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Speaker 1: eighty two of the met Stub podcast. It's finally here.

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Speaker 1: Opening Day, weekend has come and gone, and the Mets

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Speaker 1: win three and one. We have a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 1: The beginning of the series was great, the end of

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Speaker 1: the series not so great. That's what we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: no range, and let's start talking about some baseball here, James.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we are in person for this one. We

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Speaker 1: fell opening day weekend. We had to get in person together.

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Speaker 1: We had to watch the games, and we're starting off

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Speaker 1: with Game four because that's the hot topic right now,

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Speaker 1: and we got a lot to say. It's very fresh,

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Speaker 2: We're alling in here in the stew just a few

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Speaker 2: hours after after the game end. We should have been

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Speaker 2: here almost quicker after the game ended. We agged a

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Speaker 2: little bit, went with the bodega, some more baseball, got smoothie,

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Speaker 2: and now we're ready to talk about though, because there

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Speaker 2: was a lot of both good and bad that happened,

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Speaker 2: specifically in this fourth and final game of the National Series.

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Speaker 1: And again, we want to talk about Game four first,

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Speaker 1: just because this is the hot topic right now, and

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of good in this entire series.

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Speaker 1: There was bad in this game. There really wasn't bad

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Speaker 1: in the other ones. So let's go ahead and rip

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Speaker 1: the band aid off and talk about Game four because,

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Speaker 1: I mean, start to finish, there's so much here.

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Speaker 2: It started great, didn't end great, No, and I wanted

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Speaker 2: the game. I want to start with Carlos Carrasco personally.

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Speaker 2: I've been beating the Carlos Carrasco might still be good

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Speaker 2: just against a lowly Nationals lineup that has three and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think Keybert is where kber is, like,

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Speaker 1: He's paying the as for meats.

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Speaker 2: Sure, But Carlos Carrasco, he gave up the home run

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Speaker 1: Get that from Carlos Carrasco every five days, the Mets

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Speaker 1: And Buck Showalter made the right move, went to the

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Speaker 2: right now. A couple of head scratching decisions in Sunday's game,

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Speaker 2: robson Cano, who for some reason unbenownst to me, is

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Speaker 2: insurance that they eventually were very much needed Robson Cano

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Speaker 1: It's malpractice. That's that's the biggest blunder he's made. Grants,

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Speaker 1: this game baseball's messed up. That's not fair. Every single

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Speaker 1: ball at the rest of the inning after the first

432
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Speaker 1: throw to catch her went to Pete alonzo scene where

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Speaker 1: he felt like like that's that's messed up and you

434
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Speaker 1: could see that throw, so was nothing mechanical. It was

435
00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,440
Speaker 1: nothing besides a mental laps in Peter A Lonzo's game

436
00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,919
Speaker 1: where he was worried about making another bad throw and

437
00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,359
Speaker 1: it ended up costing the Mets another out and the

438
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Speaker 1: longer ending. Yes, but by the time all this happened,

439
00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,399
Speaker 1: three baggers had come up. And if you wanted to

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Speaker 1: bring in Trevor may or Joeli Rodriguez especially, I was

441
00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:17,960
Speaker 1: screaming his name because he looked so good against Wan

442
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Speaker 1: Solo on Saturday night. You had the opportunity to right

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Speaker 1: the wrong and bring in a better reliever who has

444
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Speaker 1: more swinging to miss stuff against the meat of the oiler.

445
00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,880
Speaker 1: And Trevor Williams has great numbers against solo in his career.

446
00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,760
Speaker 1: That was pointed out a lot online, and it's true

447
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,240
Speaker 1: he does, but it's still Wan Solo against Trevor Williams.

448
00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,399
Speaker 1: And Trevor Willings did make one Solo look stupid, and

449
00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,520
Speaker 1: Nelson Cruz hit his seeing I single against him. But

450
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Speaker 1: it's just the fact that, again, Trevor Williams just a's

451
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Speaker 1: the sentence Trevor Williams being in the game in a

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Speaker 1: one run game in the eighth inning against Wan Solo

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Speaker 1: and Nelson Cruz. Just thinking about that stripping away everything

454
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Speaker 1: else that happened, it doesn't make sense and it probably

455
00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,040
Speaker 1: shouldn't ever happen again. He had a bullpen that consists

456
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Speaker 1: of Trevor may, Seth Lugo, all the names that we know,

457
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Speaker 1: Andrew Smith. We did get a little insight from Buck

458
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Speaker 1: after the game, and it was that he did not

459
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Speaker 1: He says too early in the season, you use guys

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Speaker 1: three out of four days. And I think that's right. Yes,

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00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,359
Speaker 1: I think that sentence is correct by all means. But

462
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Speaker 1: there was opportunities like yesterday or I should I guess Saturday,

463
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Speaker 1: since this going out on Monday, where a guy like

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Speaker 1: Trevor Williams could have came in after Chris Bass and

465
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Speaker 1: we had a nice lead, Like there was, there was

466
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Speaker 1: worlds where he could have gotten his work. Because Buck

467
00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,960
Speaker 1: wanted to get everybody work, seemingly on the team at

468
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Speaker 1: some point this series to keep him fresh.

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Speaker 2: This is not the spot though, No, I think that

470
00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,240
Speaker 2: worked actually very well at the lineup. The fact they

471
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Speaker 2: everyone on the bench in a game, everyone got the bats,

472
00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,560
Speaker 2: everyone got defensive reps good. But even based on that logic,

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Speaker 2: Joellie Rodriguez was available, correct because he don't only pitched

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Speaker 2: one game, He only pitched out.

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Speaker 1: Of there, right, yeah, yeah, and he only made that

476
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Speaker 1: one appearance, and we trad him. Miguel Casher was a

477
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Speaker 1: pretty good arm in this bullpen for Joeli Rodriguez to

478
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Speaker 1: get Juan Soto and those guys Again, Trevor Williams did

479
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Speaker 1: a good job. We're not putting this on Trevor Williams.

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Speaker 1: He actually way overperformed what we expected. Yes, he, Trevor

481
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Speaker 1: Williams performed incredibly well. And it wasn't necessarily like a

482
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Speaker 1: make or break backbreaking decision. It just you guys are

483
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Speaker 1: gonna hate us. It was bad process. It was a

484
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Speaker 1: bad process. It was bad to which you know what.

485
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Speaker 1: I'm done talking about the process. Ye talk about the

486
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Speaker 1: fun games. Now it's game four. Also shout out to Lindoor.

487
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Speaker 1: Looks good, hit a home run, got a couple of

488
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Speaker 1: walks as well. He's been unbelievably patient at the place,

489
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Speaker 1: walking out all over the place. Looks great. McNeil looks

490
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Speaker 1: like the old Jeff McNeil, which is just awesome. He

491
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Speaker 1: smiled today. He smiled when he hit a home run.

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Speaker 1: The other day, which we'll talk about in a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes.

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Speaker 2: That could be a good meme maybe for tomorrow if

495
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Speaker 2: you can find that picture Jeff O'Neil smiling no one.

496
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Speaker 2: It's like that face and then he's like upset, yeah,

497
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Speaker 2: and then she goes that face and then he smiles.

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Speaker 1: I love when he makes that face. I'll look through

499
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Speaker 1: for that. Cannon and Escobar also like they fit great.

500
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Speaker 1: So Marky Cheerios calling him because Markanna is Cheerios, He's reliable,

501
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,440
Speaker 1: He's there every day for you. He's he's great. You're

502
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Speaker 1: not gonna talk about the great taste of cheerios. It's

503
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Speaker 1: not gonna get you excited. But if you need a

504
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Speaker 1: good cereal, Cheerios is always there for you. He's gonna

505
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Speaker 1: help you poop. Yeah.

506
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,159
Speaker 2: They helped him Mark Markannon and while the westco Bar

507
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,439
Speaker 2: helped move this line up along their fiber. We've called

508
00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,560
Speaker 2: him oatmeal, but Markana's almost more boring than oatmeal. That's

509
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Speaker 2: why we're gonna call him Cheerios.

510
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you can get a little cinnamon in that oatmeal. Yeah, yeah,

511
00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,320
Speaker 1: syrup yeah, blueberries. And Edward Escobar, I just he's a

512
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 1: doubles ma sheet. I love this guy. I loved on

513
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Speaker 1: double It. He's fun. But that was Game four. Enough

514
00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,720
Speaker 1: of the negative, because you know what, there were so

515
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,639
Speaker 1: many good things with the Mets the series. It sucks

516
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Speaker 1: that we had to end the series, I know, because

517
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Speaker 1: you have to talk about it almost the most. Yes,

518
00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,880
Speaker 1: but opening day was great. Great two was great, Game

519
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Speaker 1: three was great. Let's talk about Opening Day, Tyler or

520
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Speaker 1: fucking McGill. Tyler McGill, our guy. He looked fantastic. He

521
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Speaker 1: was pumping ninety eight ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: Everyone out there who's been riding with us since, you know,

523
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Speaker 2: the beginning middle of last summer, when we weren't really

524
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:30,359
Speaker 2: getting that me listened to this show. You know that

525
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Speaker 2: we've been very high on Tyler McGill, and he he

526
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Speaker 2: impressed me so much more than I ever thought he

527
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Speaker 2: could have impressed me. An opening day, it felt like

528
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Speaker 2: felt like watching like my son walk across the stage

529
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Speaker 2: at graduation. It was so beautiful to watch Tyler McGill

530
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Speaker 2: pumping ninety nine the first two innings of that game.

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Speaker 2: He ended up settling in about ninety six ninety seven,

532
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Speaker 2: which is still hard than you threw all off last year.

533
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Speaker 2: But seeing how ampty was and how well he was

534
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Speaker 2: able to channel that adrenaline into useful energy, not playing

535
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Speaker 2: over his head and maintain his commands. It was so

536
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Speaker 2: freaking beautiful the way he was working his fastball early

537
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Speaker 2: in that game, just completely living on the edges and

538
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Speaker 2: the top of the zone. A tweet of the picture

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Speaker 2: after the first inning and he was literally just edges

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Speaker 2: top of the zone. There was nothing in the middle

541
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Speaker 2: and there was nothing low. He had a plan and

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Speaker 2: he attacked it. He wasn't scared of the Wan, So

543
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Speaker 2: though he wasn't scared of Nelson Cruz, he went right

544
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Speaker 2: at these guys with heat and it worked. B. D. E.

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Speaker 1: Tyler McGill has big dick and this dude has all

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Speaker 1: the confidence in the world, which is what we've seen

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Speaker 1: sometimes he's mess pictus who have all this stuff lack.

548
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Speaker 1: So he's got like almost the hard part with the

549
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Speaker 1: mental stuff, because when you're throwing ninety six ninety seven,

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Speaker 1: with the great breaking stuff that we saw, McGill is

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Speaker 1: in this rotation. Yeah, he's in this rotation all year.

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Speaker 1: He's pitching like this. He's gonna be like we've made

553
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Speaker 1: our YouTube video. It's gonna be a secret weapon. He's

554
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Speaker 1: gonna be the X factor right now. He makes this

555
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Speaker 1: rotation so much deeper, so much wider, so much better.

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Speaker 1: He looked great and again it's the Washington Nationals lineup,

557
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Speaker 1: but for the first game of the year. To set

558
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Speaker 1: the tone like that, Tyler McGill's got major league basse

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Speaker 1: while on notice right.

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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, you're you would You wouldn't be able to

561
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Speaker 2: rip Tyler McGill away from this rotation. Was called dead

562
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Speaker 2: hands like he wants this so bad and you can

563
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Speaker 2: just see how freaking jacked up he is to have

564
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Speaker 2: this role and have this opportunity and how proud his

565
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Speaker 2: mom was on Twitter all weekend Julie McGill. If anyone

566
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Speaker 2: out there hasn't followed Julie McGill yet, you're missing out

567
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Speaker 2: because she is the quintessential athlete.

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Speaker 1: Mom loved Tyler McGill's boy. She's fantastic. Her tweets are great.

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Speaker 1: She reps him harder than anyone I think ever will,

570
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Speaker 1: as she should because his mom's his mom. She's a

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Speaker 1: great follow on Twitter. I definitely recomend it.

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Speaker 2: And then just before we wrap up, tay Nice bow

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Speaker 2: here and Tyler McGill start I want to get to

574
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Speaker 2: some of the ex's, no's and nuts and bolts if

575
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Speaker 2: you guys will. The big thing we've talked about a

576
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Speaker 2: lot with Tyler McGill, his development, how he actually can

577
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Speaker 2: become like a marquee starter in this league is the

578
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 2: development of the secondary pitches, namely his slyther and his

579
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Speaker 2: change up. The fastball is great, and he pumps good velocity,

580
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Speaker 2: but you can't throw sixty percent fastballs every single start

581
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Speaker 2: of your life, especially when you're trying to get three

582
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Speaker 2: times through a batting order and expect it to work.

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Speaker 2: The fact that he was confident enough in each of

584
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Speaker 2: those pitches slyther and change up throw each of them

585
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Speaker 2: twenty percent of the time through each exact same amount,

586
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Speaker 2: and the fact that they were both good give us

587
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,919
Speaker 2: so much confidence moving forward. His slider had five whiffs

588
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 2: on eight swings, which is completely silly, and it was spinning.

589
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 2: It seems like Tyler McGill made a big adjustment to

590
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Speaker 2: that pitch because it was spinning significantly more than last

591
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Speaker 2: year and it was also dropping significantly more than the

592
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Speaker 2: end of last year. This is something that will keep

593
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 2: an eye on these few series here, but it seems

594
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Speaker 2: like a lot of the Mets have changed their sliders

595
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 2: around to have more drop, which is kind of sigging

596
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 2: when most of the league'szags on sliders, But it worked

597
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 2: really well with Tyler McGill. And also his change up

598
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 2: seems like it's completely new pitch. It had a ridiculous

599
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 2: amount of fade and drop, and it was coming in

600
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Speaker 2: five miles an hour faster on average than it was

601
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 2: last year. So it does look like Tyler McGill kind

602
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: of hit the pitch laboratory in the offseason and took

603
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: these two pitches to a very different level. And in

604
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 2: taking those two pitches to a very different level, he

605
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 2: seemed like he could be right to take himself to

606
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Speaker 2: another entirely different level.

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Speaker 1: He looked great, He looked great in an opening day gave

608
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Speaker 1: us exactly what we needed when there was kind of

609
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,719
Speaker 1: a hole there. And for a guy who's basically a rookie,

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Speaker 1: you all in tons of purposes to come in like

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Speaker 1: that opening day big game, You know, you couldn't be

612
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: more excited about that. Killing Jacob to Grom's shoes the

613
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: best pitcher in baseball Tyler McGill major league debut, Jacob

614
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: de Grom same day. Yeah, it's the crazy cop. But boy,

615
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: oh boy, they get oddly similar. And if but gill's

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Speaker 1: throwing ninety six, yeah, now, I mean we're kind of

617
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: we're really starting to get scary. On the same path

618
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: is getting scary, especially with the great command. Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: his command looked fantastic. Everything about Tyler and McGill was great. Yes,

620
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Speaker 1: and shout out to buck here we go. Here's the

621
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Speaker 1: praise for buckets coming, guys. It's good process. This is

622
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Speaker 1: good process. Sat him after five, that was perfect. You

623
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Speaker 1: don't want him to try and get bigger than the moment. No,

624
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Speaker 1: you don't want to send him out there for more

625
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: than he's ready for. It's a long season. Let Tyler

626
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: McGill build up to getting more and more innings. And

627
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: I mean he keeps pitching like this, he will pitch

628
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: in deeper into games, Yes, for sure. And I think

629
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Speaker 1: the drew as musing comp is becoming truer and truer

630
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Speaker 1: by the day. The fact that Tyler McGill is out

631
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,679
Speaker 1: here throwing sixty percent fastball. It's a great pitch and

632
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 1: he commands it well. But you can't really let it

633
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: hither like Juan So though or Nelson Cruz see him

634
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: a third time right now, like you're gonna feel that

635
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: in June, July and August as one so though becomes

636
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: more comfortable Tyler McGill, if he doesn't develop as quickly

637
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: as one so the catches up to him, then you

638
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: you have the propensity they get blown up. So it

639
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: was very, I think a great decision by Buck to

640
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: take mcguill out after five calm down, send him to

641
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 1: the bench with the most confidents you could possibly ever have,

642
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: and then bringing in your best reliever who's not supposed

643
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Speaker 1: to close to face the top of the Nationals order.

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Speaker 1: Of course, this looks stupid as hell because Wan Sodo

645
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Speaker 1: hit the longest home run probably.

646
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Speaker 2: The entire weekend off of Trevor remain that inning front

647
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Speaker 2: of the podcast. Trev yes, of course, but the process

648
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 2: was sound and making our best available reliever who's not

649
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Speaker 2: here the close Edmund Diaz is the best Met's best

650
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Speaker 2: reliever in my mind, at least face the top of

651
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Speaker 2: this order rather than Tyler McGill throwing sixty percent fastballs.

652
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Speaker 2: Seeing these guys for at their time, great process, great

653
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Speaker 2: move by Buck, and I was very, very impressed by

654
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Speaker 2: what seemed to be like a big brain decision.

655
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Speaker 1: There. No, that was really really good. Process. Let's keep

656
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Speaker 1: saying process. It's the word of the episode. Process, process, Process,

657
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Speaker 1: And Trevor May is canna give up a home run

658
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Speaker 1: to w on soda? Like, yeah, people are gonna give

659
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Speaker 1: up home runs to want soda, and it's it's tough.

660
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Speaker 1: And maybe maybe that's why you didn't go to May

661
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Speaker 1: in Game four because so hit him so well. I

662
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Speaker 1: don't don't know bad process there. He's once was gonna

663
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Speaker 1: hit forty home runs. I mean, who you're gonna pitch

664
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Speaker 1: against him? You go with your best guy, and Trevor

665
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Speaker 1: May is one of them. But again it didn't really

666
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Speaker 1: matter because the Mets were really cooking. Hit runners in

667
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Speaker 1: scoring position and we got hits. Yes, we got hits

668
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Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position. I didn't tweet out what

669
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Speaker 1: is risp this entire weekend, and that's like my favorite

670
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Speaker 1: tweet of the year. I've been doing it for the

671
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Speaker 1: last few What is RISP? Is gone? Right now? It

672
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: seems like, especially in Game one, J d Escobar, Cana

673
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: McNeil Marte all with runners in scoring position got hits.

674
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Speaker 1: Cano got on twice, Yes, scored twice. I mean even

675
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Speaker 1: McCann got hit. He took them for the team, which

676
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Speaker 1: is too two for the team, two for the team,

677
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Speaker 1: two hits, yeah, two hit by pitches, which thank you Washington. Well,

678
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: it's a blessing in disguise. With the bases loaded, nopes,

679
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: no double play for James McCann. Things are turning around here.

680
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 2: The first run of the season was James McCann being

681
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Speaker 2: hit I think a three to two pitch at least

682
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 2: two strike pitch, yeah, on his toe by Patrick Corbin

683
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 2: slider to drive Robinson Cano win. If you had that

684
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: in Mets bingo, good for you. You want a million dollars.

685
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: And it really does feel like that. The Mets front

686
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: office really focused on kinds of players that we brought

687
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: in a mean think about Markana, Eduardo Escobar, Starling Marte.

688
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: These guys all put the ball in play. Great. The

689
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: Cana's not the highest batting average guy, per se, but

690
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: he puts the ball in play and he has fantastic

691
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 1: at bats. And that's something I noticed all weekend from

692
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: these guys. Marte and Canada all go deep into counts.

693
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: All not really Escobar. Well, Escobar is a little more aggressive,

694
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: but he's he works account he doesn't.

695
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 2: If you kind of put Escobar in Canada together, you

696
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: kind of get the perfect consummate baseball player. Because Kana

697
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 2: has sees a million pitches. Escobar is aggressive, He's not

698
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 2: really going to swing at that many bad ones. But

699
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 2: he's not Escobar is not working many walks. That's never

700
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 2: been his calling.

701
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Speaker 1: You know what it is. Escobar in like oh oh,

702
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: one strike counts. He's taking big swings, yeah, taking hacks.

703
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: He's going for the actual basics. But with two strikes

704
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: he has very good two strikers. He doesn't like shraking out, Yes,

705
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: does not like striking out. And that's kind of what

706
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: these guys have been brought in which the Mets struggle

707
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: a little bit within the past, has been some strikeouts

708
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: here and there and putting the balls in play with

709
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position. So see, it was great to

710
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: see that in the first game of the year, these

711
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: guys all stepped up and did exactly what we needed

712
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: them to and it was just honestly a really clean

713
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: and an easy win for the New York Mets, stress

714
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: free and that was that was a great way to

715
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Speaker 1: start the baseball season. Great and also just about these players.

716
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 2: Again, we've heard Ben z Asma, or the Mets assistant

717
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 2: general manager and head of head of all Baseball analytics,

718
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 2: mentioned like little tipbits here and there, that he wanted

719
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: to find ways to use city Field to the mess

720
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: advantage because city Field suppresses offense more than any other

721
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: ballpark in baseball, so the hardest place. It's literally statistically

722
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 2: the hardest place to hit in all baseball, and you're

723
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 2: not really gonna be smashing tons of home runs as

724
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 2: city Field. So it seems like again zigging when a

725
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 2: lot of the league is zagging, that Zosmer picked out

726
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 2: three guys or the Mets run offics in general. I'm

727
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 2: not gonna give them all the credit, but he has

728
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: mentioned this. They picked out guys who were gonna put

729
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: the ball in play, line drives, gaps, extra base hits,

730
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 2: and that in this game specifically turned into RBIs with

731
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Speaker 2: runners and scoring position.

732
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've I've fallen in love with all these guys

733
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: they have already. Yeah, I mean, like it didn't take much.

734
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: I wanted Marte on this team for the last four

735
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: or five years and whatever since the Nemo trade. Rumors

736
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: came up for him and starring Martal's get do it.

737
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: I was like the end of twenty nineteen. Yeah, I

738
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: was like, I want Starling Marte. It was a whole

739
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: pandemic again. Yeah, and then Edward Escobar. I'm a big

740
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: fan of marcanda Is just I love these guys. He's

741
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: It's exactly what this team needed. And I couldn't be

742
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: happier after game one and then it went into Game two. Now,

743
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Speaker 1: first let's talk about the Apple game, not Hanna Kaiser's fault. No,

744
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: the first time she ever commentated, and I don't honestly

745
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: think she was that bad. I think she was. I

746
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: think she was better than probably both the other people.

747
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: Also, I don't think Mellenium was that bad either. Melleny

748
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 2: Neim was getting a lot of crap. I thought Melaniy Newman,

749
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 2: at least as far as play by play, she was

750
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: moving the game along. It's not really her fault that

751
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: Chris Chris Young for some i'd see Chris Young was

752
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: played baseball at ten years.

753
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: No, he had actually longer career than I thought. I

754
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: think twelve. Yeah.

755
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 2: He the fact that he left the game for a

756
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 2: short few years and it seemsly just forgot every like

757
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: all the brain just leaked out.

758
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: Of his ear. He wasn't a particularly good player to

759
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: begin with. I mean he's a player, I mean he

760
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: was okay. It was just funny to hear him. He

761
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: gave Dom at some point crap about not swinging at

762
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: a pitch close that was a clear ball. He's like,

763
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: got too close to take Dom. You gotta swing them,

764
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: like Chrisian we show up like one hundred and sixty

765
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: times in two thousand and eight, Like, I don't want

766
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: to hear you talking about protecting because you were not

767
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: the guy to bring that up. But the Apple Game,

768
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Speaker 1: I think positives looked great. Beautiful, quality was unbelievable. The

769
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: graphics were really good. I thought the cameras everything, the

770
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: presentation was good. The announcing side was tough. And also

771
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: you got to give them a little bit of slack. Yeah,

772
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: it's probably the first time they've ever all had a

773
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Speaker 1: conversation with each other.

774
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 2: It's three strangers trying to figure out what to say

775
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: and not to speak over each other at all.

776
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: It's hard, it's really hard. But listen to me in

777
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: like our first episode, Yeah, and listen to it now.

778
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: There's clear and obvious differences. Things that we've gotten better

779
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: with so as bad as they were and we were friends,

780
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: these people are strangers. I can't imagine Hanna Kay's and

781
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: Chris Young and her spoke for more than what two

782
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: or three hours before the game, maybe a group chat.

783
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Speaker 2: You can't you can't learn anything from that. You can't

784
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: clean anything from that. I give them credit for going

785
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: out there. Being Apple Plus's first game, that's a lot

786
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 2: of pressure. And Nationals Park is also a very hard

787
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 2: place to call a game. We've heard Gary keithan Ron

788
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 2: talk about it, and they showed on the broadcast. They

789
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 2: send you like six stories high, like away from home plate,

790
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: you can't see anything.

791
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: By no means will I say it was good. No,

792
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna absolutely destroy them as much as

793
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: everyone else had. It's it's gonna be growing pains and

794
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: Apple they're smart, they know what they're doing. Yeah, they're

795
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: definitely smart.

796
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 2: But my biggest problem with this broadcast I tweeted about

797
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 2: and a lot of people out there agreed, was that

798
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 2: they take the the eyes off of the game. Yeah,

799
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: like they were at bats going on. They weren't even

800
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 2: talking about them. They were talking about Fogo de Chao

801
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 2: and Hibachi. Derek g there like there was a nonsense

802
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: going on.

803
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: It's one run game. Didn't we miss the first pitch

804
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: by Max Schuser as well? Didn't like that we missed it.

805
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: We missed a Tomas need to pop up in the

806
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: man scoring position because they were showing us a kid

807
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: who caught the ball and he had like an ice

808
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: cream helmet. I get it, it's national broadcast and want

809
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: to appease to the average fan, But you have the

810
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: average fan almost the average person. Yeah, the average person.

811
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: I guess that's fair. That's a much better comment than

812
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: the average fan, because the average fan wants to watch

813
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, the average fans like what is going on?

814
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: And there was definitely a little bit of lack of

815
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: focus at times, Like I guess the fog to Chow

816
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: thing for ninety seconds was insane. I will never eat

817
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: at Fogo to Chow despite them, because of what happened

818
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: on that Apple TV broadcast.

819
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 2: There was there was a one run game with two

820
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 2: men on base, and there was no mention of anything

821
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 2: going on on the field, and that's disappointing.

822
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's disappointing. That can't happen. They got better as

823
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: the game went on, They got more comfortable with each

824
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 1: other obviously, but the commentating kind of took away from

825
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: the games to point. But luckily for the Mets, Yes,

826
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: I mean we won that game pretty easy. We literally

827
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: wasn't stressful. If that game was stressful, I would have

828
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: a lot of different words to say about the Apple

829
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: TV broadcast, but the fact that the Mets won this

830
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: game Max suers just first start, he looked good.

831
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Speaker 2: I can live with it, definitely, and it was kind

832
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: of it was kind of a rocky start because I

833
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: remember my dad texted me this is bad, which is

834
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 2: that's year. I'm gonna get thoseects with my dad about

835
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: hundred times this season, no matter how good or bad

836
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: the Mets are playing. But the Nationals actually got to

837
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: Max Scherzer before the Mets even had a base runner

838
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 2: against Josiah Gray, which that that that's nightmare of fuel

839
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: right there. Luckily, Jeff McNeil got the run immediately back

840
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 2: with a home run the next inning after that, which

841
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: back to back years. Jeff McNeil said, the home run

842
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 2: on his birthday and kind of similar things right down

843
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 2: the line, did the win against the Marlins and both

844
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: tided the game. Yes, big home runs Jeff like we said,

845
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 2: he really looking like his old self, which is so nice.

846
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,239
Speaker 2: He's smiling, happy Jeff McNeil, happy Mets fans. That's all

847
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: we need to see. Yes, in the ending after that, mister,

848
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: don't you know, Robbie Cano had a nice hit gave

849
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: the mess the lead. And that's like the two ends

850
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 2: of Mark's baseball loving spectrum right there between Jeff McNeil

851
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: and Robinson Cano. But as much as you can lover

852
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 2: hate either of them, each of them had three hard

853
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: hit balls in that game, and Robinson Cano had two

854
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 2: one hundred and eight miles an hour off the bat,

855
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 2: put a ball in the air three hundred feet there,

856
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: he got almost got to warning almost to get to

857
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: the warning track.

858
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: It's that's that's gonna be our counter this year. What

859
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: do we have sack flies last year? Yes, now it's

860
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna be Robins warning track fly balls. I don't even

861
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: care about zero still zero. But they were playing really

862
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: good and backing up Shuzer, who maybe didn't have his

863
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: greatest stuff. But I also think Sures as kind of

864
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: doing a thing where he's trying to go longer into

865
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: the games because he knows he has to be that

866
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: heavy lifter right now in the rotation, even though the

867
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: next game we saw he maybe doesn't need to do

868
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: as much heavy lifting as we want to know. Yeah,

869
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: but Schurezer still was sharp, still was good against the

870
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: Nationals team. And again it's the first start for everybody

871
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: look around baseball. Garret Cole was roughed up a little bit,

872
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: Brandy Woodruff floked like trash for the Bruiss got hit. Yeah,

873
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: like all these guys are still going through the growing

874
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: pains of a very shortened spring training. And still the

875
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: first start of the year. Max Suers was good, not incredible. Still,

876
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: what a you got to pitch for the Mets. That's

877
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: so cool. I'm so excited that we got to watch

878
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: him pitch. He's his slider was disgusting. Yeah, everything was great.

879
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 2: Still, the slier's dominant. Any Met fan out there to

880
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 2: keep track of Max Chers a slyder because it's one

881
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 2: of the best pitches in baseball. Still, even at the

882
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 2: ripe old age, was he like thirty seven, thirty eight,

883
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 2: he's getting up there, he's up there short whatever, But

884
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 2: this was there were some things that weren't that great

885
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 2: for Max Cherz or this was the first time in

886
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 2: twelve years that his four team fastball did not register

887
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 2: a swing and missing the game. Twelve years twenty ten,

888
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 2: that's like about three so youngs ago. We were what fourteen,

889
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 2: we were freshman in high school. Yeah, that's a long

890
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: time ago, so a really long time ago. And it's

891
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: just very cool to have a starting picture of Max

892
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: Scherzer's caliber, and you can see that when he doesn't

893
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: have his best stuff, he's still mostly in control. Josh

894
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 2: Bell did hit the home run.

895
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: Max.

896
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,760
Speaker 2: Cheers are susceptible to the home run ball. The fastball

897
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 2: shape isn't perfect anymore either. Wall it's a great pitch,

898
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: is easy to get the.

899
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: Home run off.

900
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 2: That Nationals Park is not the hardest park ever. They

901
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 2: hit a home run in Josh Bell's a pretty good

902
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 2: hit that happens. And also we heard Zach Granki mentioned

903
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: something about this last year when he was pitching for

904
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: the Astros and Justin Verlander went down, that the team

905
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 2: went to him and said, we need you for innings.

906
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 2: So you might not see the god these stats for

907
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: Max Scherzer, but I'm sure the Mets kind of said

908
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,479
Speaker 2: something similar to him. That Astro said to Zach granky

909
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: last year, and you kind of just have to get

910
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 2: inning inning, get through and get the throughom, get through

911
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 2: and pitch a little more contact, maybe not take as

912
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 2: many risks for strikeouts and whiffs, but just stay on

913
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 2: the mound and put your team in position to win

914
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: the game. And that's exactly what Max Scherzer did and

915
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 2: that's what I expect Max Chers to do many other.

916
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: Times this season. You know, it's so sick too, is

917
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: that he gave up those three runs and it didn't matter.

918
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: Scored more run back storring morete with the devil that

919
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: put us ahead, and we eventually, you know, get the

920
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: win for Max chers or which is great to it.

921
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: Jeff Scneil also at RBI and ninth inning. But before that,

922
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: we had a little drama, just a little bit of

923
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: drama a little bit.

924
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 2: After Game one, that very scary moment where Pete Lonzo

925
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: got hit in his.

926
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: Sea flap and we talk about that.

927
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'm taking us you know, I'm saying we

928
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 2: completely forgot to make that much the game on. There

929
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 2: was enough good things to happen. That was like the

930
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,959
Speaker 2: eighth inning of a four un game whatever. So again,

931
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 2: hitting the sea flap very scary moment. He was spinning

932
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 2: up blood fire still image of Pilans just spinning blood

933
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 2: into the misty night. But then the Nationals kind of

934
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 2: came back and threw some chin music to Francisco Indoor,

935
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 2: who was showing bunt, caught him in the sea flap again,

936
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 2: chipped his tooth.

937
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,959
Speaker 1: Did you know that? I didn't know. It's chipped his tooth.

938
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: That's a shame. Yeah, really chipped his tooth.

939
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: And Buck Showalter was out of the dugout in a millisecond,

940
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 2: a micro second to defend his guy.

941
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: And it was awesomey, it was absolutely awesome, me and

942
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: you and even Alex, my roommate when we were watching it.

943
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: We got off our, We got off our, out of

944
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: our seats. Yeah, and we were screaming again. I screamed,

945
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: get him. A sixty five year old man charging a

946
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: picture who's in his athletic prime.

947
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: Said yes, and flanked by Jeremy After and Brandon Nimo,

948
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 2: two of them most even killed the guys I think

949
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 2: on this team.

950
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: Yes, and Eric Shaves was right to kill. Eric Shavis

951
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: was He's probably our lightning rod. He's alread. He was

952
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: ready to just hurt someone, so was I loved it.

953
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: That's a moment that I talked about a lot. Last year,

954
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 1: the Mets lacked edge, and as crazy as this sounds,

955
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: our sixty five year old manager might have just given

956
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: us a matge. Yeah, Bucks Shalter definitely has edge.

957
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 2: If nothing else, Buck Shoalter has edge, and it was

958
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 2: really nice to see him defending his actual two best

959
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 2: players who both got hit. And I actually heard an

960
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: anecdote from how We Rose that it might have been

961
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: way Randaz we said it. I listened to most of

962
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 2: the Sunday's game on the radio broadcast. I was riding

963
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 2: my bike up to Astoria. Francisco. Lindor has not really

964
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 2: liked wearing the sea flap. He's warned it for safety

965
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: and as he had a bad Game one, he wasn't

966
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: really hitting the ball in Game two. Apparently during that

967
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 2: half inning before he got hit, he was working with

968
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 2: the bat boy and taking the sea flap off that helmet.

969
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they just ran out of time. Yeah,

970
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 2: Francisco's Lindor doesn't have that sea flap on. He's out

971
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: for a couple months here reconstruction surgery. There's a world

972
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 2: right now where the Mets are without Jacob the Ground, Piolanso,

973
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 2: and Francisco Lindor until June.

974
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta wear the sea flapp or as they

975
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: called it on the Apple TV game, the chin strap

976
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: just incredibly there's no strap involved. Yes, it's not on

977
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: your chin.

978
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 2: And then there was a lot of discourse after this

979
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 2: game about Nationals throwing at Mets hithers, and while I

980
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 2: don't think that's necessarily one hundred percent Trew, I think

981
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 2: there might be a tiny little bit of credence to that,

982
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: just based on the fact that now after this series,

983
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 2: the Nationals pitchers have hit Mets hitters nineteen times, which

984
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: is almost one per game. There's no reason for that

985
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 2: at all. And I know their pitchers are bad and

986
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 2: that plays into it. But David Martinez is one of

987
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: those few real old school managers left in the game,

988
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: and he knows his team is dogshit, and he knows

989
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 2: he's gonna play his Mets team fifteen more times, and

990
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 2: he wants to put something in their heads. I would say,

991
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: I'm not saying this is a rock solid theory. I'm

992
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 2: not going to the board with my hypothesis, but I

993
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 2: do think that there's a bit of a chance that

994
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: Davey Martinez wants to like he he also has some edge. Yes,

995
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 2: he wants to instill some edge and what's going to

996
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 2: be a very long season series between the Mets and

997
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 2: Nationals when he knows his team has significant disadvantage and skill.

998
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. I want to thank dave Martinez though, too, because

999
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: I think these moments brought this Mets team a little

1000
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: bit closer. I mean, you saw starts with Marte on

1001
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: the top of the dugout in Game one, when guys

1002
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: got hit three times, You saying three you hit us

1003
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: three times? Point the head the fight or the non fight.

1004
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: But the bench is clearing in game two, Like this

1005
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: is all stuff that as a team, you come back

1006
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: into the locker room after the game and you're like,

1007
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,959
Speaker 1: as these guys, we're gonna get them tomorrow. Like that's

1008
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: it's like billboard. What's that called Bolton Bourne bulletin board.

1009
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: It's called the bulletin board.

1010
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 2: There's my baltimboard material Yes, bulltimboard materials, not called the

1011
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: Baltian board.

1012
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: That's not a bulletin board. What is it?

1013
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 2: Bulletin boards just things you can stick on a board

1014
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: on the wall. That's baltim board. Material something you put

1015
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,760
Speaker 2: on the baletimo board. That's why I meant it's sticking

1016
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 2: on the bulletin board. My English isn't great and it

1017
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 2: is what it is.

1018
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: But Park only gets paid to speak. Yeah, I only

1019
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: get paid to speak, not in podcast for them all

1020
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: the time. But hey, back to the game. That's something

1021
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: that brings this team together. And as we know in

1022
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,760
Speaker 1: the past, Lindor McNeil maybe not the closest guys getting

1023
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: each other's back, and Lindor thanked all the guys when

1024
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 1: he came back in after the fights, like I appreciate

1025
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: you guys having my back. And while that like may

1026
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: not mean a lot in actuality, I think these well

1027
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: I'm saying I think these kind of things do bring

1028
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: a team closer together and like four games in or

1029
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: two games into a season, yeh, feeling that like brotherhood

1030
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 1: with your team, I'll take that is a positive.

1031
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 2: I would I bet this is one of the earliest

1032
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 2: benches have cleared in a Major League Baseball season over

1033
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 2: the last decade. Yeah, basically since the since the steroid

1034
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 2: era could concluded. I'd be hard pressed to find another

1035
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 2: bench that cleared on opening weekend.

1036
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: I would love if we.

1037
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,879
Speaker 2: Have any statistically inclined fans out there, I think it's

1038
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 2: out of something like that, because that were pretty cool.

1039
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: The only one I can think of, I think is

1040
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: Brandon Phillips with the Reds and Yadier Molina and when

1041
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: Johnny Quato and then casts also help years ago. Like

1042
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: there's been a few, but for the Mets, I don't

1043
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: want any specific soon. So a little bit of drama,

1044
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: a little bit of chin music. Steve Seeshek got ejected.

1045
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: It was not for throwing at lind door. It's for

1046
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: the actions instigating. Yeah, for instigating going towards Buck Showalter.

1047
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,720
Speaker 1: Good if I we tweet out on the Mess Up podcast,

1048
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: I tweeted out, James tweeted out. We got a lot

1049
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: of traction on these Buck tweets. Love them. He won

1050
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: me over right there, And yes I was.

1051
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 2: I was very high on Buck after the weekend. Still

1052
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 2: overall net positive on Buck even after Sunday. But there

1053
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 2: were a lot of things that happened these first three

1054
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 2: games that gave me a lot of comments of Buck

1055
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 2: should much more confidence than I had the day he

1056
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 2: was hired.

1057
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: Yes, and a lot of it. I mean, this was

1058
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 1: an emotional attachment This was like the Kerry Collins attachment.

1059
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: That's a big part of it. Had our backs with

1060
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: our guys, but he was making the right moves. Game

1061
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: one and two did a really good job. Let's move

1062
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: it on to game three now, where Chris Bassett made

1063
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: his Mets debut, and boy, oh boy, is Chris Bassett

1064
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: fucking good. Chris Bassett is really good. We talked about

1065
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: him being our Stroman. I think he's better than Stroman.

1066
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: I think that this guy has a real chance to

1067
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: separate himself right now in this Mets rotation and be

1068
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: part like that one two three. You're feeling really good

1069
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: with Chris Bassive. He's looking like this as your number

1070
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: three starter. He was great in Oakland. He didn't watch

1071
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: a lot of Chris basst Let's be honest, me and you.

1072
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: We knew he was good, yes, but we how many

1073
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: times do we watch Chris Bassitt pitch in reality? Three? Three?

1074
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: Four times? Yeah? Three four times? An extra? There's no

1075
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: TV on, there's no games. Let's go watch the Oakland

1076
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: A's place if they're on the road. I'm gonna watch

1077
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: Nay his home game. Oh absolutely not. I don't want

1078
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: to watch the coliseum that game is not that the

1079
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: same is not men for watching baseball. But Chris Bassett

1080
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: was so good. He's got confidence as well. Like you

1081
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: hear him after the game talking about he doesn't care

1082
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: who's up at the plate, I'm gonna be better than Yes,

1083
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: these are all things I love to hear from my pitchers.

1084
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: And he showed it on the mound. He was disgusting.

1085
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 2: Yes, Chris Bassett talked his shit and he backed it up.

1086
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 2: And if you go back a couple episodes ago when

1087
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 2: the trade actually happened, I mentioned that I thought there

1088
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 2: was still some ceiling on Chris Bassett if he kind

1089
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 2: of leaned more into his breaking balls, because his slider,

1090
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 2: which I thought was a curve, turned out to be

1091
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 2: a slyer. That pitch was so incredible that pitch got

1092
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 2: seven whifts on thirteen swings more than half of the

1093
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 2: time the Nationals hitters offered the Chris Bassest sly theer

1094
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 2: they missed it.

1095
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 1: Numbers like that every day you just simply don't.

1096
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 2: And the fact that he was leaning into that pitch

1097
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,720
Speaker 2: through it very very much, very very often. It shows

1098
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 2: me that the Met's pitching development people are in his

1099
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 2: ear and that there is we we probably haven't even

1100
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: seen Chris Bassett's best yet.

1101
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: No, he's like, that's that's a good Another talk about

1102
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: another great first start of the year. Yeah, everybody in

1103
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: the Mets rotation had over a freight place to start

1104
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: the year. What do you go, six innings, eight k's,

1105
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: a couple of hits, one walk, whatever it was.

1106
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 2: There's an argument to be made that Max Scherzer had

1107
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: the worst start of any men an opening weekend.

1108
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna bring that up at some point,

1109
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: was go, you know, you have the most earned runs

1110
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: this this first year. Gave up three, which is so

1111
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: funny to see. You got the least whiffs and he

1112
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: got the least whifts. But man, Chris Bassett, I was super,

1113
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: super impressed. Like I said, hadn't watched a whole lot

1114
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: of him, but I knew how good he was, and

1115
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: I've seen the highlights, I've seen the clips. But watching

1116
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: him pitch, he's a smart pitcher. The attacks hitters. Yes,

1117
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: he has a bunch of different pitches, which is something

1118
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: that you talked about a lot earlier in the season.

1119
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: Is gonna be great. He's got that repertoire, especially when

1120
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: you don't throw ninety eight, which is huge to have.

1121
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: I feel so great about Chris Bassett. I'm like, man,

1122
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch this guy pitch every five days.

1123
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris bass dorew six different pitches in this game,

1124
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 2: and when he got to the third time around the

1125
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 2: other something that no othern MET starting pitchers did besides

1126
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: Max Shuz on this weekend, he busted out a new

1127
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 2: pitch that hadn't been thrown yet in the game. Chris

1128
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 2: bass Has started throwing a change up in the fifth

1129
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 2: enning of this game, and Ron Darling almost fell out

1130
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 2: of his chair. Yeah, he was gushing over the fact

1131
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 2: that Chris basst very old school baseball move. You hold

1132
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 2: a pitch back until he gets that third time to

1133
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 2: give these guys a different wrinkle when they think they

1134
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 2: have you figured out, you're doing shit like that an

1135
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 2: opening weekend.

1136
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: You you have big balls, you know how to use them. Dude.

1137
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: It's a big brain as well. Yeah, big brain, big balls.

1138
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: Talked about his press conference after the game. It was

1139
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: just so funny. They were asking him about going up

1140
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,439
Speaker 1: against Wan Soto and he was like, guys, I faced

1141
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: like Trout and Otani. I just don't care who you are,

1142
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you. Yeah. The Astros don Alvarez mid cheating, Yeah,

1143
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: face them while they were cheating. I actually know, not

1144
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, not twenty seventy. They're probably still cheating, attle bit,

1145
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: they're probably a little bit. Probably. Who isn't Yeah, who isn't.

1146
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: He ain't winning, but I mean he's faced some of

1147
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: the best series in baseball already and he's like I

1148
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: once it was great, but my jobs to get him out.

1149
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 1: I'm going to get him out. That's why I'm here

1150
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: is to do my job. And to hear him say

1151
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: that is great. All the confidence in the world, and

1152
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: even talking about he's like, my family's pumped them out

1153
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,879
Speaker 1: of Oakland, like, yeah, really happy. I changed teams because

1154
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: they're an East Coast families like these sun Starts the

1155
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: Midwest family shout out of Ohio East coast time zone

1156
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: at least yes, East time zone. It was just it

1157
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: was nice to see that Chris Bassett had the confidence,

1158
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: looked really comfortable. He had the reporters cracking up throughout

1159
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: his entire interview press conference as Locker just I have

1160
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,720
Speaker 1: a glowing review and I think he has quickly became

1161
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: one of the favorite Mets players on this team for Mets.

1162
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 2: Fans, absolutely, and one of the most important players in

1163
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 2: this team because his ability to give us consistent innings

1164
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 2: every fifth day makes his repertoire up look good hitters

1165
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 2: in their eyes and tell them I'm gonna get you out.

1166
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: That's monumentally important. I'm really, really, really really happy Chris

1167
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 2: Bassts on this team.

1168
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: I was.

1169
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 2: I was a little bit debrated during this game last night,

1170
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 2: and I think I tweeted, thank god Chris bass is

1171
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: a Met.

1172
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,919
Speaker 1: That's true. I feel that way. No, he was great.

1173
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: He was great. And then on the offensive side, lock

1174
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: of going out here Pete big me, Pete first career

1175
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: Grand Slam? Wow, how was that? Frest career Grant Slam?

1176
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: You know what? He walks so much with the basis

1177
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: load think about it. He thinks great at bats, I mean,

1178
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: so it makes sense.

1179
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 2: Ually most other seasons, Alonzo has been like, by far

1180
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 2: the best Mets, Mets best hitter. That was a tong twister,

1181
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: that was Mets best hither So you were really not

1182
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 2: canna pitch him that off? And also hadn't we mentioned

1183
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: this a lot, especially the last episode of the season.

1184
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:35,959
Speaker 1: Preview.

1185
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 2: There's not that haven't been that many Mets on base

1186
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 2: repeat Alonzo last year especially, so to see him come

1187
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 2: up with the bases loaded and just hit an absolute

1188
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 2: nuke little cane twirl bat flip.

1189
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's a little close for that bat

1190
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: flip that It was a little closer. It was very

1191
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: close first round. It was a wall scraper, you know

1192
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: what it was. He hit the ball with like one

1193
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles an hour. He just hit it

1194
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: about six hundred feet in the air. People as had

1195
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: a couple of balls like that weekend.

1196
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 2: I think on Friday Night's game, he hit the ball

1197
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 2: with a sixty or seventy three launch angle that was

1198
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 2: like ninety seven off the bat. I've seen that maybe

1199
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 2: two times ever, and both were by Joey Gallo.

1200
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 1: You know. Pete hit a towering grand slam. He shushed

1201
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 1: the Nationals and the Nationals crowd as well, which started

1202
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: the pot. Pete start of the pot. And again we

1203
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: brought up in the last episode about Lindor and all

1204
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: that going on, Like the hit and Pete also getting hit.

1205
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: It can either work two ways. You can either put

1206
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: a little fire under your team. David Nationals for the

1207
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 1: Washington or for the Davy Martinez for the Washington Nationals.

1208
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 1: Or you can wake up the Mets. You can wake

1209
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: up a sleeping bear. And it looks like they might

1210
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: have woke up.

1211
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 2: Also spotting a trend here, both Pete Alonzo and Francisco

1212
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 2: Lindoor hit a home run two days after they got

1213
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 2: hit in the face. Yes, first day, get your feet wet,

1214
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 2: get back used to seeing the velocity.

1215
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,919
Speaker 1: Next day home run. There you go, No, it was great,

1216
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,959
Speaker 1: it was good. And now about let's just talk about

1217
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: the rest of the line up here Nimo three hard

1218
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 1: hit balls, looking good looking, healthy, lead Off hit their baby.

1219
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,959
Speaker 1: He's great and lead Off love it, especially when Marte

1220
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: hits two. I love that one too, right there, and

1221
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: Lindora and Pete. That's that's a strong one three four,

1222
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: very strong one. Two Yeah, whatever it was. McNeil hit dom,

1223
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: got in the game, got a hit. Travis Jankowski two hits.

1224
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 1: He's already better than Albert ol More was his entire career.

1225
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: He's closing in on Kevin Pillar. Love Travis Jankowski. This team,

1226
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: you just love player out feelers with long hair. Yeah,

1227
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: I definitely do y Mel Tapia, Yeah, Travis Shankowski, Yeah.

1228
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, Like Brandon mart he's a little homeless. Butkowski

1229
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: is a spark plug off the bench.

1230
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 2: Jankowski's fun and he brings an element to this Mets

1231
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 2: rosta and not many other players bring between speed and defense.

1232
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: He's still a base too. He is steal a base.

1233
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: Ye might stle on two. I think I think on

1234
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: one was a wild pitch, Yeah, I think so, but

1235
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: he definitely stole a base as well. It was great offensively,

1236
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: everything was clicking again and behind a dominant pitching performance.

1237
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even.

1238
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 2: Say everything was clicking. We only really scored runs in

1239
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 2: two different hits. There was a grand almost five runs.

1240
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 2: There was a grand slam. Joan of Donna actually looked

1241
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 2: kind of kind of good. Okay, the stuff was better

1242
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 2: than any pitcher in Nationals I ever expected.

1243
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: But you know what it was. I think for me,

1244
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: it was that guys are getting on base. We're getting

1245
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: the when we need Knox. Knox knocks, and that's something

1246
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: that the Mets have struggled to do, Like we haven't

1247
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: been able to get the guys home. We talked about oatmeal.

1248
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: When you have to poop sometimes and you can. It's hell.

1249
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: You need to eat things like oatmeal cheerios to make

1250
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: things move.

1251
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 2: The fact that this Mets lined up now, things are

1252
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 2: moving through like we have a healthy digestive system. All

1253
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 2: my other brothers out there with ibs. I'm sure you

1254
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 2: know Marcus Crosese's. He knows better than anyone out there.

1255
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 2: It's hard to poop sometimes poop, it's hard. The fact

1256
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 2: that we have all these hitters now put their bat

1257
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 2: on the ball, make things move. It's a beautiful offensive

1258
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: game to watch.

1259
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: Like you have you have a nice steak, you have

1260
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: some maybe vegetables on the side green means salted vegetables,

1261
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: and then you have your fiber, yes, Mark Canna, Eduardo Escobar,

1262
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 1: those guys Starling Martey's is probably more like a medium

1263
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: rire steak, I would say.

1264
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: But McNeil McNeil. McNeill is like that kind of player,

1265
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 2: and we just didn't have him last year. It was

1266
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 2: like a kind of acquiring like Jeff McNeil.

1267
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: It was good to see. It was gonna see the

1268
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: Mets were playing well now on the pitching side. After

1269
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett, a little bit of Drew Smith, he looked great.

1270
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: I mean we missed the flow. We missed a little

1271
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: bit and definitely takes away from the coolness of Drew Smith.

1272
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: But uh, pitching wise, he's just as good as he

1273
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: ever was, if not better. Yeah, and something to keep

1274
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: track of with Drew Smith now is we move again.

1275
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: It's a couple of give you a couple of little

1276
00:48:58,320 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: things to watch. Give it a little homework to the

1277
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: listeners out there.

1278
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Speaker 2: Nothing written, just things to keep an eye on Drew Smith.

1279
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Speaker 2: We've talked about the depth of his repertoire in the past,

1280
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 2: the fact that he threw a curve ball change up

1281
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 2: to go along with a fastball and a cover in

1282
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 2: this outing just one inning, he only threw the fastball

1283
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 2: in the cover and the fastball was coming in a

1284
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 2: tick harder than he was on average last year. So

1285
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 2: it seems like there's more velocity a Drew Smith has added,

1286
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 2: and it will be interesting to see whether or not

1287
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 2: he goes back to those breaking balls or if he

1288
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 2: is just now going to be a maxile velocity guy,

1289
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,240
Speaker 2: which there's a lot of late lateenning, high leverage relievers

1290
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 2: who have excelled to with this kind of game plan.

1291
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 2: I'm thinking pecifically of a manual class A basically just

1292
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 2: throws colors until until you break your bat. And the

1293
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 2: fact that Drew Smith was able to get by make

1294
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 2: national hitters look almost bad just by throwing fastballs, that's

1295
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 2: great sign.

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00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: Great sign. And then we got to see Rodriguez make

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00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: his first ever repair for the New York Mets. Great. Look,

1298
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:45,720
Speaker 1: he's otemeal in the bullpen.

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00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,359
Speaker 2: Yes, he's better than me. He's the guy's really good stuff. Yeah, yeah,

1300
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 2: he has really good stuff. And you're he's going to

1301
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 2: be very very important to this Mets team along with

1302
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 2: Chason Streve and getting out all of the very talented

1303
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 2: left handed hitters in the National League.

1304
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: Eest like everybody in this bullpen this weekend looked really good,

1305
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: really good. Again, we talked about Trevor Williams like blowing

1306
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: the game in theory right, even though he didn't we

1307
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: know that, but he looked good. He was successful in

1308
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: what he was trying to do. The results just didn't happen.

1309
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 2: And if the way Trevor Williams looked today, if you

1310
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 2: were in a situation where you were you needed let's

1311
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 2: say you need a guy that come in second inning

1312
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 2: Taiwan doesn't look that good. Crass doesn't look that good.

1313
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 2: Something happens to anybody, you could. You can conceivably give

1314
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 2: Trevor Williams three or four innings. He'll keep the ball

1315
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 2: on the ground and I don't think you'll really get

1316
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 2: that burned very often by him.

1317
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: No, everybody in the Mets bullpen sept up. We shall

1318
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: Sean ree Foley get like the technical save or not

1319
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: technical save like that was a perfect time bomb about him.

1320
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: Mop up scenarios. The bullpen was handled really really well

1321
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: the first three games. It was just the weird Game four.

1322
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,399
Speaker 1: It felt like something buckwan to do going into the game.

1323
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: No matter what these guys are gonna pitch. It just

1324
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: so happened that it fell into the eighth inning. And really,

1325
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,879
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's not that big

1326
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: of a deal. No, but we're talking about Mets here

1327
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: on a podcast. You have to fill the time, and

1328
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: it's something I'm sure you guys want to hear, and

1329
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: I think it's worth talking about. But really, at the

1330
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: end of the day, three or four from the Nationals

1331
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: on Opening Day weekend is fantastic. That's a great way

1332
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: to start the series. We talked about you need to

1333
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: beat up on the bad teams. You need to, and

1334
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: the Mets did. Three or four is a great way

1335
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: to do that. You win those every single time. It

1336
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: all year, you're gonna win ninety games.

1337
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 2: But that logic, right there is another reason why even

1338
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 2: just losing a single game to the Nationals over the

1339
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 2: course of what's going to be a very difficult season,

1340
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,439
Speaker 2: when the Mets have to play a team we're gonna

1341
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 2: preview very soon in the Phillies thirteen times in the

1342
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 2: next eight weeks, you gotta win these. Gimmeeaess what was

1343
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 2: the staffrom the Rays last year? I think they lost

1344
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 2: to the Oriels only once the entire season, and that

1345
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 2: was the major difference between them, the Blue Jays, the Yankees,

1346
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 2: and the Red Sox and will wound up being them

1347
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 2: winning another divisional race. Like you, if you're a good

1348
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 2: team and you're a better team, when we saw this

1349
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 2: the first three games a series, you have to play

1350
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 2: clean baseball and you have to beat bad teams. You

1351
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 2: have to hit bad ballpens, you have take advantage of

1352
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 2: bad defense, you have take advantage of bad bombs or

1353
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 2: the other. After the sixth inning of today's game seven

1354
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 2: eight nine hitters in the Nationals lineup. Howe Rose mentioned

1355
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 2: this on the broadcast. We're one for forty five in

1356
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 2: this series.

1357
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: I was gonna say last night I saw a tweet

1358
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: about everyone who wasn't named Soto, Bell or Clevers or

1359
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: cab were one for forty one before the game came.

1360
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: That's an insane set. And that's what you have to

1361
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,240
Speaker 1: do when you have these four A triple A players

1362
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: in the line. You can't let a guy like Yadiel

1363
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 1: Hernandez be. You can't let that happen. Michael Franko.

1364
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 2: But that's why it's also so much more frustrating when

1365
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 2: the bomb of that Nationals order did ignite the rally

1366
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 2: that ended up costing the Mets this game. And we

1367
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 2: aren'tipicking a little bit good This is Mets Podcast. You're

1368
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 2: here to listen to the absolute nittiest and griddiest information

1369
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 2: about the Mets that anyone on the Internet will ever

1370
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 2: deliver you. But we have to do that because if

1371
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 2: you want to be a good team, if you want

1372
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 2: to win the National League East, even without Jacob the

1373
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 2: ground for a couple of weeks here, if you want

1374
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 2: to make the playoffs. You have to make the Nationals.

1375
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: You can't just beat them. You have to make them

1376
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 2: feel paint. You have to make them feel pain consistently.

1377
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 2: The mess did that for three games this series, the

1378
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: an opportunity to do it for four. Ends up being

1379
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 2: a good series, not a great one, but it gives

1380
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 2: us confidence heading into what is going to be an

1381
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 2: early fight with the Philadelphia Phillies starting Monday night.

1382
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be a huge series, which is crazy

1383
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, huge four games into the year, but

1384
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: it really does set the tone. Yes, for the rest

1385
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: of the year. You gotta go into Philadelphia. You gotta

1386
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: play that same clean baseball you saw. Have to be

1387
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: the better team that you are than the Phillies. The

1388
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: Phillies are gonna be good. They're gonna be They're gonna

1389
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: give us the trouble here. They hit a lot of

1390
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: home runs this past weekend. It felt like everybody on

1391
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: that team at some point got a home run. Schwarbur

1392
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: Is gonna lead off for them, and it's going to

1393
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: be You're gonna be on notice from pitch one every

1394
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: single time you play the Phillies. Then you got Castanos

1395
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: and Harper and Hoskins and those guys like Real Muto,

1396
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:21,359
Speaker 1: j t Ron Mood.

1397
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 2: We were just talking about how good the Mets top

1398
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 2: four of the other is the Phillies are gonna throw

1399
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 2: at you tomorrow. Kylee Swarber, jt Real Muto, Bryce Harper,

1400
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 2: n Castianos. It's good, good, that's Pam pissing material.

1401
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you gotta come out strong from the get go.

1402
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: You can't be sleeping. And we've seen the Mets that sometimes,

1403
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: you know, come out a little bit slow, something that

1404
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: we saw last year a lot, especially on the road. Yeah,

1405
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: on the road didn't come out hot. But the way

1406
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: that they played this past series against the Nationals granted

1407
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: a much different team, yes, but the quality of baseball

1408
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: they played translates to other teams, yes, and that is

1409
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: gonna be very important this year. They're gonna learn a lot.

1410
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 2: We're gonna learn a lot about how these teams match up.

1411
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 2: Especially again, I'll say it's a lot. But in the

1412
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 2: last episode, thirteen times by the time June starts, we're

1413
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 2: playing the Philly thirteen times. That's most of this game.

1414
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 2: There's only there's only two series. After June we got

1415
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 2: the Phillies, the rest of the year and both teams.

1416
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 2: We all talking about the Mets a lot, but the

1417
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 2: Phillies also the pre disappointing last Sunday afternoon they got

1418
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 2: shut down by Dalton Jeffries.

1419
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: Way worse loss losing to the Nationals. Yeah. Really, an

1420
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: home game against the Athletics is worse than losing a

1421
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: road game. And against the Nationals. Yes, scoring zero runs

1422
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: in the scoring one, Okay, scoring zero gs occur the

1423
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 1: same solo home run. Yeah, but scoring not scoring against

1424
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: Dalton Jeffries is confusing and on all aspects of it.

1425
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: But the Mets're you're in a scenario where you got

1426
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: Taiwan pitching Game one going up against Rogers Swatz. Let's

1427
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: just run through all the pitching matchup.

1428
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Taiwan Game one against Warez, Tyler McGill, Game two

1429
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,280
Speaker 2: Agains Zach Wheeler, and game three Wednesday afternoon, one o'clock

1430
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 2: start for all for everyone out there, Max Schezerverus, Aaron Nola, Well,

1431
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,760
Speaker 2: little Mattinee Baseball Matinee definitely gonna throw up a stream.

1432
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: I don't we can. Maybe we could do it on

1433
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: Mets stuff if you want to do something there, but

1434
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: if not, I'm definitely gonna be streaming it myself watching

1435
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: that game because that's it's a Marque matchup early in

1436
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: the year. We got to keep an eye out for that.

1437
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: The pitching, definitely, I think if we're going to talk

1438
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: about like favoring favors the Phillies right in this series,

1439
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: just because by it by a lot. Yeah, Wheelers one

1440
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: of the best pitchers in baseball. Granted, coming off of

1441
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: the shoulder thing, he didn't yes, like at all right

1442
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: in spring not very much, Nola. He looked really good,

1443
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: struggled towards the tail end of it. Yes, at the

1444
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: last game. Ranger Suarez, you could talk more about him.

1445
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: He's greatly.

1446
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 2: Ra Swarez is one of the most unique pitches in baseball.

1447
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 2: Seam shifted wake for the people at home, Rayis Wares

1448
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 2: throws a very a slyer, not his change up in

1449
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 2: his sinker, the variations of it, they're just they're bizarre pitchess.

1450
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 2: They're impossible to barrel up, They're easy to swing and

1451
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 2: miss that he I've been on Rangeisus Warris for years.

1452
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: Mark Markle give me my duke credit there telling him

1453
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 2: Rangers Warriors was good like three years ago. It's it's

1454
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 2: gonna I'm very nervous for the Monday night game. I'm

1455
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 2: very nervous for Taiwan Walker, who we just saw a

1456
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 2: week ago throwing eighty six miles an hour against the

1457
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,879
Speaker 2: Spring training Marlins, get his tits lit on fire.

1458
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm scared for that game.

1459
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 2: But I'm confident that with McGill and Scherzer, and even

1460
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 2: just with the offense, I maybe the Meschican Rangers Warris

1461
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 2: maybe now they've seen him a few times last year.

1462
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 2: Guy went to two or three of these games. I

1463
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 2: think we're gonna se David Peterson season debut in the

1464
00:55:58,480 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 2: series two.

1465
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,920
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, he's up, obviously because the Edwin Diaz bereavement,

1466
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: which you talked about earlier. Peterson's gonna get it at

1467
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: some point. He was the only player, I think, on

1468
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 1: the entire Mets roster who did not make an appearance

1469
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: in the opening day weekend series. So keep an eye

1470
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: out for him. Taiwan, especially with that knee, even if

1471
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: he is going well, probably doesn't go past four innings.

1472
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 1: I think you're really pushing ste pitches, maybe sixty pitches.

1473
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: He didn't really pitch much in spring coming off with

1474
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: the knee surgery and especially the rough routing the last

1475
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: time where he said his knee was bothering him. Dam.

1476
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: Peterson's probably warming up from pitchwak.

1477
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I feel like that is a pretty good

1478
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 2: piggyback for Taiwan because you when you do the piggybacking

1479
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 2: thing that a lot of teams of baseball are doing,

1480
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 2: especially his opening week, you don't really want those pitchers

1481
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 2: have the same handedness because it kind of becomes like

1482
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 2: a cat and mouse game with the other manager. Even

1483
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 2: though Joe Girardi you might have a smaller brain than

1484
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 2: the average cat, being able to set platoons up in

1485
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 2: the lineup before the game. So you can pitch Taiwan

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Speaker 2: for three, maybe Peterson for three, just switch up the

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Speaker 2: handedness he hitters get a different look after one or

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Speaker 2: two times through. That's what you're gonna have to kind

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Speaker 2: of manufacture Taiwan Walker's production early.

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Speaker 1: In the season. I think it's possible. And for all

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Speaker 1: you Mets, fa Phillies got a you know, top prospect

1492
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: up as well, Bryson Scott who's been playing a little bit.

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00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 1: He's looked pretty good. It's a good little left handed

1494
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 1: hitter keeping out for him towards the bottom of their order.

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00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: He's not an automatic out by any means. Very good

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00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: hitter overall for this Phillies team. The lineup's better with

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Speaker 1: him in there. Then you know when it's like out.

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Speaker 2: Boom and the defense is better and the defense is

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Speaker 2: better for sure, But the Phillies they're gonna hit yest.

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Speaker 2: This is like the weirdest thing to say, because like, oh,

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00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 2: the idiot, like you have to outscore the Phillies to

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00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 2: beat them.

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00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the.

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00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 2: Phillies bullpen is while it's not good, it is better

1505
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 2: than disaster then like it has been recent years, it's

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00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 2: gonna be fucking bizarre.

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Speaker 1: The watch areas Familiar pitch against the Mets. I'm not

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00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: ready for that. It's gonna be uplifting to watch brad

1509
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: hand pitch against the Mets. I'm very excited to see that.

1510
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: Wait to see that. I'm gonna salivate with Brad Hans

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00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: live live bet overruns that. Then again, whenever Brad han

1512
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: comes in, we're gonna be on top of that one.

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Speaker 1: But Philly, this we're gonna learn a lot.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna learn a lot of this first years against

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00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 2: the Phillies and we get him again next week at home.

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00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 2: So we got six game against the Phillies sandwiched around

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00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 2: this nice diningback series. We're gonna preview after the Phillies series,

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00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,919
Speaker 2: But get ready because this is gonna be the team.

1519
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 2: Know we're staring at right now, and you gotta beat

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00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 2: them if you want to get a leg up in

1521
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 2: this divisional race.

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00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 1: Thinking there might be a brawl against the Phillies, I'm

1523
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: feeling it. I'd be sick. I'm feeling at Jose Alvarado

1524
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: ship from last year. You know what team old school

1525
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: managers Gerardi and Buck. I got a feeling it's gonna

1526
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: be gonna be flaring interestiness if you're if you're a

1527
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,479
Speaker 1: baseball fan, not just a Mets fan. The Reeze Hoskins history,

1528
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: the re I fucking hate Reecee Hoskins. I hate that guy.

1529
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: Is one of my top five least favorite players in baseball.

1530
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: Right now, it's gonna be hot, Temper's gonna be flaring.

1531
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: These are two teams competing, like we said, for the

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00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 1: top of the division. It's gonna be a must watch series,

1533
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: gonna be huge series, and I'm excited. I'm really excited

1534
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: to see this like, I hate Philly and I don't

1535
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 1: want to see it. I don't want to see him

1536
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: play well. But boy, oh boy, this coun be fun

1537
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: baseball to watch it for when it seemed like we

1538
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: were gonna have baseball for a bit. This is an

1539
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: awesome series to start the year with. There's an awesome

1540
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: serious start the year with. And just uh, a little

1541
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: bit on the gambling side here, just want to mention something. Guys,

1542
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: take a look at the overs. This is for the

1543
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: messed up listeners here. Take a look at the overs

1544
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: on the first inning, especially in Philadelphia, which is a

1545
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: band box. Just keep an eye out for him and

1546
00:58:58,360 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: sprinkle a little money here and there if you've got

1547
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: it play with especially we just talked about two teams

1548
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: with very good top four of the orders. That's who

1549
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: comes up in the first inning. Generally, yes, yeah, it's

1550
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: not bad play.

1551
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 2: If you're a gambling man or a woman, just just

1552
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 2: keep an eye out. If if you're in New York,

1553
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 2: New Jersey of course, where it's legal. Yeah, please Draftking

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1557
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Speaker 1: I know, I want listen. I want all the boys.

1558
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: I want us to eat everybody eats. And then, unrelated

1559
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: to the Philly series, let's just talk about some former

1560
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: Mets around the league road. Yeah, shout to Billy Bombs.

1561
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: Billy McKinney hit a home run against the Philly is

1562
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: a big reason why they lost to Oakland in the

1563
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: last game. Even when he's not with the Mets, he's

1564
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: helping this team out. Billy McKinney, you always have an

1565
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: open invite on this podcast. Way as an oakle A's player,

1566
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: I don't care. Billy McKinny, we love you. Way to

1567
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,959
Speaker 1: help us out again, Billy Bombs Baby, and Steven Mess stunk,

1568
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, what are you gonna do? What are you

1569
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: gonna do?

1570
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 2: I hate to see it, but shout out to if

1571
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 2: you listen to this, the Cardinals fan the DM me

1572
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 2: in the second ending of that game telling that Steven

1573
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 2: Mess was dealing and the Mets suck and then apologizing

1574
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 2: to me about twenty minutes later.

1575
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 1: That's that's hilarious. Yeah. Overall sentiment from Opening Day weekend,

1576
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: great baseball, Mets. Met's had a great series. I'm saying good,

1577
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: Mark said great. It took the shine off of it

1578
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: losing the way we did in Game four, but it's

1579
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: still overall a great series. And if you are a

1580
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: Mets fan who is worried or scared, I don't know

1581
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: what to do with you, because you're just crazy. You're

1582
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: not on the same planet that we are or not.

1583
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what you watched this weekend that would

1584
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: make you scared or worried. I think like the concerns

1585
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: with the lineup, Like you said, it's boring, it's oatmeal. Yeah,

1586
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: but if you watch them play this weekend, you go,

1587
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: that's exactly what we need. No one's excited when you

1588
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: get oatmeal for breakfast. No one's excited for to see

1589
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: the box of cheerios in their cabinet. But it helps

1590
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 1: you poop. It's there for you, Yes, and this Mets

1591
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 1: lineup's there for you. Cybrus so much fiber, and I

1592
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: feel like that is a great place to end Episode

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01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: number eighty two of the Mess Up Podcast, presented by

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Speaker 1: the Seven Line. Thank you guys for listening, Thank you

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01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,640
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1596
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Speaker 1: our video clips, tweets content over there, along with the

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Speaker 1: ad Jeter had no range, and follow the seven Line

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Speaker 1: two great metsic community. Give them a follow as well.

1602
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: Think that we're wrapping it up here, James, right, oh yeah,

1603
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: all right, guys, we'll catch you on the next episode

1604
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 1: after the Philly series to preview who do we got next?

1605
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: All the dime, it's gonna be great. Tom Seavers statue,

1606
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: Tom Seavers statue. So much going on the next episode,

1607
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: so you don't want to miss out. And let's please

1608
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: for the living, for God's sake, be the living ship

1609
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: out of the Phillies. Just wind two win, two win too.

1610
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, guys, Peace out, peace out, guys. To

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Speaker 1: see you next time. That was a damn good episode.