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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Mets Up presented by Fox One. We

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Speaker 1: have got a lot to talk about. Antoine Richardson poring

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Speaker 1: out for our guy. He's gone, he's not hearing back

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Speaker 1: Troy snicker In. We have an interview with Arizona Fall

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Speaker 1: League standout Christopher Suero, who's been falling out there for

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Speaker 1: the Mets. So excited to have you guys listen to that,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll also just give you an Arizona Fall

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Speaker 1: I think we have to start with the with the

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Speaker 1: worst news being that Richardson is gone. People are freaking out,

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Speaker 1: But I think some of that freak out might.

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Speaker 2: Be a little misguided.

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Speaker 3: Some of it some of it's deserved. Totally totally. It's

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Speaker 3: like half true half not true, which is I think

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Speaker 3: totally a fair place to be. I think you're going

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Speaker 3: to feel about this, you should feel that way, but

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Speaker 3: this it does suck objectively sucks that he's not going

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Speaker 3: to be the Mets first base coach next year. This

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Speaker 3: was one of the best coaching highers the Mets have

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Speaker 3: had in our lives. I don't think i've ever I

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Speaker 3: don't think I recall a first base coach having this

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Speaker 3: immediate and this outstanding of an impact instantly. The Mets

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Speaker 3: were the best based stealing team the league last year

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Speaker 3: by far, the best success rate at over ninety percent.

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Speaker 3: I think the next close team was like eighty four,

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Speaker 3: eighty five percent the Tigers. Like he really wasn't even

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Speaker 3: a comparison to what the Mets were able to do

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Speaker 3: on the basis compared to other teams, and it was

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Speaker 3: seemingly mostly because of Antoine Richards.

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Speaker 1: I'll also tell you this, the Mets in the past

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Speaker 1: have been horrible at ceiling bases. Not like they got

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Speaker 1: much faster. All these guys are older and they didn't

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Speaker 1: really have Like if you looked at this roster, there

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Speaker 1: wasn't one guy where we like besides like Lindor really

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Speaker 3: No, I mean Wan Solo stole for the fucking basis,

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Speaker 3: Like it's not like this isn't really what I.

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Speaker 2: Told you, Starling Marte. He's the guy who like moved

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Speaker 3: Probably this year we set the major League record for

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Speaker 3: highest stolen based success rate in a single season, and

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Speaker 3: we're one of the slowest teams in I mean, we

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Speaker 3: said it so much over the year we were eighty

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Speaker 3: nine percent. Next closest Cubs eighty two percent. Like it

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Speaker 3: wasn't even a contest what this was. But I do

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Speaker 3: think that you're gonna hate me for this. Some bigger

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Speaker 3: conversations to have here about maybe the bit of the

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Speaker 3: organizational infrastructure that's going on with the Mets, where I

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Speaker 3: think a lot of people are like, Wow, you couldn't

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Speaker 3: pay Antoninderson extra money to keep him around. I think

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Speaker 3: that it's definitely not about money. I mean, I hope

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Speaker 3: it's not about money. You could wind up being about money,

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Speaker 3: but it seems like this is probably one about role

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Speaker 3: and two about any kind of job security. When you

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Speaker 3: have this massive coaching exodus that keeps what could be

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Speaker 3: for the guy to hang around.

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Speaker 1: In No, especially when I think Antoine Richardson also has

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Speaker 1: the aspirations to be more than a first base coach,

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Speaker 1: and I think, based on how locked in he was

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Speaker 1: minimum is in his future for this upcoming season, and

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Speaker 1: that job not available right now with the Mets.

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Speaker 2: As we know, Antonine Richson would not be the Mets

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Speaker 1: The money can only be given out so much to

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Speaker 1: the first base coach as well, like you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure Antoine Richardson, yeah, or your bench coach

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Speaker 1: he would be going, whether it was at first base

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Speaker 1: I can understand from both perspectives. I don't think this

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Speaker 1: simply believe that this is an organization want to bring

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Speaker 1: I have bigger aspirations. I want to do bigger things.

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Speaker 3: That, And again, it's so rare, Like we opened with

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Speaker 1: Name another team's been first base coach I think like

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Speaker 3: Was Cardinals for the Yankees. Yeah, that's one of them.

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Speaker 3: But also it's you have to kind of capitalize when

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Speaker 3: reports when that was confirmed that Craig Aubernaz is going

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Speaker 3: Richardson and Albernas have a relationship that goes back there.

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Speaker 3: You also, Antonine Richardson and Kay Kerrea also cross pads

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Speaker 3: we never really know what's going on behind the scenes.

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Speaker 3: I think I will be frustrated though, if Antoine Richardson

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Speaker 2: That would frustrate you.

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Speaker 1: But also with the connection to the new manager, there

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Speaker 1: maybe he just like wants to work with his buddy, definitely.

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Speaker 3: That's also that's how Sportsbook we also in this time

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Speaker 3: and we're going to talk about getting another coach and

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Speaker 3: second and Troy Snicker, Tess Druschelle also left and went

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Speaker 3: back to the Yankees. I think that makes sense. Came

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Speaker 3: here to work with Jeremy Hefner. Jeremy Heffer doesn't have

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Speaker 3: his friend Matt Blake, who's the head pitcher coach of

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Speaker 3: the Yankees, who's not going anywhere. It's just this is

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Speaker 3: like every industry, it's such a connections based thing and

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Speaker 3: you really want to make sure you have that security.

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Speaker 3: So for Richardson to hang out, not get a bump

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Speaker 3: not it's a weird. It was a very weird situation

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Speaker 3: kind of expected some change here. I really thought they would. Really.

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Speaker 3: I think they did prioritize bringing Register back. It was

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Speaker 3: and this is now what happened. But again, when you're

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Speaker 3: you're not going to, like we said, if you was

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Speaker 2: Talked about the manager. I wasn't talking about these other coaches.

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Speaker 3: It's all true, though, it's all the same. So it's

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Speaker 3: all organism, all your coaches. This is not true. Do

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Speaker 3: you do you think if we would have had more

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Speaker 1: If he's the first base coach, then yes, you're right.

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Speaker 1: If he's the first base coach of another team, if

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Speaker 1: he goes a bench coach, no you're wrong.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm like fifty fish, FIFA, win this one again,

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Speaker 3: but win it again this that would be my third one.

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Speaker 3: Actually it's really two. But this will this will kind

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Speaker 3: of it will sick if that happens. Also, maybe there's

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Speaker 3: some kind of hope he can maintain something of what

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Speaker 1: I would think the players also are gonna be aware

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Speaker 1: I have to do to steal basis like Antoine Richardson

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Speaker 1: helped me get there. Maybe they don't, maybe they don't

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Speaker 3: But also maybe you do, because maybe there's something in

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's he's standing at first base going

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Speaker 3: this isn't like this isn't like twelve you baseball. But

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Speaker 3: I do think that he's able to do He was

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Speaker 3: there's a reason other teams want him and if he

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Speaker 1: Now that being said, brought it in a new guy.

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Speaker 1: We got a hitting coach Troy Snicker. That name might

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Speaker 1: sound familiar to you because yes, that is the son

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Speaker 2: So there's always a concern about sleeper cell.

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Speaker 1: Brian Snicker's out, and there's articles that have been written

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Speaker 1: that Troy did not want to use his name and

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Speaker 3: Agent vibes already definitely, and Snicker just he comes with

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Speaker 3: Troy Snicker sent a cover letter to the Astros. Jeff

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Speaker 1: And the big thing with Troy Snicker is that he's

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Speaker 1: an exercise science guys, a biomechanics dude loves video, which

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Speaker 1: we know that people who love Jady Martinez, Jadie Martinez

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be in charge of drop your hands a

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Speaker 1: See, it seems like he's an adjustments guy, not a

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Speaker 1: World Series Game six Today, the Dodger season could be over,

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Speaker 1: and they've got Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. As much

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Speaker 1: Semessed Up podcast, we got to talk about pitching, and

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Speaker 1: while Treya Savage had the best performance, maybe in a

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Speaker 1: So here we are with Chris Suero, Mets prospect balling

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Chris Fallley again. You've been on fire for

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Speaker 4: It's been amazing.

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Speaker 3: You're a very unique player for some people out there

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Speaker 1: you're out there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's more reps and just on the defensive side too.

436
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Speaker 6: Just keep getting better, keep developing, which is the main

437
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Speaker 6: focus here, and just helping me get to the main

438
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Speaker 6: goals as big leagues as quickly as possible, and just

439
00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,480
Speaker 6: keep getting better and keep playing some more baseball.

440
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Speaker 3: This past season, you had time both in Brooklyn and

441
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Speaker 3: with Binghamton. By the end of the season, both those

442
00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,679
Speaker 3: teamswys the trophies. Both those teams won their leagues. So

443
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Speaker 3: what was it like one be to play two championship

444
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Speaker 3: teams one season. Not a lot of players ever get

445
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Speaker 3: to say something like that, and too, just about those

446
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Speaker 3: locker rooms, those guys, as you're moving up together, being successful,

447
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,920
Speaker 3: winning a bunch of ball games, I'm getting.

448
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was. It's a true blessing. It's all glory

449
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Speaker 6: to God first and foremost.

450
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Speaker 4: But it was.

451
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Speaker 6: It was definitely amazing being in Brooklyn. At first, it

452
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,960
Speaker 6: was it was a brotherhood. Like it didn't really feel

453
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Speaker 6: too much as a job. I said it before as well,

454
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Speaker 6: like it was just a bunch of guys. We were

455
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Speaker 6: just going out playing ball with our brothers and it

456
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Speaker 6: was fun.

457
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Speaker 4: We were winning a lot of ball games. We were

458
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Speaker 4: having fun. We wasn't really thinking too much of it.

459
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Speaker 6: And I'm so glad that they were able to finish

460
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Speaker 6: the job. I was only there for the first half,

461
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Speaker 6: but I praised them for that too. And then going

462
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Speaker 6: to Binghamton and it was kind of the same thing.

463
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Speaker 6: It was a bunch of guys that it was just

464
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Speaker 6: dogs balling and it was fun. It was fun. It

465
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Speaker 6: was everything was fun. It was probably the best baseball

466
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Speaker 6: I've ever played in my life. It was fun all around,

467
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Speaker 6: and to be around so many winners, Like, it doesn't

468
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Speaker 6: get any better than that.

469
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Speaker 1: You talked about the dogs on the team that you

470
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Speaker 1: got to play with. The Mets pitching development has been

471
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Speaker 1: praised around the league. All the names have been popping

472
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Speaker 1: up and you've had the opportunity to catch them, these

473
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Speaker 1: guys like Jonathan Santucci and Wininger. What's it like catching

474
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Speaker 1: these guys and do you get to feel the difference

475
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Speaker 1: between them and some guys like around the league where

476
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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, our pitching development really is popping off

477
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Speaker 1: and these guys are special.

478
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Speaker 4: Yeah, locked and knock down the other guys.

479
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Speaker 6: But it's something different for sure, Like it's just I

480
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,960
Speaker 6: feel so confident back there. I know whatever I put

481
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Speaker 6: down is going to be executed.

482
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Speaker 4: We're gonna have a good day.

483
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Speaker 6: And the competitiveness as well is like we just we

484
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Speaker 6: both lock in.

485
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Speaker 4: They're they're all guys that lock in. We got other guys.

486
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Speaker 6: Jonah Toongu like those are guys that you know that

487
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Speaker 6: when they're on the mound, they're there. They're there to

488
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Speaker 6: get a job done. So it's definitely fun being back

489
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Speaker 6: there and being able to catch those guys and now

490
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Speaker 6: seeing what they're doing, like Nolan uh sprot Those are

491
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Speaker 6: all guys that I at least got the chance to

492
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Speaker 6: be around and catch them, and now seeing what they're

493
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Speaker 6: doing up there as well, is if special And it's

494
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Speaker 6: a true blessing to say that I was able to

495
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Speaker 6: play with those guys and be wear the same uniform.

496
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Speaker 3: As something talked about playing some of the best ball

497
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Speaker 3: of your career. This year you went to twenty twenty

498
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Speaker 3: four in Brooklyn. You're hit really well there too. It

499
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Speaker 3: seemed like you know you're on your way. But then

500
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Speaker 3: this year when you got back to Brooklyn, you crushed

501
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:14,160
Speaker 3: it dominated the league that's notoriously a tough place to hit.

502
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Speaker 3: What was it that you were able to I don't

503
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Speaker 3: know if it's figure out or what was an adjustment

504
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Speaker 3: that you made? What helped you be so successful in

505
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 3: a ballpark and the league that sometimes isn't the friendliest offense.

506
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Speaker 6: Honestly, after last season ended, I told myself, if the

507
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Speaker 6: mess decide to send me back to Brooklyn, I'm confident

508
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Speaker 6: enough that I'm gonna do a job there and I'm

509
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Speaker 6: going to try to get out of there as soon

510
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Speaker 6: as i can. So just going in there, I kind

511
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Speaker 6: of had that mentality and everything was cleaning out, and

512
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Speaker 6: like I said, I thank God for it.

513
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Speaker 4: But there wasn't really any crazy adjustments that I made.

514
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Speaker 6: I just felt like the reps and the development just

515
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,520
Speaker 6: me as time goes, I'm becoming a better head of

516
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Speaker 6: a better player. So that kind of helped me out

517
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Speaker 6: as well. And I just went over there to do

518
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Speaker 6: a job and play winning baseball. Everything else came along.

519
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Speaker 1: What's it like playing in the city as well? You

520
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,719
Speaker 1: grew up in the Bronx, spent some time in New

521
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Speaker 1: York and then getting to play in Brooklyn and then

522
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Speaker 1: hopefully one day in Queens with the Mets.

523
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Speaker 2: Is there a little extra incentive?

524
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't get any better than that.

525
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Speaker 6: Like I was able to have family around here and there,

526
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Speaker 6: I was able to go home on off days and

527
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Speaker 6: stuff like that.

528
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Speaker 4: And yeah, like I said, I think.

529
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Speaker 6: The only way it gets better is at the show

530
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Speaker 6: that is City Field, which is even closer.

531
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Speaker 4: So that's the ultimate goal obviously.

532
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Speaker 6: But it was definitely it was special being that I

533
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Speaker 6: had my family and friends being able to watch me

534
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Speaker 6: play pro baseball.

535
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Speaker 4: It was it was special for sure.

536
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, Coney Island to the Bronx, that's a that's

537
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Speaker 3: a commute and a half. That's not that's not when

538
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 3: you want to do as much as you can, but

539
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 3: you're happy to do when you do. So this year

540
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Speaker 3: out in the Fall League with a couple of the Mets,

541
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Speaker 3: one of them being Nick Marby, though you jumped up

542
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Speaker 3: these levels of morbid this year too. Both you guys

543
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Speaker 3: played in Brooklyn and Binghamton. Has it been forming that

544
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Speaker 3: relationship and what's it like playing, you know, left field

545
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Speaker 3: when a guy like him throwing center?

546
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my thought. That's my brother.

547
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Speaker 6: We've been we've been coming since rookie ball together, so

548
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 6: it's been special having him alongside me throughout the whole journey,

549
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Speaker 6: and it's been it's been nice to see what he's

550
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Speaker 6: been able to do as well, and watch him develop

551
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Speaker 6: and watch him do the things that he's doing. And yeah,

552
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Speaker 6: it's definitely fun when you have a guy like that

553
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Speaker 6: in center field, you can definitely be confident that if

554
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Speaker 6: there's some balls and stuff like that that you can't get,

555
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Speaker 6: so you know, you look to your left and there's

556
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Speaker 6: a guy there every time.

557
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Speaker 4: So that's definitely. It's definitely been.

558
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Speaker 2: Nice with you playing so many different positions what's your

559
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Speaker 2: most comfortable position that you feel at?

560
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Speaker 1: Catcher, left field, first base? Where where do you feel

561
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Speaker 1: most comfortable?

562
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Speaker 6: Most comfortable I'll say left in terms of you don't

563
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Speaker 6: have so much pressure on you being in the backstop,

564
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Speaker 6: I say that's the hardest position and the most I

565
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Speaker 6: say after the pitcher, I guess, but most important one too.

566
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Speaker 6: That it's like every every call, every player and every player,

567
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Speaker 6: and you're in every situation and everything falls back on

568
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Speaker 6: you as well. If you make the wrong pitch, if

569
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Speaker 6: they hit a home run, they get it here it's

570
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Speaker 6: like or why did you call this?

571
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Speaker 4: Why did you call that?

572
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 6: So usually everything falls back on you, and you got

573
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Speaker 6: to be real locked in when I'm a left on

574
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Speaker 6: kind of just killing and I'm just do what I

575
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Speaker 6: gotta do and make the routine place.

576
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Speaker 3: So again you've been still on more bases too. Love

577
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Speaker 3: catches that can run. Hell of an athlete. Does any

578
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Speaker 3: part of being a catcher being behind the plane give

579
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Speaker 3: you anything else? You think when you're on the basis

580
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Speaker 3: to take those extra bags?

581
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Speaker 4: Uh?

582
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Speaker 6: Maybe sometimes did you say does it help me take bags?

583
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Speaker 4: Or yeah?

584
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Speaker 6: Kind of sometimes because sometimes you kind of have an

585
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Speaker 6: idea of what pitch may be thrown in this situation,

586
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Speaker 6: or what the pitcher may do, or when would they

587
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 6: pick off or when would they slash up? Stuff like that. Like,

588
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 6: there's a lot of stuff. And then also I do

589
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Speaker 6: want to praise my first base coaches. They do help

590
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Speaker 6: a line as well, So that's something that we kind

591
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Speaker 6: of praise and we try to be the best at,

592
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Speaker 6: which is as the team just helping each other out,

593
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Speaker 6: the staff, the coaches, and then us two.

594
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Speaker 4: We try to pick pick certain.

595
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Speaker 6: Spots and we try to see what the pitcher has

596
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 6: given us, what the team has given us. And I

597
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 6: won't get too much dec I don't want to give

598
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 6: our secrets out.

599
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Speaker 1: But yeah, fall leagues wrapping up last season, you got

600
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Speaker 1: your first taste of Winter League playing for the Ideas

601
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Speaker 1: in the Dominican Winter League. Do you have any plans

602
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: of going back to the Winter League this year and

603
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 1: getting some more reps there.

604
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Speaker 4: I would love to. Uh, there's been a lot of conversations.

605
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Speaker 6: They've been wanted me to as well. I don't think

606
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Speaker 6: so I would love to. I definitely would, But also

607
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Speaker 6: it's been a lot of games I went last year

608
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Speaker 6: then this year, like I haven't really had a break.

609
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Speaker 4: My body hasn't.

610
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 6: Really taken the break that it needs and the rest

611
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Speaker 6: if it were up to me, I love playing baseball.

612
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Speaker 6: I'd love to go and that's the league that anybody

613
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Speaker 6: would want to play in. But it all just it

614
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Speaker 6: all depends on what happens after Fall League. Right now,

615
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Speaker 6: I'm just living in the president. Just do what I

616
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 6: gotta do here and then we'll see what happens after this.

617
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel that. So probably the last two questions

618
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Speaker 3: got here. But Chris, thanks again so much for taking

619
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Speaker 3: time talking to us. Been great hearing everything you got.

620
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Speaker 3: You grew up in the Bronx. Two things, One did

621
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Speaker 3: you play any other sports growing up? Again?

622
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Speaker 4: You can move?

623
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Speaker 3: And two what's your bout diego weather?

624
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Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, I played basketball.

625
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Speaker 6: Uh played it, but a little bit of some football

626
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,479
Speaker 6: here and there, but not really, not too much. My

627
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 6: mom did a yeah yeah and all that, but yeah

628
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Speaker 6: I did play I played a lot of basketball.

629
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Speaker 4: But yeah I did that.

630
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Speaker 6: And my boldig old is most likely the chop season. Uh,

631
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Speaker 6: they catching and some barbecue on it with let us

632
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Speaker 6: I do some chicken over right, So I'm gonna put

633
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Speaker 6: my people on checking over uh. And then obviously a

634
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Speaker 6: big season in the morning.

635
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Speaker 2: So those are those are all the classics. Chris, thank

636
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Speaker 2: you so much for joining us.

637
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Speaker 1: We appreciate Let everybody who's watching and listening to this

638
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: episode know where they can follow you and keep up

639
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: with all your stuff.

640
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Speaker 4: All right, thank you so much. Say you've had me guys.

641
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Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you, Chris.

642
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

643
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a little bit more about the

644
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Speaker 1: Fall League again. Big shot to Chris Suerro joining us

645
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: on the podcast. You guys should go follow him on

646
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: all his social media. Didn't didn't didn't plug it. We'll

647
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: plug it. I'll throw it somewhere on the screen for

648
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: you guys, so you guys can drop him a fall.

649
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: But he was awesome in the Fall League and awesome

650
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: in the interview as well.

651
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 3: No, yeah, a fun guy you could field in New

652
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 3: York on Christopher Square. I thought that was really cool

653
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 3: to have. Like second started talking Tom, like yeah, yeah, babe,

654
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 3: that's is your where you belong. But he's truthfully one

655
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Speaker 3: of the AFL, one of the MVPs of the AFL.

656
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 3: He's got four homers, he's got like an A fifty

657
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 3: oh ps. He's playing three different positions like you guys

658
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 3: heard to nine hundred actually now with that extra home

659
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 3: run he got and hey, nice, yeah, small sample. We

660
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,239
Speaker 3: love that he's in a couple of the opposite field too.

661
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 3: He stroked from like four oh five, like one hundred

662
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 3: and ten off the bat.

663
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 7: He is.

664
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 3: He's a guy who was a huge riser this year

665
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 3: in the Mets system as a plus athlete, who seems

666
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 3: like he has a lot building, a lot of versatility,

667
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 3: who now has gone against better competition because you were

668
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 3: in Single A and Double A now the Fall League.

669
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 3: He has never stopped tivtying. This feels like something that

670
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 3: could become a nice player development went for the Mets.

671
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, a guy that we were on early just because

672
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: when we were so desperate to do prospect content, we

673
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: were like, oh, Chris Swero, like this guy had a

674
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: good week.

675
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: Like let's let's take a little more look into him.

676
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,719
Speaker 1: And as he mentioned, it's been comped to Dalton varshow

677
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: because of being able to play catcher and the autmast

678
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: and he's fast.

679
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 2: It's a rare combination that you don't see too often.

680
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 3: No, yeah, rare one. And something else that is really

681
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 3: cool about the Fall League because all of these stadiums

682
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 3: out there have stack cast data. We have big time

683
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 3: advanced data, and a lot of guys we didn't have

684
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 3: it on before, especially christoher Suaer and Nick Morbi though,

685
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 3: who haven't been in Low Way Saint Lucy for a

686
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 3: while and have clearly developed a lot since they were

687
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,719
Speaker 3: in Lowa last time we had stack cast on them.

688
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: So the big thing for Suerro, we got seventy one

689
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 3: mile on our baths speed. That's good, that's awesome. That's

690
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 3: a hair below the major league average. And he's still

691
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 3: someone who's twenty one years old. On some comps, it's

692
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 3: like it's it's like Ian Happ It's like that kind

693
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 3: of bad speed just below major league gaverage. But you

694
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 3: still got Christopher Sweer, you got time and you got

695
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 3: framed to build on that bat speed still, which is

696
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 3: a nice thing. And even with that sevenue one on

697
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 3: our per hoor bat speed a tick below major leagueyverage.

698
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 3: Like I said, one hundred and twelve and a half

699
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 3: mile hour max EXI velocity, that shows true major league

700
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 3: quality power. That's not thirty home run power, but that

701
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 3: could easily be twenty home run power. You blend those

702
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: two together, you see he has a nice bat pats

703
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 3: you see, he doesn't have a problem lifting the ball.

704
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 3: You see how well, Like we mentioned he hit in Brooklyn.

705
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 3: Got this guy got a one to fifty five WRC

706
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 3: plus with the Cyclones this year. You don't do that,

707
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 3: and you had twenty five steals in seventy four games,

708
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 3: like you while playing catcher. While playing catcher, you hitters

709
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 3: do not do that in Brooklyn. It's really this is

710
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 3: starting to become a thing where we have to be

711
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 3: paying closer attention to Christopher Squero and he's starting to

712
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 3: get that actual prospect balls from people around the league.

713
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, really cool, that's what the fall we can do.

714
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: Can put some shine on guys that you maybe weren't

715
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: previously hiped to and swear Ow I think definitely has

716
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: put his name on the map. You mentioned that Ian

717
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: hapcomp in terms of bath speed and max exv low.

718
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: It's like almost identical to what Ian Happ did in

719
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.

720
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: That's crazy.

721
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we had that one ready to go. I

722
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 3: looked this up before, but listen, I don't know, but

723
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 3: that's it is. And again I Happ walks a lot more.

724
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 3: But again that's copy players just from a swing perspective,

725
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 3: a swing and a possible power perspective right there they

726
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 3: give me. It's just again, it's nice to have guys

727
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 3: like this in the organization. Who if you're probably one

728
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 3: year away from Christopher Square and knocking out the door

729
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 3: for the major leagues, and he's the guy that can

730
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 3: mix it in a part of time role, fill in

731
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 3: a full time role. He could be a four hundred

732
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 3: played appearance guy. If he proves himself, he gets more

733
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 3: just a versatile athletic player. That's what we want to

734
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 3: have from organization because instead of buying those guys, developing them.

735
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 3: And you heard him talk about the interview too, and

736
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about more be theo in a sec. Dogs, Dogs.

737
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: These guys are parts of two championship teams this year

738
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 3: in the Mets system in Brooklyn and Binghamton. And then

739
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 3: he called Nick Morbido his brother. And it's fun to

740
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 3: have these guys build these relationships, talk about the shit

741
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 3: all the time. But it's cool to see for players

742
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 3: to come to the major leagues already with a culture

743
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 3: of success in winning, expecting that and kind of having

744
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 3: those watching the World Series. Now there's a lot of

745
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 3: things you do in a baseball series to win that

746
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 3: you don't exactly notice as much as a one, six

747
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 3: to two game grind. The things that we see, like

748
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 3: this Blue Jays team, how chris are they in their fundamentals?

749
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 3: Probably sharp? Every single relay throw, every single little pick

750
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: thrown across the diamond like not but not playing out

751
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 3: of control either, Like it's it's beautiful to watch Trace

752
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 3: Savage every single groundball that Dodgers hit second or first

753
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 3: face he was on a b line immediately the second happened,

754
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 3: like he even sometimes was running there and the players

755
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 3: ball just went to the second base. It's there's there's

756
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 3: an understanding. Again, I'm not not trying to conflate these

757
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 3: two things, but just it's it's you have to play

758
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 3: winning baseball to win baseball games. I think that I

759
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 3: love seeing the Mets minor leaguers doing that. Yes, definite.

760
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Nick Morbido a little bit,

761
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: because we got a lot on swear. Morbido's a guy

762
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: that I believe forty man roster eligibilities is coming up

763
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: this year, so that's probably why the Mets sent him

764
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: out there. We know he can play center field. We

765
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: know he's gonna be a great glove out there, we

766
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: know he can run. We got to see some bad

767
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: ball metrics though since the last time, like you mentioned,

768
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: and we got a what eleven max ex if you low,

769
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: which again awesome, It's awesome, really really nice to see

770
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: from a guy who we considered to be defensive center fielder,

771
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: Like that was kind of what we were hoping for.

772
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: If that would be really good, would be valuable. One

773
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: eleven max exavi will raises that ceiling a little bit.

774
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: Despite having not the greatest bats speed sixty seven mile

775
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: an hour bats speed would be around the lowested major

776
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: league baseball.

777
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 3: True, but at the same time, it's not one that

778
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 3: is completely damning of being a major league baseball player.

779
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 3: It's one that you're probably not going to be a

780
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 3: super duperstar. But this is the same ilk of a

781
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 3: guy like immediately my mind goes to South Freelick. Yep,

782
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 3: Like that's just it. Someone who has bad bats feed

783
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 3: but great bats of ball doesn't swing a miss because

784
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 3: Nick Morbido does not swing a miss. He never whiffs,

785
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: he doesn't chase very often, a lot of bat on ball,

786
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 3: lots of that little sweet spot. You're not exactly gonna

787
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: drive the ball over the fence, but you're going to

788
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 3: be able to play gap to gap put the ball

789
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 3: in play. And again that's all tied together with great

790
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 3: defense and plus plus speed.

791
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, a guy who I fully expect the Mets to

792
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: put on the forty man whenever he has to be

793
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,479
Speaker 1: put on, and someone who might get a look at

794
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: some point in the next season at the center field

795
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: position because he's just that good defensively you'll take anything offensively,

796
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: and he has some ceiling.

797
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 3: Now, oh, there's almost there's almost no doubt he ad

798
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 3: to the forty man roster unless someone actually comes in

799
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: to trade and it wants to start him away because

800
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 3: he is again South Freelick Blake Perkins like this is

801
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 3: this is the mode. This is the mode in the

802
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 3: model that David Starns love to have tons of these

803
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 3: Guys's always said he was gonna be like the next

804
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 3: Harrison Bader for this team. And if he bumps up

805
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 3: that bats beat, He's I'm a bath there. And again

806
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 3: one hundred eleven max sex of laste, even with the

807
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 3: low bats beet. That is something significant. And just to

808
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 3: give you guys the stats, for more in the Fall League.

809
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 3: No homers, but the single in the double he sent

810
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 3: three to twenty with a four to twenty on base

811
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 3: eight hundred ops. He's got six walks and nine strikeouts

812
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 3: and again very little swinging mess, very little chase, and

813
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 3: nine stolen bases in ten games.

814
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then for the last hitter, to talk about

815
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: DeAndre Smith. I think this was a last chance look

816
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: a little bit for the Mets and unfortunately not playing

817
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: pretty well in the data didn't look great either.

818
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 3: No, sadly though. But then a couple of pictures I

819
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 3: want to run through a little bit here just to

820
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 3: talk about them for a little bit, because we have

821
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,719
Speaker 3: technically five pitchers on the ANFL roster. I think it's

822
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,479
Speaker 3: the Scottsdale Scorpions if I remember correctly.

823
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they changed the names all the time.

824
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got the Saguaros, they got the score fields,

825
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: they got to Havalina's. If you guys have ever been

826
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: to the AFL, such a fun time. Me and James,

827
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: you guys saw we went out there a few years

828
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: ago when we talked to Brett Baty while he was

829
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: playing their blast. You get to watch baseball, you get

830
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: to watch these young guys pop up. That's how I

831
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: found out about Ezekiel Tovar. I was like, that guy's

832
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: a ballplayer. I know this guy completely fizzled out, but

833
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: remember selling Mattias the home runs that he was hitting,

834
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: Like just just fun if you were a baseball rat,

835
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: it's a good place to be.

836
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 3: Victor Vadnik, remember we watched Ricky Gas. I think I

837
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 3: still have my note on this phone. I want to

838
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 3: find them, the scouting notes that we took. Because it's

839
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: also fun because in the AFL, no one's really there

840
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 3: unless you're a baseball lunatic. Yes, so it's like the

841
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 3: locals who live in Arizona that we were talking to.

842
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 3: We talked to the guy who played on the Portland Avericks. Yes,

843
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 3: we talked him for a while because he was a scout.

844
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 3: Now that I was still trying to like find a

845
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 3: way if I can, like needle into working baseball, find

846
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 3: some way, some role for myself. It's just it's cool

847
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 3: to be around so many just absolute baseball freaks. And

848
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 3: that's what you get the Fault League. And it's like

849
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 3: it's like a dollar to walk into those games.

850
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 2: Half the time, they don't even charge you.

851
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 3: We remember Mark. That was where we learned that Mark

852
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 3: Luciana would not be a baseball. We nailed that one,

853
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 3: nailed it.

854
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 4: Wow.

855
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 3: So man, maybe I don't have it on here. Actually

856
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 3: sadly I didn't. So I got a few new funds.

857
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 3: I still got old stuff on here. Yeah, what are

858
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 3: you gonna do? But so just to run through some

859
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 3: interesting stuff from pitchers that we got here, three guys

860
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 3: I want to talk about. First up is Brett Banks. Guys,

861
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 3: remember I was a little bit fatuate with Brett Banks.

862
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 3: We drafted him twenty twenty three. Stuff. Demon had just

863
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 3: a fastball with great vertical action on and a few

864
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 3: breakers fastballs ups ninety eight. He's got a forty percent

865
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 3: strike out ready, the temper set walker, and just a

866
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 3: handful of faality getting So we still got that going on.

867
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 3: Showing a fastball, a slider color and a change. The

868
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 3: pitch chart also was showing a third slider. I think

869
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 3: that might be a sweeper, So there might be three

870
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 3: slither variations here on. Brett Banks could also be just

871
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 3: like a little inconsistency of how he releases too a

872
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 3: hundred percent because it's not that many pitches. But just

873
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 3: want to throw it out there, and every pitch looks

874
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 3: fine across the board. It's not super standout. But again,

875
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 3: if he can sustain the ninety eight, because it's really

876
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 3: touching ninety eight, it's more ninety four than ninety six,

877
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 3: you probably do have something that could be a major

878
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 3: league believer here.

879
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: Yes, and there's there's still time man like for a

880
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: guy like Brett Banks. There's no knee for him. Again,

881
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: if you're throwing around ninety eight the Mets, I'm sure

882
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: we'll want to try and get him stronger, get.

883
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 2: Him using his body better. He's twenty four years old.

884
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: He got all the way up too high A this year,

885
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: so and honestly not that many innings, only through thirty

886
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: six in relief. So I'm sure the Mets are like

887
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: next year, crushed double A. Let's see how it goes,

888
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: Let's see if we get the improvements we move from there, yep, to.

889
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 3: See basically if you can be worth that forty man

890
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 3: rouster spot. And then another guy who I'd never heard

891
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 3: of before going to this fall league stuff, Bryce Jenkins. No,

892
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 3: Bryce Jenkins, never heard this name before. Arizona Fall League,

893
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 3: smaller guy, very late around, drafted by Mets a few

894
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: years ago. I think it's like five to ten in

895
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 3: low slot with decent riding his fastball, so that could

896
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 3: fastball shape. And he also has a very cool and

897
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: too unique slither and curveball. Both have legitimate depth on them,

898
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 3: So there is something there in terms of a picture

899
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 3: archaetype to work with, or it's very unique and that

900
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 3: could be somewhere that is very rare that you see

901
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 3: like a writhing fastball from the low slot with two

902
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 3: real movers, slider and curveball. But it's just some of

903
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 3: the worst comand I've ever seen in my life. So again,

904
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 3: just nicely stuff out there trying. And then one that

905
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 3: we'd liked in the draft again twenty twenty three. Austin

906
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 3: Trosser him a big guy in Missouri. Of course, he's

907
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 3: had some crazy bad injury luck the last few years,

908
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 3: just had we don't really know a lot of times

909
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 3: these minor league guys are hurt. We just know they

910
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 3: are hurt. We don't know what they're hurt with. But

911
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 3: the first few weeks of twenty twenty four it was

912
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 3: like him and Joanatongue leading the fu that's the floor.

913
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 3: The Florida the state League and strike out rate and

914
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 3: swing strike rate, and then lots of injuries. I know

915
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,720
Speaker 3: Mets prospect hounds, Mets prospect lover Ernest Dove loves Trosser.

916
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 3: He thinks that he's a guy that can be a

917
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 3: riser with some health. But he's got big fastball that

918
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 3: has pushed twenty inches of induce hytical break in the past.

919
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: Not there feels like he's trying to kind of put

920
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 3: his body back together still. But I see him just

921
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 3: out there with the guys pitching a little bit.

922
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 2: Yeah.

923
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: And one thing you'll notice about all these pictures that

924
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: the Mets sent out to the Fall League, and typically

925
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: all the pitchers that do get sound sent out into

926
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: the Fall League, guys who don't have a lot of innings,

927
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: like Trouser only threw sixteen innings this year. The Mets

928
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: clearly just wanted to get him more work, see what

929
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: they can do. They see something in him, so they

930
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: want to give him that opportunity to get warnings underneath him.

931
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: Bryce Jenkins cool little path. He started out at Cleveland

932
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: State Community College, then transferred to the University of Tennessee,

933
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: where in his last college season, through sixteen innings and

934
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 1: then I think in all levels, including college and the miners,

935
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: he's only thrown forty one to two thirds innings that

936
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: have been tracked by Baseball Reference. So it's crazy just

937
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: get just getting these guys innings, seeing what they've got.

938
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: We know the Mets are drafting a lot of times

939
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,479
Speaker 1: on stuff on unique pitches, and getting the more reps

940
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: is never a bad thing.

941
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, with the fall weak, I mean, you guys remember

942
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 3: last year Jeff McNeil played the Arizona Fall League to

943
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 3: get some reps in case he could have come back

944
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 3: if the Mets and made the World Series. But hither's

945
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 3: a lot of times shown me something pitchers that's get

946
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 3: some innings in. So it's a nice thing to It's

947
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 3: just again, it's a great event. Anybody who's who's really

948
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 3: deep into baseball likes prospects one time, get out there Scottsdale,

949
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 3: Phoenix for fun cities, and it's just it's good weather

950
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 3: in November rather than what's going on New York one

951
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 3: hundred percent.

952
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 1: And then Ernesta Mercedes and Jordan Geber Geber, is that

953
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: how you protest?

954
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if they've barely pitched, so we just

955
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: don't really have much on them, like an ending each.

956
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 3: But that's that's a mess fall League recap.

957
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 7: The old card experience was a slow burn, long grind. Right,

958
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 7: find the box, find the pack you want, open the pack.

959
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 7: Most of the cards? Nah? Right, you got one that's

960
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 7: worth something, Now send it in for grading. I mean,

961
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 7: the list goes on and you want to sell it. Now,

962
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 7: you got to put it up. Then you got to

963
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 7: ship it out. There's one solution for that, and.

964
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 8: It's called Arena Club and it's just on a click

965
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 8: of a dime. You get on your computer, you type

966
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 8: in get the Arena Club app. Go on there, type in,

967
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 8: put some money in, and type in exactly what kind

968
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 8: of cards you want and while lah. It's a great experience,

969
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 8: and I think that's what people miss nowadays, the experience,

970
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 8: the excitement of getting a new card. You never know

971
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 8: what you're going to get, an autograph card, anything you

972
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 8: could think of, really cool stuff.

973
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 7: You can get twenty percent off your first slab pack

974
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 7: or card purchase at arenaclub dot com.

975
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 4: Slash foul.

976
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 7: See what gets Todd father so excited when he gets

977
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 7: that digital slab pack.

978
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 3: It's like baby yeah, and uh that is that where

979
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 3: we're ending it. I see we have a media marvel

980
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 3: on here, James. I have two medium marvels I want

981
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 3: to think about just to get the people a longer

982
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 3: episode if as I'm sure their episodes recently. World Series

983
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 3: has been awesome. If if you guys are not locked

984
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 3: into what's gone on with Dodgers and the Blue Jays

985
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 3: for the last few days, Holy shit, Like this is

986
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 3: one of the best baseball series I've ever watched in

987
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 3: my life. And it came to head where it was

988
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 3: Monday night was one of the best games of baseball

989
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 3: literally that was ever played. Yeah, and eighteen innings Dodgers

990
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: Blue Jays. It feels like old hat now because there's

991
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 3: so many things have happened since and we're about to

992
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 3: go back Toronto with the Bluees having a chance to win.

993
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 3: But two takes from that World Series that I wanted

994
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 3: to highlight for medium marvels. One's a friend, one's a foe.

995
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 3: So first, the friend Wayne ran dazz though he there

996
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 3: was a lot of people talking about the fact that

997
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 3: Joho Tani was intentionally walked like five times in a

998
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 3: row as those extra innings kept teethering away, and basically

999
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 3: like this is taking the most fun player out of

1000
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 3: the game. Like, you shouldn't allow intentional walks. You can't. Now,

1001
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 3: you can't. We make too many rules to change strategy

1002
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 3: of baseball. We can't keep doing this.

1003
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, it's a tough take when the

1004
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: lion also agrees with you and goes on a little

1005
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: tangent about that. Uh, it's it's just that's how baseball works.

1006
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: Make your lineup better, said it, better than if you

1007
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: don't want to be intentionally walked, give them put your

1008
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: put the player in opportunities where they can intentionally walk him. Like,

1009
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: I think that's a lame take.

1010
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think MOOKI bets maybe try hitting.

1011
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I agree, I would show hey could hit

1012
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: in those scenarios, but the rules of the game, I don't.

1013
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: I don't think intentional walks are the reason why baseball

1014
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: in the past had issues with viewership or growth per se.

1015
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 3: But I don't think that's even a problem right now.

1016
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 3: But it's also like, if no one's hitting, you should

1017
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 3: be able to intentionally walk guys. Also, is funny that

1018
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 3: since that tweet from Wayne and the rule was his

1019
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 3: tweet exactly was baseball should have one intentional walk per game.

1020
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 3: I just flim Mcgrectunion has been intentionally walking more time

1021
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 3: to show how Tony since that's nobody's talked about it. No,

1022
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 3: it's not. And and if you're gonna walk anybody in

1023
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 3: this world series, I'd be walking Vlai mcgret junior. Yes,

1024
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 3: because they keep hitting Mookie behind him. So yeah, I

1025
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 3: mean that Will Smith's in the last game. But even still,

1026
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 3: it's just like it's it does suck that you, especially

1027
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 3: in that game, because I think we all just kind

1028
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 3: of wanted to go to sleep, but we all want

1029
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 3: to see something a great finish. We did still see

1030
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 3: woud up seeing a great finish, but it was just

1031
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 3: at three o'clock in the morning, So one o'clock in

1032
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 3: the morning. You want to see what time you get

1033
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 3: that moment because he was taking over that game to

1034
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 3: that point. It does seem like the intentional walks have

1035
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 3: kind of knocked him off his role. And as baseball fans,

1036
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 3: as sports fans, you just as humans. I want to

1037
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 3: watch a time to do more things. Yes, so seeing

1038
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 3: him not get the opportunity to do things, I do

1039
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 3: agree with Wayne in that sense. Yes, it does suck

1040
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 3: for us. The fans.

1041
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: That's why it's like less of a media marvel more

1042
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: of a baseball take that has been going around.

1043
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 2: This one is for sure a media marvel.

1044
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 1: Shout out Ratios on Twitter, ce j Nikowski, Atlanta Braves

1045
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: TV color analysts.

1046
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 2: I believe former Major league pitcher as well.

1047
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: Uh did the meme where it's we should have the

1048
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: automatic runner at second base in extra innings in the postseason.

1049
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: And while I love that in the regular season, boy

1050
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: could I disagree more about it in the postseason.

1051
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 3: Absolutely fucking not. I can't even believe, like an older

1052
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 3: school guy Likenszkowski would even say something like this. It

1053
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 3: feels like crazy take. And he also didn't he didn't

1054
00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 3: do the regular link in meme. See he did the

1055
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 3: one like I think it might have been like his

1056
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 3: own face transposed over the top of it. Did he

1057
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 3: ai put a face?

1058
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 2: Hey?

1059
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 8: What is that?

1060
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 3: That's some saying. It creeped me out initially just because

1061
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 3: of that, but also the take is abominable. It's one

1062
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 3: of the worst takes I've truly ever seen in my life.

1063
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 3: And I was watching that game on Monday. The last

1064
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 3: thing I was thinking about was really hope this game

1065
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 3: ends faster for something that it's not deserved, which is

1066
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 3: the ghost runner.

1067
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: Also, there is something to be said though it feels

1068
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: like the players almost forget how to play extra innings

1069
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 1: though without that guy on second base because the amount

1070
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: of innings where it's like they just can't get.

1071
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 8: A run in.

1072
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: And also a good reason as to why it's so

1073
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: perfect in the regular season, because an eighteen game or

1074
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: an eighteen inning game in the regular season, it kills

1075
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: your weak you can ruin your season.

1076
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 3: I mean it almost did that for these two seas.

1077
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 3: It almost it's going to that for the Dodgers right now.

1078
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 3: But just like the way that these pitchers had to

1079
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 3: get stretched in that game, like to do that in

1080
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 3: July against the Nationals would be horrible.

1081
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: Something that really it's like almost one of those where

1082
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,720
Speaker 1: it's like, I just we want to lose. A loss

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Speaker 1: in the eleventh inning would be better than maybe winning

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Speaker 1: in the eighteenth.

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Speaker 3: You could be like ruining guy's careers like that too.

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Speaker 3: It's the last guy in your bullphen you came up

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Speaker 3: that day. Like if Dom Hamill was just sitting there

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Speaker 3: in the bullpen, he winds up throwing eighty eight pitches,

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Speaker 3: Like in that extra ending game and then he pulls

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Speaker 3: something like that could just be it like it's also

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Speaker 3: it's done something special. Now, if I think these baseball

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Speaker 3: playoff similar to what happened in hockey when they developed

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Speaker 3: a shootout because hockey wanted some joy and on the

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Speaker 3: hockey shootout is again the most fun things in sports.

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Speaker 3: But I'm not a hockey purist. I was a hockey purist,

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Speaker 3: I would say this ship is lame, probably would hate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we have the same ILK.

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Speaker 2: It's like soccer too. I fucking love pks.

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Speaker 1: Are sick, like, oh my god, we're gonna get goals

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Speaker 1: for the first time ever in this fucking sport.

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Speaker 3: I got some English people in my life and they're like,

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Speaker 3: wait a second, this game can't end in the tie.

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Speaker 3: I was like, no American, no ties in America, but

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Speaker 3: for this, And then when hockey gets to the playoffs

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Speaker 3: you get real overtime, You're.

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Speaker 1: Like, oh yeah, this is this is this is bald

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Speaker 1: the guys who are like literally like moving at like

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Speaker 1: a snail's pace and they're like dying out here, but like.

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Speaker 3: This is a man sport. And then you can feel

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Speaker 3: the two in this game where these hitters look like

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Speaker 3: death getting up there every single time, Like Eric Lau

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Speaker 3: was just saying, you give, by the grace of God,

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Speaker 3: let me get this next person out, and it's just

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Speaker 3: you get a hero born, like we'll climb, like it's

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Speaker 3: fun to go through this stuff. But you're absolutely we

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Speaker 3: don't want baseball games to end. We only have a

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Speaker 3: few innings left the season. Season Nikowski wants it to end.

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Speaker 3: I hope both the next two games go thirty six innings.

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Speaker 3: I do not want this end me too. That'd be great, dude.

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Speaker 1: Do us some great content too over on the wind Up,

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Speaker 1: which you guys should subscribe to link in the description otherwise.

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Speaker 1: I think that's it for this episode. Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: for listening, Thank you for watching. Make sure you're subscribed

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Speaker 1: to mets Up. Make sure if you're listening to us

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Speaker 1: at the podcast Spotify, Google, he drops the rating, he

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Speaker 1: drops the review, and get downloaded the podcast.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: A lot of content coming at you once the off

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Speaker 1: season officially gets started out on Monday, so be ready

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Speaker 1: because you guys know, we like to eat in the

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Speaker 1: off season.

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Speaker 2: And that's it. Follow James on social.

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Speaker 3: Media at James Sean.

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Speaker 1: I'm draftneck mark with the sea wheell. Catch you guys

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Speaker 1: on Monday for our first off season episode.

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Speaker 2: Keep an eye out for it.

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Speaker 3: Peace out, guys, go Mets.

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Speaker 4: Love and then the Loves

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Speaker 8: And the loves