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Speaker 2: The New York Mets are playing ball right now. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk about him with Tim Healey. You can follow him

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Speaker 2: at Tim b Heey on Twitter, Mets beat writer for

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Speaker 2: News Day. Tim good to see it. How is the weekend?

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Speaker 2: In multiple ways? The performance from the Mets sweeping the

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Speaker 3: What's up man, it's hey man, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Both of those were a resounding success. Four and zero

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Speaker 1: They did a little bit of everything, especially yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: it's been a big success for the Mets so far.

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Speaker 1: They had a sellout, I believe Saturday night, but really

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Speaker 1: They've been beating up on bad teams, which is what

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Speaker 5: I mean, let's.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask you about that that quote you had

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Speaker 1: I think it was the offense because the pitching has

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Speaker 1: They have the best staff in baseball rotation and bullpen,

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Speaker 5: All right. So you talk about this pitching staff, is

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Speaker 5: I said, I don't know. This pitching staff's not there

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Speaker 5: like they're twenty two games you two, I've had a

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Speaker 5: couple year articles you'd said about it. Is this enough

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Speaker 5: don't worry about we won't go out. We won't be

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Speaker 1: I think they've done plenty to earn the benefit of

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna get to this since it's taken

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Speaker 2: So how's Mon Soto doing?

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Speaker 3: Juan Soto is doing fine? Do you want me to

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, Wan Soto is a great baseball player,

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Speaker 1: great hitter especially, so you know he'll be He'll get.

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Speaker 3: Just love it.

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Speaker 1: Peter Lonz has been off to a great start and

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Speaker 1: he is busting it around second to third. So shout

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Speaker 1: out to Peter Alonzo, who always runs hard.

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Speaker 2: You always get the hey, kids, you can play baseball.

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Speaker 2: You might not be the fastest, you might not be

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Speaker 2: You're seeing anything differently last one. For me, you've seen

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Speaker 1: Not really, He's just a rare kind of locked in

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Speaker 1: through twelve or thirteen percent of the season's absolutely doing that.

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Speaker 1: It's a long year, as we all know, but he's

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Speaker 4: Tim, by the way, tell them, I know you're in

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Speaker 4: the media food room, but I mean you're doing an interview.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 4: The press boxes are literally have known as if you've

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Speaker 4: whatever they're making, I hope it's good because there's a

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I don't.

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Speaker 4: Know if it's Howie. Is it Howie back there? He's

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Speaker 4: looking for that soud he has on in that picture.

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Speaker 1: How he's not here yet, But we got some popcorn

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Speaker 3: We got the cookies coming out, so it's kies good there.

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Speaker 1: The balls starting to get rolling here, so we're in

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Speaker 2: That's your food report.

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Speaker 5: Oh those cookies are good in New York.

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Speaker 4: And they always have a little ice cream on the

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Speaker 5: Notice I don't talk about the other it's always the sweet.

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Speaker 5: What should we look forward to for this series? I mean,

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Speaker 5: this is one versus two right now. They've always the

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Speaker 5: last few years, the Mets have dominated the Phillies. Pitching

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Speaker 5: staff has changed, but the pitching staff has dominated this lineup.

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Speaker 5: I'm seeing a little bit of a different outlook this year?

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Speaker 1: This series is very interesting and I'm less interested in

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Speaker 1: Phillies look like because I haven't seen them yet this year.

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Speaker 1: You know, more than highlight real packages. So the last

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Speaker 1: curious to see how the Phillies respond. I Brendan Nemo

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Speaker 1: and this is their chance to do that. They have

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Speaker 1: The Phillies look on paper like they should be a

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Speaker 1: the Mets have been doing basically a.

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Speaker 3: Little bit of everything.

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Speaker 1: But I think we'll find out more so about the

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Speaker 3: Maybe that's because I watched the Mets all.

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Speaker 2: The time exactly. Yeah, you definitely will learn more about

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Speaker 2: the Phillies than the Mets. Yeah, Tim, great to have

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Speaker 2: you on.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Go get a cookie per a j and we'll catch

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Speaker 2: you soon enjoy the game later great.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys very much.