WEBVTT - BREAKING: Andy Green is Mets Full-Time Manager | 620 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:09.900 Wow. 0:00:10.260 --> 0:00:12.180 We've got breaking Mets news. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.420 Andy Green, officially the full-time manager of the New York Mets. 0:00:16.500 --> 0:00:19.120 Shout out Chelsea Janes, who I think broke the news 0:00:19.340 --> 0:00:23.460 on a three-year deal. No longer interim. Andy Green's going 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.500 to be the New York Mets manager, hopefully for a 0:00:25.620 --> 0:00:27.860 very long time. And of course, me and James are 0:00:27.910 --> 0:00:30.800 going to talk about it. Give us your, well, give us, 0:00:31.140 --> 0:00:33.830 give you guys our opinions. I'm stumbling on who's giving who, 0:00:33.870 --> 0:00:35.269 but yeah, we're going to give you guys our opinions 0:00:35.470 --> 0:00:37.470 before we get going into it. Make sure you are subscribed. 0:00:37.729 --> 0:00:39.250 Big shout out to all the members who get access 0:00:39.270 --> 0:00:41.220 to the videos early. And if you're listening to us, 0:00:41.290 --> 0:00:44.850 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, drops a ring, drops a review, download, subscribe. 0:00:44.909 --> 0:00:47.620 Shout out everyone driving home right now listening to us 0:00:47.950 --> 0:00:51.300 instead of WFAN because you want to hear real ball talk. James, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.120 you texted me. I didn't even know. And I was 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:55.620 pumped as soon as I saw it. I was like, 0:00:55.700 --> 0:00:58.680 Andrew Green, what? Instead of getting hired, I'm loving this move. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.590 I like this move a lot. I mean, just I 0:01:01.630 --> 0:01:04.880 think some people are. I think right now it's kind 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:06.479 of in vogue to be extra negative in the Mets 0:01:06.500 --> 0:01:10.550 world right now. People are like, oh, the guy's 37, 38. 0:01:10.540 --> 0:01:12.620 You think that's good enough to be manager? Yeah, I 0:01:12.660 --> 0:01:13.840 actually do, based on the way at the beginning of 0:01:13.860 --> 0:01:15.720 the season. I think that's exactly good enough to be manager. 0:01:15.740 --> 0:01:18.160 It's more so than looking at the record, looking at 0:01:18.180 --> 0:01:19.860 the talent on the team, which hasn't been very good 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.059 for the second half anyway. There's a feeling you get 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.819 from Andy Green that it's just the game isn't moving 0:01:24.900 --> 0:01:27.640 too fast. He handles the media well. He says the 0:01:27.700 --> 0:01:30.340 things that I want to hear a manager say in 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.429 the modern game, especially over this stretch where Winning hasn't 0:01:34.450 --> 0:01:36.910 been paramount in the Mets world. It hasn't been the focus. 0:01:36.930 --> 0:01:39.690 It shouldn't have been the objective over the last two 0:01:39.730 --> 0:01:42.060 months when the season's been over. So I do like 0:01:42.090 --> 0:01:45.680 the things he's talked about in pushing players, focusing on development. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.880 Those are the kinds of things that we want a 0:01:47.940 --> 0:01:51.040 modern manager to be thinking about, be cerebral in that 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.780 kind of sense. And he seems to have that locked down. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.680 It seems like the players have really taken to him. 0:01:55.740 --> 0:01:57.320 It kind of felt like a no-brainer. It was just 0:01:57.340 --> 0:01:58.520 about Andy wanting to do it. 0:01:58.850 --> 0:02:01.850 I think the Mets are what, like 23 and 19, 0:02:01.850 --> 0:02:04.370 I think, since the trade deadline, which has been a 0:02:05.690 --> 0:02:08.429 literally worse baseball team based on all the trades that 0:02:08.470 --> 0:02:10.870 the Mets made. And they're trying out guys and and 0:02:10.930 --> 0:02:13.410 not necessarily playing to win. And the Mets have still 0:02:13.450 --> 0:02:15.400 found a way to win. By the way, also, Mets 0:02:15.410 --> 0:02:17.130 had a super hard schedule in the second half and 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.460 they've done a great job with Andy Green. I think 0:02:19.500 --> 0:02:21.380 the main critique that I'm seeing from a lot of 0:02:21.419 --> 0:02:23.760 people before get going into why he was the right 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.080 choice is that they felt like there were better options 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.239 out there. And I'm seeing Alex Cora cited a lot. 0:02:28.300 --> 0:02:30.970 And to me, that is baffling for people to say, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.709 and honestly feels insanely tone deaf considering Alex Cora just 0:02:34.730 --> 0:02:36.850 got fired from the Boston Red Sox who had an 0:02:37.010 --> 0:02:39.770 absolute mess of a locker room and clubhouse and were 0:02:39.870 --> 0:02:43.940 massively underperforming. Chad Tracy steps in. It wasn't immediate, but 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.080 what do you know? The Red Sox have been one 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.120 of the best teams in baseball ever. since he stepped 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.579 in and it feels like they're playing a lot better 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.800 baseball and the vibes are a lot better the Mets 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.260 all these people love to run with how messy the 0:02:54.300 --> 0:02:56.340 clubhouse was the lack of leadership all this kind of 0:02:56.380 --> 0:02:59.520 stuff and the best option available is Alex Cora who 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.580 couldn't handle a messy clubhouse already I that one to 0:03:03.620 --> 0:03:04.780 me makes no sense. 0:03:05.220 --> 0:03:07.209 I also say this I haven't heard anything bad about 0:03:07.230 --> 0:03:09.010 the Mets clubhouse this year none of those stories have 0:03:09.030 --> 0:03:10.549 leaked out a lot of bad things about the play 0:03:10.570 --> 0:03:12.610 on the field that's been dog shit for sure and 0:03:12.630 --> 0:03:16.060 didn't Tracy also get his extension today he did yeah Yeah, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:17.980 it's a good day. Good day for interim managers. And 0:03:18.020 --> 0:03:19.980 also the Alex Cora thing. He's just definitely going to 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.720 be the Phillies manager. It seems like a pretty foregone conclusion. 0:03:23.820 --> 0:03:25.520 The other thing that's been cited as a negative for 0:03:25.540 --> 0:03:27.600 Andy Green, just to kind of bash those, and we're 0:03:27.620 --> 0:03:29.120 going to go through some more positives. We have some 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.359 player quotes coming out. Will Samorodical literally just dropped them. 0:03:33.220 --> 0:03:34.720 Kind of read it on the side as we're doing this, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.030 but it's about how poor Andy Green's teams were in 0:03:38.070 --> 0:03:39.630 San Diego when he was a manager there. He was 0:03:39.670 --> 0:03:40.300 well below. 0:03:40.210 --> 0:03:40.390 500. 0:03:40.390 --> 0:03:45.570 He was a. 274 and. 366 player. win-loss record in 0:03:45.630 --> 0:03:48.270 four years the Padres those teams are fucking awful those 0:03:48.310 --> 0:03:51.970 are terrible awful Padres teams and since then Andy Green 0:03:52.010 --> 0:03:53.630 was on a major league bench for a little while 0:03:53.910 --> 0:03:56.370 but the Cubs was that before just after the Padres 0:03:56.410 --> 0:03:57.690 we spent a lot of time in the front office 0:03:57.730 --> 0:04:00.440 since then this is very anecdotal this is very much 0:04:00.510 --> 0:04:03.520 me probably thinking like survivorship bias in my head but 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.120 like a lot of times even the other sports too 0:04:06.540 --> 0:04:08.840 you failed the first job You get the second one, 0:04:08.860 --> 0:04:11.120 you got a little bit more sense about how to 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.530 go about this. And when Andy Green got that Padres job, 0:04:13.770 --> 0:04:15.650 he was 38 years old. 38 years old. He could 0:04:15.670 --> 0:04:18.590 have been playing. He probably wish he was. But now 0:04:18.610 --> 0:04:21.089 at the same time right now, he seems more seasoned. 0:04:21.150 --> 0:04:23.790 And again, he has that front office sheen that I 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.640 do kind of like when a guy comes into the dugout. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.780 Alex Cora had that too when he got that job 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.340 with the Red Sox. I do think that's a really 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.860 valuable thing this day and age. And I think this 0:04:33.940 --> 0:04:37.300 Mets team, because of the lack of continuity we had 0:04:37.339 --> 0:04:39.260 last year that we were very critical of heading into 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:43.190 the season with keeping Mendoza, retaining, then hiring all these 0:04:43.250 --> 0:04:46.590 new coaches. I think this team desperately needed some continuity 0:04:46.630 --> 0:04:49.670 heading into next season. I think this accomplishes that at least. 0:04:49.850 --> 0:04:52.210 Yeah, that's something that we've talked about is just what 0:04:52.290 --> 0:04:54.610 felt like at times a disconnect between the front office 0:04:54.650 --> 0:04:58.860 and manager and even coaches and managers and just leadership. Like, okay, 0:04:58.980 --> 0:05:00.820 say what you want about the teams in San Diego 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.040 about Andy Green that he managed. They did not perform well. 0:05:04.140 --> 0:05:07.690 Also looking at the rosters, like you said, They were horrendous. Like, 2019, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.440 the rotation that the Padres had in the year that 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.760 he got fired was Joey Lucchese, Eric Lauer, Chris Paddock, 0:05:13.820 --> 0:05:17.510 Cal Quantrill, Denelson, Lemaitre, and Nick Margavicious. Almost all of 0:05:17.550 --> 0:05:19.230 them are going to be playing for the Savannah Bananas 0:05:19.250 --> 0:05:20.630 within the next two years. 0:05:21.130 --> 0:05:22.070 So, like, it's not like. 0:05:21.990 --> 0:05:24.370 These are great teams. They had great offense, but they 0:05:24.410 --> 0:05:26.310 did not have great pitching. I'm not going to fully 0:05:26.350 --> 0:05:28.310 blame him for that. I also don't think he's a 0:05:28.510 --> 0:05:29.920 perfect manager by any means. 0:05:29.980 --> 0:05:30.270 I'm not. 0:05:30.860 --> 0:05:33.039 heaping the praises of him as if you know you 0:05:33.060 --> 0:05:36.240 brought in these world series winning managers but based on 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.979 what we have seen for andy green's time as the 0:05:39.060 --> 0:05:42.980 new york mets manager in 2026 he has clearly done 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.919 a much better job with this roster with less than 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.660 the guy who was previously. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.760 Here and again to look at win-loss record i think 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.060 can be a bit reductive it's more of a feeling 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.810 thing like it feels like the game is moving at 0:05:55.890 --> 0:05:58.130 a pace for andy remore it's good it feels like 0:05:58.529 --> 0:06:00.670 there's more synergy between Andy Green and these other coaches 0:06:00.690 --> 0:06:03.430 and the veteran players. The decision-making makes sense. 0:06:03.510 --> 0:06:06.510 We're not seeing Alex Carrillo, the first guy out of 0:06:06.529 --> 0:06:08.330 the pen out of the All-Star break, in a close 0:06:08.370 --> 0:06:11.740 baseball game. We're not seeing those things. And actually, he 0:06:11.779 --> 0:06:14.240 has an opportunity to be even sharper when the Mets 0:06:14.260 --> 0:06:16.740 are playing games that they care about winning every single 0:06:16.779 --> 0:06:19.060 time and not focused on development as much. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.680 So I'm excited to see what that looks like. Yeah, 0:06:21.700 --> 0:06:24.060 I felt like if we looked at a Puritan decision 0:06:24.100 --> 0:06:27.000 success index for Andy Green. I don't think it would 0:06:27.020 --> 0:06:28.380 be great just because, again, I think the Mets are 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.159 focusing on development. They're pushing guys for extra innings, giving 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.280 guys extra at-bats. Jeffrey Yon's got three innings. We're not 0:06:34.300 --> 0:06:35.960 focused on winning a game. We're focused on seeing what 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.080 guys can do, what guys can handle. And just some 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.599 notes here, one from Chelsea Janes and now first from 0:06:40.620 --> 0:06:43.120 Will Salmon. From his article directly, we know that Will's 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.240 very connected with his ball club. Some of the Mets' 0:06:45.260 --> 0:06:47.300 veteran players hoped for Green to stay on as the 0:06:47.339 --> 0:06:51.240 full-time skipper. They appreciated his communication, trust, and how he 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.220 handled the media. They saw him as a leader. 0:06:54.210 --> 0:06:56.789 So some of the veteran players in the Mets organization 0:06:56.850 --> 0:06:59.250 liked Andy Green. If I had to guess who those 0:06:59.290 --> 0:07:01.810 guys could be, hear me out, James. I'm going to 0:07:01.830 --> 0:07:05.210 throw out some crazy takes. Francisco Lindor wants Soto. 0:07:05.410 --> 0:07:08.049 Just a thought. I'm hoping there. There was the situation 0:07:08.070 --> 0:07:10.190 with Lindor and Mendoza where it felt like he kind 0:07:10.230 --> 0:07:13.280 of kind of got to make his own rules. I 0:07:13.300 --> 0:07:15.200 think maybe that's just going to always be the case 0:07:15.300 --> 0:07:17.480 with him here. With Soto, too, if Eric Chavez was 0:07:17.500 --> 0:07:17.980 telling the truth. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:18.220 Yeah. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.240 It seems like both those guys did. So maybe if 0:07:20.260 --> 0:07:21.960 they like him, maybe they do like that they're doing it. 0:07:21.980 --> 0:07:24.450 Or maybe they actually like being relatively held a bit 0:07:24.490 --> 0:07:27.530 more accountable. And it also can't be understated that the 0:07:27.570 --> 0:07:29.810 way that green has these relationships with the young players 0:07:29.870 --> 0:07:31.790 on this team from being in player development in this 0:07:31.870 --> 0:07:33.690 org for the last few years. And we had it. 0:07:33.750 --> 0:07:36.510 And also before we even go on, I totally forgot this. 0:07:37.070 --> 0:07:38.080 A ton of credit to your dad. 0:07:38.460 --> 0:07:38.700 Oh yeah. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.420 My dad called this early, super early. No one was 0:07:41.500 --> 0:07:43.400 on this ahead of Mark senior. Absolutely nobody. 0:07:43.620 --> 0:07:45.520 But that's been calling this since the beginning of the year. 0:07:45.540 --> 0:07:47.440 When I was calling for Carlos Mendoza, get fired at 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.980 the end of 2025. My dad's like, I think this 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.700 should be Andy green's job. That's going to be my 0:07:51.740 --> 0:07:54.980 outside call. no one's more on fire right now than, 0:07:55.260 --> 0:07:55.940 than big Mark. 0:07:56.300 --> 0:07:59.740 Yeah. But here's another one, another point here from salmon, 0:08:00.100 --> 0:08:02.360 even before moving to the dugout, green has strong relation 0:08:02.620 --> 0:08:06.510 relationships with the Mets, younger players, including standout rookies, Carson bench, 0:08:06.890 --> 0:08:10.210 Nolan McLean, AJ Ewing, after monitoring their respective ups and 0:08:10.230 --> 0:08:13.270 downs in the farm system, green felt comfortable in pushing them. 0:08:13.590 --> 0:08:17.130 We've also heard green speak about Jacob Reimer, Jonathan Santucci, 0:08:17.250 --> 0:08:19.750 other guys, he has relationships with who we expect to 0:08:19.790 --> 0:08:21.650 possibly part of this team next year, or maybe the 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.020 year after that. It's just, It feels very... it feels 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.820 like it just made too much sense not to happen. 0:08:27.140 --> 0:08:30.700 Yeah, and again, knowing how weird the manager market can 0:08:30.740 --> 0:08:34.000 be during any normal offseason, let alone an offseason where 0:08:34.020 --> 0:08:35.680 there's going to be a lockout and you're not going 0:08:35.700 --> 0:08:37.460 to be able to interview guys and find those guys 0:08:37.730 --> 0:08:40.160 in as much time as you normally would, I do 0:08:40.230 --> 0:08:42.610 think that this is a no-brainer. Honestly, the biggest shock 0:08:42.650 --> 0:08:45.110 of this all is that Andy Green wanted to be 0:08:45.130 --> 0:08:47.469 the manager. It felt like every single thing we've heard 0:08:47.510 --> 0:08:50.110 from him since taking this job was that he was 0:08:50.170 --> 0:08:52.510 not going to be the manager. You talked about it in, 0:08:52.530 --> 0:08:54.950 what was our last episode, about... You'd never heard so 0:08:54.990 --> 0:08:59.070 much about work-life balance before from two possible candidates. Was 0:08:59.110 --> 0:09:00.790 he just posturing to get a better deal? 0:09:01.350 --> 0:09:03.449 He definitely might have been, but also maybe we should 0:09:03.490 --> 0:09:05.570 have seen this writing on the wall. We were circling 0:09:05.610 --> 0:09:08.199 around the drain. We couldn't nail it when Beltran's comments 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.980 about it too, like throwing cold water on himself as 0:09:11.020 --> 0:09:12.860 the manager. We should be like, ah, maybe this does 0:09:12.900 --> 0:09:15.880 feel like anti-Green. Because again, it felt too easy. This 0:09:15.900 --> 0:09:18.020 is also, some people will like this comment. Most people 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.219 will hate this comment. This is a massive vote of 0:09:20.260 --> 0:09:24.110 confidence in the... continuity of this front office, this regime 0:09:24.130 --> 0:09:27.210 in general. This is, this is absolutely a David Stearns guy. 0:09:27.309 --> 0:09:29.150 David Stearns hired him to be part of his front office. 0:09:29.210 --> 0:09:32.260 And now what's Stearns contract left with the Mets? Two 0:09:32.300 --> 0:09:35.620 more years. Okay. So he basically, he's got, he basically 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:35.940 got them. 0:09:36.179 --> 0:09:37.680 He's got his guy and he's going to be here 0:09:37.700 --> 0:09:39.359 till the end of that contract is what that sounds 0:09:39.380 --> 0:09:39.740 like to me. 0:09:40.020 --> 0:09:42.059 Yeah. Stearns has two more years and Andy Green has 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:43.920 minimum two years at the helm, which is fair for 0:09:43.950 --> 0:09:45.589 a three-year deal. And if everything goes wrong in the 0:09:45.630 --> 0:09:48.250 next two seasons, again, they both get the chop and 0:09:48.309 --> 0:09:50.250 then we keep moving on. We do the whole thing 0:09:50.410 --> 0:09:52.670 over again, but this is, This is a modern manager. 0:09:52.710 --> 0:09:55.150 This guy played. He was in the front office. He 0:09:55.170 --> 0:09:56.309 was in the dugout. Then he went back in the 0:09:56.350 --> 0:09:58.590 front office. Now he's back in the dugout. Him and 0:09:58.610 --> 0:10:00.689 Stearns have a good relationship. The players like him. I 0:10:00.710 --> 0:10:03.270 got quotes here from Soto and Lindor too from Chelsea Janes. 0:10:04.010 --> 0:10:07.270 Which was? From Lindor. I have a lot of respect 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.010 for Andy. I think he's been good at the role 0:10:09.050 --> 0:10:11.400 that he's got right now. Not necessarily the role of 0:10:11.420 --> 0:10:13.500 managing because I didn't see this role this year for 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.280 him to manage. His role right now was come in, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.840 bring light, bring ownership, bring respect, bring accountability. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:19.300 Big. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.489 Succeed He succeeded at that. I love that. Yes, and 0:10:23.510 --> 0:10:26.390 then also here from, was this Soto or is this Lindor? 0:10:26.410 --> 0:10:28.730 I think this might be Lindor still. In-game stuff, plays 0:10:28.770 --> 0:10:30.290 all that stuff. He's made good moves, but I don't 0:10:30.330 --> 0:10:32.490 judge him on those things. I don't really care about that. 0:10:32.650 --> 0:10:34.500 He was put in here to bring more light to 0:10:34.510 --> 0:10:36.920 the players, to bring accountability, to bring the same basic goal. Yeah, 0:10:36.940 --> 0:10:39.560 basically the same goal. Bring accountability, bring respect, bring self-awareness. 0:10:39.900 --> 0:10:41.520 That's what he's brought to the role he's in right now. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.000 Team desperately needed that. And Soto, I think he's been good. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.360 And he has his personality. He's great. I feel like 0:10:48.380 --> 0:10:50.250 he's a guy who's on top of everything, pays attention 0:10:50.260 --> 0:10:52.380 to every single detail and stuff like that. I really 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.090 like that. Soto told SMY, he's been open with me 0:10:55.130 --> 0:10:57.430 and talking to me about a lot of stuff. Yeah, good. 0:10:57.710 --> 0:11:00.070 Good lip service for the two leaders to get this going. 0:11:00.170 --> 0:11:00.910 Great lip service. 0:11:00.950 --> 0:11:02.569 And me, I have to read between the lines. And 0:11:02.590 --> 0:11:04.209 it sounds like there might have been a lack of 0:11:04.270 --> 0:11:04.990 some of these things. 0:11:05.690 --> 0:11:07.449 I mean, we heard the Tommy Pham quotes way back when. 0:11:07.470 --> 0:11:09.230 That was a couple managers ago. 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Please support our show and tell them our 0:12:12.850 --> 0:12:13.450 show sent you. 0:12:14.330 --> 0:12:15.589 Yeah, I like it. 0:12:15.690 --> 0:12:18.710 It at least brings some stability to this team, especially 0:12:18.750 --> 0:12:21.900 because we know that Mendoza was dead man walking to 0:12:21.940 --> 0:12:24.000 start the year. Again, probably wasn't the best thing for 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.280 them to do was fire all his coaches around him 0:12:26.300 --> 0:12:27.000 and then keep him. 0:12:27.059 --> 0:12:28.800 Didn't really make sense. That's on David Stearns. 0:12:29.300 --> 0:12:32.160 But now these guys were, I'm sure, part of Andy 0:12:32.179 --> 0:12:34.819 Green helping bring them in as well. And seemingly, like 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.590 there's other things that we've seen with this team that 0:12:36.780 --> 0:12:39.390 have improved as well. The defense has gotten better since 0:12:39.450 --> 0:12:42.090 Andy Green has taken over. The at-bats have gotten better. 0:12:42.150 --> 0:12:43.730 The production from a lot of players. 0:12:43.530 --> 0:12:44.090 Have gotten better. 0:12:44.429 --> 0:12:47.390 So whether or not that is fully on Andy Green, 0:12:47.770 --> 0:12:49.130 or if that's more of a, I just did a 0:12:49.150 --> 0:12:51.720 video on my channel about how the Yankees lineup without 0:12:51.750 --> 0:12:53.900 Aaron Judge is so much worse, not because of missing 0:12:53.940 --> 0:12:56.099 his bat, but because of the boost he gives to 0:12:56.140 --> 0:12:56.940 everyone else around him. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:58.760 Maybe now all the coaches and the. 0:12:58.740 --> 0:13:01.960 Staff works more cohesively too with the players because there's 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:02.900 one clear voice. 0:13:03.660 --> 0:13:06.050 That's where I was going to get at. We hypothesized 0:13:06.150 --> 0:13:09.090 early this season from other conversations that we had that 0:13:09.170 --> 0:13:12.700 maybe there were conflicting voices in the Mets dugout early on. 0:13:12.740 --> 0:13:14.500 That was something that was working against this team with 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.880 all new coaches and a team that was very clearly 0:13:16.980 --> 0:13:20.920 not playing to their potential, not really utilizing maybe all 0:13:20.940 --> 0:13:22.900 of the talents they had in the room to the 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.939 best of their abilities, coaches, players, this and that. It 0:13:25.380 --> 0:13:27.160 seems like they have actually done that. This team feels 0:13:27.179 --> 0:13:29.319 like they've more so maximized what they've had over the 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.340 last few months. Again, it's not a good roster, and 0:13:31.380 --> 0:13:33.040 that's why it's still only 37-38 since Andy Green took over. 0:13:35.070 --> 0:13:37.870 maybe 38, 38 tomorrow. Most of you guys listen to this, 0:13:37.929 --> 0:13:39.810 but I don't know. It just feels like there's been 0:13:39.830 --> 0:13:41.890 a different feel with him. Like that, that Zach Thornton 0:13:42.050 --> 0:13:44.990 with the Yankees, leaving him out there. That felt just like, 0:13:45.050 --> 0:13:46.840 that felt like a cool manager move right there. I'm 0:13:46.860 --> 0:13:48.760 a cool manager move. That's me sound like a fucking idiot. 0:13:48.780 --> 0:13:51.580 But like, wow, you sound nuts. There's something, I don't know. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.819 There's something about that. That's a cool manager move. But like, there's, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.580 I don't know. Give your guy a chance to like 0:13:56.620 --> 0:13:58.990 prove you. It took like 20 seconds to like in, out. 0:13:59.070 --> 0:13:59.270 Good. 0:13:59.350 --> 0:14:01.740 Talk about it. Like, let's keep moving. It's just, Team 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.500 seems to ride for him. I bet they, like, kind 0:14:03.540 --> 0:14:05.500 of push this, too, maybe helping him change his mind 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.340 about Stephen Alex Cohen, probably paying him some good money 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:07.990 to do so as well. 0:14:08.450 --> 0:14:11.510 I think that there was definitely a conversation had that 0:14:11.610 --> 0:14:15.250 included Steve Cohen, David Stearns, Andy Green, and the two, 0:14:15.630 --> 0:14:18.530 the billion-dollar boys, Francisco Lindor and Juan Sobo. 0:14:18.910 --> 0:14:21.660 I like that name. The billion-dollar boys. That might be 0:14:21.700 --> 0:14:23.739 our new tagline here, the Billion Dollar Boys. The Billion 0:14:23.780 --> 0:14:24.180 Dollar Boys. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.300 I just came up with that on the fly. I 0:14:25.300 --> 0:14:27.120 feel pretty good that that rolled off the tongue so well. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.400 But I got to imagine that the meeting was with them, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.660 and it was, does this sound good? And I bet 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:32.420 you everybody agreed. 0:14:32.900 --> 0:14:34.800 With the Billion Dollar Boys. With the Billion Dollar Boys. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.870 But I'm very happy about it. I am not going 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.770 to argue with people on Twitter. That's going to be 0:14:39.790 --> 0:14:42.270 something I will not do about the people upset about 0:14:42.310 --> 0:14:44.250 hiring Andy Green. I won't fall for that bait. 0:14:44.290 --> 0:14:45.050 I normally do. 0:14:46.010 --> 0:14:48.370 But if it's not Alex Cora, who else did you 0:14:48.390 --> 0:14:51.360 guys want? Because how many times have we heard we 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.060 don't want a first-time manager? Carlos Beltran, technically second-time manager, 0:14:55.100 --> 0:14:57.380 first-time manager, though, if you preferred him, or if you 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.460 preferred Albert Pujols, or Yadier Molina, or any of these 0:15:00.540 --> 0:15:02.680 other abstract names that would have been thrown out there, 0:15:02.970 --> 0:15:04.060 did you want someone who was getting. 0:15:03.930 --> 0:15:07.150 Fired from teams this year? Yeah, probably not. Again, this 0:15:07.430 --> 0:15:09.930 just clearly makes the most sense for the continuity thing 0:15:09.970 --> 0:15:12.410 we keep talking about. Whether or not we all think 0:15:12.430 --> 0:15:14.450 the right people are in place right now, next year's 0:15:14.490 --> 0:15:16.450 team is probably better off if you just kind of 0:15:16.590 --> 0:15:19.270 keep things rolling. And this kind of... When the season 0:15:19.310 --> 0:15:22.370 completely got fucked. That's the best way I can describe 0:15:22.410 --> 0:15:24.290 it early in the season. This is the best thing 0:15:24.330 --> 0:15:26.610 that we could have hoped for. Get a grip. Get 0:15:26.690 --> 0:15:28.410 a real leader of men in here. Get a voice. 0:15:28.570 --> 0:15:31.390 And then carry any kind of positive momentum. I think 0:15:31.410 --> 0:15:33.630 the team mostly has done that over the last two months. 0:15:33.730 --> 0:15:35.390 And you can go into this offseason. It's going to 0:15:35.410 --> 0:15:38.220 be one of the weirder offseasons any of these players, executives, 0:15:38.250 --> 0:15:41.060 coaches will ever experience. And you feel like you're still 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.460 all on the same page at least to a degree. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.320 I'm going to leave the haters with two things to 0:15:45.340 --> 0:15:46.440 think about. One. 0:15:47.130 --> 0:15:50.500 If you are so against, right, the whole analytic movement 0:15:50.700 --> 0:15:52.380 and the David Sturge front office and all that kind 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.940 of stuff, right? I think Andy Green has done a 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.530 great job of being a mix of both. He has 0:15:57.570 --> 0:15:59.530 done a lot of feel things. He has also done 0:15:59.550 --> 0:16:02.310 a lot of things by the analytics book, what the 0:16:02.350 --> 0:16:05.000 front office would want. AJ Ewing's played plenty of games 0:16:05.020 --> 0:16:07.320 against lefties. Even Jared Young has played games against lefties. 0:16:07.340 --> 0:16:09.400 The numbers would tell you it's not a great decision, 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.460 but they're still doing it because they need those guys 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.500 to get that feel, or they were feeling that that 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.310 was the right decision in the time. Same thing with 0:16:15.350 --> 0:16:17.530 pinch hitting and pitching changes, all that kind of stuff. 0:16:17.550 --> 0:16:20.390 There's been a good mix there. Also, for credit for 0:16:20.470 --> 0:16:22.910