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Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil has finally been traded to the Athletics for

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Speaker 1: a seventeen year old kid from Cuba who played in

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Speaker 1: the DSL. Crazy Mets are sending money. Jeff McNeil's no

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Speaker 1: longer on this team. We're gonna talk about it just

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Speaker 1: as a player, as burst a lot of things. There's

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Speaker 1: connections to this podcast for Jeff McNeil. I'm sure some

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Speaker 1: of you at home watching this are jumping for joy.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you are pulling your hair out.

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Speaker 2: Going what is this team doing? How can we get

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Speaker 2: rid of Jeff McNeil. There's a lot to talk about here.

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Speaker 1: Before we do, make sure you do subscribe. Classic us

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Speaker 1: drop an episode on Monday. David Stern selfish, couldn't wait

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Speaker 1: till Tuesday to give us the news.

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Speaker 2: Had to make sure we double upload today. But that's

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Speaker 2: what we're doing for you guys. James, when you saw

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Speaker 2: the trade, when you saw the news, what did you think?

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Speaker 3: It's like you said, finally, it felt like the mess

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Speaker 3: have been trying to trade Jeff McNeil this all off season.

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Speaker 3: It felt like everybody in the Mets community was kind

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Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil. It was kind of like, if you're going

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Speaker 2: to trade all.

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Speaker 3: These other guys, like, what's Jeff McNeil still doing here?

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Speaker 3: Like it's and based on the way this trade going down,

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Speaker 3: almost six million dollars and then agreeing to pay the

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Speaker 3: next year, this was a where we are getting rid

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not.

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Speaker 1: A bad deal now for the A's if you think

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Speaker 1: about from their perspective from the Mets, they did pay

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Speaker 1: the A's to take him away again for a seventeen

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Speaker 1: year old cuban who signed last year and just started

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Speaker 1: Believe that's like the same year that Brandon Knew was drafted.

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Speaker 3: I think the year before Brandon was drafted by them.

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Speaker 3: As also two minutes ago from Francis Romero. With Jeff

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Speaker 3: McNeil gone, the Mets are believed to be exploring to

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Speaker 1: I don't think those two are related because Marcus sime

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Speaker 3: Not important, right, non point, not important, just just it

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Speaker 3: just happened on Twitter. So it's fine, but it's u

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Speaker 3: This is a continuation of what this offseason has been,

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Speaker 3: which was everything changing. We're getting rid of every single

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Speaker 3: player from the stench of the old world. I'm not

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Speaker 3: even saying the old world. Like the twenty twenty five Mets,

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Speaker 3: Jeff McNeil was the second guy left on this active

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Speaker 3: roster with any connection to the Wolpond owned Mets. Now

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Speaker 3: the last one is David Peterson, who debuted in twenty

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a very good chance that David Peterson

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Speaker 2: It's one of those moves where Jeff McNeil's.

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Speaker 1: Valuable, but on this team along with what possibly could

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Speaker 1: Jeff just kind of didn't have a spot on this team,

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Speaker 1: Almost nobody from Billy Eppler stuff is still here because

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Speaker 3: But like you, you had him season where you it

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Speaker 2: It's a oh, it's a lot to take in, but

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Speaker 3: Send me a trade happen, there was a five percent

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Speaker 1: It would have been weird because the role would have

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Speaker 3: Easy to forget Jeff McNeil's coming off the race of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it was it felt like it was

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Speaker 1: We love that McNeil is so fucking crazy when he

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Speaker 1: guys were hoping for, sorry, we just were not going

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Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, I got rid of a player.

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Speaker 1: There's there's just no way we were reacting to that,

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Speaker 1: to news that we knew was gonna happen at any

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Speaker 1: point this offseason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just I mean, it's just this. This, it's first.

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Speaker 3: We've got fifty minutes out of this. I don't even

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Speaker 2: Say no, that's it. That's it. That's all I got

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Speaker 2: for you, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Make

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Speaker 2: sure you subscribe to Mess Up not just on YouTube, but.

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Speaker 1: On Apple, podcast, Spotify, and Google. Drops a rating, drops

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Speaker 1: a review, download and subscribe. You can follow James on

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Speaker 1: social media at James Ganna. I'm drafting Mark. Thank you

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Speaker 1: as for watching. We'll catch you all later this week

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Speaker 1: for another radio.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, see you guys.

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Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, FO