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Speaker 1: All right, So we've recorded this episode in multiple parts.

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Speaker 1: We recorded like a whole ten minute rant that's coming.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of good stuff. But now that

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Speaker 1: we're on part two of the actual time that we've

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Speaker 1: been recording, there's some new info that has come out,

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Speaker 1: and Orge Lopez has been DFAD based on his actions

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Speaker 1: that happened during the game. Maybe after the game, Horey

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Speaker 1: Lopez is gone. If you didn't notice Orye Lopez when

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Speaker 1: he made a pick off the third base with Brett Baidy,

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Speaker 1: it hit ramone de jesus, ramone, de jesus. He felt

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Speaker 1: like he was in the way. He made some comments

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Speaker 1: to him when he was gonna be taken out of

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Speaker 1: the game. He ended up getting ejected. He untucked his shirt,

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Speaker 1: took off his hat, and fired it through his glove

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Speaker 1: into the stands. Someone went home with Hory Lopez's glove,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of crazy.

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Speaker 2: It might be one of the coolest souvenirs ever.

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Speaker 1: I mean, after the game, he goes to his locker

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Speaker 1: and old moon faced Steve Gelibs ask him a question

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Speaker 1: and the question was James. What was the question?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but basically they were asking him about

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Speaker 2: what happened. I thought you knew it. I thought you

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Speaker 2: knew it.

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Speaker 1: It was tough because Horay Lopez is from Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 1: English is not his first language, and it seems like

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Speaker 1: there could have been a little bit of lost in

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Speaker 1: translation here. But some way, somehow, Hory Lopez and I'll

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Speaker 1: feed in the clip here after I introduce it here,

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Speaker 1: said that he is either on the worst team in

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, or he is the worst teammate in

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, or third, he is the worst teammate

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Speaker 1: on the worst team in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: So I let you guys listen to that real quick.

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Speaker 3: Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that

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Speaker 3: that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands

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Speaker 3: is unacceptable looking back on it, Do you regret doing that? No,

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Speaker 3: I don't regret it. I think I've been looking the

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Speaker 3: words steaming brought them the whole MLB. So you know,

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Speaker 3: whatever happened happened. So whatever they want to do it,

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Speaker 3: I'll be tomorrow here if they want me. You know,

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Speaker 3: whatever they want to do. So I'm gonna keep doing

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Speaker 3: this thing, you know, so I'm healthy on whatever, you know,

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Speaker 3: whatever to do. You know, I'm I'm ready to come

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Speaker 3: back tomorrow if they want me to be here, so

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Speaker 3: I'll be here.

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Speaker 1: James, what do you think about this? Because this, Uh,

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Speaker 1: to me, this is a major problem. And it's not

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Speaker 1: necessarily a Hose or Jorge Lopez problem. I can't call

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Speaker 1: them the right name. I'll call them everything but Jorge.

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Speaker 1: But this to me is a major major uh oh,

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Speaker 1: what is going on with the culture here. It's a

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Speaker 1: shocking thing. Because the Mets finally after this game, had

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Speaker 1: a team meeting and they said media availability was paused

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Speaker 1: for twenty minutes and the team had a closed door

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Speaker 1: meeting and they said Francisco and Door called the meeting.

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Speaker 1: They said everybody spoke, it was good speaking. And I

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Speaker 1: can't even imagine what was being talked about in that meeting.

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Speaker 1: If Ho Lopez came out like ripping like this, and

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Speaker 1: I understand that there's a few bad alecs in a

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Speaker 1: row for him, and he's someone who sucks a goat DFA.

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Speaker 1: He's been pretty useful this year.

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Speaker 2: He's go to the Atlanta Braves and get some big outs.

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Speaker 1: I hope that. I hope he I hope he gets

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Speaker 1: picked up by the Rockies first, because I don't want

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Speaker 1: to see him in the playoffs. But it feels like

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Speaker 1: there was something. Steve Gelbs asked him if he regretted

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Speaker 1: throwing his glove into the stands, and he said no,

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Speaker 1: And then this quote started coming to be the worst,

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Speaker 1: the worst team in the whole fucking MLB, And it

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Speaker 1: kind of feels like if you listen closely to that,

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Speaker 1: and a reporter Many Gomez, who is I know, he's spanished,

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Speaker 1: he's Latin speaker. He reiterated. He had a tweet that

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Speaker 1: was like, hey, if you guys listen, that's not what

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Speaker 1: Hory Lopez said. This is a misquote. And it felt

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Speaker 1: like by that time, the cat was already just out

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Speaker 1: of the back. The s n Y tweet had three

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Speaker 1: million impressions, Steve Gebbs tweeted two million impressions. Tacomo did

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Speaker 1: a triple double day now for his friend Steve Gelps

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Speaker 1: and had another like a couple of hundred thousand impressions. But

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Speaker 1: if you listen closely and you guys just pipe you

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Speaker 1: back and listen to it, you hear him say teammate.

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Speaker 1: And my question about this again part past the fact

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Speaker 1: It seems like, no, there's no one to go to

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Speaker 1: of sorts, and this hit the whole thing. The wheels

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Speaker 1: Alan sorreel right where this guy is not his his

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Speaker 1: first language is not English, and he's around the biggest

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Speaker 1: reporter is Likelmo. Everyone's at his locker and ask him questions.

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Speaker 1: He just had outburst the field. He threw his club

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Speaker 1: into the stands. I've never seen that before, especially with

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Speaker 1: the nets. He launched that club forty three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was insane.

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Speaker 1: Where is the team's translator helping him as he muddles

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Speaker 1: through this? Because Steve Gelb said, I'm asking you again, Reither,

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Speaker 1: rate what you said. Hory Lope has looked at him

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Speaker 1: like he had three heads. So like, I think that

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Speaker 1: this and this also is funny because a reporter from

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Speaker 1: a Baltimore News Network, Ryan Viviano Vivicano whatever this tweet's

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Speaker 1: going around too. He said he can't believe this happened.

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Speaker 1: He said, thirteen years covering the ros Ho Lopez, nice

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Speaker 1: guy I ever met, So it's just like I guess

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Speaker 1: it's now burstus frustrations. It's two weeks for him of

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Speaker 1: bad baseball a few straight out things, a month for

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Speaker 1: the Mets of some of the worst baseball we've seen.

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Speaker 1: But I do think that this might just be another

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Speaker 1: classic Mets situation that we thought we haven't seen shit

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Speaker 1: like this in a while, where something may have kind

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Speaker 1: of almost happened, and then just because we have such

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Speaker 1: a media frenzy surrounding this team, it's been blown completely

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Speaker 2: So I'm half with you.

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Speaker 1: I think what Orge Lopez said is being twisted possibly

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Speaker 1: and being blown out of past abortion. But the bigger

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Speaker 1: issue here, and this will build into our ten minute rant,

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Speaker 1: which will be such a good segue for me while

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Speaker 1: I'm editing, is this team has a major, major issue.

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Speaker 1: This Pablo fucking Pablo. I keep calling him Pablo Lopez

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Speaker 1: because Paul Lopez is so good. He's always on my mind.

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Speaker 1: Jorge Lopez, like you said one saying this to the media,

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Speaker 1: where where is lindor where is the other players on

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Speaker 2: Like WHOA hold on? He did not mean this.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a fracture, there's a lack of leadership. There

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Speaker 1: is a serious and I hate being dramatic like this,

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Speaker 1: but have you have you ever seen a team do this?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a player on a team do this?

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Speaker 1: And just for context, this is the second player now

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Speaker 1: that will be a former Met that has talked about

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Speaker 1: how horrible this team is. Tommy Fam don't forget where

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Speaker 1: a few months removed from Tommy fam saying this is

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Speaker 1: the least hard working team in baseball. He's never seen

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Speaker 1: a group of guys that care less, work less hard. Now,

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Speaker 1: Warre Lopez has this outburst, and whether or not the

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Speaker 1: on that he definitely is the worst teammate and he

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Speaker 1: also didn't deny that he said worst team. So there's

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Speaker 1: a major, major culture issue going on in the Mets clubhouse.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to fix it. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it is, but there is a real, real, just

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Speaker 2: What is it? I don't know what it is, but

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Speaker 2: I've never seen this with any other team.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that we heard that story that before

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Speaker 1: Game one of the Wildcard Series in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: or anything. I think about that a lot, especially in

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Speaker 1: completely misshapen. They nothing, And it also it makes me

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Speaker 1: think a little bit that there might have just been

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Speaker 1: something to having that elder statesman forever. But by the

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Speaker 1: time that David Wright had retired and was off this team,

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Speaker 1: de gram was becoming the best pitcher in baseball. And

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Speaker 1: at least I know, de Grom wasn't necessarily known as

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Speaker 1: leadership qualities, But I think there was just a simple

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Speaker 1: awareness that there's somebody in this locker room that's kind

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Speaker 1: of ahead of everybody else. There's an elder statesman, there's

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Speaker 1: somebody that warrants this massive, incredible amount of respect, and

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Speaker 1: it just seems like this current team is current juncture.

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Speaker 1: There's not a homegrown guy like that. And Lindor makes

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Speaker 1: but he's never really seemingly taken that step and proven

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Speaker 1: kind of be someone that is like uniting uniting function

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Speaker 1: off the field. And it seems like there's just this

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Speaker 1: have that quote. Someone should be as locker someone should

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Speaker 1: have his arm around, their arm around Horgelo. There are

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Speaker 1: so many players that they own no media availability for

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Speaker 1: can't talk to him today? How did this one slip

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Speaker 1: We couldn't ask these guys any questions that they had.

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Speaker 1: A player say he's on the worst team in baseball?

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Speaker 1: How does that happen? They might have accidentally said that,

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Speaker 1: and it might have been like their own media, the

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Speaker 1: mets own internal media, with Steve Gelb's Anthie DoCoMo and

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Speaker 1: through the SNY funnel. Right now, it's even more frustrating

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Speaker 1: knowing how how we were handled with, like how delicately

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Speaker 1: everything was taken with us, like don't say this, don't

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Speaker 1: say that, be careful of this, be careful of that,

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Speaker 1: and then they just let this happen, like was everybody sleeping?

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Speaker 2: What was happening?

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Speaker 1: No, it's insane malpractice. Again, this whole thing reflects, I think,

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Speaker 1: much more poorly on the entire organizations than it does

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Speaker 1: on Jorge Lopez or even even the twenty six twenty

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Speaker 1: five other players in the roster themselves. Corny Lopez did

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong, it seems thinks right now, I wouldna say

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Speaker 1: you did nothing wrong, even if I think you should

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Speaker 1: have said he regretted the glove throw. I think at

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Speaker 1: worst he should have been like that was me. I

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Speaker 1: that was disrespectful to the team.

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Speaker 2: All that shit.

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Speaker 1: No, I mean again, I think that's that's being a

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Speaker 1: little ridiculous, your major profession baseball player. It's not that

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Speaker 1: many people in the world he gets to you do yeah,

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Speaker 1: to double down on that, he doesn't regret that. And

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Speaker 1: then but again, just to be left out there with

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Speaker 1: no teammates with their arm around him. That is insane

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Speaker 1: That's what this Mets team feels like right now. Change

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Speaker 1: We got four minutes and thirty seconds here. The Mets

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Speaker 1: them hitting well for like a week after that. But

431
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Speaker 1: now it's been horrible again. And to make matters worse,

432
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Speaker 1: pe Alonzo shattered his hands today in the first inning

433
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Speaker 1: of the game. He was quivering. That didn't look good

434
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Speaker 1: to me. We haven't gotten official word of it, but

435
00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,800
Speaker 1: Heete doesn't usually come out of the game situations like that.

436
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,679
Speaker 1: It's a complete abomination trying to watch his team hit.

437
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Speaker 1: And the on top of all that, Adam Maulsavino, who

438
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Speaker 1: went like three weeks without giving up a hit in April.

439
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Speaker 1: His the r is now five point four to eight.

440
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Speaker 1: It went from point sixty seven to five four to

441
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Speaker 1: eight in like a month. He has nothing because nowhere near. Oh,

442
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Speaker 1: it's terrible. It's so bad to watch his team. They're

443
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Speaker 1: so not fun. There's so little life. I don't know,

444
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Speaker 1: And like they watching that first game on Tuesday, were

445
00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:51,960
Speaker 1: felt the tie cause of the shifted where Tyler McGill

446
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:57,399
Speaker 1: has such a good game. We knew exactly how the

447
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:58,960
Speaker 1: game is going to end, right when he came out,

448
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:00,959
Speaker 1: right when the dog rally in the eighth, and right

449
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:02,480
Speaker 1: when the Dodgers rally in the ninth, it was just

450
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:03,920
Speaker 1: so obvious how it was all gonna wind up. And

451
00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,200
Speaker 1: even when the Mets have met on base and the

452
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Speaker 1: bomb of the ninth inning with fewer than two outs,

453
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Speaker 1: they can't get any of them home. Ever, this happens

454
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Speaker 1: time and time again with this roster. I don't know

455
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Speaker 1: why they can't find a way to anyone to make

456
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,520
Speaker 1: a clutch play anything ever, even defense anting before Baby's

457
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,119
Speaker 1: had so many amazing here at third base, baby just

458
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,480
Speaker 1: drops a baseball and they seen that before either faciscal

459
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Speaker 1: door made a bad played.

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Speaker 2: Also, why is for.

461
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Speaker 1: Cisco Indoor trying to bunt fer hit? Why Francisco Indoor

462
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Speaker 1: should never, ever, ever ever square around to bun? It's

463
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,400
Speaker 1: so stupid. How off of this team buns? I don't

464
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Speaker 1: know who's telling them the bun it's we have we

465
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 1: have forty five seconds left. Anything else you want to

466
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Speaker 1: take home here for the yes? Ruh. So here's what

467
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 1: it is with the New York Mets. This team is bad.

468
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 1: They lack leadership all around. Lack leadership all around, from

469
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Speaker 1: Carlos Mendoza down to the last player on this team.

470
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Speaker 1: Nobody is stepping up and being a leader. Nobody's taking accountability.

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Speaker 1: It's all It's going to be okay. We're going to

472
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Speaker 1: fix it.

473
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Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 1: The season is over. If you keep thinking that way,

475
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Speaker 1: you want to play in October. You you don't want

476
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Speaker 1: Eric Schabaz to get fired. You don't want your friends

477
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Speaker 1: to get traded from the team. We saw for Cisco

478
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,159
Speaker 1: Lindor show show more passion when he got booed and

479
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 1: giving the thumbs down. Then he has the last two seasons.

480
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,360
Speaker 1: I love Francisco Lindoor, but I'm starting to get frustrated

481
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 1: that it seems like he's just not that guy, and

482
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Speaker 1: I hate to be that guy.

483
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Speaker 2: Think thinking, what fuck?

484
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Speaker 1: This team is annoying? Okay, all right, negativity done, negativity done.

485
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Speaker 1: The timers ten minutes are over. We've been viewing so

486
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Speaker 1: much negativity recently. That's for you, guys. If you want

487
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Speaker 1: to if you want more, let us know in the

488
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Speaker 1: comment section of the YouTube video. Drop a leke on

489
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Speaker 1: the video. That's the best way to show us that

490
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Speaker 1: you like this stuff. But we want to keep it

491
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Speaker 1: real too. Let's go ahead and start talking about some

492
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 1: actual things that are going on. Little housekeeping. Edwin Diaz

493
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 1: to the IL for a shoulder hingement, which is basically

494
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Speaker 1: code word for we just don't want him to pitch

495
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Speaker 1: right now. We need his head right go down to

496
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Speaker 1: Saint Lucy. Maybe I disagree with you on that. I

497
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Speaker 1: think a lot a lot of people are throwing out

498
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Speaker 1: the fakem like the fake injury thing. I think that

499
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Speaker 1: I think I have something white in my hair. What

500
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Speaker 1: the hell is that in my hair?

501
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Speaker 2: Is that a white hair?

502
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Speaker 1: I mean there are some grays up there, but white hair.

503
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm breathing heavy after that.

504
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Speaker 2: D Yeah, we got to slow down.

505
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Speaker 1: That was I like that we put the clock on that.

506
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,440
Speaker 1: Id of think that should be a thing that we

507
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Speaker 1: might we might be started doing with episodes. That was

508
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 1: a good idea, but it just shoulder impingement is the

509
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Speaker 1: exact injury that you would get if you've lost You've

510
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Speaker 1: lost your lower half and you're trying to air out

511
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Speaker 1: the velocity with your upper half. Which is why he's

512
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Speaker 1: still able to get ninety percent of the velocity ninety

513
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Speaker 1: five percent of the velocity used to have without the

514
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Speaker 1: life used to have because he's losing the drive, he's

515
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Speaker 1: losing the extension that it makes a lot of sense

516
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Speaker 1: for me. He can't generate that force from the bottom,

517
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Speaker 1: so now he's trying to put more on the shoulder,

518
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Speaker 1: and that would make sense for an impingement there. The

519
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Speaker 1: shoulder impingement that could be a very serious injury as well.

520
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Speaker 1: That could be an injury where we don't see what

521
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Speaker 1: isn't that what technically had I'm not sure. I think

522
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Speaker 1: that saying was a capsule thing, which a capsule is

523
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Speaker 1: like that, that's like a ted to ten in your

524
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Speaker 1: back shoulder. I don't know last Nick Pollock this week,

525
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Speaker 1: but I think a lot of Mets fans immediately went

526
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Speaker 1: to the fake injury thing. And also if it is fine, don't.

527
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fine, yeah, totally okay, I would do it too.

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Speaker 1: But it just feels like to me, it's probably I'm

529
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Speaker 1: sure sure it is barking a little bit. I'm sure

530
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Speaker 1: it's similar to how we've seen Tyler McGill and Davebuts

531
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Speaker 1: and like try to pitch themselves through some slight injuries

532
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Speaker 1: because you just want to do it. But then it's like,

533
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Speaker 1: now you're actually now hurting you, yourself, a team and

534
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Speaker 1: everybody else as well. So should I throw out the

535
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Speaker 1: hypothetical that I was talking to you about in text

536
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Speaker 1: and see what the people are thinking about that just

537
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Speaker 1: start saying everything right? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So I think that if the Mets are a serious

540
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Speaker 1: baseball team and don't care about the trumpets and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: Let's say Edwin ds comes back from the il, because

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Speaker 1: again it's not a serious injury, whatever it is, and

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Speaker 1: he starts to pitch. Well, I think the Mets would

544
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Speaker 1: be smart. I think they would be foolish not to

545
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Speaker 1: look to trade Edwin Diaz at the trade deadline. And

546
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Speaker 1: the reason being is that, again, a lot of these

547
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Speaker 1: problems with this team not David Stearns's fault as much as,

548
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Speaker 1: like I gues I said, Tyrone Taylor's been terrible. Most

549
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: of the guys that he's brought in have been good.

550
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Speaker 1: They've been the guys who have been actually performing on

551
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Speaker 1: this team. But David Searns, if you remember in Milwaukee,

552
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Speaker 1: did not want to pay Josh Hader. Now, of course

553
00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,719
Speaker 1: they were a little more budgetary strained over there, but

554
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: he was like, why would we pay all this money

555
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Speaker 1: to a reliever when we know theoretically there's a small

556
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Speaker 1: window that these guys are that good, and anytime they

557
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: are not elite, it is automatically one of the worst

558
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Speaker 1: contracts in all of baseball. So this isn't necessarily a

559
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Speaker 1: shot at Edwin Diaz, This isn't even a shot at

560
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Speaker 1: Billy Eppler for giving out the crazy contract. I just

561
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: think that if the Mets were smart and Edwin Diaz

562
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Speaker 1: comes back and he's pitching, well, don't be surprised if

563
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Speaker 1: the Mets try to move him at the trade deadline.

564
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Speaker 1: He would be somewhat valuable too to a team that

565
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Speaker 1: needs a back end closer, and getting rid of that

566
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Speaker 1: contract would really help the Mets. Best way to describe it,

567
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Speaker 1: Mets fans, I don't want to trade Edwin Diaz, but

568
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Speaker 1: that like twenty million dollars a year we spend on

569
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Speaker 1: him to be our closer, and we see what happens

570
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Speaker 1: when a guy is off, and it sucks because this

571
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Speaker 1: is not him and it's not fair to judge him

572
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Speaker 1: based on what we've seen. But that's the negative of

573
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Speaker 1: giving so much money to a guy that throws three

574
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Speaker 1: out to game, three outs a game. But like, even

575
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Speaker 1: like you have to think about extrappling overseas, and I

576
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Speaker 1: also don't I don't fully agree with you on this,

577
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Speaker 1: mostly just because I don't think anybody would trade for

578
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Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz's contract. I think it's such a foreign contract

579
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Speaker 1: that I don't think anybody would actually do it. But

580
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Speaker 1: because what you make twenty million dollars a year for

581
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Speaker 1: the next four years. Yeah, so I think, and I

582
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Speaker 1: think four additional years including the rest of this one

583
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Speaker 1: on top of that. So I think that is basically

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Speaker 1: almost untradeable contracts you have, but you're just you're you're

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Speaker 1: paying guy as much money as as like mid level

586
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Speaker 1: starters get for pitching sixty innings a year, seventy innings

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Speaker 1: a year. So that's that that to me, is just

588
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: a luxury that you would like to think you'll be

589
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Speaker 1: able to afford, as the Mets in the wealthiest team

590
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Speaker 1: in baseball, but also just when a roster has so

591
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Speaker 1: many holes, and this was just an issue that the

592
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Speaker 1: Mets got into in that twenty twenty twenty three offseason.

593
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Speaker 1: That is the exact thing that bad teams, bad front offs,

594
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Speaker 1: and bad franchises do, where you just you beat expectations

595
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: one time and then you reward everybody for it, everybody.

596
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Speaker 1: And that's not really a situation where it's like you

597
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: should never be paying for players or pass worms. You're

598
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: always paying the future performance. And there was nothing about

599
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: midaz and would made you think he would have been

600
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Speaker 1: good again. But the only thing is that the risk

601
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: is so great with every pitcher where if anything a

602
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: little bit goes wrong and you're attached to these long

603
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: contract that's saying then it's over. Now I'm not saying

604
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Speaker 1: it it's over Fredman Diaz either, saying that it seems

605
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: like the twenty twenty two version of Edwin Diaz. And

606
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Speaker 1: this isn't saying a lot, because that's probably the best

607
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Speaker 1: season for a reliever most of us have seen in

608
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Speaker 1: our lifetimes. That's probably the best he will ever be,

609
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Speaker 1: and you paid him based on that, not based on

610
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Speaker 1: the next thing. And then now you look at a

611
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: case study a team like the Brewers, who this year

612
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Speaker 1: have built once again the best bullpen in baseball, and

613
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Speaker 1: I don't think one guy in there makes a dollar

614
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Speaker 1: over the minimum legitimately. And I think that you're looking

615
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Speaker 1: at the Mets bullpen now that has mostly been very

616
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Speaker 1: good this year despite of him, with Diaz mostly being

617
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: very bad, and the guys who haven't been good at

618
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: the ones who are making legitimate money, Like this got

619
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Speaker 1: pieced together quickly without really much player development at all,

620
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 1: just guys with a little tinkering and little game plan

621
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Speaker 1: changes from the free agent market. So that's kind of

622
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Speaker 1: the logic of trade where trading Edwin Dias makes sense.

623
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Speaker 1: But also again I think unless you either eat a

624
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: significant portion of that money, you accept no return whatsoever.

625
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: Who's taking that contract? Literally, who would ever take that contract?

626
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Speaker 1: Someone looking to hire Billy Upler maybe midseason? Who would

627
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: do that? He's just he's suspended anyway, he can't play

628
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: because all the phantom injury stuff full circle, Buck Show

629
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Speaker 1: Walter for that one. But it's just there's there's now,

630
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,479
Speaker 1: there's that. I don't even think it's a tradable thing.

631
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: And again, out of all this the frustration I feel

632
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: with the Mets and the team, I don't have any

633
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: will all towards Davis Stearns because I think he generally

634
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: which is hilarious, It's actually was a pretty good offseason.

635
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: All the guys who were thinking of the guys who

636
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: are already here. Again, like the bullpen piece he pulled in,

637
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: Like Horry Lopez had massive regression recently, like that was

638
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: always do for that, But him just being a capable

639
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: arm is fine. Read Garrett. Again, I have some notes

640
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 1: on Recara We're gonna get to a little bit later

641
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: in the show. But again, overall, in the full season,

642
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: still totally fine. Yeah, Sevarino has been awesome and I

643
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: has been awesome. Jade Martinez, thank Imagine if they didn't

644
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: have him. Imagine those one through four stats. If Jadie

645
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: Martinez wasn't hit and fourth, Well, just it's just that

646
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: it could have been a lot worse than just this.

647
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: They had a lot of constraints. It's been generally okay,

648
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: But just now I think the real work kind of

649
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: begins because now who the hell knows where those goes?

650
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: Like what if he actually did just shatter his hands. Yeah,

651
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: we can't talk about that long because we might be

652
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: wrong by the time this comes out, or will be right.

653
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: So we'll at the limit maybe another time. Two minutes

654
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: talking about if Pete choose your own adventure, if Pete's

655
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: hand is totally broken, because if it is, that dramatically

656
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: changes the way you can go about the trade that

657
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: right now, if he's out for six weeks and he

658
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: doesn't come back until July twentieth, now with you do

659
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: you can't? And then but if he doesn't hit one

660
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: home run like in from July twenty to July twenty seven,

661
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: now you have four days to trade him and people

662
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,479
Speaker 1: might not even know what the fuck he is like,

663
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: It's just everything keeps going on and on and on

664
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: over and over again. I don't know how it gets.

665
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have any answers to you.

666
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 1: This team is an endless hell cycle. It's just a

667
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: loop of just like, good thing happens, psych never mind,

668
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: you fucking thought, nice, shry idiot, and then the good

669
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: thing happens like nope, you thought again, Nope, you can't

670
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: do it.

671
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: Like they came back. They came back so nice.

672
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: In Game three today, Thomas Nito with that home run

673
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: zat Campbell somehow in the right spot at the right

674
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: time again the ball, Yeah, what was he doing there?

675
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: And at the eminem corner whatever they call it now?

676
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: They took quite the branding their fan engagement. But yeah,

677
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: if Pete's gone, it's it's gonna be hard to watch

678
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: this It's hard to watch this team play with him.

679
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: It's gonna be almost impossible to watch them play without him.

680
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,719
Speaker 1: But it will be interesting because that probably frees up

681
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: a roster spot for somebody, maybe like a Louisan Helocunya.

682
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 2: We will talk about a little bit in the prospect report.

683
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: I also think that there's again it's just it's just

684
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: pure loser talk, but there's like there's something in the

685
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: fact that Pete does go on the IL and then

686
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: you could just have Vento's play first and Baby played third,

687
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: and now you have like a month to just give

688
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: those two at bats every single day and just save

689
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: her out. Who's gonna be a dog and rise to

690
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: the top because like Fiano's keeps hitting and break Baty

691
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: keeps playing good defense. Match if we could just like

692
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: mash them together, we could mash them together. We have

693
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: we have like a four win player, Like that'd be awesome.

694
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: But again it's still like Fianto's the first base I

695
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: think could be a fine defender. I still think Baby

696
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: there's inklings of him possibly almost being able to hit.

697
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: But it's it weirdly clear, cleans up the roster a

698
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: little bit, but also just it's still awkward. Also another

699
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: awkward thing. I was just just look at a baseball

700
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: they trying not to think about the Mets. So Dodgers

701
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: are playing the Mets right now in New York and

702
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: they're leaving today for they're gonna are gonna get in

703
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: their private play at what eight o'clock to fly back

704
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. That's if they're lucky. Probably nine o'clock

705
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: sounds horrible, and they have a game tomorrow or no,

706
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: I think they have an off dat tomorrow when they're

707
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: playing a home series this weekend against the Rockies. Okay,

708
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: on Monday, they're flying back to Pittsburgh for series against

709
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: the Pirates. Well next week and next weekend they are

710
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: in New York to play the Yankees.

711
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 2: That definitely the London series.

712
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure screwed things up with them trying to time

713
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: up being in New York both times at the same

714
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: time to play the Dodgers and or Yankees and Mets.

715
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: But that is bizarre.

716
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: And you know what, props to you, James, staying on

717
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: top of hate in the schedule.

718
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: You never miss.

719
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: Schedule, never miss every time I see something the schedule

720
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: is stupid. I'm always on because it's so fucking stupid.

721
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: But all right, let's talk about Tyler Lord baseball a

722
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: little bit, Yeah, a little little real baseball, because there

723
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: is something good going on and it's the guy that

724
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: we keep going back to. I tweeted it out. I

725
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: texted James, he's that ex girlfriend breaks up with you.

726
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 1: That's when Tyler McGill is bad, You're like, fuck this,

727
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: I'm done with her. I can't do this anymore. And

728
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: then you know you're lonely, had a couple of beers

729
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: on a Friday night, maybe your friends are busy, You're

730
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: just hanging out at home, and you get hey, what

731
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: are you doing? And you're like, I'm back, baby, let's go.

732
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: I'm so back in it. That's how I feel with

733
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: Tyler and McGill right now. But it's even more deep

734
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: indentse than that, because it's not just like you get

735
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: like a hey, how you doing, You're getting like a no,

736
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: you know, I actually got a new job. I'm doing

737
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: this now. I went back to school. No like that friend,

738
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: me and I actually worked it out, like all these

739
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: red flags kind of started to go away a little bit.

740
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: And Tyler McGill's done that with you know, the slider's

741
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: getting better, changed the release point in the fastball, the

742
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: split there looks like a real pitch, Like he keeps

743
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: doing things. We're not just believing in Tyler and McGill

744
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: because Tyler McGill's existing and he's on the maut. We're

745
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: believing in Tyler and McGill because there are material changes

746
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: happening to the way that he's pitching, and that's like

747
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: the relevant thing. And he came out there and Tuesday

748
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers, against all odds as bas this Mets

749
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: team has been and had the best start of his

750
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: entire career. There was that one time against the Phillies

751
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: the last year two years ago, we pitched into the

752
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: eighth inning, but it wasn't nine strikeouts, one walk, three

753
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: hitch nowhere and runs against this Dodgers lineup, against Freddie Freeman,

754
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts, Will Smith and Shoheothani and especially even going

755
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: toe to toe with Tyler Glasnow, who's pitched this year

756
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: like the best pitcher in the National League. Yes, truthfully him,

757
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: I guess him and Ranger Swaz too, but like he's been,

758
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: he's been the best pitcher in the National League. And

759
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: only one Dodger reached second base the entire game against him.

760
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: He was in total control. Was beautiful to watch. Yeah,

761
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: he the way he pitched was confident, and that's something

762
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: that we don't see a lot from Tyler McGill. I mean,

763
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: his nickname is literally big Drip because he is he's

764
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: a drip like he knows he's he's a little MOPy,

765
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: he's a little sad, he's a little.

766
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: Like, oh WHATEVERO.

767
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: Tyler McGill like very nice guy, loved the McGill family,

768
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: but he's big drip. He was on the mound, he

769
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: commanded the mound, and he really attacked the hitters. And

770
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing with ty Lore Attack, attack, attack.

771
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: That splitter is, like you said, just turning into a

772
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: really nice pitch. That seems to completely change him.

773
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 3: Now.

774
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: He threw six different pitches in this start, keeping the Dodgers'

775
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: hitters off balance. I know that the lineup top to

776
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: bottom is a little all over the place, but the

777
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: top has three MVP candidates and he was able to

778
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: give up zero earned runs against this team. Really really

779
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: impressed with what we saw from him. And again, that

780
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: fastball vlow is up too. When he's pumping ninety six.

781
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: We've talked about it before. That's where you go, oh shit,

782
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: there he is. That's all that's like, Oh, she's been

783
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: working out a little bit, okay, especially because that fastball

784
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: was the key for McGill. He threw it from more

785
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: than half his pitches. He just filled his own with it.

786
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: He wasn't really afraid. And something that I think I

787
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: like seeing from Tyler McGill that he hasn't done super

788
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: consistently in the past is that he was putting it

789
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: all over the strike zone, just depending on the hither

790
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: he was going high with it, he was going low

791
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: with it. He threw a few inside to rieties, which

792
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: is something he's resisted to do a lot in the past.

793
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: He did a couple of them, and he also went

794
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: very much inside to lefty, especially like staying in a

795
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: time's kitchen, which is kind of the one place to

796
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: get him out besides when he gets those risks around,

797
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: just does the crazy things he does. But that was

798
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: really cool. And then he is really we talked about

799
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: I talked about his release point being raised higher a

800
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: few starts to go. He's coming through the minor league

801
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: and that was helping life on that fastball, and he

802
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: had seventeen IVB in this start with that fastball. But yeah, good,

803
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: he was releasing it lower, He was extending way more

804
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: like he had one of the deepest extensions as I've

805
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: ever seen him. Having a start in this game and

806
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: the one game, the one game data on it so

807
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: just cool that he's doing this and he's finding his

808
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: release points. And when he again he did this change

809
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: start to start, but he was able to repeat it,

810
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: which is important. That means successful, That means he was comfortable.

811
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: That means he was doing it, and the depth of

812
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: his repertoire still makes becoming very relevant because the fastball

813
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: is good, but it's not like amazing. So when you

814
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: have that fast when you're throwing fifty percent of the time,

815
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: this has been the broken record thing with Tyler mcgills

816
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: that he needs things supplemented. And when he first came up,

817
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: it was a struggle because you really only had that

818
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: slider in that change up and everything else was kind

819
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: of just getting repetitive. And then when he faced lefties,

820
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: the slider was a little too big against them. It

821
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: was just kind of like two pitches to each side

822
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: of the play, basically fastball slide of the righties and

823
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: fastball change up to the lefties. But he threw five

824
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: different pitch types each side of the play, hitters from

825
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: each side of the plate, and then start on Tuesday

826
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: first lefties Otani free. Mostly it was mostly the fastball

827
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: to color and the splither, but he mixed in the

828
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: change up in the curve as well, and just that

829
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: nasty split lay against Gavin Lucks. He struck out four

830
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: of the last eight hithers he faced, retired the last

831
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,439
Speaker 1: eight hithers he faced, and like that splither we talked

832
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: about a lot in last episode. He only threw five

833
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: of them, so I don't want to harp onto time

834
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: much again. But it's a major outlier pitch. It spins

835
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: basically less than every other pitch of baseball besides for

836
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: Matt Walder's knuckleball, and it moves more than every other

837
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: split there in baseball drops. So I think it's a

838
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: very relevant thing. It's tangible differences with Tyler McGill, which

839
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: is why we believe again, and as negative as we're

840
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: feeling about the rest of the team, like we're gonna

841
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: pick our little pockets to be excited about when there's

842
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,439
Speaker 1: actually proof of the playing and things to be excited about,

843
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: I think a little bit Tyler McGill could be a

844
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: piece of.

845
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 2: That Yeah Messed Up podcast.

846
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: We're still gonna be more positive than most and I've

847
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: been I've been a little whiny bitch recently. So the

848
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: ten minutes of bitch. Yeah, it's just you know, No,

849
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: we did our ten minutes, can't I'm not saying anything more.

850
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything more. Ooh, I just got text

851
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: from my dad. He said Ron just said more or

852
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: less that the veterans JD, especially Lindor, may need to

853
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: talk with the team.

854
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 2: Interesting that I think.

855
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: I think that's true. I agree too, and I know they.

856
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: I think they asked Mendoza, Lindor and McNeil about it

857
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: yesterday too after the two games, like are you guys meeting?

858
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: Are you doing anything? And they gave answers like.

859
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: Well, we see each other every day, like where we

860
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: talk every day with each other's like, that's not what

861
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: we mean, guys, that's the problem again. Now we're sorry

862
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: to get back in the ramp, but this team is

863
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: on a sixty five win pace and no one's acting

864
00:35:59,680 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: like it.

865
00:35:59,880 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 3: No.

866
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: Oh, this isn't this isn't wake up time, This isn't

867
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: April anymore. It's gonna be June in two days. Like,

868
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: this is not a situation where we're like, you know,

869
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: I just I think I like gather things to get

870
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: a good duction in row. This is like, you have

871
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: three weeks to save the season. You have to get

872
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: within five games five hundred until the end of June. Basically,

873
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: we've never seen a Mets team fall apart this quickly

874
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: in this early in the season a lot. You might

875
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: leave some guys in London the next weekend might not

876
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: come back. Could you imagine this team's gonna be in

877
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: London with out Pie Alonso? Oh no, and the way

878
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: the the rotation works right now Toza Cantana schedule to

879
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: start in England. We want to grow the game against

880
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: Taiwan Walker, it's like the worst matchup ever. We don't

881
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: go to that game. Maybe we only go to the

882
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: Saturday maybe free tickets. Hopefully we will be in London

883
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: for everyone else out there, reach out to us. We're

884
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: going to be in London for the weekend. Yeah, we're

885
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: gonna try. Maybe even just text people can go to

886
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: the same pub or something the day of the day

887
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: of the Saturday game. But I don't know. Again, we're

888
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: gonna look at some positive things. Tyler McGill's a place

889
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: to turn. But these veterans do have to do something.

890
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: What's going on with Ree Garrett because the back and

891
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: forth of what we've seen now over these last like

892
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: three or four appearances. I don't want to say I'm

893
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: losing faith in him, because again, he still has been

894
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: pretty good, but it feels now that he's back to

895
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 1: being human again, Like, so, what's the change here, what's

896
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: the difference? I would say there's definitely elements of him

897
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: back to being human again, But I don't think that

898
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: there's elements of him to back being like a bad Relieveryka.

899
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: All the stuff is still as it was, and even

900
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: like it's weird because it's something that's changed with him

901
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: is the approach, which is something that I'm shocked that

902
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: has changed because of how successful he was early. But

903
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: I do think it's the situation where he was using

904
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: such a crazy approach to start the season. He was

905
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: just basically only throwing offspie pitches. He was leading with

906
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: splithers and sweepers and barely teeny tiny mixing in fastballs

907
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: and sinkers. So that I just think that hitters have

908
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 1: now prepared for that, because when you keep throwing splithers,

909
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: it's not a picture throwing the zone. It's a whift pitch. Yes,

910
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: So when hitters are ready that pitch is coming, they're

911
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: much less likely to swing add or in the case

912
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: of on Tuesday, Mookie Bets smoked one one ten and

913
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: split it. That was just off the play where I

914
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, this is this is different now.

915
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: But the hyper off speed usage, I feel like could

916
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: only work for a short amount of time until you

917
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 1: have to really throw your fastballs again. Matt Whistler tried

918
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: to do this through eighty percent sliders over like a couple, yeah,

919
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: a couple. Jacob juniors did this really well, where he

920
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: threw like sixty five percent sliders last year for the Giants,

921
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: and he was doing these like forty pitch samples. It

922
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: was actually he was a good glue guy for that rotation.

923
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: But it just if you don't have great command of it,

924
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose. And the thing that Rigaires lost recently

925
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: is his command. He's been throwing more pitches outside the

926
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 1: strike zone, but now I'm just throwing more pitches outside

927
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: the strike zone. He's always still been throwing basically a

928
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: league average slightly blowout amount of pitches in the strike zone,

929
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: like zone rates like forty five percent. You made league

930
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: avera zone race forty eight percent. But he still couldn't

931
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: hit anything. He was basically running a one hundred percent

932
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: with right through the first entire month of April on

933
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: pitches outside the strike zone. So if anybody chased, if

934
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: anybody swung in the pitch out of side strike zone,

935
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: they weren't even touching it. They weren't foiling them off,

936
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: they weren't putting a play, and they definitely weren't getting

937
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: base hits on it. It was it was there were He

938
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: had a five straight start stretch where it was one

939
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: hundred percent freight on pitches outside his zone through that

940
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: crazy round April, and there was one where it duck

941
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 1: down to like eighty because it's probably four out of five,

942
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: and then he went back up to one hundred for one.

943
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: It was a six as seven star stretch. That would

944
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: explain it too, because like again watching him, like not

945
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: diving into the numbers like you for this, watching him,

946
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: I feel like the hitters look more comfortable, like they

947
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: have more of a plan against him, and that that

948
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: builds into what you're saying, along with the fact that

949
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: not like you said, there's not really a change necessarily

950
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,240
Speaker 1: how he's attacking guys, but he's not getting those chases,

951
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: which would explain why it feels like these at bats

952
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: are going longer and longer and longer totally and not

953
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: getting those chases early. That means he has to come

954
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: back to the fastball in the sinker that he wasn't

955
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: throwing as much because he's falling behind in the count

956
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: more often. So now he's throwing those pitches significantly more,

957
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: and he did, but the fastball is still good. It's

958
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: still thrown hard and it still has good life. So

959
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: it's confusing to me why that pitch is getting hit

960
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: so hard. Something. Maybe there's an adjustment back for Regarrett

961
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: where now he just starts throwing that fastball earlier in

962
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: the count and just maybe has more fight, like more balls,

963
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: would it more bite four and just does it. But

964
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: just the end of day, it's getting fewer swings and misses.

965
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: He there's a swinging against it much more. They're being

966
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: more aggressive, especially off pitches outside this He's still getting

967
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: a similar amount of chases, but a much higher rate

968
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: of contact on those chases, which is like, I think

969
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: they know that split there is going to be a

970
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: pitch that makes you want to swing at it, but

971
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: then hitters used to kind of be surprised and miss it.

972
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: Where now it's like you're ready for where it's going

973
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: to be, which is a lot of times just just

974
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: barely below outside the strike zone, and then those back

975
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: back to getting longer, more fastballs come. That's how the

976
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: walks come. I think he's still a really good reliever.

977
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: The commands of the law right now is probably a

978
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: one mechanical thing or just have to him get his

979
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: confidence back up or just fine too his game plan

980
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 1: a little bit. But he's just not the best believer

981
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: in baseball anymore. And just end of the day, that's

982
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: just really shit timing because right now the Mets need

983
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: April Regaret and if they had April Regarrett and just

984
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: and May Regarrett was in April, when they had April

985
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz, they probably have like four more wins right now,

986
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: which is kind of shit that like at the same time,

987
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: you develop this reliever that become this like kind of

988
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: like this kind of lightning rode for this team early

989
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: and we said it, like we knew this was unsustainable

990
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 1: because Rigarrett had basically won them four games. So actually

991
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: maybe if they just had Mayrigarrett, then they lost those

992
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: four games, won these four games. So we just feel

993
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: a little bit better about the shape feels better, Yeah,

994
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: but the record probably still be about the same, worse

995
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: than the Oakland Athletics and just got awful. But he's

996
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: just it's terrible. It's it's bad again. I don't think

997
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: I wouldn't tell, I would go around see Rigers cooked.

998
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: He's just not the best reliever exploit anymore. Yeah, and

999
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: that's I think understandable. I think I think anybody who

1000
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: thought that he was gonna be the best reliever in

1001
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: baseball for the full year, you were probably also one

1002
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: of the people who thought the Mets were gonna win

1003
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: the World Series this year. Not there's not a big

1004
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: than diagram there. Gave up another run in the ninth inning.

1005
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: We lost ten to three.

1006
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: After through Jason Hayward, of all people, hit a home run. Dude,

1007
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: he had a homer and a triple. He had a

1008
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: home run off left to Josh Walker somehow Josh Walker. Man,

1009
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: I love Josh Walker, but boy, would does he not

1010
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: ever perform well? I think he's about ten innings this

1011
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: year in like a two seven yard right. He's not terrible, really.

1012
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: I guess he does balk in a couple of runs

1013
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: a year. That's probably where I'm also getting twisted too,

1014
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: And even the last real baseball thing to talk about

1015
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,959
Speaker 1: here is just like David Peterson is always amazing numbers

1016
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues as a twenty year old, and

1017
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 1: he's still exactly David Peterson, which is a fine guy

1018
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: to have in the roster, but he's not saving the.

1019
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 2: Day throwing harder.

1020
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: I know, Gary made a comment early he's like, we're

1021
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: seeing him throw ninety five more than I feel like

1022
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: I remember last year.

1023
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 2: So it actually was daz trip.

1024
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it went up a little bit like he

1025
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: was getting to ninety five, touch night, touch night, a

1026
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: fake ninety seven with the fastball ninety six and a half.

1027
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: But then by like he I guess there might be

1028
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,479
Speaker 1: some miss mark pitches here on Savant because it says

1029
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: that he threw eighty five milion hour sinker in eighty

1030
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: five milidn hour fastball can't be right, so that, yeah,

1031
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: those could have been miss mark change. So I guess

1032
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: probably about a tick harder. But still I think that, yeah,

1033
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's not like

1034
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: we can talk about the hitting. It was abysmal, non existent.

1035
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: It's not like twenty innings. They didn't score twenty innings.

1036
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: Twenty innings, that's more than two full games. I was

1037
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: on the phone with my dad and he was telling me.

1038
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: He's like, I want to say it because I'm tired.

1039
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear Gary say. He's like, but

1040
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: let's have been scored in what twenty twenty one innings.

1041
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: As soon as he said that tolmas Neto home run,

1042
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: I was like, what did you just do?

1043
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 2: How did you do that?

1044
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: This is up threat. Keith had the same thing on

1045
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: the radio. And I also want to shout out Howie

1046
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: and Keith for the series because, like they they were

1047
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: just being very jovial in the booth. As bad as

1048
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: team was playing, Howie was so mad that the scoreboard

1049
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: was wrong, like the whole double better. On Tuesday, he

1050
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: was so pissed off. He was like, I don't know

1051
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: who runs a scoreboard. I don't know who's in charge

1052
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: of it.

1053
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 2: But they have to be better.

1054
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 1: It's being he says, been ridiculous the time after time

1055
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 1: of the season. It's been wrong. I was dying listen

1056
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: to that, dude, Howie Man, he's making sure top to

1057
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: bottom the organization's running well. I can tell you right

1058
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: now it's not. No, definitely not. And I think it

1059
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: ran that he He did say it ran better on Wednesday,

1060
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: so it works to how he rose effect. Maybe should

1061
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: say this should hit better. Yeah, maybe maybe they should

1062
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: hit better. They should get more timely hitting. You should

1063
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: put the ball and play more, maybe take less first

1064
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: pitch strikes down the cock of the plate. It's uh,

1065
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty tough to talk about this team, and

1066
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really know what else to talk

1067
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: about here. And then there is one more thing, which

1068
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: sounds insane that there's one more thing to talk about

1069
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: this team. This teems so fucking bad, and we have

1070
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: more to talk about. The actually has to do with

1071
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: off the field and h James, I know, I saw

1072
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: you put it in the notes, Steve Cohen, casino stuff.

1073
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 2: What are we calling it?

1074
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: I'll call a drama, because there's something else going on

1075
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: off the field with this team right now now that

1076
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: I think is probably going to hold more importance to

1077
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: the team the organization itself in the future that has

1078
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: so far. So I'm sure you guys, Mark, you remember

1079
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: that huge proposal that went super viral because every single

1080
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: person associated with the Mets tweeted out that picture with

1081
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: the new parking and the park and all that new

1082
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: stuff in Queens that was supposed to be opening in

1083
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: the next few years. That was like Steve Cohen's huge proposal.

1084
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: It's dude, the Queen's Metropolitan Park in Flushing Bay. I

1085
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: was down on the Hard Rock in Fort Lauderdale and

1086
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: the dealer at my blackjack table was like, Oh, you're

1087
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: from New York. I heard they're open a casino right

1088
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: by a city field. I was like, that's the talk

1089
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: of the town. And the whole point of that is

1090
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: that it was a casino. But with the casino in

1091
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: the same proposal, there was a twenty acre park, There's

1092
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: a huge parking tower. There was a hard Rock hotel

1093
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: and other hotels by LaGuardia, a live music venue, a

1094
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: convention center, a Queen's based food hall, more bars, more restaurants,

1095
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 1: a new totally revamped subway station for the seven Line,

1096
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: and tons of more stuff that was expected to cost

1097
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: an estimated eight billion dollars. That was the proposal, and

1098
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: this was kind of the whole brain child around Steve

1099
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: Cohen purchasing the team. Initially that we were going to

1100
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: revamp the Flushing area, no more chop shops, NYCFC, METS

1101
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: casino is gonna be a whole spoiling experience. But the

1102
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 1: whole thing was fully contingent on him getting this casino

1103
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: license that's up for grabs in New York City. And

1104
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: this casino license up for grabs in New York City

1105
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: right now, Like you guys might think that sounds crazy,

1106
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: it's because of this. This doesn't really ever happen in

1107
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: New York City. Like there's there's a couple of these

1108
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: up for grabs. A couple of them are going to

1109
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: places that are like racing tracks, but there's one that's

1110
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: actually set to go for the city. And Eric Adams

1111
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: is vehement that he wants the mayor of New York.

1112
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: He wants a casino New York City. Said over and

1113
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: over again, he used to work for the Gaming Commission.

1114
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: He ran into some issues when he headed up the

1115
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: Gaming Commission. We're not gonna talk about that right now,

1116
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: but again, this is like a once in a lifetime

1117
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: chance for a billionaire to the New York City. You

1118
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: will print money literally forever. Literally, you'll print money forever.

1119
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: There's a quote from a quote from a New Yorker

1120
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: article that is behind a paywall. But if you guys

1121
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: ever have an articles behind a paywall some websites, if

1122
00:45:58,120 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: you want to, I taught Mark this trick. If you

1123
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: want to be really like Hope sim Heals not listening

1124
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: since how I read his articles, you gotta quickly refresh

1125
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: the page and then quickly you gotta have fast fingers

1126
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: command at command see select all copy and then you

1127
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: bring it right to a Google doc and you can

1128
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: read articles behind a paywall. So that's a trick for

1129
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: you guys. That's an easy one from James over here.

1130
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 1: But I let your ga redskin stuff And the quote

1131
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: was an unfathomably, unfathomably lucrative license. Of coursefath just to

1132
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: get this license, you have to put up five hundred

1133
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: million dollars half a bill up front, and then you're

1134
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: accepting nearly a seventy percent tax on everything you make.

1135
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: And still every single fucking mover and shaker of the

1136
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 1: ruling class of New York is gunning for this casino.

1137
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: And Steve Cohen's at the top of that list.

1138
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 2: So what's the what's the new news?

1139
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: Because I saw there was a big article that came

1140
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: out about there might be some issues now with the casino,

1141
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: and it got my brain thinking of some crazy conspiracies. Yeah,

1142
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: mine too, especially from formally being a politics guy, but

1143
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: like technically officially, because nothing's ever technical or official in politics,

1144
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: as you always have ways around. The bid for the

1145
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: casino in Queens and Flushing By City Field has been

1146
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: blocked by State Senator Jessica Ramos, who's a state Senator

1147
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: for Queens, and she just plainly said in a statement

1148
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: that her constituents do not want a casino in her backyard.

1149
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: And personally, I would agree with those constituents. I definitely

1150
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: would not want to live within a half a mile

1151
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: of casino. Casino will invite unfavorable characters to your area

1152
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: and it'll just leave Yeah, like Mark, it'll leave your

1153
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: citizens in worse situation, probably financially because it's easy to

1154
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: gamble and people love to ruin their lives gambling. So

1155
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: it's probably not I wouldn't want one in buy backyard.

1156
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,720
Speaker 1: And this doesn't mean it's over, because there can always

1157
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: be a power player can knows, the lobbyst stuff that

1158
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: can knows be something that happens. But this is from

1159
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,439
Speaker 1: the new York Times article about it. Ms Ramos said

1160
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: that mister Cohen's team has made unforced errors during their

1161
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: process that frustrated her, and that the group had hired

1162
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: so many lobbyists and experts that it was hard to

1163
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: find someone who wasn't already on their payroll. She said

1164
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: she would be surprise and offended if any of her

1165
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: colleagues in the State Center tried to go around her. So, basically,

1166
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: if Steve was able to create the majority to overrule

1167
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: her ruling in her area. And Steve has tons of yeah,

1168
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: oh yeah, of course he is. He has tons of

1169
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,399
Speaker 1: lobbyists on deck. And I think it's interesting to note

1170
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: because it kind of starts to put to light a

1171
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: lot of other things that have happened with his team,

1172
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: this organization just Steve Cohen's ownership of Initially. First of all,

1173
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: he was a massive donor to the Eric Adams campaign.

1174
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: All these donations are public, you guys, go look up.

1175
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: He's one of the highest donors to ericatins campaign a

1176
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: few years ago. Remember remember with COVID, the whole, the

1177
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: whole thing with the COVID games and playing in New

1178
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: York City, And if you weren't vaccinated and all of

1179
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: a sudden like well for the Mets and Yankees there,

1180
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: all right, that's what I'm saying. But again, he he's

1181
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: a big political donor, I mean want to he've billions

1182
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: of dogs. You should be donating the politicians who will

1183
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: help your interest. But that's just that's just the game.

1184
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: He's just playing the game. You can't hit, don't hate

1185
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: the player, I hate to get the game. But he's

1186
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: been so generous to Queen's, Queen's locals, the Mets employees,

1187
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:56,439
Speaker 1: and it's great. He's made a lot of people's lives

1188
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: significantly better in the few years that he's on those team.

1189
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: Technically ours included, tons, we were part of the generosity

1190
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: for a little while in arm pockets, right, He's invested

1191
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,479
Speaker 1: a lot of money in that areas around the city field.

1192
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: He's already made it better. The chop chapter going away,

1193
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: the NYCFC, they've already broken ground on that. And that

1194
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: is miss Ramos's district. So there was this kind of

1195
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: symbiotic relationship between the two, which I'm sure is because

1196
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: Steve knew that eventually she would have kind of as

1197
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: close to an official save whatever would happen in the

1198
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 1: past year along with Eric Adams, who's been part of

1199
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: the Game and Commission, who again just googled Eric Adams

1200
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: because he knows Eric Adams Gaming Commission. You guys will

1201
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: find some stuff there we're not gonna talk about here.

1202
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: And there was even something that Steve Cohen was instrumental

1203
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: with working with Ramos years ago that was crazy and

1204
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: like we'll change baseball forever. He was instrumental in starting

1205
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: to set up the Minor League Baseball Players Unit. Basically

1206
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: was had a huge hand doubling minor league players' salaries.

1207
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 1: Ramos broker the first meeting between Steve and the advocates

1208
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: from minor leagues in twenty twenty two. It was the

1209
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: first meeting of its kind ever to get minor league

1210
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: players more rights and more money. And this is from

1211
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: Athleticgardland June twenty twenty two by Evan Drove. Since Steve

1212
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: Cohen took ownership of the Mets in twenty twenty, he

1213
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: has been so responsive to the fans and cared for

1214
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: the team in a way that matches our devotion to

1215
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: the team. Ramo said in the statement, I'm looking forward

1216
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: to sitting down with Uncle Steve. She called him Uncle

1217
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: Stephen this quote to the athletic and the minor leaguers,

1218
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: so we can work out a way to finish the

1219
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: job and extend that same sense of care to all

1220
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: the players. And it happened, It worked, and Steve was

1221
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: the one who kind of greased the wheels and let

1222
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: Senator Ramos kind of do that. That was pretty instrumental

1223
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: for her. And now it's interesting because she's been really

1224
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: in the spotlight with Steve Cohen. She's probably planning a

1225
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: mayor run because of how low Ergain's approval rating is,

1226
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: and this is another kind of stake in the ground

1227
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: for her, especially with her base, her constituents and just

1228
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: being a progressive Democrats it is. But again, we're not

1229
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: gonna get into all that really. Now we want to

1230
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: talk about what this means for the Mets, because I

1231
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: think both you and I mark our brains kind of

1232
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: started twirling with this. I think your dad's did as well.

1233
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: He chimed in too. But I think it's interesting now

1234
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: Steve stonewalled. He's probably gonna try and get around this

1235
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: anyway he can, with his lob, with his money, with everything.

1236
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: But I wonder now if this relationship with him, and

1237
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: Ramos is hurt. What this means for the generosity we've

1238
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: already seen. I'm not I'm not saying that anything's gonna change,

1239
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: but I'm just doing my Brian Winhorse right now, Like,

1240
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: what if this is happening? Like what can we actually

1241
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: expect to happen next? Why is this all happening right now?

1242
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: I don't really know the answer to that, but it

1243
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: seems like something that was a huge reason why Steve

1244
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 1: Cohen bought the Mets might no longer be possible.

1245
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,800
Speaker 2: Can I go get some aluminum foil it? Put it

1246
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 2: on real quick?

1247
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: You permission to go there? Okay, let me do that,

1248
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: all right? We got the tinfoil hat on. I've been

1249
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: I've been deep in the conspiracy theory for this one here.

1250
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: And you talked about maybe Steve Cohen purchasing the Mets

1251
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: was not only about purchasing the Mets, and I tend

1252
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: to believe it, and I have this horrible, terrible gut

1253
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: feeling tinfoil hat on. Of course, this is crazy talk. Now,

1254
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: this is this There's nothing real to this. This is

1255
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: simply me being so messed up in the head as

1256
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: a Mets fan. If Steve con doesn't get this casino.

1257
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: If this whole project doesn't happen, probably sells the Mets, right,

1258
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: I can't say probably. Wait, his whole thing was he

1259
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to buy S and Y too, and

1260
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: he doesn't own S and Y. And if he's not

1261
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: gonna have the media company, he owns a mediocre baseball team,

1262
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: which they are right now, and he doesn't get the

1263
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: big casino.

1264
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 2: Why he doesn't need to own this team.

1265
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: He has no interest. I mean, like for those of

1266
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 1: you whn't know money and tried to buy the Dodgers

1267
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: like it wasn't like the Mets were always the number

1268
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: one team that he necessarily wanted.

1269
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 2: So I don't know this. The pieces are coming together,

1270
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 2: like you said, Brian Windhorst.

1271
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, and ten years from now Steve Cone goes

1272
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: like seventy, I don't need to deal with this shit.

1273
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 2: I'm out, Like this is too much work.

1274
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm good just losing money year after year is still

1275
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: having the ire of half the fan base. It's in

1276
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: Ramos's denial of the proposal, she reproposed back to Steve

1277
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: to basically be able to do every single thing he said,

1278
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: just with a bigger convention center, I think, an extra hotel,

1279
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: just the whole thing with no casino. So that's kind

1280
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: of her putting the ball back in his court, like

1281
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: do you want to help this community? Did you want

1282
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: to do this for the land, Like I think a

1283
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: big reason for buying the Metro Steve Cone was the

1284
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: fact that they were largely an untapped market because in

1285
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways, and one of the big

1286
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: ways was baseball. We've talked about that a lot. In fact,

1287
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: the will Ponds never had an analytics apartment. The Mets

1288
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: didn't use any data. They basically just scouted and then

1289
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: just hoped for the best. That was they did for

1290
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: the past like fifty years of existence as a franchise,

1291
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: and it worked twice kind of, but that was really it.

1292
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: So then Steve was like, Okay, like we have all

1293
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,320
Speaker 1: this land, We're in New York City, We're on a

1294
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: subway line. This casino license going to be up for

1295
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: grabs in a for years. I have the most money

1296
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: and the most political power to do something about this.

1297
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: I can turn this whole area into like a happy

1298
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: fun land. And while I do this, I have my

1299
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: baseball people, and hopefully within five to ten years, this

1300
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: baseball team becomes a happy fund baseball team. And this

1301
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: is just something that everybody wants to do. Like similar

1302
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: to where the battery is in Atlanta, where it's not

1303
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: really in Atlanta, everyone's willing to go there and spend

1304
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 1: some time. Like you could just fly into New York.

1305
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: You could just hang out in like the Mets Complex, Yeah,

1306
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: the Mets area, and like you could basically never Its

1307
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: crazy to think about because of what we all have

1308
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: known it as our whole lives. But the idea for

1309
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: this is you could fly into La Guardia, you could

1310
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: never leave Flushing, and you could have an amazing weekend

1311
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: of Mets. You can go through a couple of games,

1312
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: you can go to the Queen's Authentic food hall. Like

1313
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: maybe you can take one subway ride into Manhattan for

1314
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:29,879
Speaker 1: the day just to see it. But like you could

1315
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: be you could take a New York trip that's solely

1316
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: dedicated to the Mets. Like that was a dream, that

1317
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: was the idea, that was the plan. So that's a

1318
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: soccer game exactly everything it's gonna be. It seems like

1319
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: it might be a bit of a pissing contest now

1320
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: between Steve and the State of New York, which I

1321
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: think is gonna be fun. And if that this keeps happening,

1322
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: and even if the ship's under the radar, you know

1323
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 1: we're gonna cover this whole podcast because Marscow and Tinfoil had.

1324
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I love politics. I think it's fascinating and all this

1325
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: shit is fun. I think there's some of the most

1326
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: fun shit we used to talk about back in the

1327
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 1: day in the show, especially with like the labor negotiations

1328
00:54:58,400 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: and all this shit that was going on behind the scene.

1329
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: It's just it's kind of a weird moment that's being

1330
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: overshadowed because of how much other shit is happening with

1331
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 1: this team, how bad they are. We have the player

1332
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 1: just say it's the worst teammate on the worst team,

1333
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: threw his glove into the crowd, the team can't win

1334
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: a game. It's insane shit. But there's definitely something for

1335
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: everybody to watch, and I think something that the stories

1336
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: can develop a lot because maybe this all is over.

1337
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: Maybe Steve just says, Okay, I'm not gonna get the casino,

1338
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: like I'll take your I'll take your proposal, and we're

1339
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: gonna have a great time in Queen's and then because

1340
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: the other proposal, I think the ones who are leading

1341
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: for this casino thing now without Steve is the win.

1342
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: They're gonna build like a massive casino in Hudson Yards.

1343
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be like a massive indoor like luxury casino,

1344
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: which is gonna be insane. And just James Dolan wins

1345
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: again that that fuck bastard. He literally can't knock the

1346
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: guy off his fucking eye oars. But I wonder how

1347
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: is it gonna materialize here? I wonder how it's gonna

1348
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 1: affect the Mets. There's a world where it does, and

1349
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: that's so fine.

1350
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 2: God damn it.

1351
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: I hate this team so much. I hate so much,

1352
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: and it's an endless hell loop. Oh my god. Even

1353
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: when it's not about baseball, it's always about baseball. It's

1354
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: always about the Mets. All right, this has been an

1355
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: eventful episode. You want to talk about prospects real quick?

1356
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: We got time to talk about prospects. Yeah, definitely gonna

1357
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: do a bit of a short the prospect port fore

1358
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:15,840
Speaker 1: you guys. This episode was just insane to begin with,

1359
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: and this week of meek two weeks month of Mets

1360
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 1: baseball is insane. And we also I think on Friday,

1361
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: because marketing being a little slow out of there, we're

1362
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: gonna have marketized top ten prospects in the Mets system

1363
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: ready to go. It's a week after recorded, so the

1364
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: stats won't be like perfectly exact, but all the same ideas,

1365
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: all the same concepts. I think it's a lot of

1366
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: really really good stuff in there, but just a quick

1367
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: check in for the week of Mets minor leaguers as

1368
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 1: we go. I think the big thing is happy right now.

1369
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: You see a lot of people talking about on Twitter

1370
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,720
Speaker 1: is Luisan Helicunya has finally gotten hot this month, basically

1371
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: the last couple of days since May eighth. He's hitting

1372
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: three twenty nine with three seventy two on base percentage

1373
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: of four to forty three, slugging with six doubles and

1374
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: eight stolen bases. But that sounds really good, but it's

1375
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: kind of hilarious because triple A is so easy to

1376
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: hit it and hitters are having such a good time

1377
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 1: there that those numbers is only one twelve WRC plus

1378
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: that's crazy. So even with the a three third of

1379
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: the average at three seventy two on base and four

1380
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: to forty slug he's only twelve percent back in the

1381
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: league average, and he only hit one home running that

1382
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: time too, But I think that's not the issue. The

1383
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: bats of ball is still really good. I'm to talk

1384
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: about that a lot of the top ten prospect stuff,

1385
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: but just please get some relaxed. People are yelling for

1386
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: this goutyta be called up right now. He's not even

1387
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: close to being major league ready. I think if he

1388
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: gets called up now, it could be detrimental his entire career. Yeah.

1389
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 2: I yelled about him getting called up earlier, so.

1390
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I mean you're part of the problem.

1391
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 2: I'm part of the problem. I'm just I don't know.

1392
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm I need this to be fair. When I said

1393
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: that earlier, again, that was part one of the recording.

1394
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,919
Speaker 1: Need a little juice, Pablo Lo fucking I did it again,

1395
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 1: Jorge Lopez. Goddamn it, Oh my god, Jorge Lopez really

1396
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: gave me some juice here at nine to five at night,

1397
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: after the after the game was over for.

1398
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 2: An hour and a half, it was that's crazy. Whatever,

1399
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 2: We're past it, all right. Prospect report.

1400
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: Jet Williams still hurt, not great, got another quarter zone shot.

1401
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: Surgery might be on the table, which means a lost year,

1402
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: which is not detrimental to Jet William's future success. But

1403
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: boyle boy, does it slow it down and it sucks.

1404
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: And it's just a guy who is really flying through

1405
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, flying through the rankings and everything. You

1406
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: don't want to slow him down anytime soon. Drew Gilbert

1407
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 1: also should be back playing again in a couple of weeks.

1408
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: I know he's coming back from what I'm sure, yeah,

1409
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: hamstring injury that's just been kind of nagging him along.

1410
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: And boy, as we talked about, the Mets could use

1411
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: it because they've got two outfielders that are not even

1412
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: Triple A players right now the way they're playing, So

1413
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 1: Drew Gilbert can't come back soon enough. But Double A,

1414
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: your boy, Brandon sprot keeps on chugging along. The Sproke

1415
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: coat is so good. He's the man, Dude's his last

1416
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: two starts to Double A, he could plee A seven

1417
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: innings both times. And something that I think people have

1418
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: called to be like throwing some throwing some water on

1419
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: the fire brandons Sprote this year is the fact that

1420
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: he's not as much of a strike thrower. He went

1421
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: through sixty one percent strikes and it's time in Brooklyn.

1422
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: Despite striking everybody out and having a very low ERA,

1423
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: but he's up that strike rate. It's almost seventy percent

1424
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: now in double A, sixty seven point three percent. Curtsey

1425
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: Chris Clegg roto Clegg toiter, friend of mine. Actually just

1426
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: had just had a today. He had the baby came

1427
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: fast and him his wife had to get birth in

1428
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: their house to couldn't get to the hospital on time.

1429
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: That is terrifying. Shit, Oh my god, insane. He said that.

1430
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, congratulations, that's horrifying. But back to

1431
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: Brandons brot one point four two ERA in the season

1432
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: and again, guys, this is just this is the twenty

1433
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: twenty three Christians got treatment. He is on the fast track.

1434
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: I called this shit to a t in the offseason.

1435
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: It happened perfectly. And just keep pitching Double A, just

1436
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: keep dominating Double A, keeps tracking guys out, keep those

1437
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: walks down, and he will be the top one hundred prospect.

1438
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,959
Speaker 1: We ordained him to be. Nolan McLean up in Double

1439
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: A as well. Finally getting a little bit of a

1440
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,479
Speaker 1: challenge here. Through two starts, nine innings, five earned, two walks,

1441
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: nine k's and it's it's a good challenge. This is

1442
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that should be happening early on

1443
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: for a guy like Noelan McLean, who again was a

1444
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: relief pitcher in college, swinging the bat, being a two

1445
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: way player doing it on both sides of the ball.

1446
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: The five urn runs, I guess is the thing to

1447
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: worry about. But nine strikeouts and two walks like that

1448
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: to me is where I go in nine innings. Pretty good,

1449
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: pretty good start for Nolan M. McLean Double A. I

1450
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: don't think it's anything to be worried outor per se,

1451
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: No totally. Again, I remember if we said in the

1452
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: top ten prospects or last week in the prospect Report,

1453
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: but I think it was like eleven total starts since

1454
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: he was in high school before reaching double A. So

1455
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: that's like, yeah, like anything that happens in double A

1456
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 1: right now for nolman Clean this year is basically how fun.

1457
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 2: Just keep developing.

1458
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: It's amazing, blade tidwell, my boy. He keeps continuing to

1459
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: look pretty good in triple A, which is super encouraging.

1460
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: Through his first two starts, five and two thirds, three

1461
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: hits to earn, four walks, three k's and then six innings,

1462
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: four hits, zero earned, four walks, two K So we

1463
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: see there's walks. That's definitely a thing with Blade here,

1464
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 1: getting little bit more walks in the strikeouts. Not getting

1465
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: the swing and miss which had always been the thing

1466
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: that even Matt Eddie had talked about. It is like,

1467
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: we don't know if he's gonna be able to get

1468
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: those swings and misses at the higher levels as he

1469
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: goes up and up. But we do have some stack

1470
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 1: cast data, and James, you're the perfect guy to talk

1471
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: about it so much. Stackcast day. I'm so excited for

1472
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: this Blaye Tenable stuff. And even before we get to

1473
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: that day, that's just like seeing those walks and track

1474
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: out numbers. I caution people not to get worried because

1475
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: he is in triple A for the first time. The

1476
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: two things we know about Triple A right now is

1477
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: that the hitters hit the shuit out of the ball.

1478
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: The ball is probably different. I think the league wide

1479
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: ops there is basically over eight hundred and two. He's

1480
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: probably using yell and mac ball and strikes on ball

1481
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:09,439
Speaker 1: and strikes the first time he ever had in his career.

1482
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: So that's just a hard thing to get used to

1483
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: that could lead walks to going up, strike guys to

1484
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: go down, and runs to go up. He's still been

1485
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: able to keep runs off the board, which is cool.

1486
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: But the statcast date is really really interesting, and a

1487
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Speaker 1: lot of this is just like me doing my little

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Speaker 1: IVV calculations, but also my guy TJ Stats Thomas Neestica,

1489
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Speaker 1: who I think we're gonna have on the podcast soon

1490
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: whenever the best play the blue Jays. He's a he's

1491
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: a Blue Jays guy, amazing. He does his little rite ups.

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01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: He's a little grafts and charts after basically every single

1493
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: start in baseball. He'll make you a player card if

1494
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: he just asks for it. He's a man. But that

1495
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: first start really implused me for Brady because he was

1496
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 1: sitting ninety five ninety six to that fastball seventeen inches

1497
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: inverd vertical break. It's a really good life, good hoppy

1498
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: action even with his like downwards sloping release. So Jet

1499
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 1: just means like, how much backs me he is getting

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01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: in That ball was good. And then his philosophy dropped

1501
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 1: a little bit in the second start, and the IV

1502
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: went down and it made the fastball look worse. It

1503
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: made them more septible getting hit, and he got many

1504
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: less swings and misses on it, so that that range

1505
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 1: of his fastball is probably the difference in Blade tidwell

1506
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: of being like a two to three starter versus like

1507
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 1: a back end four or five like kind of swing

1508
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: man kind of things. So it's just something that I'm

1509
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: sure he's very focused on. I'm sure he's working on

1510
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm sure the organization is working on a lot.

1511
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 1: As much as everything with this team right now is

1512
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: bad dog shit. This pitching development, I can't. We must

1513
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: trust it. It must be trusted at all costs. But

1514
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: everything that jaegersn't have to are doing are great despite

1515
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: the complete incompetency of every the other fast to the organization,

1516
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: So just keep on that right now. And then I

1517
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: talked about it, and he talked about Blade and some

1518
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 1: reporters that he was really excited about his color that

1519
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: falls right between his big sweeper and his fastball, and

1520
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: he's been throwing it a lot to slide the sweeper

1521
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 1: and the color of both great auts. Plus he's mixing

1522
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 1: in the change up in the curveball got a five

1523
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: pitch mix. It's something that we I think could be

1524
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 1: developed very nicely as we stay at Triple A.

1525
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we love Blade over here.

1526
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: Blade the stud last guy to talk about Nick more

1527
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: Robido continues to keep crushing. We got a new hardest

1528
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: recorded ball in play of his career at one oh

1529
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: six point eight, which again in that at that level

1530
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: for his age, super encouraging stuff. Gonna get stronger, gonna

1531
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: get bigger, whatever it's gonna be. You expect those to

1532
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: keep going up and up and up. And he's hitting

1533
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: nearly three fifty in Brooklyn with twelve soul bases in

1534
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: seventeen games, like you kind of just can't ask for

1535
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: anything more. Keep going through the levels, keep playing well,

1536
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:19,439
Speaker 1: keep moving on up. Yeah, that's interest. Can keep shouting

1537
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 1: h out because he keep playing really well. He's one

1538
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: of the best performing minor leaguers in the entire league

1539
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: so far this season, which is amazing, one of the

1540
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 1: highest on base percentages. And again Light prosper Report Crazy

1541
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: episode and our new Top ten Prospects coming out on

1542
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 1: Friday on Friday, so keep a lookout for that on

1543
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel Mets the Podcast. Go subscribe over there

1544
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: now for games that the Mets will be playing. Yeah, yeah,

1545
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even this sucks. I don't even

1546
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 1: like thinking about this team playing. Do you know what

1547
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: it really sucks is that, like I this is the

1548
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: first time in years that I like, I see the

1549
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: Mets on the schedule, and like, I don't really even

1550
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: want to go.

1551
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 2: I have no desire. I like I want.

1552
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: I like the Diamondbacks, me and you both snakes alive.

1553
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 1: Snakes Alive. We went to the World Series. I went

1554
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: to the NLCS, got to see them make their run.

1555
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: Shoutout Dalton, out in Arizona, shout out co. But yeah,

1556
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: I have no interest in going to watch, especially with

1557
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: like Corporid Carroll's plague about as bad as anybody in

1558
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is. Like that was one of the

1559
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: guys I wanted to see play, and he's been playing terribly,

1560
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: But that means he's gonna get hot, Surely, I don't

1561
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: know corpor Carrele's. I'm actually worrisome trends right now and

1562
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: everything is profile because you remember last year against the

1563
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: Mets in that series, right before the All Star break,

1564
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 1: he got hurt, shoulder popped out, and corpan Carroll's always

1565
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: been fascinting because he's a smaller guy who generated power

1566
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 1: and came out basically as an MVP candidate right away,

1567
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: like leader of that team, great, great defensive centerfield or

1568
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,919
Speaker 1: lead off hitler with power, one of the fast guys

1569
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 1: in baseball, and just hasn't been the same since that moment.

1570
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 1: I had it in my like crazy twather thread that

1571
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: went viral the other night, which was crazy fun. That

1572
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: was that thing was awesome. You guys haven't seen that

1573
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: checking I got five million impressions on that two thousand followers.

1574
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: It's insane. I can't. I could't. I couldn't believe those

1575
01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 1: numbers of people. I had friends texting me like, wow,

1576
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: dude saw the tweet. I was like thanks, Like, I

1577
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: don't even know, but I want to find the exact

1578
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: staff for Carrol because it's shocking. Six home runs in

1579
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: his last one hundred and thirteen games and a negative

1580
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: five run value against fastballs when last year I think

1581
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,959
Speaker 1: it was like plus ten. Yeah, so Mark de Rosa

1582
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 1: to do a breakdown. He can't because of it, that

1583
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: shoulder thing. He can't get on the fastball. Everything he's

1584
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: underneath it. And we've seen how much a shoulder and

1585
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: drew can derail a young players progress with Michael cant

1586
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: four though years and years and years ago, because shoulders

1587
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: instrumental hitting mechanics are so fascinating to me, Like I

1588
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: we've had so much data on pitching for so many years.

1589
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 1: I feel like even as not someone that ever pitched

1590
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:37,919
Speaker 1: right at a high level or even even past youth,

1591
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: like I can, I can conceptualize what it means to

1592
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 1: like create like create force from like the bottom half

1593
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: and like generate the power and like pitch. Yeah, hitting,

1594
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: I just can't even I can't. I don't even know

1595
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 1: how many things do you think you pitched in your life? Oh?

1596
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: Under thirty? Okay, that's interesting, maybe fifty. Yeah. I used

1597
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 1: to love pitching it in town. I had one little

1598
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: Slyde there. He's just that feels that James being a

1599
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 1: craft crappy slider guy like I would throw like every

1600
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: bitch yeah, and of fucking a three finger slag, try

1601
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: and change hum. But I couldn't grow hard. I had

1602
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: no arms strike. That was my whole fang in baseball.

1603
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 1: But I think is crazy to me. I feel like

1604
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 1: it's so much fun with all the new bat tracking

1605
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: stuff on stack cast and now like it gives us

1606
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: a little bit more insight to hitting, and maybe it's

1607
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: still not even a complete picture. I think real learn

1608
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: morevek like we see bat pads, but seeing like swing

1609
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: lanks in different parts of the zone and seeing different

1610
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:27,919
Speaker 1: guys with bassbeat. And Carol still has the bat speed,

1611
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,200
Speaker 1: which makes me think the same power hitter is still there.

1612
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 1: But it's just he doesn't feel right from that shoulder

1613
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: and that's bad.

1614
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 2: So pitching matchups, I'm seeing that there aren't Eddy. Is

1615
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 2: that correct?

1616
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: No, I have him right now.

1617
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 2: We got him.

1618
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: So Thursday night we have an actual ace off and

1619
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: again this is a game we're like love to be there,

1620
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 1: but like the fact that the Rangers are playing and

1621
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: the way this team is, it's just like I can't.

1622
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: I can't spend my hard and time and money city

1623
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: field right now. But Christian's got for zac Allah. That's

1624
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 1: the reason to go to the ballpark. And then Friday night,

1625
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 1: Luisa renovers Jordan Montgomery. Saturday, in the next game, the

1626
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: Mets are gonna lose in their city connect Jersey show

1627
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: me and Iyah versus I think Blake Walston's his first name.

1628
01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 1: And then Sunday and emerging Acet Oh yeah, Blake Walston. Yeah, wow, interesting, Okay, Yeah,

1629
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: and then Tyler McGill versus Brandon fought on Sunday afternoon

1630
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: and Saturday four ten is the Darrel Strawberry number of retirement.

1631
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: So it couldn't be better vibes for that. No, it's

1632
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: it's a real shame that the Mets had two all

1633
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 1: time greats in their organization and chose to retire their

1634
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 1: number in one of the worst seasons that no one

1635
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: gives a shit about, and and doing it for not

1636
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: good in April. Yeah, Rain, Yeah, I've never I've never

1637
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:38,440
Speaker 1: heard of any team ever in the history of baseball

1638
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: retiring a number in April and engaged for the Mets,

1639
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 1: engaged the Mets to try to fill that ballpark up.

1640
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks are playing terribly. I don't even care anymore.

1641
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: It's it's I don't give a ship. Gabrielle Moreno has

1642
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: been horrendous about as bad as possible.

1643
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 2: Tip my cap on that one. I've been all over that.

1644
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: He's like twenty three, and he's still a great defensive catchers.

1645
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 2: They fell off. I think he fell off defensively too.

1646
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: This year. I saw all his defensive range, so good.

1647
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,919
Speaker 2: Then I'm wrong on that part, but he's.

1648
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:07,360
Speaker 1: A good ball player.

1649
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 2: He's okay.

1650
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 1: Christian Walker can tell Marte have really been carrying this

1651
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: offense along with Jock Peterson, Who's gonna hit two or

1652
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: three home runs this weekend.

1653
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 2: There's no doubt.

1654
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: Crazy those guys. He's gonna get one off. Christian Scott, Yeah,

1655
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:19,919
Speaker 1: those guys. Those guys have been really carrying the offense. Otherwise,

1656
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 1: like Corbyn, Carroll has been bad. Lord Is Gariel after

1657
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 1: being unreal hot to start these seasons, shocker, not gonna

1658
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 1: be Suarez horrible. They're playing Kevin Newman every day at

1659
01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 1: shortstop because of injuries. Guys like Randall Gritchick, Tucker Barnhardt,

1660
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: and Peven Smith are getting at bats. This is an

1661
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: unbelievably beatable diamondback scene, like crazy beatable. This is gonna

1662
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: be a real fun test. I think the Mets have

1663
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: a super dangerous opportunity here to lose how many in

1664
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: a row if they keep playing like they are. One

1665
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: one the other day, didn't they We've lost. Yeah, we've

1666
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 1: beat the Giants that one game, but we've lost all right.

1667
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: So going back to the two games sweep against the

1668
01:08:56,720 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinals, which is the only serious the Mets

1669
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 1: have one since I returned from my trap, so thank

1670
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:11,639
Speaker 1: God leaving the country again. But the Mets have lost one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,

1671
01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. They have lost sixteen out of twenty games,

1672
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 1: four and sixteen their last twenty dating back to May tenth.

1673
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 2: Maybe Mariy Lopez was right.

1674
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: He could have been close. But Jordan Montgomery's not pitch

1675
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 1: well since signing late in the offseason. Scot Board seems

1676
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: to have fucked all of his clients again. Your boy,

1677
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 1: Paul Seawall's still great. It's gonna be fun to have

1678
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 1: Paul Seawall back in city field during a week of

1679
01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 1: pure chaos for the Mets. I hope he does be awesome. Storyline,

1680
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: Kevin Ginkle had a real good start to the year

1681
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: when Seawall was actually injured, but he's been struggling of late.

1682
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: And we'll leave the checkout on the Diamondbacks. I'm sure

1683
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:45,639
Speaker 1: we'll see him, cause I'm sure we're gonna be losing

1684
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:49,719
Speaker 1: all these games. Justin Martinez. Yes, he's completely fucking discussing

1685
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,439
Speaker 1: towards one hundred miles an hour with a nice tight

1686
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 1: slider and a crazy splither with a lot of drop.

1687
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: But he's he's amazing. They made him the lab. Shout

1688
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: out Brett Trroum. Even with the chaos that is the

1689
01:09:58,040 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 1: New York Mets, we still find a way to get

1690
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 1: James taking a little reliever for you to keep an

1691
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,720
Speaker 1: eye out for. Some things never change, one of those

1692
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,560
Speaker 1: being the Mets being dog water. Thank you guys so

1693
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,600
Speaker 1: much for listening. Thank you for watching this episode of

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Speaker 1: the Mess Up Podcast.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Follow us on all our social media at mets up

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Subscribe to the mets Up

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Speaker 1: Podcast YouTube channel if you want to see that, and

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Speaker 1: us a rating, drop us a review, download and subscribe.

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Speaker 2: Follow James on Twitter at James Underscore. Get this guy

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Speaker 2: to ten k followers enough already.

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Speaker 1: If you're not following him, to follow him, and you

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Speaker 1: can follow me at Draftnick Mark with the c Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys for listening and watching. I mean, at least

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Speaker 1: it might be interesting. These next couple of days, we'll

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Speaker 1: find out, and we'll keep you posted. See you guys

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Speaker 1: next time. Peace peace out. See you guys next time.