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Speaker 1: What is Up? Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of the Mets Up Podcast, an international episode, yet again

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Speaker 1: still in Puerto Rico. James is still somewhere in Asia.

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Speaker 1: We will never know, We'll never find out. There's no

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Speaker 1: way to know, no way to possibly know. But we

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Speaker 1: have some things to talk about. Big episode today. Solo

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Speaker 1: and Lindora have derived import Saint Lucy. We also have

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Speaker 1: a listener mailbag because this is kind of the weird

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Speaker 1: time in spring training when the news is that people arrived.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise there's not much to really dissect and talk about,

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Speaker 1: so we want to hear from you guys. We asked

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Speaker 1: you guys to give us some questions, and you did.

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Speaker 1: You give us tongue tweets. Really appreciate that, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's pretty much it for the rundown of this episode.

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Speaker 1: You got anything to say there, James before.

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Speaker 2: I get the little spiel, Yeah, it's just a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun that with the Mets are like so in

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Speaker 2: the spotlight of Major League based party now, like we're

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Speaker 2: getting tweeted out by the MLB man account every day.

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Speaker 2: There has to be such a media friends right now,

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Speaker 2: Ports and Lucy, but so tho there is a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun, but it's also like a good reminder that

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Speaker 2: we are now the ones, like we're now the guys,

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Speaker 2: Like there's a lot expected of this team brand Nemo

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Speaker 2: talked about it the first like round the media availability,

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Speaker 2: like we are we are now the guys like we

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Speaker 2: definitely we always talked about the last few years like

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Speaker 2: we had a target on our back because Steve Cohen

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Speaker 2: and the way this team acted. Now we have a

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Speaker 2: target on our back because we have the most expensive

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Speaker 2: athlete and the history of Earth. So it's a very

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Speaker 2: real thing with with with the pressure comes a lot

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Speaker 2: of responsibility. So it's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and can't wait to talk about it with you guys.

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Speaker 1: in the future. So, James, where do you want to

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Speaker 1: start off with? What's the first listener question we want

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Speaker 1: to rock with.

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Speaker 2: I think we have to start with just like the

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Speaker 2: bit of actual news we have, which is Jose glaci

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Speaker 2: is not on this team. The metsis have opening he's

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Speaker 2: not going to be on this team, but seems like

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Speaker 2: he's still campaigning for himself to be on this team.

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Speaker 2: Our first question comes from Big Heat at Big Heat

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Speaker 2: thirty four. As goods Jose Iglesias was last year, do

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Speaker 2: you think it's the right move to move on in

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Speaker 2: favor of McNeil, Acuni or Nick Magical as the backup

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Speaker 2: second base short stop on the roster. And I still

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Speaker 2: I kind of just think yes, Like I know, Glaciers

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Speaker 2: for this season. But I just don't know if you

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Speaker 2: encount on it, and if the reports were true that

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Speaker 2: he was seeking a two year deal, I just don't

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Speaker 2: think it's something the Mets can do with the glut

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Speaker 2: of middle infield prospects they have that should be ready

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Speaker 2: in the next twelve like in the next few months.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Mets need those younger middle infield

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Speaker 1: guys to take a step forward as well, Like for

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Speaker 1: this team to be at their best, they need guys

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Speaker 1: he's considered one of these middle infield guys if he

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Speaker 1: we're spending seven hundred million dollars on a guy like

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Speaker 1: Mon Soda to have some of these younger guys who

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Speaker 1: better than Nick Madrigal. I'd be shocked if he's not,

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Speaker 1: just because Nick Madrigal has almost never really been a

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Speaker 1: good player at the major league level in terms of production.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, if he wants those multi years,

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Speaker 1: to say the Mets, which like, oh that hurts my heart.

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Speaker 1: That one hurts as like a Mets fan. And he

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Speaker 1: I get it. I totally understand. Given Nick Madrigal or

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Speaker 1: Jose Galasias. Yes, I'm choosing Jose Galasias every single time.

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Speaker 1: I think he will be better. But the fact is

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Speaker 1: He's been a pretty deeper. I think there's still a

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Speaker 1: Josey Iglasias would truthfully want to take like a one

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Speaker 2: Again, it was just too good for that. It kind

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Speaker 2: of sucks that this has happened Jose Glaciers a lot

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Speaker 2: something to the fact that there's a value in this

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Speaker 2: new version of the Mets twenty twenty five Mets starting

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Speaker 2: fresh in a way, Like I know, we brought back

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Speaker 2: a lot of the same pieces of last year, especially

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Speaker 2: like the big deal from an Eye, the small deal

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Speaker 2: You kind of can't keep the same thing rolling as

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Speaker 2: kind of seen that the Phillies the last few years.

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Speaker 2: I understand the same type of players, but this this

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Speaker 2: Like I know, it's about building on last year, but

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Speaker 2: just to bring back I don't know, Like I we've

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Speaker 2: But that was also just something that I don't think

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Speaker 2: think that there needs to be something of a page

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Speaker 2: turning happening with this Mets team going in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm interested to see what happens moving forward, and

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Speaker 1: if there's anything, of course we will talk about it again.

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Speaker 1: But we do have another question here from Kevin Bartello,

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Speaker 1: who says, with Jeff McNeil expected to start the season

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Speaker 1: the development and potential integration of infield prospects like Luis

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Speaker 1: an Hellacunya, Ronnie Mauricio, Brett Baty, and Jet Williams. I think, honestly,

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Speaker 1: like Maursio is gonna start the year in Triple A

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Speaker 1: it seems like triple A is inevitable. Brett Bady is

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Speaker 1: just because him and McNeil both are left handed bats

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Speaker 1: another guy who's gonna start the year in the miners.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't really seem like there's a path through the major

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Speaker 1: from everything that we've talked about with Jet and heard

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Speaker 1: to try and make him be a middle infielder who

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Speaker 1: keep trying him out there in the outfield Akunya is

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Speaker 1: think they want him to be able to win that job.

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Speaker 1: I think they're really looking forward to seeing him win

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Speaker 1: that job, which is why a guy like Madrigal has

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Speaker 1: that option contract. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: he does still have to prove it and at the

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Speaker 1: major league level, while he was successful, it's an incredible

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Speaker 1: small sample that almost means nothing.

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Speaker 2: Almost Yeah, And I think this question plays off the

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Speaker 2: next question from Andrew Mattiney at midnight. Mattiney, assuming the Taylor, Winker, Torrens,

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Speaker 2: and Martin are four of the five bench spots, who

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Speaker 2: out of Acunya, Baby Madical is the best chance the

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Speaker 2: have optioned, some players don't. And as we keep circling

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Speaker 2: how this mess roster probably is the best version of itself,

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Speaker 2: you kind of keep coming back to Starling Marte and sorry,

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Speaker 2: Marte has been excellent in the media the last few days.

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Speaker 2: He said that Sterns Mendoza were very upfront with him,

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Speaker 2: being like, you don't have a starting spot in the

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Speaker 2: some of those here winkers back as the heavy platoon

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Speaker 2: you're you're gonna get chances, because that always happens a

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Speaker 2: baseball season, Guys get hurt. Things changed, But right now

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Speaker 2: you don't have the spot. But with McNeil having the

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Speaker 2: ability to play the outfield on the bench, and with

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Speaker 2: Acunie probably having some billy to play outfield on the bench,

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Speaker 2: I know it's not I don't know how comfortable they

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Speaker 2: know you could probably do it a little bit. Marte

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Speaker 2: There probably is a point the season and where because again,

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Speaker 2: someone's rolling an ankle. Yeah, it's a good chance Starling Martet,

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Speaker 2: WHI was at the end of the day, But he's

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Speaker 2: the one right now where if he's not in this team,

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Speaker 2: suddenly you start seeing a lot more playing time for

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Speaker 2: these young players, which might just mean there's not a

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Speaker 2: lot of playing time to shake out for these guys

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Speaker 2: for another full calendar year. And I think that is

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Speaker 2: also something else to remember. Prospects sometimes take a while develop.

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Speaker 2: Brett Baby is someone who may have come to major

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Speaker 2: leagues a little too quickly. Let's go out for us

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Speaker 2: is maybe someone who came to the major leagues a

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Speaker 2: little bit too quickly. It's not the worst idea to

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Speaker 2: kind of treat these players like some other organizations to

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Speaker 2: Now, we got a next question here from the Weeni War, then,

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Speaker 1: I think Nimo's being.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, actually putting your best hitter three would

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Speaker 2: than often than Fianto's. Again, I don't know what's gonna happen.

433
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,880
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see how this first looks. It's gonna

434
00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:38,840
Speaker 2: be one of the most in tune the spring training

435
00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,640
Speaker 2: games I'm going to be in a very long time. Yeah,

436
00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,600
Speaker 2: So I literally want to see what order, because they're

437
00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,120
Speaker 2: not all going to play every spring training game, but

438
00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,720
Speaker 2: what or the Carlsmos has any of the starters in In general,

439
00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,680
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna give us some pretty good insight

440
00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,760
Speaker 2: who could be hitting where when and why.

441
00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,320
Speaker 1: We've got a Another question here from Obi wan Kenari,

442
00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,640
Speaker 1: and he says the Mets were eighteenth of the attendance

443
00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,560
Speaker 1: last year. Do you think they can break the top

444
00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,520
Speaker 1: ten this coming season? You got go to a lot

445
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,680
Speaker 1: of games, our ticket price is too high or fans

446
00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,680
Speaker 1: only going to games when the team is well above

447
00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,280
Speaker 1: five hundred. I don't think the ticket prices are truthfully

448
00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,440
Speaker 1: the problem. I think the problem is what Getting the

449
00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,840
Speaker 1: city field is difficult. It's not an easy stadium to

450
00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,200
Speaker 1: get to. Like, yes, it's in New York City, and yes,

451
00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,439
Speaker 1: you could hop on the seven line, like that's the

452
00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,320
Speaker 1: big sell here. It's like, oh, only one train to

453
00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,240
Speaker 1: get to the game, But like seventy five percent people

454
00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:22,800
Speaker 1: who go to the game, I don't think are able

455
00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,359
Speaker 1: to just get on one training from coming from New Jersey.

456
00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,120
Speaker 1: You've got to take some sort of transportation to then

457
00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,720
Speaker 1: get to the seven line, which is also not at

458
00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:35,960
Speaker 1: Penn Station. It's not the direct train line that gets there. Also,

459
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:40,239
Speaker 1: parking is insanely expensive, the food is insanely expensive at

460
00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,159
Speaker 1: the game. It's just a really costly experience. And for

461
00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,359
Speaker 1: me and James it works out really well because we

462
00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,239
Speaker 1: can buy cheap tickets, and we know what we're doing

463
00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,160
Speaker 1: in the stadium and where to go and what seats

464
00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,720
Speaker 1: are good and what days to go, and we can

465
00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,640
Speaker 1: buy tickets twenty five minutes before the game starts. Because

466
00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,439
Speaker 1: we live so close to the stadium, it's not a

467
00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,680
Speaker 1: problem for us to get there, whereas for other people

468
00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,679
Speaker 1: it is a planned thing. This is an event. This

469
00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,800
Speaker 1: is a day that they make out of it. It's

470
00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,760
Speaker 1: not easy, and especially if you're a family or if

471
00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,280
Speaker 1: you're going with more than just one person, it becomes

472
00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,760
Speaker 1: a really really expensive day.

473
00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,080
Speaker 2: And I do hope the Mets continue a lot of

474
00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:15,760
Speaker 2: what they did last year and the year I think

475
00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,480
Speaker 2: they were planning for their team to just excuse my French,

476
00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,240
Speaker 2: kind of be shit. And they have a lot of

477
00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,040
Speaker 2: these deals for fans, like half off parking day, I

478
00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,640
Speaker 2: think on Tuesdays in summer, the five dollars hot talk Nights,

479
00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,880
Speaker 2: the five dollar beer nights. Like having events like that

480
00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,000
Speaker 2: I think really really helps people, Like it accurates people

481
00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,240
Speaker 2: into the ballpark. Sometimes you wind up spending more money

482
00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,480
Speaker 2: when beers only cost five dollars, because you'll buy four

483
00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,600
Speaker 2: instead of one. But it's just you feel better doing

484
00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,120
Speaker 2: it's more fun. You feel like the team's in there

485
00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,920
Speaker 2: with you. Like we've seen a lot of teams around

486
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,560
Speaker 2: the league have like cheap concessions or cheap drinks or

487
00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:43,800
Speaker 2: like nice deals like that. I think I think the

488
00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,159
Speaker 2: parking one was a big deal too. Just having twenty

489
00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,080
Speaker 2: dollars parking instead of what it was forty dollars park

490
00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,679
Speaker 2: is a mass is a massive deal because a lot

491
00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,520
Speaker 2: of these fans come from New Jersey, like you said,

492
00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,600
Speaker 2: and it's so hard to come to games from New Jersey.

493
00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,320
Speaker 2: My dad will come to fifteen twenty games a year

494
00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:58,200
Speaker 2: from New Jersey and I literally can't fucking believe it

495
00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,879
Speaker 2: because you're either you're either bound to the NJ Transit

496
00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,080
Speaker 2: schedule from Penn Station where there's a train at ten

497
00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,040
Speaker 2: twenty eight and eleven twenty eight. If you gonna see

498
00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:06,800
Speaker 2: eleven twenty eight, it's like one oh eight, So then

499
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,399
Speaker 2: you're sitting in Penn Station for an hour in the

500
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Speaker 2: middle of the night. You got worked the next day.

501
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you're coming from City Field, you're getting

502
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,560
Speaker 1: on the seven. It drops you off at Grand Central.

503
00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,840
Speaker 1: You didn't have to either or Times Trade yeah, or

504
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,879
Speaker 1: Times Square. You have to get on run train or

505
00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,600
Speaker 1: you gotta book it. It's like it's it's it's not

506
00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,720
Speaker 1: streamlined at all. To get to Sydney Field Yankee Made

507
00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,240
Speaker 1: in the Sky, you.

508
00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,160
Speaker 2: Have to book it down Sixth Avenue at eleven fourteen

509
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,600
Speaker 2: at night when the game went. The games are shortly now,

510
00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:34,480
Speaker 2: which actually helps us a lot, but it's just it's

511
00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,000
Speaker 2: not that easy. So I do think that's just.

512
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,679
Speaker 1: Maybe that that could also hurt it too. I think

513
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:39,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are like, I'm not

514
00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,680
Speaker 1: gonna spend five hundred dollars to go see them play

515
00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,000
Speaker 1: two hours and ten minutes when I'm gonna drive. It's

516
00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,439
Speaker 1: gonna take me two hours in transportation.

517
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, and take may cost me four dollars in

518
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:49,239
Speaker 2: parking to get there. But I think there's a lot

519
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 2: of things, but I do think that already's right where

520
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 2: the team being better helps a lot, Like I think

521
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,359
Speaker 2: just the one so the factor I'm sure you include.

522
00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:57,960
Speaker 2: They sold a lot more season tickets this year because

523
00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,800
Speaker 2: he's gonna be in the ballpark, and I know, just

524
00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,680
Speaker 2: against the people in this city, it's a much better sell.

525
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,360
Speaker 2: At five forty five on Wednesday, they'd be like, yeah,

526
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,159
Speaker 2: I'm gonna Show'm gonna go to City Field tonight, and

527
00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,159
Speaker 2: again like sometimes you guys you got it. If you

528
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,119
Speaker 2: don't want to go there and break the bank, just

529
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,440
Speaker 2: pack the tupperway like I do, like bring bring some food,

530
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 2: bring pack bring a sandwich like I like, make sure

531
00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,200
Speaker 2: you bring your one closed water bottle, because you can

532
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 2: do all that and you can make the game experience

533
00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:21,880
Speaker 2: a lot cheaper and be able to do more games.

534
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 2: A lot of people like going doing the foods city

535
00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,919
Speaker 2: feel like probably some of the best.

536
00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 1: Food in here. There might be a TikTok here, like

537
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 1: how can we get to a Mets game?

538
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,120
Speaker 2: That's true, I can think I could do with zero

539
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 2: dollars zero dollars.

540
00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 1: Zero dollars would be impressive. I don't know if you

541
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,880
Speaker 1: can spend zero dollars and get get to a game

542
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,360
Speaker 1: and have food, that'd be impressive.

543
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,040
Speaker 2: Oh and have food and bring my own food tho,

544
00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:43,640
Speaker 2: unless I'm just saying how much I charge my own

545
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 2: food myself. But I get like, there's if you want

546
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 2: to go to a lot of games, there are ways,

547
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 2: but it's just not really for the faint of heart.

548
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 2: But you guys with city dwellers like Mark and I

549
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 2: let us know, well, we're gonna be like twenty thirty

550
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 2: games this year.

551
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 1: Easya be like fifty season tickets away. I'm gonna throw

552
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 1: this out there too, I said, why is also really

553
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 1: fucking good? Like he so good, so awesome, So like

554
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:03,679
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, it's like, do I really

555
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,400
Speaker 1: want to go through all this when the best seed

556
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 1: in the house quite literally is watching S and Y

557
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:09,679
Speaker 1: every single night.

558
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: But also on the other side of that, like what

559
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,880
Speaker 2: they do in stadium for city Field, for the baseball fan,

560
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,240
Speaker 2: it's also pretty cool. There's tons of games, there's tons

561
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 2: of songs, there's tons of interactive stuff like they it's

562
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,480
Speaker 2: just this, the Mets have a really good experience, and

563
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 2: we know that they're really working on fan engagement. They

564
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 2: want as many people in that ballpark as consistently as possible.

565
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 2: It's also fun to be in the ballpark all summer.

566
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 2: Like you, we kind of have our city Field friends

567
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 2: at this point. Shout out my guy Jordan Jordan Simpson

568
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 2: Mets Music, who gave me a not watch on Jeffman

569
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 2: Gill Swinger a new bad this weekend. Like our guy

570
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,159
Speaker 2: Marcelo hit me up for my birthday this week I

571
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 2: was just like, I like, I missed my city field friends.

572
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 2: I'm excited to get I'm so excited to get back

573
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,199
Speaker 2: in the ballpark like for thirty forty times a year

574
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,719
Speaker 2: and have them. But it's also understanding that shadow Vic.

575
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 2: Of course it's our guy shout out the original Keith Hernandez.

576
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 2: We miss Keith in the ballpark. But yes, of course

577
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 2: it's hard to we understand how hard it is to

578
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 2: go to multiple games year. So that's why a lot

579
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,239
Speaker 2: of you guys also far away, getting to your one

580
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 2: game the year is awesome. Being there one time, you

581
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 2: can circle that game and like support this team is

582
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: really great. Just being in the city field, I feel

583
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 2: like gives you such a different experience to the Mets.

584
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 2: So even if you're a fan of is far away,

585
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,919
Speaker 2: getting there once is really really worth it.

586
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, definitely it's a lot of fun. As someone

587
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 1: who's been to quite a few games over the last

588
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 1: few years. All Right, we got another question here from

589
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: our boy Connor shout out Q. Assuming the Mets are

590
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: in the playoff run down the stretch, who do you

591
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 1: realistically see being the six man rotation if they go

592
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: to that in late August? Going into September. I'm gonna

593
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna default this one to you. James is the

594
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 1: pitching man.

595
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: I want to pull this question off the next one

596
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 2: we got from Jordyan Cabeza, and that is most likely

597
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 2: the Padres aren't gonna trade Cease or Michael King by

598
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 2: the deadline. Is Sonny Gray and under the railar number

599
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 2: two could acquire because I do think if the Mets

600
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 2: want to get where they're going, they need to make

601
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 2: a trade at some point. I really do think that's

602
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 2: the honest truth. And I don't think Sonny Gray is

603
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 2: really the guys Jordan's saying, because one I know, the

604
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 2: Cardinals President Basement Operations, John Mazzeliak went up to all

605
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Speaker 2: their veterans in the beginning off. He was like, we're

606
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 2: going to rebuild. You guys want to waive for no

607
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 2: trade clause And Sonny Gray said no. I mean he's

608
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 2: just ready to stay. They're sticking out. And also the

609
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,959
Speaker 2: end of Central so bad. I think the Cardinals kind

610
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,239
Speaker 2: of sticking the race for a while. Like I think

611
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 2: they probably are like a seventy six win team, so

612
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,719
Speaker 2: they're probably not out of it by the trade deadline.

613
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 2: So then I think the Mets sixer in rotation will

614
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 2: still start with Sean and Ia Kora saying hopefully health

615
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 2: out withstanding, and hopefully we'll still have Clay Holmes and

616
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 2: Freki Mantos in the rotation, so we still have faith

617
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 2: in those guys. And then I think it starts to

618
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 2: get hairy. I think we believe in David Peterson, but

619
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Speaker 2: I still wouldn't be shocked if there's a bit of

620
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 2: regression there. And then while the sixth spot is going

621
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 2: to be kind of rotating and floating around most of

622
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 2: the year, the trade guys I'm going to be watching

623
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Speaker 2: going into this season are probably anyone in the Marlins,

624
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: whether we see something crazy for Sandy al Contra happen.

625
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 2: Pabo Lopez is another guy like a lot funny former Marlin,

626
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 2: but out over there over there in the Twins now,

627
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 2: and then maybe one more guy, one more team. I

628
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 2: think I would watch to see the Diamondbacks. How again,

629
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 2: Zach Gallon shakes out because I don't know that division

630
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: is going to be a dogfight and someone's going to

631
00:23:58,800 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 2: have to fall out of it, and it could be,

632
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,679
Speaker 2: but I'm not counting on it. But I'm curious if

633
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 2: you think there's another trade target because maybe Brandon's pro

634
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 2: established himself, but I still think that it's he would

635
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 2: have to really like put the screws in to be

636
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: a full member of like the playoff rotation. Cause I'm

637
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 2: thinking about the crunch down rotation when Conrad's about the

638
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 2: sixth me rotation then and I think about the playoff rotation.

639
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 2: It's hard for me to see Proke fully establishing himself

640
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 2: in the first year as being that guy.

641
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think if we're like starting to

642
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 1: get crazy, like crazy scenarios, like if the Astros stink,

643
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 1: which I think is super possibility, like frame bra Valdez

644
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: is available, and I think that's someone that the Mets

645
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: would take a look at, just because he's been one

646
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: of the best pitchers in baseball over the last three

647
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: four seasons. I mean, out West is kind of just

648
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: a crapshoot in general, Like if the Rangers stink, do

649
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 1: they try to start selling off some pieces? If the Mariners,

650
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: I don't think they will either because that division sow

651
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: up for grabs. But you know, in this crazy world,

652
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: it's just like where can we find these guys? And truthfully,

653
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 1: it's just about like are there going to be teams

654
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: that are way underperforming expectations and have a chance to

655
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: get rid of some dead money guys like a fran

656
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: Burvaldez per Se or even like a Dylan Cees. If

657
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: the Padres were to stink it up as bad as

658
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: they possibly.

659
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: Could, but they have to stink, they have to stink, think, stink,

660
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 2: stink for that to happen. This team is still definitely

661
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 2: going for it. Like it's very annoying that the teams

662
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 2: with the expendable pitchers who might stink all happen to

663
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 2: be in the central divisions where no one's really going

664
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 2: to be out of them just needs to be five hundred.

665
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 2: Like I weirdly think that there's a chance that like

666
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 2: Seth Lugo gets moved at the trade deadline this year

667
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 2: Michael Wakatt two former mets of very different ILKs. But

668
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: I don't know how the Royals can be bad. I

669
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 2: don't know if they can be bad enough to actually

670
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 2: fall out of faith and that's the vision. I don't know.

671
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: Do the Tigers move Jack Flaherty on his weird little

672
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 1: contract that I signed again you stink, yeah again. I

673
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: don't know. It's so it's it's very bizarre, and it's

674
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 1: tough because the pitching market really is so dictated about

675
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: team's success and you can't really figure out who's gonna

676
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: get traded until you realize teams are out of it

677
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: and guys were expiring contracts.

678
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also want shout out Jordan because he has

679
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: two other questions. He asked if he thinks if you

680
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,239
Speaker 2: think Manaia, I guess he's asking me if you think

681
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 2: Manaia needs a third pitch against Lefty's with the two

682
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 2: seamer and the sweeper or the slider. I honestly think no,

683
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 2: Like those two pitches are so disgusting against left He's

684
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 2: like he worked with a sweeper a lot last year

685
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 2: that he kind of went away from it when he

686
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 2: changed the RM mangle. I think it kind of added

687
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 2: extra lift on it, but didn't have much philosophy, so

688
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 2: it wasn't that effective. So I do wonder if he

689
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 2: goes back with it. And he asked me about the

690
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 2: opportunity for Frankie Monsters to ad a sweeper. I do

691
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 2: think that's something that could be kind of cool. His

692
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 2: gyro slider got a little bit more sweepersh last year.

693
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 2: But he kind of he also has the color that

694
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 2: kind of blended into the little gyro slider, so I

695
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 2: do was cover also has a little bit of lift,

696
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 2: So I wonder if there's a sweeper in there, because

697
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 2: Monss has shown the ability to pick up pitches in

698
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 2: the past, and I think that's something he can definitely do.

699
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: I just I just wonder because he's he's kind of

700
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: changed his slider around a lot the last few years.

701
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: He only just brought it back in a meaningful way

702
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: last season, So I do wonder if that's something in

703
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 2: the cards. It's just as something else he could do

704
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 2: against Righty's But I think he also just has a

705
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 2: lot of tools, so it'd be it would be a

706
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: nice addition, but I don't think it's necessary for him

707
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: to have.

708
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah, No, I mean it's pitching is going

709
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: to be super fluid, I think, as it was last

710
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: year and it will continue to be. I think throughout

711
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: the tenure of David Stearns. That's just kind of been

712
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 1: his thing. He's always got a very very fluid uh

713
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: pitch rotation, bullpen, whatever it will be. And speaking of which,

714
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 1: our boy wan piece is really embracing the glob of chaos.

715
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: He asked, if you could sign any random reliever to

716
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: add to the glob of chaos, who would it be, So, James,

717
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: who's your guy?

718
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 2: First off, there's one more out there who I think

719
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 2: is holding out because he doesn't want to be in

720
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: the glob of chaos. If any team's glob of kask

721
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 2: it looks like a really good pitcher who says some

722
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: of the best stuff in baseball, it's Lucas Simms.

723
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: Sims, I knew it, of course.

724
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 2: I mean drive Line posted the video of him a

725
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 2: few days ago which he's throwing ninety eight miles an hour.

726
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 2: It has three hundred thousand depressions. Every single front office

727
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 2: in baseball saw that video. So someone everyone's talking to him.

728
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 2: But I'm sure he doesn't want to camp in. But

729
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 2: I'm sure he wants a major league contract, So that's

730
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 2: kind of a cop out for me. But like he's

731
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 2: throwing eighty nine mile an hour sweepers and a mile

732
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 2: an hour fastballs. He could be literally a key set

733
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 2: up man any ballpen in baseball. It seems like to

734
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 2: me that he's he wants a real job, and that's

735
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 2: why he hasn't done yet. But if I had to

736
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 2: take a pick for a new glob of Chaos guy

737
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 2: or one more to add before the end of the offseason,

738
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent.

739
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: Lucas sims. Yeah, I was going to go with a

740
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: mere Garrett, but he got signed actually by the Today's

741
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 1: in a minor league contract today, so I can't do

742
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: that one because he's changed his arm slot and is

743
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: still throwing ninety eight from the left side, which is

744
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: fascinating stuff. So Jamie Arnold, Yeah, that would have been

745
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: That would have been really cool. Shout out Jamie Arnold

746
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: absolutely tearing it up at FSU. But yeah, meyor Garrett

747
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: would have been my pick. Unfortunately he's not, so I'm

748
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: not prepared, so I don't have an answer, sorry, Lucas.

749
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 2: Moving on now, we have a question from Shannon, who's

750
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: still holding out hope. It's the number one Mark Cannon

751
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: enthusiast on Bets tweet shallow Shannon, she's the girl. Do

752
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 2: you think Francisco al for his locks in offensively this year?

753
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 2: I think we just kind of have to say yes,

754
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: like we have to be as positive as it possibly

755
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: can about Alvarez, and I think a big reason for

756
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 2: that is. We say it all the time. I'm never

757
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: gonna stop saying it. For a catcher his age, he's

758
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 2: one of the most experienced in the history of baseball,

759
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: most play the appearances ever for a catcher before tearing

760
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 2: twenty three years old, they are a tie for the

761
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: second most home runs. Like this is someone who, just

762
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 2: based on historical precedent alone, should still be considered to

763
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: have like the super elite ceiling that we've always said

764
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 2: and looks like he just looks like JJ Martin is

765
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: the boxing and I say he's working with JD. Is

766
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: it filed through? Looks a lot like JD. And Alpharez

767
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 2: is a big struggle through the early part of his

768
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 2: career has been kind of figuring out what to do

769
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: with the outside pitch that was JD's specialty. So maybe

770
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,719
Speaker 2: there's some wisdom that JAD bestowed upon Alvarez that has

771
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: helped him figure out how to handle the out of

772
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 2: there at the plate.

773
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a kind of a little

774
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: bit of prospect fatigue in a way where it's like,

775
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: just because Francisco Alvarez was in Juan so to Ronandocunya

776
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: when he came up immediately and wasn't an MVP caliber

777
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: player as a twenty one to twenty two year old

778
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: that people start to doubt him. While the numbers haven't

779
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: been where he had hoped, I still think there's a

780
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: lot of really good stuff in his game, and it'd

781
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: be crazy to give up any sort of hope on

782
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: this guy at this point, especially because he talked about

783
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: even just like the mental side of things, like he's

784
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: still so young and he's playing professional baseball when a

785
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: couple of years ago he was like trying to figure

786
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: out how to speak English. Like he's there's a lot

787
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: of stuff that he's learning and figuring out. And I

788
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: think just as more and more time goes, bys can

789
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: get more comfortable, more acclimated at the plate, and I

790
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: think at some point we will see that Francisco Alvarez

791
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: that we once thought we could.

792
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: And again, this is also going back to what we

793
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: talked about earlier in the show about prospects coming up

794
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 2: soon late just right, he's gonna have almost a thousand more.

795
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 2: Play appears in Aadlie Rushman before Adley Rushman debut in

796
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 2: the major leagues and Adleie's different prospect canalvers. He hit

797
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 2: the ground running he was number one overall pick, like

798
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: he was a fee num. But it's just he's a catcher.

799
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 2: He's a twenty He's going a twenty three yeer catcher

800
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 2: in opening Day. He'll be a twenty three er catcher

801
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: in the last day of the World Series. So that's

802
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: just it. He's this is he's so young for what

803
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 2: he is still and on top of all that, a

804
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 2: lot of the big projection systems still like him. The

805
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: bad X, which is usually the most accurate for hitters,

806
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 2: still has him as the league average bat ATC, which

807
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 2: has been the most accurate overall the last few year.

808
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 2: Shout Ariel Cohen, big Mets fan. They have him as

809
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 2: a one oh seven doubles plus guy with twenty homers

810
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: and like Oopsie, which is new projection from friend friend

811
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 2: of the Pod Jordan Rosenbloom got him in the one

812
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: to fifteen WRC plus twenty five homers and three twenty

813
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 2: on base percent. Like, if he hits twenty homers with

814
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 2: three ten on base percent this year, that's still a

815
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 2: massive win for the seventh spot line for your twenty

816
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 2: three real catcher who's a really good defender. Now that

817
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: that's almost a three to four win player pretty fucking easily.

818
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: So I think that we it's about It's about managing

819
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 2: expectations for Sis Squalvers while still giving him a beat,

820
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 2: while also realizing that he still has the star potential

821
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: and the star charisma and bravado and moniker, like him

822
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 2: walking into the spring training after getting pelted by the

823
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: Dodgers in the playoff last year being like, we're better

824
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 2: than that. We're coming from them again right now, crazy,

825
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: Like that's the ship we want. Like Jeff McNeil the

826
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: great quote because people ask him about World Series aspirations

827
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 2: the first media Vailablaye spring training, he's like, of course,

828
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: He's like, if it's the first day of the string training,

829
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: you're not thinking about the World Series, you're not playing

830
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 2: the right you're not doing the right job. Like you

831
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 2: have to be thinking about that right now. Becau's not,

832
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: You're crazy. So I love that Alvarez bringing that to

833
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 2: this roster right now.

834
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, he always does. He's the man who brings the testosterone,

835
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: as we say him and Starling Martey, it's now really

836
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: more so on Francisco Alvarez his shoulders, but looking forward

837
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: to what he can do in twenty twenty five. Another

838
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: question here from the whip Master who asks us, uh,

839
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: if you could add any current former Met position player

840
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: to this team before the season start, who would it be?

841
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: If you want to do a picture as well, you

842
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,479
Speaker 1: can do it, but you can't do de Grom, Wheeler

843
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: or Lugo. So former Met that's currently a position player

844
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: on this team.

845
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he means any player just currently

846
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 2: in baseball.

847
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I think any current former Met position player,

848
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: so they had to have played for the Mets prior

849
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: that's currently playing baseball.

850
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what I'm saying. But I don't think it's

851
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 2: just position players. I think it can be pitchers as well.

852
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: Well. He did position play, he said position player, and

853
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: then the next one he said, you can also do

854
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: a pitcher as well.

855
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you go. Because I got to think about

856
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 2: this one.

857
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: Center field would be the one kind of weak spot

858
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: right now for this team. I mean, there's not a

859
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: lot of great former Mets right now floating around.

860
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: No, not man. I think the only ones there's the

861
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 2: pitchers that that were actually named there. I think, like oddly,

862
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 2: like a weird one would maybe be like Michael Wakaya.

863
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: Michael awesome on this team.

864
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: He's weirdly one I'd love to have on this team. Again,

865
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 2: that's not a sexy answer. It's not that fun. Mets

866
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: haven't exactly had a good center fielders and Carls Beltron

867
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 2: was traded away, so it's not really easy easy.

868
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: Watch your mouth around Angel Pagan. You throw some respects.

869
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: True, yeah, two times, three time world too, the champion

870
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 2: Angel Pagan, I guess tess for this, but he's not

871
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 2: a league anymore. I mean, it seems like the Mets,

872
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: the last regime of the Mets kind of had players

873
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: when no one else really wanted them, So it's hard

874
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: to pick guys like Danie Vogelback just got hired to

875
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: be an assistant to the hitting coach of the Pots.

876
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 2: Crazy Mark Hanna doesn't. Yeah, maybe Colin Holderman. Why the

877
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 2: West part doesn't have a job like it's The Mets

878
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 2: don't exactly have a lot of high level players floating

879
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 2: around besides Lugo, Wheeler to Grom right now and again,

880
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 2: I think Lougo oddly as a trade cannon for the Mets,

881
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: which is kind of a funny thing to say out loud,

882
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,479
Speaker 2: but there's not really a lot of juice out there.

883
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 2: I don't know, Tommy fam instead of Starling Marte, Like,

884
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 2: is that where we go here? Like it's hard to

885
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 2: I can I can I say Michael Confordo. I guess yeah,

886
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: instead of Starling Marte.

887
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, instead of Story Marte'd rather just have Michael Canfordo.

888
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: I think that's maybe the best pick on the offensive side.

889
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: Pitching side, it's like it's it's all bullpen arms. I mean,

890
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: you know, I will never say Paul Seawald, so that's

891
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. But there's not any options on the

892
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: pitching side, so I'm not sure.

893
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's just it's just tough question. But

894
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 2: I also think that I want to include this question

895
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 2: because it shows the mess have made some pretty good personel

896
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: decisions last few years. Now that we have an adult

897
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: as our executive so that's a really it's a really

898
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 2: real nice thing that we have. My next question from

899
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 2: our guy pro Fyoshima. So for some people knew the podcast,

900
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 2: we do a bit in the regular season. We call

901
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 2: the media Marvels. We'll go around Major League Baseball. Sometimes

902
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 2: it takes about the Mets, and sometimes it just takes

903
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 2: about baseball in general, and we'll kind of highlight those

904
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 2: as being some some of the true take artisans of

905
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: our time, kind of throwing some throwing some fun at them.

906
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 2: So Yoshima's question was predictions, who will be the first

907
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 2: media Marvel twenty twenty five seasons? And I'll be honest

908
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 2: with you, I can see this one very clearly right now.

909
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: I have a pretty good sense of who is going

910
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: to be. It's gonna be one of two guys. They

911
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 2: both have the same first name. It's either gonna be

912
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 2: Mike Francesco or Michael Kay. Oh, one of those two.

913
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: It's about one.

914
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, right. I think the Yankees are gonna open up

915
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 2: series against the Brewers and go belt to ask. I

916
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 2: think they're gonna crush Fredday Peralta, who's a regression candidate.

917
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna crush Nestra Quartet for knowing him

918
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: for a few years. I think they're gonna put up

919
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 2: something like twenty five runs in three days. And I

920
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 2: think once so the might strike out like six times

921
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 2: in his first three games and met and then we're

922
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 2: gonna hear takes. They're gonna start by Michael Kay and

923
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 2: the probably some of the talking has around there, maybe

924
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 2: Keith mcah somewhere around here where he's gonna say something

925
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 2: Keith mcpee at the Yankees' life is better without want

926
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 2: so though. I mean he's Yankee team looks so together.

927
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: Cohesaid there having fun playing baseball again. You're gonna see

928
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 2: like Vulpi and Judge laughing having good time, and we're

929
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 2: gonna have those takes. And on June first, the Mets

930
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 2: are probably can have the second or third best offensive baseball.

931
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 2: The Yankees are still gonna be a good team, but

932
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 2: you're gonna see, of course the Mets everything work out.

933
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 2: And I think that's gonna be my prediction for the

934
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 2: first media marvel.

935
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to go tried and true, the

936
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: whole reason we started media marvels. I still gotta go

937
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: with Buster Rolney. I mean, the guy just lives to

938
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: hate the Mets. I'm sure he's gonna put out some

939
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: sort of anti Mets propaganda at some point before even

940
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: maybe opening Day. I if Wan Sodo strikes out in

941
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: his first spring training at Betty might say something about

942
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: like worst contract ever handed out, I think it's gonna

943
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: be Busterrolney. That's why we started media marvels. If it's

944
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: anybody else, I would be surprised. I don't know. Reporter wise,

945
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: it's probably like Martino and Pumar, the highest on the

946
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: Odds tier list.

947
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: I still love Puma, Puma Is and Og, but I

948
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 2: think that's that's probably the group of who we could have.

949
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 2: It's the first media marble. So if you guys knew

950
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: the podcast is offseason, get right in regular season because

951
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: once a week we're given some media marbles. Those are

952
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of fun at the end of

953
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: the end of an episode. But next question from Ethan

954
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 2: breaks this is a fascinating one. I don't know where

955
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with this. I don't know where you're

956
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 2: gonna go either. If you could give David Stearn's truth

957
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 2: seer him, what is one thing you'd ask him?

958
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: I would ask him how many episodes has he listened

959
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: to of the Mets Stuff podcast? Because we know he's listening. No,

960
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: the real question on PRESK is what are players that

961
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: like what's what are some trades that almost happened that

962
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: didn't happen within like your time so far with the Mets.

963
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: I'd want to know.

964
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 2: That that's going I was definitely gonna ask him what

965
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 2: was their first conversation like with Buck Showalter? And and

966
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 2: then I would ask him what was your honest envision

967
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: role for Billy Eppler.

968
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: I was about I was gonna say too, like, so

969
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: were you making decisions behind the scenes before you were hired?

970
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:52,720
Speaker 2: Still?

971
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: Because it seemed like you were with Buck show Walter

972
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,240
Speaker 1: being fired.

973
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 2: I guess we had truth. We ask him, why did

974
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 2: you and Steve come to this agreement? Like don't I mean,

975
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 2: I think if you, if you have truth see him

976
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 2: tampering no longer exists. So I want to be like, yes,

977
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: how soon did Steve Coen tamper with you? When did

978
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 2: you know this was going to happen?

979
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: When's the first time you reached out to Wan Soro?

980
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 2: Why's the first time Steve Cone reached out to you?

981
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 2: Those would be Those would be the two questions I

982
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 2: would definitely want to ask Daves David Stars if we

983
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: have truth to see him?

984
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: No, I think we'd get some good answers out of here,

985
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: but it would be fascinating to find out. And then

986
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: the last question we got for this listener mailbag comes

987
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: from THEO. He said James, I'm still waiting for that pen.

988
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: What does that even mean?

989
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 2: You last listener mail bag, he asked me the best

990
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: bullpen that we can make. I think he's just from

991
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 2: players who have never been named All Stars. I have

992
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: it ready for him, so I'm ready to go.

993
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so hit hit him with that first, and

994
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: then I'll hit the next two parts here.

995
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: All right, this is basically just you're gonna love listening

996
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 2: to this because these are just like my nine favorite

997
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 2: leavers in baseball. So if we have a nine man

998
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 2: bullpen with a five man rotation, I think I would

999
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 2: want a lateening mix between Trevor McGill, Kate Smith, and

1000
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 2: Griffin Jacks as just a couple of monster rieties with

1001
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 2: crazy fastballs and breaking balls. Who can do it. I've

1002
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: realized going downess, I didn't really have a lot of

1003
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 2: crazy arm angles, so I add some at the end.

1004
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 2: But then I want I want Jeremiah Estrada is probably

1005
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: the best underrated fastball in baseball. Padres reliever of the Cups.

1006
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 2: For some reason, let go for nothing when they had

1007
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 2: no bulp all of last year would have been a

1008
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: playoff team. Each of the last two years they had

1009
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 2: used him to his max potential. Brian Bray, who's one

1010
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: of my favorites from the Astros, just came from like nothing,

1011
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,720
Speaker 2: barely signed as an international prospect, was like a basketball

1012
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 2: player in to make a Republic. They were like, can

1013
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: you throw a baseball? He was like yeah, they would

1014
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 2: like throw it like this. All of a sudden, he's

1015
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 2: throwing the mid nineties and now he was just a

1016
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 2: freak but crazy sweeper on the Astros. Ryan Walker is

1017
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 2: one of my new favorites on the Giants. I don't

1018
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 2: love as much as a closer role because he's a

1019
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: demon sinker guy. The demon sinkers aren't as good without

1020
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 2: crazy veloss. He's a ninety four ninety five guys. But

1021
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 2: I'd love him as a middle reliever in my dream

1022
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 2: no all star bullpen, and I want my weird arm

1023
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 2: slots from my lefties, so it could be Tyler Rogers,

1024
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 2: because why not. I always want Tyler Rodgers. There they

1025
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 2: change the eye level. AJ Puck and then Matt Strom.

1026
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 2: I was my favorite lefty relievers in baseball right now?

1027
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: Okay, like those are very no mat.

1028
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: Fix Yeah yeah, I made den Noel noon you has

1029
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:57,479
Speaker 2: tipped the cap to him, but he's not here yet.

1030
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, of course not all right. Second part of

1031
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: this three part question, Mark need a question for me,

1032
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: So Mark favorite bagel order in New York City. This

1033
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: one's easy. It's obvious if I could eat cheese, it

1034
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: would be a part of it. So it would do

1035
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: playing bagel, Taylor Ham, egg and cheese. Just keep it simple,

1036
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: keep it straight, nice and easy on a plain bagel.

1037
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: And you don't toast the bagel. You can't be toasting

1038
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 1: bagels out here in New York. That's an insane move.

1039
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 2: No, I like the everything sometimes, but if I'm most

1040
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: not noting man, but that was back in.

1041
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: The I can get behind it and everything. I'm just

1042
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: I just prefer the playing bagel. Of course.

1043
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 2: I do think the everything is something you have to

1044
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 2: like one out of three bagel orders. Like, I don't

1045
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 2: think you could really do everything every time. Everything's powerful,

1046
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 2: especially with the Taylor Ham in there, so it's like

1047
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 2: that's a punch. You can't really do it every single

1048
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 2: time to do one. And his last question was for me,

1049
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 2: can't leave out James this, he's really taking a shot chance.

1050
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 2: Hair Vacation from twenty four season twenty five offseason. Yeah,

1051
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 2: I like to travel. I mean, you guys probably see

1052
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 2: in this podcast sometimes I move around. I have been

1053
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 2: doing the show sometimes nom for the last few weeks.

1054
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I think you know this too,

1055
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 2: Like just people behind the curtain, Like I'm not traveling

1056
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 2: as like vacation, Like I'm traveling as like shoestring, spending

1057
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 2: so little money like one dollar Anthony Ordain. Now little

1058
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 2: dishes inside the street, like I'm staying in like fifteen

1059
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 2: dollars hotels that they're pretty nice. Like it's just I'm

1060
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 2: I'm out here. I have a credit card point hound.

1061
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: I'm a maven, so these fights are always like half off,

1062
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 2: seventy five percent off. I'm just on top of my

1063
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,959
Speaker 2: credit card points all the time. But yeah, this Asian

1064
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 2: one has been really cool. It's been really fun traveling

1065
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 2: around here. I gotta say, being in Vietnam, this is

1066
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 2: a Yankee town. The Yankees one hundred percent owned Vietnam.

1067
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: The Mets own New York City, but the Yankees owned Vietnam.

1068
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: There's Yankee sweatshirts, Yank jackets, Yankee Nike shoes. The Yankees

1069
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 2: are all over clothing in Vietnam.

1070
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 1: Everywhere.

1071
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 2: I did see an off brand Lindor Jersey in a

1072
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: in a in a cheap off brand chop the other day,

1073
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 2: putting the mess up Instagram story. But while the Mets

1074
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 2: now own New York City, the Yankees one hundred percent

1075
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 2: owned Vietnam, and I will give them that.

1076
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: They can have Vietnam. Not worried about the Mets reach

1077
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: out there in Vietnam in Ho Chi min City.

1078
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean you. I'm in Honora and now

1079
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: this is a great city. I think I like it

1080
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 2: better than Ho Chi Minh. But it's been nice trip.

1081
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 2: Gonna be back really soon though, right with spring a

1082
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 2: training game. Start playing this really really well to hit

1083
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 2: that exactly when it happens. I'm I'm excited to be

1084
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 2: back because once we get back, and I contented this

1085
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 2: on purpose too, once I get back, it's it's fucking

1086
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 2: baseball seam. Oh yeah, no, Like the time between March

1087
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 2: first is lock it the time between the Super Bowl

1088
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 2: and I guess even the championship games because you have

1089
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 2: that two week break through. Both fucking suck this year. Anyway,

1090
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 2: the time between the championship games and the first spring

1091
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 2: training game, that's how that's the hell month for us.

1092
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 2: So I wanted to get rid of that and the

1093
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 2: best way I thought possibly could. And now it's just

1094
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,439
Speaker 2: it's it's go time.

1095
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I can't wait. I'm super excit. I was

1096
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: texting with a friend shout out Ernie, and I was like,

1097
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: I can't wait till March. First. It's like I'm going

1098
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: to Vegas from the twenty seventh of February to March. Second,

1099
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: I was like, as soon as I get off that

1100
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: plane and back in New York in March, I was like,

1101
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,439
Speaker 1: it's just Mets baseball one hundred percent of the time. Yeah,

1102
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: and I can't wait.

1103
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 2: One so, I was on the Mets, like you guys

1104
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 2: seen this stuf on social media this week, like why

1105
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 2: so is on is on the fucking Mets, Like I'm

1106
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 2: clicking like on every single thing that's posted about I'm

1107
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 2: watching every single video like it's incredible just to see

1108
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 2: anything happening to this guy in the team, because it's

1109
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 2: still surreal, Like I just can't believe it.

1110
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's uh pretty incredible. And we will be

1111
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: talking about that and so much more as we keep

1112
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: going on with the Mess Up Podcast. Make sure you

1113
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: guys are subscribed to our YouTube channel, mets up podcast

1114
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 1: over there. If you're listening to us, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

1115
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: Google drops the rating drops, review, download and subscribe, and

1116
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: don't forget to follow us on all our social media

1117
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: at mets up on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. We appreciate you

1118
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: guys so much. You can follow James on Twitter at James.

1119
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: He'll just score Shiana.

1120
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: I'm drafting Bark for the scene. We will catch you

1121
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: guys all on the next episode. Thank you for listening

1122
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: to watching. We'll see you next time.

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00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 2: Peace, peace out, Let's go mets.

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Speaker 3: Then the