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Speaker 1: again episode number fourteen. You might notice me and James

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Speaker 1: back in the same room we went to the Mets

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Speaker 1: game earlier today. Game two of the Baltimore Orioles series

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Speaker 1: saw fantastic win by the Mets. Honestly a pretty good

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Speaker 1: series by this Mets team, getting a nice sweep over

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Speaker 1: the Orioles in a short two game series. Lost to

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Speaker 1: talk about here the return of Harvey the Mets and

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Speaker 1: that crazy walk off Pat Mezeka win yet again, and

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Speaker 1: just just Mets are playing good baseball on a seven

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Speaker 1: game win streak. So much good things to talk about,

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Speaker 1: so much good things that's not good to so many

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Speaker 1: good things, so many good things to talk about here

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Speaker 1: keep giving it to you. So, James, we're here in

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Speaker 1: person doing the podcast again. Yeah, episode number fourteen. How

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Speaker 1: we feel about this oriole series amazing.

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Speaker 3: We're like kind of on like a nice little like high.

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Speaker 3: It's like when people lie about having a runners high.

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Speaker 3: Like coming out of the Mets game today, we're both

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Speaker 2: It was great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it feels good, but yeah, it feels good.

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Speaker 1: The Mets are playing good baseball, they're pitching well like

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Speaker 1: they've been doing all series, and there's just so many

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Speaker 1: which is we know he was your guy, Quadalbomb is

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Speaker 1: And today, specifically offensively, we saw what felt like truly

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Speaker 2: So let's not talk about Game two just yet.

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Speaker 3: We have said this a lot this season, where like

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Speaker 1: It feels like it was so long ago, and even

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure Dante's Ferno was actually written about

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was giving us some Jeff McNeil swings, you know,

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Speaker 1: Paz is a scrappy little player who when a guy

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Speaker 3: One of them. I think the silver lining to McNeil

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Speaker 2: Like Brolly Van Wagonon put.

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Speaker 2: From all the bats we've.

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Speaker 2: A good baseball player.

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Speaker 1: He's laid down what two bunts seemingly on his own

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Speaker 3: Fourlough has been on the money. In those fifty five

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if someone in his ear.

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Speaker 1: Well was it you who told me about quadal Bomb?

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Speaker 3: because seemingly it has this year. Yeah, not to too

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Speaker 3: Guadalobomb seems like in just a week he has made

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Speaker 2: It was crazy. It went VR.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he doesn't do it.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who had three to zero counts

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Speaker 2: And he's still done that from time to time this season.

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Speaker 2: That's the quadal Bomb effect. That's my boy, that's the

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Speaker 1: And then on the pitching side, we got another strong

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Speaker 3: Definitely, he's been so good recently that I'm ready to

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Speaker 2: Basically fifty percent sinkers.

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Speaker 3: That is his path to maintaining this ace level performance.

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Speaker 1: Some days, we've seen him go to the slider a lot.

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Speaker 3: This isn't a fluke. He's a good pitcher. He's a

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. I would call him cerebral.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so ooh I like that. There's our essay t word.

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Speaker 1: We haven't done that in a while. He like always

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Speaker 3: Something else crazy about Roman that just came to my

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two Stars A.

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Speaker 3: He threw more forceemers than anything else last time, more

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Speaker 1: That alone, Like, from a preparation standpoint for a team,

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Speaker 2: Oh he's awesome. Ye, He's always been awesome.

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Speaker 3: On a preseason preview, I said that Marcus Stroman was

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Speaker 2: He shouldered that load and ran with it. Yep, it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: He's he's been great. And he did give up a run.

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Speaker 2: like you have a tantrum to and dug out a

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Speaker 2: little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mets forced the Oriols hands to take out John Means,

440
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Speaker 1: which I know you love.

441
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Speaker 2: I do love that.

442
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Speaker 3: I love National League baseball. Mark Market doesn't like National

443
00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,040
Speaker 3: League Baseball new school. I'm a little more old school,

444
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Speaker 3: even though I like analytics more than he does, which

445
00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,200
Speaker 3: is kind of ironic saying it out loud, But I

446
00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,640
Speaker 3: think I think I probably would have liked to keep

447
00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,920
Speaker 3: strowing in that game to face DJ Stewart rather than

448
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Speaker 3: bringing loop. But it turned out to be a non

449
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Speaker 3: issue because the Mets just kind of rode the wave

450
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Speaker 3: into like another incredible lighten and comeback.

451
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Speaker 1: Which, you know, thank you Orioles for having Saesar Valdez

452
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Speaker 1: beer closer. In case you guys didn't watch the game

453
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Speaker 1: or missed it, look up Saser Valdez. This guy throws

454
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Speaker 1: an average velo I think of seventy eight miles an hour.

455
00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,840
Speaker 1: He is literally the anti pitcher in Major League Baseball

456
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Speaker 1: right now. Eighty percent change ups, eighty percent change ups,

457
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Speaker 1: and it's I think they call it a deadfish change up.

458
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Speaker 2: It's it's not a good pitch by any means. That's

459
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Speaker 2: so disrespectful. His entire game.

460
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Speaker 1: Is that he throws slower than anybody in Major League

461
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Speaker 1: Baseball on every single pitch.

462
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Speaker 3: That is his gimmick. He is not going to throw harder.

463
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Speaker 1: Than eighty four eighty five miles an hour if he

464
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Speaker 1: ever decides to throw a fastball. He comes from a

465
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Speaker 1: little bit of a funky armslot, has a lot of

466
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Speaker 1: movement going on when he does throw the ball, and

467
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Speaker 1: it just kind of floats there. So when you're up

468
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Speaker 1: at the plate, it's just way back, way back, way back,

469
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Speaker 1: we saw Kevin Pillar come up and just miss a

470
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Speaker 1: home run, I mean by a smidge. They called it

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Speaker 1: a home run originally, and then after a replay, I

472
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Speaker 1: mean it was blatantly. They didn't even actually even go

473
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Speaker 1: to replay it, just talked, yeah, it was very clearly

474
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Speaker 1: a foul ball. That was so cool, and he didn't

475
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Speaker 1: have a good swing on the next pitch and I

476
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Speaker 1: was like, ah, he's out of the that bat, but

477
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Speaker 1: he scrapped it together, got a single for us, got

478
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Speaker 1: the inning, and the rally started. Followed up by Jonathan

479
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Speaker 1: vr who I think might have been first pitch swinging

480
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Speaker 1: to saysar Valdez whatever it was early in the count,

481
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Speaker 1: hits it through the whole first and second, and one

482
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Speaker 1: of our I don't want to say favorite players because

483
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Speaker 1: it's a little sarcastic now, but a guy who's a

484
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Speaker 1: little bit of the you know, the billy goat on

485
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Speaker 1: this team, the scapegoat, James McCann comes up and it

486
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Speaker 1: just didn't feel good.

487
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm so tired that James McCann. I

488
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Speaker 3: want to stay positive about talking about this rally.

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Speaker 2: I have a monologue. Do you wishould I go into

490
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Speaker 2: it now. It's just going to it now.

491
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Speaker 1: Just know that James is gonna have some stuff to

492
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Speaker 1: say about James McCann. It's all valid. I think I

493
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Speaker 1: am still a McCann guy. I still think he's gonna

494
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Speaker 1: be able to turn around. But there's no doubt he's

495
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Speaker 1: been playing poorly. James is gonna tell you how bad

496
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Speaker 1: he's been.

497
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm becoming very tired with James mccannon.

498
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Speaker 2: Mark and tell you that. I wasn't very enthused with

499
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Speaker 2: the signing.

500
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Speaker 3: It felt like the Mets kind of overestimated what the

501
00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,159
Speaker 3: catcher market was going to look like in the new

502
00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,320
Speaker 3: front office, got a little bit nansy and wanted to get.

503
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Speaker 2: Something done as quickly as possible.

504
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Speaker 3: But this guy has been uncontrollably bad at the plate

505
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Speaker 3: over the course of this season. His OPS is under

506
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Speaker 3: five hundred right now.

507
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Speaker 2: It's bad. That's like shocking.

508
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Speaker 3: It's almost hard to do, especially even though he has

509
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Speaker 3: one home run that usually will push your OPS to

510
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Speaker 3: a certain point, just one of them. He only has

511
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Speaker 3: one of them. I think that might be the only

512
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Speaker 3: extra base hit. Maybe another double or two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I honestly can't remember the last time

514
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Speaker 1: he got an extra base hit since that home run.

515
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Speaker 2: It's been a long time. And after today's game, so

516
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Speaker 2: that Nido play.

517
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Speaker 3: Thank god, my guy Nedo McCann has caught twenty five

518
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Speaker 3: at thirty one games, the mess have played twenty five

519
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Speaker 3: out a thirty one.

520
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Speaker 2: That's a crazy percentage.

521
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Speaker 3: No catcher in baseball should be catching eighty percent of

522
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Speaker 3: their team's games, besides maybe Salvador Perez.

523
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Speaker 2: Jt Realmuto and yeah there a million to ten years ago. Yeah,

524
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Speaker 2: absolutely not.

525
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Speaker 3: The most he's ever caught in a season was back

526
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Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen with the Tigers he caught one twelve

527
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Speaker 3: and the year after that with the White Sox he

528
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Speaker 3: caught one oh two. But that year with the Tigers

529
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Speaker 3: was far and away the worst year of his entire career,

530
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Speaker 3: so got him kicked off the team assential he was

531
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Speaker 3: non tender to non tender guy who's competent a defensive

532
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Speaker 3: catchers that you have to be so piss poor with

533
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Speaker 3: the plate, and he was piss poor at the plate.

534
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Speaker 2: He was.

535
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Speaker 3: He had a two twenty two sixty seven three fourteen

536
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Speaker 3: slash line with a fifty six WRC plus.

537
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Speaker 2: It's bad.

538
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Speaker 3: I means he's fifty percent worse than the average hitter

539
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Speaker 3: in baseball. Fifty percent worse.

540
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Speaker 2: That's pretty horrible.

541
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Speaker 3: You could throw a rock at your window hit someone

542
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,959
Speaker 3: fifty percent worse than the average payler in Major League baseball.

543
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Speaker 3: And then he did have very good seasons in twenty nineteen,

544
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty twenty eighteen, he did catch one hundred games,

545
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Speaker 3: which it's not eighty percent but still plenty. But that

546
00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:46,880
Speaker 3: was a very different baseball to the one we're using

547
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Speaker 3: this year. That twenty eighteen baseball is more similar to

548
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Speaker 3: this year is than either of the last two seasons.

549
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Speaker 3: And now you stare at this guy who can't seem

550
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Speaker 3: to hit the ball. He can't lift the ball. He's

551
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Speaker 3: already grinding into six double plays.

552
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Speaker 2: He he is just pounding balls into the ground.

553
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Speaker 1: And that one of the big things that happened in

554
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Speaker 1: Chicago was he was starting to hit the ball in

555
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Speaker 1: the air a lot more. He's just I don't know,

556
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Speaker 1: I honestly don't know the last time he hit the

557
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Speaker 1: ball well to the outfield.

558
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Speaker 3: I can't even recall it, Like I don't have anything

559
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,640
Speaker 3: in my memory that positive that James McCann has done

560
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Speaker 3: the plate in the last two weeks since.

561
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Speaker 2: That Chicago series. It's been tough.

562
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Speaker 3: And he's thirty years old, and he has a four

563
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,920
Speaker 3: year contract at ten million dollars a year. That's way

564
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,679
Speaker 3: too much for anyone this caliber.

565
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Speaker 2: I have prepared the list of guys.

566
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Speaker 3: Who have been signed over the last three offseasons who

567
00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,919
Speaker 3: make less than ten million dollars a season. Guys from

568
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Speaker 3: all different positions, come from all different teams, all different

569
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Speaker 3: ranges of talent. A couple catchers on there, a couple

570
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Speaker 3: catchers on here. I guess I'll start with the catchers.

571
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Speaker 3: And Yan Gomes of the Nationals, who's been a fantastics

572
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Speaker 3: venders career, a bad hitter markedly so, but only makes

573
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Speaker 3: five million dollars.

574
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Speaker 2: He makes one half as much money as James McCann,

575
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Speaker 2: and he is a better defender on Yeah, he's bed

576
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Speaker 2: defenders in a leaf framer.

577
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,239
Speaker 3: He doesn't miss plays, but the Nationals still only use

578
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Speaker 3: him in like fifty percent of games. Yeah, him and

579
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 3: Suzuki worked because they didn't play every single day. Definitely,

580
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Speaker 3: I think we were a little bit disillusioned to think

581
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Speaker 3: that James McCann was like a bone of five starting

582
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,439
Speaker 3: catcher rather than like a strong side platoon guy. Another

583
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Speaker 3: Met favorite, Travis Darnault, was signed for only eight million dollars.

584
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Speaker 2: I think that was this offseason that one hurts that things.

585
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Speaker 3: Even though he's injured right now, he'd been swinging a

586
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 3: hot bat and had been better defensively, even though he's

587
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,600
Speaker 3: noodle for an arm, not the mccannon, which is the

588
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 3: one thing James mcannon's done.

589
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 2: Very sick season.

590
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,320
Speaker 3: Jerkson Profile, who plays all over the field and gets

591
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 3: on base like nothing in the world, signed for four

592
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 3: and a third million this offseason. Drew palmerans one of

593
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,360
Speaker 3: the best relievers in baseball's making eight and a half.

594
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,119
Speaker 3: Mark Milanson, the league leitherer in saves, is making the

595
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 3: second out of Jack McGee's making two million dollars. Good.

596
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,479
Speaker 3: And then, if you really want to get personal, here

597
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 3: a couple guys who the Mets signed just this offseason

598
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 3: for less than ten million dollars. Taiwan Walker, who has

599
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 3: been a fantastic starting pitcher for US, and Trevor May,

600
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 3: who looks like one of the best relievers in baseball.

601
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Speaker 3: These are guys making less than ten million dollars. I

602
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 3: don't as great as the Mets front office has been since.

603
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 2: Steve Cohen took over the team.

604
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Speaker 3: I have no idea what they were thinking and giving

605
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Speaker 3: James McCann a four year, forty million dollar contract, and

606
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,439
Speaker 3: I think that we're all beginning to probably realize that.

607
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will give you credit. From the start, you

608
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 1: said too much. I didn't think so, because really, at

609
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, it is.

610
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Speaker 2: It is ten million, But.

611
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Speaker 1: When you put it into the perspective of what it

612
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 1: could have been spent on instead, I think that's really

613
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Speaker 1: where it starts to hit home. I still think that

614
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Speaker 1: there is a player somewhere there in James McCann. I

615
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Speaker 1: just I haven't been able to watch his at bats

616
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 1: too much this year and compare him to last year.

617
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Speaker 1: There has to be something mechanical going on because he's

618
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Speaker 1: just simply worse by all.

619
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Speaker 2: He's had one barrel this year. You know what. The

620
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 2: one barrel is his home run.

621
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Speaker 3: I don't want to shit on the guy because he's

622
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 3: a good dude and he's been great for us defensively,

623
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Speaker 3: but he has.

624
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Speaker 1: Been, I mean embarrassingly bad at the plate. Last night,

625
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Speaker 1: so this is where we come back to the game.

626
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Speaker 2: Now.

627
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Speaker 1: Last night, he came up first and second. Was it

628
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: nobody out went out? I think nobody out, nobody out.

629
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Speaker 2: Whatever it was.

630
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Speaker 1: He came up with VR and Pilar on first and second,

631
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Speaker 1: and he came up to sacrifice bunt, couldn't get the

632
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: first one down. Whatever, he's a catcher, I get it.

633
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: Not guys don't know how to bunt anymore.

634
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 2: You want to hear a stab at James mckennons.

635
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 3: He has a lot of sacrifice, seven sacrifices in his career,

636
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 3: so he's capable of doing it.

637
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Speaker 2: For some reason, though, he offered at a pitch up

638
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 2: and in.

639
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone knows from playing MLB the show that you

640
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 3: throw the up and end pitch when someone's gonna bun.

641
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 2: That's the hardest pitch to bun in the game. No,

642
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 2: it's it's really tough.

643
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Speaker 1: And it got to the point where I said, as

644
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: long as he doesn't hit a ground ball, I'm happy

645
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: he could. I asked for a strikeout. I said, strikeout.

646
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Speaker 1: We're feeling good. It's kind of where it is with James.

647
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Speaker 2: That was the biggest play of the inning.

648
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 3: He arguably was the MVP that he struck out and

649
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 3: didn't put the ball up one hundred percent because I

650
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 3: thought there was a very good chance of him ground

651
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 3: to all play, because he's ground to all playing every

652
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 3: single at bat this season. Far like it.

653
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 2: And even if he got that.

654
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 3: Sacrifice bump down, there's a better chance than not that

655
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 3: Dom Smith would have been walked.

656
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Pat Mezica would have come up with

657
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Speaker 2: us still losing the game.

658
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it definitely was no out then, because of

659
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 1: course you walked Dom Smith to face Pat Mexica with

660
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: two outs.

661
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 2: Yes, that yeah, oh my god, it's just but that was.

662
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,479
Speaker 2: That was the turning point that night, thinking James mccannon

663
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,239
Speaker 2: only making one out.

664
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was that was a huge turning point,

665
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 1: and it allowed Dom to get up. Dom drove on

666
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: to right field for a single, drove in a run,

667
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: got polar in the Mets. Are then what tie or down?

668
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 2: Tied? Tied?

669
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 3: At that tie, domsent the rubis single clutch from Dom

670
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 3: turning a corn clutch for Dom and we'll talk about

671
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 3: a little more in Game two. Tied it up, and

672
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 3: then we got the legend Pat Mezeka up at the plate,

673
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 3: which this guy can't do anything right, but he also

674
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 3: can't do anything wrong. He still yet to get a hit.

675
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 3: But he has three RBIs and they've come all in

676
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,959
Speaker 3: big situations, two of which for walkoffs. And he did

677
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 3: it again, a slow chopper ground ball to first base.

678
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 3: Drey Mancini kind of stayed back on it.

679
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,199
Speaker 1: I think forgot how fast VR is might have been,

680
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: even caught off guard that he was going on a

681
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: ball that in most cases is a guaranteed out. Throws

682
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,719
Speaker 1: the ball home. VR makes a great side. Mets win

683
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: the ball game, Thank you very much, says our Valdez.

684
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 2: Big time balls from VR darthing home on contact on

685
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 2: that play.

686
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 3: That ball wasn't like exactly smoked, because I don't think

687
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 3: Patmzka can smoke a baseball. That's tough. No, And also

688
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 3: he give credit to Pamszica wharres doe. He fouled off

689
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 3: some tough pitches.

690
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 2: He had a good at bat. Yeah, four or five

691
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 2: foul balls, yep, big time.

692
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 3: But VR, like a bat out of hell, just bolted

693
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 3: down the line. He was scoring that run, whether we

694
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,719
Speaker 3: liked it or not. He had a hysterical quote when

695
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 3: he went first the third and that ground ball last

696
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 3: week in Saint Louis or whenever he did that, I'll

697
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 3: remember exactly. I keep getting confused with the glabor. Yeah,

698
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 3: first to home in my head. But someone asked him

699
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 3: like how he was able to do that, and Jonathan

700
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 3: VR said, I'm not afraid to play baseball.

701
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 2: Love to hear it. And that's kind of how he

702
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: looks like he's been playing.

703
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: He looks very loose. He's made a couple of errors.

704
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna make errors because he's just not good defense.

705
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 2: If nothing else.

706
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR is loose, but he's been making an impact

707
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: and again, part of the bench mob, as we've heard

708
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: from Thomas Nido that they're so called the bench mom,

709
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: has been big. We are not in first place without

710
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: the bench mob, and that is something that we talked

711
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: about in our preseason talk with the Mets. This bench

712
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: is going to be what separates us from a team

713
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: like the Phillies, from a team like the Braves, from

714
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 1: all these other teams in the National League, besides the

715
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Padres who also have that depth. No one

716
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,439
Speaker 1: can really compare to us in baseball with this kind

717
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: of depth.

718
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: It's not possible. Definitely.

719
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 3: If you look at the way the best teams in

720
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 3: baseball are built, they are three four zep at every

721
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,479
Speaker 3: single position. The Padres are not shy about getting multiple

722
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 3: guys who do similar things. We just touched on profile

723
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 3: this time. Hassan Kim. Hassung Kim starts at shortstop on

724
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 3: a lot of teams, and many teams like they They're

725
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 3: deep and deep and deep. Look at how many injuries

726
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have to stay this year and they're still

727
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 3: near the top of every single hitting category in baseball

728
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 3: and even pitching. Definitely, Yeah, this is this is the

729
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 3: ecosystem that the Mets have created through Sandy Alders in

730
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 3: this offseason, and.

731
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: It's beautiful to watch.

732
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 3: It's really nice to watch. We've got Pat Mosica through

733
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 3: it all. Who is the folk hero?

734
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 2: The full hero?

735
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: Pat Mosica probably won't ever turn out to be anything

736
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: special more than you know, the guy that we do

737
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,719
Speaker 1: call up when we need a backup catcher. But right now,

738
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: Pat Mosica is riding that wave all the way to

739
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: the top, and he just he keeps stepping up when.

740
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 2: We need him. I just hope he actually gets a

741
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 2: major league hit. I would love to see him get one.

742
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 3: It would be the craziest trivia question of all time.

743
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 3: If he has to go through this season. It probably

744
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: gets sent up and down as we do some roster

745
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:39,719
Speaker 3: moves next few weeks with some injuries.

746
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 2: If he never actually gets a hit.

747
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: Like what met had zero hits but had two walk

748
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 1: off RBIs in the same week, Pat Moska will be

749
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: the answer to that, which, you know. I think that's

750
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: probably enough of Game one because Game two is really

751
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: a good one because the Dark Knight returns, and just

752
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: like I had hoped, the Dark Knight crashed and burned.

753
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: I don't wish bad on Matt Harvey. No go pitch

754
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: well the rest of the season.

755
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 3: Sure.

756
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: My whole stance with Matt Harvey is he is no

757
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: longer on the Mets, So I am h what's the

758
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: word where you don't take a side, I'm I don't

759
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: care different, I'm indifferent. Switzerland, Yes, I'm Switzerland.

760
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 2: With Matt Harvey. Do what you want. It makes no

761
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: impact on my life.

762
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: I'm just glad to see that the Mets put some

763
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: runs up on him, because, as I've mentioned on the

764
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: podcast before, there's people on Mets Twitter. There's a conglomerate

765
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: that likes to think that Matt Harvey deserves to come

766
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: back to the Mets and be a part of this

767
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: run that we're gonna make, and there's just no reason

768
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: to have.

769
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: Him on the team.

770
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 3: I think people have a very romantic idea of what

771
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 3: Matt Harvey still could be because of the pitcher he wants.

772
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 2: And he was so sick with us, he was disgusting.

773
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,479
Speaker 2: Just simply not that guy anymore.

774
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 3: Like I don't want Matt Harvey on my team the

775
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 3: same reason I don't want Wade Miley on my team.

776
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 2: Because they're not good pitchers. Yeah, they're just simply not

777
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 2: good pitcher.

778
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 3: Not gonna win a World Series with Matt Harvey pitching

779
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 3: meaningful innings for you, It's just not going to happen.

780
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 2: He's not very good at this point.

781
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 3: The guy just goes out there every fifth day and

782
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 3: he guts it out with no stuff. On the season,

783
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 3: he's averaging sixty percent fastballs at ninety three miles now,

784
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 3: fastballs and sinkers and fastballs. When a guy developed a

785
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 3: sinker late in his career, that's how you know they're

786
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 3: down bad. Matt Harvey's just down bad, and he doesn't

787
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 3: get the movement like Bartolo got later. They can't just

788
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 3: like use the finger pressure and put the ball wherever

789
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 3: he wants, very straight like, I'll give it to Matt Harvey.

790
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 3: He very easily could have walked away from the game

791
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 3: and had his little career with the Mets and been fine.

792
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 3: He's trying to come back, he's trying to do something.

793
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 3: He's got a spot with you Orss going out there

794
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 3: every five days. Like you said, he's just simply not

795
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 3: that good. But back to the game, he got a

796
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 3: nice standing ovation, got a lot of claps deserved.

797
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 2: It felt a little sappy think about Harvey during the

798
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 2: game today.

799
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,239
Speaker 1: I was just like, man, like, what it could have been.

800
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: I think you could reminisce I know you feel bad

801
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: for the guy.

802
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 3: And he definitely got emotional like he got two pretty

803
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 3: nice ovations, one when he took the mound and two

804
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 3: during his first at bat when he was announced.

805
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 2: And shout out to Thomas Nito for stepping out and

806
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: get the ovation.

807
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 3: The classing move by my catcher Tom Thomas Nith though,

808
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 3: but Harvey gave a nice way to the crowd and

809
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 3: after the game he had some pretty emotional words that

810
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: have been really circulating on Twitter. And it kind of

811
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 3: feels good for a guy like Harvey who was a

812
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 3: little bit dickish for lack of a better term, during

813
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 3: his time with the Mets to be very like introspective

814
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 3: and like earnest.

815
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 2: I think I think Tacoma put it the best.

816
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: He's like very rarely we've ever seen Matt Harvey like this,

817
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: and it seemed like the ovation because I truly think

818
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: Matt Harvey thought in the back of the head he

819
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: was gonna get booed.

820
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 2: I did too.

821
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 3: I think he thought he was gonna get booed. You

822
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 3: thought I was gonna boo him.

823
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to, but you've been defaming him for months.

824
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 2: I just don't want him on the Mets enough.

825
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 3: That's an old Mets problem.

826
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,239
Speaker 1: But I think getting that ovation to him, I think

827
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: it kind of just made him feel like almost like

828
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: damn like, even though I went out on bad terms,

829
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: and even though I was kind of an asshole towards

830
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: the end, these fans still cheered for me.

831
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 3: They still had my back, Definitely, he said after the game,

832
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 3: and he if anyone hasn't listened to it, he had

833
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 3: like a two minute monologue when he kind of just

834
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 3: went into his entire lifetime with the Mets and reflecting

835
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 3: on it years later. But something he said to stuck

836
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 3: out to me was he feels bad that he let

837
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 3: those fans down.

838
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: And that's just something that Matt Harvey during his time

839
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: on the Mets. He never would have heard him say

840
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: no way.

841
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 2: But I don't know.

842
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: It's kind of like watching him grow up a little bit,

843
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 3: Like he kind of went away for a few years.

844
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 3: He's come back like an adult, different person. Not that

845
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 3: he wasn't an adult before. He was a grown man.

846
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: He's still older than than I am currently right now.

847
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 3: But the maturation in Matt Harvey is something that's nice.

848
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 3: It's a cool side show is going on in Major

849
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 3: League Baseball this year. On the other hand, I was

850
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 3: thrilled that we kicked his fucking ass to that.

851
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 2: I'm so happy. That was awesome.

852
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: I said I wanted ten. We got seven seventy percent

853
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: of what I predicted, considering I asked for a ton.

854
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: Is great. I mean, he just like we said, simply

855
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 2: just isn't a good pitch rainting.

856
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 3: There's nothing there. There's just nothing there. You're talking about

857
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 3: seventy percent. He threw seventy three percent fastballs today and

858
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 3: inside that it's fifty six percent sinkers. And seventeen percent fastballs.

859
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 3: He did not throw another pitch at least ten percent

860
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 3: of the time.

861
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 2: That's crazy.

862
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 3: No singular breaking ball ten percent of the time. Every

863
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 3: major leage kid is gonna hit that. Somehow they haven't

864
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: this year. Yeah, yeah, right, Okay, I don't know who's

865
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 3: been pitching again. We just hit it first time all year.

866
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 3: Felt like the whole team was hitting. Yeah.

867
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: I mean, we put up seven runs. That's gotta be

868
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: up there with the most runs we've scored in the game.

869
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: This three runs, an enitning twice. Everyone got a hit

870
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: in the lineup except Thomas Needo in the pitcher, So

871
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: every single guy won through nine, you know, sans no

872
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: Tomasnito got a hit. We saw Dom Smith go three

873
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: for four today, which is huge for Dom. The power

874
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: still hasn't been in there, but it doesn't feel like

875
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: this Mets team is necessarily gonna be hitting for a

876
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: lot of power this year. But you go three for four, Dom,

877
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: that's a great day anyway you slice it.

878
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 2: You know what the key was today? What risp risp? Yes.

879
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 3: Oh, we were walking into the stadium and you're like, Harvey,

880
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 3: you know we're gonna see a lot of today, I'm like.

881
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: What you know, risp risp tons of risk.

882
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 3: Today, the Mets had ten opportunities to hit runs a

883
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: scoring position and got seven hits. For everyone keeping track

884
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 3: of home, that's a seven hundred batting average runs a

885
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 3: scoring position, seven hundred.

886
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 2: Your boy Dom three for three with risk. Let's go

887
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 2: dom al Gruy, Paraza two for two. Praza had a

888
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 2: nice little game. Braile again, good defense too for him.

889
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: He again, he's just he's a very serviceable backup, and

890
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: he's our fourth or fifth option.

891
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 2: Which is crazy.

892
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: Not very long ago, Jose Piazza was a top fifty

893
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 3: prospect in Major League Baseball, getting close to two hundred

894
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 3: hits a season, stealing twenty backs.

895
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 2: He got near twenty twenty season with the Reds.

896
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 3: I think in twenty nineteen, it's maybe twenty seventeen, the

897
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 3: first year of the Juice Paul.

898
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 2: I don't remember exactly.

899
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 3: It all fades in time before COVID, but the first

900
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 3: time all season I actually felt good about the Mets

901
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 3: approach and like just the way that the Mets offense

902
00:31:59,080 --> 00:31:59,959
Speaker 3: have been performing this year.

903
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: Was Lindor got a.

904
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 3: Single, you're getting a hot dog? It should have been

905
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 3: a double. I don't know why he did stretched that.

906
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: The guy is fast.

907
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 3: He just seemed to not be aggressive, which it ends

908
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 3: up working out because he stole second. Boohoo for me

909
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 3: because I said Lindor is no longer stealing basis and

910
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 3: he stolen two bags and in the last four games,

911
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: which I love, I want to see him steal bases. Yes,

912
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 3: if I had the jinks Lindors again to steal more bases.

913
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 3: I know he's listening, like that's a win. That's a

914
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: win for the Mets stop podcast and for all Mets

915
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 3: fans in general and Francisco Lindor and fancy baseball owners

916
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 3: near and far. But he got to stolen base. And

917
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: then Dom was up with two outs and a man

918
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 3: on second. They were shifting him heavy yep, and Tom

919
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 3: took a step back because Lindor actually stole on a pitch,

920
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 3: that one that wound up being a called strike. So

921
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 3: Dom went the hole to let Lindor steal a base, like,

922
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 3: you gotta be a real good hit there to deal

923
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 3: with that kind of shit, specially with two outs, definitely

924
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 3: specially with two outs, And he just popped a nice

925
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 3: lazy single right where the shortstop is supposed to be

926
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 3: Lindor around at third and came home and for the

927
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 3: first time I exhaled him, was like, things are okay.

928
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: This is what we've been waiting for. The Oils are

929
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: not a good baseball team. They're better than the past,

930
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: but they're still not a good team. Body means they're

931
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: gonna be the bottom dwellers in that Al East for sure.

932
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: The Mets came out and while the first game was

933
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: a little closer than we'd liked, you did go up

934
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: against their ace, which is understandable.

935
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: He's a good pitcher, so it's going he should be

936
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: keeping it close. That is his job, that's why he's there.

937
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: But when you go up against Matt Harvey, which is

938
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: a guy that we should have shelled and we did shell,

939
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: it finally felt like that's the Mets team we've been

940
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: waiting for, and we're riding that seven game win streak.

941
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 2: We're playing good baseball.

942
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: Hugh Quaddlebaum, whatever he has done man with the rat

943
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: or raccoon, whatever has been going on recently, keep that

944
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: juju flowing, because this team is smacking the ball around

945
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: the field, all over the place, and I love to

946
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: see it.

947
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: Amazing week in Metsland. Amazing week. I want to touch

948
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 2: on Taiwan for a little bit.

949
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: Our day Man, day Man gotta give a Cats shout

950
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: out to It's always sunny as always got to our guys. Yeah,

951
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 3: I love him, But our day Man defeated the Dark Knight. Yes,

952
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: he is the Master of the Sun. Pitching almost exclusively

953
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 3: in day games this season, which is such a weird, funny,

954
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 3: stupid baseball coincidence. Like we'll probably tweet from the Mets

955
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 3: up tomorrow some Taiwan day game stats because it's been

956
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 3: basically the whole season.

957
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 2: But today was another very weird game for.

958
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 3: Taiwan where he didn't have the peak velosity that he's

959
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 3: been showing for a lot of this year, a big

960
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 3: reason why we've both been so confident in him moving forward.

961
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 3: He didn't throw a pitch ninety six miles an hour,

962
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 3: which is a little bit troubling, but he adjusted and

963
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 3: he focused on his off speed stuff more than any

964
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 3: particular game this season. He threw just thirty total fastball

965
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 3: and sinkers combined in ninety seven pitches. That's a crazy

966
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 3: low number for any pitcher in baseball. Even the junk

967
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 3: ball is like one Young Kim and Adam Wainwright. He

968
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 3: does that, but no one really does that on.

969
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: A regular basis.

970
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 3: He threw fifty seven sliders and splitthers and then ten curveballs,

971
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 3: so sixty seven off his pitches at in ninety seven

972
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: off speed big time. Last start he was almost fifty

973
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 3: percent four seamers with no sinkers at all, and every

974
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: single off speed was secondary. So just like Stroman, this

975
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 3: guy has shown the ability and the acumen to find

976
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 3: out what's working for him, maybe in his bullpen, maybe

977
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 3: early in the game, and focus.

978
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 2: On that as the game goes on. And when he's

979
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: doing that, he's getting the wist Man.

980
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 3: He had the more with today in any start in

981
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 3: his last four twenty four percent, which is a pretty

982
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 3: good numbers. Not great, but it was definitely good even

983
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: though he only had four k's. The whifts are positive.

984
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 3: That's sinker got no whiffs whatsoever, and it was as

985
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 3: high as he threw that more in his four steamer

986
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 3: he left it over the plate a couple of times,

987
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 3: which I checked back after the game because hard to

988
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: tell when you're in the stadium where it pitches. Yeah,

989
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 3: there were a couple of middle middle pitches that line

990
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 3: drive that Austin Hayes hit, Michael Franco hit deep fly ball. Yeah, man,

991
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 3: SENI these middle middle sickers, He's not gonna get away

992
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 3: with these forever. Taiwan Walker is going to regress. His

993
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 3: era is not going to be in the twos, probably.

994
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: This time in July. But he's a freaking solid arm

995
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 2: and with a great signing. He's turned out to bait.

996
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 2: And what's great is that?

997
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 3: Like again, if you told me a three five yar

998
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 3: away for e RA from Taiwan Walker this year, I

999
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 3: would say, yep, sign me up.

1000
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 2: That is an electric year.

1001
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: And if this mess team is continuing to hit like

1002
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: we saw them do today and recently a three five VR,

1003
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: you're winning baseball game.

1004
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 2: Still, oh big time with.

1005
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 3: This offense, with the way we're gonna go, especially the

1006
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 3: way a bullpen's been slamming the door. We saw our

1007
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 3: first Drew Smith appearance today, our boy Drew Flow.

1008
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,479
Speaker 1: Happy to see him out there. Thought it was Robert

1009
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: Casselman for a second, but no, it's Drew Smith. He's

1010
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: got the flow now, he's.

1011
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: Got good stuff.

1012
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: This is again great stuff. We talk about the depth

1013
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: time and time again. I feel like that's the theme

1014
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: of this team this year. Drew Smith is going to

1015
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: get sent down. He's gonna probably be the first guy

1016
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: out when Lugo gets back. If I had to guess,

1017
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: so that he can actually get time in Triple A

1018
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: and be ready when we inevitably do need him at

1019
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: some point and he's good, he would be. He would

1020
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: be a middle of the pack reliever on probably most teams.

1021
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 3: The mark of the best teams in baseball, and I

1022
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 3: would say the best teams in baseball over the last

1023
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 3: collection of seasons are the Dodgers, the Padres, the Yankees,

1024
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 3: the Rais, the Astros, so it's are probably basically the

1025
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 3: top five besides the Braves. Braves to have the elite

1026
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 3: talent that they pay no money for, so they're a

1027
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 3: special case. But the thing that makes these teams great

1028
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 3: are pulling gray players seemingly.

1029
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 2: Out of their ass. Yes, they create talent from thin

1030
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 2: air time and time again.

1031
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 3: Guys like Max Muncy, Peter Fairbanks, Nick Anderson, Chris Taylor,

1032
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 3: Tommy Kinley, every single guy who's ever played for the

1033
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 3: Astros in the bullpen.

1034
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: They pull these guys out of freaking nowhere. And the

1035
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: Mets are starting to do that.

1036
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: You see the inklings of this team becoming one of

1037
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,720
Speaker 3: the superpowers in Major League Baseball.

1038
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 2: That is happening before our very eyes. Our floor is

1039
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 2: so high right.

1040
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 3: Now because of the depth that we have built. It's

1041
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 3: a beautiful thing to watch. This team is playing the

1042
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 3: worst baseball I expect them to play all season, and

1043
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 3: we're in first place and on a seven game win streak.

1044
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 3: It's crazy every I could not be more confident after

1045
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 3: a Mets start, which seems really weird because de Gram's injured,

1046
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 3: Lougo and Carrasco haven't touched the field or yeah, Thor

1047
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 3: hasn't touched the field, but we didn't even expect them

1048
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 3: to yet.

1049
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 2: I kind of hope the other guys might be back.

1050
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: JD's hurt, Nimo's hurt. James mccannon, one of our big

1051
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: signing says, done nothing nothing. Francisco Lindors ops just got

1052
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: over six hundred today. So I luckily probably don't have

1053
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: to name my first bunch Loopa Batman.

1054
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would be good. I think I'll

1055
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: be okay with that.

1056
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 3: All those guys have been worse than expected, and we're

1057
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 3: still not losing games.

1058
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: Now, This team is scary, scary good. I don't think

1059
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: people really understand. I think if you're just watching the

1060
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,919
Speaker 1: box scores and you're not someone who's really into Mets

1061
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: baseball right now, you're probably thinking, Okay, they're fine, they're whatever.

1062
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 2: But if you dive deeper and deeper into this.

1063
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: Team to go, they're just scraping the surface right now,

1064
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 3: like they have the potential to do big, big things.

1065
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 2: We could take off over these next couple of weeks.

1066
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: And that leads us, I think into our next thing,

1067
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: which is going to be our series coming up here.

1068
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: We go Tampa Atlanta, Miami. So we're not gonna talk

1069
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: about Atlanta Miami just yet, but we will talk about

1070
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. We're big Rays guys here. Me and James

1071
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: both had them in the World Series last year, and

1072
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: what do you know, they made it over a short season.

1073
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: That's what they're made for. They're still a very very

1074
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: good team, very competent team. The Mets are going to

1075
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: be playing very close ballgames with them and expect to

1076
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: be kind of uncomfortable that entire game.

1077
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 3: Expect stress. When you play tamp Bay Rays, You're in

1078
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 3: for twenty seven innings of stress. Because they play very

1079
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 3: good defense. They don't really hit the ball, but they're

1080
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 3: going to find home runs. And every single pitcher on

1081
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 3: that roster is gonna get people out.

1082
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just they will be.

1083
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: There will be players that you have legitimately never heard of,

1084
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: and honestly, Race fans might not have even heard of,

1085
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: that will come up at some point probably in this

1086
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: series and do something big.

1087
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 2: That's just what the Rays did Jeffrey Springs, where Jeffrey

1088
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: Springs comes just like three saves or something.

1089
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: He's awesome. Whip is like point seven. Ray simply don't

1090
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 1: care about saves. They the cool thing that they do

1091
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: and the thing that I love. And I think your

1092
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Speaker 1: start to see teams use this more. And you saw

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00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: in the playoffs nick Anderson got using the eighth inning

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00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: i think against the Yankees one game, and it was

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00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: because they had their meat of the order coming up,

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Speaker 1: their best arm in the bawl pen with Nick Anderson.

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00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: Why would you want to have your eighth inning guy

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00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: who maybe isn't as good as Anderson face the best players.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Rays do. They're gonna play matchups, They're

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00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: gonna play smart. It's gonna bother you. For your traditional

1101
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: baseball fan, you're probably gonna hear Gary keith Ron whoever's

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00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: doing it, probably moan and complain a little bit about

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00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: what they're doing out there. But the fact of the

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00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: matter is that the Rays have proven that it works

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00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 1: time and time again. They're a really good baseball team

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00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: with guys that you probably have never heard of.

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00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 2: Now.

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00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: The Rays are one of the best organizations in baseball.

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00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 3: And if someone doesn't agree with you, they're just not

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00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 3: really hip to what's going on in.

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00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: Baseball these days.

1112
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 3: And if we're gonna want to beat this team this years,

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00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 3: we are gonna need the bats to come out because

1114
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 3: we are gonna be thrown on the mound.

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00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 2: David Peterson on Friday, Joey Lukezy.

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00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 3: On Saturday, and Sunday is gonna be one of Sean Reed,

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00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 3: Foley Giordanian mother Robert g Zelman.

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00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: Why does it feel like when Peterson and Lukez pitch

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00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: every single time it's against a team that will crush

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Speaker 1: left handed pitching, which the Rays do because they'll play Yandi,

1121
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: They'll play Mike Brosso, who's just gonna he crushes left

1122
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: handed pitching for a living. They'll throw all their outfielders

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00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: out there who right handed bats. Manuel Margo, who's a

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Speaker 1: Met killer, I'm sure will do something this weekend. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: this is a really, really tough matchup for the Mets.

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Speaker 1: This is a great series to watch from AFAR and

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00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: understand like these are the teams that the Mets, if

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Speaker 1: they can beat, they're really doing something special because in

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00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: all honestly, the Rays have every single advantage possible I think,

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00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: but they're not necessarily the better team on paper.

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00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: They will just play smarter. Yeah, and we're catching two

1132
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: of the Rays.

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00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 3: I would say most electric pitches between Tyler Glasnow and

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00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 3: Shane McClanahan.

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00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: Guys who throw one hundred miles an hour have filthy stuff,

1136
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: no hip potential kind of stuff. Every time they step

1137
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,959
Speaker 1: out on the mound. They don't go that long because

1138
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: of course, the Rays just don't let their pitchers pitch

1139
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: into the ninth inning typically, but their stuff is absolutely disgusting.

1140
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: And then the other game we get what Ryan Yarbrough,

1141
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: who's not bad by any means, he's kind of I

1142
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: don't want to say this, but like a little bit

1143
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: of a worse John means his stuff isn't as good.

1144
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 2: He doesn't throw as high as means.

1145
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he will attack the own. He's gonna come

1146
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: at you. He's a crafty lefty. It's not gonna be

1147
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: an easy game. There's gonna be no easy games in

1148
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: Tampa every They live on winning one run.

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00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 3: Games, definitely, and we're gonna be I mean, I don't

1150
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 3: know if we're to be in a one run game

1151
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 3: when David Peerson faced off against Glass now might be

1152
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 3: tough because Tyler Glass now probably the best stuff in

1153
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, besides Jacob deGrom, best stuff in the AL.

1154
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 2: I'll say that, yeah, And I don't think that's in question.

1155
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 2: I don't think any other pitch in the Als even close.

1156
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: You're gonna seek Tyler.

1157
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 3: Glass ow throw like a curveball or a slider, and

1158
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna like grab your couch really tightly because

1159
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:16,959
Speaker 3: you're afraid.

1160
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 2: I got to watch this series. You love your guys

1161
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 2: to watch. My guy the watch I was gonna do.

1162
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 3: Jeffery Springs, he's the new invented Rays reliever who's incredible.

1163
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 3: My other guy watching gonna be Shane McClanahan. Yeah, called

1164
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 3: up last week. He made his major league debut less

1165
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 3: season in the postseason, which he was probably one of

1166
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 3: the first guys in the history of baseball to do that.

1167
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: It's like him.

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00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: I think Brandon Finnigan, Kyle Finigan one of those guys.

1169
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: And he also, weirdly was the first player ever to

1170
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: pitch in the college World Series and regular World Series.

1171
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Speaker 3: Didn't debut in the World Series. He debuted in the

1172
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 3: regular season. He just skipped the minor leagues. Oh okay,

1173
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: that's what McLanahan debuted in the postseason one. Ryan weathers

1174
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 3: it too. By the way, if you want to get

1175
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 3: a good recap of the rays for pitcherless in the offseason,

1176
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 3: I wrote the full team preview for them. It was

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00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 3: like three thousand words, but just use command def find

1178
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 3: the guys you want to find. It's dense, it's some

1179
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 3: great stuff, and almost everything I said is turned to

1180
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 3: be true so far this season, So check that out.

1181
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 3: But McLanahan gas is ninety eight, He's got impeccable control.

1182
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 3: He's probably only gonna throw like fifty to seventy pitches,

1183
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 3: but they're gonna be They're gonna look a lot different

1184
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 3: than Joey Lucas's fifty.

1185
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: To seven high intensity. He's gonna come out there and

1186
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna shove. And that's what race pitchers do. They

1187
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: come out there and give you their most for as

1188
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: many pitchers as they possibly can, and then the next

1189
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: guy steps up. So it's gonna be a fun series

1190
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: to watch from for us, maybe because we appreciate race baseball,

1191
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: and I like watching the race play baseball as stressful

1192
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: as it is and sometimes boring because they live and

1193
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: die by the home run and it's strikeout, strikeout, strikeout. Otherwise,

1194
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: they're a good team. If this this this could be

1195
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: a real statement for the Mets, if you come out

1196
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: win this.

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00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 3: Series, if we can even win two games of this series,

1198
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 3: because the fact that we're gonna have producing Lukesmo, those

1199
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Speaker 3: are three guys most likely against the.

1200
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Speaker 2: Two race pitchers, I'd say with the best stuff.

1201
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is going to be very very very very

1202
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,479
Speaker 3: impressive and it's gonna bode very well for us moving forward.

1203
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 3: A huge divisional matchup next week against the Braves, yes,

1204
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 3: which we will talk about in next episode. But great

1205
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 3: series against the Earls. We got another Ale East matchup

1206
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: coming up here. We went to the game today, beautiful

1207
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 3: day at the ballpark. It was great to be out

1208
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 3: there taking in the sun, rocking the Francisco Lindor Jersey.

1209
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 3: Get a hot dog for seven dollars because why not.

1210
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 3: James a little smarty brings in his food a water

1211
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 3: bottle of the man is thrifty.

1212
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: He knows what to do out here. I hit the

1213
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 2: bodega before the game.

1214
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 3: Bro then my bacon, egg and cheese, a bag of chips,

1215
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 3: a bag of cookies, two bottles of water, and a banana.

1216
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: And we got and we got free parking. We think

1217
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: a free park will not tell you where. No, Sharon,

1218
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: we were not sharing that because this spot might be

1219
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: the new secret Eli.

1220
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 2: If you had a great view from the spot too,

1221
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 2: you really do and quick to the highway so love

1222
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: to see that.

1223
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: We also got a really interesting thing here, James, you

1224
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: got recognized that the game today.

1225
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: That was great.

1226
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 3: We shout out to the Mets fan in the DHK,

1227
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 3: cool black Lindor Jersey in the center field Homie, I

1228
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 3: wish I got your name, but giving you a shout out,

1229
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,760
Speaker 3: it was great to meet you. Love meeting the listeners

1230
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 3: at the ballpark. Yes, weird to be recognized, Yeah no,

1231
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 3: I mean it's happened. A couple of times for me

1232
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 3: with the YouTube stuff. But to see the podcast someone

1233
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 3: recognized you from that, that's cool. That means you guys

1234
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: are loving it. That means you guys are watching it,

1235
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 3: and you guys have shown amazing support. The numbers keep

1236
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 3: going and higher, which is awesome. I absolutely love it.

1237
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 1: And then we also just like a weird story that

1238
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: happened in the elevator that I think, if you've made

1239
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: it this far, you'll get a good laugh out of it.

1240
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let James handle it here because he tells

1241
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 2: a great story. I appreciate that. But we were taking

1242
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: the elevator down. I guess you open the elevators recently.

1243
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 3: They weren't open an opening day, okay, so I guess

1244
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 3: there's a new thing that now that we're easing the

1245
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 3: COVID protocols of the ballpark. So we jump into the

1246
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 3: elevator late, which I don't even know if it's allowed

1247
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 3: to be more than one.

1248
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 2: Probably the woman just let us in. It's fine.

1249
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 3: We were wearing our masks, but there was a very

1250
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,959
Speaker 3: curmudgeony man in the elevator who was not wearing his mask.

1251
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 3: He was just talking to us, and the elevator attendant.

1252
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 2: No one was listening.

1253
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 3: He wasn't eve man conversation's just saying things out loud.

1254
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 3: And he was taking SIPs of his beer in the elevator.

1255
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 3: And the very nice young woman elevator attendant, she's working hard.

1256
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: She's doing her thing. She's excuse me, sir, Becaul, you

1257
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 2: please put your mask.

1258
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 3: On, And this man from the clouds goes, ah, you think, well,

1259
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 3: if I stopped paying my taxes, then you're not going

1260
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 3: to ask me to put my mask on.

1261
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 2: Morguy just looked at each other like what the fuck

1262
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 2: are you talking about?

1263
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: He was like, He's like, ah, they'll come after you

1264
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 1: for the mask, but not after the taxes. It's like, dude,

1265
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: they that's what they took down al Capone from tax evasion.

1266
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 2: I would do those things to do with the other.

1267
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 3: There's no way at all that any money that you

1268
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 3: have from your taxes goes his woman working for the mess.

1269
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 3: This is not that she's not a public servant, like

1270
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 3: it's just a priv The Mets are a private company.

1271
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 2: It was so bizarre. He looked at us as if

1272
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 2: he was like, don't you agree, guys, No, we don't agree.

1273
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: And there was also that fan.

1274
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 3: Early in the game at our seats, so weird, some

1275
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 3: two guys asked me to take a picture for them

1276
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 3: and I said sure, and then one dude took his

1277
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 3: mask down for the picture and one dude left his on.

1278
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 2: So I took a picture.

1279
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 3: I was like a mask up or mass down, and

1280
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 3: then the dude took it down, but he was like

1281
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 3: looking at me and then he just like turned to us.

1282
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 3: For the next couple of minutes. It was rattling off

1283
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 3: COVID statistics and data.

1284
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 2: He was like, he was like, ah, you know, you

1285
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 2: grab a beer and you don't ever have to have

1286
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 2: your mask on. That's that's for you guys. That's a

1287
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 2: free tip.

1288
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 3: And that sounds like it comes from like an old

1289
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 3: man saying that. But this guy was his late twenties,

1290
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 3: early thirties.

1291
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a lot of old people by us.

1292
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 3: He was not one of them. Early bird special game

1293
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 3: over by three. All the old people loved the couple

1294
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 3: dudes having the book.

1295
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: That's electric.

1296
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 3: I love to seeing a dude with the book. There

1297
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 3: were some very fun Queen's accents in our section.

1298
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: I'm excited to be like eighty and have a book

1299
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: at the game and like I just take a notes,

1300
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't really matter.

1301
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 2: No one cares, keeps me into it. Yes, so it's

1302
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 2: really good and it's.

1303
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: Great to be back at the ballpark wayat to see

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Speaker 1: the Mets playing well, great baseball. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: probably the perfect place to wrap up episode number fourteen

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Speaker 1: here of the Mets Up Podcast. You guys know me

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Speaker 1: draftneck Mark, James Jeter had no range. Make sure you

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Speaker 1: follow us both on Twitter, Follow us on Instagram Mets Up.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with our Twitter account. Follow us there. Keep

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Speaker 1: dropping those follows. It helps us really grow the podcast

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Speaker 1: even more. The video should be out on YouTube as well,

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Speaker 1: if you get guys want to see that. We've kind

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Speaker 1: of teased it the last few times, but I forgot

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Speaker 1: to hit live one.

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Speaker 2: Day and last time I sent my wrong audio.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've been a little rough, but we're back

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Speaker 1: here together in person, ready to go. Episode number fourteen

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Speaker 1: The Mets Podcast. Thank you guys so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Listen to us on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, and

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Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna end today's episode. See you next

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Speaker 1: time after the race series peace.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.