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Speaker 1: There was a New York Post article written by everybody's

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Speaker 1: And that's how you know it's so insane, not alone

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Speaker 3: No, we tried actively to avoid this because this is

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Speaker 3: But of course we also know from being the baseball

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Speaker 3: The public cannot actually read the actual article. And I

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Speaker 3: On an answer with a journalist. He told Puma, it's

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Speaker 3: Worst case scenario, he gets a baseball answer. The want

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Speaker 3: this exactly what's happened. And again, Soto is such a

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Speaker 3: Of course, that is because it's an honest sentiment that

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Speaker 1: But this is it. It doesn't matter, Honestly, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: So like sometimes baseball players don't play the best that

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Speaker 3: That's the part that's amazing is that Juan Solo has

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Speaker 1: Peede Alonzo, Like that's that's the craziest too. The other

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Speaker 1: very funny how he acts on WFAN when he's not

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because he is playing an act. He is a character,

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Speaker 3: and that's again why you can't really get that mad

435
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Speaker 3: a him at the end of the day. It's kind

436
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Speaker 3: of like getting mad at the w W wrestler, like

437
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Speaker 3: that's just how they are, Like Roman Reigns doesn't act

438
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Speaker 3: like that in real life. The rock is that in real.

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Speaker 2: Life what happen.

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Speaker 1: Most guarantee you Locata is going to say that he's like,

441
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Speaker 1: I'm a performer.

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Speaker 2: He would say that I'm a Perforce would.

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Speaker 3: Say that, yeah, and also shout out giving a lot

444
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Speaker 3: of shouts to foreign players, shout out to Aaron Judge

445
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Speaker 3: the way that he's handled this story as well, because

446
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Speaker 3: Martino asked him by the point blank and Judge was like,

447
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Speaker 3: that's ridiculous. He was like, first of all, p Londz

448
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Speaker 3: was one of the best layers in baseball, sending behind him,

449
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Speaker 3: there really is no big deal right now, and like

450
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Speaker 3: he's going to be fine. It's also clear that in

451
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Speaker 3: all these situations, Aaron Judge hates any mention of Juan

452
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Speaker 3: so though at all it seems like he fate feels

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Speaker 3: he's the one who guy who in that Yankee club,

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Speaker 3: ass seems like he might be a little slighted, might

455
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Speaker 3: be a little upset by all this was like, we

456
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Speaker 3: could have just done this again for the next fifteen years,

457
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Speaker 3: but it's just crazy. And then this is the problem.

458
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Speaker 3: Is how we're gonna end this is that this all

459
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Speaker 3: just becomes cat andip for Yankee fans because they have

460
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Speaker 3: no light in their lives anymore. On the worst starting

461
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Speaker 3: rotations in baseball, they know they're gonna go through a

462
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Speaker 3: whole regular season. Possibly he's got ejected, yeah shout. Jad

463
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Speaker 3: H hasn't forgetting forweeting from the dougat emediately after getting ejected,

464
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Speaker 3: saying it wasn't fucking close on a pitch that wasn't close.

465
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Speaker 3: But everyone's other favorite WFAN host Keith McPherson, who is

466
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Speaker 3: just somehow, somehow WFN manages to drain a little bit

467
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Speaker 3: more out of the pool when they transition to the

468
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Speaker 3: to the late day reporting from mcad. I mean, Evan's

469
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Speaker 3: also done a good job that he said it is ridiculous,

470
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Speaker 3: but yeah, Keith me fiers and goes as a Yankee fan.

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Speaker 2: I'm loving it.

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Speaker 3: I hope he continues to struggle because I've had to

473
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Speaker 3: hear all about what we lost. Do you not think

474
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Speaker 3: he's good anymore? Yeah, it's like Gary, like it's Crammy.

475
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Speaker 3: It's just it's the negativity is so rampant. It's so

476
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Speaker 3: hard to deal with. It's just so shocking it this

477
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Speaker 3: is what pays the bills and these answer to these guys.

478
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean even even going around the league. It's

479
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Speaker 1: it's insane what we've seen on some of the radio shows.

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Speaker 1: I know Boomer and Geo talked about he's striking out

481
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Speaker 1: way more than I expected. That's the most alarming part.

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Speaker 1: It's just straight up untrue. He's not striking out more

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Speaker 1: than you expected. He's actually striking out less than he

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Speaker 1: did last year. It's one of his lowest k rates

485
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Speaker 1: for his career right now. So he's actually striking out

486
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Speaker 1: less than he has, less than you expected. You couldn't

487
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Speaker 1: have expected he was going to strike out less than

488
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Speaker 1: he is right now. That's basically the entire take there.

489
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who don't watch baseball. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who don't know about baseball. There

491
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Speaker 1: are a lot of people who truly are casual baseball fans,

492
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Speaker 1: and that's okay.

493
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Speaker 2: We love casual baseb fans.

494
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Speaker 1: You should casually watch baseball if you're not able to

495
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Speaker 1: be Sickos like me and James were probably the people

496
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Speaker 1: listening to this podcast. There's nothing wrong with that, but

497
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Speaker 1: having the platform and then using that poorly, like saying

498
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Speaker 1: he's striking out more.

499
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Speaker 2: I'm concerned about his play.

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Speaker 1: There's really nothing concerning outside the fact that he's just

501
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Speaker 1: not getting hits. He's playing worse than he has, But

502
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Speaker 1: I'm not concerned. I don't think there's any level of

503
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Speaker 1: concern as me as a Mets fan whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely, that is why we wanted to wait a

505
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Speaker 3: couple of days to record this kind of try and

506
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Speaker 3: let some dust settle. See him get a game in

507
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Speaker 3: city field. See this is actually having an influence on

508
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Speaker 3: this because sadly it is. That is why I wanted

509
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Speaker 3: to I don't know reference to talk about it, because

510
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Speaker 3: this should be a non story. They shouldn't have even

511
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Speaker 3: anything that happened. They should they should. And the funny

512
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Speaker 3: thing about this too, this story actually broke on Monday evening.

513
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Speaker 3: The story broke twelve minutes after he hit that home

514
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Speaker 3: running at the Twins, like because we were sitting watching

515
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Speaker 3: the game and we saw that, Like, whoa, oh my god,

516
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Speaker 3: you're seeing this. Everyone's quot tweeting it, everyone's all the

517
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Speaker 3: Yankee fans are running with it. Because I think this

518
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Speaker 3: is more of a story for.

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Speaker 2: Yankee fans that million percent. I think.

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Speaker 1: I think again, like you said, there were some booz

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Speaker 1: last night for Sodo. I think that is the vocal

522
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Speaker 1: vocal minority at the game.

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Speaker 2: I also think it's crazy too.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna shout out for anything. He hasn't

525
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Speaker 1: even been negative about Sodo in that light, so like

526
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Speaker 1: we know something's wrong when all of a sudden, everybody

527
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Speaker 1: except the most negative Mets fan in the world, is

528
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Speaker 1: going crazy about this kind of stuff. It's a very

529
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Speaker 1: very vocal minority that's doing the booing and I at least,

530
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't stop idiots from being stupid, like

531
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Speaker 1: that's just kind of how it is.

532
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Speaker 2: But it's it's all being overblown so much.

533
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Speaker 3: And again, the thing I want to come back to

534
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Speaker 3: how we're gonna end this is that Mets fans we

535
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Speaker 3: at this time of recording a Friday, there are twelve

536
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Speaker 3: and seven without meaningful contributions up to his level from

537
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Speaker 3: Monsoa from differential and for.

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Speaker 1: People listening for Wan Soto stinking, oh he sucks. He's

539
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Speaker 1: been terrible. Right, Let's just say that's the take that

540
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Speaker 1: we're having, Right, He's been terrible Mets A twelve.

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Speaker 3: And seven And that's that's what we could pull away

542
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Speaker 3: from this, the fact that this team is good and

543
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Speaker 3: good enough to pick up all of the huge air

544
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Speaker 3: quotes here, the most exaggerate the air coach you'll ever do,

545
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 3: slack around want so right now not hitting well, especially

546
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Speaker 3: while missing two players up there starting nine two pitchers

547
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Speaker 3: and their oh and their projected opening day rotation, and

548
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz having an ERA what six five and a

549
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Speaker 3: half still the crazy and Francisco Lindor not hitting and

550
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Speaker 3: Brandon Nemo not hitting. This team is still twelve and seven,

551
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Speaker 3: six and one at home. This is a there's a

552
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Speaker 3: good there's a good thing being built here. And the

553
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Speaker 3: only reason that this is where they're able to go

554
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Speaker 3: with this is because other things are going so well.

555
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Speaker 2: And that's just that's what it is.

556
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's not fun for the Mets

557
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Speaker 1: to be good and not have any issues going around.

558
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Speaker 1: If you look around major League Baseball, wan so too. Again,

559
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Speaker 1: we wanted to drive in runs. Of course, his RBIs

560
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Speaker 1: are low right now, but he is top twenty in

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Speaker 1: runs scored.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Love to see that. That's really good to see,

563
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Speaker 2: especially for a.

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Speaker 1: Guy who's again he's struggling, right, That's what all the

565
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Speaker 1: people are saying. He's not contributing to this team. He's

566
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Speaker 1: not getting on base or scoring any runs.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: The last thing I'll say, too, is about the bat

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Speaker 1: speed thing that I've seen a lot of people bring

570
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Speaker 1: up as well, that Wan Soto's batspeed is down this year.

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Speaker 1: It is, so is Aaron Judges. Technically, so are a

572
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Speaker 1: bunch of players around the league's bat speeds down. Wan

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Speaker 1: Soto still has a significantly better batspeed than league average,

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Speaker 1: so that's not something to worry about. The thing that

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Speaker 1: I noticed in my research, I wrote down his average

576
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Speaker 1: bat speed per count on swings when he has no

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Speaker 1: strikes in the count and he's either ahead like one oho,

578
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Speaker 1: two oh three to zero, well three oho, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: swing but two to oh seventy six miles an hour,

580
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Speaker 1: one oh seventy five miles an hour, zero zero seventy

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Speaker 1: four miles an hour, all right around where he.

582
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Speaker 2: Was last year.

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Speaker 1: Where his bat speed has dropped has been in two

584
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Speaker 1: strike counts this year one two, two, two three two.

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Speaker 1: It's in the lower seventies and sometimes in the sixties.

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Speaker 1: But when you compare that to how many two strike

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Speaker 1: counts and how many competitive two strike swings he had

588
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Speaker 1: last year compared to this year in the same sample size,

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Speaker 1: they are significantly more. So he's just getting a little

590
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Speaker 1: bit more into two strike counts right now and forcing

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Speaker 1: himself to swing because he doesn't want to strike up,

592
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Speaker 1: because he knows getting on base is so valuable. For

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Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, the swing speed stuff is so overblown it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a really easy take for people to have

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Speaker 1: because you can see it on baseball savant and say, oh,

596
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Speaker 1: the swing's beats down. What's going on with Wan Soto?

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Speaker 1: The deeper you dive into it, the swings beats them completely. Fine,

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Speaker 1: he's just trying to strike out less and he's had

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Speaker 1: more two strike swings.

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Speaker 3: You guys know, it's really serious. And markcu is he

601
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Speaker 3: actually doing nitty greedy research saying numbers on a podcast.

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Speaker 3: That's how you know this is really right about And

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Speaker 3: I guess something else that we just have to mention

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Speaker 3: that we've talked about a little bit. The off season's

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Speaker 3: like there's always going to be a bit of a uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, a comfort appeared to get comfortable for one.

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Speaker 3: So he just signed the biggest contract in American professional sports.

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Speaker 2: History, sort history. I mean, I thought Ronaldo's.

609
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Speaker 1: Was Rinaldo had a with sponsorships. It was more straight up,

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Speaker 1: straight up contract, not more so this. It's just it

611
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Speaker 1: is a lot of pressure for any human to deal with.

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Speaker 3: And then when all of that's going on at the

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Speaker 3: same time while you're not playing your best or porters

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Speaker 3: are trying to get you. We got your questions, well,

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Speaker 3: your your home fans are slightly blooming you a ten

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Speaker 3: ten and a bitty tiny bit like it's just a

617
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Speaker 3: lot to deal with and like it's it's human to

618
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Speaker 3: have some struggles in this situation like this is going on.

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Speaker 3: I really think that's okay, and that in three months,

620
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Speaker 3: this is we're not even gonna remember this happened.

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Speaker 1: I literally I this is the last we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about it. We're not gonna hear We're not gonna hear

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Speaker 1: us talk about this again. Because Wansa was obviously gonna

624
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Speaker 1: turn around. I'm say on Friday night, it's a home

625
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: run at City Field as well, So just put that

626
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Speaker 1: out there in the in the universe and things are

627
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Speaker 1: gonna be great because wants was fucking really good.

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Speaker 2: He's such a good baseball player.

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Speaker 3: Wan So it was so good that when he's bad,

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Speaker 3: he's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, when he's when he's bad, he is still one

633
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: of the best hitters in Major League Baseball. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's how where you can take some solace there, that's

635
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Speaker 1: where you can take a deep breath. And everyone stopped

636
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Speaker 1: freaking out so much about this. It's a non story

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Speaker 1: and they feels the best.

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Speaker 3: It feels rocking Thursday, I was rocking again Friday. Can't

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Speaker 3: I love being at that ballpark so much. It's a

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Speaker 3: it's a and the Mets too too. Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 3: at the twenty twenty one and five in the last

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Speaker 3: twenty six games of City Field. So just that's we

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Speaker 3: got a lot of good things going for us right now.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's keep it rolling. Yeah, let's keep it rolling.

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Speaker 3: And that's it for this episode. Guys, thank you so

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Speaker 3: much for listening and watching. Make sure you're subscribe to

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Speaker 3: the Mets of the podcast over on YouTube. If you're

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Speaker 2: You can follow.

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Speaker 1: James on social media James Shianna and I'm drafting Park

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Speaker 1: with a C. Thank you auys for listening to watching.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch you all after the Cardinal series.

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Speaker 2: Let's go Mets.

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Speaker 3: Let's go Mets Baby.

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Speaker 2: Peace out,