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Speaker 1: The first half of the New York Mets season is

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Speaker 1: officially over. We are actually technically now eighty two games

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Speaker 1: into the season at the time of recording, right before

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates series just came off a split with

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. We want to go ahead and give

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Speaker 1: you a little bit of a state of the union

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Speaker 1: about the New York Mets the first half of the season,

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Speaker 1: as well as predicting what we think is going to

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Speaker 1: go on in the second half. We have the trade

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Speaker 1: deadline coming up, we have big games, we got the

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Speaker 1: playoffs hopefully in World Series aspirations. So many things to

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Speaker 1: talk about in today's video. It's a long one, so

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Speaker 1: and let's get going into it. You guys know the drill.

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Speaker 1: get going talking about the Mets. I'll tell you what, James,

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Speaker 1: after that split, you saw the Subway episode the other day.

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Speaker 1: If you guys did not catch it, it's out there.

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Speaker 1: Go give it a look, give it a listen. Feel

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Speaker 1: a lot better after splitting that series with the Braves,

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Speaker 1: because even though we were still completely okay, losing those

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Speaker 1: after having a bad series in Philly, I was getting

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Speaker 1: close to snapping.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a moment where we were kind of there.

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Speaker 2: We were a meltdown Adjason, not a full meltdown, but

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Speaker 2: it does. After those first two games, especially like feeling

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Speaker 2: You're like, now, why can't we do this like that?

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Speaker 1: What is actually the problem here?

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Speaker 2: Like bad games from the bullpen again, complete lack of

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Speaker 2: timely hitting. It's like something has to give, and luckily

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Speaker 2: the thing that is the calling car of this team

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Speaker 1: Been a time in the first half, but not all

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Speaker 2: But still looking forward, I think it is a calling

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Speaker 1: Of go out there and just beat your way to

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Speaker 2: I feel like beating their way to a victory in

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Speaker 2: that game on Wednesday is what kind of woke this

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Speaker 2: though it doesn't wash away losing ten out of eleven games,

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Speaker 2: you do just feel better as now you head to

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Speaker 2: you ready for the All Star breaks. I think this

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Speaker 2: team it's a big deal to have for this team

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Speaker 1: Definitely, and we had Frankie Mantes come back. He looked

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Speaker 1: We even got Code I Sanga updates that he's looking

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Speaker 1: just absolutely brutal news for Gryffin Canning. The guy signed

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Speaker 2: The fact that the Braves were too cheap to even

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Speaker 2: But I think that the Canning out the Mantas end

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Speaker 2: And if you think that we're all we've all been

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Speaker 2: at that five moving through seasons, still having Blackburn to

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Speaker 2: He has shown through his couple spot stars this season

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Blade definitely getting the call up is exciting, and

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Speaker 1: Guys came up the double A. They said, you were

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Speaker 1: Not really good. I asked you this the other day.

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Speaker 2: But if you guys listening to this Mets fans again

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Speaker 2: as a Friday afternoon, we're recording this, you wouldn't believe

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and with the process that the metav and the

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Speaker 1: I think the Mets are doing something crazy right now

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Speaker 2: The winning on the margins this team has done is

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Speaker 2: more home runs at b Alonzo Like, I do think

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Speaker 2: that there is something to that, the fact that there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure. I want So though it was

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Speaker 2: hard for him to kind of come out of the

438
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Speaker 2: shell at times early this season, But now as we're

439
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Speaker 2: seeing him come out of the shell, there really is

440
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Speaker 2: no doubt that the hitter as good as want So

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Speaker 2: that won't won't become to be the guy that we

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Speaker 2: trust that situation. I think there was the anonymous athletic

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Speaker 2: Paul about a month ago with Game seven in the

444
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Speaker 2: World Series, with the game on the line, pitchers, who's

445
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Speaker 2: the one guy you least want to face? And the

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Speaker 2: overwhelming answer was still want So though, so while Joe

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Speaker 2: from Massapequa might not trust wan So though with the

448
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Speaker 2: game on the line, major League Baseball players are the

449
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Speaker 2: ones who are like, that's not the guy I want

450
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Speaker 2: to face with the game on the line, the most

451
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Speaker 2: tense situations. I think that is a very telling thing

452
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Speaker 2: and also should be a good reason to breathe the

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Speaker 2: side relief. Mets fans, if you're worried about wan So's

454
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Speaker 2: performance with runs' scoring position, yeah, I know a lot

455
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Speaker 2: of people get very frustrated with his patients at the plate,

456
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Speaker 2: but that's what makes him so great. He is the

457
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Speaker 2: toughest that bat in Major League Baseball in terms of

458
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Speaker 2: how patient he is, how he will not expand the

459
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Speaker 2: strike zone very often.

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Speaker 1: Obviously with two strikes he protects a little bit more.

461
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Speaker 1: That's where you can get him to chase. But that's

462
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Speaker 1: that's part of protecting. You think the pitch is gonna

463
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Speaker 1: be strike, It wasn't you swung at it. Whatever. But

464
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Speaker 1: even with the struggles like you mentioned with the runners

465
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Speaker 1: of scoring position sixteen point seven percent walk grate, sixteen

466
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Speaker 1: point seven percent k rate with runners in scoring position,

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Speaker 1: it's like them at some point the hits are gonna

468
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Speaker 1: have to fall. The stuff that you all just said,

469
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Speaker 1: he's too good of a hitter to continue a one

470
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Speaker 1: fifteen bab bib is unfathomable. That doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 2: No, And this has all come in the time where

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Speaker 2: it does feel like Juan Solo has been actively adjusting

473
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Speaker 2: this whole season, like we've talked about, like he's not.

474
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Speaker 2: He's kind of at the same time trying to revert

475
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Speaker 2: back to his old style of contact while also shortening

476
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Speaker 2: his swing the shorts has ever been since we've tracked

477
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Speaker 2: it on Baseball Savant in his entire career. So there

478
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Speaker 2: is there are things happening once so right now where

479
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Speaker 2: he is trying to cause I think he did this

480
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Speaker 2: so well.

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Speaker 1: Last year with the Yankees. I think he's probably trying to.

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Speaker 2: Do this in a way to his city field, where

483
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Speaker 2: he knows he's so smart and he's so surreable. He

484
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Speaker 2: wants to play to his surroundings. He knew last year

485
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Speaker 2: the way to get the most production out of his

486
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Speaker 2: talents he had to pull the ball more than he

487
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Speaker 2: ever had in his career, and he did that. Now

488
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Speaker 2: this year, I think he's trying to become the hiter

489
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Speaker 2: he once was, which would be a little bit better

490
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Speaker 2: of a play. I think in the city field now

491
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Speaker 2: we are starting to see that, but maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It just it just does seem like it's that with

493
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Speaker 2: the comfortability of course, his relationship with Starling Marte, the

494
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Speaker 2: building relationship with Francisco Indor, it seems like it's coalescing.

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Speaker 1: And he is right now.

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Speaker 2: Over the last month, he's been basically the best hitler

497
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Speaker 2: in baseball. He's got best at some judge, best at

498
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Speaker 2: Tommy Calst's the kalally like. But this is that he's

499
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Speaker 2: right now. He's breaking the x woe but chart on

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Speaker 2: Baseball Savat for his one hundred hundred last hundred blood

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Speaker 2: play appearances rolling average.

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's happening.

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Speaker 2: And this is why you spend the money on a

504
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Speaker 2: guy like this, because he can single handedly the same

505
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Speaker 2: way an ace can be did people call him a stopper,

506
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Speaker 2: like you have a losing streak, but then you know

507
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Speaker 2: you had to gram on the mounds. A losing streak,

508
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Speaker 2: good chance to end tonight, So they could do this

509
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Speaker 2: by himself. Basically, once a week he can win you

510
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Speaker 2: a game that enough should be able to elevate the

511
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Speaker 2: whole team, and like we saw in that game on

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Speaker 2: Wednesday kind of did.

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Speaker 1: What what about it is batting average of James only

514
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Speaker 1: two fifty seven?

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Speaker 2: I know, I I mean, we should have done a

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Speaker 2: commemorative you know, Michael k Memorial Media Marvel for Brandon Teer.

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Speaker 1: For that horrific take.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not so bad when we have too much

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Speaker 2: talk about this episode to even give that the life

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Speaker 2: of day.

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Speaker 1: Also, just for conversation standpoint, this has really nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with what's going on. The guy who was sitting

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Speaker 1: behind us last night, who was just giving it to

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Speaker 1: so the entire game. I'm like, you have a son,

525
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Speaker 1: it's your duty to not be this stupid in front

526
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Speaker 1: of your son. James Interjack James James scolded him. He

527
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Speaker 1: was like, what are you talking about? Pete Alamzar should

528
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Speaker 1: have got paid seven hundred million dollars? Like what are

529
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Speaker 1: you saying? You know anything about contract archetypes? Bro?

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Speaker 2: But that was a classic. That guy was a classic

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Speaker 2: Joe from Massive Peaqua. I'm sure that guy, he's so

532
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Speaker 2: new ball who was like eight yeah, send that didn't

533
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Speaker 2: know some ball. But I think that's just we're gonna

534
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Speaker 2: keep having those conversations about soda because we just know.

535
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Speaker 2: That's how it works in New York. That's how works

536
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Speaker 2: with the Door for years. That's how it worked with

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Speaker 2: Pete all of last year until he hit the one

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Speaker 2: home run.

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Speaker 1: That's how it worked with a Rod, even though he

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Speaker 1: was amazing with the Yankees. That's how it's worked with

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Speaker 1: anybody who's ever gotten paid a lot of money. I mean,

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Speaker 1: for a while, Bryce Harper was considered overrated because he

543
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Speaker 1: was getting paid so much money. And then you look

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Speaker 1: back and you're like, oh, yeah, he's a first ballot

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Like people, whenever there's this amount of

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Speaker 1: step to the plate. When you fail, what do we

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Speaker 2: And then like just to get to the rest of

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Speaker 2: this Mets lineup, like I think the beauty and with

574
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Speaker 2: this lineup has been the last couple of games I've

575
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Speaker 2: actually played well. And what we hope it can be

576
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Speaker 2: is finding any kind of production we possibly can out

577
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Speaker 2: of the bottom of the order. That's been one of

578
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Speaker 2: the biggest reasons for the struggles. It's one of the

579
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Speaker 2: biggest reasons for the losing streak where once we get

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Speaker 2: after Jeff McNeil, who we'll talk about because he's had

581
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Speaker 2: an amazing season, Lindor and Nimo Solo, Lonzo McNeil, great

582
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Speaker 2: top five. Once you get past there and it's the Viento,

583
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be Viento's now back on Friday. Baby Mauricio

584
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Speaker 2: Renz was acuna for a while, Starling Marte, Like, we

585
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Speaker 2: suddenly get to a spot where we haven't really gotten

586
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Speaker 2: any consistency out of any of those guys Jared Young

587
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Speaker 2: for the last month and a half, un much to

588
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Speaker 2: your guys, your grand Tyron Taylor, there's been no consistency

589
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Speaker 2: Francis Squalvers out of that group. That's the thing that's

590
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Speaker 2: going to change this Mets team as much as anything

591
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Speaker 2: else this point. So we I guess I might be

592
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Speaker 2: the minority where we're pretty somehow, pretty.

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Speaker 1: Comfid in this rotation bullpen.

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Speaker 2: As we just talked to you guys about the first

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes of this, I probably will find a way

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Speaker 2: to talk about more towards the end. Someone down there

597
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Speaker 2: has to step up, as simply as put because I

598
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Speaker 2: think right now, ironically, from where we started this season,

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Speaker 2: that's probably where David Start is looking at the trade deadline.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of where it lines up to get the

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Speaker 2: impact performer, getting Henyo Suarez, get someone who can get

602
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Speaker 2: down that order and Mash be someone that lengthens this

603
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Speaker 2: because ironically, we are having the same problems Yankees had

604
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Speaker 2: last season with the Judge and Solo.

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Speaker 1: At the top, exact same thing.

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Speaker 2: We have a few more good hitters than they had

607
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Speaker 2: at that time last year, a lot more consistency, especially

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Speaker 2: with Nimo the Way's hit and of course the Door

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Speaker 2: and McNeil, assuming Pete and then Pete and Soda. Why

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Speaker 2: the technically you know the judge the judge comparison right there.

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Speaker 2: But somebody six or nine has to get more consistent.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who's going to be. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how it's going to happen. Someone has to figure out

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Speaker 2: a way to become a consistently above average hit the

615
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Speaker 2: or else we are not going to be able to

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Speaker 2: beat the teams we want to be to get to

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Speaker 2: and win a World Series.

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Speaker 1: I think I think there's two things that need to happen,

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Speaker 1: and I can't believe I'm gonna say this one. I

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Speaker 1: think right now Stling Martes should probably be playing a

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Speaker 1: little bit more, and I think now with Mark Vento's

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Speaker 1: coming back, I think Marte is gonna play a little

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Speaker 1: more DH, especially because you know Jared Young's not in there.

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Speaker 1: That's really the only spot that he could play. Ronnie

625
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Speaker 1: Marisio is gonna get some run there, to Vino's gonna

626
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Speaker 1: get some run there too. It will be more of

627
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Speaker 1: a revolving door. But Marte hitting seventh with like a

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Speaker 1: one O eight ops plus that that helps. That helps

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Speaker 1: a ton. Like we're not the biggest starring Marte fans

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Speaker 1: on this podcast, but in terms of like quality A b's,

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Speaker 1: it's actually having a decent enough season where he is

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Speaker 1: very much worth rostering and worth at the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the order being a guy. I don't want to see

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Speaker 1: him hit two ever again on this team. We can't

635
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Speaker 1: keep doing that, especially with the way that brand Nimo's

636
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Speaker 1: been swinging the bat over the last month. He looks

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Speaker 1: so much more comfortable in the two hole. It's crazy

638
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Speaker 1: what the numbers are when he hits there versus everywhere

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Speaker 1: else Marte down the order. McNeil's you're what five right

640
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Speaker 1: now or maybe even six, I guess, depending on that.

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Speaker 1: We have Jesse Winker coming back at some point. Two,

642
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Speaker 1: the reinforcements are coming. I think right now, the biggest

643
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Speaker 1: thing that the Mets need to address. I don't even

644
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Speaker 1: think it's third base, because I think between Viento's Risio

645
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Speaker 1: BATEI I think we can find him a way to

646
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Speaker 1: make those three guys work at one position, which sounds crazy,

647
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Speaker 1: but I do. I think center field, and as amazing

648
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Speaker 1: as Tyrone Taylor has been defensively this year, he's been awesome.

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Speaker 1: The plays that he's making out there have been Gold

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Speaker 1: Glove caliber. Do you see the problem with playing him

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Speaker 1: every single day? One he looks exhausted. I don't think

652
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 1: he's ever played this many games in this many days

653
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: at the major league level as consistently as he is.

654
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: But two, he's he's been a major hole in this lineup,

655
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: along with the catching position with Torrenz and Alvarez. Those

656
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 1: are the two major major holes. And I don't think

657
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: you're able to address the catching situation and improve upon that,

658
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: but you can improve upon center field. It doesn't have

659
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 1: to be Luis Robert if you guys are nervous about him,

660
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: but Cedric Mallins is out there, and he is the

661
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: perfect foil platoon with Tyrone Taylor. I think that's gotta

662
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: be the number one guy they circle right now.

663
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 2: It's at least one of them, and you can afford

664
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: two holes in a lineup when the rest of the

665
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 2: lineup is that good. But that would have to come

666
00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 2: with better production from Baby Vientos Mauricio. Again, this to

667
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,959
Speaker 2: me is more about one of those guys taking this

668
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: like becoming it. We thought that Baty was doing it

669
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 2: for a month, then he had bad month. He's swinging

670
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 2: the bat better lately. Mauricio sometimes flashes and you're just

671
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 2: like your jaw drops and this is it. This is

672
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: going to be him. You guys in the comments section

673
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 2: overwhelming you if this grow, Mauricio is your guys favorite,

674
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 2: even though he overwhelming the probably some of the worst

675
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 2: stats career. I mean, Bailey definitely still is the worst stats.

676
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 2: But right now, Mauricio, at least until Jared Young returns,

677
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 2: He's until Jesse Winker returns. With Jared Young being sent down,

678
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 2: he's kind of.

679
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: Jared Young right now. Yes, because what we've seen from

680
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: Mauricio this year.

681
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 2: We talked about Matt Edie a few episodes ago, such

682
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 2: a better had from the left side compared to the rights.

683
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: He's really bad right handed.

684
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 2: He's really bad right handed hair, so the kind of

685
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 2: thing that maybe he should stop doing that at some point.

686
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: But if against a right handed pitcher, We're going to

687
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 2: see a lot of Ryan Marisio on this lineup, especially

688
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 2: because Jeff McNeil is somewhat given the Mets more confidence

689
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: with him in center field. I know now without Griffin Canning,

690
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 2: it's another groundball guy out of this rotation. Frankie Montas

691
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 2: is a flyball guy. I do not think we're going

692
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,160
Speaker 2: to see as much Jeff McNeal's center field, but Montas

693
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 2: in the mount at least I hope not, because again,

694
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 2: while we are happy about Jeff McNeil, I think it's

695
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: it's he's a passable center fielder. He's not going out

696
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: getting any and he made that great catch to the home

697
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 2: run robbery on Wednesday as well. But like the comparison

698
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: of him, Jankowski, Tyron Taylor and center it's obvious that

699
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: Jef's in there for his bat, not the glove. I

700
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 2: do think that that's someone just has to wake up.

701
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, Yeah, out of those

702
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: three who do you think, by the end of the

703
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: year is the favorite of playing third base. Who's the

704
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: guy who's performing the best who takes that position, Because

705
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: regardless of whether or not like someone becomes like a

706
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: like actually very like competent hitter or whatever, it's gonna

707
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: be someone's position. At some point. You can't just kind

708
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: of keep rotating three guys for the rest of the season.

709
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: It feels kind of untenable. Who's the guy that you

710
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: think is gonna be like at the end of the season,

711
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: when we get to the playoffs, who's gonna be playing

712
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: third base?

713
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 2: I think that's just based on the law of averages,

714
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: because this guy doesn't have an option. Because Winker comes back,

715
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 2: someone has to go down. I still will lean on

716
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 2: Mark Fianto's because he's the only one we've seen do

717
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 2: it for more than a few weeks right the major

718
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 2: league level. But Ronnie is the one I just keep

719
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 2: dreaming on. I think Baty has the highest floor. Like

720
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: I still do think they all bring something very different

721
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: to the table. And while we are talking about the

722
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 2: Stoling Marte hitting two situation, somehow this year his splits

723
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 2: are so much worse against lefties compared to righty's really no, Yes,

724
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: it's only seventy played appearances against lefties with only one

725
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 2: hundred against righty's, which are not you guys know how

726
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 2: much I hate splits, not really indicative of anything, but

727
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 2: it's only six your year oop he has against the lefties.

728
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 2: No sixty eight play appearances against the Riots. It's like

729
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 2: it's like a seven to forty, which is to me

730
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 2: that I understand that he should be a better hitter

731
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 2: against lefties. But Fiento's is going to play every single

732
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 2: time we face the lefty, and he's going to be

733
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 2: on this roster at the rest of the season, so

734
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 2: he's going to have the most opportunities to turn himself

735
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: into something. Baby really can't see the lefties, and Riso

736
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: definitely should not see the lefties. No, So those whenever

737
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 2: we see a lefty on the mound, Ben Jesse winkers

738
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 2: healthy because he's going to take either Baby and Risio

739
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 2: spot in this roster. That's who's going to be in.

740
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 2: It's going to mark Fianto's playing so and playing third base,

741
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 2: likely because we don't want either of those other guys starting.

742
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: So that's another hurdle. Fianto's has to climb, but I

743
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: don't know.

744
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 2: Maybe these couple weeks off cleared his head, so it's

745
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: a confidence thing. I know, he didn't hit that great

746
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: in his rehabit sign which I was really hoping. He

747
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 2: just mashed down there in Syracuse. Him and Baity one

748
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: day are gonna have the numbers retired up there in Syracuse.

749
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: But it's you need.

750
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: It's hard for me to tell who's going to be

751
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 2: because they keep keeps thruning register out there.

752
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: They hit right and he sucks.

753
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: But someone just has to do it, or Alpharez comes

754
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 2: back and kind of shocks the world, does it.

755
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: Someone one of those four guys, one of these.

756
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 2: Prospects, has to become a reliable player within the next

757
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: couple of months.

758
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: And this team's not.

759
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: I don't know if this team isn't no way to

760
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 2: get as far as they did last year.

761
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: Truthfully, no, You're gonna need a definitely more complete lineup,

762
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: especially because and I think I made a joke about

763
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: this last night at the game. Everyone talks about like

764
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense how the Mets are not able

765
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: to score runs. They have one of the highest on

766
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: base percentages in baseball, but they have one of the

767
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: lowest slugging percentages. I was like, yeah, because you can

768
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: walk three, four, five, and then you have three guys

769
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: up and you're like, oh, they're below average hitters. They're

770
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: not gonna drive these guys, and you could load the bases,

771
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: and if you gave me Luisterrenz and Tyrone Taylor up,

772
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: I'd be like probably getting out of it, Like I

773
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: think there's a really good chance no runs score. And

774
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: how many times does it feel like that happened? Of course,

775
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: Lindor and Sodo don't have high batting averages with runners

776
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: of the scoring position. We know that, we're aware that's

777
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: gonna fix. But a lot of the times, like when

778
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: Soda walks, or Pete walks, or McNeil, who's been walking

779
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: a ton by the way, his walk rates are crazy

780
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: up this year because he's no one hitting behind them. Yeah, exactly.

781
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: That's the problem though. That's why it's like, how can

782
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: the Mets score They get on base so much? Well,

783
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: it's because there's nobody else after those guys. That's the

784
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: biggest issue.

785
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 3: Well, if you're a normal human, you can't speak English

786
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Speaker 3: to your pup, but what you can do to understand

787
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Speaker 3: what they love which is Spontan Tango on kibble is

788
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Speaker 3: to see how they react when you put the unkibble

789
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Speaker 3: in the bowl. And my pup, pinal Lope loves it.

790
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Speaker 3: So does Bella.

791
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Speaker 6: Well, Bella speaks Spanish, so she says, moybeen, I love

792
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Speaker 6: this stuff.

793
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Speaker 3: She says, Wow, Dad, thanks for creating a custom plan

794
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Speaker 3: based on my age, weight, breed an activity level. You

795
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796
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Speaker 3: whole fresh ingredients like real USDA meats, fruits and veggies.

797
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Speaker 3: But it's forty percent less expensive than frozen food. So

798
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799
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800
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801
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Speaker 3: That's spotantango dot com slash foul, code foul to get

802
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Speaker 3: fifty percent off your first order.

803
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Speaker 2: Well, then that's really the question, because on the other

804
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 2: side of this whole conversation we're having is that is

805
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: this where the Mets are going to go after be

806
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: aggressive on the trade deadline? And besides you, Heno Suarez, like,

807
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: who else is even an option there? Because I think

808
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 2: this is such a seller's market right now. It's almost insane,

809
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: like there are the teams that are bad don't really

810
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: have any others to trade because they're bad. Well, there's

811
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 2: like twenty two teams of baseball where we're going to

812
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 2: play shots to get the playoffs.

813
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: Did you catch the Jeff Passion and Kylie McDaniel article

814
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: where they ranked the top fifty. Did you see there's

815
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: a third basement on there that they are predicting more

816
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: likely than not will be traded at this deadline. I

817
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: won't believe it until it happens, but your favorite owner

818
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: and Made League Baseball, Dick Monford, apparently might be ready

819
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: to move on from Ryan McMahon, And if he is available,

820
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: I want him. I want Ryan McMahon.

821
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 2: How badly do you really want Ryan McMahon, Because I

822
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 2: know Ryan McMahon is doing the same thing he does

823
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 2: this year he does every year, which is like a

824
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: ten to fifteen percent better hit than the league average,

825
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 2: with much better great defense, great defense, great much better

826
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 2: stats under the hood than actually what happens. Because Ryan McMahon,

827
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 2: like you guys, get pissed off the strikeouts, strikes out

828
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: so much. He takes big hats and he swings and

829
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 2: misses often, he knows the pitches swing out, he doesn't

830
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 2: really chase. He does hit the ball really really hard.

831
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 2: Like I think that Ryan McMahon the next few years

832
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 2: can be a guy here.

833
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: But I'm almost I I just I think i'd rather

834
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: you Henio Suarez real well, Okay, yes, definitely. I think

835
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: I also would rather Aujaneo Swarz. I think it's I

836
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: don't know how one hundred percent sure they're going to

837
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: trade him.

838
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 2: I think that even if they don't sell, they're selling

839
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 2: him because it's very obvious that they want to give

840
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: Jordan Lawler a chance, and Jordan Lawer has most spots

841
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 2: on that team and Swarz on a one year deal.

842
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: While it might be fun for the Diambacks to kind

843
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: of scratch a claw their way into a wildcard spot,

844
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 2: they clearly don't have a team that can make another

845
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: run like they did a few years ago. They're definitely

846
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 2: a player or too short there. But they're also not

847
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: in a position to buy with Zach Allen looking horrible.

848
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: But then you also have Corman Burns injured. Henry swar

849
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 2: Is gonna be a hot, hot guy too. Where it's

850
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 2: what I'm saying he's gonna cost significantly more, but I

851
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: think those two are very different than what they'll get

852
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: in the trademarket because McMahon has a good contract and

853
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: he's probably more that we say's about Euhana Swarz every

854
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 2: single season, but then he just keeps mashing. But like McMahon,

855
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 2: if you ask me right now who'd rather have the team,

856
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 2: it's Suarez. If you ask me next year, who I'd

857
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 2: rather have the team is McMahon. I think the Mets

858
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 2: are still going to continue to give the ease three

859
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 2: infielder's every single chance next year the year after that

860
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 2: while they're cheap and under team control. So I do

861
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: think that they would probably prefer the the ability to

862
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: mix and match rather than locking a guy like McMahon

863
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 2: for the next few years. I'm trying to see what

864
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,959
Speaker 2: who also again, is a left handed batter. I think

865
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 2: this team desperately needs a right handed batter.

866
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't think Nolan or Noto is

867
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: going to be traded. I don't seem to good. Yeah,

868
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: I don't care about Ramona Rias, like who cares? Just

869
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: play the guys that we have and then Joan Mancata.

870
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: That's probably the only other third basement. I don't want

871
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: him tell you this isn't Aria is a major lefty

872
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: masher isn't his thing. I believe that is his calling card.

873
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: But like, at the same time, I don't know, wouldn't

874
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: you rather just want Rome Gonzalez?

875
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: God No, but there probably is the best version of

876
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 2: this Mets team getting a guy like even if you

877
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 2: get Suarez, could guy likes on it?

878
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: Like if Ramona Rias has a seven to seventy seven

879
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: ops against the lefties this year, but majority of his

880
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: played appearances be against righties. He's just playing every day.

881
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 2: He's playing every day now, except or as much as

882
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 2: that Oriols team wanted to kill him, he will not die.

883
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: He even hit second or fourth on most days. But

884
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 2: if red Baby can't find consistency in the next three weeks, yeah,

885
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 2: you have to start looking at probably just won't be

886
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 2: on this roster for the stretch.

887
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: Ry.

888
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 2: I know he does a lot of things well, and

889
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 2: defensively this year he's been great lack of a better

890
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 2: tournament ace, But until he can actually consistently hit the

891
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: ball with authority, which he I mean you just if

892
00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: you want to reach the World Series. He can't have

893
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,240
Speaker 2: guy playing every day that you seventy op on base percent.

894
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: You just can't have that.

895
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 2: Like that's he's right now, right on that line where

896
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 2: it's like can you be a player to trust moving forward?

897
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 2: But like being on that line, it means not really

898
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 2: there yet. If you want to get to spot, you

899
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: want to get to the rest of the season rather

900
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 2: have your Romonia Reas and Brett babies restly.

901
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably I think so, but I also it's also

902
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: a better roster fixed.

903
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 2: You can also play second and third, not as well

904
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 2: as baby. But right now I'm here, I'm looking for

905
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: the bat and more than I'm looking.

906
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: For the glove. Now, what if I told you that

907
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: Ramona Rias over the last like twenty eight days has

908
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: like a six hundred ops. I know, but I mean

909
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 1: it's never day. It's never day. Play like I'm not again.

910
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 6: I know.

911
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 2: I don't know how this whole podcast became the Romoniaia Show,

912
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 2: But there's allay about third basement that's same, but that's

913
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 2: where it's at right now, where like this is more

914
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 2: reminiscence than that twenty fifteen team where I'm like, like,

915
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 2: give me your rebate.

916
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: Give me a Kelly John Hodd love God want your

917
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: Rebay would be so good on this team.

918
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, Like, we need to find I

919
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 2: think the equivalents of those guys to complete this. Of course,

920
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 2: we do not have Jacob de Gramos and grim Met Harvey.

921
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: In the rotations. Big pieces. Yeah, but like that's they

922
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 1: didn't have one. So true. That's what this Met's team

923
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: needs right now.

924
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: I think they If none of these guys can assert

925
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 2: themselves in the next few weeks, you have to get

926
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 2: some major league hitters. And though that should be the

927
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 2: thing that might be easiest to acquire, similar to getting

928
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: Jesse Winker last season, Like how big were the Jesse

929
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: Winker at bats during the playoffs And Jesse Winker is

930
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 2: going to be in the lined up every single time

931
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 2: you face a righty. But against left handed pitching, there's

932
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 2: a hole in this team. If Mark Fiantos is not hitting,

933
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 2: Stalger might say is not really hitting with authority, Like

934
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: how how do you lengthened this lineup against the lefty?

935
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to get some right handed bats. That's

936
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: really what it is. That's what I'm saying, Like they

937
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: have to be able to find that, Like you want

938
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: to do a lot of right handed bats available, saying.

939
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 2: There's not a lot at all like that that's going

940
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 2: to be I think the most the biggest.

941
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 1: Challenge a lot of great utfielders. I get rob restneither.

942
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: I'm saying you, like, if you can get a cheap

943
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 2: rob restn out of the Rome be Gonzalez and the Red

944
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 2: Sox team, that you could probably you can convinced Craig

945
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: Brussels do anything right now, Like there's there's a that

946
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 2: has to be the avenue. I think that's what this

947
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 2: team is missing the most. It should be the easiest

948
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 2: thing to find. The Padres have got seven years without

949
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: being able to have a consistent right handed bat in

950
00:36:58,960 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 2: a quarter.

951
00:36:59,239 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: To the press spot.

952
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: But like that's to me looking at this roster right

953
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: now and hoping and praying that Manaya and Ko that

954
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 2: come back and that could be our five, like we

955
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: saidt the top of the show, Like that's the most

956
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 2: absolute gaping hole in this roster right now. It's another

957
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 2: consistent I want a right handed Jesse Winker, Like why

958
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 2: can't we.

959
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: Find Okay, I'm in on that, you can tell me

960
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: on right hand Jesse Winker. That's I mean again au

961
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: Haneo Suarez, I think should be the top of the list,

962
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: the top of everyone's list. But yeah, but that's the problem.

963
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: So you're need a bidding war. But also how high

964
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: does this bidding war actually get for a thirty five

965
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: year old third Basement was a free agent next year?

966
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 1: How high does it actually get? He's not thirty five yet.

967
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: I think he's thirty four, right.

968
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 2: He started two like he's also having one of the

969
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: best seasons of his career.

970
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 1: Colum's popping off. He's three thirty three, turns thirty four.

971
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: On July eighteenth, nice nailed did nice at the buzzer

972
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: on the Diamondbacks on his birthday? Yes or no, July eighteenth.

973
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll go straight, He'll go to the wire because

974
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 2: they want they probably want to thread the needle, but

975
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: they still want to use him to win as many

976
00:37:58,480 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 2: games as possible.

977
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: But then it's called agust first. Well, that is will

978
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: in connection as well, Carls Mendoza.

979
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 2: Ess, just bring all the lines to the scene. That's

980
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 2: we have to do the beat the Dodgers. But I

981
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: just there has there has to be a right handed

982
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 2: hither that comes through because even I mean, or just

983
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 2: maybe Vancea's just shows up and does it again.

984
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: Which would be really cool. That's also the easy way

985
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: to handle this is Mark Vientos just remembers how to

986
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: hit like he did last year.

987
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 2: But we haven't really seen anything of Mark Vantos the

988
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: season that makes me think that's possible. If you if

989
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: you went to Triple A and had nine home or

990
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 2: some seventeen at bats, I'd be like, yep, let's go

991
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 2: right the rumble, but let's go. As of right now,

992
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 2: we're just haven't. We're not really close to that at all.

993
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: Is there any I'm looking at the teams that are

994
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: kind of just hanging around a little bit right now

995
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: that could possibly move on from somebody.

996
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 2: It's such a seller's market that would definitely behoove some

997
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 2: of these teams to try and sell, like we don't.

998
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 2: If the Royals had a right handed hitter, he'd be

999
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: in their lineup, so we definitely can't use that. Is

1000
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:49,919
Speaker 2: there is there a White Sox?

1001
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: No?

1002
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 2: Is there a veteran right handed hitter on the White Sox?

1003
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: Probably not? And if he is, do you want them seriously?

1004
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: Like it's it's really.

1005
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 2: Here's a weird one because this team can make a

1006
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: run of the wild card spot, but they're definitely not

1007
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: going anywhere past that. What would what what would it

1008
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 2: take to trade for Byron Buckson right now? Because I

1009
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 2: think I think I would run into traffic with joy

1010
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 2: if that Brian Byron bucks was on this team. But

1011
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 2: I also know how volatile he is as a player.

1012
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: And there it is. That's that's the thing that scares

1013
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: me the most about him. And he is also under

1014
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 1: contract through twenty twenty eight, and he's so much he's

1015
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: getting paid what's what, fifteen million dollars a year. It's

1016
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: actually not bad.

1017
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: Remember he has all those crazy incentives for All Stars

1018
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 2: and MVPs and all that crazy stuff.

1019
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: The thing that scares me about Byron Buckson and until

1020
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: he does it, I won't believe that he ever keeps playing.

1021
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: He played one hundred and forty games in twenty seventeen,

1022
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: and the next most games he's played in his crew

1023
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: was last year at one hundred and two. He simply

1024
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: has not played more than one hundred and three games

1025
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen, when he was twenty three years old.

1026
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: He is now thirty one, going it gonna turn thirty

1027
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: two in December, so you're stuck with that contract as

1028
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: well as just the fact that he gets hurt if

1029
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: the wind blows too hard. That's what scares me about him.

1030
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: But hey, of course, if they're like, we don't want

1031
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: we'll take anything for him, Yes, of course, go take

1032
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,959
Speaker 1: that shot because he is He's a guy that would

1033
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: legitimately transform what's going on with this Mett's roster right now.

1034
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: It also is funny how injured Byron Buckson has been

1035
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna read you guys off every single body

1036
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: part that's Byron Buckson has missed a game with since

1037
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: the beginning of the twenty twenty one season, and it's

1038
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: going to be hilarious. But there's a trend that I'm

1039
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call out, but muscle, elbow, Oh yeah, get

1040
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: ready for this.

1041
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 2: It's gonna be this might be like this gonna be

1042
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 2: some bad podcasting. Forty five forty five seconds of body

1043
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 2: parts elbow, elbow, head, hip, back for arm, knee, hamstering, back, ribs, leg, hip, knee, knee, hip, knee, hand, hip, knee,

1044
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 2: hamstering illness.

1045
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a shocking amount of injury. It's a

1046
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 1: lot of different body parts there.

1047
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 2: But again, when the guys are chronically injured, the thing

1048
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,479
Speaker 2: that makes me think they're gonna get injured again besides

1049
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 2: being injured.

1050
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: The pass which Bucksons has done with Flying.

1051
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 2: Colors being injured in the past, it's the consistent soft

1052
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 2: tissue stuff. He doesn't have the consistent softissue stuff. It's

1053
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 2: bier bucks and sliding weird or running into somebody smash

1054
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 2: it into the wall. And then the Twins thought they

1055
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: could fix that two years ago at being like, let's

1056
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 2: just there, let you hit.

1057
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: He couldn't.

1058
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: He didn't really know how to be DH and he

1059
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: was bad. He didn't know what to do with himself

1060
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 2: kinetic energy. But then he put him in the back

1061
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 2: in the field. Last year he played really well in

1062
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: the hundred games he played, and now this year just

1063
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 2: looks like a stud. I hope he gets his way

1064
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 2: to the All Star Game. It's it's a fit.

1065
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: I mean, but isn't this what this team kind of needs?

1066
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 2: Take a shot? But like you like, that's why we

1067
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 2: keep talking about Luis Robert. I know you guys hate that,

1068
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: but it's like lightning in a bottle makes something fucking

1069
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 2: crazy happen. Those because are both right handed hitters.

1070
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: Like Bearr is either going to go on assesspadas run

1071
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: or he's he's cut within weeks. Like that's the options

1072
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: and either one. I'm okay with the risk because the

1073
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: ceiling could legitimately change the way that this season ends.

1074
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 3: People like this last time, so we're gonna do it again.

1075
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Speaker 2: And there's going to be a moment with some of

1095
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 2: these ale teams because the Al fucking sucks so badly

1096
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 2: or just like we just it's not worth it. Just

1097
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 2: who cares about getting our doors blown off.

1098
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: By the Yankees in the division around?

1099
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah you can, That's what it is like because

1100
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 2: astro Z. Oh my god, I can't believe the teams

1101
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 2: are back on a collision course. But like, the Guardians

1102
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 2: aren't good, the Twins are not good. The Royal suck.

1103
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 2: The Angels are gonna be here tooth and nail to

1104
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 2: the end. The Rangers just put in a call for J. J.

1105
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 2: Martinez to try and save the season. What they offer

1106
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: them a non guarantee contract. Apparently he's considering it. He

1107
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 2: said he's done with pickleball. I guess that was short

1108
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 2: lived career. I get maybe he knows he can go

1109
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: back to it. But like that, like this, these these

1110
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 2: guys are bad. Like but also the Rangers don't really

1111
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 2: have a right handed back to trade. I mean again,

1112
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 2: I at least I see it. Probably plays on this well,

1113
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 2: but we need to move to some defensive.

1114
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: Valley because we got too can't play center, we can't

1115
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 1: play right like we're too tight right now with all

1116
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: these guys with no position, especially if the Insos doesn't hit,

1117
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: the Vansos will be on the roster because he has

1118
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: no option. But the Viento's.

1119
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 2: Baby, Mauricio Trio, like that's who we need to improve

1120
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 2: upon before the stretch run mostly and probably get I

1121
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 2: don't even see this unless it's Sandy. Like, I don't

1122
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 2: even see a team going back to the starting pitcher.

1123
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 2: Well honestly, yeah, actually I see reliever in right handed bat.

1124
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: It would have been Popolo up As, but he's hurt,

1125
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: so that's not happening. I think that would have been

1126
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: the guy that they would have kind of pushed the

1127
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 1: chips in for a little bit.

1128
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 2: But you need to push chips and for pablop, serious chips,

1129
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 2: and like, as of right now, it's not I don't

1130
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: think it's going to happen.

1131
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: It's just no, he's hurt. Yeah, you wouldn't make that drain.

1132
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 2: It's Sandy is the one and then besides him.

1133
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: It's just like we.

1134
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 2: Did the whole Pitcher episode a few week like a

1135
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: few weeks ago, we gave good options.

1136
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: Pretty Prault is not available. Surely they the Brewers.

1137
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 2: Are going to go to the playoffs and see how

1138
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 2: many rounds they can win, like they do every single year.

1139
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: Like that.

1140
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 2: They're just they keep playing well. The teams nine games

1141
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 2: over five hundred. This version of Zach Gallen, how much

1142
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: better is he than what we have right now?

1143
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: Not much, I don't think at all.

1144
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean Paul Blackburn, Zac Gallen, who you got

1145
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 2: rest of the season, Well, Zach Allen for sure, exactly. But

1146
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 2: then and then like Merril Kelly on that team, the

1147
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 2: one interesting guy that I would like them to take

1148
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 2: a look at, and we mentioned it before, Seth Lugo, Yeah,

1149
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 2: for sure. The Luca's also been good this year, not great. Yeah,

1150
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: And I think he's on their contract for another year.

1151
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 2: And I think the Royals still want to make the

1152
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:49,919
Speaker 2: playoffs next year.

1153
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know, that's a that ownership wants to win.

1154
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that they didn't go out and get

1155
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: anybody good as that was a hitter this offseason.

1156
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 2: But last year they did go deep in free agency

1157
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,439
Speaker 2: and they did add some guys. I think they're they're

1158
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 2: trying hard, like but which is more we can say

1159
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 2: about some of these other teams, Like I think the Twins,

1160
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 2: I don't even think they signed one free agent. They

1161
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 2: did not They signed Harrison Bater, Yeah, Harrison Baty. The

1162
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 2: Guardian has just got rid of Josh Naylor.

1163
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: Well, you know, they really could really use another bat

1164
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: in that lineup.

1165
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 2: It's just they these ale teams are they're so content

1166
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 2: with mediocrity, and there's so all of them can make

1167
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 2: the playoffs. That's hard to find a trade partner. But

1168
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 2: it's like I don't want I don't really want Lane Thomas,

1169
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 2: but that seems like someone that we definitely could acquire.

1170
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 2: Like that's That's what I'm saying, Like, that's kind of

1171
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,879
Speaker 2: where we're at right now. Unless the ento steps up

1172
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 2: that this is that vacancy will not be filled by

1173
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 2: right handed power a bout in this roster.

1174
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: So then let's talk about the bullpen, because we talked

1175
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: about starting picture at nauseam. And again, if Jacob mcgraham's

1176
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: available and wants to come back to New York, we

1177
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: will well, me and James will pick them up. We'll

1178
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: fly the plane. I'll get Nathan Fielder ty the plane.

1179
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: We're trying to Texas. Baby, we're doing live Mets up

1180
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: on the on the freeway. I us fourth. Would that

1181
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: be a funny bit if the Mets trade for Jacob

1182
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: de Gram, we drive Dallas and we drive back. Yeah,

1183
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: I mean I would do it. Yeah, would you do

1184
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: that for Jacob de Gram? Yeah, we're not coming up

1185
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: where you're like, I can write my Rollerworld articles in

1186
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: the car at my hot spot. That's fine, all right,

1187
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: I'll throw that out there. You guys can let us

1188
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: know if you like that idea.

1189
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 2: Again, like with the bullpen, like we said, like there's confidence,

1190
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 2: but the team definitely needs a hammer.

1191
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: For a fact, it would be cool to have a

1192
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: real eighth inning set up man to lead to Edwin Diaz,

1193
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: whether it be healthy. But I don't think he's getting traded.

1194
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 2: But I keep definitely going back to Bednar, like that's

1195
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 2: the name over and over again who keeps coming up

1196
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 2: from me, because I think he's definitely going to be traded.

1197
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 2: You think he's been one of the best relievers in

1198
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 2: baseball this season? Yeah, I think I mean they bob

1199
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 2: nothing said out loud.

1200
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: Not he did't say out loud.

1201
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 2: But there was a report that went out from Nightingale

1202
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 2: they were looking into trades for David Bednar And he's

1203
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 2: a dog, He's an animal. He comes in, He come

1204
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: in this game like you you feel like you have

1205
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 2: a second closer. And then that moving everyone down a

1206
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 2: little bit, like being able to use Read Garrett in

1207
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 2: the sixth inning and.

1208
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: Not being scared about it.

1209
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 2: If Daniel Nuoniyas is back, which I pray God, I

1210
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 2: pray to God. Locke, do you see the tweet from

1211
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: Diana that Hefner's smirking was pitching yesterday.

1212
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: He was he gave off a little like smile, like

1213
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: I mean was he was doing. You're like, oh, baby,

1214
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: that's the that's one of the best relievers in baseball

1215
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: right there there he is.

1216
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: I hit you in the arm. I was like ninety

1217
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: ninety nine the at and Ivy b see that going

1218
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: right now. But like that's if he can get back

1219
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 2: to that spot. Like that does change this a lot,

1220
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 2: but it still doesn't dissuade me from the fact that

1221
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 2: they do still need a hammer in that bullpen, and

1222
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 2: that shouldn't be a very difficult thing to acquire. Now,

1223
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 2: we farms has some depths, we could do it.

1224
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,760
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, so let's let's think about some possible

1225
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: big arms that they could get in the bullpen. I'm

1226
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: gonna start in the American League East. It's a world as.

1227
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 2: Chapman's probably the guy we want the most, right, Sure,

1228
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 2: but I don't see this Mets front office, this Mets

1229
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 2: team going and this Chapman.

1230
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't. Although they do parade around Jose

1231
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: but true. But yeah, he's been asking why a few

1232
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: times this week. But she's also playing in the alumni game,

1233
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: So I still I still don't see that happening. But

1234
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: oh Man Dadel ninety nine couriols. We're not getting Felix Bautist,

1235
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: so that's not happening. It would be sar Anthony would

1236
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: be the guy. Sar Anthony or is he better than

1237
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: Reed Garrett? No? No, but having another re Garrett would

1238
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 1: be cool. Sure. From the White Sox, there's nobody.

1239
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: No, there's some guys in that White Sox. Pett have

1240
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 2: to talk to me that hammer though not to be

1241
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 2: the hammer, but some guys like because I were saying

1242
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: to need a hammer. But I don't know if David

1243
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 2: Stearns thinks are gonna need a hammer, you know the

1244
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 2: mean I still think that like he's going to be

1245
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 2: more dexterous for going after a bullpen arm rather than

1246
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 2: going like treading big assets for a bednar.

1247
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,240
Speaker 1: There has been crazy kind of heat recently about Juan

1248
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: Duran in Minnesota.

1249
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 2: I mean that'd be he's so much team control love,

1250
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 2: like you're you don't want to give.

1251
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: You to give up a top prospect for him, I'm

1252
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: sure that's what I'm saying.

1253
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 2: You would have to give up one of our top

1254
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 2: five prospects to get him.

1255
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: Would you? Or No? Probably not an injury riddled closer. No,

1256
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: is he injury riddled?

1257
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 2: I mean there were so many arm problems. That's why

1258
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 2: he's a closer, not a starter.

1259
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he since he's been a closer in the majors,

1260
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: he's made fifty nine appearances every single season. And you're

1261
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: not wrong about that.

1262
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 2: But I still I don't see if, again, in the

1263
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 2: proverbial hammer context that we're talking about, I see being

1264
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 2: a one year rental. I do not see David Stearns

1265
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 2: dropping a future starting player.

1266
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: Unreliever. Is Kyle Finnegan that guy.

1267
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 2: He's definitely not a hammer though like Kyle Thingan's, he's

1268
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: not a closer by choice because I need I think

1269
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 2: this is what you have, though I don't think. I

1270
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 2: don't think this guy exists right now?

1271
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: Who is? Who is it? I think?

1272
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I would you rather have Saran

1273
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 2: Anthony Demingas or Kyle Finningen.

1274
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: Sir Anthony is so weird, but the stuff's much better,

1275
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: So Sir Anthony.

1276
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: That's some thing. I think I'd rather have Sir Anthony

1277
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 2: as well. Like I think I think that's where we

1278
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: have to shop someone who's not fully been unlocked yet. Like,

1279
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: is there an older reliever on the athletics? Probably not

1280
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 2: the Angels not getting anybody?

1281
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 1: Would you okay, it's not let's just have some fun.

1282
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: There's no way Mason Miller's available, right He's definitely available,

1283
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: So then, okay, would you make some big trades for

1284
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 1: him right now? Like would you trade two top five

1285
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: prospects for Mason Miller and maybe another guy? You use

1286
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: him as a reliever this year? And then he tried

1287
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: to get him back to the starter thing?

1288
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 6: Oh?

1289
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: Probably, I mean, I don't know.

1290
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: Maybe, but I don't see Mason Miller. You on Duran

1291
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 2: is that different? I still again, I don't think that

1292
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 2: David Stans dropping a hammer on reliever with team control

1293
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 2: like that.

1294
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: But but he's the different one because it's like he

1295
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: could be a starter again, can Durant had too danby

1296
00:49:59,520 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: a start?

1297
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1298
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 1: Sure, why not? I guess. And we did play homes

1299
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: why not?

1300
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, have some fun at this point. But I John

1301
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 2: is the one that fits the best obviously, But I

1302
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 2: just don't see them doing that. I mean, people are

1303
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 2: rumoring Fairbanks. I can't see the rays one with one

1304
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 2: of the best records of baseball trading p Fairbanks at

1305
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:13,479
Speaker 2: this point.

1306
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: But also I could because he's a free agent and

1307
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,760
Speaker 1: they're like, let's cash in, Like we have one hundred

1308
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: pet Fairbanks. What do we need him for? Yeah.

1309
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 2: The big problem with teams that sucks that they don't

1310
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 2: have that many good relievers.

1311
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: Yes, usually the teams that are bad to have issue

1312
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: banning games and they can't close them out when they

1313
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: get a lead. That's why the guy.

1314
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 2: That continues to stick out for me is his bed

1315
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 2: not running away. I mean, maybe any of the Royals

1316
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 2: guys like they probably tray Stevs after what happened, like

1317
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 2: after signing him.

1318
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean what's his contract. I think it's two.

1319
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: I want to see two for tw twenty two years

1320
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: with a team option two for twenty two.

1321
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 2: Okay, it could be him that that's that's a good one.

1322
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: He's pitched really well again this season, Like he's a

1323
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,280
Speaker 2: very good lightening reliever.

1324
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: Definitely been as successful.

1325
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 2: Not pitching in the ninth inning, but you might as

1326
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 2: to say him an't get over it.

1327
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: Yeah games, although he might have DSD in city field.

1328
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.

1329
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 2: Then people haven't talked to Francisco Lindor be like hey,

1330
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, buddy, Like that's like that's a guy that

1331
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 2: stands out to me at that point.

1332
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: Like otherwise, like looking at the Twins ballpen.

1333
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 2: Like the Twins gonna be stingy, like they're they just

1334
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 2: they just extended rock upball Delhi.

1335
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: Yeah this is cool, but their team.

1336
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: That probably wants to make the playoffs, they want to

1337
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 2: good press like this while just being a disaster of

1338
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 2: a of a team management wise, like you're not you

1339
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 2: mean you're not getting guy a gripping Jackson not getting

1340
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 2: Louis Varland, like he's a good leaders in that bullpen.

1341
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: Danny Koulam the goat my guy, Like that's what ja

1342
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 2: that's more of a crafty lefty than an Amir.

1343
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: The Marlins have anybody, anyone, National have anyone.

1344
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 2: It's Ronnie Henriquez and it's it's Fouchet. But those are also

1345
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 2: guys with much more team control. But maybe I mean

1346
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 2: it's similar to Bronzebumb, but I think the league was

1347
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 2: like just got Browse Bonds, like a mid threes, low

1348
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 2: four z R guy like Nationals. You want to try

1349
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 2: and Jose for air, like that's that you could try

1350
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 2: and do that, but you want to undergo a project

1351
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 2: that would be more like how we acquired Standik last year.

1352
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 2: But we only got to acquire standing because he made

1353
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 2: too much money. Yes you know what I mean, Like

1354
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 2: that's kind of where that is too and the guys

1355
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 2: like that like Mark so weird. It's just it's a

1356
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 2: seller's market. They expanded playoffs kind of it's really good

1357
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 2: for the bad teams, even though really bad, it's really

1358
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 2: good for the bad team. It's really good for the

1359
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 2: mid teams, which the whole reason they did it. Which

1360
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 2: the whole reason I hated it. But something one of

1361
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 2: these teams has to become opportunistic. We haven't only seen

1362
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 2: many opportunistic mid teams. I mean the one team actually

1363
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 2: that was was the Orioles two years ago and now

1364
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 2: they probably wish they would have had one more shot

1365
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 2: at the playoffs, but they weren't able to trade. Who

1366
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 2: was that they traded it was wasn't the bad to

1367
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 2: get Yan your Cano, who had two good seasons now

1368
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 2: is bad again.

1369
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: They got I'm gonna look up your Cano real quick.

1370
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: What they did for him.

1371
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 2: It was like a shocking trade at the time, people like,

1372
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 2: we can't believe it now and he got sent down.

1373
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 2: Now he stinks, I'm saying he's been thinking this year.

1374
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 2: But the last two years was one of the best

1375
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 2: relievers in baseball.

1376
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: Came from the Twins. They traded Jory Lopez to the

1377
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: Twins and they got it.

1378
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 2: Horry Lopez, who was a good middle reliever, to get

1379
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,439
Speaker 2: the next good middle reliever, Horiey Lopez.

1380
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: Man always comes back to Horiy Lopez. The Red Sox.

1381
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 2: Yeah again, and the Red Sox also to save face,

1382
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna go balls to the wall to

1383
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 2: try and make They kind of have to, like you

1384
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 2: kind of have to give it a shot. Even though

1385
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 2: I saw the t ops TJ stats tweets since it

1386
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: devonstrate it's like five seventy.

1387
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: It's bad.

1388
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 2: It'd be nice to have another hitter in the middle

1389
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 2: of that lineup. It's just there's these teams are bad

1390
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 2: for reasons, so it's hard to find. I do trust

1391
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 2: that David Serren is gonna be much more riticulous about

1392
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 2: this than you and I live during this podcast. But

1393
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 2: it's a situation where the obvious thing is that this

1394
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 2: Mets team needs to have a reliever, but there's not

1395
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 2: many available, so you gotta try and make one in

1396
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 2: the aggregate.

1397
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, who who's it to me? It's sar aanthonyers Ferrair. Okay,

1398
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess we'll have to wait and see.

1399
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: That's so what's fun about the trade deadline? And we

1400
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: are still literally a month away. We're gonna get so

1401
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: many rumors over the next few weeks, and anytime we do,

1402
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: we'll probably hop on and do an episode for you

1403
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: guys and completely break it down and talk about it

1404
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: at absolute nauseum. Because so baseball podcasts do anything else

1405
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 1: to talk about in this episode, just about the second half,

1406
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: how we're feeling, I.

1407
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 2: Mean just I mean again, like the way this team,

1408
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 2: how bad these teams play, they still feel good, Like

1409
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 2: I still feel fine, happy we banked all those wins

1410
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 2: and now we kind of try and get ourselves hot again.

1411
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 2: I do think there's a long season. We've learned that

1412
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 2: firsthand over the last month. But it's hard not to

1413
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 2: be confident this Team's hard not to be confident people

1414
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 2: making decisions and running the show between Stearns and Mendoza here,

1415
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 2: like I'm I'm confident this team and like we're not

1416
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 2: one of the best teams in baseball for a reason,

1417
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 2: record wise, Like shout out Bill Parcels you are. Your

1418
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 2: record says you are. You can't really take that away

1419
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 2: from the mess right now. No, it's gonna be it's

1420
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 2: gonna be a dogfight with the Phillies. Like I'm excited

1421
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 2: for the second half, Like I think this is it's

1422
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 2: quick half though, quick eighty two games.

1423
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: Quick, quick, fast. I was like, oh my god, what's

1424
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: that the All Star break? What's going on? Fast? Eighty

1425
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: two games? But you.

1426
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 2: Tell us how you guys feel about this team in

1427
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 2: the comments. But this is this has been fun, Like

1428
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 2: I'm this is why, this is why we do it,

1429
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 2: Like this is a great team. For all the ups

1430
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 2: and downs I've had, I've had a fun eighty two games.

1431
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: It's gonna be an electric eighty games the rest of

1432
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: the way. It's gonna be so much fun. We've got

1433
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: got the Brewers and Yankees coming to town after this

1434
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: road trip to Pittsburgh. That's gonna be some good baseball.

1435
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: Brewers have been playing better than almost anybody right now

1436
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: in the league, and the Yankees are scuffling a little

1437
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: bit like the Mets, but we know that roster is

1438
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: still very good. In Subway Series, fourth of July, Botty Hype, you.

1439
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 2: Think about doing next Train episode, like we said on

1440
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 2: the Last Train July fifth, after the four o'clock game

1441
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 2: at City Field against the Yankees. So that'll be probably

1442
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 2: much more chaotic one being the Subway Series. But if

1443
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 2: you guys want to come on with us, chop it

1444
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 2: up on the train last train on the seven cards

1445
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 2: July fifth against the Yankees.

1446
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: Yep, And I think that's pretty much if for this episode.

1447
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: We got a little FRANKI Pepper's right to send us

1448
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: out good memory.

1449
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 2: I totally forgot we didn't do Frankie against at the

1450
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 2: end of the Brave series, just because it was we

1451
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 2: were on the train.

1452
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,439
Speaker 1: But I got Frankie Pepper's coming at you right here,

1453
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: all right, give me Frankie. I'm sure he's got good

1454
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: words of encouragement after the Brave split.

1455
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 7: Gentlemen, this is Frankie Peppers. He ain't doing you doing

1456
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 7: I'm doing okay.

1457
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:35,240
Speaker 1: It's it's weird.

1458
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 7: Getting the split is good, especially when the boys have

1459
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 7: been playing as poorly as they have. But Griffin Cannon

1460
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 7: going down is just really unfortunate. But I do have

1461
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 7: some good news. It seems that the boys are winning

1462
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:54,439
Speaker 7: some games. My cat got sick. She's all backed up

1463
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 7: a little girl. She's not eating.

1464
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: She's a thirteen year old cat. She's awful.

1465
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 7: She's my favorite thing in the world. And it turns

1466
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 7: out when the Mets win, my cat eats. For the

1467
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 7: past two days. My cat did not eat food by

1468
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 7: hisself for like a week and a half. I've had

1469
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 7: the four seed out of a little bottle, changed it

1470
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,839
Speaker 7: yesterday and today. I should say, if you watch these

1471
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 7: see if you listen to the show late on Wednesday

1472
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 7: and Thursday. The Mets one might girl eight, So I'm

1473
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:32,240
Speaker 7: really grateful. I hope Griffin Canning is okay. And ye boys,

1474
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 7: I think that's about it. If and now so let's

1475
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 7: go mad say, OK, you're doing well. I'm a little sick.

1476
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 7: I'm also getting better, so we'll talk to you boys.

1477
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 1: Take care, I will say, do you remember like original

1478
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: TikTok days, the dog that had bones days or no

1479
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 1: bones days, and it was like bones day's a good day.

1480
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: There was a dog on TikTok that was incredibly viral,

1481
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: a very very old dog, and sometimes he could get

1482
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 1: up out of bed and it was called a bones

1483
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: day because he had bones. And then there was other

1484
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: days where he try and eat, like collapse because he

1485
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: had no bones and bones days were good. Maybe this

1486
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: is what Frankie's cat is when the cat eats good

1487
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 1: day for the Mets.

1488
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,399
Speaker 2: I can't I can't believe the journey that Frankie takes

1489
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: us on every every single time, but happy to include

1490
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 2: him in this episode. Also, I wanted to give one more

1491
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: shout out because I begdn't get doing the train yesterday.

1492
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 2: Keith rat friend of the show Sunday night Baseball last

1493
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 2: week against the Phillies. He was doing that series with

1494
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 2: Pat McCarthy, Pat McCarthy's wife. Congratulation to him and his wife.

1495
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the birth of the child went to labor

1496
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 2: somewhat suddenly. He had to leave the stadium at five thirty,

1497
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,959
Speaker 2: leaving Keith to do a solo broadcast. Hell a one

1498
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 2: man show for a three hour game which the Mets

1499
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Speaker 2: were completely not competitive. No shout out Keith rad for

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Speaker 2: that. That is an impossible endeavor. Did his best skull of

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Speaker 2: the impression how he had great words of affirmation and

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Speaker 2: courageion reform during the game of Monday. I listened to

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Speaker 2: on the beach that was that was really cool. Keith

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Speaker 2: was able to pull out off. He's he's become.

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Speaker 1: He's really good coming into his own as a broadcaster.

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling I used to listen to listen a on

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Speaker 2: That's games on the radio the same way, and how

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Speaker 2: we used to talk to and talk about WAYNERRN Dazzo.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of what he's bestowing that with Keith, So

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Speaker 2: it's nice to see that. The next iteration is he's

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Speaker 2: just doing a great job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was gonna say, like whenever, how he does

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Speaker 1: step away and retire eventually at some point. Keep We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be a good hands with Keith. He's an absolute

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Speaker 1: beast out there, but I.

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Speaker 2: Think similar the way, and I think I think he's

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Speaker 2: gonna find find another home probably at some point, because

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Speaker 2: he's a tremendous announcer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's too good. Hopefully he sticks around, but hopefully does.

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Speaker 1: That's all we got for you, guys. Thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: I'm Draftnickmark with the c. Thank you guys for listening

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Speaker 1: and watching. We'll catch you all after the Pirates series.

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Speaker 1: Let's go, Mets, Go Mets, guys,