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Speaker 1: What is Up?

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Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode of the Mets

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Speaker 2: Stuff Podcast, Episode number one sixty seven. This is gonna

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Speaker 2: be the last episode before we are at spring training,

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Speaker 2: before we have spring training games, I believe as well.

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Speaker 2: I think this will probably be the last one that

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Speaker 2: spring training imports Saint Lucy. So if you see us,

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Speaker 2: make sure you come say hello. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 2: a little more in a second year. We also have

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Speaker 2: a great interview with Jeffrey Belone, head of Mets Fix.

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Speaker 2: He created a Mets newsletter. We talked to him about

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Speaker 2: the newsletter as well as what the Mets are looking

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Speaker 2: like in the upcoming season, and a lot a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun Mets conversation here. It's baseball season. We're super

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Speaker 2: excited to bring you this episode. Make sure you're following

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Speaker 2: to see him, James, How you been man?

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Been good? Same old. Also, if anybody's listening on Spotify

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Speaker 4: and you take a little look at the Mets Stuff logo,

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Speaker 4: you might know something different. We'll touch up little Crisper

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Speaker 4: are going big league for twenty to twenty three. Tell

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Speaker 4: on Spotify, can know how much we love those.

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Speaker 3: It's that official New York Mets podcast.

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Speaker 2: Now, now it looks like, you know, a real logo

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Speaker 2: is made, not one that I got from five or

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Speaker 3: But the new one, it's it's clean.

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Speaker 2: It's a really really good look and hopefully we can

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Speaker 3: It looked great on a T shirt.

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Speaker 4: We'll definitely get some more stickers sometimes soon. If anybody

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Speaker 4: has the original Metstuff stickers, you guys will always know

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Speaker 4: you were special. You were the day ones you were

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Speaker 4: the homies. Now that we're going, now we're really getting

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Speaker 4: big time here. The new logo stickers will be cool.

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Speaker 4: But man, I'm excited to go to spring training.

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Speaker 2: We're ready to roll. We're ready to roll. Excited to

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Speaker 3: It had I'm just so excited. I'm super excited.

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Speaker 4: Get Out, Get Up. JB otherwise known as Jeff Blone,

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Speaker 4: the author, creator, founder of the very popular newsletter Mets Fix.

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Speaker 4: You can also find it at Mets Fix dot Com

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Speaker 4: and I believe on substack. So first of all, JB, Jeff,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going good. Excited for baseball to be back

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Speaker 4: Baseball almost is back. We've we've been keeping track of

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Speaker 2: No, one hundred percent, I mean the Mets. We've talked

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Speaker 1: And that's when you know, it's like again, I guess

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Speaker 1: reference to my dad and that's where my Mets fandom

439
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Speaker 1: obviously started from him.

440
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Speaker 5: But he always his jokes.

441
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Speaker 1: He's like, you know, everyone comes out of would work

442
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Speaker 1: when baseball season comes back, So it's all these characters

443
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Speaker 1: you kind of forget about and then all of a sudden,

444
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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, yeah, you know, here here's Gary, Keith

445
00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,840
Speaker 1: and Ron, here's the beat writers. You know, you're watching

446
00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,320
Speaker 1: sn y pre game, and it's like all your friends,

447
00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, coming back that you spend all this time with,

448
00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,880
Speaker 1: that that disappear during offseason.

449
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Speaker 5: So so it's excited knowing Keith is back.

450
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we're we're excited to have Keith back to

451
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Speaker 2: on the broadcast. He's one of the best. You talked

452
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Speaker 2: about you root for all orange teams respectively here, but

453
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Speaker 2: or blue an Orange. I should say football, though, where

454
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Speaker 2: are you going football wise?

455
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Speaker 3: Because I mean New York football is Jets.

456
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's the you know, it kind of makes

457
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Speaker 1: sense if you think about it with the teams, right,

458
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Speaker 1: but yeah, so football is Jets, and my dad's actually

459
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Speaker 1: been a long season ticket holder for them, So you know,

460
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Speaker 1: we're we're waiting to see what happens with the quarterback

461
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Speaker 1: situation here and hopefully because you know, I think they do.

462
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Speaker 5: They obviously have a good.

463
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Speaker 1: Young team and if they can figure that out, we

464
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Speaker 1: could finally have a fun season next year.

465
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Speaker 4: It's funny you actually have the perfect rain arrangement of

466
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Speaker 4: teams you root for, like the way it was like

467
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Speaker 4: actually ordained and supposed to be the Mets, the Jets,

468
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Speaker 4: the Islanders and next.

469
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Speaker 3: Like this this was it.

470
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Speaker 4: This is how they envisioned it.

471
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Speaker 1: I do have to be honest with the So we

472
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Speaker 1: have Isles fix, but I'm actually not an Islanders fan.

473
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Speaker 1: I'm randomly a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.

474
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Speaker 5: Whoa nice so that one that is the.

475
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Speaker 1: One that is uh, Like I said, we have the newsletter,

476
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Speaker 1: but yeah, the leaves and it's strange because the Leafs

477
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Speaker 1: and the Knicks have a lot of similarities. They're both

478
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Speaker 1: like historic teams, huge fan bases, but haven't won a

479
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Speaker 1: championship in forever. Somehow I got stuck with both. I

480
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Speaker 1: was originally a Hartford Whaler fan because I'm from Connecticut.

481
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Speaker 1: They moved, and when they moved, we got like the

482
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Speaker 1: hockey package on DirecTV and we'd watch Hockey Night in

483
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Speaker 1: Canada and it was like just totally different watching, you know,

484
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Speaker 1: watching that. So so I got into the Leaves and

485
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Speaker 1: I went to school up there.

486
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Speaker 5: But yeah, so.

487
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Speaker 1: Technically that's the one that's kind of out in left

488
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Speaker 1: field to not to ruin your point about the perfect connection.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, all right, James, ask your question. Ask your question.

490
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Speaker 3: I know you've been waiting for this one, all right, Jeff.

491
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Speaker 4: So you said your three favorite team over here, So

492
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Speaker 4: the Mets, it's the Jets and the Knicks. You have,

493
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Speaker 4: you know, your affiliation content creation for two of those

494
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Speaker 4: three teams. I have to ask Mary, kill Mets, Jets, Knicks.

495
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna kill the Jets.

496
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Speaker 1: I think that's that's the that's the easy one. You

497
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Speaker 1: got to marry the Mets, right, because you know, with

498
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Speaker 1: Cohen and I think you feel good the long Runner success.

499
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Speaker 5: And then then that leaves the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: Which it makes sense because the Knicks they are at

501
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Speaker 1: like not to get too deep into question, but they're

502
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Speaker 1: more they are that passion drive right where it's like

503
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Speaker 1: there's nothing like when the Knicks are actually good and

504
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Speaker 1: the garden is rocking, like it's hard to beat that energy.

505
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Speaker 5: So so there you go, y, they bring the heat.

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Speaker 3: They bring the heat.

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Speaker 2: I mean City City Fields rocking for eighty one games

508
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Speaker 2: a year. The Knicks, it's a very very small short

509
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Speaker 2: period of time where it's like I got I gotta

510
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Speaker 2: get to the garden. No matter if they're good or bad,

511
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be it's gonna be amazing.

512
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Speaker 1: Yeah, although I will say it's neat about the Mets.

513
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Speaker 1: Is that you know, and this obviously could change, but

514
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Speaker 1: I always say the best New York teams are the

515
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Speaker 1: best crowds are the teams on the way up.

516
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Speaker 4: You know.

517
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Speaker 1: It's like when the Knicks got first got a Mari

518
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Speaker 1: and they're making that run like there was nothing like that,

519
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 1: right and the Mets that's sort of where they are

520
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: right now and in City Field is what I think

521
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Speaker 1: you know, Yankee Stadium sort of used to be where

522
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Speaker 1: it was like a real unique place to go because

523
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Speaker 1: of the crowd, and I feel like city Field has

524
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Speaker 1: that right now, because yeah, the Mets are the big

525
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Speaker 1: market team to everyone else and they're spending all this

526
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Speaker 1: money to everyone else, but to Mets fans, we're still

527
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Speaker 1: the underdog, right, So it creates I think that great energy,

528
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Speaker 1: which I which I you know, I really like.

529
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Speaker 4: Today's actually just randomly the twelfth anniversary of the Knicks

530
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Speaker 4: training for Kamelo Anthony as well February twenty first, as

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Speaker 4: a recording that listening to it, yeah, I just know

532
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Speaker 4: that's stupidly run social media accounts. You gotta just know

533
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Speaker 4: the anniversaries of everything when you're when you're running accounts

534
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Speaker 4: for stuff. I want to pull it back to the

535
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Speaker 4: Mets now coming into the season. Something we'd like to

536
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Speaker 4: talk about a lot last few episodes of this show

537
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Speaker 4: is like identifying the X factors, the difference makers, you know,

538
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Speaker 4: not the Pete, not Lindor, not the Max, not the Verlander,

539
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Speaker 4: but the guys who are maybe a little bit maybe

540
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Speaker 4: off the beaten path, a little bit more under the

541
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Speaker 4: radar from let's say the casual fan who is going

542
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Speaker 4: to make a big difference. So if you had to

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Speaker 4: pick the X factor for the message twenty twenty three,

544
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Speaker 4: who would be your choice?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, I guess I'll pick I'll pick

546
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Speaker 1: a player and then a group. So like the player

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Speaker 1: I think is Vogelback, if you look at his projections,

548
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Speaker 1: they're actually pretty optimistic. Pakoda and zips from fangrafts, they're

549
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Speaker 1: actually pretty optimistic. So I think if you know, you

550
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Speaker 1: have him a full season in his right platoon role,

551
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Speaker 1: and if he meets those projections, then you know, I

552
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Speaker 1: think that makes a big difference in lengthening the lineup.

553
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Speaker 5: Obviously, you know they'll have to figure out the other

554
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Speaker 5: side there.

555
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Speaker 1: But I am hopeful that if if Darren Ruff can

556
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Speaker 1: kind of carry us maybe like a month, then you

557
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Speaker 1: can see if the young guys are ready to come

558
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Speaker 1: up and you know, and do something there. I'm actually

559
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Speaker 1: doing a piece for tomorrow morning. Ruff was talking to

560
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Speaker 1: reporters today about you don't always see this from a player,

561
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Speaker 1: especially almost a year later, but he was saying he

562
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Speaker 1: hit a lot of foul balls that could have been.

563
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Speaker 5: Home runs last year baseball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, uh, so I was actually going through

565
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Speaker 1: looking up, you know, the foul balls that he hit

566
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Speaker 1: and to give people an idea the type of stuff

567
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Speaker 1: we'll do in the newsletter.

568
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Speaker 5: And there was it.

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Speaker 1: There was a game and I didn't remember this one

570
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Speaker 1: when I pulled it up, but it was against the

571
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Speaker 1: Braves and he just missed a home run off Max Free.

572
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Speaker 4: That was the Friday night where the Mets went down.

573
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Speaker 4: It was I think it was taiwan ate nothing but

574
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Speaker 4: in the second inning and we brought all the way

575
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Speaker 4: back to eight to six, and that was the I

576
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Speaker 4: think that was one. I think he even might have

577
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Speaker 4: hit either hit an RBI double that same at bat

578
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Speaker 4: or just earlier in that game. But that was the

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Speaker 4: first weekend he was on the team, and I think

580
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Speaker 4: that was later in that game that he actually pitched

581
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Speaker 4: and disrupt or that maybe that was the next week,

582
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Speaker 4: but that was right before he pitched mess up and

583
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Speaker 4: messed up his neck and yeah.

584
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Speaker 5: Right exactly.

585
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Speaker 1: And then but it was like he was six for

586
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Speaker 1: like fifteen, six for eighteen something like that heading into

587
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Speaker 1: that game. He hits that foul ball. I think he

588
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Speaker 1: had one hit in his next like twenty plate appearances,

589
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Speaker 1: so you know, it really did you know turn on that.

590
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 1: You know, obviously there's other factors there too, but anyway,

591
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Speaker 1: you know, I think that's something to watch. And then

592
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Speaker 1: the group is the bullpen, because you know, I always

593
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Speaker 1: choke with people that bullpens are like cats, like you

594
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Speaker 1: can't figure out what the heck they're going to do.

595
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Speaker 1: And that's that's really you know, we know Diaz, right,

596
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Speaker 1: I think we feel pretty confident at this point that he's.

597
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Speaker 5: Going to be really, really good.

598
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Speaker 1: But you know, David Robertson, Brooks Raley, you bring in

599
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Speaker 1: new guys and you know they obviously have some pedigree,

600
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Speaker 1: but you just don't know what mix is going to work.

601
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Speaker 1: And that really makes a huge difference, right, you know,

602
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Speaker 1: I mean that can change your whole season if that

603
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Speaker 1: group comes together or not. It seems like on paper

604
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Speaker 1: they should, but I think that's the one I would

605
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Speaker 1: look for as sort of an X factor of are they,

606
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Speaker 1: you know, truly gonna be setting up this bridge to

607
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Speaker 1: Daz where that's now a strength or is that something

608
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Speaker 1: that they're still searching for. And we're back to like

609
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Speaker 1: we were last year, where you're looking for a trade

610
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Speaker 1: in season.

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Speaker 5: To you know, to make a difference.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we're we're big proponents of you can

613
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Speaker 4: never have too many arms, you can never have too

614
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Speaker 4: much pitching. Like we we love the fact that maybe

615
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Speaker 4: this isn't necessarily directly the bullpen, but that the Mets

616
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Speaker 4: are like eight starting pitchers deep, and a lot of

617
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Speaker 4: those starting pitchers like David Peterson or a Tyler or

618
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Speaker 4: McGill can be used in the bullpen early on in

619
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Speaker 4: the season if everything continues how it has, which it's

620
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Speaker 4: such an interesting spot because as Mets fans.

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Speaker 2: I feel like historically, at least in the last twenty

622
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Speaker 2: years or so, we've never we haven't felt comfortable with

623
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Speaker 2: a bullpen in a very long time. And we found

624
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Speaker 2: our guy in Diaz, like you said, and we're trying

625
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Speaker 2: to find those other pieces of bridgroom together. But realistically speaking,

626
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Speaker 2: this should be a bullpen we are comfortable with, which

627
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Speaker 2: is a familiar feeling.

628
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, absolutely, And then like you said, with

629
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Speaker 1: the starter death, I mean last year, it's like insane

630
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Speaker 1: when you think they won one hundred one games and

631
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Speaker 1: how few wins they got from the top guys in

632
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: the rotation right and now was because they were getting

633
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Speaker 1: like guys like you know, Negle coming through, and it's like,

634
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Speaker 1: where do these winds even come from? Right, That's something

635
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Speaker 1: that I worry about a little bit when you're replacing

636
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, Walker and Bassett with Quintana and Sanga, like,

637
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: we don't know, right, that is a pretty big question mark.

638
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: And that was a lot of quality starts that you're now,

639
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 1: you know, trying to backfill.

640
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Speaker 5: So so we'll see.

641
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Speaker 1: But they obviously have the depth that's there, and you

642
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: always end out using it. So I wouldn't be surprised

643
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Speaker 1: if in a couple months we're saying, oh, they they

644
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,479
Speaker 1: somehow need to add an arm, which which seems ridiculous now,

645
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: but that's just how baseball works.

646
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 5: Yeah.

647
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Speaker 4: I remember when the off season started, we did the

648
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 4: math and the Mets had lost one thousand innings from

649
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty two team when the second free agency began,

650
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Speaker 4: which is and that's all. And that's again, even with

651
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 4: what seventy from Jacob deGrom like that is such, that

652
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 4: was such a daunting task and it's so it's so

653
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 4: comforting this front office was able to put that together

654
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Speaker 4: in the offseason. So I think, I mean, I still

655
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 4: have a fun here. I think we're probably gonna get

656
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 4: closer to wrapping this up. So maybe, Jeff, if you

657
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 4: give us like a bull prediction or just a general

658
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 4: record prediction of this Mets team this year, or something's

659
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 4: gonna happen anything fun.

660
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that the fun thing that we'll

661
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: be watching on this side is obviously what happens to

662
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: de Gram versus what happens with Furlander, because that, you know,

663
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: you know, that's a big one where it's like to

664
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: lose the pedigree of the Grom and to think you

665
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: could actually get like a significant increase this year just

666
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: based on the mount he pitches. But in bold predictions,

667
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna hit a rough stretch, like I

668
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: could see the Mets like having a you know, a

669
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 1: stretch where you know, they're whatever twenty six and twenty

670
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: and people are wondering like what, you know, what's going

671
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: on here?

672
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 5: You know, is their problem?

673
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 4: You know?

674
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: And and then they you know, I'm writing in the

675
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: Newslet I always say it's more therapy that to people

676
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: where it's like trying to calm everyone down like it's okay,

677
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: like it's a long season. So I guess the bold

678
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: prediction is just like and it's not really bold, but

679
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: it's just people who watch baseball well enough. No, like

680
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 1: you know it just because they spend all this money

681
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: that everyone is obsessed about. But when you actually break

682
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: down the money, and I think, uh, Tim Britton and

683
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: Athletic did a good job this morning. Like it's not

684
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: like they they added like Juan Soto and you know

685
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: all these and all these guys, like they pretty much

686
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: brought back the team they had and they added an

687
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: ace pitcher, right, So I could see them not reaching

688
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: out one oh one number, especially with the more balanced schedule,

689
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: and I could see it being a little more of

690
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: a struggle to get there. But I don't think by

691
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: any means that you know, that means that they won't

692
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: be successful down the road, Like it's ironic that they

693
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: won one hundred and one last year and they lost

694
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: to the Padres.

695
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 5: They could win eighty nine this year.

696
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: Get into the playoffs and just have a better playoff

697
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: run and this team becomes more memorable. That's just how

698
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: baseball works. But I could see that totally happening.

699
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, like the division is still very strong,

700
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: like you said, with the balance schedule, it's like it's

701
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 2: good and it's bad because it takes games away from

702
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 2: the Braves and Phillies and we get to play the

703
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 2: Tigers and the Royals a little bit more. But you

704
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: also get to that and play the Astros a little

705
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 2: bit and the Blue Jays and all.

706
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 3: Those good teams.

707
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: And I mean they're they're rough patch or whatever came

708
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: at the end of the year last year, Like every

709
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 2: team has one. So I feel like I feel like,

710
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 2: like you said, we've talked about two on our podcast,

711
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 2: like it's a therapy session sometimes after these games where

712
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, it's one hundred and sixty two games,

713
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 2: everybody loses like sixty The best team in baseball loses

714
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 2: about sixty games a year. Like you're gonna hit those patches.

715
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 2: It's it's about really how you finish, and hopefully they

716
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 2: finish a little bit stronger they did in the past.

717
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 2: I had a little bit of a fun question that

718
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you too before we wrap up here.

719
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 2: Who's your favorite player on the team right now? And

720
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: who's your favorite met all time?

721
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: Fairman all time is a random one. It's rare, Donias Wow, okay, yeah, yeah,

722
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: it was growing up in Connecticut all my friends were

723
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: Red Sockey Yankee fans, and it was obviously around that

724
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: time you had Jeter and No Mar. I was, yeah,

725
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: exactly right, And I was the kid that you know,

726
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: was trying to make the case for Ray Dunias on defense.

727
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: So obviously he didn't you know, he wasn't quite what

728
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: those other guys were. But it was like I just thought,

729
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: you know, I brought up Frank Mail Keena with the Knicks.

730
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: I always liked the you know, the defensive side of

731
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: it where it's just not as obvious and you but

732
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: when you're watching, it's really neat to see, like it's just.

733
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 5: Not like how smooth he was, like, you know, making plays.

734
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: And I remember going to the opening day against the

735
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: Cardinals where I guess that was his first game. I

736
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: think when he when he gunned down a guy from

737
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: at home and a Paul the left field. So rayar

738
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: Donias was was my favorite met, the favorite current met.

739
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 5: That's a good question.

740
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I will say it's changed a little

741
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: bit now that I write about them every day. You

742
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: don't have the same like when you're just a young

743
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: kid and you're following the team and you're arguing with

744
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: your buddies, but it'd probably Diaz just because of the

745
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: path it took from the get here. And I was

746
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: one that defended him a lot when you know, people

747
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: were coming out like, you know, he could save ten games.

748
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 5: In a row, and it was like, what about in

749
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 5: a big spot? I don't trust him in a big spot.

750
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: You know, you hear a mad dog going off or something,

751
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: and and I was like, no, you know, everything says

752
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: this guy is good. He's just had you know, he

753
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: had sometimes he had some bad luck, even on good

754
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: pitches back then. But yeah, to see what he's become,

755
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: and obviously it's the whole thing around him coming into

756
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: the game now, it's pretty neat.

757
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 5: So so I'll say Diaz now.

758
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 4: I want to follow for the Raredonias is that also coincide?

759
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 4: Would say, like your favorite Mets teams of ever? Your

760
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 4: favorite Mets era?

761
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like for for a lot of us,

762
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: I'm interested to what you guys think, but like, it's

763
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: always tough to match those original teams you grew up

764
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: watching right when everything was new, and you know you

765
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: had you just had a different perspective on it back then.

766
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: And it's actually an interesting topic. I've talked to some

767
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: of my friends about with this current team where it's like,

768
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, it changes when I do think it changes

769
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: a little bit when you're spending money to bring guys in,

770
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: Like you know, the Mets did re sign Nimo Diaz.

771
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: He came from somewhere else, but like he's been here

772
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: now for a while, so you know, I don't count

773
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: them as being like a whole team of like hired guns.

774
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 5: But it is a little different when.

775
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: You're the team with the biggest payroll versus when they

776
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: were when I first started following them kind of more

777
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: the lovable Mets, and it was like they're the complete

778
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: opposite of the Yankees, And now the Yankees almost look

779
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: at us like, oh, I wish we could be that,

780
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's a little different. So so

781
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: I think my favorite teams were those original uh you know,

782
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: and then the Bobby Valentine years.

783
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 5: You know that that was like my prime time as

784
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 5: a fan. Are you guys similar in that time frame?

785
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: I mean, that's like the first teams that we would

786
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: ever remember just because of our age. Like I remember

787
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: like the two thousand and one, two thousand and two

788
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: like Mets kind of stuff. But I think it's it's

789
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 2: hard not to love that twenty fifteen team just because yeah,

790
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: I like as like an adult and like being able

791
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 2: to go to those games and experience them and like

792
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 2: truly like have those deep memories that I'll never forget.

793
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: I think that twenty fifteen team will always have a

794
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 2: special place in my heart.

795
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 5: The twenty fifteen team, though.

796
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: One thing about them though, was remembering like that team

797
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,239
Speaker 1: was actually pretty bad or a whole stretch of that year, right,

798
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: So because I remember thinking, like I grew up where

799
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: I was. I was born in eighty three, so I

800
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,959
Speaker 1: missed eighty six, but as all Mets fans, I had

801
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: that a year to remember a video about the eighty

802
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: six team, and I would watch that and it just

803
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: seemed like, oh my god, if I was alive and

804
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: eight or not alive, if I was like old enough

805
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: in eighty six, that would be the best year. So

806
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: then in twenty fifteen when they went to the World Series,

807
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: I'm like that that wasn't like eighty six, Like that

808
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you know, like they couldn't even score

809
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: a run for like a month.

810
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 5: Of that season where.

811
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 4: It took Superhero to get to the playoffs that you

812
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 4: talked about the lovable Mets, it's a little more of

813
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 4: a lovable Mets team than No, that's exactly it. Nope, Yeah,

814
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 4: that team basically had like a glorified first basement, playing

815
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 4: shortstop every single day and just finding a way to

816
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 4: drag to the World Series. But my team, when I

817
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 4: really think about, like the team that like really guess

818
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 4: like ignited my passion was definitely two thousand and six,

819
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 4: and that team, I feel like, if you had to compare,

820
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 4: it probably was a little bit more similar to the

821
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 4: eighty six team, where there was this mix of like

822
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 4: these incredibly incredible homegrown talents then these also these hired

823
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 4: guns and you just wall the wall kind of dominated people.

824
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 4: And then just the difference is in the finishing there.

825
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: But if there was no wildcard team, that team probably

826
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 4: would have gone all the way. But that's just a

827
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 4: difference in the rules that they said that. But that's

828
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 4: the one, like, right, Rays, that's the team that always

829
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 4: comes back to me my mind. Yet Delgado Pedro getting Wagner,

830
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 4: that was the one though that was.

831
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 5: It is amazing.

832
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: Obviously you know the final at bat there, but like

833
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: if that game turns different, with the catch and it,

834
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: you know, like you had the iconic moments.

835
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 4: Yep, Tiger stunk.

836
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 5: Yeah. Maybe that's the.

837
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: Problem though, It's like it's almost so painful, like, yeah,

838
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen they lost, but you were surprised they got there, yes,

839
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: and then you know they the series was a bit

840
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: quicker two thousand and six. I almost feel like because

841
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: it's so painful.

842
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 5: You're right, it was. It was a fun year, but

843
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 5: it's like you can't go back to it because it

844
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 5: was painful. The way it ended.

845
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 4: It was like the first time I threw a chair.

846
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 4: I think they when that, when that pitch came in,

847
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 4: I threw it and Autumn I flipped it and I was.

848
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 3: Like, oh man, I'm all in.

849
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 4: My first chair throw was two thousand and seven, the

850
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 4: last game the season, the time Glavin inning. That was

851
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 4: my throw, And I think I don't even remember who

852
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 4: had made the final out that game. It might have

853
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 4: it might have been Cliff Floyd put the ball to

854
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 4: the wall in two thousand and seven, maybe it was Delgado,

855
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 4: like right in front of those little like those stupid

856
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 4: iron little bleachers in the back of Shay Stadium, and

857
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 4: the guy the Marlins just call it right there, and

858
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 4: I just took it like little rocking chair had since

859
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 4: I was three years old. I picked up from head,

860
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 4: slammed it on the ground. What are you doing?

861
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: And I was like, do you see what just happens?

862
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 5: Right?

863
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 4: Yeah?

864
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So see all that stuff we gotta I mean,

865
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: this is the thing though, about being good again, right,

866
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: Like they obviously had a stretch there after that run

867
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: where they weren't even in contention. Well, now you know

868
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: that the flip side of being good. It's like when

869
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: you fall in love, you get you can get your

870
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: heart broke, versus if you're just dating. It's like that,

871
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: you know, we don't even know this season. We could

872
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: be setting ourselves up. Who knows what's ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: But you much rather be in it, I think, even

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Speaker 1: if it's frustrating.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's what makes baseball great too.

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Speaker 2: Is really, at the end of the day, no matter

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Speaker 2: how good the Mets look or how good any team

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Speaker 2: looks in baseball, as cheesy and cliche as it is,

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Speaker 2: you got you gotta go out and play the games,

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Speaker 2: and you gotta gotta just win. Like I mean, we've

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Speaker 2: seen some of the teams have won So the Phillies

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Speaker 2: that made it, they were like mediocre for most of

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Speaker 2: the year. They got hot at the right time and

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Speaker 2: they made it to the World Series. So I don't know,

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Speaker 2: that's what we love about baseball. And that's also what's

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Speaker 2: great about you know, following Mets Fix is that every

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Speaker 2: single day you'll be here and what's going on with

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Speaker 2: the Mets. If you choose to do it that way,

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Speaker 2: give maybe one quick final shout out here to what

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Speaker 2: you do over there, and try and convince people to

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Speaker 2: come come and join as well.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, I appreciate it, and people can find us

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Speaker 1: just go on Twitter at Mets Fix and you can

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Speaker 1: figure out how to sign up and everything from there.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just a newsletter. It comes Monday to

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Speaker 1: Friday by eight am. We send it out and like

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Speaker 1: I said, you're gonna get a rundown of everything that

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Speaker 1: happened the day before.

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Speaker 5: But then, you know, really unique in.

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Speaker 1: Depth analysis is where we try to differentiate ourselves, I guess, so,

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Speaker 1: so definitely come check us out. You can sign up

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Speaker 1: for free and then you know there's different tiers from there.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I really appreciate you guys giving the chance

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Speaker 1: to come on and talk about it and just reminisce

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Speaker 1: about these you know, we're all excited about the new team,

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Speaker 1: right and then here we are talking Reardonia.

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Speaker 5: Is in two thousand and six. But that's all part

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Speaker 5: of it, right.

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Speaker 1: We carry all this stuff with us, and I think

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to remind people this, especially now at

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Speaker 1: the Mets. You know, they're gonna be kind of the

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Speaker 1: in vogue team, I think with the way things are

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Speaker 1: going co in and we'll all be reminding all the

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Speaker 1: scars that that we brought with us that make it

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Speaker 1: where you know, we deserve this.

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Speaker 3: We we're not jumping on the bandwagon. We've been here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, We're we're Mets fans through and through, and there's

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Speaker 4: there's a there's a certain ship that every Mets fan

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Speaker 4: should and we'll continue to have on their shoulders. And

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Speaker 4: we're and we're happy with some content. Creators are going

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Speaker 4: to bring a lot of content this year. They hellp

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Speaker 4: bring you guys to it. So Jeff, thank you again. Everyone,

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Speaker 4: Please check out Mets Fixed. Incredible news letter and what

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Speaker 4: great conversation this was.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Jeff, all

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Speaker 5: Right, thank you guys.