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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 1: Mets Up listeners? Back at you here episode number forty

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Speaker 1: six of the Mets Up Podcast. I'm your co host

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Speaker 1: Draftneckmark here with Jane Schiano. Jeter had no range talking

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Speaker 1: about the New York Mets series against the Miami Marlins,

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Speaker 1: and I wish that we only had baseball to talk

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Speaker 1: about here, but we have some of course off the

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Speaker 1: field stuff because the Mets can't avoid a scandal or

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Speaker 1: a story for even twenty four hours, I mean not

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Speaker 1: even twenty four hours after the exciting doubleheader day where

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Speaker 1: the Mets took two from the Marlins. We got another

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Speaker 1: story about Zack Scott DUI twenty four hours after this

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Speaker 1: great day in Mets baseball. And so we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about the games. We're gonna talk about the Scott Zach

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Speaker 1: Scott situation. We're gonna talk about everything in Metsland, as

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Speaker 1: well as a little bit of a prospect report. And

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Speaker 1: for those of you who have been waiting for the

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Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez video the interview, we got official news. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be coming out after Labor Day, the episode

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Speaker 1: after Labor that's one's coming out. It just doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: smart to drop it on a Friday before Labor Day.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's going down the shore, You're going to the Hamptons,

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Speaker 1: you're going wherever you're going. Enjoy it. Wait for our

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Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez interview. It's coming, and I promise it will

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Speaker 1: be worse. We've been teasing it for three or four

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Speaker 1: weeks now. We're gonna talk about s baseball in prospects though. Today.

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Speaker 1: So before I do get going into it, you guys know, oh,

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Speaker 1: does help us grow, and we do appreciate all the

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Speaker 1: amazing support you guys have been giving us. Now's my

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Speaker 1: time to bring in James here and ask him how

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Speaker 1: he's feeling. Because it's been good on the field, it's

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Speaker 2: Still, we're almost so impervious to like the crazy shit

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Speaker 2: that happens in the Mets world these days. Immediately yesterday

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Speaker 2: white Planes. I thought about the meme of Jim and Dwight,

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Speaker 2: renewing of labor day plans. But when they're holding up

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Speaker 1: It was shocking because the narrative coming into the series

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Speaker 1: about Game one. I was actually at Game one, got

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Speaker 1: Some other weird stuff in this game is that Brian

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Speaker 2: The same thing happened to Pat Mezika his major league

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Baseball Savant who did not do that.

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Speaker 2: They kept it with all the eight August thirty first games.

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Speaker 2: Came back. He was active for the night game.

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Speaker 1: For the night game. But let's talk about what actually

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Speaker 1: It was not great. Taiwan our day man looked a

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Speaker 1: my god Dom smith In left field looked so horrible.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen two worse throws from a professional left fielder.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Brett Gardner can't reach the cutoff man, that's

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Speaker 2: That was the whole rally in the second inning between

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Speaker 2: Itt Miguel Rojas. I know Brian de la Cruz got

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Speaker 2: the same thing happened on Rojas single running. Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: They're just completely picking on Dom Smith, and it's so

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Speaker 2: obvious that the guy is not a major league outfielder,

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Speaker 2: and we have to kill the narrative that he is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is going to be an issue going forward,

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Speaker 1: because this seems like the first game that I can

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Speaker 1: remember that teams went it's Tom Smith and left field.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to just send them, send them, send them, because,

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Speaker 1: as you said, they were dead to rights. But it's again,

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Speaker 1: make a good throw, you're probably still safe because there's

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Speaker 1: to keep an eye out for here because late in games,

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Speaker 1: even more than they normally do. Now Dom cannot be

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Speaker 1: which we're not really crazy about right now, But I would.

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Speaker 2: Argue with you that every game still counts exactly the

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Speaker 2: same because it's all just one of one to sixty. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they're more like the more magnified Yeah, but they count

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Speaker 2: top of the second we had a classic Mets first

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Speaker 2: standing with a Brandon Nemo leadoff double. Of some reason,

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Speaker 2: Francisco Lindor sacrifice bunth that seemed.

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Speaker 2: And he did only throw four and two thirds innings

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Speaker 2: But again he did only have three called strikes with it,

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Speaker 1: No, definitely, And I think as we get deeper into

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what just happened.

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Speaker 2: The Mets have just signed Brad hand Evan Robins. That's

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, the mess just signed brad Hand. All

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Speaker 1: the Mets fans. This is unbelieved. This is a twist

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Speaker 2: Now give me that old guy right there, there's eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: God, brad Hand can't wait to see him just completely

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Speaker 2: I mean, if we're gonna allude to the next part

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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, I agree, he is better than Heath Hembury.

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Speaker 1: Heath Henbury is a fucking human. Reign delay that guy.

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Speaker 1: This entire game. The pace will play was horrible. The

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Speaker 1: But everybody on this team takes so fucking long to

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Speaker 1: Every count was three to two. It felt like we

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Speaker 1: But if I see a Mets fan act like brad

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Speaker 1: maker in this team, what fucking planet are you living on. No,

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Speaker 1: he's objectively awful, something I've been saying on and off

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Speaker 2: He's just horrifically bad. This The Mongoloid Brigade's gonna be

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Speaker 2: I'm very appreciative of that. He has a very unique

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Pete bases loaded, He's swung at ball four.

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Speaker 1: He this entire game, a lot of great foul balls.

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Speaker 1: gotta be selective. He wasn't, and we completely gave up

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Speaker 1: He struck out in the first inning with the guy

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Speaker 2: I'm always hype for Jonathan V. Harme runs he's one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like he's so weird where you're like, when

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Speaker 2: He just wants to be clutched so badly that I

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Speaker 1: In thirty two played appearances? M hm okay, So let's

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of this mathematically. Six hits.

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Speaker 1: say because we just talked about him trying to do

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Speaker 1: too much.

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Speaker 2: Here, six six walks.

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Speaker 1: He's got more walks with the basis loaded than hits.

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Speaker 1: Twice is metal weird? Yeah, that's weird.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not good.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. Three hits with the bases loaded his career.

438
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Speaker 1: That is a shockingly horrendous number.

439
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Speaker 2: Especially for a guy who's been about a two fifty

440
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Speaker 2: hither for his career, probably a smitche lower with tons

441
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Speaker 2: of power and lots of RBIs It's really really strange

442
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Speaker 2: fact that we should probably keep an eye on for

443
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Speaker 2: the next few years. If Pete Loonzer just can't hit

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Speaker 2: with the basis loaded.

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Speaker 1: What is risp? That's my favorite thing to say on Twitter,

446
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,320
Speaker 1: this entire Mets team, what is runners? A scoring position?

447
00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,440
Speaker 1: And they do come up with the bases loaded often,

448
00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,840
Speaker 1: This would make sense as to why we have issues

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Speaker 1: with scoring those guys because Pete, unfortunately, there's like a

450
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Speaker 1: mental block there when the bases get loaded. But while

451
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Speaker 1: that was the story of the game at the time,

452
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Speaker 1: there's a little bit more that happened in this game.

453
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Speaker 1: Cash stro two innings finally worked for one and it

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Speaker 1: was weird because at first I was like, they double

455
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Speaker 1: switched him, Like what are we doing? This doesn't make sense,

456
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Speaker 1: But they did need the innings and it paid off.

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Speaker 1: He looked good.

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Speaker 2: There was second inning was better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't smooth by any means, but he got

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Speaker 1: the job done, so that was nice. Yeah, And this

461
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Speaker 1: leads us into the eighth inning here where we had

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Speaker 1: another big moment for Michael Confordo and he came up

463
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Speaker 1: against Steven o'kurt, who's just a left handed reliever that

464
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Speaker 1: the Marlins have whatever CARDI b action over here. It

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Speaker 1: didn't feel good. You knew in your heart that Michael

466
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Speaker 1: Confordo should not be facing this guy, the Okare guy

467
00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,800
Speaker 1: again nothing special, but Canfordo has just got no idea

468
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,439
Speaker 1: how to hit a lefty this year, absolutely no clue.

469
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Speaker 1: And he gets up to the plate Oka at BAP

470
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Speaker 1: but doesn't really look in control, just kind of again

471
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Speaker 1: found stuff off and he pops up into foul territory,

472
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Speaker 1: which is like probably the second worst thing you could

473
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Speaker 1: have done, besides hittingto a double play there. Kiforida then

474
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Speaker 1: goes into the dugout and goes fucking nuts, which we've

475
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Speaker 1: never seen Michael Confordo honestly maybe show an ounce of emotion.

476
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Speaker 1: He showed a ton of it, and he was pissed.

477
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Speaker 1: And I saw this because my dad took a video

478
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Speaker 1: and sent it to me while I was at the game.

479
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Speaker 1: But I kind of liked it. I mean, get the

480
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Speaker 1: job done instead, I'd prefer that. But I'm glad that

481
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Speaker 1: I saw Michael Confordo, at least for once, look like

482
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Speaker 1: he gave a shit. It's not that he doesn't, it's

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Speaker 1: just at times his stoic emotion can get used as

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Speaker 1: like maybe he just is just kind of going through

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Speaker 1: the motions at times.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know. This outburst really stuck out to

487
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Speaker 2: me as again, something that I've never ever seen out

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Speaker 2: of backminforth though before two weeks ago when he hit

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Speaker 2: that or last week whenever that was when he hit

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Speaker 2: the big home run against the Nationals. That was last Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Actually yes, late in the game, showed live emotion rounding

492
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Speaker 2: second base, and later on the second game this doubleheader,

493
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Speaker 2: he also showed the motion when he hit a piss

494
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Speaker 2: missile out of the ballpark, But this was different. He

495
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Speaker 2: didn't come through and you could just feel months and

496
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Speaker 2: months of frustration building up to this point, just still

497
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Speaker 2: in the midst of like a two for thirty stretch

498
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Speaker 2: whatever he was in before he got the big hit.

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Speaker 2: Later in this game, he slammed as bad and he

500
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Speaker 2: slammed his helmet. Everyone looked and a.

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Speaker 1: Few times not just once yeah bang bang bang, like

502
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Speaker 1: I gotta get all my craziness out.

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Speaker 2: Of me, definitely, And Joosi came over and talked to him,

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Speaker 2: like right after pose arm around him, because we need

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Speaker 2: to do when a guy like Confour though, who I

506
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Speaker 2: don't want to call him a young player because he's

507
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Speaker 2: been the league for six years and so twenty eight, yeah,

508
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Speaker 2: we're about ready for him to have hopefully taken a step.

509
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Speaker 2: I wish he was a leader more so at this

510
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Speaker 2: point in his career, but you still gotta keep these

511
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Speaker 2: guys locked in because you never know you're didn't get

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Speaker 2: another shot, and.

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Speaker 1: Maybe this could be what we can look back for

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Speaker 1: as the turning point in Michael Confordo season. Albeit way

515
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Speaker 1: too late. But we got to pick some positives here

516
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Speaker 1: because we did get some magic in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 2: Some well, a lot of mat keeps, heaps of magic.

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Speaker 1: We got all the magic in the world. The baseball

519
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,439
Speaker 1: gods ascended from heaven and said, here you go, New

520
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: York Mets. We literally cannot write it better. Brandon Nemo

521
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Speaker 1: gets it started with a huge two run home run

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Speaker 1: to make it a two run ball game at the time,

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Speaker 1: dismissal to centerfield. I love seeing him hit for power,

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Speaker 1: and I know that he's not that kind of player,

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Speaker 1: but when you see the home runs a he's hit recently,

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Speaker 1: you go, man, there's a scary potential in this guy.

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Speaker 1: If he can just like really start to barrel up

528
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,359
Speaker 1: those baseball and gets some lyft on him, because he'll

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Speaker 1: get those doubles in the gap, he'll hit those line drives.

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Speaker 1: But when he gets lyft on it, he's got big

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Speaker 1: home run potential power. I think there's no doubt in that.

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Speaker 2: And he has done it in the past. This is

533
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Speaker 2: the least power he's basically had ever in a professional season.

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Speaker 2: I feel like he possibly has made the choice inside

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Speaker 2: his own mind to trade some more power for more average.

536
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Speaker 2: But he's hit the hardest ball of his career this year,

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Speaker 2: the one hundred eleven point five miles an hour. He's

538
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Speaker 2: turning in the highest walk rate his career at fifteen

539
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Speaker 2: point six percent. He has literally the lowest chase rate

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Speaker 2: in baseball. Number one chases the fewest pitches in baseball,

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Speaker 2: Brandon Demo. And the one thing he just has regressed

542
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Speaker 2: in his barrel rates. He's usually sat between like six

543
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Speaker 2: and seven, with a career high during the short and

544
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty season seven point seven percent. This year's down

545
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Speaker 2: on three point seven percent, just seven barrels one hundred

546
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Speaker 2: and ninety vallueball events. So you kind of hope that

547
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Speaker 2: he can put all these things more so together next

548
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Speaker 2: year maintain the two seventy two eighty average with those barrels.

549
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Speaker 2: But it's at bats and and play like this that

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Speaker 2: make you think it's possible.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and makes you go, oh, he could really like

552
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: he's been very good, he could be really special. So

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Speaker 1: it's great. And then Lindor comes up next and he

554
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 1: smokes the ball to right center field. The fuck is

555
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: Hayesu Sanchez doing there? He played him perfectly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you think about it, you talk about out loud, how

557
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Speaker 1: many times is a right handed hitter. Have you seen

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Speaker 1: Lindor hit the ball down the line? There's no reason

559
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Speaker 1: to guard it really at that point, Marlin's played him beautifully.

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Speaker 1: About the only thing they did right in this inning though,

561
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Speaker 1: because now there's two outs and they got Tom Smith

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Speaker 1: up at the plate and he somehow got this cheap

563
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Speaker 1: o shift hit which Brian Anderson I don't even know

564
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Speaker 1: how he got a glove on it, by the way,

565
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: great defender. Yeah, saved an extra base, but Dom got

566
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Speaker 1: a cheap o hit from the shift. Pete smoked a double,

567
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Speaker 1: which was nice. Pete Pete steps up in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 1: I will say that.

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Speaker 2: As long as the bases are not loaded.

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Speaker 1: As long as the bases are outloaded, Pete is ready

571
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Speaker 1: to go and hovey Baia's steps to the plate. And

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00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: again I talked about the baseball gods ascending from heaven

573
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Speaker 1: and given it or descending whatever it is, I don't know,

574
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Speaker 1: it is giving us the game and saying here you go, Mets.

575
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Speaker 1: Literally can't give it to you. I couldn't script it

576
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Speaker 1: any better. In my vlog I foreshadow, I was like,

577
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: Hoby Bias has a chance to come up to the

578
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Speaker 1: plate in this game to win it. How crazy would

579
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Speaker 1: that be? And he does, and he hits a chopper

580
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: to Miguel Rojas in the hole just deep enough where

581
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Speaker 1: Hobby Bias can leg it out, and we have got

582
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Speaker 1: a chance to win this game. Here Michael confordo up

583
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Speaker 1: at the plate.

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Speaker 2: Before we talk about before though, I want to note

585
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Speaker 2: how funny it was that Bias his first at bat

586
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 2: in the game, either in the eighth or seventh or eighth,

587
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Speaker 2: he was booed to high hell. All all of the

588
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 2: old men were ready for this one. Everything they say

589
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the game, I guess the more

590
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 2: people might have trickled in later on as his game

591
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 2: progressed at day game, he heard it big time. But

592
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Speaker 2: this that bat, they were cheers.

593
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Speaker 1: They were cheers. Everyone was feeling good, everyone was feeling excited.

594
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: They were like, you know what, we gotta say positive,

595
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 1: We got a chance to win this game. Hobby with

596
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: that chopper keeps the game going, and it's got Michael

597
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Speaker 1: Confordo now up at the plate against the Marlins, who

598
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: he's got some history with. This year, he stuck out

599
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: the elbow. He's been a thorn in this team side,

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00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 1: not necessarily because of his play, but because of the

601
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: luck that he's gotten in how he's playing against this

602
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: Marlins team. And he slashes one right down the line.

603
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: First pitch he sees Hobby Bias is running from first

604
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: base and scores from first base on a ball that's

605
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Speaker 1: hit to left field because the Marlins for some reason

606
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Speaker 1: left Horree al Farrow in left field. I can't even

607
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Speaker 1: Don Maddingley, I talk about it all the time, is

608
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: just one of the worst managers in baseball. He's great

609
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Speaker 1: with a young team because he is a player manager,

610
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Speaker 1: but in terms of actual game decisions, people want to

611
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: talk about Luis Rojas not knowing what he's doing. Don

612
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: maddingly does have a fucking clue. I mean, this guy

613
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: has no idea. He's pulled Clinton Kershoff for Adam Librator before.

614
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 2: Dude. The craziest thing was that they sent up Magnarius

615
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 2: Sierra in the I believe that was the eighth inning

616
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Speaker 2: or the seventh inning as a pinch hither and they

617
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Speaker 2: did not put him in the outfield. He's a plus

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00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 2: plus plus defender out there. The only reason he's still

619
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Speaker 2: in the Major League is because of athleticism and a

620
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 2: billion in the outfield. And they left a catcher, Jorgel

621
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Speaker 2: Farrow out there who does have a cannon for an arm.

622
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Speaker 2: He really made that play interesting, but he just completely

623
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Speaker 2: like snow cone the ball and left fid scooped in

624
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 2: the air, kicked at five feet away from him, and

625
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 2: that gave Hobby all he needed to get around.

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Speaker 1: And boy did he score and the Mets win. The

627
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 1: Mets were dead for eight and a half innings and

628
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: in the ninth inning, with a two out rally, here

629
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Speaker 1: the Mets go ahead and win. They score five runs

630
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: in the ninth inning. Get so much energy, so much excitement,

631
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Speaker 1: and it made you forget about all the nonsense and

632
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,239
Speaker 1: all the booing and all of that. You were like,

633
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: whatever it is that just happened. This could be a

634
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,479
Speaker 1: turning point for the New York Mets and lead us

635
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Speaker 1: into Game two. Now, before we do talk about that, Gary,

636
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: Keith and Ron were going off. It was awesome their reaction.

637
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: Gary is just simply the best in the business. I

638
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: feel like that's just been cemented now that he's just

639
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: so good on the mic. His calls are fantastic, no.

640
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Speaker 2: Great the classic pen throw. I also liked watching the

641
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 2: difference between Gary, Ron and Keith as this was happening,

642
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 2: because Keith was unamused the second the ball went and play,

643
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 2: Gary shot up in the air. He might have been

644
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 2: standing just to make the call. Anyway, He's like so

645
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: much the perfect combination of fan and announcer. I don't

646
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 2: even think it's perfect because he's way more of a

647
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Speaker 2: Mets fan than he is like an announcer. I am.

648
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 2: I feel bad for all the other fans in baseball

649
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 2: that they don't have diehards calling their games a nightly basis,

650
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: because he's like conversing his whole body, He's pumping his

651
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: fist in the air, He's going.

652
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: He's going go he's gonna score, and that's like what

653
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: makes the call so great is that he cares. But

654
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 1: he's not a homer either by any means. He will

655
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 1: critique the Mets, and that's what I feel like a

656
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: lot of people hate about other teams broadcast is they

657
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: won't talk about or they talk about their team too much,

658
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: only in positive aspects. Scary will get a little negative sometimes,

659
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: But when the Mets do things right, there's nobody better

660
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: on the mike than Gary. So that was great. That

661
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: was a really good game. One looked like it could

662
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: have been really, really, really bad, losing that game to

663
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: the Marlins five to one. Before that inning, the team

664
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: was dead, no juice. It was quiet. Everyone was kind

665
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: of just standing around, kicking the dirt, looking at their shoes.

666
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: There was nothing going on there. But the ninth inning

667
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: it got a spark and this led into Game two.

668
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: The good vibes continued and they kept.

669
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 2: Rolling definitely, and we had contact King Trevor Williams on

670
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: the hill, who did one of the most unbelievable things

671
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 2: I've ever seen in a baseball game in the first

672
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 2: inning Game two, throwing a seven pitch inning that included

673
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: two hits, I've never seen anything like that before. I mean,

674
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: we talked about it when he was on the Cubs.

675
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 2: He's very unimpressive. He's yeah, nothing much.

676
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: But if he's gonna pitch the contact and we're gonna

677
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: play the defense the right way and we've got good

678
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: gloves behind him, it's gonna work.

679
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: And playing against the Miles lineup and.

680
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: In city field, which doesn't give up pits.

681
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did wind up with like a low key,

682
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 2: like pretty good outing. He had twenty five percent whiffs,

683
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: four strikeouts, and four plus innings and all of that

684
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 2: happened by throwing seventy five percent four seam fastballs in

685
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 2: ninety one miles an hour. Which do you do what

686
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 2: you do? You do what you do?

687
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: You do what you do, You do what you do,

688
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: And that's what Trevor Williams did. He pitched and he

689
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: was good enough. That's all we needed in a seven

690
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: inning game was for him to give us just a

691
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: tiny little bit of length so that we can have

692
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: the actual bullpen arm comes in. It also helped that

693
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: we got some runs. Michael Canfordo we talked about this

694
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: might be the turning point. What a fucking shot that was.

695
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time Michael Confordo hit one

696
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: into the Coca Cola corner. It was a breath of

697
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: fresh air to see that swing, because that seemed like

698
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: the first time this year he truly crushed a baseball.

699
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: Well, you were correct, because that was his hardest hit

700
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 2: ball of the season at one hundred eleven miles an

701
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: now where he traveled and esta made four hundred and

702
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: thirty five feet and he was fucking jacked up rounding

703
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 2: second base screaming let's go yeah. And it did suck.

704
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 2: That took his four endings score a run off Edward Cabrera.

705
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 2: Because while he has great pedigree, I wasn't like thoroughly

706
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: impressed by his stuff.

707
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: He just looks fine right now. I don't know what

708
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: it is. I don't know if there's something. Maybe maybe

709
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: the scouting reports were wrong on him. I don't know,

710
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: but the two games that he's had so far, he

711
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: hasn't had the stuff that we thought he would.

712
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: I mean, he has a real breath of scatting reports.

713
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 2: There are some people who swear that he could be

714
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 2: an ace, and there's a lot of people who are like,

715
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: he'll probably be a good reliever. I probably lean more

716
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 2: towards the ladder there. I think he's could be a

717
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 2: back end star either, but I don't see the swing

718
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 2: and miss stuff coming across that larger ending sample. They

719
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 2: could do it. I think it'd be a reliever if

720
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: he was trained that way. But let the kids start

721
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 2: see what he has. I'm just happy that he didn't

722
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: have that much of this game because after they can

723
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 2: four of the home run, Hobby hit a single and

724
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 2: then McNeil immediately put one in the gap to get

725
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 2: us another run. Three nothing, and it just felt like,

726
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 2: for the first time in a long time that this

727
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 2: is how this shoit is supposed to work. Like all

728
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 2: of these good hitters stacked in the lineup should be

729
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: hitting the ball on a consistent basis and scoring runs.

730
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: In theory, this should be a very hard lineup to face. Yea,

731
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: and that hasn't been the case this year by any means.

732
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: But it should be. It should be good, it should

733
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: be deep. There should be this depth that we were seeing.

734
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: And it finally started to feel like it was coming

735
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: together here from the ninth inning in Game one onto

736
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: Game two, which is really just it was refreshing to see.

737
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: It was the first time in a while with this

738
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: Mets team that we're like, Wow, here we go. This

739
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:47,719
Speaker 1: is what it was supposed to feel like.

740
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 2: Definitely, and we did have I don't want to say

741
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 2: a scare, but there were moments of nervousness and the

742
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 2: fifth end of this game because Trevor Williams came back

743
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 2: out and while most Mets fans would see a guy

744
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: who has four strikeouts and is thrown four five pitch

745
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: into four innings, you'd be like, you have sent him out.

746
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: There's no reason Trevor Williams to come out for the

747
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: fifth inning of this game.

748
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: He not a seven inning game as well.

749
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. This is basically the seventh inning of

750
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: a nine inning game. You should be getting into the

751
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: good parts of your bullpen right now. And then he

752
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: let two guys get on base and the Marlin sends

753
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 2: up Paysus Aguilar as a pitch hither right now? At worst,

754
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 2: you should have been taking Trevor Williams out of the game, please,

755
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 2: And Luis Rojas didn't. He let him face Aguilar, He

756
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 2: got out of base hit score the run, which was

757
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: just a lock and a half now is three to

758
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 2: one men on Aaron loop comes in walks about her.

759
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: I will say to Luis Rojas's defense here and even

760
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: Trevor Williams, that pitch was a really good pitch by

761
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: Trevor Williams. It was like two inches off the plate.

762
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: That Aguilar is just a professional hitter and just served

763
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: it into right field. So like it wasn't like he

764
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: really made a mistake. He just got beat because Aguilar

765
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: is better than Trevor Williams.

766
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, an Aguilar is the scariest hit in this lineup.

767
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 2: I'd say by a wide margin. Leads the National League

768
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 2: in RBIs, which is the best stat of the baseball season. Yeah,

769
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 2: and he just you shouldn't. You shouldn't let Trevor Williams

770
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 2: face him in his situation where you can get hurt.

771
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: And we're lucky it was a pitch at Astrackton because

772
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: it only turned out to be a one RBI hit

773
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 2: instead of a through Rent homer.

774
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the conversation that we've had with the Giants

775
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: of you gotta put your guys in advantageous situations. We

776
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: did not have the advantage having Trevor Williams versus their

777
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: best hitter on their team.

778
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 2: No, and you just should take him out, just take

779
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 2: him out of the situation. And then luckily Loop got

780
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 2: a double play to get out of it after he

781
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 2: did walk Jazz. I think was Jazz. I think he

782
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 2: walked Jazz afterwards.

783
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: So I don't remember who it was, but he got

784
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 1: the luckiest double play. Even after the game with his

785
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: bush light, he was like, I just saw the ball

786
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: ended up in my glove.

787
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. And there seems to be some negative

788
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 2: regression happening for Loop something in particular a week or

789
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 2: so ago. But the guy still has some magic. He's

790
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,719
Speaker 2: got magic. I think he turned wound up being the

791
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: first Mets pitcher in history to finish three individual months

792
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 2: when e ra in the ones with a minimum of

793
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 2: ten innx pitched, which is pretty fucking good.

794
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: No, he's been like, even when he is regressing a

795
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: little bit here, he still is a very very good

796
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: left handed reliever for US.

797
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic. And then Lugo came in right after for

798
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 2: the sixth he let two Marlins on. This was when

799
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: Jazz took a walk. Actual, I'm pretty sure he took

800
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: a walk off Lugo right and then he just made

801
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 2: mincemeat of the trash hitters Magnarius Sierra, Sandy Leone, and

802
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 2: Isan Diaz.

803
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: That curveball he threw for the strikeout to get out

804
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: of the inning was disgusting. I was like, I actually

805
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: don't know how anybody one doesn't swing at it, and

806
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: two if you do, I don't know how you hit it.

807
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: It dropped a two feet.

808
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 2: It also made me mad because he was nibbling with

809
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 2: fastballs that whole inning. I was like, bring the fucking hammer,

810
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 2: Bring the fucking hammer. I was like in a I was,

811
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: I was. I was in some mood on Tuesday night.

812
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: I was in I was in a restaurant with my parents.

813
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 2: I was drunk, screaming the television. The guys in there

814
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: were big, big Mets fans. Shout out at Eva's in Kenilworth.

815
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 2: They're gonna listen to this episode, they told me. Apparently,

816
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: So I hope you guys do, because here's the shout out.

817
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice.

818
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 2: Uh.

819
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: And luckily we got out of it. And then Diaz

820
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: comes in shuts the door because Edwin Das is so good,

821
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: he's elite, he's one of the best closers in the game.

822
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: And the Mets win. The Mets take two on a

823
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: doubleheader day. When does that happen?

824
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: Not often?

825
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: Not often. Now we do have a give a quick

826
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: shout out to how He Rose, thought some prayers. Hope

827
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be okay. He's going under some medical procedures

828
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: I believe right, and he is not going to be

829
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: finishing out the season on the radio. He has to

830
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: step away from the team, step away from the job,

831
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: So it sounds like it could maybe be serious. We

832
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: hope the best for how He Best wishes legendary radio broadcaster.

833
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 2: The Mets without how He Rose is like peanut butter

834
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 2: without jelly. It just doesn't go. Big part of the organization,

835
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 2: big part of the entire culture surrounding this team. And

836
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: on top of that, he's probably one of the best

837
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 2: radio announcers in the history of all professional sports. So

838
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: best wishes to Howie. I hope he's okay. I hope

839
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: we have him ready for Opening Day twenty twenty.

840
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 1: Two and then before Game three because it got rained

841
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: out technically on what was supposed to be Wednesday. Before

842
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: that happened. Let's talk about Zack Scott. Let's talk about

843
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 1: the zero days without a workplace incident meme, because Zach

844
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,760
Speaker 1: Scott arrested Tuesday morning at four am with a duy

845
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: sleeping in his car in white planes. From what you

846
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: told me, he was a block away from the police station.

847
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: You can't make this up. You literally can't make this up.

848
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: We were riding such a high. All the Mets fans

849
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: were feeling great. There was no negativity in Mets world

850
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: after these two wins. As weird as the season's been,

851
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: it felt like there was just no negativity. Everyone was

852
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: like feeling good. And then Zack Scott gets arrested our

853
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: GM DUI what the fuck? Man?

854
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 2: I guess technically that means that this happens. But even

855
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 2: before the double Heather.

856
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, So the way that the timeline works was

857
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: that Monday was our off day and Steve Cohen was

858
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: having a fundraiser, a charity event, a fundraiser. It was

859
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: at his house. I believe m connected, which, just by

860
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: the way, that's how much money Steve Collen has. He

861
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: has a charity fundraiser with what seemed like maybe hundreds

862
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: of people at his home. That's just insane. But anyway,

863
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: it was at his house, Zack Scott was there. It

864
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: ended at eight or nine o'clock and then from that

865
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: time till four am. We don't really know what Zack

866
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: Scott was doing. We don't know where he was, but

867
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: it ended up with him having a dui and the

868
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: media ran wild with his story, which, WHI, that's kind

869
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: of expected. A GM gets arrested for dy. They did

870
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: the same thing to Tony LaRussa, so I understand it,

871
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: but God, can we just please just be a normal

872
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: organization for once? Please?

873
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: I was pretty frustrated with the reporting of this story,

874
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: especially by Jeff Passon, a ESPN someone who I've picked

875
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 2: on for a lot of this year. He was the

876
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 2: original person who broke the news that this happened after

877
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 2: a fundraiser of Steve Cohen's home, and at three fourth

878
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 2: in the afternoon, Jeff tweeted that Zach Scott was arrested

879
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 2: for allegedly driving drunk. He was at the Connecticut home

880
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: of team owner Steve Cohen. Sources telt ESPN a fundraiser

881
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 2: for the Mets team Amazing Mets Foundation being held at

882
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: the house. So when you say that sentence, you're leading

883
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 2: your readers to believe that Zach Scott left Steve Cohen's

884
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: house drunk and was allowed to get on the road.

885
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 2: That basically that this organization is in thatt and nobody

886
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 2: is stopping the very clearly intoxicated person getting behind the wheel.

887
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: Of course, thirty minutes later, Joel Sherman, John Hayman, The

888
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 2: New York Post, the Daily News. There's a heaps of

889
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 2: reports that came out that this arrest actually happened around

890
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 2: four o'clock in the morning, and that the fundraiser ended

891
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 2: sometime between eight thirty and nine pm. And then Jeff

892
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: Passon created a thread and update everyone of that fact.

893
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: And if you guys want to know why the thread

894
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: and not a deletion of the tweet. Deletion is not

895
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: even a word, but yeah, deletion and a thread. This

896
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 1: is like a I don't want to say a big deal,

897
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: but it's just annoying. Is because when you talk about impressions,

898
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 1: which is how many people can be seeing the tweet,

899
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: the original tweet got let's say, we don't know the numbers,

900
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: but it's going to get two hundred thousand impressions, right,

901
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: because that's the tweet. When you start a thread, you

902
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: have to see the original tweet to then also see

903
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: the reply in the thread. So in order for that

904
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: reply to be seen, you have to see the first thing.

905
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: No one's seeing the reply, it's going to get significantly

906
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: less impressions, significantly less views. It just feels like a

907
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 1: really lazy way. Unfortunately, because I do like Jeff Passing

908
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: for his news breaking at times, but this was a

909
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,760
Speaker 1: really weird way to admit he was wrong. It seemed

910
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: like he was doing it but didn't want to get

911
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: caught that he was wrong.

912
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: This is the biggest problem with modern news media is

913
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 2: that speed and being first is far more important than

914
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 2: being accurate and being correct. And we can put numbers

915
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 2: to what you just said, because I took these screenshots

916
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: for a tweet of my own at seven to twenty

917
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: pm at that time. The original Jeff Passing tweet has

918
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 2: six hundred and thirty seven retweets, one thousand quote tweets,

919
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: and six thousand likes. The response to that. As Joel

920
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: Sherman reported, the fundraiser Steve Cohen's house ended sometime around

921
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 2: eight thirty or nine pm. The Duy arrest occurred seven

922
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: hours after that. Seventy seven retweets, thirty nine quote tweets,

923
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 2: one thousand likes. Yeah, that's a difference of hundreds of

924
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 2: thousands of impressions.

925
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, minimum, So I think it's important to say that

926
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: this doesn't mean we're undervaluing, undervaluing, undermining what happened with

927
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: Zack Scott. It's just frustrating that the Mets are in

928
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: such a shit spot right now and everyone jumps to

929
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: shit down their throats, and then when they do get

930
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: something wrong, it doesn't matter because it's still loll Mets like.

931
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: It's just bad reporting. That's simply what it was.

932
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 2: Definitely, and you're right, we probably should first have said

933
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 2: that driving under the influence of alcohol or any drug

934
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 2: at all is deplorable action. You should never do it.

935
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 2: There should be harsher penalties levied across the country for

936
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 2: people who do things like this. And I hope if

937
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: Zach Scott needs help for any kind of issue he

938
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: might have, he gets that. And I really wish he

939
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 2: would have shown better judgment in this situation, especially as

940
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 2: a guy who is like a public facing figure.

941
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, thank god, it seems like nobody got hurt,

942
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: which is like the biggest thing of the stories, and

943
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: no one got hurt, But fuck man, we have to

944
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: have better decision making, especially from a head of an organization.

945
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: He's the GM of a team. It just is bad

946
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: optics one, to have a d white. It's never good,

947
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: Like you said, deplorable. Bad people make mistakes. But it's

948
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: so easy in the year twenty twenty one to not

949
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: drive drunk. So easy. Two, it's not a good look

950
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: when the GM of your team can't order an uber

951
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: to go back somewhere, can't have a car drive him,

952
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: can't have a taxi whatever it is. And he's also

953
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: then making decisions as to who's on the baseball team.

954
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: He's making decisions on who's on the field every single day.

955
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: He's making these big, overarching decisions. It's just a bad

956
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: look that the guy who's in charge seems to be

957
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: incapable of running his own life, let alone a team.

958
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 2: Especially when Zack Scott, for this entire season since Jared

959
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 2: Porter was let go do his presence as a sexual predator,

960
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 2: is the acting general managers. You would think this guy

961
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: would be like tip top shape, doing everything you can

962
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: to express front office. Because before Wednesday afternoon his standing

963
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 2: for next season was very much in question, and I

964
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 2: think right now his fate has fate has completely been sealed.

965
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: It's basically been an audition this year for him as

966
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: whether or not he's capable of doing this job, and

967
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: I think the poor play plus this has put the

968
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: nail on the coffin for him. I don't think Zack

969
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: Scott's coming back past this year.

970
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any chance, and it's just an

971
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 2: additional notch against Sandy Alderson's professional judgment this point in

972
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: his career, like he really can't hire somebody without it

973
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 2: being an issue.

974
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: I think it's also worth noting that we got a

975
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: bigger press release and a bigger statement from Sandy Alderson

976
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: about Hobby Baia's comments than the GM of the team

977
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: driving under the influence. I think that also speaks heaps

978
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: and bounds about where Sandy Alderson's mind's at right now,

979
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: and it just seems like he might not be the

980
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: guy we've been saying this. I think we're at the

981
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: point now where, at least from the front office perspective,

982
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: we got a clean house. We got a clean house,

983
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 1: we got to start over Buster only. While the article

984
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: is pretty horrible, I think in total, he did have

985
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: a good point, and I'm not gonna give him full

986
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: credit because you've been saying this for a while as well,

987
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: David Stearns Milwaukee Brewers. That's the guy we need to

988
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: get go and get him go and pay him all

989
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: the money that we have. See what he's done Milwaukee

990
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: with way less capital, with way less funds. Get him

991
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: in New York. I can only imagine what he'll do

992
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 1: with this team. It's very reminiscent of what the Red

993
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: Sox got with Heim Bloom, or the Dodgers with Andrew Friedman,

994
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: or even the Giants with far Han z Aiety. You're

995
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: getting any smart, forward thinking guys who are ahead of

996
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: the curve right now, and now they have the money

997
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: to even use. It's a scary combination.

998
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,479
Speaker 2: I think another great option would be Eric Neander, who's

999
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 2: currently running the Rays, because the Rays guys love going

1000
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 2: to teams with money and more prestige and not live

1001
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: in Tampa Bay anymore. Saint Petersburg. And I think the

1002
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: third option someone the Mets talked to last offseason was

1003
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: the guy from Cleveland. The name I forgot before remind me,

1004
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 2: Chris Antonetti. Chris Antonetti. Just guys who are running sharp

1005
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: organizations who I'm sure would welcome the opportunity to have

1006
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 2: a little bit more control and a little bit more

1007
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 2: money to make their decisions. The one name who I

1008
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 2: think one should not be mentioned too. I don't even

1009
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 2: think this guy would have any inclination to do it.

1010
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 2: In three I think the game has kind of passed

1011
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 2: this guy by. Is THEO Epstein. I can, for the

1012
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 2: life of me, see how this could even possibly make sense.

1013
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: So I will play Devil's advocate here. I would be

1014
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: fine with THEO. But here's the thing that every Mets

1015
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: fan who's saying THEO has to get behind right now.

1016
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 1: He will probably win you a World series. This guy

1017
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: in five years, I think, will win the Mets a

1018
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: World Series. And if that is your one goal, I

1019
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: think he's going to be able to accomplish that successfully.

1020
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: Here's what's gonna happen, though Francisco Alvarez, Ronnie Mauricio, Brett

1021
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: Baty might play less than one hundred games combined into

1022
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: New York Mets uniform. He will gut the farm system

1023
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: and he will fuck you for the future. Look at

1024
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 1: what he did with the Red Sox when he left,

1025
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: fuck them. Look at what he did when the Cubs left,

1026
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: fuck them. He leaves your organization in shambles, very similar

1027
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: to what Dave Dombrowski does as well. These guys will

1028
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: win world series, but they will leave you in shambles

1029
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: after you get the one. So if you are all

1030
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: in on winning one World Series and not necessarily building

1031
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: a winning organization, but winning one World Series, theo Epstein

1032
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: is probably your guy. If you want to build a

1033
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: winning organization that will have sustained success for years and

1034
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: years to come, that's not the right choice.

1035
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 2: I think even past that that there's nothing that theo

1036
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 2: Epstein serves to gain from coming to the Mets and succeeding.

1037
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,919
Speaker 2: He's already broken the two greatest curses in Major League Baseballs,

1038
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 2: doesn't really have anything left to prove, Like, I don't

1039
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 2: think that winning a World Series the Mets is more

1040
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 2: impressed than doing it with either the Red Sox or

1041
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 2: the Cubs. So he would only be able to make

1042
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 2: himself look worse in like a historical sense, similar to

1043
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 2: the WAYE Phil Jackson was when he came to the

1044
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 2: Knicks situation of James Dolan just giving a blank check.

1045
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: I don't think that Steve com will do that. I mean,

1046
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: I don't know he won't. I could see him doing that,

1047
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 2: but I don't think it would be proven. And on

1048
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 2: top of that, I don't even know that Theoepstein is

1049
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 2: fully fit and capable of winning in the modern Major

1050
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 2: League Baseball climbate. His builds definitely were worse between his

1051
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 2: first set of championships with the Red Sox and then

1052
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 2: his second run with the Cubs. That Cub's team was

1053
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: built on pretty unstable footing the entire time. He found

1054
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 2: a way the winner World Series on the backs of

1055
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 2: a league talent that were mostly produced from first round

1056
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: picks that he made from being so awful for so long.

1057
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 2: Without that crazy talent floor, I don't know if Theowepstein

1058
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 2: would have gotten there. And he did make some trades

1059
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 2: that were perceived as bad and moves that are perceived

1060
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 2: as bad now in hindsight, but that won them the

1061
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 2: World Series, like giving Ben Zobers a bag, or trading

1062
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 2: Labor Torus for older Chapman.

1063
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: Or trading well, this isn't this isn't win a World Series.

1064
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: But getting rid of Eloy jim Andez and Dylan Cees

1065
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: for Jose Kintana.

1066
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably gonna go down as one of the

1067
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 2: worst trades in Major League Baseball history, and he did

1068
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 2: all those things within eighteen months, and the Cubs have

1069
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 2: paid for that dearly. The Cubs are going to go

1070
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 2: through a rebuild right now, and there's no telling whether

1071
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: they even get out of it in the next five

1072
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 2: to ten years. That team is so berest of talent.

1073
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 2: So I don't really know if Theoepstein is even as

1074
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 2: good of a GM as you make him out to be.

1075
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 2: It is really hard to boom World Series, and I

1076
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: give mountains and mounds of credit for that, but I

1077
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: don't think that he's anywhere near on the level of

1078
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 2: these other guys we've mentioned, and David Stearns, Eric Neander

1079
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: and what's the fuck what's the guy's name on Cleveland.

1080
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: Chris Antonetti. I want to Collotti, but that's a soccer manager.

1081
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Carlo went slowly. That's what I was thinking of too, honestly,

1082
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: Chris Antonetti.

1083
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: I also think Theoepstein probably has some hot his ey

1084
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: set on higher sites here. I don't know if this

1085
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: has been talked about yet, but when he left the Cubs,

1086
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: it was under the impression that he was probably going

1087
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 1: to go into a role high up at Major League Baseball.

1088
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: I think theo Epstein is trying to find a way

1089
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: to become the commissioner of Major League Baseball at some point.

1090
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of like his next thing,

1091
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: because he has, like you said, kind of conquered baseball.

1092
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: He broke the Red Sox curse, he broke the Cubs curse.

1093
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: What's left running major League Baseball seems like kind of

1094
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: the only thing that's fitting.

1095
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: I think there's two things, two mountains left that he

1096
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 2: can climb, both of which will I personally would think

1097
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 2: are more impressive than those other two feats, which is

1098
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: the two of the most impressive things that ever happened

1099
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 2: in baseball. One would be taking over an expansion team,

1100
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 2: because Major League Baseball is going to expand the next

1101
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 2: five years. Taking an expansion team from the ground up.

1102
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 2: That something Dave don Braski expressed interest in before he

1103
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 2: signed out with the Phillies. And I think that's a

1104
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 2: big reason a lot of these hotther high profile vice

1105
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 2: presidents and presidents of baseball ops aren't fully ready to

1106
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 2: jump ship yet, because I think everybody has that dream

1107
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 2: of building their own organization from the ground up. And two,

1108
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 2: this is more out there, This is something I don't

1109
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: know if anyone else shared the sentiment besides me, but

1110
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 2: running the fucking Rockies. If you can go out to

1111
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 2: Colorado and find a way to build a winner there

1112
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 2: and find an advantage of the corps field rather than

1113
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: be submissive to it, that is the last baseball mountain

1114
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 2: to climb, more so than the Red Sox and the

1115
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 2: Cups curses, because this is actually tangible.

1116
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: Like it's a metaphorical mountain and a literal mountain. They

1117
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: are literally on a mountain. Yeah, I think that's a

1118
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: young man's game, the Rockies. I think we've talked about

1119
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: this too, like if well, no, but I'm saying like,

1120
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: if you're a young, unproven guy, you want to go

1121
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: to the Rockies because you can make your name there.

1122
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: I don't think theo Epstein really wants to challenge himself

1123
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: like that. I think he's like, why would I want

1124
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: to be miserable for five years trying to make this

1125
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: impossible feed happen.

1126
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 2: I think it'd be fun. The Rockies are twenty games

1127
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 2: over five hundred this year at home. There's something to

1128
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: build off of there. No one's ever done it.

1129
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 1: It's true. That is true. Now enough about Zack Scott bad, terrible,

1130
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: get him out of here, whatever it's going to be.

1131
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: That's probably the last we're going to talk about it

1132
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: until he is inevitably fired. Now let's talk about Game three.

1133
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: I honestly just can't believe that Carlos Carrasco just did

1134
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: it again, did it again. He is incapable of having

1135
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: a clean first inning, and it's almost impossible for him

1136
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: not to give up a lead off home run. It

1137
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: feels like because on the first pitch of the game,

1138
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas sends it deep into flushing and the Mets

1139
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: are in a one nothing hole immediately, and in fact,

1140
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: the first three batters all got hits two nothing Marlins,

1141
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 1: and I was like, like, I know he's gonna be fine,

1142
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: but like, what is going on in the first inning

1143
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: with Carlos Carrasco.

1144
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,959
Speaker 2: I'm almost at the point where I'm just like numb

1145
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 2: to Carlos Carrasco giving up runs or at least lelo

1146
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 2: of home run the first inning. And I'm respectful of

1147
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 2: the fact that it likely calms him down, because two

1148
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 2: through five, this guy's one of the cleanest pitchers in baseball.

1149
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 2: It's just he doesn't really have maybe his feel in

1150
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 2: the first inning. The ironic thing is this just is

1151
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 2: like the incarnate of Steven Yetz. Carlos Carrasco just doesn't

1152
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 2: warm up adequately. He doesn't have the touch of his

1153
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 2: off speeds early on. Even though I think I think

1154
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 2: the Rojas home runs on a fastball, if I'm not mistaken,

1155
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 2: I also think the Jazz double was on a fat.

1156
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: And also Jonathan India's home run when we were there

1157
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: was on a fastball. It seems like all it seems

1158
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: like every team knows in the first inning, Carlos Carrasco

1159
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: is gonna just put some fastballs on the tee for you.

1160
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, just throwing right down the dick. And they made

1161
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 2: him pay. And it takes a lot for mcguil Rojas

1162
00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 2: to make you pay. That guy swings a pool noodle,

1163
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 2: So all the credit in the world to him.

1164
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, Miguel Rojas. Also, funny story about me, there's a

1165
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: little incident with me and Miguel Rojas. I left him

1166
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 1: out of my shortstop rankings a few years ago just because,

1167
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 1: like Miguel Rojas, who cares. He's like twenty fifth through

1168
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: thirtieth at the shortstop position. Just because, Wow, you got

1169
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: a nice glove, but you swing a pool noodle, like

1170
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: James said, to be fair, he's had a decent last

1171
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: couple of years. But whatever, not the point he called

1172
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: me out. He called me out and told me I

1173
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: know nothing about baseball. There's more to the game than

1174
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: just ops, than what a guy can bring to the field. Yeah,

1175
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas, how's fucking last place with the Marlins? Good luck.

1176
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,479
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you bring so much to the field.

1177
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: Your team stinks. Anyway, that's my personal vendetta against Miguel Rojas.

1178
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: Fuck that guy, quick tangent, personal hatred. But anyway, it

1179
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because now the Mets come to the plate

1180
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: and Jonathan VR on the first pitch that he saw

1181
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: goes yard. He did a lot of damage against the

1182
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: Marlins this series, his former team. Of course, we have

1183
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: a good friend Ernesto subtape. Everybody make sure you twet

1184
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: HM when Jonathan VR does great stuff. And boy was

1185
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: he getting bombarded because we are doing a lot this series.

1186
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: First time since pitch tracking nineteen eighty eight that both

1187
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,399
Speaker 1: leadoff hitters hit leadoff home runs on the first pitch

1188
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 1: that they saw in the game.

1189
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 2: We've been begging for the juice all season long. This

1190
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 2: team needs juice. This team lacks juice. We want juice,

1191
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 2: and we just completely overlook that we have the king

1192
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 2: of juice right here at the top four ord there,

1193
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 2: Jonathan VR. This guy is chock full of juice, pulp

1194
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 2: and everything. Just squeeze his motherfucker because good things are

1195
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 2: gonna happen.

1196
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: He in the leadoff spot has been a game changer.

1197
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: We should have known when the team went like seventeen

1198
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: and eight with the triple A lineup, he was leading off.

1199
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: He's the key to success. As long as Jonathan VR

1200
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: is leading off, I think this team can go places

1201
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:45,319
Speaker 1: the offense. While it wasn't crazy, this game has somewhat

1202
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: come alive with Jonathan VR in the leadoff spot. And

1203
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: I didn't think that would happen when we have a

1204
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: guy like Brandon Nemo and Lindor and Pete Alonso behind them,

1205
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: Like it's just weird that he's our guy that gets

1206
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 1: everything going.

1207
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 2: Dude, you were totally right about that. And I have

1208
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 2: some stats just to show how great he is when

1209
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 2: leading off. He's done so in thirty five games this year,

1210
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 2: has one hundred and twenty four at bats, has turned

1211
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 2: in six home runs, eight doubles, one triple, and has

1212
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 2: a slash line of two ninety three seventy six and

1213
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 2: five p fifteen, good for an eight ninety two OPS.

1214
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 2: But wait, there's more.

1215
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: There's more.

1216
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 2: As the first pattern of the game that Chonathan VR

1217
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 2: has a three to zero eight average, four to eighty

1218
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 2: six on base percentage and a nine to forty seven OPS.

1219
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: I mean, are we in the conversation of talking about

1220
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,959
Speaker 1: one of the best leadof hitters in baseball right now?

1221
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: Don't twist my arm, but I think we might be.

1222
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 2: But there's more.

1223
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: There's more.

1224
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 2: When shot the VR just leads off innings, he's hitting

1225
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,399
Speaker 2: three forty with a four to twenty one on base

1226
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 2: percentage and a ten to fifty one OPS. Ten fifty one.

1227
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. And granted, like I think that's probably gonna

1228
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,839
Speaker 1: get screwed a little bit because when he does lead

1229
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: off games, he of course is leading off the inning.

1230
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: But there's other times where he's not leading off the

1231
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: game and he's leading off the inning. What is what

1232
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: goes on this guy's head where he's like, I am

1233
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: one of the best hitters in baseball.

1234
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 2: When I lead off, Jonathan VR just needs to not

1235
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 2: see anybody on the base pats to be an elite hitter.

1236
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 2: I think that might either confuse him or make him

1237
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 2: nervous or anxious, or just make him lose his focus.

1238
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 2: He also just seems to be better when there's not

1239
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:21,839
Speaker 2: at many any outs. He's kind of I guess similar things.

1240
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 2: Maybe he's nervous or he lose his focus. He squeezes

1241
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 2: the bat two type because when he comes to the

1242
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 2: plate with zero outs, he has a nine to nine

1243
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 2: ops that drops the under eight hundred with one out

1244
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 2: and under seven hundred with two outs. And if you

1245
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 2: think maybe Jonathan VR is not clutch, and you have

1246
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 2: like these little things in your brain from the year

1247
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 2: to think maybe Jonathan VR is not clutch, I feel

1248
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 2: like he doesn't come through that often runs the scoring position.

1249
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 2: You'd be correct because he has a one to eighty

1250
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 2: eight average with the runners his scoring position. So Jonathan

1251
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 2: VR needs to be standing on the base at the

1252
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 2: plate with no one on base and nobody out, and

1253
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,240
Speaker 2: we have one of the best hitters in baseball.

1254
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: There's just too many distractions. It's like the batter's eye thing.

1255
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: He's got too many people in his batter's eye. He

1256
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: can only see about seven or eight people on the field.

1257
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,959
Speaker 1: You start throwing nine to ten out there. He doesn't

1258
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: know what's going on. Jonathan VR, Cabalira, Loco. He's just

1259
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: gotta keep him focused, let him lead off. That's his move.

1260
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:10,439
Speaker 1: And I feel like for the rest of the year

1261
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: he has to be the leadoff hitter, especially knowing these numbers.

1262
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: Mets have to know him. They have to.

1263
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 2: I don't even think that a real team would dive

1264
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 2: into splits like this because they're not really indicative of anything.

1265
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 2: But the guy like Jonathan VR, you say, kabiyerro loco,

1266
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 2: he needs like those things that the horses in New

1267
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 2: York City winders. Yeah, the people on YouTube seeing me

1268
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 2: right now. The thing's next to his eyes, So he

1269
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 2: doesn't know the exterior situations or anything going on in

1270
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 2: his periphery. He just has to look at the picture,

1271
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 2: no out knowing on hit the ball, and boy.

1272
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: Did he get us going. Is exactly what we needed,

1273
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: really good. And then Carrasco settled in super nicely, because

1274
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: of course he does. He's a very good picture. He's

1275
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: a professional pitcher. And he's gonna be great for us

1276
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: over the next few years that we have him. And

1277
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: he just did it again.

1278
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 2: We're technically only I think have him for one more year.

1279
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm not counting this year too, Okay, Yeah.

1280
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: He can this year, the next, the next four start's

1281
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 2: gonna be very yeah, very central to our play off run.

1282
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 2: But he's just becoming like the adjustment God. Like he

1283
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 2: goes out in the first stanning, he gets walloped, and

1284
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 2: then no one touches the ball until usually he gets

1285
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 2: into the sixtending exactly as it happened again on Thursday night.

1286
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 2: I've talked a lot about how Carlos Carrasco has featured

1287
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 2: different pitches in his different starts, and he did that

1288
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 2: with the fourth different pitch on Thursday night, featuring his

1289
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 2: change up, throwing it about forty percent of the time,

1290
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 2: and that joins his two seam fastball, his four seam fastball,

1291
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 2: and his slyther as a pitch he has thrown the

1292
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 2: most in an individual game, which just bananas for a

1293
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,879
Speaker 2: guy who is like revamping the way that he is.

1294
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 2: And that change up was electric. He was getting tons

1295
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 2: of swings and misses on and he got nine whiffs

1296
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,760
Speaker 2: on twenty swings. It looked electric. It was just fading

1297
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 2: out the strikes on all night long against right handers

1298
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 2: and left handed hitters. The Marlins were flailing at it,

1299
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 2: and that's just what an experienced pitcher does. He finds

1300
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 2: out his most apt weapon to attack the lineup that

1301
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,320
Speaker 2: he's facing, and he will use that the most. It's

1302
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 2: pretty encouraging to see Carlos Krasko be able to do

1303
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 2: that start then start out.

1304
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: You know, he's just been giving us a chance to

1305
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: win despite the awful start, which is like something that Mets.

1306
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: They need the game to usually start pretty well. When

1307
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: you're in a hole. For a team that doesn't score

1308
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: a lot of runs to begin with, it has become

1309
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: an issue. But we got Jonathan vir leading off now,

1310
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: so it really doesn't matter because that guy will just

1311
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: put up runs no matter what he does. And like

1312
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 1: I said, Krasco gave us a chance and in the

1313
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: fourth inning we were able to capitalize on, keeping the

1314
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: game still very manageable only two runs at this point.

1315
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: We got back to back doubles from Nemo and Lindor,

1316
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: something we just don't see too often. Nimo double Lindor

1317
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 1: smoked one into the left center field gap and Brandon

1318
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: Nimo scores. We got a two to two ball game,

1319
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: and then Lindor channeling his inner Jose Reyes again, he's

1320
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 1: on third base and he draws a back from Sandy

1321
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: Alcintara and the Mets are winning three to two. Second

1322
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: time in a week that Francisco Lindor has got a

1323
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: balk from third base and score. That's gotta be like

1324
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: something that has not happened in baseball often, definitely.

1325
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 2: And we gave Eric Feedie shit for folding under the

1326
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 2: pressure when Friscal Door was dancing. But I have all

1327
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 2: the respect in the world for Sandyalkintara. He's a fantastic picture.

1328
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 2: He's incredible.

1329
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: Gary was gushing gushing over him. He's like he he

1330
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: loves two guys that are not on the Mets more

1331
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: than anybody, and it's Sandy Alkintara and Herman Marquez. He

1332
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: was talking about both of those guys glowingly last night.

1333
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: You were like, you would think that if the two

1334
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: best pitchers in the league were Sandy Alkintara and her

1335
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: Mom Marquez, and they're both very good.

1336
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 2: Two of the most underrated pictures in the league, no doubt,

1337
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 2: but I have to say something right now, I think

1338
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 2: we're on the precipice of a Francisco indoor hot streak.

1339
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: I think so too. He's swinging the bat really well.

1340
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: And even Keith made a note last night. He goes,

1341
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: guys seeing that bat speed, he goes, batspeed might be back.

1342
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: He's like, that's he's swinging the bat really well. He goes,

1343
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: he's got a different look in his eyes at the plate,

1344
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:49,959
Speaker 1: which I don't know how Keith can see that. Keith

1345
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: is sitting up there in his box. But Keith goes,

1346
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: that's a different look in his eyes, Lindor, he might

1347
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: be coming into something right now. And I couldn't agree more.

1348
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 2: I agree with that take, but I think when Keith

1349
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: says something like that, it's probably a little bit ill

1350
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,439
Speaker 2: conceived because he probably just think someone's on greenies. Because

1351
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 2: when someone in the nineteen seventies and eighties had a

1352
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 2: different look in their eyes, they were just taking a fetemans.

1353
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 1: Or in the Mets case, they were just doing cocaine.

1354
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 2: Cocaine when they were just having sex in the club batts.

1355
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 2: I don't think Physcle indoors doing any of these things.

1356
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 2: But I do agree with Keith that he has a

1357
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 2: different look in his eyes. He seems keenly focused, and

1358
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 2: he is swinging a great bat right now.

1359
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: Interesting thought, do you think Lindor might have been playing

1360
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: through this abdominal if we see him start swinging the

1361
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: bat this much or this better, and it's different bats

1362
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: to be different player. Do you think that maybe he

1363
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: had had this tweak all year long and was trying

1364
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: to play through it.

1365
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 2: You you're smarter than you look, guy, because it would

1366
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 2: make sense that he would have tweaked it after a

1367
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 2: short layoff like the All Star break, you know, like

1368
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,439
Speaker 2: not swinging for just a full week. That's not really

1369
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 2: enough to get healthy, that is, I feel like, just

1370
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 2: enough to let a lingering issue tighten up. Not a

1371
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 2: medical professional over here, nor do I claim to be

1372
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 2: to any of the listeners at home. Don't take my

1373
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 2: medical advice, but it would make sense that a muscle

1374
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 2: that would be giving you trouble could get tight over

1375
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 2: a short layoff. But the long layoff seems like he did.

1376
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 2: Wonders for him.

1377
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean he's he looks like he's at

1378
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: least getting back to that form that we expect he's

1379
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: swinging the bat well, he's hitting the ball over the field,

1380
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: he's smoking it. He smoked another ball into the right

1381
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: center field gap again, and Jesus Sanchez of course played

1382
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: him perfectly again. So he was hitting the ball hard

1383
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: all night. Extremely positive signs to be seeing. And then

1384
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,959
Speaker 1: we had an interesting sixth inning. Carrasco in the game,

1385
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: he got pulled, gone to a little bit of trouble.

1386
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: There were some errors. This was an awful defensive game

1387
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: from both teams. A total of seven errors in this game.

1388
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I saw. That was

1389
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: probably the last time the Marlins played. Because the Marlins

1390
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: just played god awful baseball. There's just not a lot

1391
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: of talent on the offensive side or defensive side over there,

1392
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: which is so shocking. But a lot of errors being made,

1393
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:51,439
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble. Carlos Carrasco gets in it. Aaron

1394
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: Loup comes in to try and clear clean it up,

1395
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: and as we said earlier in this episode, there's some

1396
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: interesting stuff going on with Lupire having a little bit

1397
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: of issues, and he walks in a run makes it

1398
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: three to three, and he walks in. Lewis Brinson, who

1399
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: the Marlins, by the way, walk the least amount of

1400
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: every team in baseball. And they were so patient this sitting.

1401
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: It was crazy.

1402
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true.

1403
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: No, it is, it is true. They were talking about it.

1404
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,439
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, all right, I'm gonna check. I'm gonna

1405
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:15,919
Speaker 2: check it real quick though, because I don't I don't

1406
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 2: believe that they always say the most accurate things in

1407
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 2: that broadcast.

1408
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.

1409
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 2: Also, just walking, Lewis Prinston, that guy specifically is allergic

1410
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 2: to walk.

1411
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: He also walked. Hez Zus Sanchez this sitting too.

1412
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 2: He is definitely allergic to walks. Hey, su Sanchez has

1413
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 2: to go to the games with an EpiPen because if

1414
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 2: he walks, he needs to be stabbed.

1415
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: On first base, he had a wan soda like at

1416
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,959
Speaker 1: bat it was unbelievable, patients like he took some really

1417
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: close pitches. Luke was just missing, but he wasn't getting

1418
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: them to chase. And that was the big thing for

1419
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: a team that chases a ton.

1420
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 2: Stat check on s and Y. The Marlins walk the

1421
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 2: fifth least in baseball, all right, based on walk great,

1422
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 2: so maybe they have the fewest actual walks in baseball

1423
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 2: because maybe they get around they're lined up a little

1424
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 2: bit more, but that pushes the walk right up. But

1425
00:59:56,080 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 2: they walk only more than the Orioles, the Rangers, the Angels, shocking,

1426
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 2: and the Royals. How can the Angels walk this? Uh

1427
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 2: infrequently with Shoheo Tani and half a season Mike Trall.

1428
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: Because that's it. Because then you have David Fletcher who

1429
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: doesn't walk. Then you have Jose Iglesias who doesn't walk, you.

1430
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 2: Have Glaciers has played like as much as Mike trad

1431
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,959
Speaker 2: this year. No, he has not played very much. Jose

1432
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 2: Church's when the fuck did that happen?

1433
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: He's just bad, That's what I guess.

1434
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 2: I guess he's played every game. But I might be

1435
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 2: thinking of at Angelton Simmons, Angel's former Angel shorts up.

1436
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that entire team just I mean, there's not

1437
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,919
Speaker 1: a lot of great hitters over there besides the guys

1438
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:35,479
Speaker 1: that are the best players in the game.

1439
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 2: That's true. But this this is not Mets. This is

1440
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 2: not the Angels up. This is the Mets stuff. And

1441
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 2: I think it is important to talk about Aaron Loop

1442
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 2: and again I'll reiterate for I feel like I do

1443
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 2: this every game breakdown now, this guy's not one of

1444
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 2: the best relievers in baseball. The ra makes it seem

1445
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 2: like he might be, but he is not one of

1446
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 2: the best relievers in baseball.

1447
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: He's just getting figured out a little bit more. I

1448
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: think there's just more tape out there on him. Probably

1449
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: does very similar things to every single batter. I have

1450
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: to assume he just doesn't have that much of his

1451
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: repertoire to really get too creative. It seemed like the

1452
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: Marlins knew what was common. They were just not fooled

1453
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: at all. Besides, I think Correl Faro maybe who like

1454
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: just he gets wooled by everybody.

1455
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he only throws two pitches.

1456
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: What cutter and change up?

1457
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, pot yeah. Maybe if he makes maybe sometimes

1458
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 2: it becomes a slyther, But he generally doesn't have a

1459
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 2: lot to fool people. It's just I'm better hitting these

1460
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 2: spots and like picking off those strikes. He's very good

1461
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 2: at picking off.

1462
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: And again, he was just missing by inches on some

1463
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: of these pitches, like an inch in side, an inch outside.

1464
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: And to the Marlins credit, they were patient, they took

1465
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: their walks, and they tied the game up here at

1466
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: three three.

1467
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just against a fact check, eighty four percent

1468
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 2: of Aaron Loop's pitches thrown this year have either been

1469
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 2: a fastball or covered nine percent change ups and seven

1470
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 2: percent curveball. So he's predominantly a two pitch pitcher. He

1471
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 2: can still show the other two pitches, so I'll give

1472
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 2: more credit to him for that. And he for all

1473
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 2: the warts that he has and these tiny things are

1474
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 2: picking off, he is still performing at an elite level.

1475
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 2: And he just doesn't allow gus to barrow the ball

1476
01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 2: like this run. It wasn't like the ball was smoked

1477
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 2: like Brandon Crawford last week. He walked in a run

1478
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 2: like sometimes with Aaron Loup, the umpire will just determine that,

1479
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 2: and that's kind of what happened.

1480
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then luckily for the Mets, we answered back

1481
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 1: real quickly. Bottom of the seventh inning. Got started with

1482
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil, who's definitely still a little bit of a funk.

1483
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: The swing's not looking great, but got a nice little

1484
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: single to center field, and then Patty Mezka two hits

1485
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: on the day for him. They're not beautiful, they're not pretty,

1486
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: but he gets the hits done, hits it to right field,

1487
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: Hazus Sanchez makes an error trying to I don't know,

1488
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 1: maybe throw Mezeke out at first. It's super weird. It

1489
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: allows McNeil to go to third, and then dom Smith

1490
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: comes to the plate and smokes one down the first

1491
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 1: base line. Dommy singles, he loves a good single over here.

1492
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: He will not do any extra base it's not interested.

1493
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: But he smokes a single off the glove of Hazus

1494
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: Agular down the first base line. Jeff McNeil scores Pat

1495
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,439
Speaker 1: Mozeka to third, and then I gotta bring up our boy,

1496
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR. We talked about runners a scoring position, chopped

1497
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: one to third base or shortstop. I guess Joe panic

1498
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: wherever he was playing. Patrick Mazeka might run in quicksand

1499
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: he might be the slowest human being I've ever seen,

1500
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: because it was a high chopper, had all the time

1501
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: in the world, and he was out by twenty five

1502
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: feet went on contact. I've never seen someone be so

1503
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: dead the rights on the play that should have been close.

1504
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 2: That's when you tweeted Patty Musica's running in quicksand.

1505
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like I could have ran faster backwards

1506
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 1: one hundred percent.

1507
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 2: That is not true.

1508
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: One thousand percentury. You didn't see this guy run.

1509
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 2: He's so slow. I'm gonna be honest. I think there's

1510
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 2: a legitimate chance that we could get a race together

1511
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 2: between you and Patty.

1512
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: Mesica and I could run backwards and you.

1513
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:21,960
Speaker 2: I would like you to run backwards if you think

1514
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 2: you're fast at him back really true?

1515
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: I really stand by this. Then I could beat Patrick

1516
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: Mozeka in a race running backwards.

1517
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 2: I think that you overestimate your own speed.

1518
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: Oh one thousand percent. I ran like a five second

1519
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: forty yard dash. I'm incredibly slow, but Patrick Moska is

1520
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: even slower.

1521
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,800
Speaker 2: A five taking forty yard dash seems very fast. There's

1522
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 2: no way you could break five and a half seconds

1523
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 2: in four years.

1524
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: It's slow. It's real slow.

1525
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. We're getting off topic again.

1526
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 1: It's an off topic day.

1527
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the hangover episode.

1528
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're winning four to three, Mets are winning,

1529
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 1: and we just kind of hold on to it the

1530
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Familia had a good inning in

1531
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 1: the seventh. In the eighth who came in to get

1532
01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: the eighth May, oh yeah, May. He almost killed him

1533
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 1: off diving for a ball, which was just shocking how

1534
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 1: unathletic pitchers really hard At the end of the day.

1535
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: Besides Jacob de Gram and Shoho Tani, they are just

1536
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 1: not athletes. They should not try to catch balls.

1537
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 2: How dare you catch.

1538
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 1: Sures there's not an athlete.

1539
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 2: Sure, there's incredible athlete. Schrezer does the base running drills

1540
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 2: and the dais he pitches. I don't care if he

1541
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 2: goes out there and takes VP. Truman is a great athlete,

1542
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 2: one of the best athletes in baseball. You're right, but

1543
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 2: I I just I always give shares of the credit

1544
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 2: because when he's out there, like he'll he'll do like

1545
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 2: the drill, or he'll stand on second base and the

1546
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 2: coach will tell him, like second lead go and he'll

1547
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:35,439
Speaker 2: take his three shuffles and run home.

1548
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:37,959
Speaker 1: Kid is running in. That's all that is, dude.

1549
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 2: He's the baseball players here for all facets of the game.

1550
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 2: All right, Pizza pitchers.

1551
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: H yes, ripe to that, because boy is it awful.

1552
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: Sandy A. Kintara showed the stat last night when he

1553
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: just simply has no idea what to do with a

1554
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 1: piece of wood in his hands at the plate. It's unbelievable,

1555
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 1: but anyway, clean, seventh, clean, eighth, Edwin Ds comes in

1556
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: for the ninth one two three, smell you later. Mets

1557
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: beat the Marlins sweep, big sweep, needed it, sweep, sweep sweep. Unfortunately,

1558
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: the Rockies couldn't do us any help. They blew a

1559
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: game against the Braves because you know, the Rockies, thanks

1560
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: for that. And the Nationals also blew a huge lead

1561
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: against the Phillies. So we didn't gain any games. But

1562
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: we're winning the games that we should were beating the

1563
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: bad teams, and we gotta keep doing this moving forward.

1564
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 1: All right, little prospect report time, let's talk about some prospects.

1565
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 1: You got some names from me, James. You got some

1566
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: interesting names that we have not talked about here. But

1567
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: first let's talk about a familiar one. Ronnie Mauricio.

1568
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ronnie Mauricio. I touched on it last a Prospect

1569
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 2: report last week that he's been taking a lot more

1570
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 2: walks of the last few weeks and things might have

1571
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 2: been clicking, and he has continued with another torrid week.

1572
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, just dominating the world at Brooklyn. He's hitting

1573
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 2: three fifty nine with a four to fifty seven out

1574
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 2: of base percentage of five to ninety slug over his

1575
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 2: last eleven games at the time of this recording, and

1576
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 2: he seems to be much more comfortable. He seems to

1577
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 2: be much more in control of his at bats. All

1578
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 2: the videos that get put up on Twitter again, shout

1579
01:05:57,480 --> 01:05:59,160
Speaker 2: out Jacob Resnik. He's on top of all the minor

1580
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 2: league videos. He's the Mets go that that the guy

1581
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 2: just looks like he is much more confident in his abilities.

1582
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 2: That's really coincided with his appearance on the met Stuff podcast,

1583
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 2: So shout out Ronnie. He seems to be taking a step.

1584
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw a massive, massive party when that WRC

1585
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 2: plus gets over one hundred for the season. I'm gonna

1586
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 2: just be off the moon and our other boy. I

1587
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 2: forgot to put some in notes, but I just remember

1588
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 2: that Jalen Jalen Palmer multi home run game in Brooklyn.

1589
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 2: He's finally figuring it out.

1590
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: Since getting called up to Brooklyn. I believe he has

1591
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: a seven to eighty ops, which may not sound like

1592
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 1: anything great, but this is like an improvement. He was

1593
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: struggling very early on, and it seems like as he's

1594
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: getting more comfortable there playing center field a little bit more,

1595
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: he has started to swing the battle lot well, including

1596
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 1: this multi home run game which happened a few nights ago.

1597
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: So the Mets up boys, they're doing good. You know,

1598
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: some people might say, when you get on this podcast

1599
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: for an interview, you play better. We'll help be happy

1600
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 1: to have Michael Knforto on on Dom Smith. You want

1601
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: to talk, will make you better, whatever it is will

1602
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 1: help you out.

1603
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 2: Whenever you guys want, we know you're listening, so just

1604
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 2: let us know. Slidn the DMS for the Dom Smith,

1605
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 2: Pilonzo brand Nemo, Jeff McNeil just come on the Messed

1606
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 2: Up podcast. But I've really dove into most of the

1607
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 2: Met's high profile hitters during these prospruct reports throughout the season,

1608
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 2: So this time I wanted to touch on three very

1609
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 2: very low key pitchers in the Mets organization that I'm

1610
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 2: sure most people out there have never heard of. I

1611
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:20,200
Speaker 2: barely even knew who they were, and I spend a

1612
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:22,439
Speaker 2: lot of time researching this kind of stuff. The first

1613
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:26,480
Speaker 2: guy is Adam Ohler or Olaire oh ll e Er.

1614
01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 2: I don't know how to pronounce that name. Should have

1615
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 2: looked that up. I'm sorry, Adam, but there's a twenty

1616
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 2: six year old right now pitching for Syracuse. He's sixty

1617
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 2: four two twenty five. We got a big Boy is

1618
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 2: his third organization that he's pitched with the major leagues.

1619
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 2: He was drafted by the Pirates, and I believe he

1620
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 2: was with the Giants for one year in twenty nineteen.

1621
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 2: He has ripped through Double A Bingham this year with

1622
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 2: over thirty percent k ra and eighty innings pitched, and

1623
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 2: since he was called up to Triple A three weeks ago,

1624
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 2: he has similarly dominated, with twenty two strikeouts in his

1625
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 2: first seventeen innings and only one run, including a twelve

1626
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 2: strikeout game at six innings his Triple A debut. So

1627
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 2: this is a guy who's like another depth piece that

1628
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 2: can be someone who's important for the Mets either the

1629
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 2: last month of the year this year or possibly even

1630
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 2: to next year. Just general organizational depth at pitching, something

1631
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 2: that this team lacks. Seems to be improving very rapidly.

1632
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 2: Next guy I want to touch on is Josh Walker,

1633
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 2: a bigger boy at sixty six two twenty five Big boys,

1634
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 2: also twenty six years old. And these two guys, along

1635
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 2: with Jared Robinson who I mentioned last week, it really

1636
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 2: shows that the Mets front office was working diligently to

1637
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 2: bring in these types of relatively high potential, older upper

1638
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 2: level minor league guys minor league free agent types during

1639
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 2: the last offseason to try and again beef up the

1640
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 2: Mets pitching depth in the upper miners, and Walker started

1641
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 2: the season at Brooklyn. He is already pitching at Syracuse

1642
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:51,880
Speaker 2: this year, which is a pretty crazy rise for a

1643
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 2: guy who's bounced around organizations at twenty six years old.

1644
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,240
Speaker 2: Twice this year for Bingington, he took no hitters through

1645
01:08:57,280 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 2: six innings twice. Pretty good, Pretty fucking good, with a

1646
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 2: strikeout rate of above twenty percent. He has not been

1647
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 2: as good in Triple A this year, not like Ohler.

1648
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 2: He's had six starts there. He's given up at least

1649
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 2: seven runs twice, but the other four times he's given

1650
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 2: up two or fewer. So there's something to work with here.

1651
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,679
Speaker 2: He doesn't have the same swing and miss stuff. He's

1652
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 2: a bigger guy who pitches some more contact. I'm assuming

1653
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 2: he has a sinker. I couldn't find any information about

1654
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 2: his repertoire anywhere, but that's just a simple assumption I'm

1655
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:23,960
Speaker 2: gonna make. And these are two guys who are acting

1656
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 2: as organizational depth. And you need shit like this because,

1657
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:28,360
Speaker 2: as the Mets saw this year, you're giving innings to

1658
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 2: guys like Gerardikoff, Jared Yamamo, Tho Joey Lukes was a

1659
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 2: godsend before he got Tommy John Surgery. Like, you need

1660
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 2: as many guys like this as possible to slot in

1661
01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 2: and do competent things for your team.

1662
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we don't have to pitch. Maybe Vancewirley, I

1663
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: really don't want to see that guy suit up in

1664
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:43,759
Speaker 1: a METSI unifour.

1665
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:46,799
Speaker 2: You might just still might still still early in September.

1666
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 2: Last guy I want to shout out is a seventeen

1667
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 2: year old. His name is Joel Diaz. I want to

1668
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:54,560
Speaker 2: shout out my guy, Gaither Sosa on Twitter of Prospects

1669
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred for finding this guy because he was well

1670
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 2: off my radar. Again, he's seventeen years old. He's pitching

1671
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 2: in the Dominican Summer League otherwise known as the DSL.

1672
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 2: This guy was born in two thousand and four.

1673
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: That's disgusting.

1674
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 2: I've never felt older in my entire life and looking

1675
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 2: at this guy's fangrass and he was born in two

1676
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 2: thousand and four.

1677
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 1: We were eight years old. Yes, disgusting to think about

1678
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 1: that as an eight year old. This kid was just

1679
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: coming out the womb. I don't like to think about that.

1680
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 2: Playing competitive baseball at the youth level. And this guy

1681
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 2: was a newborn child. But he had no publicity as

1682
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 2: an international signing because, as I mentioned last week, the

1683
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 2: Mets have not given any bonuses in the seventh figures

1684
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:33,680
Speaker 2: since Alex Ramirez two years ago. His bonus wasn't even

1685
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 2: listed on spow tracks, so I'm assuming it was somewhere

1686
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 2: between ten and fifty thousand, because when your bonus is

1687
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 2: that low, you're not required to actually list how much

1688
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:43,599
Speaker 2: money you're giving these young men. But he is ripping

1689
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:46,639
Speaker 2: the Dominican Summer League to shreds. He has thirty nine

1690
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:48,840
Speaker 2: strikeouts in his first twenty six innings and has not

1691
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 2: allowed a single run. So there's a guy to keep

1692
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 2: an eye out for. If he can finish the year

1693
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 2: out like this, wind up maybe pitching in the Complex

1694
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 2: League in the spring, playing some nice winterball and doing

1695
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 2: well there. He could be one of these meteoric risers

1696
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 2: that winds up being on the Mets top ten prospect

1697
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:06,080
Speaker 2: list by middle of next season, So everyone keep an

1698
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 2: eye out for Joel Diaz.

1699
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 1: A lot of really good players, not necessarily from the Mets,

1700
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: but in general and Major League Baseball have come from

1701
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:15,599
Speaker 1: that Dominican summer league. That league is a hotbed for talent.

1702
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:17,759
Speaker 1: The guys who rise to the top of that league

1703
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: end up being very solid players many times. So while

1704
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: it's not really like the same level as like Brooklyn

1705
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 1: or Saint Luci or Binghamton, if you're doing really well

1706
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 1: in there, there's something to at least keep an eye

1707
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: out for, which it seems like there is with Joel Diaz.

1708
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely a certain level of composition down there,

1709
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:37,639
Speaker 2: and iron sharpens iron, something we've said before.

1710
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that saying a lot. I

1711
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 1: also want to give a little shout out. This is weird,

1712
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,759
Speaker 1: but it's another twenty six year old pitcher, David Griffin.

1713
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: So this guy is a super interesting story. He had

1714
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 1: not been in minor league baseball besides this year the

1715
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: Mets signed him, he'd been playing an indie ball. Some

1716
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,799
Speaker 1: of the teams that he's played for since twenty nineteen.

1717
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: He played for the Gary South Shore RailCats and Gary

1718
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:03,600
Speaker 1: Indiana in twenty eighteen is a shithole. Well, there you go.

1719
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty played for the Rockland Boulders in the All

1720
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,479
Speaker 1: American Baseball Challenge. I don't even know what that is.

1721
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: He also then played for the twenty twenty Road Warrior

1722
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: Black Sox in the Yinser Baseball Confederacy.

1723
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:19,519
Speaker 2: That sounds made up.

1724
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: Yinser is like a big Pittsburgh slang. I only know

1725
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: that because there's a popular baseball YouTuber who throws around

1726
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: Yinzer all the time. So Pittsburgh slang.

1727
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:29,759
Speaker 2: It's people from Pittsburgh are the Insers.

1728
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a fake. These are all fake teams.

1729
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 2: These are shout out the Black Socks. What's going on there?

1730
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 1: The Road Warrior Black Sox of the Yinser Baseball Confederacy. Well,

1731
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 1: the Mets sign him in twenty twenty one, and while

1732
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:44,840
Speaker 1: he is a little bit older twenty six years old,

1733
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 1: so far in a ball this year, he's actually been

1734
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: pretty good.

1735
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 2: Now.

1736
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: I don't know what the actual quality of talent at

1737
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: the end level is gonna be here, but I feel

1738
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: like I like these good stories. I also one of

1739
01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:59,160
Speaker 1: the people I know in Boston is friends with this dude,

1740
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: like very good for and so give David Griffin a

1741
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 1: shout out here so far and eleven starts as yere

1742
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:05,880
Speaker 1: an a ball fourm run record two point seven to

1743
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 1: nine ERA at Brooklyn. So far, he's made four starts

1744
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: two point two ninety ERA in his four starts, striking

1745
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:13,360
Speaker 1: out sixty one batters and fifty eight innings and it

1746
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 1: went at one point two eight. Just a shout out

1747
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 1: for a feel good story of a guy who's getting

1748
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:18,639
Speaker 1: a shot. I hope it works out for David Griffin.

1749
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:19,559
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, me too.

1750
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 1: And that leads us now into our preview. Who we

1751
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:24,760
Speaker 1: got coming up next? Nationals? Right?

1752
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:27,480
Speaker 2: Five games against the Nationals.

1753
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:29,680
Speaker 1: Brad hand revenge tour. Let's do it.

1754
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, I can't move. We have Brad Hanson meme.

1755
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable that he's on this team now after all

1756
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 1: the stuff that was going on. We were basically throwing

1757
01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 1: a party when he got DF eight.

1758
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a met I dug that guy's grave

1759
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 2: and dropped a minute.

1760
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:47,960
Speaker 1: Well, what are the pitching matchups here against the Nationals,

1761
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:49,680
Speaker 1: Because again, we're gonna be doing this. I have all

1762
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 1: the confidence in saying, if you do not get a hit,

1763
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 1: in this series as a Mets player. Again, you're off

1764
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: the team where.

1765
01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 2: Hit in five games against Nationals. You probably should not

1766
01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 2: be in in Major League Baseball. Yes, but Friday night

1767
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:03,639
Speaker 2: the Mets are going to be throwing Rich Hill against

1768
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 2: our boy, Sean Nolan.

1769
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: Boy, this is hard throwing Sean Nolan, definitely.

1770
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 2: And then Saturday for the double Heather, we have Stroman

1771
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 2: and Tyler McGill on tap against Eric Fetty and question Mark.

1772
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 2: If it was me, I would see if Marcus Stroman

1773
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 2: was comfortable swapping and pitching on Friday, just because I'd

1774
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 2: rather have Strow in a nine inning game and I'd

1775
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 2: rather have Rich Hill in the seven inning game. So

1776
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 2: I'm curious, based on when we're recording this, if that's

1777
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 2: something the Mets are going to switch around. And then

1778
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon we have day Man Taiwan Walker up against

1779
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,639
Speaker 2: Josiah Gray. It's probably that's the most interesting pitching matchup

1780
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 2: of this series.

1781
01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:40,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Jasaghar is really good New York kid as well.

1782
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,600
Speaker 2: So Josiah Gray is good. He's his curveball at this

1783
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 2: young point in his career is devastating. His fastball. He

1784
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 2: throws hard but has a lot of life, but it's

1785
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 2: been very prone to allowing home runs early. He has

1786
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 2: not been able to get the same type of success

1787
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 2: throwing in the top half of the strike zone that

1788
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 2: he had in Triple A. So there's a young pitcher,

1789
01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 2: top prospect all the time the world, and adjustment he's

1790
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 2: going to have to make. But until he does, I

1791
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 2: would love to hit three home runs off of that

1792
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 2: high fastball on Sunday afternoon. And then the Mets do

1793
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 2: not have a star they're named yet for Monday, which

1794
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 2: is weird because I feel like we have five guys

1795
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 2: in this rotation and.

1796
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: Be Carrasco, but it's like a week away, so they

1797
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 1: probably just don't actually know what's gonna happen.

1798
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:20,679
Speaker 2: No, well, Carrasco's listed for the Tuesday's game again in Miami,

1799
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 2: but not on Mondays, so then you know, that would

1800
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 2: technically be Trevor Williams start. I think, I guess yeah,

1801
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:27,640
Speaker 2: oh yeah, because we're gonna have a double header, so

1802
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 2: we still need the six men rotations, so it probably

1803
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 2: will be Trevor Williams on Monday.

1804
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: Then, yeah, very winnable series. I'm gonna say something crazy here.

1805
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: Let's we gotta win all five. You have to take

1806
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 1: five from the Nationals. There's no excuse to the one

1807
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: hundred percent.

1808
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,000
Speaker 2: If you don't take five from the Nationals, then you

1809
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 2: have to take four and take all three the next

1810
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 2: series from the Marlins.

1811
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like the Nationals got like a reinforcement in

1812
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 1: Caber Ruiz is now up on the major league roster.

1813
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,400
Speaker 1: He's actually a very good player. Solid catcher's gonna it's

1814
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit of a problem along with

1815
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 1: Wan Soto, but the rest of the lineup doesn't scare you.

1816
01:15:57,200 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 2: Keeper Ruiz doesn't really have any types of projection with

1817
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 2: the bat right now. I think eventually he has a

1818
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 2: chance to be one of those catchers who's like two

1819
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 2: eighty twenty eighty eighty. Yeah, but I don't think at

1820
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 2: this juncture he's a bat you necessarily need to fear

1821
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 2: be aware of him because he's Yeah. I mean, this

1822
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:16,680
Speaker 2: Nationals team has actually still been hitting very surprisingly. I

1823
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 2: did my big picture preview for Pitcherless last week. I'm

1824
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 2: doing another one this coming Tuesday, previewing Fancy Baseball starts

1825
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 2: the rest of the season with Nick Pollock. But this

1826
01:16:26,479 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 2: national team has found a way to keep hitting Lane Thomas,

1827
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 2: a guy I shouted out last week, has honestly swung

1828
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 2: the stick for some power. Wanstao was still the best

1829
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 2: hitler in baseball. Josh Bell has woken up the Adaiel

1830
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:42,000
Speaker 2: Hernandez is not really terrible. Carter Keeboom has been worse

1831
01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 2: than worse than he was last year, which was not

1832
01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 2: a major league baseball player's so bad. He's actually kind

1833
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 2: of hitting for a little bit more power. I don't

1834
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 2: think he'll ever be good, but I think that he's

1835
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:57,640
Speaker 2: kind of comparable to an eventual utility infielder who could be.

1836
01:16:57,720 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: Okay, I was about to say, Carter Keebum such a

1837
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 1: lock to like be good at thirty and like figure it.

1838
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 2: Out, finally grow into his body. I'm starting to think

1839
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:07,640
Speaker 2: that Gavin Lux is the same, which is kind of.

1840
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 1: Said, Yeah, gotta take five against this national team. They're

1841
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: just not very good. Gotta take five. I'm putting like,

1842
01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm not even putting the pressure on the Mets because

1843
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what I say, but the Mets need

1844
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:21,519
Speaker 1: to start just shmacking teams around. There's no excuse. These

1845
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: are the bottom feeders of the league. This is the

1846
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: bottom felders of the division. If you want to catch

1847
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: the Braves who are struggling, this is what you gotta do.

1848
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: You gotta win these games because you keep putting these

1849
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,760
Speaker 1: Ws in these columns, in these win columns, and you're

1850
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: going to put the pressure back on the Brave.

1851
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,280
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say the Braves are struggling, but the Mets

1852
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 2: are gaining ground because they're in a more difficult part

1853
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 2: of the schedule. Similarly to how the Braves flew past

1854
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 2: the Mets when they were playing the Marlins and Nationals

1855
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 2: and Pirates and Cardinals and shit, and we were on

1856
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 2: the West Coast. They're gonna lose the series in Los

1857
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 2: Angeles and then they're going to Colorado. As I mentioned,

1858
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 2: Colorado is one of the best teams at home in

1859
01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 2: all of baseball. It's not an easy place to win.

1860
01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 2: Mets somehow did take two or three from there, which

1861
01:17:57,320 --> 01:18:00,040
Speaker 2: is kind of hilarious in hindsight. But let's just I

1862
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 2: hope that some course field magic happens for the Rockies

1863
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,120
Speaker 2: and they take take care of the Braves.

1864
01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that after you play in Colorado,

1865
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: your season gets fucked. There's like a huge article about

1866
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers talking about what it's like to

1867
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: play in cores after course, because this is what people

1868
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 1: don't talk about, the after Cores effect. You get at

1869
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 1: that boost offensively when you go there, but when you

1870
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: come back you get hit by a train that is,

1871
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 1: you know, the change in altitude and fatigue and everything. Yeah,

1872
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: and curveballs, you just seeing different pitches. Again, the Dodgers record,

1873
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:33,200
Speaker 1: I believe after playing in Cours is significantly sub five

1874
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,560
Speaker 1: hundred in the series immediately after it, So there is

1875
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:37,680
Speaker 1: gonna be even a little bit of lag time after

1876
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 1: they play in Colorado.

1877
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that article. I think it was a

1878
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:43,639
Speaker 2: Baseball Prospectus piece from twenty nineteen, I want to say,

1879
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 2: and it was pretty eye opening because a lot of

1880
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:49,240
Speaker 2: times when hitters leave the Rockies, people like say, oh,

1881
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:50,720
Speaker 2: that guy's done, it's not gonna happen. I think a

1882
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 2: lot of hitters have proven that wrong. Now, over the

1883
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 2: last few years, sure, Nolan are has taken Nolan Arnado

1884
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:57,799
Speaker 2: has taken a step back, but he's still a prolific

1885
01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 2: power hitter. Dijit and Mayhew had the best season of

1886
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 2: his career after leaving Cores Field. There is an adjustment

1887
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 2: that goes into going to cores and leaving it, and

1888
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 2: the Rockies have to go through that adjustment every single week,

1889
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 2: which is why their road record is so bad on

1890
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:11,600
Speaker 2: top of how good their home record is. And of

1891
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 2: course they're coming to Atlanta next week because the way

1892
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 2: I'm going to be schedules work play, you play the

1893
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 2: same one team season series in a week, so we

1894
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 2: have that to look forward to what we're playing the Yankees.

1895
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 2: I think the Rockies will be in Atlanta, but let's

1896
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,160
Speaker 2: just win these games. Mets have eight games left against

1897
01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 2: shit teams and you gotta win seven of them. Minimum.

1898
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: You have to win seven. That's the absolute least will

1899
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: take here. And of course you guys will be able

1900
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:34,800
Speaker 1: to listen to our takes and listen to what we're

1901
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: thinking about these games, and if you somehow don't watch them,

1902
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 1: you'll get these detailed play by play in depth analysis

1903
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:43,240
Speaker 1: from us every single episode. So make sure you guys

1904
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: are following us on Twitter and Instagram and TikTok at

1905
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: Mets Stuff, the YouTube channel, Metstup podcast. Follow James on

1906
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: Twitter Jeter had no Range, follow me on Twitter at

1907
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 1: raftneck Mark. Make sure you're following us on how you

1908
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,160
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1909
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: find them, follow us, like us, rating, review, whatever you

1910
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: gotta do to make sure you don't miss out on

1911
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 1: the next episode, because of course it's gonna be good,

1912
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 1: and the Francisco Alvarez interviews coming as well. We gotta

1913
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 1: keep teasing that, because why not. We gotta dangle it

1914
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:11,679
Speaker 1: right in front of your face for you. Make sure you, guys,

1915
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:13,680
Speaker 1: stay on top of it. This is the place to

1916
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: be if you want to listen to your Mets news,

1917
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: Mets info, Mets analysis. That's where we're wrapping up, guys.

1918
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:19,720
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening, Thank you guys so

1919
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: much for watching, and we'll catch you on episode number

1920
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: forty seven of the Mets Up Podcast.

1921
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 2: Peace out, See you guys later.