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Speaker 2: Hello, Mets up fans. Yeah, it's a real somber episode.

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Speaker 2: It's a real disappointing episode.

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Speaker 1: It's a real AH. So you're gonna get a lot

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Speaker 1: of those.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna get a lot of ahs, a lot of

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Speaker 2: a lot of groaning and moaning, because boy, oh boy,

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Speaker 2: do our New York Mets stank right now? My goodness,

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Speaker 2: has this team season done a complete one point eighty

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Speaker 2: and is looking so terrible?

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 2: We were kind of negative last episode. It's gonna get

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Speaker 2: a little more negative this episode.

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Speaker 1: After a embarrassing series against the Miami Marlins, bad baseball

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Speaker 1: all around. Not many things redeeming coming from this series.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it. It's not gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: You'll probably get some good takes, You'll probably get some

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Speaker 1: good laughs. There's gonna be a lot of If you'd

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Speaker 1: like to see me and James, like I said, moaning grown,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be the episode for you. But if

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Speaker 1: you're one of these positive Mets fans, it's pretty tough

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Speaker 1: to be positive after this series. Of course, we also

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Speaker 1: went to Brooklyn to go see the Cyclones, got to

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Speaker 1: interview three prospects that we teased in the last episode.

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Speaker 2: Told you guys, we're gonna get three big names, and

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Speaker 2: we did. We got franc sco Alvarez, we got Ronnie Mauricio,

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Speaker 2: and we got Jalen Palmer, all for interviews. They're gonna

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Speaker 2: be featured during the farm report that we normally do

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Speaker 2: during the midweek episodes over the next few weeks here,

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Speaker 2: so like once a week we'll drop these interviews instead

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Speaker 2: of a midweek farm report and we'll you know, get

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Speaker 2: to see what our interviews sound like with Francisco Alvarez

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Speaker 2: and Ronnie Mauricio. Of course, if you guys want to

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Speaker 2: watch a video version of everything that we do over here,

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Speaker 2: make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel met Stuff podcast.

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Speaker 1: Our last video popped off. I think it might be

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Speaker 1: our best one yet, so appreciate you guys on the

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Speaker 1: showing the support over there. Make sure you follow us

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Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram at metstup. Make sure you also

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Speaker 1: follow James on Twitter at Jeter had No Range me

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Speaker 1: at draftneck Mark. Perfect time to bring in James here. James,

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Speaker 1: how we feeling out for this series?

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Speaker 2: After the series? I feel really just downright awful. It's good.

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Speaker 2: It's so weird coming off the high we had today

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Speaker 2: being with the cyclones all day and landing those big interviews,

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Speaker 2: to now come back remember the four games that have

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Speaker 2: our our zone per se for this show. Well, we

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Speaker 2: talked about it on like the walk to the car

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Speaker 2: and everything. We're like, damn, we got to talk about

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Speaker 2: this miserable, miserable team right now after what is probably

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Speaker 2: one of the best days that we've had in a

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Speaker 2: very long time, especially because the game today was at

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Speaker 2: by the time we got to Brooklyn and got their

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Speaker 2: it was really over. The series was already outside of

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Speaker 2: my mind, like the Marlins were completely behind me, behind us,

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Speaker 2: and now we have to rechannel it. And I'm not

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Speaker 2: that excited to do that. No, I'm not excited to

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Speaker 2: go through these games, but a last we will, and

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Speaker 2: we'll get a start off with Game one, and God,

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Speaker 2: from the rip it was so friggin bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we gave up.

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Speaker 2: A grand Slam to Lewis Brinton, who is a sorry

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Speaker 2: think we taught Lewis Brinton had hit this week because

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Speaker 2: grand Slam. How often does that happen? Howie and Wayne

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Speaker 2: were making fun of the Marlins lineup, like, oh, after

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Speaker 2: and then bang Lewis Brinson does it to him.

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Speaker 1: Dude, Gary hates Lewis Brinson for some reason. I mean

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Speaker 1: It's crazy the animosity has for a guy who's really irrelevant.

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Speaker 1: But boy did he make us pay this series. The

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Speaker 2: It's hard to call Lewis Brinson irrelevant because he was

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Speaker 2: because every single time he plays against the Mets, every

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Speaker 2: No, the series basically felt over when that ball went

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Speaker 1: I know you like Bender a lot.

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Speaker 2: I love Bender. Floro's a piece. He saved two games

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Speaker 2: the Thompson. Yeah, David Campbell, like they have created player, Davis.

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Speaker 1: We like to talk about Chase Anderson as created player.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins are I'm confident creating players. But they were

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Speaker 2: That's the all American bullpen we just named. There's a

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Speaker 1: That Grand Slam really just put us in a hole

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Speaker 2: he did like a rookie pitcher in that situation, with

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Speaker 2: It reminded me so much that Marcello Zuna home run

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Speaker 1: Why I gotta do that to me? Why you gotta

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Speaker 2: As am I, the pitch is gross again. I'll say

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to take some positive out of it,

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Speaker 1: I think it's important to see that I didn't give up,

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Speaker 1: Los Lozardo who looked all right, nothing special. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: While we lost this game, the offense didn't show up.

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Speaker 2: It's the a Rod.

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Speaker 1: It is such the a rod. And I hated that.

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Speaker 1: So Game one lost, terrible, awful.

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Speaker 2: Can I give a bad joke? Yeah, give a bad joke.

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Speaker 2: We're playing the Marlins and Confordo has floundered. Oh, that's

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Speaker 2: terrible joke. It's a bad joke.

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Speaker 2: He's saying it for a very long time in this show.

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Speaker 2: No, no one that could be better, Like even Taiwan

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Speaker 2: Huge plus Taiwan. We're looking for the future for him.

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Speaker 2: The fact that he was so dominant, like, oh, this

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Speaker 1: He was thrown like high and away like he just

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Speaker 2: So awful, so freaking awful. Tim Britton, Mets beat rather

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Speaker 1: God two sixty slugging. Yes, that's so. What is that?

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Speaker 2: It's crazy because it's not like this lineup is bad

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Speaker 2: And it's so troubling. I can't believe we're still having

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Speaker 1: It's frustrating. We even talked about it a little bit

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Speaker 2: No. Yeah, I don't want you to cast blame on

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Speaker 2: The guy's like, relax, like you're really good, why are

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Speaker 2: This team very easily could be on like a ten

432
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Speaker 2: to twelve game losing streak right now. It wouldn't even

433
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,719
Speaker 2: be shocking the few games that we've won. And we'll

434
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Speaker 2: get to Game three in a moment, because that was

435
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Speaker 2: a somewhat of a bright spot in the series. It

436
00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:37,919
Speaker 2: just seems like such a miracle when we win.

437
00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,600
Speaker 1: A game, and it shouldn't with this lineup. When's the

438
00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,720
Speaker 1: last easy Mets win, last easy Mets win. It wasn't

439
00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,840
Speaker 1: this series, It wasn't last series. It has to have

440
00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:48,720
Speaker 1: been Toronto.

441
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting screwed up the schedule again. Whould be

442
00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:56,879
Speaker 2: playing in between Toronto and Cincinnati? Last weekday series? Was

443
00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,920
Speaker 2: it the Braves, the Braves? The five game series against

444
00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,320
Speaker 2: the Braves, those were difficult games, didn't score a lot

445
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,240
Speaker 2: of runs either of the really scratched and Claude this offense, man,

446
00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,680
Speaker 2: it's rough, I mean JD. We also got a little

447
00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,840
Speaker 2: insight with him that his hand had been bothering him.

448
00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,399
Speaker 2: That's why he didn't play against the Reds. And it

449
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,879
Speaker 2: looks like his hand's bothering him again because his swings

450
00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,359
Speaker 2: have been god awful too. Yeah, he like swung right

451
00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,119
Speaker 2: through a ninety one mile on there fastball down the

452
00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 2: dick and he was like, my hand's like, why are

453
00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,639
Speaker 2: you in the lineup? Then? Yeah, if you're hurt, you

454
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,400
Speaker 2: can't be playing. And if the Mets knew he's hurt,

455
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,119
Speaker 2: how do we not go get a third baseman? I

456
00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 2: don't know, man, I'm starting like I hate being this guy,

457
00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,679
Speaker 2: I really do. And of course, Monday morning quarterback, you know,

458
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,199
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, hindsight's twenty twenty, but

459
00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,639
Speaker 2: damn that Mets deadlines looking worse and worse as the

460
00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,960
Speaker 2: days go on. You know, it's the worst part of

461
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Speaker 2: this whole deadline. And something that I thought about in

462
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Speaker 2: between you dropping me off from the Cyclones game. Then

463
00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,680
Speaker 2: I'll start in this recording. It's a really sick, disgusting thought,

464
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,160
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, and you're just gonna really hurt.

465
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 2: But oh boy, watching highlights from the Bronx to night

466
00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,359
Speaker 2: and seeing Joey Gallo hit like a big home ron

467
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 2: to give the Yankees a win. The Yankees had the

468
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 2: deadline that everyone thought the Mets were gonna have, and

469
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,640
Speaker 2: they're now parlaying it into massive success and a hot

470
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,160
Speaker 2: streak that is a good chance propels them to the postseason.

471
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:16,479
Speaker 2: And it's brutal watching that happened. And not having the

472
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Speaker 2: prospect capital to make the trades that we wanted to

473
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 2: and then not pulling the trigger to give away our

474
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,080
Speaker 2: better prospects to improve our major league team hurts like hell,

475
00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 2: and I'm jealous.

476
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Speaker 1: Hurts like hell.

477
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Speaker 2: We needed it badly, and it's showing in a series

478
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,720
Speaker 2: where you can't scratch runs against the friggin Florida Marlins

479
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 2: when they had no pitchers, even pitching. We didn't face

480
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 2: Sandy Alkintara, we didn't face Trevor Rodgers Pabolopez on the

481
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:43,439
Speaker 2: il like we faced nonsense every single game. We couldn't

482
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,440
Speaker 2: get hits, Braxton, Garrett, Zach Thompson, not saying those guys

483
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,920
Speaker 2: don't have a little bit of potential. I like Zach

484
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,680
Speaker 2: Thompson a little bit. Brax and Garrett looked like Greg

485
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 2: fucking Maddox today, But wow, can you hit those guys? Do?

486
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 1: We couldn't even hit David Hess.

487
00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 2: Oh my god. I literally had that note on this game.

488
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 2: We had a painful inning against the worst pitcher ever,

489
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 2: David Hess a career er. I think, like in the sixes,

490
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,920
Speaker 2: that's awesome, that's sick. I love to hear that too.

491
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 1: Lugo starting to scare me a little bit.

492
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if he's starting to scare you.

493
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 2: It's just he dies once. He hits like twenty pitches now,

494
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,239
Speaker 2: and the Mets are still committed to using him as

495
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 2: a multi inning due and he just isn't that like.

496
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 2: He had a super clean first inning. I believe I

497
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 2: was the seventh and they tried him back out. He

498
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 2: was way off, way off. You couldn't lookate anything.

499
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 1: I think Castro was on the covid il technically still

500
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 1: I think it came off. The next game, and of

501
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,399
Speaker 1: course we find out that Diaz has also gone for

502
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 1: paternity leave. I don't think that really mattered in Game two,

503
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:40,400
Speaker 1: but maybe a little bit.

504
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 2: I don't know.

505
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: They were trying to maximize their arms as much as

506
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: possible Mets bullpen. That would have also been nice to

507
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,880
Speaker 1: add a little bit too into the in the deadline,

508
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: Like the Mets just got the one thing that I

509
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,679
Speaker 1: think was probably our least concern, which was hobby biased

510
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 1: to play shortstop.

511
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like the curse for us, like not

512
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 2: wanting Adam Fraser. Now we got the anti Adam Fraser,

513
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 2: who's probably still worth like the same amount, and like

514
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:01,359
Speaker 2: war you know.

515
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it's so frustrating. It's so frustrating to just

516
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 1: have to go through these games. It's painful. It is

517
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: so painful because there's it's I hate being negative.

518
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 2: One of the best memes I saw that came out

519
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 2: of this series for Mets Twitter. I forgot who posted it,

520
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,400
Speaker 2: and I'm really apologize because I like to give people

521
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 2: credit when they post funny stuff on the Internet. But

522
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 2: it was a curb your Enthusiasm. A scene where Larry

523
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 2: David's walking out of lunch with Richard Lewis and he goes,

524
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 2: fuck you, I'll see you tomorrow. That was the series.

525
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 2: It's how I feel watching those best you guys, and

526
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 2: I'll see this tomorrow.

527
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: Luckily for us, the next day at least the Mets won, at.

528
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 2: Least the Mets one. But like God, we made it

529
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 2: so hard.

530
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: So difficult. You shouldn't have difficult wins against the Marlins

531
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 1: team who sold at the deadline. They didn't try to

532
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: get better, they got are worse entire starting outfield, scraping

533
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: wins against them.

534
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 2: We don't have Joe neshwe Fargus and Jake Hager and

535
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 2: will Fredo Tovar starting we have all stars.

536
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: We have good players.

537
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 2: I totally forgot about Jake Hager.

538
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: He got his first career hit with the Mets, and

539
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 1: then we said smell you later, DFA, Like, how badly

540
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: do we miss Billy McKinney.

541
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what that would do for Billy McKinney's

542
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 2: bat right.

543
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: Now, Billy freaking bombs man.

544
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 2: This game at least like the offense made moves early,

545
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 2: like Dom Hovey and Canforthough, although the bases with no

546
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 2: outs to believe it was the second inning and all

547
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 2: three actually came around to score.

548
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: Miracle.

549
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, just ring the bell like we did it like

550
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 2: everyone Merry Christmas ion or a happy New Year's, like

551
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 2: let's let's have a parade. But it was all a

552
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 2: complete nonsense, like it wasn't actually hits or like a

553
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 2: ball in the gap, something that we've really cried for

554
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 2: in April when we hadn't seen one and felt like weeks.

555
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 2: It was a ground ball out and then another ground

556
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 2: ball that Hobby Bias made a Superman slide six slide,

557
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 2: no reason he ever should have been safe on that play,

558
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 2: and then there was an error. Can never get our

559
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 2: be as traditional white with this team. Those were runs

560
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 2: simply because the Marlins are a bad team because they

561
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 2: play bad baseball. They don't they played no, They make

562
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 2: the most errors in baseball. They swing at the most

563
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 2: pitches out of the zone, I believe, and they also

564
00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 2: take the most strikes. They have no what they're doing.

565
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 2: I've always said, Donnie Baseball is a god awful manager.

566
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 2: If you ever want a proof, it's there. You know

567
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: what they do well. Though mel Stottlemile Junior, he's great,

568
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 2: he wasn't even here this series. Donny Baseball wasn't the

569
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 2: health and safety protogals.

570
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: No, I know that, but I'm just saying it's it's

571
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: still his responsibility. When Louis Rojas steps out and Dave

572
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 1: Jos wins a game, Yeah, we love Dave Jows, but

573
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: this is Rojas's teams.

574
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 2: One of a big positive from this game was Carrasco.

575
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 2: He again just looked very good. Looked like like the

576
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 2: top thirty pitcher in baseball he's been for the last

577
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 2: five years. He did lose it for sure around fifty

578
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 2: pitches once that fifth inning got kind of like dicey,

579
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: and that's because he's still building up. His team is

580
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 2: not gonna let him go very far past that, especially

581
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 2: since he's now shown to struggle at that point and

582
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 2: he's just not gonna see a lineup for the third time.

583
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 2: He doesn't really seem to have the command of all

584
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 2: his pitches yet. I mentioned last week how Carrasco was

585
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 2: throwing all sinkers. Now was his thing. This game, it

586
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 2: was all sliders through like fifty percent of the time,

587
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 2: which is something he's done in the past and had.

588
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: He's seen a lot of success while doing it, and

589
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 2: I think it's an avenue that could make him an

590
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 2: incredibly successful starting pitcher. He got eight whiffs on him

591
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 2: and twenty swings, which is just fireflames. That's amazing. And

592
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 2: you mostly use it against righty's, which makes sense with

593
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 2: a righty throwing righty sliders. And he was just dotting

594
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 2: them all loan and outside loan and outside loan, outside

595
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 2: great command. He'd only thrown four of them to lefties

596
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 2: until that Joe Panic at bat in the fifth inning

597
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 2: that seemed give him a lot of trouble. What that

598
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 2: guy doesn't do with power, he does it with taking

599
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: good at bats. That guy really makes you work. And

600
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 2: literally he had only thrown four sliders to lefties the

601
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 2: entire game, and he threw three in that at bat

602
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 2: against Panic and he finally left went over the middle

603
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 2: and Panic just made them pay with a fucking single.

604
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, Carrasco, what we've seen so far has been really encouraging. Yes,

605
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: if you want to pull something positive out of it,

606
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 1: so that if you're a Mets fan, he's not giving

607
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 1: you the length right now, but you have to know why.

608
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: But it's good to see that, like he's still very

609
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: much a very good pitcher when he is like in

610
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: his zone.

611
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bad Mets take of the week is all

612
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 2: the mongoloid, So like, he gotta leave this guy in there.

613
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 2: He only has sixty five pitches. He's pitching a good game. No,

614
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 2: this man has dealt with a myriad of health issues

615
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years. He needs to just

616
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 2: be okay. We need to like build him up slowly.

617
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 2: He's only pitching right now because the team is in

618
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 2: such dire strait. I'm sure if we were okay and

619
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 2: like generally healthy and not playing the worst baseball I've

620
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 2: ever seen, he would be on like a month long

621
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 2: rehab assignment. We just need him.

622
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Mets fan, you have to

623
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: compare and contrast here a little bit little ven diagram.

624
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: On one side, you got Carlos Carrasco. On one side,

625
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: you got Jaredykoff, and then you've got the middle. Jared

626
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: Iykoff is gonna give up ten runs, he's gonna stink

627
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: up the place, and you're gonna want to jump off

628
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: the roof of your building. Carlos Carrasco is gonna throw,

629
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: and he's gonna pitch pretty well. He's gonna give you

630
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: a chance, and you go, hey, there's a competent MLB pitcher.

631
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 1: The middle, they're gonna go three or four innings. They're

632
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: gonna throw the same length, but one's gonna give you

633
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: a chance to win, and one is completely fucking terrible.

634
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 2: Like giving a visual to the podcast listeners at home.

635
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 2: That's a good that'll play way better on YouTube.

636
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's ridiculous to complain about.

637
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 2: Him, No, especially when he's still giving us a very

638
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: good chance to win the games he's pitching like he

639
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: pitched very well this game. He did give up tour

640
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 2: in runs technically because Luke get let up the inherited runner,

641
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 2: which is a shame. Loup never does that. But I'll

642
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 2: give him a free pass because he's one of the

643
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 2: best relievers in baseball statistically, and we were in this game.

644
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,199
Speaker 2: We had the three runs early and then Familia just

645
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: gave up the tying home run to Aguilar that felt

646
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,719
Speaker 2: like a back breaker.

647
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: One bad pitch. He struck out the rest of the

648
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: rest of the inning.

649
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: All three.

650
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: His stuff is still nasty. Has Aguilar has just always

651
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: been a thorn in our side as a Mets fans.

652
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: He's a professional hitter, leads leads the league in RBI,

653
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: so it's no slouch. As much as we like to

654
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: take shots at the Marlins play hazers. Agular is a

655
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,239
Speaker 1: leader on that team, a guy that I would love

656
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: to have on the Mets, just for a spiritual leader

657
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: right now, maybe boost up the spirits, because boy oh boy,

658
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 1: there's no leader right now in this field. But that's

659
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: something he does. He leads by example. Nice home run

660
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: off Jerry Similia. I'll give credit where it's due, but

661
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: it's stunk.

662
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 2: You defend Jerry's familia like he's your son.

663
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:57,719
Speaker 1: I love Jerry's familia.

664
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: Who will do anything for him?

665
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 1: I will do because said, all right, here's my thing

666
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: with Jerry's familia.

667
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 2: You missed today.

668
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: Well, hey, I wasn't watching, so that doesn't count. If

669
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: I don't see it, it doesn't happen, of course. But like

670
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: I feel like Mets fans are so quick to say

671
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: Jerry's familia is trash and he's not the best.

672
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 2: No, But I think if you watch this guy pitch

673
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 2: and don't realize that, like his wildness is not because

674
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 2: he's like actually terrible.

675
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: His pitches simply just move too much. Sometimes, Like there's

676
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: a couple of nights where he's gonna throw a sinker

677
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: and it breaks eighteen inches. He's like, I can't where

678
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 1: do you want me to throw this? I physically can't

679
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: ever throw it for a strike. It's not possible.

680
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 2: Black magic.

681
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: He's he's a witch on the mound sometimes but and

682
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: other times he's like this where he gives up a

683
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: home run and then strikes out the next three batters.

684
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens, and luckily our actual trade deadline acquisition

685
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 2: Hobby Baya is really saved the day in this game.

686
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: This was the Hobby Bye's MVP game. This was the

687
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 2: top ends of the Hobby Baya's experience. You saw the slide,

688
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 2: you saw him play good defense, he saw him hit

689
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: a home run. That's what gets people cited about Hobby

690
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: Bias is when he plays like this. The problem is

691
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 2: the rest of the series he was pretty much nonexistent.

692
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: He struck out ten times.

693
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: He had the platinum sombrera today. I think he said,

694
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: which is jumping ahead a little bit, but he is,

695
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: So what's the word where you're like all over the place, inconsistent, inconsistent,

696
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: no volatile, volatile.

697
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: He is so volatile. So you're gonna get the good,

698
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 2: You're gonna get the bad. Today was the good in

699
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 2: Game three. It's a hobby, not today. That was a

700
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 2: couple of days ago. Now, yeah, it's a long day,

701
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 2: but he's been up since eight am, which doesn't sound

702
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: like a lot. But you're talking to a guy who

703
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: goes to bed at three. So I'm like running on

704
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: five hours sleep, a long day in the sun. I'm dying,

705
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 2: especially talking about this awful, god forsaken series. But Hobby

706
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: saved the day. We're gonna give the guy shit when

707
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,719
Speaker 2: he swings on three to zero and takes himself out

708
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 2: of a bat. We're gonna give him all the credit

709
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: in the world when he wins the Mets a game.

710
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 2: And he won the Mets this game. That's so win

711
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 2: this game without Hobby bias. That was clutch. He has

712
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: that top end that not many other players in baseball do,

713
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: and it's very happy to to see him use it.

714
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: And luckily for us, Drew Flow Trevor may come in

715
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: to shut the door at the end of the game.

716
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: They both looked sick, they both looked awesome. Two great

717
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: endings that thought. It was interesting to note that Drew

718
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 2: Flow came into pitch after Castro and Familia, which I

719
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: think shows like maybe a bit of the changing of

720
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: the guard in this bullpen, and how basically after our prediction,

721
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,719
Speaker 2: Drew Flow has ascended into one of the more trusted

722
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: relievers in this bullpen. He's officially on the A team.

723
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: I'll put them there at least while Di has opportunity

724
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: to leave. Drew Flow is on the Mets A team,

725
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 2: which is awesome because you called it very much so,

726
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: and I jumped on the bandwagon right with you. So

727
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 2: the Drew Flow podcast good looks for us as always,

728
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 2: and we gotta win.

729
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: Needed it badly, badly. I I think after the first

730
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: two games I was a little negative. I tweeted out,

731
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: I feel like Frank the Tank, which that's about the

732
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: lowest of low that you could ever go as a

733
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: Mets fans.

734
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 2: You said, I am Frank the Tank.

735
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever it was, it was bad and I was

736
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: like so negative and so down. This win at least

737
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: saved my sanity. But it just went completely out the.

738
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: Door in game four. If we have gotten swept in

739
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: this year, I would have I would have laid down traffic.

740
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I would have just kept walking into

741
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: the ocean in Coney Island and see how far I

742
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: can go. I bricks to my feet.

743
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 2: There was a funny meme that the Cesspas Barbique barbecue

744
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: guy posted today after he finished his his bike ride

745
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 2: from New York to Chicago, which is just insane behavior.

746
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: It was, uh, he got to the lake in Chicago

747
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: and it was a video of someone just biking, not

748
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: stopping right over the edge and just landing in the

749
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 2: water with their bike. That that's what we both would

750
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 2: have done if the Mets would have gotten swept four

751
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: games in Miami.

752
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: But we were lucky, we only lost three.

753
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 2: Thank God, save the season, baby.

754
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: Our lives are still intact here because they only lost

755
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: three because Game four disaster.

756
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: Wow.

757
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: Talk about the epitome of the Mets season. Bases loaded,

758
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: no outs. Love a good single by Dom Smith. He's

759
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: He's the single man this year. Extra base hits, not

760
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: interested singles.

761
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: Yes, barrels. Never heard of her.

762
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: Bases loaded, no outs. You knew it was coming, You

763
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: knew JD strikes out. Hobby Bias has an uncompetitive at bat.

764
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 2: When Hobby Baya stepped to the plate, there was one

765
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 2: hundred percent chance the Mets were not scoring a run.

766
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, factual, especially after hitting the game winning home run.

767
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: The day before. He was so excited to just like

768
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 2: catapult the Mets season with another first inning Grand Slam.

769
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 2: And he was just swinging out of his shoes when

770
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: the Mets all we needed was a flat ball and

771
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 2: then Canfordo came up, and I mean, come on, you

772
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: really think Michael Canfordo is gonna be able to score run? Now?

773
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: He did work to count two. Oh, then he did

774
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,239
Speaker 1: get screwed on a low strike call that was a

775
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: ball which then he got into three to one, forced

776
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: him though to swing at this pitch. He swung at

777
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: ball four and we scored no runs.

778
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: And I tweeted out the ah shit, here we go

779
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 2: again me because my god, once that happens, it was over.

780
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: It didn't matter that it was zero zero. The Mets

781
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: have lost the game. Richill didn't even pitch bad.

782
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 2: No pitch he actually pitched.

783
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the offense is just anemic.

784
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: It was also a real like swift kick in the

785
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: dick that rich Hall came up twice with men of

786
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 2: scoring but not mena scoring position. But he came up

787
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 2: twice and run producing opportunities the double play in the

788
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: and then when he came out came up in the

789
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 2: fourth after Almore's single with first and third and two hours,

790
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: I wrote in the notes, this is your time to ran. Yeah.

791
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: Are you happy? Are you fucking happy? This is what

792
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: you wanted. You wanted to see rich Hill and his

793
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: forty two year old ass swing a bat.

794
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 2: In my defense, the mess did not have Rich Hill.

795
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: When I was talking about supporting. You wanted to.

796
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: See Carlos Carrasco Tywan Walker went up left handed in

797
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: the game that he pitched because he was like, ash shit,

798
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: I can't hit righty. You wanted to see these pitchers

799
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: swing and bunt. This is the baseball you're interested in.

800
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 2: I've been proven wrong. I still like double switches, but.

801
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: Now knowing how much a DH would help this team,

802
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: although maybe it wouldn't.

803
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 2: You want another hitter?

804
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: Can we get to gram to DH. I know he

805
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: can't throw, he swing a bat?

806
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not.

807
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: I fucking hate pitchers hitting.

808
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 2: It is so infuriating, especially when we've had multiple pitchers

809
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 2: get hurt from hitting this year. That's the worst part.

810
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: We didn't even talk about the injuries that caused no.

811
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 2: I also, I couldn't even keep a straight face watching

812
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: Braxton Garretts just dot up ninety two, over and over again,

813
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: ninety even.

814
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: Why was her first round pick soft tossing lefty?

815
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, to happen again?

816
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: Happened again? Do the Mets like are they do? They

817
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: have a a phobia of left handed pitchers that throw

818
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: low nineties.

819
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 2: You gave me the take today. I think you saw

820
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 2: on Twitter that Dave Jaus just throws too good at

821
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 2: beatpay so the Mets can't actually hit in the games.

822
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: We're starting to try to come up with these crazy

823
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: reasons as to why this Mets team just refuses to hit.

824
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: Dave Jous just throws two good beatps. They only look

825
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: for pitches down the middle. But even then, the Mets

826
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: don't make pictures pay for their mistakes. Gotta be the

827
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: worst at like. I wish there was a stat you

828
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: can't find. It doesn't exist. No for hanging pitches. I

829
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: want hangers. Well, I want to know the percentage of

830
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,439
Speaker 1: pitches that the Mets hit that are hanging and make

831
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: out make like positive outcomes on They just don't do it.

832
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 2: Oh, if you give me five minutes, we could find

833
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 2: that right now. In the final'll use the search tool

834
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 2: and we'll do breaking balls hard of the zone.

835
00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: All right, Fine, do that.

836
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: The Mets of the seventh lowes whoba and breaking pitches

837
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: in the down the middle. Sick. That's dope.

838
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: Can you tell me? The teams underneath the Mets just

839
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: just interesting.

840
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: It. It varies, actually, because some of these are pretty bad,

841
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 2: but some of these are actually quite good. The worst

842
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 2: by far is the San Diego Padres, which is shocking

843
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: two thirty six Whoba, I'm breaking balls in the heart

844
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 2: of the zone. And then Dodgers are second to worst,

845
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: Then Yankees, White Sox, Brewers.

846
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: Rays, well wait for the worst.

847
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 2: Shockingly, Yes, those are the worst, those the lowest.

848
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: Those are all good teams. I'm so confused.

849
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they just hit the other pitches way better.

850
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably all right. Anyway, we dove deep into the numbers.

851
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 2: It clearly is non conclusive as to whether or not

852
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: this is actually important, But it's true the Mets don't

853
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 2: do it, yes, and all those teams do have pretty

854
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: big gaps between their wobas and their ex wobas. The Mets,

855
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: of course do not so a lot of those, especially

856
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 2: the Padres, the Yankees, especially Wow and the race. It

857
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: seems like love is a tribute to bad bad ball luck.

858
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

859
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: Well, I don't have any of that. Met's have no

860
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 2: good luck nor bad luck. They just don't love to

861
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 2: have some bad luck right now, Oh bad luck would

862
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 2: be sick hitting the ball hard and someone making a play.

863
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 2: It's so much worse to just stink yes, and that's

864
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 2: tend to have bad luck. Dead is a door. Now.

865
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: We did like have a little bit of life in

866
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: the seventh lowered the bases after the VR. If you

867
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 2: heard the Ribby single gave us a tiny bit of life,

868
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 2: like the tiniest little bit shot of life. If we

869
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 2: were on the machine at the hospital and be like

870
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 2: beebe bo babe, there's a little bit of life. And

871
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 2: then Dom puts one to the track. I know, two

872
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 2: pitch against again my guy, David fucking has worst pitcher

873
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 2: in baseball.

874
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Dom, Man, when's the last time that guy

875
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: really hit a ball hard? It just doesn't feel like

876
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: often anymore.

877
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: September O, Wait, who's got the It feels like the

878
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: old Dom's back a little bit here. The guy who

879
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 2: is a singles hitter will walk occasionally. The old Dom

880
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 2: could mean like a really good Dom or a really

881
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: bad Domb. You have to specify the old Dom when

882
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 2: you say that now the dom that did not sleep

883
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 2: well sleep at me. Is this whole team not sleeping?

884
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: Are they not getting are they not eating the right foods?

885
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 2: We're clearly not stretching and drinking water. We know that

886
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 2: there's something else is gomadically wrong what this team does

887
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 2: between the hours of like eleven and five.

888
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: I would love to just be a fly on the

889
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: wall and see what's going on, because it's just gotta

890
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: be incorrect, creepy as fuck. Well, all right, fine, it

891
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: is creepy. Let's pick up a positive here. Castro good inning.

892
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 2: No, it seems pretty back. Two days in a row

893
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 2: of clean innings. Stuff, all seems good. Command's back. The

894
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 2: relievers just kind of do this. You'll just have to

895
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 2: be really bad for like a few weeks, and it

896
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 2: looks like the world is crashing down. But they're all

897
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 2: just high aerians players. They throw really hard for a

898
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 2: short period of time. Sometimes you're good, sometimes you're bad.

899
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: It's why I think Cashro's probably getting bumped down a

900
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: little bit and you're seeing Drew flow come up. I

901
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: think Drew flow is just a little more consistent, and

902
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get on a given day.

903
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: Out of him pretty safely. Miguel Castro has the option

904
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: to be unhittable, but he also has the option where

905
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: he walks the bases loaded to Vladimir Gutierrez.

906
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens. All these things happen within Miguel Castro's

907
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 2: range of outcomes, and that's a wild ride that the

908
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: Mets take very often. Now, let's talk about my guy

909
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: that I defend. Yeah, Jerry's similia did not have it,

910
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: certainly did not have it. Did the classic familia a

911
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: walk single single? Usually it's a walk walk single, or

912
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 2: a single walk walk or walk walk walk.

913
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: But today it was a walk single single, and it's

914
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:17,919
Speaker 1: freaking Lewis Prinson, dude.

915
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 2: It was like one hundred and nine off the bat.

916
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 2: That was a laser beam.

917
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: The Mets might single handedly be responsible for reviving Lewis

918
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: Brinston's career. You want to talk about dead as a doornail. Yeah,

919
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: that guy is only playing because they traded away every

920
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: other outfielder in this organization. The other option is Magnari's Sierra,

921
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: who's essentially a twelve year old playing center field.

922
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: It's a good defender, damn. He would be like the

923
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: most physically mature twelve year old I've ever seen.

924
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: He could throw the ball farther than he can hit it.

925
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 2: That's probably completely true. But if this actually becomes a

926
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: turning point Lewis Brinston's career, I'm going to be irate.

927
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm would be so no turning point. He's bad, but

928
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: the Mets, like we said at the beginning, made him

929
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: look not bad, made him look okay.

930
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: Oh, he looked fine. And we did make some noise

931
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 2: in the knife off of my guy Anthony Bender, who

932
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: I shouted out on this podcast in like May, I

933
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 2: really called the Anthony Bender come up. That was crazy.

934
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: But it's just really bittersweet. When the Mets have a

935
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 2: rally and Albert al Mora is up, Brandon Drury just

936
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 2: got an infield single, Kevin Palara is on deck, It's like,

937
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 2: what are we doing here? Nothing's gonna happen.

938
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: When did Albert al Mora get back on this team?

939
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: By the way, two days ago, I like completely forgot

940
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: he existed for a bit, and I think my life

941
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: was better when Albert Helmra was out of my brain.

942
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 2: I had a moment this series where I was thinking, Wow,

943
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 2: if only we had Jose Peraza on this roster.

944
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: That's a gross place to be Albert Almorra. And by

945
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: the way, we're only still in that end because the

946
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: Marlins made two errors.

947
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just very incompetent.

948
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: Bad baseball, bad baseball team. It's just simply that way.

949
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: Moral of the story. We're in trouble.

950
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 2: Just to transition to our Phillies preview, I am petrified

951
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 2: of what's going to happen this weekend.

952
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,720
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it because I have respect

953
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: for myself, but I am shaking in my boost to

954
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 1: face the Phillies.

955
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: To all the listeners at home, I've been trying to

956
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 2: Eggmark to go through this game tomorrow night, and he

957
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,240
Speaker 2: gave me a vivacious note.

958
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: There's no chance. There's no chance. I am not welcome

959
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: in the city of Philadelphia.

960
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 2: I've said a lot of really bad things about the people,

961
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 2: the city, their culture, their food. I take a shot

962
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 2: any chance I can, because I believe it. That place

963
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: is a cesspool. That's where the human trash goes to live.

964
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: There are a bunch of mutants, and it's the asshole

965
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: of America. They want to talk about Jersey being the

966
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,720
Speaker 2: ard pit. At least we're not the asshole you guys

967
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 2: ate shit. There was a guy who literally ate horseship. No,

968
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: when the Eagles won the Super Bowl. I think you're

969
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 2: possibly mixing up two stories. Cleveland one hundred after the

970
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: Calves won the championship, someone ate horse shit on a street.

971
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: I think they copied the Eagles. I think they were like,

972
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: we gotta do caves.

973
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 2: One before the Eagles mental more, No way, I am

974
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 2: so positive you don't live on the internet and not

975
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 2: know who ate shit. It was the fucking Calves man.

976
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: Also, well, I'm looking this up right now. We're taking

977
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: another Jeopardy break here. Eagles fan eats horse poop during

978
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: their Super Bowl win. A Cleveland fan also ate horse.

979
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 2: And that would happen. First check the receipts.

980
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen.

981
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 2: You're right, okay, regardless, any place that eats poop is

982
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 2: not a place for me, and any place that also

983
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 2: has threatened me and said if you if I see

984
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: you in Philadelphia, it's on site, call me a pussy

985
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: all you want.

986
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 1: They're gonna kick my ass. I'm five nine, one hundred

987
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: and fifty pounds. I'm not gonna win.

988
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be tough for you and I to walk

989
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 2: into Citsins Bank Park three hundred pounds together soaking wet.

990
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 2: We would not stand up in a fight against drunk Philadelphians.

991
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: No, come to City Field. At least if I'm getting

992
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: beat on, someone else will join in and help. We're

993
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: outnumbered in Philadelphia, and there's nothing scarier than a bunch

994
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: of drunk Philadelphia people who hate me. That terrifies me.

995
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: I don't need to put this my life in risk

996
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: like this.

997
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 2: In terms of the games themselves, they actually line up

998
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 2: kind of okay for the Mets, it's really not that bad.

999
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 2: Stroman versus Kyle Gibson on Friday Night, that's that's really

1000
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 2: our shot here. We have to win that game and

1001
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 2: no like we have to win that game and just

1002
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: try to make people feel okay, because if Stroman loses

1003
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 2: to Kyle Gibson, McGill's going against Ranger Suarez Saturday afternoon

1004
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 2: in the four o'clock game. I love the four o'clock game,

1005
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 2: but Suarez is good. He's only gonna throw three innings,

1006
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 2: but he's gonna be very effective when he does it.

1007
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: So that's probably gonna be a Suarez piggybacked by either

1008
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 2: Matt Moore or Bailey Falter if he's recalled from his

1009
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 2: rehab assignment after being in the covid Iell Bailey Fult's

1010
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: a guy like a lot. I don't know if he's

1011
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 2: gonna pitch. He's not my Philly to watch, but the

1012
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 2: guy's great stuff.

1013
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: What about Chase Anderson?

1014
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: Chase Anderson, No, he's not pitching, but we really fucked

1015
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: that one up.

1016
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: No, he might pitch Game two if he's picking back

1017
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: off of I believe he.

1018
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: Pitched on Wednesday. He either pitched Tuesday or Wednesday, so

1019
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 2: I don't think we're gonna see him, but I mean

1020
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:54,919
Speaker 2: he probably went threw an inning and a half because

1021
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 2: he fucking sucks nuts, so whatever. And then Sunday afternoon,

1022
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 2: we're gonna watch Zach Wheeler destroy.

1023
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: It dice us up on his way to winning the cy.

1024
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 2: Young gonna be awful to watch. It's gonna be hot,

1025
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 2: they're gonna be hungover, and Zach Wheeler is gonna annihilate

1026
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 2: the Mets. He's gonna throw a seven shut out of anything.

1027
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 2: Ten K's three hits, one walk, and Tywe Walker is

1028
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: gonna just casually give up five runs and six INNX.

1029
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: Can't stress enough how important it is to win Game

1030
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: one because if the Mets lose, they get rid of

1031
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: the first place grasp for the first time in over

1032
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: two months. Yeah, and let me tell you, if you

1033
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: thought Mets Twitter was bad right now, as soon as

1034
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: the Phillies overtake first place, it is going to be

1035
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: the SpongeBob mean of everything's on fire and running around

1036
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: and like what do we do? It is going to

1037
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: be chaos. It is going to be hell, And I'm terrified.

1038
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: I am so scared for this series. J two real.

1039
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 2: Muto's scorching hot. Bryce Harper scorching hot.

1040
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: He's getting MVP talks Harper.

1041
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 2: I bet I think he's a good chance he wins it.

1042
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: I said at the beginning of the year he had

1043
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 1: great odds to start. He was like plus twelve hundred.

1044
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's weird. They're a competitive team. He plays

1045
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: in a band box and he's sick.

1046
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 2: It's good. Bet your boy has Trade Turner plus five

1047
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 2: thousand right now. Everyone, I wish they would have read

1048
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 2: my My Pitcher List Awards a preview beginning of the season.

1049
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: I had Trade Turner on there, plus five thousand for

1050
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 2: MVP and Brandon Woodriff plus twenty five hundred for Cy Young.

1051
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 2: Those guys are both around plus four hundred right now,

1052
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 2: two of the favorites in their respective awards. Follow me

1053
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 2: on Twitter. I give great advice.

1054
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: It is imperative that the Mets win this series.

1055
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: At least we have to win on Friday Night. The

1056
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 2: Mets Marcus Strowman has to go out there and put

1057
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 2: this team in a spot to win. And the Mets

1058
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 2: just have to hit three hund runs off Kyle Gibson.

1059
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: We have to. We always hit when we go to Philadelphia, always, always, always,

1060
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 2: And Kyle Gibson is such a good ground ball pitcher.

1061
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 2: He's the perfect trade candidate to go to Philadelphia. Of course,

1062
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 2: he does give us some fly balls. No one gives

1063
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 2: up no fly balls. He's very good. He only give

1064
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 2: us like thirty percent. That's way low in the league average.

1065
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 2: But we's gotta find those cheap ass bullshit seats in

1066
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 2: this fucking band box and get it over the wall

1067
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 2: like we did Cincinnati. Will this team to a couple

1068
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 2: wins with our bats.

1069
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: This team's gotta wake up. This is a huge series

1070
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: for the outlook of this team. This is a huge

1071
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: series for the season. It's a huge series for the future.

1072
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: I think I think this series will tell a lot

1073
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: of this team going forward.

1074
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 2: At least this season. I don't think that the rest

1075
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 2: of the season is going to tell much about the future,

1076
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 2: because we do have to remember the Mets are playing

1077
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 2: without Jacob de Gram, Noahs Sindergard, and Francisco Lindor arguably

1078
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 2: not arguably no unquestionably three of the five best players

1079
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,919
Speaker 2: on this team talent and skill wise through the number

1080
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 2: one and two, and then Noahs Sinderguard, who's a perennial

1081
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 2: All Star when he is healthy. So this rough stretch

1082
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 2: shouldn't really be unexpected, and we have hinted at it,

1083
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: and we said, like, this is gonna be difficult, and

1084
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 2: we've been doing the replacements all year and we've been

1085
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 2: finding away losing your two best players hurts like hell,

1086
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 2: and it's really killing this team right now.

1087
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: Killing this team. Huge series we're gonna be watching very

1088
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: closely and hopefully we get some w's and hopefully we're

1089
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: feeling excited about this team. One thing we are excited about, though,

1090
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: m was our a little Brooklyn experience. Let's just give

1091
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: you guys a little insight here because this was James's

1092
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: first ever time being able to get on the field.

1093
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: I believe as like a media personnel interview players, got

1094
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: to interact with some guys on the field, coaches, all

1095
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. I'd love to get your tike,

1096
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: because I've obviously done this for the last few spring trainings,

1097
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: and the first time I ever did it, I was

1098
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: blown away. It was sick. It's unbelievable. I'm interested to

1099
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: see how you feel.

1100
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 2: I was like in awe like for the first hour

1101
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 2: we were there today and just like to pull the

1102
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: curtain back for the listeners at home. We made a

1103
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: connection with the Cyclones general manager a last month. We

1104
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:17,919
Speaker 2: went to the game, we posted a bunch of stuff

1105
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 2: on social had a great time. And general manager of

1106
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 2: a minor league team isn't like anything with player movement,

1107
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 2: because of course the major league general manager handlers the

1108
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 2: player movement of the minor league teams, so he's really

1109
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 2: just like a guy who does things and promotions. So

1110
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 2: I used him to get in contact with the Cyclones

1111
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 2: VP of Communications. I literally harassed him for like a month,

1112
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,879
Speaker 2: just sending him emails and emails and emails, constantly trying

1113
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 2: to get this happen, he answered me at the clear

1114
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 2: blue sky and a Saturday afternoon, like a week and

1115
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 2: a half ago. I was shocked. I sent it to

1116
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 2: Mark because I couldn't believe he finally got back to me.

1117
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 2: Set this up like really by happenstance this week rope up.

1118
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 2: Some questions were really praying we were going to get

1119
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 2: to interview the top guys like Alvarez, Emuricio and Palmer

1120
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 2: and Jtgin and really all came through and it was

1121
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 2: just so I don't know, I felt so good like

1122
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 2: being there and having this happen and work out like

1123
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 2: it was so smooth, shockingly so just being able to

1124
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 2: like rub shoulders with two of the best prospects in baseball.

1125
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 2: It was such an amazing experience. My heart was racing

1126
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 2: when we were talking to Francisco Alvarez racing.

1127
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: Well, for those of you guys don't know, so, like

1128
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: James said, we had the four guys on our list,

1129
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: so we don't really get to decide who he talked to.

1130
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: It's pretty much who the guy brings us. And I

1131
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: know this is weird to say because they're like younger

1132
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: than us or like twenty year old kids, so like

1133
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: for us not to go up to them and be like, hey,

1134
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,479
Speaker 1: can I talk to you? Still a little weird, still

1135
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 1: not completely comfortable with that, even myself. So the guy

1136
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: brings us the players. He's like, I'll get you the guys.

1137
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: I'll let you know when they're ready taking VP whatever.

1138
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: We're seeing Ronnie sit down, we're thinking like, ah, maybe not.

1139
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: He was a little quiet.

1140
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 2: He was kind of just to himself, off to the side,

1141
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 2: didn't really seem completely into it. The guy talked to

1142
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 2: him and he just kind of didn't give a huge answer.

1143
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 2: Not that he should be like, oh my god, that

1144
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 2: that's the podcast, but he just didn't seem like he

1145
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 2: really cared. And that's fine. I'm not asking for him

1146
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 2: to care. It's not that big of a deal. No,

1147
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 2: But then he brought us Jalen Palmer, Yeah, which was nice.

1148
00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: He was our first guy that we talked to, and

1149
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 1: he'll probably the first episode that we dropped with an interview.

1150
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: And Jalen, I know, kind of sort of follows me

1151
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: on Twitter. We shared the same agent for a bit,

1152
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: so there'd been a little bit of a relationship there

1153
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: of sorts. So it was good and it was a

1154
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: great way for James to get comfortable too, because that

1155
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: was your first time ever interviewing a player, and as

1156
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: you said, after that interview, you felt super, super comfortable.

1157
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. I'll admit I was a little bit shook.

1158
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 2: We were interviewing Jalen Palmer, and not that Jalen Palmer

1159
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: is this like grand star or anything, but this is

1160
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 2: just the first time I'd ever been in that environment,

1161
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 2: like with a player, like asking questions, like trying to

1162
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 2: put the journalism hat on, like get something out of them.

1163
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,919
Speaker 2: It's a weird experience. I'm very happy that he was first,

1164
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 2: specially because he was our only interview that we did

1165
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 2: without a translator, which presented a new and unique set

1166
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 2: of challenges, which was still fun. Yeah.

1167
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 1: Shout out to our boy Ernie Subtape. We've talked about

1168
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: him on the podcast before. The biggest Jonathan VR fan.

1169
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: Make sure you guys throw him a follow. He was

1170
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: our translator for all these interviews that you're gonna be

1171
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: hearing at sub Tape Underscore. If you can do anything

1172
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,720
Speaker 1: to help us out besides you know, watching and listening

1173
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: to the podcast, drop him a follow. Really deserves it.

1174
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: He's gonna be huge for us in these interviews coming

1175
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 1: up here, that you guys are gonna listen to, super

1176
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: exciting stuff, all really good interviews, Jalen. Of course gonna

1177
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: be all English, so I'll probably be like the easiest

1178
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: to follow. Yeah, but we got some great answers out

1179
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,439
Speaker 1: of Ronnie Mauricio, who we were told was a little,

1180
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,240
Speaker 1: I don't want to say stiff, but a little hesitant

1181
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 1: at times, a little shy.

1182
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 2: How cam shy, Yeah, especially talking to two guys who

1183
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 2: speaking them in a different language. You know, it's hard

1184
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 2: to communicate like that. And the Cyclones people told us

1185
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 2: that these guys, especially Ronnie and Francisco, they get interviewed

1186
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 2: all the time. There's journalists rapport, there's bloggers, podcasters, beat

1187
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 2: writers knocking on their door every single day to talk

1188
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 2: to these guys. So I understand their uh hesitancy to

1189
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 2: just do it again, you know, because it seems like

1190
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 2: everyone probably asked them the same five questions. But I

1191
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 2: don't think we did that. And you guys are really

1192
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 2: gonna hear in the interviews some real interesting and kind

1193
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 2: of funny and it's a little bit nuanced questions that

1194
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 2: we asked these guys I'm really able to pull back

1195
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 2: the curtain and hope for everyone to kind of build

1196
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 2: up relationship with two guys who seem like they're going

1197
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 2: to be with this organization for a very long.

1198
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: Time before we get going towards the end here. Which

1199
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: one was your favorite interview? What do you guys said?

1200
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: What do you think?

1201
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 2: Oh? It was absolutely Francisco. He's electric. He is so

1202
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: much fun. All the Mets fans, I feel like love

1203
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 2: him already because he's so good. But he is got

1204
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 2: so good, He's different, so good. This dude's personality is

1205
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 2: a one, top notch like he is the type of

1206
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 2: guy you wanted to build your entire organization around. He

1207
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 2: is hysterical man, and he's so smart.

1208
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: We thought we weren't gonna get him too. He was

1209
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: our last guy that we got. It was right before

1210
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: the game and the guy told us it's probably not

1211
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: gonna happen.

1212
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, he thought we were gonna get Jtgin We got

1213
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 2: Francisco Alvrez and says, sorry, JT, We'll be out there

1214
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 2: at some point, grab you again at some point, make

1215
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 2: another trip to Brooklyn. But no doubt he from the

1216
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 2: get go was talking it up. I was testing the

1217
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 2: microphones out. He came by, Hello, Hello, like he was

1218
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 2: he was doing his thing. He was super comfortable in

1219
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 2: front of the camera, super comfortable, rocking shades, rocking shades,

1220
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 2: popping out the chest hair, with the chains and everything.

1221
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: He's a really cool guy. I think you guys are

1222
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: gonna really enjoy these interviews. Alvarez is my favorite one too,

1223
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: but the Ronnie and Jayleen Palmer ones are really good too.

1224
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,320
Speaker 1: So make sure that you're following the Twitter, the Instagram,

1225
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel because you'll get videos of these interviews.

1226
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: You'll get to see these guys talking.

1227
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 2: If you ever subscribe to the YouTube channel, I think

1228
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,439
Speaker 2: the interviews are gonna be worth it. Those are gonna

1229
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 2: be coming in the next few weeks during the midweek

1230
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 2: episodes instead of the farm reports. Of course, you'll be

1231
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 2: able to listen to the audio version as well if

1232
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 2: YouTube's not your thing, but again, I really do think

1233
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 2: the video version will be the best way to watch

1234
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 2: those kinds of episodes. And before we start the sign

1235
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 2: off here, I want to shout out the Brooklyn Cyclones

1236
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 2: for being very accommodating to us, giving us media passes.

1237
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 2: Got to hang out on the field for hours. We

1238
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 2: watch BP live, which was such an amazing experience. Listening

1239
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 2: to Francisco Alvarez and running Risio hit Baseball's was jaw

1240
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 2: dropping on inspiring. It just sounded different off their bad.

1241
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: Well, I've told you like and I don't think you

1242
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: can really understand until you actually experience it. I told

1243
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: you about my list of guys that take BP differently,

1244
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: and you can see it.

1245
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 2: It's so obvious. It's instant. You're like, that ball's hit different. Yeah,

1246
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 2: that guy is different. It's a little bit different when

1247
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:01,280
Speaker 2: Francisco Alveras is hitting ropes to the left field gap

1248
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 2: and no glove Joe or Joey.

1249
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: No Joey, no gloves Joe swoozy.

1250
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 2: He had a great game today and we were there,

1251
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 2: hit a hit triple to Urbis made diving play in

1252
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 2: right field seems like a fine little single a player,

1253
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 2: but the ball just sounds very different coming off his

1254
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 2: bat than Francisco Hell for us.

1255
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it was. It was an incredible experience. Super

1256
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: thankful to the Brooklyn Cyclones. Super excited to show you

1257
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: guys that content. As for episode number thirty of the

1258
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: Mets Up Podcast, that's Whe're gonna start to sign off.

1259
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: Follow James on Twitter at Jeter had No Range, me

1260
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: at Draftneckmark. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram mets Up. Follow

1261
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: us on the YouTube channel mets Up Podcast if you're

1262
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: interested in the video content. As always, Philly series is

1263
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: gonna be probably the most important series of the season.

1264
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: Hopefully come out of it on top. It'll be really interesting.

1265
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: Episode number thirty nine next next or Monday, I guess

1266
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: of the Mets Up Podcast will be interesting.

1267
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 2: If there's no doubt. Yeah, you can definitely go two

1268
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 2: different ways.

1269
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 1: You're either gonna get me crying and screaming and laying

1270
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: in traffic, as James has said, or we're gonna be

1271
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 1: shouting from the rooftop, so we're gonna be hard ea er.

1272
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,879
Speaker 1: Maybe there's not a lot of excitement. Who knows. As

1273
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 1: long as the metsater in first place at the end

1274
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: of the series, I'm feeling good. Thank you guys so

1275
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: much for listening, Thank you so much for watching. We'll

1276
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: catch you on the next episode of the Mess Up Podcast.

1277
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: Peace out, See you guys next time.