18,879
Speaker 3: over that hump, which makes me think that it's like

538
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,639
Speaker 3: mostly mental for Baby at this point. But then you

539
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 3: look at the Kunya where he gets to the major

540
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,200
Speaker 3: leagues and just clicks immediately, just walks in and again,

541
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Speaker 3: maybe there was some luck there, Maybe there was just

542
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 3: a good fortune. Maybe it was just an amazing coincident

543
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,439
Speaker 3: streak of good things that happened for him.

544
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Speaker 1: But I don't know.

545
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Speaker 3: I have a weird colm with Louis hell Cunya, and

546
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Speaker 3: the other part of this doesn't make sense why some

547
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 3: people were not upset about him being on the team,

548
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 3: not upset about the article, which general mess fan frustration

549
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 3: is that the other option for that roster spot was

550
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Speaker 3: Donovan Walton. Like what would you guys rather see the

551
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 3: open day roster Louis and Helcunia and Donovan Walton to Kunya,

552
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,360
Speaker 3: get back up the door shore stop. He could play

553
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:48,960
Speaker 3: great tam at the second base. He can come in

554
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,160
Speaker 3: like games a pinch runner. He's just he's like he's

555
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,679
Speaker 3: kind of a lightning rod. That's a fun thing to

556
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 3: have on your team. As like this weak cycle of

557
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:55,920
Speaker 3: two in for a second base.

558
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Speaker 2: He just simply way more valuable than Donovan Walton could

559
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 2: ever be. Like Donovan Walton, Zach Short and Joey Wendall

560
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: all over again. You want to see that again in April, guys,

561
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Speaker 2: I know, I don't. I have no interest, especially when

562
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 2: you have the down to players. The last guy on

563
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 2: this bench to talk about here, is gonna be the

564
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 2: backup catcher position. It seems like it's Hayden Sangers, which

565
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 2: is kind of cool. There's an article came out recently

566
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 2: about Hayden Sanger that he was bagging groceries at Whole

567
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 2: Foods during the off season to keep the dream alive.

568
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Speaker 2: I don't know how good he's gonna be Defensively, He's great.

569
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Speaker 2: That's apparently his calling card is that he's a great

570
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Speaker 2: defensive catcher. Has won like the Mets Platinum Glove in

571
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Speaker 2: the organization I think in the past, really really good

572
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Speaker 2: behind the plate. Probably not gonna be able to hit

573
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Speaker 2: a lick. I think we would be shocked if there's

574
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Speaker 2: any sort of offensive upside. But I'm really glad for

575
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,160
Speaker 2: him getting his shot finally as a twenty eight year

576
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Speaker 2: old minor league ger A lifer. So it's really cool

577
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 2: and I'm sure will be a really emotional time for

578
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Speaker 2: him too during opening day.

579
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Speaker 3: Ye also a cool point I saw on Twitter from

580
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Speaker 3: Ernest OF's Me's minor league Shordinaire that Sanger just from

581
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,359
Speaker 3: being in this organ Sanger, Hayden Sanger, Sanga and Sanger

582
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 3: is gonna be really fun battering. They gotta let a

583
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Speaker 3: pitch to him as had the fifth game of the year,

584
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 3: sangkas Anger, Sanka sank Keith is gonna lose.

585
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Speaker 1: His mind over that one.

586
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna love that. They can really kind of

587
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 3: love that. But he's caught a lot of these guys

588
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 3: are gonna be pitching on the Mets this season because

589
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 3: he's been in the mine, especially the upper minds, for

590
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,679
Speaker 3: so long. Like he has experienced Jose Budu, he's experienced

591
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 3: with Tyler McGill all of last season, David Peterson, I'm

592
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,679
Speaker 3: sure some of these other relievers who've been up and down,

593
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,440
Speaker 3: like Rigarrett, Danny Young Crannick last year. Like, I think

594
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 3: that's a cool thing. That is just some comfortability, some

595
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 3: familiarity with the new catcher and this team that a

596
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 3: lot of pitchers have pitched him, and a lot of

597
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,719
Speaker 3: pitchers new organization I'm sure of enjoyed pitching to him,

598
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,959
Speaker 3: which is again another very good things as a premier

599
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 3: defensive catcher to just be our backup catcher.

600
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I guess we should also just talk about

601
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Speaker 2: the lineup a little bit here. I mean, just just

602
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 2: to be like, wow, it's like one of the best

603
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 2: Mets lineups we've seen in a very long time.

604
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 1: It's so good.

605
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool that it looks like Nimo's knees are

606
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 3: healthy played center field, and he's been smoking the ball

607
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,239
Speaker 3: of the last few days of spring training. So even

608
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 3: though he always winds up starting late by the end,

609
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 3: he always seems ready to go. Interesting that in the

610
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 3: lineups that the Mets without a few days ago, that

611
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 3: seems like the preview of the opening day lineup, Nimo

612
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 3: and Vanto's were flopped or Vano's was four and Neimo

613
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 3: was five, which I think we've said a few times

614
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 3: that we prefer Nimo for Vento's fives. I think we

615
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 3: want the four spot in the order to be someone

616
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 3: that a little bit more of little confident there on basability.

617
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 3: We still don't know exactly where Vientos is on basibility

618
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 3: will live this year. You know, the power is amazing,

619
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Speaker 3: But it's just looking at this lineup, even the fact

620
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 3: that it does fall off a bit without you know,

621
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Speaker 3: McNeil and alvare is in it, it is such an

622
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Speaker 3: incredibly exciting one through six, and especially the fact that

623
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 3: we have a great platoon d ah because so Starling Martell,

624
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,919
Speaker 3: another rocket home run I was training, he said the.

625
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,919
Speaker 2: Ball really hard. This was something that I said, Remember,

626
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 2: I was like, what if that? Like him playing DH

627
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 2: just allows him to kind of muscle up a little

628
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,679
Speaker 2: bit more and just like, fuck it, I'm gonna hit

629
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Speaker 2: ropes like all across the field. I don't have to

630
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 2: worry about playing any defense or getting hurt out there.

631
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was I've been critical of the Marte signing

632
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 3: from the start, and a big reason for that is

633
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 3: I think the Mets were trying to like fit him

634
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 3: into being like the new version of of Grez Granderson,

635
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 3: where you're signing him when he still has the peak athleticism,

636
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 3: then you hope he grows into a player who's like

637
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 3: a Solick at Tribute and a leader. But the reason

638
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 3: I never liked that comp was because marteg and grants

639
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 3: a very different skill sets. Granted it was more power

640
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 3: on base percentage. By the end of his where Starling

641
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 3: Marte has become I don't really know, he has become

642
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 3: in contact that was his thing, Yeah, which is like

643
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 3: that's not that's not a very good skill set to age.

644
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,400
Speaker 3: But if Marte can actually find some legitimate power, which

645
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Speaker 3: he has been able to do, a little bit of

646
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 3: this spring. Again, these are against minor league pitchers. Today

647
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 3: the Mets bombed Connor Gillispie and George Soriano, who are

648
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 3: not real major league caliber pitchers. But if you can

649
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 3: find anything there, if Starling Marte can find any legitimate

650
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 3: consistent power, and he's been hitting high up in the

651
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 3: order of the spring, like every time he's in live

652
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 3: they hit him two four. Like he's someone who I

653
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 3: think carlsmon Doza still believes in very very much as

654
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 3: an offensive player, Like there might be that's it. They're

655
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 3: gonna give it a shot. They're going to give it

656
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 3: one more shot.

657
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say this too, is this HEREI is

658
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 2: such a chaos fun player, Like I'm I'm really excited

659
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 2: to watch him hit like eighth or ninth in this

660
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 2: lineup because there's just gonna be moments where he's gonna

661
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 2: pimp one four hundred and fifty feet and you're like,

662
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 2: holy shit.

663
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 3: But then he's gonna strike out four times in that

664
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 3: same game. Yeah, same same Monsley Sam with Tyron Taylor.

665
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 3: I think those two as the center field platoon this

666
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 3: year is a funny. It's a funny mix of dudes,

667
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 3: because you're not really getting No I'm not gonna say

668
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 3: you're not getting consistency out of them, but you don't

669
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 3: know what we're gonna get every single game. There's gonna

670
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 3: be very high highs and very low lows for both

671
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 3: of those players. I think it's gonna be cho.

672
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 2: Those are the line about the Tyrone Taylor last year,

673
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 2: he's got to be the most valuable seven hundred ops

674
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: player in Major League Baseball? Was that what we were saying,

675
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 2: now his most valuable player and Bay League Baseball doesn't

676
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 2: have a three hundred on base percent, That's what it was, Yes,

677
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 2: doesn't have an it's.

678
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 3: A good chance neither of these guys have that.

679
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: There is a more than fifty percent chance that both

680
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 2: of these guys don't have a three hundred on base percent.

681
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: But you might get twenty home runs out of a

682
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: guy like Jose.

683
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 3: Sirie And it's kind of fun that it'll just be

684
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 3: a hot hands approach to both these guys. They're both righty,

685
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 3: so it's not gonna be real obvious platoon. But like

686
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 3: whoever again when Alvarez comes back, like these guys are

687
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 3: gonna be flopping whoever's hitting ninth. They're both be making

688
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 3: really good plays in the center field. Again, Mets fans,

689
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 3: when you watch Jose Siria play defensi center field, your

690
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 3: jaw will literally drop some of the places he's going

691
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 3: to make ter it's of pure defensive ability. He's one

692
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 3: of the best players in the league. Like, he's someone

693
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 3: who can compete for a goal Glove award if he

694
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 3: gets the playing time. And we saw Taylor last year,

695
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 3: like he's really good, like choking up on that back,

696
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 3: gripping it tight and working a good at how the

697
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 3: team needs it. Yeah, it's it's a really fun mix

698
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 3: for a position that not It wasn't a zero last

699
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 3: year because it was Tyrone Taylor Harrison Baylor. But I

700
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 3: think it's a little more it's a little bit more

701
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 3: chaotic swapping and Jose Sirie for Harrison Baytor. I think

702
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 3: that's a fun transition to make.

703
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: I think it's very much like where modern baseball has

704
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: been heading the last few years as well, where it's like, Okay,

705
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 2: if we're not able to get a plus offensive player

706
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 2: out of position, we should at least lock up some

707
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 2: elite defense. And like you said, the Mets did that

708
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 2: last year. With Baterer and Tyrone Taylor. They're doing again

709
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 2: this year, and I just I like the crazy upside

710
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 2: of Jose Sirie over a guy like Harrison Bader, because

711
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 2: Jose Sirie, again, when he makes contact with the baseball,

712
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 2: it is elite contact. He just swings and misses about

713
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 2: fifty percent of the time that he takes a swing.

714
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty eight percent trek every last year. It's funny

715
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 3: that you saying the words like elite upside with Jose

716
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 3: sirix because I don't think that's true.

717
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: No, I'm not an elite upside. I never know the

718
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: words of my mouth.

719
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 2: I said when he makes contact, the contact is elite,

720
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 2: and that's not that's not.

721
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 3: False true, No, that's true, a hundred percent true. I

722
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 3: mean for the career those are two sixty on base

723
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 3: percentage is very But also like Harrison Bayler at times

724
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 3: last year wasn't much of a non bass guy, but

725
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 3: when he did make the contact, it was saying, So

726
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 3: I think that again.

727
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: And he'll run two series as well. Yeah, he loves

728
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: to run.

729
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 3: He's gonna see fifteen backs at least, if not twenty

730
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,959
Speaker 3: if he gets not playing time. It's just it's a

731
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 3: fun He's going to be the guy that Mets fans

732
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 3: at the same time fall in love with him despise

733
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 3: as the season moves forward, I'm excited to see that

734
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 3: that gotmics. Also, we said from the Biers episode last week,

735
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 3: like this, this Mets team is prone again the fights

736
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 3: this year. Jose series a big reason why because he

737
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 3: people he will pimp a home run, he'll take his time.

738
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 3: Other players and other teams will not like it between

739
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,959
Speaker 3: him and Jesse Winker, like, we have too genuine, genuine potsters,

740
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 3: And I think that this Mets team will become a

741
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 3: little bit villain this this year. I do think we

742
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: have a target on our backs. I do think they're ready.

743
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 3: The fact that we hear a lot of times from

744
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 3: people in baseball media, we hear from our foul territory

745
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 3: guys all the time that this Mets team was very

746
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 3: openly gimmicky last year, very obviously kind of riving, for

747
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 3: lack of a better term, bullshit, And it took him

748
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 3: to the NLCS. Between OMG and Grimm is the fucking

749
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 3: pump kid by the end. Like, but now we added

750
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 3: one solo to that mix. Who's another guy who no

751
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 3: one no one hates one so though, but the chaffling

752
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: gets under people's skins easily.

753
00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: Like the opening day shuffle.

754
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: Whenever we play like the Braves or Phillies, like shuffling

755
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 2: on Spencer Shider is gonna like hit like crack, Like

756
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 2: that's gonna be incredible.

757
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 3: It's a fun there's a fun mix of guys right now.

758
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 3: Where there's there's gonna be some tempers will flare a

759
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 3: few times this year, but this team is going I

760
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 3: just I don't know, looking at these guys, no one's

761
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 3: got personalities for me. The last year is not like

762
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 3: looking around the league like there's some fun personalities in

763
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 3: this lineup, and I think.

764
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: Like still like at the end of day.

765
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 2: I know we talked about one through five already being

766
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: one of the more exciting one through fives in baseball,

767
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: But like having Lindor Soto Alonzo, I don't think can

768
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 2: be understated how much pressure that puts on the opposing

769
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 2: pitcher From the first pitch of the game you are

770
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 2: in battles, Lindor takes a lot of pitches, gets on

771
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 2: base a tell we know Wanso's got the best eye

772
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: in Major League baseball.

773
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: And then if any of those guys are on Pete A.

774
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 2: Lonzo's all of a sudden salivating because he's got RBI

775
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: opportunities to do some real damage. With Brandon mL up

776
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: after him, who takes a ton of pitches, works, walks,

777
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: hits the ball hard. With Mark Vienzo's after him like

778
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: that is an exhausting one through five, and there are

779
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 2: gonna be many games this year where you see those

780
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 2: five guys come to the plate all in the first

781
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 2: and you're gonna be like wow, Like wearing out a

782
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 2: pitcher with some damage is something that we just have

783
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: not seen for Mets teams in a very, very long time.

784
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 3: It also can't be understated how important this lineup is

785
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 3: this Mets team success this year. We spent the first

786
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 3: half of the show talking about how look you worried

787
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 3: we are about the rotation but still trusting and Sterns

788
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 3: halfing New y Acres to triumphant. But the Mets last year,

789
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 3: the reason they roll all that of success was because

790
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: of how good the lineup was. That's just sixth league

791
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 3: homers last year they were I think there were seventh

792
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: in the league and run scored and they added one

793
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 3: soda to that and they were no legitimate subtractions at

794
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 3: all from that lineup. So you're hoping that this offense

795
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 3: can get to a spot where they're like a top

796
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 3: three or four offense in the league in terms of

797
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,959
Speaker 3: run production. And you kind of feel like maybe if

798
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 3: you want to get where you're going, which is the

799
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 3: first goal of this team is winning the division, you

800
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 3: kind of need that there's something that has to happen

801
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 3: this year. The Mets kind of have to be at

802
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 3: worse the top five run scored if they want to, say,

803
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 3: compete for ninety wins, which would put them in position

804
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 3: to at least get needed division champion division title. You

805
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 3: hope you can do it, but there's there's a lot

806
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 3: of pressure on these guys, and we'd be aware that

807
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 3: the season could start slow offensively. A lot of the

808
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 3: things started a slow offensively. It's cold in New York,

809
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 3: say it feels a big place to hit wants, so

810
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 3: they'll just signed the biggest contract in American professional sports history,

811
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 3: Like there's going there could be a bit of a

812
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 3: bit of a cold stretch to start, So it's gonna

813
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 3: be it's gonna be a fun push and pull of

814
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 3: this team. I think when it gets high, when this

815
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 3: lineup starts to roll, roll roll, this could be this

816
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 3: could be one of This could be the most fun

817
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 3: Mets lineup we've seen in our lives. I saw someone

818
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 3: on Met twether do them the side by side who

819
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: had the better line up of Mets two thousand and

820
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 3: six for his mess twenty twenty five, and I was like,

821
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 3: damn one, that was twenty years ago. It makes me

822
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 3: feel horrible too, Like this is the most fun Mets

823
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 3: lineup by far since that happened, and that one was fun.

824
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 3: This has a chance to like go up with that.

825
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: And be as good. Yeah, Like the twenty fifteen in

826
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: the lineup was horrible. It was so terrible.

827
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 3: I mean, there's twenty nineteen.

828
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: We were the opposite.

829
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 2: They had all the pitching, and it was like if

830
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: we could just hit a little bit.

831
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 3: But they did. They did hit. That was because I

832
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 3: think everyone hit now that it's funny enough that team

833
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 3: In two thousand and sixth the Mets. They had the

834
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 3: seventh most run score in baseball, which is the same

835
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 3: as the Mets team last year, and they also had

836
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 3: the seventh most warm runs in baseball, which is also

837
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,239
Speaker 3: basically the same as the team from last year. It's

838
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 3: kind of a funny mix right now, put that together.

839
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 3: But this it's all gonna be about this lineup this year,

840
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 3: and it's I just I just can't believe once so those.

841
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: In it, I know it's crazy.

842
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 2: I still have moments throughout the week where I'm like,

843
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,239
Speaker 2: that's right on, so Doos on the New York Mets.

844
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 2: We gave him seven hundred million dollars. This guy is

845
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: gonna be playing meaningful baseball games for our team for

846
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 2: the next fifteen years.

847
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck?

848
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: Like, I think we're all gonna get smacked in the

849
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 3: face on Thursday afternoon we see one soother just come

850
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 3: up in the first inning.

851
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get goosebumps, I think.

852
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 3: And it also is it kind of sucks that that's

853
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: the only game we have for Gary keithan Ron this

854
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 3: weekend because we have Friday and Saturday both national games

855
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 3: between Apple and Fox. But it's like they're gonna freak out,

856
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 3: Like we're gonna freak out, like if he does if

857
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 3: he like it's gonna be the most vile club ever.

858
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: If he does something, if he hits a home run

859
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 3: that game or that first that bat or something like,

860
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 3: it's going, it's it's it still feels surreal. I was

861
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 3: hanging out my uncles today, like talking about it, and

862
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 3: my one uncle, Yankee fan, is still very salty. Definitely,

863
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 3: he said the least excited he's been about the Yankee season,

864
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 3: like thirty years, dude.

865
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: Isn't that what you've been saying? A lot of Yankee

866
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: fans who've been talking to who has been saying is

867
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: like a.

868
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 3: Few of my friends have said that specifically, like this

869
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 3: the least I've ever been for a season.

870
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: But it's funny just that, like we loser talk.

871
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: I'm so excited we have him on our team, like

872
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 3: watching him play baseball.

873
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: I don't even care that we took him from the

874
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: Yankees anymore. I don't get I couldn't give two ships

875
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: about that. I'm just like, wow, he picked us. He's

876
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 2: in this lineup surrounded by Francisco Indoor and Peede Alonzo,

877
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 2: Like that's that's unbelievable. They should they should be doing

878
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: a lot of damn. It should be a lot of

879
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: fun to watch these guys every single day. Here's a

880
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: fun up.

881
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 3: Would you rather question which number is going to be

882
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 3: higher this year? Francisco indoor runs scored or pe Alonzo

883
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 3: runs batter than ooh wow, good one right, So yeah,

884
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 3: so Lindor will probably be around like one ten. Oh man,

885
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 3: I think conservatively it's one ten.

886
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Pete. I'm gonna go Pete. RBIs.

887
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 2: Would you say watch out Hack Wilson Pize going for

888
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 2: the record. He's going for one fifty something this year.

889
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 3: And the fact that Pek got won thirty one into

890
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 3: that in twenty twenty two, Like.

891
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: I feel like that crazy. That's so many.

892
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 3: And and and one twenty and in twenty nineteen and

893
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 3: one eighteen twenty twenty three, Pizza had one hundred eighteen

894
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 3: RBIs three times. Like that's definitely you know, we're not

895
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 3: RBI guys in this podcast. That's just so fun cool

896
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 3: to have that many RBIs.

897
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: I love RBI still.

898
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: I love RBIs. Like we're not gonna take RBIs and

899
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,719
Speaker 3: like that means he's gonna do these rbs and that's

900
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 3: just God. Really just want the season to start. I'm

901
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 3: so excited if the season starts. Has been like it's

902
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 3: been so much content, so much talking and so much bullshit,

903
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,239
Speaker 3: but like when Thursday hits it's like that does not even

904
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 3: matters anymore, Like the Mets are just gonna be playing baseball. Yeah,

905
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 3: I mean, this is the first real off season where

906
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 3: we've been like making a lot of content, like a lot,

907
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 3: a lot where we were doing like two three episodes

908
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 3: a time, where like in the past we would do

909
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 3: like one episode a week during the off season. So

910
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 3: it's just like all this talk, all this analysis, for

911
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 3: lack of a better term, like I just want to

912
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 3: watch games and react to them now.

913
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: I'm so ready.

914
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm done chirping. I'm totally done chirping. It's not

915
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 3: actually true. I'll chirp forever. But like my dad had

916
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 3: a funny comment today when I was leaving my cousin's house.

917
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: He was like, uh, start Thursday something to do every

918
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 3: single day the rest of our lives. We're all good, said,

919
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 3: all the way, you can look on working. You have

920
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 3: baseball as long as you can possibly see. And that's

921
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 3: the most beautiful part about this week.

922
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's really awesome too. No rainouts.

923
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: The Mets will not have a rainout on an opening day.

924
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,479
Speaker 2: They will not have any of their first six games

925
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 2: rained out by anything. Because they're playing indoor stadiums, So

926
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: we just have Mets Baseball for the next week. Yes,

927
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 2: besides Sunday, because we have an off day Sunday, which

928
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 2: is it's my gears really grinding, my gears really pissing

929
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 2: me off.

930
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 3: But I got I'll walk past that. I'll still be positive.

931
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 3: I mean otherwise, I think I think we're all right here.

932
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 3: I think we've covered most of it. Also, thank you

933
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 3: guys for all the great responses weve gotten. Zach Scott

934
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 3: interviewed last week and the Murphy won the week before.

935
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,919
Speaker 3: Super fun to do those interviews. We also we banged

936
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 3: them out back to back, so me and Mark were

937
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 3: just doing interviews with like one of our favorite both

938
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 3: for each of our favorite mess players of all time

939
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 3: or at least was influential, and the former general manager

940
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 3: of the team. Effectively do those back to back. You

941
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 3: guys responding so well to them. There are two of

942
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 3: I think my favorite news interviews we've ever done on

943
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 3: this show is like what we were able to get

944
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: out of both those guys, I think was really really cool.

945
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: Two guys also we hope to have on again, so

946
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 3: they keep an eye out for that. But really nice.

947
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 3: See all you guys responsor that they were very fun

948
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 3: to do.

949
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.

950
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: It was an absolute plast Both of them were amazing.

951
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: It was also awesome too because like Murphy, were just

952
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: ready to talk baseball for a full two hours, like

953
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: we ended up. We were like, oh my god, like

954
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: we don't want to take too much of your time.

955
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 2: But as soon as we were of the podcast, he

956
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 2: stayed and talked to us for like another ten minutes,

957
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 2: was texting us a bunch like this guy is.

958
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 3: So in love with baseball. So it's awesome. We definitely

959
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 3: want to have him beat.

960
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 2: And it was cool that Zach Scott just like had

961
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 2: the had the professional headphones on the lightning like we're like.

962
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: Ah, this guy's right. Roll.

963
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 3: Also so funny to get like the the purview of

964
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 3: baseball from two such different vantage points, where like Murphy

965
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 3: on the field talks about baseball and like a true

966
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,439
Speaker 3: like like like like a true battle kind of way,

967
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 3: like he's talking about his sore and his club and

968
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 3: how like he's hunt like he's hunting, and that's what

969
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 3: he called the pitchman and the hitsman like something like that,

970
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 3: like the batsman, the batsman, the batsman, like talking about

971
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 3: baseball is just like like like like like like growling,

972
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 3: like foam coming out of his mouth with like Zack

973
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 3: Scott's coming from Tolops. Then like talking about in a

974
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 3: very analytical way, very matter of fact, very this that

975
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 3: describing moves that he made literally very cool to get

976
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: like nuts and bolts from that from both sides of

977
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 3: the game, and two different interviews like that.

978
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 2: Uh, anything else here, I'm gonna plug again. We are

979
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 2: doing channel memberships again, totally optional, but if you guys

980
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 2: want to get access to the via YouTube videos early,

981
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 2: become a channel member as soon as they're done, which

982
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 2: you're going to be probably around midnight one o'clock. After

983
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 2: we do series and stuff like that, those will be

984
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 2: available to channel members only early and then everybody else

985
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 2: will get them at the normal time they'll go up.

986
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: We have a discord in the description Join the Mets

987
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 2: Up discord. Shout out to our guy Sean again for

988
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 2: setting it up. He's done incredible work. And I've only

989
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 2: been in a couple of discords that aren't like me

990
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 2: and my friends, and this one's like set up professionally.

991
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 1: It's it's incredible.

992
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 2: So really excited to see you guys in there and

993
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 2: talk some ball, and don't forget Murphy's Saturday Night, Murphy's

994
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 2: Bar in Astoria, New York. Again, if you're a Queen's,

995
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 2: if you're in Brooklyn, if you're in brock you can

996
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 2: get here Murphy's Bar Astoria Saturday. We're doing live pregame

997
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: and postgames. And again, if you can't make it out there,

998
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 2: those will be live on our YouTube channel as well,

999
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 2: So make sure you are subscribed to that so you

1000
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: don't miss out in any of the content coming at you.

1001
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 2: Follow us on all our social media at Draftnick Mark, Nope,

1002
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: that's not true. That's my YouTube boutro. I just did

1003
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 2: my YouTube boucher. I completely just soned out and did

1004
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 2: my YouTube boucher.

1005
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: That's great.

1006
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 3: Mess up, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok.

1007
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 2: If you're listening to us, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google drops

1008
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 2: a rating, drops review, download and subscribe.

1009
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: Do we have do you have Frankie Peppers?

1010
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 3: We do with Frankie Peppers first of the season.

1011
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: Frankie Peppers before we plug your YouTube channel.

1012
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 3: And head out. Yeah, well, I love it up to

1013
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 3: just some more spiel, like we're gonna be doing some

1014
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 3: fun stuff at the bar. First of all, it's the

1015
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 3: best I think Mets bar in the city.

1016
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the the videos we're gonna on our Instagram.

1017
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 2: We're gonna be posting like our promo stuff starting tomorrow

1018
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: or I guess today. The guy when you guys are

1019
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: listening and watching this on Monday, and the guy Rory

1020
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 2: who owns the bar, has like become a friend of ours,

1021
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 2: which is really awesome, and he sent us videos and

1022
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 2: we're in like half of them because of the React games,

1023
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,919
Speaker 2: because almost every single big game that happened that wasn't

1024
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 2: at home, we were at Murphy's in a Storia watching

1025
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 2: the game. So it was when Viento's hit the Grand

1026
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 2: Slam against the Dodters, you could see me, James and

1027
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 2: our friend Ernie literally jumping and hugging each other scrimming.

1028
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 3: I'm still got top of the table going nuts. Like

1029
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 3: the atmosphere is awesome there.

1030
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: It's really like the beers of everything are really really cheap,

1031
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: and they actually have really good food, so like tremendous food.

1032
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 2: It's a great place to hang out if you're a

1033
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 2: Mets fan, and it's packed with Mets fans.

1034
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 3: Every single packed with Mets fans sound on for the game.

1035
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: It's a really really great experience. And we had people

1036
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 3: coming to set f one of the playoff games last

1037
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 3: year who met a guy Brian chilled with him. He

1038
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 3: met their other friend there with the mustache. I forgot

1039
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 3: his name from Connecticut, but he gave me right home.

1040
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 3: He was a hell of a dude. I got my

1041
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: boy Chris from Bushwick. He's literally become like a friend

1042
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 3: of mine. So we're just really excited to like you

1043
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 3: guys come out there hang out with us. I think

1044
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 3: I might make a John Smalt bingo to play during

1045
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 3: the game as well. We might think about the prize

1046
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: to have for that. We're also gonna do with the

1047
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 3: pre post game though. You guys are gonna be on

1048
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 3: the show. We're gonna have it to our microphone. We're

1049
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 3: gonna be taking questions, Like a big point of this

1050
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 3: show is to interact with you guys. We want to

1051
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 3: have this show because we want you guys to be

1052
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 3: able to come on, share some takes, dish like say whatever,

1053
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 3: you want to have.

1054
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 2: Some beers with us, Like yeah, this this is the

1055
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 2: whole vibe, Like that's the community.

1056
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 3: We're trying to build it that's why we're doing the discord.

1057
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 3: That's like what we want this podcast to become this season.

1058
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: That's how we want to grow and like push this

1059
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 3: to the next level. But all right, but first time

1060
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 3: for a long time, first time in a long time,

1061
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 3: we got Frankie Pepper. It's kind of sending us into

1062
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 3: the season.

1063
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: Love it, gentlemen, this is Frankie the Ones.

1064
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 7: It's just been a while since I gold until the show,

1065
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 7: since I at few boys and Instagram. I think last

1066
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 7: time was when uh when was it? I think it

1067
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 7: was Peter Alonzo and Peter Alonso sign. So it's been

1068
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 7: a little bit. But I hope you're doing well. It

1069
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 7: seems like you boys that pat up really well. Uh

1070
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 7: for this baseball season the pod, I'm very excited for you.

1071
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 7: What is beautiful today? I'm not taking a walk. Uh,

1072
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 7: I think there's a coming, so I'm just gonna let

1073
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 7: them pass real quick.

1074
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: Down know a few.

1075
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 7: Hear it.

1076
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, truck nearly hit me, God damned.

1077
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 7: But yeah, this is an exciting season. Boys play Holmes opening,

1078
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 7: They started her own balls left the right, Pete Franciscoing,

1079
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 7: dowk Hello Want Soto, Jesse Winker, Brandon Neimo, Brandy to

1080
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 7: all have incredible seasons for these New York Mets.

1081
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 8: I can't wait and I can't wait to be on

1082
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 8: the pot again after the series around, so wow, bicycle.

1083
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 7: But either way, very excited for the season boys, and

1084
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 7: I'm excited to get things going again.

1085
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon. Let's go Mets.

1086
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 3: Frank Frankie have the voicemail in the industrial zone, all

1087
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 3: that stuff that was crazy. But also just got a

1088
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 3: other house keeping stuff for the week. We're going to

1089
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 3: do two more episodes before the season starts. Next episode

1090
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 3: is going to be a full met starting pitching preview

1091
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 3: we do with Nick Pollock, a pitcher list. He is

1092
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 3: probably the entire baseball fancy baseball industry, the best person

1093
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 3: at talking about game plans, what pictures can do in

1094
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 3: their repertoires, just how they attack hitters. He's sensational. He

1095
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,280
Speaker 3: goes very deep with us on Sanga McGill, David Peterson,

1096
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 3: Griffin Cannon, we got everything play home, so really fun

1097
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 3: conversation with him, and I think night before the season

1098
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 3: both predictions.

1099
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do a boll predictions here. I like that.

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00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: It sounds good.

1101
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 3: I think we got that so that's we're doing. We'll

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00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 3: see you guys very soon. Okay, literally, I can't. I'm

1103
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 3: teaming with excitement baseball season. Cannot wait them out. Wait James,

1104
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 3: what's your YouTube channel? Plug before we go? YouTube channel

1105
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 3: James Gianof and you guys have been there. Thank you

1106
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 3: so much. Got two thousand describers in a week. Fucking unbelievable'

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00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 3: super cool.

1108
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 1: Let's go. I love GM. Let's go Mets. We'll catch

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00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:12,760
Speaker 1: you guys on the next episode.

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Speaker 3: Peace out, all right, peace guys, Let's go Mets.