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Speaker 1: Hold us up, Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of The Mets d the Podcast. How about that Mets

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Speaker 1: have been playing terrible, terrible baseball. The Dodgers, one of

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Speaker 1: the best teams in baseball, come to town at City Field,

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Speaker 1: and what do you know? The Mets are home and

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Speaker 1: they get shit done. They get the job done. Wait,

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Speaker 1: take two out of three from the Dodgers. The offense

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Speaker 1: looked great, Wan Soto had a big game. Pete Alonso

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Speaker 1: finally hit a home run. Bret Baty, Bret Baty, It's happening.

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Speaker 1: It's happening. The Brett Baty Magic, the Brett Baty breakout

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Speaker 1: is finally happening. So many good things to go over

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Speaker 1: in this episode of the podcast. Shout to everybody who

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Speaker 1: had a great Memorial Day or is currently celebrated Memorial Day.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling? You were at the game on Sunday night?

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Speaker 1: Where were the vibes?

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Speaker 2: The vibes were good, but the vibes were hilariously kind

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Speaker 2: of not dreary, but a little low, just because the

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Speaker 2: game started off with such a bang where sho hey,

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Speaker 2: Tony puts a ball in the Coe Cold corner the

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Speaker 2: bottom of the first inning. Plonza responds with the two

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Speaker 2: run homer. That was really it. There wasn't many other

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Speaker 2: had the RBI ground out two winnings later and nothing

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Speaker 2: else really happened, not that many guys even got to

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Speaker 2: scoring position. It was just kind of a really well

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Speaker 2: pitched game by Landon Nak quote I saying in the

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Speaker 2: Mets bullpen. But like still, with that being said, fans

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Speaker 2: are pretty pumped leaving there. Ending this series with a

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Speaker 2: series went over the Dodgers is tremendous, specially considering how

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Speaker 2: this team's played of late, and we kind of foreshadowed

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Speaker 2: this in the series preview a few days ago in

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Speaker 2: an episode that did very well. So thank all of

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Speaker 2: you guys for supporting the last episode. That also shout

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Speaker 2: out all the new listeners that we got because the

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Speaker 2: episode did incredibly So if you guys are back for

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Speaker 2: ano episode of Thats the Podcast, we're really happy to

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Speaker 2: have you. Appreciate that. But the Mets really benefited from

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Speaker 2: some scheduling luck with the series being able to avoid

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Speaker 2: you oshnobiam mo other opposite scheduled luck the head last

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Speaker 2: week and against Yankee, So we had pitching advantages in

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Speaker 2: besides for a bunch of absolute bullshit, chaos in nonsense

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Speaker 2: very easily could have been a seriousweep of the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: and we'd be feeling incredible at this point. But we're

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Speaker 2: very happy with a series win.

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Speaker 1: Nevertheless, Yeah, I think all the negatives that we've been

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Speaker 1: and just the fact that there wasn't a lot of

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Speaker 1: wom Sodo storylines and rumors coming out. It was really

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Speaker 1: nice to play the best team in baseball and just

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Speaker 1: to sweep this series. Game one was so weird, so bizarre,

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Speaker 2: I think, pound for pound, that Game one, fribably was

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Speaker 2: then the Knicks break my heart, and then the game

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Speaker 2: comes back. The Mets come back when I was feeling

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Speaker 1: They mentioned on the broadcast. I think the Dodgers and

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Speaker 2: That's inconceivable, especially again for lineups. I know people are

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Brett Baty hit that huge home run to kind

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Speaker 1: incredible to see how well Brett Baty is playing. We

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Speaker 1: He is too good of a player to be as

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Speaker 2: The guy's like seven yeah, seven eight the ops right

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Speaker 2: it's incredible to see everything he's done. It's just you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when he went back to I'm just gonna call

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Speaker 1: That's a six inch difference, that's half a foot. That

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Speaker 2: Feeded and he's a little bit more open now he's

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Speaker 2: running for baseball perspectives that the Mets as a team

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Speaker 2: have the deepest interset point of any team in the league,

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Speaker 2: which means that the Mets on average as a team

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Speaker 1: The most casual drive and dunk I've seen in a

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Speaker 2: I think people forget how which a freak athlete he was.

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Speaker 2: this guy has a fuck ton of tools, much more

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he's phenomenal. He had a great series overall. Defensively, offensively,

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Speaker 1: that comeback with us also shout Jeff McNeil. He's been

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Speaker 1: Are we gonna have the conversation about luisn Helicunya right now?

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Speaker 2: the bat in a certain way. It does not appear

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Speaker 2: that way as working right now. Well, that's that's.

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Speaker 1: Something that Yeah, I've hinted that before when I've mentioned

436
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Speaker 1: that to him, like the ball is just getting way

437
00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,080
Speaker 1: too deep. And again for Brett Baty it works because

438
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Speaker 1: he has that elite bat speed. For some guys like

439
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Speaker 1: Wan Soda has always been a guy who's let the

440
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Speaker 1: ball get get deep. Again, I'd like to see him

441
00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,200
Speaker 1: be a little more aggressive, but still he always lets

442
00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:27,479
Speaker 1: the ball get deep. That's part of the reason why

443
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Speaker 1: he has one of the best eyes in the league.

444
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Speaker 1: But this approach that we've seen is one hundred percent

445
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Speaker 1: got to be coming from Javez. It has to be

446
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Speaker 1: something that he preaches about, let's see the ball, let's

447
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Speaker 1: get it deep. And I can rationalize why you would

448
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Speaker 1: tell a guy like Alvarez that because he does have

449
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Speaker 1: good bat speed, he's so quick, and he does at

450
00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 1: time have difficulty identifying pitches, so you want him to

451
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Speaker 1: be able to get the best look possible. But the

452
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Speaker 1: closed stance, the opposite field bullshit that he has, the

453
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Speaker 1: non stop wanting him to hit for contact, that is

454
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about this on the podcast for

455
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Speaker 1: three years now. That is a recipe for his dister

456
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Speaker 1: and is not something that's gonna make Francisco Alvarez work.

457
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Speaker 1: What like Brett Baty went back to the old approach,

458
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Speaker 1: not the one that he was getting at the major

459
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Speaker 1: league level. What do you know, he was fantastic Since

460
00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,120
Speaker 1: he's done that maybe Francisco Alvera has got to start

461
00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:14,879
Speaker 1: playing like he thinks it's Brooklyn again and just go

462
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Speaker 1: out there and just start taking daddy hat as he's

463
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Speaker 1: his daddy hacks. Right now, he's swinging through water. He's

464
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Speaker 1: not even close to hitting these pitches we're in the past.

465
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Speaker 1: And granted again it's the minor leagues. It's different. The

466
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Speaker 1: pitching's not nearly as good, but he's way too talented

467
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Speaker 1: to be hitting such like doofy little hits like he does.

468
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Speaker 2: The one note I'm waiting for that's really going to

469
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Speaker 2: finally confirm all of these like air quote suspicions about Javez,

470
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Speaker 2: and I think some people are piling on him too much.

471
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Speaker 2: I think when you start blaming a positional coach, that

472
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Speaker 2: becomes like kind of scapegoading. But also where there's smoke,

473
00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,600
Speaker 2: there's fire with some mis approach stuff. If we ever

474
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Speaker 2: get to note the words, it gets split through media

475
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Speaker 2: availability that pie Alonzo like trained with an outside source

476
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Speaker 2: this offseason, that he went to an academy, he went

477
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Speaker 2: to a camp, he worked with external coaches that me

478
00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:01,920
Speaker 2: mentally will be the nail on the coffin because something

479
00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,040
Speaker 2: we talk about a lot in this show, and I

480
00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,640
Speaker 2: think we talked about this privately and ever we talk about,

481
00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,360
Speaker 2: especially football, where it's not a good approach for one

482
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Speaker 2: coach to be trying to be one size fits all.

483
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Speaker 2: This is the way we do things. We we always

484
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Speaker 2: talk about how great Jeremy Hefner is. I think the

485
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Speaker 2: thing that makes Jeremy Hefner so great is how personalized

486
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Speaker 2: he is with all these guys. Different things work for

487
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Speaker 2: different players. Hither's pitchers, field, This doesn't really matter. There's

488
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Speaker 2: no one size fits all, definitely not in a sport

489
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Speaker 2: like baseball. It's actually quite the opposite. Everyone should be

490
00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,560
Speaker 2: different in play, exactly to your own strengths. So if

491
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Speaker 2: there is a situation happening, and again I'm not sure

492
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Speaker 2: there is, I'm not even sure that close to this

493
00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,639
Speaker 2: is true, might not be, and but definitely might not be.

494
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Speaker 2: But if there is a situation where they're trying a

495
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 2: one size fits all team wide approach and that approach

496
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Speaker 2: is letting the ball travel, you can't institute stuff like that.

497
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Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of murmurs in the media

498
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Speaker 2: the last couple of days about how much Batsby want

499
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Speaker 2: solo is lost. We so you know, Sarah's going the

500
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Speaker 2: foul territory and talk about that, and Wan Solo has

501
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,440
Speaker 2: lost average batsby this year compared to last year, but

502
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Speaker 2: at the same time, the ball is traveling much deeper.

503
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Speaker 2: I want so though, we did talk about the fact

504
00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 2: that he might be a little bit trying to find

505
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Speaker 2: out where his swing and his powers now because last

506
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 2: year Yankee Stadium's much more focus on pulling the ball

507
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:04,920
Speaker 2: as every left he should there where he used to

508
00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 2: be much more of a less center field hither. It's

509
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Speaker 2: very interesting how all this stuff is happening at the

510
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,399
Speaker 2: same time and kind of it's it's relationship with one another.

511
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Speaker 1: Yeah, something that we will definitely be keeping close eye on.

512
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Speaker 1: And anytime we get some more like you said, we

513
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Speaker 1: find out Pete A. Lonzo's got an outside guy, or

514
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Speaker 1: we find out Francisco Indoor or anybody who's got some

515
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Speaker 1: outside help, we'll be like, oh, now it's okay, now, now,

516
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,760
Speaker 1: now it's on. Now he's not just a scapegoat. Now

517
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Speaker 1: this is very real. Again, I'll keep bringing up that

518
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Speaker 1: Dsha quote when Lindor called him out for not doing

519
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Speaker 1: his job last year. I feel like everybody missed the

520
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Speaker 1: point of that article.

521
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the last thing, I guess somehow we're still

522
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Speaker 2: kind of talking about Game one. I did hate some

523
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Speaker 2: of the managerial moves in extra innings when we did

524
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Speaker 2: a pinch runner for pe Alonzo with Jeff McNeil up,

525
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Speaker 2: and then you don't bunt Jeff McNeil. I know he

526
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Speaker 2: got the big hit two innings before, but in that situation.

527
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Speaker 2: This is a this is a primarily never bunting podcast.

528
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Speaker 2: But the one time, yes, we approve of bunting is

529
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Speaker 2: when one run exactly wins you a baseball game. In

530
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Speaker 2: that situation where you can get a guy in their

531
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Speaker 2: base with one out, guarantee Neil, who was a pretty

532
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Speaker 2: good bunter, can get a bunt down. Yeah, when you've

533
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Speaker 2: just taken one of your best players out of the

534
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Speaker 2: line up intentionally to get a faster guy on base,

535
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Speaker 2: that pissed me off.

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Speaker 1: That and just the fact that we just pounded the

537
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Speaker 1: ball into the ground, which again is part of the

538
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Speaker 1: reason why probably waiting and letting the ball get deep

539
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Speaker 1: is so tough too, because your bat never gets to

540
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Speaker 1: actually like reach like a vertical approach angle. You're always

541
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Speaker 1: swinging down the ball because you're hitting it so late,

542
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Speaker 1: so deep in the zone. Akunya as a bat was abysmal.

543
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Speaker 1: It was so bad for.

544
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Speaker 2: Him to go up three to zero and then swinging

545
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Speaker 2: the boarderline pitch on three to one. I was just

546
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Speaker 2: I was just staring at my ceiling like, how could

547
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Speaker 2: how could that? I was the Tony soproud of him,

548
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Speaker 2: How could this happen? How could this happen?

549
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Speaker 1: I rarely vouch for the three to one take, but

550
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Speaker 1: I was like, you can't swing the bat. This guy

551
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Speaker 1: really hasn't been close. Besides the three to zero fastball,

552
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Speaker 1: he knew there wasn't a chance in hell you were

553
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Speaker 1: swinging at three to one. He had to take there.

554
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Speaker 2: He should have taken. He should have taken all three

555
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Speaker 2: pitches if it was just keep the bat on his shoulder,

556
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Speaker 2: if it was me giving the calls at their base.

557
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Speaker 2: But a shame we spent so much time on the

558
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Speaker 2: one game we lost, because the Mets did play a

559
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Speaker 2: tremendous series. Besides, this first game Saturday Night was a

560
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Speaker 2: ton of fun. I think that was one of the

561
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Speaker 2: more fun, complete whole Mets games that we've seen, not

562
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Speaker 2: even this year, even going back to all the fun

563
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Speaker 2: times we had last year's because David Peterson a night

564
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Speaker 2: where you used every single reliever and you're bulping the

565
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Speaker 2: day before and you were like, hey man, we need

566
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Speaker 2: you to give us six. He basically gave us eight.

567
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Speaker 2: Just the maturation, the growing up of David Peterson before

568
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Speaker 2: our eyes open, so beautiful, so incredible. All he needed

569
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Speaker 2: was that hip and now he's kind of cashed in

570
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Speaker 2: on the first round pedigree. Every single thing he can do.

571
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Speaker 2: It's just he's developed so many ways to beat hitters,

572
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Speaker 2: especially good hitters. He had. He had Shotani and Notts

573
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Speaker 2: and he's seen sho Atani a few times. Going back

574
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Speaker 2: to last post season. It was spectacular what he was

575
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Speaker 2: able to do against this lineup.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He was so awesome, so in control from the

597
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Speaker 1: start of the game. He was in control, throwing strikes,

598
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Speaker 1: doing all the things that when we see that from

599
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Speaker 1: David Peterson, we're like, oh, there he is. Like that's

600
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Speaker 1: where he becomes like one of the more underrated pitchers

601
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Speaker 1: in baseball because he doesn't have the big velo, because

602
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Speaker 1: he doesn't get the crazy strikeouts. That's when you're like,

603
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: we watch every Mets game. I'm telling you, David Peterson's

604
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: got some sauce. He's at least got a ton of

605
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: dog in him, which we saw in this one. When

606
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Speaker 1: he's off, He's now been very effective still even when

607
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Speaker 1: he hasn't been at his sharpest. And I think that's

608
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Speaker 1: been the biggest step up from Peterson, is that he

609
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Speaker 1: now has that high ceiling. And I say high ceiling

610
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Speaker 1: in quotation marks because of course it's ever gonna be

611
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Speaker 1: like a twenty strikeout guy in a game. But the

612
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Speaker 1: high ceiling of I can go yeah, Derek Scoogle, but

613
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Speaker 1: no shit, I can go eight innings. I can go

614
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Speaker 1: seven innings. I can shut down the best offense in

615
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. And the floor now is I'm gonna

616
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Speaker 1: go five and I'm gonna keep you competitive, which is

617
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: probably also why the Mets won so many games he

618
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Speaker 1: pitched last year as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's amazing he did so many ignorant

620
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Speaker 2: things with his commadgine this start. I think consistency, like

621
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Speaker 2: the fact he was just blazing backdoor two seemers. A

622
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 2: sinker is over and over again to the right, he's

623
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Speaker 2: over and over again, bang bang bang, and he usually

624
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Speaker 2: when his slide is on against the rights, he usually folks,

625
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 2: I think back foot. He dropped a couple back door

626
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Speaker 2: that were incredible. He's the curve been a huge advancement

627
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 2: him this year. He didn't even really have his change

628
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Speaker 2: up in this game, and he would imagine if I

629
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Speaker 2: told you three years ago David Pearson wouldn't have his

630
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 2: change up and he was able to decimate a Dodgers

631
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Speaker 2: lamp that was mostly right handed bathers, fastballs were high

632
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 2: like it was just the things he was able to

633
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 2: do command wise in this game set set him apart

634
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Speaker 2: from the guy he's kind of always been. And the

635
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Speaker 2: fact that, again a night where it was a necessity,

636
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Speaker 2: a necessity that he was able to give length, the

637
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 2: fact that he was able to do that and literally

638
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 2: hand the ball to Edwin Daz. I can't even I

639
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Speaker 2: can't say enough about the.

640
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Speaker 1: Guy seven to two thirds, five hits tour and runs

641
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Speaker 1: two walks seven k's era down to two point seven

642
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Speaker 1: to nine for David Peterson, and now we're going on

643
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Speaker 1: a calendar year where David Peterson has an era I

644
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Speaker 1: think starts with it too. It's crazy, it's amazing, and

645
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Speaker 1: like this is we did talk about the fact that

646
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Speaker 1: this is what this rotation needed. Someone to step up

647
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Speaker 1: and just be like a guy like I whatever. It's

648
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Speaker 1: just someone to be able to take it the ball

649
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: every fifth day. When I do what, you're gonna be

650
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: able to win the game.

651
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 2: And Peterson and cod That had done that swimmingly, and

652
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 2: he's never going to have with the Gaudi, Like you said,

653
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 2: the Galliy strikeout numbers. He still walks too many guys relatively,

654
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 2: But it's just like when it's an uncomfortable at bat,

655
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 2: he's so big, he's so long. Now there's an array

656
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 2: of off speed pitches he can use. The sinker commands

657
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: is very When it's good, it's really good, and it's

658
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: just it's like to have those gout. The only guy

659
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 2: that was really good and good hacks on him over

660
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 2: and over again was Mookie Bets, and I think perfectly

661
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 2: managed by carlsmon Doza. When Mookie came around for that

662
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 2: they're at bat, took him right out, got the ovation.

663
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: It was perfect.

664
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 2: And then when edwind Diaz got I think he struck

665
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: out Bets and that at that Peterson ran out of

666
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 2: the top step and just tapped him up and gave

667
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 2: a big hug immediately. It's just that it's a lot.

668
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 2: We used to give Peterson so much shit for the

669
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: way his body language was and the sulking. So now,

670
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 2: the difference in him, the way he looks acts, it's

671
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: so night and day like he's becoming. To me from

672
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 2: watching from the outside, we're not in the room, we

673
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 2: don't know. It feels like he's becoming a de facto

674
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 2: leader of this team as well, for how how much

675
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 2: he's mature and how long he's been here now, at.

676
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: Least on the pitching staff side. It's always tough to

677
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 1: be a leader as a pitcher, but on the pitching

678
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: staff side, he is definitely like that guy in the

679
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: rotation right now that is the theoretical leader of this rotation.

680
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: And it was also again so nice to Carlos Mendoz

681
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: to go to Edwin Diaz for the four out save,

682
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: and Diaz was the.

683
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 2: Chase as well.

684
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: Back to back days. Pitched on Sunday, he was just

685
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: he was incredible. Or Friday in my bad he was incredible.

686
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: He just shut down Bab's three strikeouts, no hits, nobody

687
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: on base cash money.

688
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: We saw this a little bit with Coode Sanga in

689
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 2: Sunday's game where the Dodgers team one of the things

690
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 2: that makes them so good is they simply do not

691
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 2: swing at pitches outside the strike zone. It's a pretty

692
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: cool skill to have as a baseball player and a

693
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: baseball team, and no one does it better than them

694
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: and Diaz knowing this, and like the slide there, none

695
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: of the Diaz pitches are really with pitches. I feel

696
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 2: like when throws a pitch out of the strike zone,

697
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 2: it's an accident. But the fact that he had the

698
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,959
Speaker 2: fastball command and he was just fastball, fastball, fastball fastball,

699
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 2: It's like, this is the confident, the swag Edwin Diaz,

700
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 2: to use your parlance, the World Baseball Classic, which we

701
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 2: can't really use that term anymore. Edward Diaz definitely can't

702
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: say that anymore, but it's the I'm very confident that

703
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 2: Diz on the mound again, and I'm proud of us

704
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 2: the best of the podcast for never losing faith in effect,

705
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 2: Edmund Diaz has always been at least the top five

706
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 2: closing baseball, if not top three. At the moment, I'll.

707
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: Say switched to the offensive side of things. We mentioned

708
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: Brett Baty earlier, huge double off Bobby Miller helped us

709
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: get a bunch of runs in that was that came

710
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: in late want Soto. He finally came through in a

711
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: big moment for us. It felt like I felt cathartic.

712
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 2: I think you're under selling Baby in this spot because

713
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 2: it's funny the mess. I know in this series against

714
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, they the Mets trailed in every single game.

715
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 2: The Dodgers scored first in every single game, and the

716
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 2: Dodgers were squeaking across some runs early on Peter, and

717
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 2: you're like, got shit on, what's gonna happen here? But

718
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 2: then Baby kind of put us back in the game

719
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 2: with the big RBS single that drove in Jared Young.

720
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 2: Shout out, Jared Young, not a bad series. Put some

721
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: Pista swings on the ball, walks up to outcast. I

722
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 2: kind of love it. But Baby being the guy again

723
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 2: to pop the lid off with Risp is insane. And

724
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 2: then you are right about Soto. That double in the

725
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 2: fourth inning, that was such an excel moment for I'm

726
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: sure him, sure the rest of the players, I'm sure

727
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 2: all the Mets fans. And that's also a ball that

728
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 2: should have gone out. But did you see a bat

729
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:55,719
Speaker 2: speed on that double?

730
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: I saw everything, and it's like, how does that ball

731
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: not become a home run.

732
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 2: Baspeed dude.

733
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and he still hit it four hundred

734
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: feet and the wind was blowing in. It was like,

735
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: oh my god.

736
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 2: Two bad the balls by one so in this game

737
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: are at least three hunred and ninety six feet. None

738
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 2: of them left the park.

739
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: That's just the difference between playing in city field and

740
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: everywhere else he's ever played in his career.

741
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, it's still it was still a huge moment

742
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 2: like those. That was the moment that changed the game.

743
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: We were still tied. I mean, it's the fourth inning.

744
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 2: Maybe we're overselling like a fourth inning hit for the

745
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: way this team was going two outspaces load for so though.

746
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 2: For him to just absolutely piss on that ball and

747
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 2: smack it off the fence, it was it probably meant

748
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: more than you should have. And then it cross baby

749
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: the opposite field power late in the game with that

750
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 2: or beat doubles. Just just a fucking great team win,

751
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 2: and like you can feel this team again. Maybe it's

752
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: part of two things. One I was gonna say, you

753
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: can definitely feel this team like turning corner a little bit.

754
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: But two maybe really is just about being home. Because

755
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: up to nineteen and sixty after Sunday, the best home

756
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 2: record in baseball. It is magnificent. What these guys are

757
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: able to do in cityfield again, looks like a part

758
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: of the on Saturday night, Like it's just the fans

759
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: getting there on Saturday nights and it's just rocket NonStop

760
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: beginning to end.

761
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: If we can figure out how to get some juice

762
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: on the road, I mean, this team will never lose.

763
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: I mean maybe we just gotta show the fuck up.

764
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: But again, even in this game, again, people saying things

765
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 2: about one and so though they're saying more things about

766
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: him on Sunday every single game, if you look at

767
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 2: the box score, it's it's if this game four battle

768
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 2: balls over one hundred two miles an hour. It's like

769
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 2: he's pit like besides the dribblers in between the pitcher

770
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 2: in the first basement.

771
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: Which I've never seen anybody do as much as him.

772
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: It's shocking how good he was at that.

773
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 2: But it's still he if the approach is still good,

774
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: the power is still good, everything is still totally fine.

775
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 2: Like I can't look at once of those advance dats,

776
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: everything under the hood and be like there's anything wrong

777
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: with this guy. Just isn't. I'm never ever going to

778
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 2: admit there is. While he still looks this.

779
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: Good, he's unhappy he wanted to be a Yankee. Come on,

780
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: don't you know that.

781
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 2: The souls is a shock. But we have we have

782
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 2: bil language experts going on here, Sports talk ready to

783
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 2: people are Buyo language experts. Then this line feels so

784
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: much longer. When Brett Bay's hitting ninth and he's playing

785
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: this big kind of baseball. Put him in the ninth hole,

786
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 2: when he's just hit the shit out of the ball

787
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: every single at bats like this is this is really

788
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 2: really cool. It's happening. Same with Torrens in the middle lineup,

789
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 2: because he continues to have good at bats, but good

790
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 2: swings in the ball. Somehow one of the highest heart

791
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 2: hit rates in the league, though he not as possible,

792
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 2: don't know how possible. He's basically running at one hundred

793
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: and sevent fifty ops right now. It's just there's there's

794
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: there's some real juice here and he's just he's putting

795
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 2: TEAMN the best spot to win for sus Squaliver.

796
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: It's more consistently with premium defense as well. I mean,

797
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: it's just Mets played really good baseball this weekend, and

798
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: again just to quickly go over Game three as well.

799
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: Just a little more nitty gritty stuff here. Huge home

800
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: run from Pete A. Lonzo in the first inning. He

801
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: had been going on forever since he had hit a

802
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: home run, and it had almost been I think he'd

803
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: been over two weeks since he hit the home run.

804
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 2: I think they said the other day it was the

805
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: longest drought of his career without a home run. It

806
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 2: was sixty something at bats. But did you watch this

807
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 2: game with volume?

808
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: Not with volume, no, because I mean Sunday Night baseball.

809
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is great. So neither of us can actually

810
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: remark because aparent people on Twitter were talking about how

811
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 2: bad the broadcast was. They were saying that City Field

812
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: was full of Dodger fans. There were definitely a handful

813
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: of Dodgers fans there, and one hundred percent was not

814
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: full of Dodgers fans, guys, and that is overblown. There

815
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: was there were definitely plenty of LA people. I did

816
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: love that these LA people came into New York for

817
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 2: a Memorial Day series to get with Dodgers against the Mets,

818
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 2: and they got dogshit in New York weather fifties and

819
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: sixties and the whole weekend. If these little to see

820
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 2: their team lose too, even better, yes, wait, shit, weather

821
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: their team loses Code, I Sango go out on the

822
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: mound stealing the new code. I sang a thing, which

823
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: is I can't even not really pitch that well. But hey,

824
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: waner and run and I get a win.

825
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: How about that. I've got five wins on the year

826
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: in a one four six era, but none of it's

827
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: ever looked pretty dominant.

828
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you guys are gonna kill me

829
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 2: for this. He has the facus one point four to

830
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: sixty IRA on Earth right now. There's no reason you

831
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 2: should have the one point four sixty. I'm not even

832
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 2: gonna look at the expected stats because I kind of

833
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 2: hate expecting the RA and I super hate x FIP,

834
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: but I don't I don't like using those stats. But

835
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: just I we still need to see both fewer walks

836
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 2: and more strikeouts from Koda Sanga. But I alluded to

837
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: it earlier talking about Daz. With the Dodgers line up

838
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: on Saturday night, he made a great in game adjustment.

839
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 2: With the first three innings, it was tons of ghost

840
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: forks as DZ always does that he does all years.

841
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: You should do because the ghost fork, pound for pound,

842
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 2: might be one of the four or five best pitches

843
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: in all baseball. But the ghost fork, like we say

844
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: a lot, is not a pitch that you throw in

845
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: the zone. It's just isn't like the way that pitch moves.

846
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: You wanted to duck and dive going to Dirk get

847
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: a bad swing, but the Dodgers not chase. So he

848
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 2: made an adjustment mid game, becaus a pretty left handed

849
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 2: heavy Dodgers line up to start going back to the color,

850
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: the pitch that's kind of returned for him over the

851
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 2: last few weeks, the one that really changed the season

852
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 2: as a rookie, and that color helped him out of

853
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 2: these jams. It got a lot of lazy fly balls,

854
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: it got a lot of ground balls, It got some

855
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 2: swings and miss when it needed to like that. We

856
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 2: talk about this with Cola all the time, that his

857
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: understanding of the game that's happening, his ability to adjust

858
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: his cerebral nature is phenomenal. And the fact that he's

859
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 2: able to make that change go away from his primary

860
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 2: pitch inside of the game and go to something else,

861
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: because that's not working against the best lineup in baseball

862
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 2: is just it's simply magnificent. I love I love watching

863
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: the sky pitch, and I love having him on my team.

864
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: You know, he's legitimately and I think people will maybe

865
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: be a little bit confused by saying this, but he's

866
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: a pitcher. Like that guy pitches. He's not out there throwing.

867
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: He's not out there being like I've been given a

868
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: rubber arm that can throw one hundred miles an hour.

869
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: He has good velo, he has good stuff. But Code

870
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: is saying it is a pitcher first and foremost, and

871
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure for a guy like Jeremy Hefner that's got

872
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: to be even better because you're like, oh my god,

873
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: this is so much fun.

874
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 2: The Mets have a staff of again pitch pictures, like

875
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 2: we talked about Peterston, this Canning does this all the time.

876
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 2: Where Canning has such an artful ability at this point

877
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: to no one to mix that two strike fastball into

878
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 2: and about when that's not expecting it, and just watching these

879
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: guys maneuver adjust seeing how much time they're all splaying together,

880
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: and the dugout in between games, like it's just there's

881
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: so much pitching going on with this staff right now

882
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 2: where people are kind of waiting for the other shoe

883
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 2: to drop with the mess rotation, and I don't think

884
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 2: will be the best rotation in baseball all season, the

885
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 2: creasically no chance to that, But we're able to squeeze more.

886
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 2: One because of fantastic coaching and two just because of

887
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: how how much these guys understand the game that they're

888
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: playing and how much they understand their strengths and their

889
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 2: weaknesses from game to game, even at bat and sometimes

890
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: like we're saying to pitch to pitch and that's kind

891
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 2: of as like some true sicko baseball nerds. To watch

892
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 2: these guys do this and figure this shit out in

893
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 2: real time is beautiful.

894
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the bullpen again held it down for us,

895
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,399
Speaker 1: one hard dude.

896
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 2: The bullpen was lights out crannic to come out second inning,

897
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: To come out for that second inning against the middle

898
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 2: of this line at the teeth the meat in a

899
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 2: two run game. It was freaking awesome. And then I

900
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 2: know that them Red get standing got into a little no.

901
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 2: It was crantic. Second inning, someone got in trouble and

902
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: the middle of Dodgers lineup came out, but tying Ron

903
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 2: was on base. It was this game didn't even really

904
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 2: hit a crescendo because the Mets lulled the Dodgers asleep

905
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 2: like it was so and the stadium was way down

906
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 2: because Nicks were losing by twenty at that point. We

907
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 2: got some plate innings, so let's go to came back

908
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: in that one too, next baby. But it was just

909
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: there was so there was so little drama in this

910
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 2: game because of how awesome the Mets bullpen was.

911
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Reid Garrett being able to take over

912
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: like that in the ninth inning as well as the

913
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: fill in closer for Edwin Diaz really nice to see.

914
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: You always get nervous when guys are filling in for

915
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: the closer in that situation again against the Los Angeles

916
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: Dodgers is one of the best teams in baseball and

917
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: very cool that.

918
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: It's just you took care of business with the bottom

919
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: of the lineups. You didn't let Tani, Betts and Freeman

920
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: come back. We said that in the preview that the

921
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 2: way this Dodgers team beats you is they chip away you,

922
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 2: chip away, you, chip away you, and then one of

923
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 2: those guys always comes through the fact that we were

924
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 2: able to shut the game down my op and four though,

925
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 2: and not let them turn the lineup over, not let

926
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond get to the play. Especially that was it was.

927
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 2: It was pristine like and a night went to edwund

928
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: Die haz Ha just pitched two days in a row,

929
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: two days ago. You used every single guy in your bullpen,

930
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: every single bullet you had for these guys to just

931
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 2: come through and be like bank, Bank Bank, see you later.

932
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 2: Best line in baseball. We'll talk to you another time.

933
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: One more thing I'll mentioned from this game, Wan Soto

934
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: stealing his seventh base of the year. I do like

935
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: to see that he is that to me, tells me

936
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: he's almost playing a little more loose. He's like, I

937
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 1: gotta make something happen. Let me steal a base here.

938
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 2: He looked more loose this weekend. I think that he probably.

939
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: Got a we got a shimmy, right, we got a shimmy.

940
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 2: We got more of a wiggle than a shimmy. But

941
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 2: you did see him wrong with the umpire a little bit.

942
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 2: He got boned on some bad calls on Saturday night,

943
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 2: and he let the umpire here. In a couple of

944
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 2: times I've this is gonna sound funny. I like miss

945
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 2: Gary Keithan rodden after this weekend, like I'm sad I

946
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 2: didn't get to talk to my uncles and the fact

947
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 2: that they have to go back and work on Monday

948
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: against the White sax Moral days even funier. But it's

949
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 2: just it's very frustrating that this was an entire series

950
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: where I would have loved their commentary. I do think

951
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 2: Wayne Rendazzo did a very good job on Friday Night.

952
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: I think contrel to him and d Trainer a good mix,

953
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 2: and Dontrell gives a lot of credits to me. He

954
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 2: seems to always have this like reverence for the Mets.

955
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 2: I think one reason because he he beat the shit

956
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: out of the mess News a player, But I think

957
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 2: he also mentioned before that he would have loved to

958
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: have played.

959
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: For the Mets, but it just never worked out.

960
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 2: Because he talked about how unbelievable the Mets fans are

961
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 2: and how going to City Field and back in day

962
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: Shay Stadium, and I say it all the time, like

963
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 2: I was at the dowtro Well's Grand Slam game where

964
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 2: it was like I think he threw like eight innings

965
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 2: was like ten one run baseball and hit a grand slammer.

966
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 2: I was like, how's sappening? And then either that season

967
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: or the next season, I watched Felix Standers do the

968
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 2: same thing as Shay Stadium, which is the fact that

969
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 2: both were on Friday nights too, and I was like

970
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 2: obsessed with those guys, like aces back of the Day. I

971
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 2: was like, these guys are just killing me. But it

972
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 2: and Wayne, we know, Wayne's great and Wayne does have

973
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 2: a lot of great insight with the Mets because of

974
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: him doing the radio for years, and he was talking

975
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 2: a lot about the Mets teams from a couple of

976
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 2: years ago because of how well he got to know them.

977
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: So it is cool for that broadcast to have that

978
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: kind of insight, and I did appreciate that. But Sunday

979
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: I didn't listen to Eve the Games, and neither Saturday Sunday,

980
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: but from what I heard, it seemed like it was

981
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 2: a real Dodgers glaze fest.

982
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean between listening to Joe Davis, who is

983
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: the Dodgers announcer, and the Sunday Night baseball, I mean

984
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: you could catch me with the sound off and listening

985
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: to some music on Memorial Day. We got anything else

986
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: to talk about here before we get into that White

987
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: Sox series preview, which should be short and quick.

988
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, two more things want to mention two and a

989
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 2: half really one huge congradulations in Francisco. Lindor ten years

990
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 2: of service time superstar players continues to ascend. There happen

991
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: a little bit chinks in the defensive army this year, though.

992
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 2: I'm curious Happy Weird. I mentioned to you that that

993
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 2: was like a problem before the problem heading into the season,

994
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 2: that he's basically right now the oldest starting shortstop in baseball. Yeah,

995
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 2: I don't know someone's playing shorts up every day. It's

996
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 2: in their thirties, let alone thirty one. Turner as a

997
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 2: year younger than Lindor and which is still much more athletic.

998
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 2: I think he's don't how much has he played?

999
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean he's hurt all the time. I'm

1000
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: just gonna keep throwing out names.

1001
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 2: But you are right, But that's like the echelon of guys.

1002
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 2: Lindor is thirty one. I think Trey Turner also is

1003
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 2: thirty one, so that's the same. But it is it's

1004
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 2: rare that, Yeah, they're both thirty one years old. It

1005
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 2: is rare that shortstops play shortstop this late, so I

1006
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 2: think that's going to be something to watch because as

1007
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 2: of right now, Franciscal indoor the first time in his

1008
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 2: career is below league averages blow average terms of oaa's

1009
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 2: a negative one there. And he did make a couple

1010
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 2: other weird plays, weird throws. Who bobbled the ball on

1011
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 2: Friday night or was that Saturday? Whatever it was. It's

1012
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 2: just something to keep an eye and the next thing

1013
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: s talk with your friend the stands next to me.

1014
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 2: A nice woman. She had a great idea for city

1015
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 2: field promotions. I know a couple folks out there from

1016
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: the Mets still listen to this shot out my guy

1017
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: Matthew Cerl in the estate operations room. We do all

1018
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: amazing stuff with kids. Cityfield Sunday's always kids dy, even

1019
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 2: siding night baseball as a feature on the kids. We have

1020
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 2: the home run derby and the woofotball field. We have

1021
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 2: the kids run. The basis thing. This woman had a

1022
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 2: great idea. There should be a couple of nights the season,

1023
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 2: maybe Wednesday or Thursday night games. There are gonna be

1024
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 2: much more adult forward crowds. There should be adults night.

1025
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 2: There should be a couple of nights during the season

1026
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 2: where we let people in their twenties and thirties do

1027
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 2: that base running thing fifteen seconds where we do with

1028
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 2: football home run derby once you're twenty. Yeah, those clips

1029
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 2: would smack on social media. It would be hilarious to

1030
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 2: see who actually gets the shot, was crazy on the board.

1031
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 2: I think that that would be unbelievably incredible content. And

1032
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 2: again focus it on like those Wednesday we have a

1033
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 2: couple more Wednesdays and Thursdays while the kids are still

1034
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 2: in school because school let's out in June in New York.

1035
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 2: One of these Wednesday Thursday night games. Let the adults

1036
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 2: do the promotions. I think that would be absolutely fucking incredible.

1037
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm totally behind that. Imagine. I'd love to see

1038
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: some adult taking hacks on the little baseball field out there.

1039
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: See how many home runs they get hit. Also, if

1040
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: they don't, even better, more viral clip for them sucking.

1041
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Like, it'd be funny to see

1042
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 2: someone some dude in his thirties wearing jeans off two cores, lights,

1043
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: face planted, doing the base run anything in fifteen seconds.

1044
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 2: I think that would be hilarious. Also the last thing,

1045
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 2: it's not quite the medium Marvel, but I do something

1046
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 2: I just want to mention because I think it was important.

1047
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 2: I know to me, I think definitely to you everyone

1048
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,240
Speaker 2: else our age shout out Around the Horn last episode

1049
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 2: aired on Friday. That was a show that I don't

1050
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 2: want to say like it motivated me to try and

1051
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 2: talk about sports for a living. But there's definitely one

1052
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 2: that was like talking about sports is so cool, Like

1053
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 2: the way that that show was made. Tony Realley had

1054
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 2: a really good out show. You got to check that out.

1055
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 2: That show was a huge part of my childhood. I

1056
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: did not miss Around the Horn PTI into Sports Center basically. Ever,

1057
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: from the ages of eight to seventeen, No, it was

1058
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 2: every single that was locked in must watch television for

1059
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 2: young Mark Luino when he's coming home from school and

1060
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 2: didn't have baseball.

1061
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: It was like, Oh, what's ja Donde? What's Woody Page?

1062
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: What's Jay Marriotti?

1063
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 2: Gonna say, Jay Marriotti the legend, like Tim Kalishaw, give

1064
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 2: him some takes with the like Willy Page, it's a

1065
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 2: little boored, like every single day after school. Again, from

1066
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 2: like eleven to fifteen, I played touch football with my friends,

1067
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 2: same teams every single day, shout out Connor, Dan Danny

1068
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 2: in the backyard and got home for around the horn PTI.

1069
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 2: It was just that is seminole. I think it's a

1070
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 2: very beautiful thing that we got to h We got

1071
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 2: to have that growing up instead of, you know, watching

1072
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 2: a couple of fleas and moths. Do do try to

1073
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: do sports talk like this?

1074
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course they actually talked about sports, which was nice.

1075
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead and do that Chicago White

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Speaker 1: Sox series preview. They are horrible, They are terrible, and

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Speaker 1: they're coming to town. How are we going to beat them?

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Speaker 1: Who are we facing on the mound?

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Speaker 2: I will say, they're not playing as bad of baseball

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00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 2: as you're juice to the White Sox playing right now.

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Speaker 2: The White Sox actually, I think have the same record

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00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 2: as the Baltimore Orioles, where if someone told you that

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00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 2: bug him in the face two months ago. They also

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00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 2: have one, uh like two out of three out of

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Speaker 2: their last five games. That's a huge deal for the

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00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 2: White Sox. They just beat the Texas Rangers in the series.

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Speaker 2: But as far as pitching matchups go, Monday Memorial Day

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00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 2: four to ten start shout out to troops. We have

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00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 2: a bit of an asoff Clay Holmes against Adrian Hauser,

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00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 2: old friend again.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Adrian Houser's on the White Sox.

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Speaker 2: Last week they signed him in the middle of the afternoon.

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00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:28,240
Speaker 2: He pitched that night, okay. And then Tuesday night Tyler

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Speaker 2: mcgil versus Shane Smith is actually pretty interesting good And

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Speaker 2: then Wednesday seven to ten, another late night podcast for

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Speaker 2: the Boys. That night, Griffin Canning versus Sean Burke. I

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Speaker 2: know he's one of your favorites, Mark, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Like Sean Berk's an extension king, someone who I think

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Speaker 1: is pitching a little bit unlucky right now. But I

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Speaker 1: do like his stuff overall. And he's like six foot

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00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: six and has like ninety nine percent tile extension. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like you hear those names and you're like, okay,

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00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: even if they're you think they're okay. What about their hitting, James,

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Speaker 1: tell me all about their hitting, because they got basically

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Speaker 1: nothing there.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what do you want to hear about their hitting?

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Speaker 2: This is a lineup full of superstars in the world. Either,

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00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, Miguel Varcus right now. Luis ro

1109
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 2: Barron is one seventy batting average. This is he stopped.

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Speaker 2: That's your boy, Lending Sosa, that's your guy.

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00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: No, yeah, I did love Lenon Sosa for a minute.

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Speaker 2: There are a couple of mildly interesting players in this lineup.

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Speaker 2: Chase Meidroth, who is part of the Gara Crochet trade

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00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: this uh this winter. He is an on base King's

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00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 2: hitting over three hundred right now. He's stealing tons of bases.

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00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 2: He's a pest. He's playing shortop for them at the moment.

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00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 2: He's probably not really a shortop, probably more of a

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Speaker 2: second third basement. But on this team again, anyone could

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00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 2: play shortstop, so he's he has a lot of very

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Speaker 2: good at bats. Our old friend Mike, Mike traup and

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Speaker 2: I know is Mike talkman. The Socman's out there to

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00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 2: hitt and second every day. Benintendi's back now too, Ben

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Speaker 2: Tendy's healthy. Joshua Placio shout out Brooklyn, right there, he's

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Speaker 2: gonna be there. He's playing Edgar Caro. Well, he's gonna patch.

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Speaker 1: There's something hilarious about like, hey, he's playing.

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Speaker 2: I mean he is playing. Yes, Joshua Placios is playing.

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Speaker 2: IM sure they're gonna have a bunch of people at

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Speaker 2: the games. The Plasio's brothers shout out Brooklyn. Both made

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00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 2: it to the league. Edgar Caro was They acquired him

1130
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: from one of those strange trades the Angels, though, I believe. Yeah,

1131
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 2: that was like the flurry at the end of twenty

1132
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 2: twenty two when they were like, this is our last

1133
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 2: chance to win with OR two was twenty.

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Speaker 1: Three, twenty twenty three.

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00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's incredible how far they fall. But

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Speaker 2: that was when the Angels like, we're six games out

1137
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: of the trade deadline, Otani's leaving, let's just say fuck it.

1138
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 2: Let's trade every prospect for a couple a couple of rentals.

1139
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: Then they got the rentals. They lost a bunch of

1140
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 2: games and cut every single results any Marina wouldn't have

1141
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 2: to pay them. He just got them off the roster,

1142
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 2: which was insane, really fucked up. But Edgar Carro's not

1143
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 2: playing great right now. He's a very good contact oriented catcher.

1144
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 2: It's just I'm being nice like that. That's who the

1145
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: guys are in this team. Miguel Vargas is seems like

1146
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 2: he's improving. He's kind of doing so much of the

1147
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 2: Brett baity thing where they're just like, hey, man, just

1148
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 2: beat yourself, just take your walks and let the ball travel.

1149
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,919
Speaker 2: It's a it's it's a funny team.

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00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: I got one shout out Mike Vassel, former New York

1151
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: met We have been talking about him for a while.

1152
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: He's actually having a nice year. I don't know how

1153
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: sicky it is, but he's got a low era. He's

1154
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: pitching really if he actually got a saved last week

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00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: for the White Sox.

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Speaker 2: The White Socks have actually been winning again, like I said,

1157
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 2: a few games recently, and they just keep giving saves

1158
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 2: to different guys. Think their last four save opportunity. It's

1159
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: got four different players and also Shane Smith, who will

1160
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: be starting the second game in the series. He is

1161
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 2: mildly interesting. He was the White Sox rule five pick

1162
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 2: this year from the Milwaukee Brewers. It's got a nice

1163
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: change up in a pretty nice slyer, a strange fastball

1164
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,760
Speaker 2: that kind of acts like a two seamer, like a sinker,

1165
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 2: but with cut on it. It's a weird pitch. He's

1166
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 2: got weird stuff. He has a low era right now.

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00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 2: I don't think he necessarily deserves it, but I don't

1168
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 2: think he also deserves a higher ray. He's he's around

1169
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 2: the strike soon and he misses a lot of bats,

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00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 2: and he's really tough to score up. He's a pretty

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00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 2: good pitcher. Sweep said, So just went we got Mets.

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Speaker 2: Have a good opportunity this week where it was just

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00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 2: a very hard part of a schedule. We're about to

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00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: go in the West coast trip to play the Dodgers

1175
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: four games again, but again most of the games coming

1176
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Speaker 2: on national television. We're still at S and Y broadcast then,

1177
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 2: but ALB network stuff. You got six games, six games

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00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 2: at home with the White Sox and the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: You gotta win five of those games, Yes, gotta win

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00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: five of those. Would love to win six. Should win

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00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: six because you are just so much better than both

1182
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: of these teams. But that is all we've got. We

1183
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: got Frankie Peppers.

1184
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 2: Or of course we've got Frankie peg.

1185
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: Give us a little Frankie Peppers to send us out here.

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00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 2: Fresh off is ten pounds of hummus. I will let

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00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 2: you guys know that he hit me up afterwards, gave

1188
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 2: me the measurements. It was ten pounds of ingredients that

1189
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: came out. I think it was even a few asses

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00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 2: over that with the lemon juices, he added, but without

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00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 2: further Ado got Frankie Peppis.

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00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, this is Frankie Peppis. Hey. You're doing that is

1193
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 3: how you come back, and you have a great series

1194
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 3: against the Dodgers. You take two or three back, winning

1195
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 3: cold I singer not looking amazing but gutting through a

1196
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 3: beautiful outing from David Petish and Big Pete with the

1197
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 3: Homers one shouto hitting the ball hard.

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00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: It was a very good, well played series.

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Speaker 3: I made a promise on Twitter, but I've been asked

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00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 3: to hold off, so for those who know, you know,

1201
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 3: I'm not going to talk about it.

1202
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: But this was a really.

1203
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 3: Fun series and I'm not really excited. Last night I

1204
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 3: was out on the town and I received a phone call.

1205
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: From mister James Giano pocket dialed me.

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00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 3: But James Mark, boys, you're free to call me at

1207
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 3: any time if you want to talk. All right, let's

1208
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 3: go match.

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00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you boys soon. Did you actually pocket

1210
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: dial him?

1211
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 2: I actually did pocket ole him. I told you that

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00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 2: I was at the creepy social club shout out Toneathas

1213
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 2: and I was just opening Instagram and the way I

1214
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 2: opened it a click click to the call. So I

1215
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 2: called Frankie and I was in the middle of texting

1216
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 2: it back pocket dial my bad and he already already called.

1217
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 2: He was already calling me back and he was like,

1218
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 2: what's up you. I was like, it's just incredible, but

1219
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 2: well it wasn't nice serious, good for Frankie there. And

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00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 2: did Frankie did have a request? He did. He was

1221
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 2: ready to unleash the hounds on the lion and I

1222
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 2: was like, it's okay, well, tick, it's over. I was like,

1223
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 2: I think it's over, dude.

1224
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we won the battle, we won the fight,

1225
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: we'll win the war. We win it all.

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00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:43,760
Speaker 2: Let's sleeping lions lie.

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00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. That's that's the double Cassandra, double entendre very nice.

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Speaker 1: All right. That is it for this episode. Guys, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for listening and watching. Make sure you follow

1230
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: us on all our social media at metst up on Twitter, Instagram,

1231
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: and TikTok. Subscribe to mess the podcast YouTube channel see

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00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: the video version of this and if you're listening to

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00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: us Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Drops, the rating, drops, review,

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00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: download and subscribe. You can follow James on all his socials.

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00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 2: At James Shiano C H I A N O, and.

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Speaker 1: I'm Draftnick Mark with a C. Thank you guys for

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00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: listening and watching. We'll catch you all next time. Let's

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00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: fucking no Mets.

1239
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 2: Let's fucking go Mets. See you guys next time.