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Speaker 1: All right, Mets fans, instant reaction emergency episode. We technically

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Speaker 1: had an episode out earlier that was supposed to come

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Speaker 1: out earlier on YouTube but didn't. It's gonna be out tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Jesse Winker just signed with the New York Mets. I

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Speaker 1: buried the lead Jesse Winker back with the New York Mets,

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Speaker 1: s and ys reporting it's a one year, eight million

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Speaker 2: This is this is big news.

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Speaker 1: It's not necessarily because Jesse winkers back, but it's because

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Speaker 1: of what Andy Martino said, being that bringing Jesse Winker

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Speaker 1: back and the Mets are now moving on to Plan

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Speaker 1: B and expecting Pete Alonso to sign elsewhere. A lot

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Speaker 1: going on and what seems like a move that's not

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Speaker 1: that big now, Mark and I just got mister Crabs

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Speaker 1: mem for everyone else listening, because we were literally in

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Speaker 1: an interview with Lance Brastowski's going to m out maybe

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Speaker 1: in a week or two, just going over all Mets

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Speaker 1: pitching stuff, Mets prospect stuff, and then we got this news.

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Speaker 1: And then I was just scrolling on Twitter while it

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Speaker 1: was happening, and I was like, oh my god, the

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Speaker 1: pi Alonzo thing right there. So it's a lot to

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Speaker 1: tap right now. This is the truest interaction we've ever

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Speaker 1: had because we're literally just got off that and we

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Speaker 1: were instantly in another thing reacting right now. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I believe Andy Martino.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think I do.

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Speaker 1: I think this could be a Paulsive steal moment from

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Speaker 1: David Surns is. My my balls are bigger than yours.

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Speaker 1: But are we just being dumb? Are we being stupid?

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Speaker 1: Are we? Are we just not able to actually understand

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Speaker 1: the fact that pelons it might not be in the

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Speaker 1: Mets next year? And that's our problem. Like, I can't

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Speaker 1: tell if this is real because this has come right

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Speaker 1: after last night. Apparently the Mets told pe Alonzo decide

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Speaker 1: soon and then twelve like fourteen hours, seventeen hours hours

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Speaker 1: like soon happened. This was soon soon asleep on this

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Speaker 1: offer and then soon passed. And then that response came

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Speaker 1: out from Ken Rosenbald. The Blue Jays and other teams

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Speaker 1: are tet talking to Pee Alonzo. That's like all right,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Winker, one year, eight million dollars, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean it seems like more and more.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Pete really isn't just gonna be a Met. But

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Speaker 1: it goes down to this situation of again, who is

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Speaker 1: gonna sign Pete at the price that he wants, because

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Speaker 1: the Mets seemingly were the only team that would make

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Speaker 1: sense for the price point ish that he wants. But

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna be the Blue Jess, you're gonna pay

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Speaker 1: pe Alonzo all this money and not use that money

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Speaker 1: to try and give extra to Vlad Junior. Like that

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Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to me, Like, I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's probably if the Blue Jays have so much money.

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Speaker 1: The Blue Jess are one of the richest teams in baseball,

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Speaker 1: I know, but they didn't offer vladre you're anything even

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Speaker 1: close to what he wanted? Well, it seems like that

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Speaker 1: they're not even close. I think it seems like Vlad

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Speaker 1: is well, he's well on his way to the open market.

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Speaker 1: Nothing's gonna stop him doing that. I think the second one,

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Speaker 1: so his name of the god lines Blaid Junior is like,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be a pure free agent. People are

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Speaker 1: going to come to me and they're going to bid.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's really, really, really interesting that the

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Speaker 1: worthing that Andy Martinez used in his tweet about this

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Speaker 1: p Alonzo thing. The Mets have pivoted the Plan B

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Speaker 1: that Alonzo will sign elsewhere. That to me is not

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Speaker 1: him saying the Mets are out in Alonzo. The Mets

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Speaker 1: have moved on and that will I don't think that

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Speaker 1: literally will happen until he's on another team. But all

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Speaker 1: I think this is that the Mets continue to circle

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Speaker 1: the dream with Alonzo and are like, we want you

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Speaker 1: to sign a one year deals. That's where we are,

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Speaker 1: and we think it's not in your worst interest on

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Speaker 1: a one year deal too, and do this again after

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Speaker 1: hitting for you home runs, because you're gonna be hitting

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Speaker 1: behind Juan Solo for a year and he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: on first base in forty four percent of your play

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Speaker 1: the appearances. So then next year you're not gonna have

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Speaker 1: qualifying offer you can get more money, and like, if

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Speaker 1: the option is that or just spinning mediocrity for the

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Speaker 1: next five years of your life with the Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: like that, I don't know, Like truthfully, like I think

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Speaker 1: that right now, I would love to be like, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure right now pe Loanz's war room, like his cell

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Speaker 1: fire is happening. Everything's fine, everything's fine, Like it doesn't

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Speaker 1: feel like things are fine for Pete Alonzo. It feels

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Speaker 1: expect to be saying. Honestly, I felt like the Mets

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Speaker 1: need to have Pete Alonzo, but it seems like like

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Speaker 1: Jesse Winker signing weirdly, so much to do with this,

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Speaker 1: even though it also doesn't but like are they gonna

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Speaker 2: Like is that a possibility?

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Speaker 1: I mean, why not pick up the mists? Scott had

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Speaker 1: it breaks down? But Alce again, Like also, this just

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Speaker 1: seems like back to your take, like a Balls of

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Speaker 1: Steal moments from David Stearns where he's like, if you're

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Speaker 1: not taking this offer, like we're not. We're not playing

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Speaker 1: the Scott Boris game. We're not this is this season

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Speaker 1: is too important to wait until March to figure this

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Speaker 1: thing out. Because you have John Hamm and Joel Sherman

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Speaker 1: Andy Martino all within ninety seconds of each other using

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Speaker 1: the exact same language. The Mets are looking more seriously

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Speaker 1: the other options, the mess of resign, Jessey Winker, the

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Speaker 1: Perr have been moving on from the ped Alonzo like.

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Speaker 1: It seems like a very coordinated effect. I know, if

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Speaker 1: on Friday, it does seem like every single day all

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Speaker 1: this Pilanza stuff has been very, very well well thought out,

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Speaker 1: where it's like, oh, we're far apart. We're talking flat Junior,

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Speaker 1: like here's an ultimatum. The ped Alonso comes first with

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Speaker 1: the exclusive offer just to the Mets. None of the

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Speaker 1: stuff's an accent. This is all happening. It's a song

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Speaker 1: and dance between Sterns and Boris right now, and that's

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Speaker 1: just where we are. And I think there's even something

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Speaker 1: our answer is you're looking at other teams Okay, Jesse Winker,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. Let's start thinking about who the other guys are.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna look at other teams and you think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna give you a better offer, good luck, Bud, Like,

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Speaker 1: we're not doing it. It's it's making me feel things

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Speaker 1: a hard bone in my heart towards Pete Alonzo. Bone

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Speaker 1: in your own, my body, bone in my body, bone

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Speaker 1: I have a bad feeling in my heart, bone in

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Speaker 1: my body. I put the two together a classic mark.

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Speaker 1: But like, at the same time, it's like, dude, at

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Speaker 1: some point you have to like he has to take

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Speaker 1: control of this himself and be like, how do I

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Speaker 1: one more year? Like you said, Juan Soto's gonna be

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Speaker 1: on base forty four percent of the time, Lindor's gonna

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Speaker 1: So you're talking about two guys in front of you

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Speaker 1: to twenty percent of the time with your hitting, there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be no outs like this is that's that's a

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Speaker 1: dream scenario. And if he wants to be if he's

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Speaker 1: wants to be the highest paid first base in all time,

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Speaker 1: Like you said, I wish the best for him out

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles with the Angels, go play for the

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays. I hope you have a successful career. But

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Speaker 1: is that is that what Pete wants? Is he's just

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Speaker 1: chasing the money? That feels wrong. I'll I'll put two

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Speaker 1: hands up right now. I'll I'll never chastise an athlete

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Speaker 1: for chasing the money. You have a very limited window

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Speaker 1: in your life where you are one of the best

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Speaker 1: on earth at something. You should be looking for top

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Speaker 1: dollar as consistently as possible. Let's say like you have

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Speaker 1: a very small window. Smaller window when you're a chubby

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Speaker 1: first baseman to get paid the way you deserved. It's

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Speaker 1: even smaller window when you come up at what twenty

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Speaker 1: four years old, like pi Alonso did. So this there

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Speaker 1: probably is a fleeting feeling with Pete in his camp

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Speaker 1: about how much money he can actually earn his major

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like, are are you being are you

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Speaker 1: I think Pete loves the fame? I really do. I

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Speaker 1: think a big part of Pete's montra Pete' attitude, hope

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Speaker 1: is he loves this spotlight. This is it, dude, Like

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Speaker 1: these years. Yeah, I don't think he expected a shrewd

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Speaker 1: he had Billy Eppler in the offseason offer him him

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is what you're offering me.

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Speaker 1: Now, just wait and see what you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: give me one a hit free agency, then David Serves

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Speaker 1: oh fuck.

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Speaker 2: Like damn it, We're so close. What did we do?

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Speaker 2: How did we mess this up?

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Speaker 1: And that isn't even Boris's fault for declining the previous one,

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Speaker 1: which makes me think it's a lot of peat now,

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Speaker 1: which is bizarre. I also think it's hilarious that I'm

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Speaker 1: on a CONT's contract right now. Baseball Perspectus is a

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Speaker 1: contract tool. There's five other people are now in the

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Speaker 1: Mets page. There's usually no one else on these Google

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Speaker 1: sheets that have these contracts. People are locked into this

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Speaker 1: right now and right now. With Jesse Winkers one year

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Speaker 1: eight million dollars, that puts the Mets to two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty five million dollars for salary for next year.

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Speaker 1: So that just put them over the third luxury tax

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Speaker 1: threshold and sixteen million dollars clear of the last threshold. Again,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Mets are afraid in any way

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Speaker 1: think literally not at all. In fact, I think it's

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Speaker 1: better than a seventy eighty percent chance the Mets go

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Speaker 1: over that line. But I do think that there's a

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Speaker 1: world where that date love to not be over that

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Speaker 1: for the next fifteen years. And I do think that

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Speaker 1: now with sixteen million dollars, you can sign two relievers

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Speaker 1: and stay under that line. It'd be three hundred and

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Speaker 1: the Mets feel like is that he will not return,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that they don't think he has

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Speaker 1: a shot too. There's still a chance. There's still a

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Speaker 1: chance Jesse Winker is back for the New York Mets.

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Speaker 1: Good move like it, Happy for it. We don't have

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Speaker 1: to hear about it on Twitter anymore. We know all

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Speaker 1: eyes were on Jesse Winker and now we know that

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Speaker 1: he was also the move that killed Pete Alonzo.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. Guys, Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening to watching this episode. Follow us on our

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Speaker 1: social media Mets up on Twitter and Instagram. Subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the Mets Up podcast YouTube channel. Again, there will be

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Speaker 1: a video that was recorded before this that's gonna come

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Speaker 1: out after on YouTube, but audio people already heard this.

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Speaker 1: We're just waiting for a sponsor to approve the episode,

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Speaker 1: so that will come out whenever it can. But Jesse

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Speaker 1: Winker's back. Thank you guys for watching. We'll catch you

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Speaker 1: on the next episode. Peace out, peace out, So you

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Speaker 1: guys next times called Mets.