WEBVTT - Mets Lose Series to Phillies, More Carlos Mendoza Firing Fallout, David Stearns Future | 582 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:04.600 We've got a big episode for you guys. Mets just 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.760 wrapped up a series with the Phillies. You're gonna get 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.120 about ten minutes fifteen minutes of talking about actual baseball, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.280 and then the rest of this podcast is gonna be 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:17.600 talking about Carls Mendoza's firing. The media. We're media marveling media. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:22.160 It's just it's a overarching media, media marvel little bit 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.079 of Eric Schavez podcast. We're gonna do a live episode 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.600 of that for you guys tomorrow, So if you want 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.440 to see that, we're gonna literally live watch and give 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.600 our thoughts and opinions live as we see it. We'll 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.720 talk about some of the clips that we've seen. David Sturtz, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.320 I mean, some way, somehow, this Mets world is a mess, 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.839 and I'm gonna tell you something crazy, James. I'm so 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.319 back into watching the Mets now because now that it's 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.400 like such a circus in the craziest way possible, and 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.880 we are, what it seems like, committed to selling and rebuilding. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.720 Now it's fun season. Now. I'm just watching for twenty twenty. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.560 Seven, fantastic season. I was glued to the game on Sunday. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.720 You and I were at good friend's wedding on Saturday. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.680 Congratulations to Alex and Debb talking about stub how much 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.640 more we were, how excited we were to do this 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.559 podcast tonight just because of how much stuff happened. Can't 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.440 you believe how much stuff has happened in the twenty 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.440 six hours since we even had that conversation. But it's 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.479 so much and crazy that Sunday was a baseball game 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.520 where there is a lot to talk about. Their game 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.440 was tons of stories. We got great pitching performances from 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.000 Zach Thornton and Christian Scott on Well, I guess great. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.640 It's a stretch for Scott and Saurday, but for very 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.920 great performance both in Friday and Saturday. But it was 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.120 the baseball was fun and everything else. Right now, I'm 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.639 so addicted to all the toxic sludge I can't stop. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.960 Yeah again, we will be doing a full episode pressing 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.720 to the space bar to play with our faces next 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.800 to Eric Schovis and whoever the hell his host is. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.399 We're gonna live react to that for a video for 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.800 you guys on Tuesday, so make sure you are subscribed 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.960 to bet Stuff for that audio. I don't know how 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:46.840 it's gonna do, but just just stick around. You'll be 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.319 able to hear it. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.240 I guess we'll be able to hear erk Schovis the 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:50.760 whole thing and us reacting to it. I got halfway 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.400 through watching it tonight and I was a quite a second. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.280 We should do this live, We should let everyone hear 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.160 our reactions. But it's insane. Again, let's rip the baseball 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.920 stuff off firs. Let's do it Sunday, a classic infuriating 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.880 Mets game from this season, whereas you had literally not 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.080 a math guy, one billion chances to score off of 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.480 Jesus Lazardo and the Philly bullpen, and you couldn't come 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.800 through in any way, shape or form. You had a 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:17.080 horrific inning from Tobias Myers. You had one horrible pitch 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.799 from code I Sango, who lo Is Thera by a 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.760 full run today, which is crazy because five in two runs. Great, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.720 great move by saying it touched one hundred miles an hour, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.520 but just that fat pitch to Kyle Schwarber, and then 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.640 again it was fourteen left on base. I'll get the 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.520 exact numbers right now, but I think it was two 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.480 for twelve with runs to scoring position. It was if 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.040 there wasn't so much extracurriculars happening with this Mets team. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.440 You'd be like, this was just another loss, exactly two 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.440 for sixteen runs of scoring position, fourteen guys left on base. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.520 It was the fourth inning when you had Bishett and Wagonman. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.720 Then it was the fifth inning when Lazarela was running 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.760 on fumes again with the righties coming up. It was 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.880 so annoying not to be able to punch through against 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:53.440 lazarre though. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.480 Yeah, it was insane because he did not have good 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.960 stuff at all. He had zero control. He was it 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.360 felt like on the back seat, like every single time 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.799 Mets had so many runners on. We had some really 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.360 good at bats too, like Brett Baty's been future, but 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.000 he walked three times in this game. He had some 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:08.639 great at bats in this one. He had some bad 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:09.640 at bats in this one. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:10.200 Really bad one. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.240 Yeah, one really bad one. I mean, this is what's 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.560 gonna happen with this Mets team. Again. We are fully 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.919 committed to this team's gonna stink the rest of the season. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.640 So it's not even something that I can get mad about. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.120 I'm trying to look at this roster and look at 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.400 the performances and honestly, just put each player in a 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.680 vacuum and see what we get. And there are some 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.560 encouraging things, there's some discouraging things, and like Ryan Marisio's 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.519 play really discouraging. That's not something that's really seeming like 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.160 it's gonna get any better anytime soon. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:36.360 And he had maybe one of. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.240 The worst at bats we've seen in a very long time. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.960 Oh very bad. I'll walk you guys through that one 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.680 right now. That was the eighth inning when the Mets 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.440 put together a rally. The start off with the nice, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.120 tough Luise Terrentz walk off, Ryan Kirkering bench flies out, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.120 and then you can kind of feel the way that 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:52.960 Ryan Kirkering and the Phillies were very aware that they 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.000 just couldn't pitch to want Sola Bobachette yep, walk them 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.320 both very much avoiding them. Bashett took four pitches out 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.440 of his own, just missed a hangar, and he took 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.360 four pitches out of his own after that, then you 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.920 have one out and the bass is loaded with Ronni 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:10.720 Marizio and Franciscoualverrez up and Ryni Marisio after Ryan Kirkering 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.680 hedro throwing eight consecutive balls, nine consecutive balls to start 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.680 that at bat, he throws a high fastball and Ryan 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.760 just pops it up and it probably would have been 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.839 called a strike. But in that situation, is still saying Ryan, Mriss, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.120 young player, you have to take a strike. Bass is loaded, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.880 one run game. You are not exactly a prolific baseball. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.200 You have to And then franciscau Aalverz comes up next, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.479 and after he takes a first pitch ball, then he 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.440 takes then he takes a strike, then he whiffs. It 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.400 takes two Mammot swings the balls in the zone where 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.880 a single wins the game a home run. You feel great, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.359 but like it was a very classic situation where Frintis 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.040 guiver Is still is not playing to the scoreboard. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.000 No, he's trying to do way too much. And the 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.840 Mets young players in general are just trying to do 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.719 too much. Even Ronnie Marisio. It's like they don't have 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.640 an ab swing. And that's something that we've talked a 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.560 lot about with guys that are the best hitters in 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.680 the league, that are successful constantly. Yes, we want power 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.840 out of Jan Soto, we want home runs. We wanted 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.520 to put the ball in the air, do all those things. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.960 But Wansto very much has an AB swing, and you 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.840 even saw it against was a Kyle back Is. I 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.880 think he got his hit single to right field. Those 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.000 were B swings. It's a tough at bat for him, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.000 a lefty side armed submarine guy who throws from behind 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.000 your back. He just bloops one into right field. A 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.440 nice little piece of hitting on his B swing. These 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.480 other Mets hitters, part of the reason we haven't seen 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.080 them take a step forward is because yes, Alphorism Maurice, 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.200 who have the crazy pop, the power, we know all 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.560 about it. But they have no ability to not take 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:30.240 that swing. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.200 It seems like and again somehow, well that really infuriated me. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.560 There was also the situation where Brett Batty and this 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.640 became a big talking point, but with two outs and 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.800 two runners on second and third in the seventh he 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.920 got again. This is after Mariso and Alfarez struck out 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.000 to begin this inning off of Jose Alvarado. Brett Baty 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:52.520 gets the play appearance against Jose Alvarado and everyone SMI 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.680 kept panting to Francisco Lindor in the dugout. It was 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.880 very obviously wasn't available. The plan Francisco Lindor has come 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.520 up and play two out of three day. Of course 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.039 that's the plan. If they rushed him back. We know 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.480 they rushed him back, we know he wasn't available. Still 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.200 very annoying to watch the situation where Brett Baty's completely 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.360 overpowered by Jose Alvarado and the camera keeps going to 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.120 Francisco Lindor, who's not coming into the game. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.680 Yeah, I've seen both sides. I get it, Like, why 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.279 is Lindor up if he's not ready to play every day? Also, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.680 then why did the Mets panic if they're clearly not 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.720 really focused on becoming a playoff team the rest of 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.719 the year. So what's the reason to get Francisco Lindor 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:26.560 back so quickly? 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.480 Well, I think the opposite. Actually, I think you'd rather 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.400 him play two games by the three in City Field 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.080 than Syracuse. Oh, I that's panic, that's I'm trying to win. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.800 Yeah, I agree with you. I would I would rather 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.799 see this too. But it does suck that the Mets 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.960 this year have found a way almost every single game 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.040 this season to not play with a full twenty six man. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.680 Roster, yes, always five an absolute way to do that 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.359 but again somehow, in some way, the sequence in this 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.640 game that pissed me off the most, I think came 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.800 in the fourth inning when so Though and bascheck it 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.200 on to start the inning, and you have the lefty 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.280 crushers allegedly back to back to back against Hayesusle's who 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.040 again came into the start without much, even though he 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.279 did hold the Mets almost scoreless over his five innings 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.040 of work. And similar to no Ay, swing beats swing, 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.120 Eric Wagaman comes up there just taking hacks, yeah, and 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.240 then versus g Alvers comes up again, hacks again. Fourth inning, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.560 Shore take your hacks. But you in a situation where 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.040 we have a guy in the ropes and Mark Fianto's 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.160 comes up and just has such an unbelievably bad so 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.160 bad it's it's a frustrating. We're and playing third Bass 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.960 hasn't played third base all your plays third base twice 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.040 in three games. You know what that is? 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.360 Right, Try to trade him, that's totally. Hopefully someone sees 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.480 that he can just stand at third base and not 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.559 be Rafael Devers and they'll they'll take him for again 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.360 a seventeen year old in the DSL. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.480 And then again once you do have those are on 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.040 the ropes again. The following inning is last inning of work. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.480 Bo comes up with a guy in scoring position. It's 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.160 so she's still down three to one, and he just 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.040 again he loses all semblance of approach. Everything is got 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.320 swings the four consecutive pitches to strike out, and then 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.240 Wagaman comes up and he's a lazy flatball center that 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.320 ends that threat as well. It's just it's just frustrating 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.800 how the approach which can leave these guys on a 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.080 moment's know this and you could blow those opportunities. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:05.080 You know who rocks though? 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.240 Who aj Ewing the best? 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.400 He's so good, what a the hood baseball player he is. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.960 And what's funny is he's still struggling insane against lefties 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.720 like he is under the Mendoza line. I believe batting 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.320 average wise against lefties. I liked what Andy Green said 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.920 about getting aj Ewing reps against lefties. It's something that 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.960 he's going to have to earn to play into more. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.160 Based on what he saw as a Padres manager when 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.440 they went up against the Dodgers with guys like Bellinger 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:29.960 and Munsey and all that he goes. You have to 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.800 earn those at bats when given the opportunity, prove that 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.040 you can. Obviously he came into the game against the righty. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.600 But man like two seventy nine, three sixty seven eighty 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.439 one for aj Ewing so far, and what he has 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.480 one hundred and forty seven at bats, so he's like 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.079 one hundred and sixty played appearances. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.160 Dude's a damn good ballplayer. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.160 I know he has to earn him, but I want 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.080 to see him play every day. I know by've all 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.000 in this game using him coming off the bench. Once 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.960 you get to the sixth inning, he improves your defense 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.640 and he can come in to face the rights. Immediately 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.079 smacks a home run off of Chase Sugart and that's 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.959 his name, right, yeah, shit end shout out, Andy Green. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.880 You knew when to take Tyrone Taylor out. You don't 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.880 get that bad against righty. It doesn't matter what time 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.559 of the game it is. That's why we have aj Ewing. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.120 Same thing with Mark Vientos and then Jared junk struck 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:12.520 out in that bad and they got hit by a pitch. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.520 Cherry Young had a weird game. But you don't let 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.679 these guys play against right He's they're interface lefties now 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.600 Ray anders in try and get the advantage, and that 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.080 inning is what swung the game momentarily. That sixth inning 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.200 when we went to the bench, we got a hold 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.280 of it and then again similarly Chef making out to 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.839 end that inning. But you can't get hit every single 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.439 time up. And then the Sanka stuff is annoying too, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.559 because when he came in in the fifth, you're like, oh, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.880 this is stuff, like you're sitting here, I'm seeing hundreds 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.800 like this is really fun, especially after that Tobias may 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.840 Is third where it was just with two outs, there 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.360 was no bear down whatsoever, missed every single spot callor 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.360 was terrible, Like it was very annoying, but split the 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.440 right in his own again it was I don't know. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.040 The Marschaf bat was a really good battle and the 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.600 bomb hit was clock boom. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.199 It was just knocked that split it right the other way. Yeah, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.600 it was just it was the lack of bear down 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.760 that frustrated with Tobias Myer. But I don't I have 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.880 trouble blaming Tobias Myers for anything because of how much 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:04.880 we've moved him around this year. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.920 Yeah, we're now stuck with a guy that he's not 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.800 stretched out to be a starter, but he's not in 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.400 a short enough situation to go one hundred and ten percent. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.199 So now you just have a pitcher that's gonna go 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.200 a couple of innings and not have his best stuff. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.880 Ever was the Sanga thing where he settled in really 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.360 well into this game. He fought harder than the six 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.280 to get it. That was magician Sanga back. Yes, when 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.080 they're second and third to start the inning, and then 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.319 you don't give up a run. I was like, Oh, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.439 this is actually the guy that I would like to 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.319 see right now, Goes and again pumping a hundred Goes. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.240 Fork looked really good again because the fastball is one hundred, 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.160 you could throw in his own it's nice. But the 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.800 one fastball he shouldn't have thrown in the zone was 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.439 the pitch to Kyle Schwarbur when he was Fork Fork Fork. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.920 And at that point you never want to say I'm 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.000 okay walking to the guy because Bryce Harper's on deck, 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.320 But in that situation, you just know he's the one 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.199 that can hurt you. You just stole the momentum back 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.600 in this game, just not an opportunity, especially as his 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.920 loss he was trickling down to throw a fastball on 0:10:57.920 --> 0:10:58.280 the zone. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.960 Also Kyle Schwarber and saying, Senga's try to challenge him 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.120 with the fastball a bunch. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.640 It doesn't the worst baby. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.680 Yet you're not beating Kyle Schwarb with the fastball, not 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.040 being brest harder with the fastball. Probably not the guys 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:09.880 to use that pitch on. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.560 No, But yeah, I still like the way that the 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.720 pitching was deployed in this game. Because the saying is 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.080 going to be on the roster, you have to find 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.280 ways to do that. But again, that fastball dropped three 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.360 miles an hour between his first sitting and his last stitning. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.760 So maybe that's also a lesson to us that maybe 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.800 he just shouldn't even get eighty pitches. Maybe he should 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.360 be a sixty pitch guy, because you didn't. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.000 He's in the bullpen now, be still acting like he 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.800 has a start of this workload getting to the eighty pitches. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.160 I don't know. Whatever whatever happens, I'm sure we're gonna 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:33.600 screw it up. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.760 But did you hear the comments from code I about 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.360 what's going on with him pitching wise? He said a 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.960 lot of it is mental that Mentally, he's struggling, and 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.080 I'm like, God, Like, he's self aware. It's good. But 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.160 at the same time, he's like, what I try to 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.960 throw strikes? I can't when I go out there and 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.480 I just pitch. That's why I'm throwing strikes. So do that, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.360 do that, do that, do that. But he's struggled with 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.520 the mental side of it, and that's why he's like, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.760 apparently you see him looking up to the gods again, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.400 look for answers because he's mentally in such a blender 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:04.000 right now. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.840 I mean, that freeze frame of the Schwarburg home run 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.800 was classic. And we're we're over ten minutes now talking baseball, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.760 so it's rap fifteen. Let's wrap up the rest of 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.040 baseball in three minutes. I want to talk Friday because 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.400 Zach Thorton was awesome. I didn't think they should have 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.920 sent him back down. I think so Weeda don't like 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.040 that at all. But I really like the way he 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.040 uses color against the hitter's from both sides of play. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.400 The Phillies don't platon very much, so it kind of 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.680 shows you how a picture's going to approach each handedness. Yes, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.120 and used used that color early. He used that color late. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.800 It was a total weapon for him. He got tons 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.360 of first pitch strikes. I love the fact that he 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.720 got smacked in the mouth first three batches of the game, Turner, Schwarber, Harper, Bank, Bank, Bank, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.120 three hits, bearing down on you, Jerry Young makes a 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.360 nice diving play. I think that was on Boone or Marsh, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.880 I can't remember who. But Thornton got really comfortable after that. Again, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.920 mixed speed. He threw one change up and he got 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.880 a nasty whiff on it. I think that was from 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.160 from Harper, That went from Bow I remember exactly. Keith 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:57.640 was like, whoa, I know he had that. He only 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.760 wond up through and won the whole game. But I 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.720 like the bones of Zach Thorton. I think he could 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.240 definitely be the new David Peterson complimentary wise, like when 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.880 David petersmon was good, but that was I was very, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.080 very very impressed with how he responded after that first inning. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.760 Yeah, I really couldn't believe they send him back down. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.200 Six innings, five hits, one walk. Wondered to run seven 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.280 k's against the Phillies. That feels feels like a really 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.319 good outing. He he went toe to toe with Zach Wheeler, 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.640 one of the best pitchers in baseball that deserves one 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.199 more go. He should have won because in the first inning, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.560 Derek Hale, who walks into city field and the ghost 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.360 of Tory Hunter takes over his whole fucking body. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:31.840 I don't know how he makes these catches against us 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.800 every single time. That was one of the best catch 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.240 I've ever seen. I couldn't even believe it. So they 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:35.559 got his. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.520 Whole fucking arm above the wall. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.960 Wheeler looked like he'd never seen something like that in 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.319 his life. Sola was back in the doug out the 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.240 second happen, looking like how could that be real? But 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.240 then after that, like again it's it's Zach Wheeler, John 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.040 durand the ninth inning difficult to muster up offense against them. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.079 Can't blame them, wish it what they got different. Yes, Saturday, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.640 Christian Scott return. Mets are eight and two Christian Scott 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:55.199 games this year. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.040 Yeah, I mean, and he didn't even necessarily have his 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.480 best stuff for give him, like, give him length, which 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.760 is normally what you need. But Mets win when Christian 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.199 Scott's on the mountain, that's for sure. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.760 And that fastball is just zippy, like he's getting it 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.160 up to ninety eight and then he's doing at the leathers. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.080 Wasn't that what Andy Green? Andy Green said, Christian Scott 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.080 was like the first pitcher in the Miners that I 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.800 fell in love with in the Mets organization because you 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.760 see that fastball and you're like, his kid's gonna be 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:17.400 really good. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.160 There was also a really nice He was able to 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.040 work the color much more to lefties than he was 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.000 doing before going down the ange list. That's something to 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.280 watch with Christian Scott and now moving forward because again 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:28.960 similar to we're just talking about with Thorton, maybe they 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.120 saw it with Thornton. There were like this team's color susceptible. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:32.880 He was starting that color early, he mixed in some 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.680 colors late. He was getting swings and misses with it 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.080 like it was, and that fastball is just it starts 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.320 the whole drink together. That pitch is unbelievably nasty when 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.400 he's locating it. Really like Christian Scott happy he's back 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.840 and healthy. Small things great too. Papin's unbelievable, but again 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.560 probably left Mintern a little bit too long because then 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.880 he couldn't pitch like the updown from Winter. Again, we 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.480 didn't we hadn't taken the lead yet by that point. 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.400 We just kind of rallyed just after he left the game, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.520 but then he didn't get to come in when we 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.200 needed the left say they want to get a full workload. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:02.760 So everyone talking about they should have taken out. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.000 Where was Rayley really threw a back to back with 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.040 forty pitches like three days ago, so I think they 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:09.680 said they were trying to avoid him, But again, I 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.800 think this is stuff we were talking about before. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.600 I think they wanted saying it to get somewhere near 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.560 seventy five pitches. Yeah, so I don't think there's even 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.360 consideration of him not facing Schwarbur and that truthfully and 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.520 love the sequence on Saturday with the abs challenges Wagons 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.680 my god, yes, just owning the home play Umpire and 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.080 the home play Umpire being like openly like moody about 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.880 it and then still losing. Yeah, because the umpires are idiots. No, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.240 that that bullpen looked nasty. Aj Ewing's awesome, Carson benj 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.440 awsoen Wance. So the great game, Lindor had great game 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.720 like it was, that was the game where you actually 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.800 feel happy. Probably also us feeling happy for a friend 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:40.320 getting married. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:41.120 It was a good day. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.600 Best man, yeah, best man Mark gave a good speech. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.520 Libations were moving like it was. We were like, this 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.720 is fun baseball. Then Sunday gets kind of swept away 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.800 from you. But hit the fifteen minutes. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:56.680 Yes, people, dehydration sucks. Quints electrolyte stick packs to the rescue. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.800 I order them, I use them all of the time. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.960 Somebody who may or may not have had some adult 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.040 beverages in their life. The next day, you know what flavor? 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.320 I like watermelon, and I don't like watermelon. I'll go 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.040 raspberry and it helps me to get my citrus salt in. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.400