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Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. I wanted to let you know we recorded
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this podcast episode on Monday May thirteenth, twenty twenty four, so by the
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time you hear this, some things may have changed here or there, but
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we hope you enjoyed the show. All right, folks, welcome to Table
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Talk here at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly
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sports podcast show in the world. That's right over eleven years strong. We
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got a great discussion coming your way here on Table Talk. This week been
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a very very interesting Major League Baseball season and specifically within the NL East,
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and this week we got a great guest to not only talk about the NL
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East but some other Major League Baseball storylines as well. She's fantastic. She
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and her co host, they do a great job on their podcast. Wanted
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to bring her back on the show to really talk about what's going on with
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the Mets, with the Phillies, with the Nationals, et cetera. So
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why don't we get to that discussion right now. It's gonna be a great
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one. Joining us this week from a pod of their own. I listen
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on Apple Podcasts every now and again. They do fantastic work. They're talking
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about the New York Mets. We have the one and only Alison mckaig.
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Alison, how you doing, my friend? I'm okay. How are you,
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Jeff? I'm doing all right. I'm doing all right. It's great
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to have you on. Honestly, I love you ladies over at a pod
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of their own like you are so passionate about the New York Mets. You
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know, you and Maggie and your other co host as well. Who I'm
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forgetting your name off the top of my head, I'm sure, Linda.
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Yes, yes, so very passionate about the New York Mets, and it's
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one of the reasons why I wanted to have you on, because you're so
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in tune with what is happening, not just with the Mets, but with
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the NL East and Major League Baseball as well. Before we get into the
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talk, though, I do have to say, Allison, you all have
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been doing some amazing stuff, getting a great online infrastructure in place for the
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future of what is going to be a pot of their own and also home
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run Apple sauce as well. I've talked to Maggie about that in the past.
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Can you let folks know what you're doing on the interwebs out there.
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Yeah, so we have a whole network of podcasts. A pot of their
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own is the all women led show that's part of our home run Apple Sauce
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network that's on fans First Sports Network, And so we have a Patreon If
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you want to support our work, you can go to patreon dot com,
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Slash Homeer and Applesauce. We are an independent podcast network, so yeah,
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you're doing this entirely on our own, so it's really helpful to get subscribers.
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And we've only been able to do this because people have supported our work
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and it's been really really important to us. Actually, tonight we are recording
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our two hundredth episode and celebrate our five year anniversaries. So you know,
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we've been doing this for five years now, which is crazy to think about,
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but yeah, it's been a fun ride, and we really appreciate you
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always have us on and talking about the NL East and I love hearing the
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perspective of other teams fans about how things are shaping out in any given Yeah,
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that's why I love bringing you on and congratulations on five years, two
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hundred episodes. I remember that time when you get to five hundred. It's
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special. I'll tell you that right now. You might feel burned out,
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but it's special. I'll tell you that. We we make it there.
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I'm hoping we make it to you know, another two hundred and to five
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hundred and beyond. There you go, there you go. Oh man,
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If you want to follow Allison on Twitter slash x folks at petit PhD,
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she is a great great follow Alison. Let's get into this NL East and
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first, I really want to start off with the team that you follow,
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that you cover, that you root for, which is the New York Mets.
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Again, I've mentioned her, you know, at the top of the
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show here, your co host Maggie. You know, she was on the
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podcast here a little while back, and she was somewhat skeptical about some of
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the offseason moves that were made and we're not made heading into this twenty twenty
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four season here, So if we can kind of maybe do a little revisionist
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history here, hindsight being twenty twenty when you look back on the Mets off
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season and what could the front office have done to put the Mets possibly in
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a better situation today than where they are in as we are here in mid
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May. Do you have some thoughts on that. Yeah, I think the
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biggest really swing and miss by the front office is they should have acquired that
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big bat, that extra bat in the lineup sooner. In my opinion,
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they caved and signed, finally signed JD Martinez. JD Martinez lingered on the
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market for far too long, much like a lot of other guys this offseason,
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especially a lot of the Scott Boris clients ended up getting, you know,
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the short end of the stick. Boris might have overplayed his hand a
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little bit, Yes, for once. You know, he's very good at
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his job, but sometimes every once in a while comes back to bite him,
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and this offseason was an example of that, I suppose. But yeah,
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Jad Martinez lingered on the market for far too long. So the Mets
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we're able to take advantage of that and sign him late. But I think
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that that was ultimately detrimental because you know, he didn't really have a real
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spring training, a real ramp up period, and so he wasn't with the
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team right away in April and even and he had a little bit of a
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like not injury, but he had some back soreness, and it's like,
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well, you know, when you don't give the thirty six year olds some
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spring training to ramp up, of course, it's gonna get slow. It's
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gonna be slow for him to come to mid season form, you know.
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So he was slow to join the team, and once he did join the
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team, he's been kind of slow to heat up. He did actually finally
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hit his first home run as a Met the other day, as the Mets
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narrowly avoided on the very last out of the game being no hit by the
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Atlanta Braves in the form of a JD. Martinez solo homer that rescued us
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from that particular embarrassment. I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that. I was
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I breathed a big sigh of relief. I was like, all right,
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at least seeing get no hit exactly, that's just sort of been adding insult
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to injury. But yeah, so you know, if if JD Martinez,
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you know, starts to heat up, that will be a huge boost to
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the Mets, who have been woefully inconsistent offensively. And if they had just
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had that sooner, then that would have been great, you know, or
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it did doesn't have to necessarily be Jadi Martinez. It could have been someone
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else, but the Mets clearly were at least one bat short heading into the
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season, and that was abundantly obvious to anyone paying attention, I think,
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and I think that was the biggest miss obviously, the Mets missing out on
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Yamamoto, Yoshinibo Yamamoto and the off season was a huge miss for them.
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They were like kind of the runner up. I guess him, they were
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in the mix, they missed out. Uh, you know, the level
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of blame that you want to put on the front office for that is,
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you know, your mileage may vary on that. The Mets did give did
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offer him a huge, huge contract, and the dot and the Dodgers beat
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that off, and he went to the Dodgers and he clearly wanted to be
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a Dodger. So it's kind of hard to like entirely blame the front office
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for that and say you should have signed Yamamoto. Obviously I would have liked
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that, that would have been great, but it's hard to put that solely
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on the shoulders of the front office. So really, to me, the
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biggest disappointment for me personally, other than like missing out on Yamamoto, which
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wasn't really necessarily their fault was not getting the like other big bat sooner.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. It's it's definitely apparent the inconsistencies
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that you see from the Nets offense, and we've also seen some inconsistency too
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from a pitching standpoint starting pitching standpoint two. I mean the Mets, though
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they are slated to get back an abundance of back end starting pitching in the
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near future from what I understand what I've been reading. I wonder what having
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more back into the rotation pitching means for this team, Allison. That's really
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you know, looking to catch some sort of a spark here, and I
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wonder it's kind of a two part question, like what does that back into
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the rotation pitching mean for this team? And then I wonder how you see
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a July five man rotation kind of shaping up for the Mets as this back
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in again starting rotation or starting pitching within the rotation really starts taking shape.
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What are your thoughts here? Yeah, so, I mean, of course,
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more depth and more starting pitching. Being healthy is never a bad thing.
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You're always gonna want those guys around instead of not having them. But
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I think the Mets miss code I Sanga a lot more than they miss Tyler
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or McGill and David Peterson. You are the two guys who are very close
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to returning. The biggest problem with the Mets starting rotation to me has not
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been the performance, although guys have had individual bad performances. Adrian Hauser has
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been the biggest negative in the starting rotation. He's already been moved to the
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bullpen in favor of Christian Scott, who is the mets to starting pitching prospect.
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And Christian Scott has been excellent so far, and the Mets lost both
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games he pitched because they didn't give him any run support. Jacob de Gram
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Part two, Electric Googloo. You know, so he has been a huge
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help to the starting rotation. But the biggest problem has not been, you
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know, necessarily the quality of it. It's been more that the starters,
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with the exception of Christian Scott's first two starts, have not really gone deep
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into games. They walk too many batters as a staff, even when they're
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okay at run prevention, which they have been for the most part, save
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for a couple of isolated, you know, bad games, which everyone has,
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they've been okay at run prevention, but they deal with traffic on the
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base paths all the time because they walk too many batters, and that means
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that the starting pitcher is going five innings every night and the bullpen is being
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stretched far too thin as a result. And I don't know how much getting
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Tyler or McGill and David Peterson back, who are just kind of of also
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five and dive guys, is gonna help. I do think that they probably
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will go with a six man for a while, at least in stretches come
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July. I'm not sure exactly what that will look like because it's unclear if
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CODEI Sango will be back at that stage if he is, which I hope
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he is, but the Mets got some relatively bad news on that front recently.
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The Mets are being rather cagey about answering questions about his rehab. He
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had been progressing really really well as far as we knew up until a couple
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of days ago. Because he had faced live batters. There was talk of
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him going on a rehab assignment, so we were thinking, you know,
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back when he was first injured, you know, we could see him in
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June. That was the thought at the time, and it seemed like he
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was on track for that. A couple of days ago we learned that his
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rehab is kind of being paused. I guess it's the best way you could
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describe it. But they're not calling it a setback. They're like doing that
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Mets thing where they refuse to call the setback a setback, and they're saying
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that instead. He's working on his mechanics and he's being very meticulous. He
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says he doesn't feel injured anymore, but he's worried about a mechanical issue in
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his delivery that caused him to be injured in the first place, and fixing
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that to make sure he doesn't re injure himself. That is the story they're
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going with. I don't know how much I buy that. Right the way
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that they phreezed it and talked about like, oh, he might need a
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few more bullpens before he goes back to facing live batters. It makes me
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concerned that we're not going to see him for quite some time, and at
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this point, if he's a major contributor this season, I will be pleasantly
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surprised. I yeah, well, really quick. I asked too about like
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how you see that July five man rotation shaping up. Because I think because
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of the back end of the rotation talent that the Mets do actually have,
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I wonder if there could be some potential trade pieces there helps for this team
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to gain some assets or gain even some batting perhaps during the course of the
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season where they may they need it. I don't know, were you thinking
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the same thing perhaps, Uh, yeah, there. I've talked to some
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other folks in my various you know, Mets circles who were actually advocates of
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the Mets trading Jose Kintana in the off season to acquire some, uh,
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to fill some of their other holes in their roster. I was not supportive
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of that at the time because I did not think they had enough rotation depth.
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And you know that, I feel like I was vindicated early. But
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you know, now that they're getting McGill and Peterson back, they are gonna
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have this sort of excess. But the problem is is that Quintana, after
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being pretty good early in the season, has had two terrible starts in a
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row now, and so it's kind of like tanking his potential trade value.
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Yeah, the Mets. It's interesting They've built their entire rotation save code Ay
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Sango, who's hurt and and Christian Scott. Uh. They've built their entire
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rotation kind of of guys who are, you know, basically fourth starters,
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and it's not working that well. I mean it's but it has not been
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enough given the Mets offensive deficiencies for them to be competitive enough. It's what's
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causing them to be five hundred. The offense cannot overcome the starting pitching.
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Starting pitching being what it is is fine if you have a good enough offense
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to overcome it, and the Mets have not thus far, and that's been
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the issue. Yeah, yeah, I tell you. When I take a
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look at this NL East, it's mid May here, and the last thing
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that I thought was that the Philadelphia Phillies would be in first place, Braves
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and second, the Nationals in third, and the Mets. I mean,
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it's honestly, it's the last thing that I thought, and it's keeping baseball
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interesting, at least for us that really followed the NL East. So I
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want to move over to the Philadelphia Phillies, the team that we cover here
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at the PSD podcast show. And yes, they have the best record in
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baseball as to you know, as of us recording this much, I know,
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to your displeasure, of course. I mean, look, they're beating
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teams that they should be beating. I mean they're not beating like necessarily the
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Dodgers or necessarily the Brewers. Yet really at this point, you know,
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they're beating teams that they should be beating, just like any other team should
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be doing in their particular situation. You had a robust conversation about this on
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our last on our podcast show last week about how folks are saying, oh,
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they're not beating anybody, they're not beating any but well, they should
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be beating these teams. So that being said, uh, they have a
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bullpen that's not overextending themselves. Earlier in the season here, Bryce Harper has
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certainly come alive as of many aspects of this offense, especially over the past
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you know, five six weeks here. So as as somebody like on the
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outside of things here, how do you view the Phillies and what they're currently
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doing in the NL East. The Phillies are a very good baseball team,
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and I think that the projection systems criminally underrate them every year, and they
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they should stop doing that because every year the past few years, the Phillies
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have been better than everyone thought. And I think it's time for people to
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maybe realize that the Phillies are good. And I will be grudgingly admitted,
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but it's the truth. They are good, and I don't think I don't
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think that this is a mirage. I don't think that this is Oh,
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they're just beating up on bad teams. Good baseball teams beat bad teams.
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That's what they're supposed to do, and that's what the Phillies are doing.
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They have Their offense is quite the juggernaut when it's firing on all cylinders as
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it is currently. I think the Phillies top to bottom have one of the
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deeper lineups in baseball. The Braves are I think deeper, but the Braves
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are struggling and they have several guys who are underperforming. The Phillies don't have
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as many guys underperforming right now. To do a direct comparison to the Mets,
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for example, the Phillies are getting contributions from Alec Bohm and the Mets
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are not getting contributions from Brett Batty, and that is kind of the difference
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between these two lineups. You see contributions top to bottom in the Phillies lineup.
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The Mets are not getting that right now from the bottom part of their
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Their bench is not contributing at the moment. It was early in the season
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when the Mets were doing a little bit better and now we're not seeing that.
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And I think that's the big difference between the Phillies and the Mets right
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now as far as the offense and its consistency. The Phillies are getting consistent
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offense offensive performance. The Mets are not. The Phillies have a very good
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starting rotation that I think will continue to sustain them and this will not be
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a mirage for them. I think they have a very good rotation. Obviously,
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Zach Wheeler is excellent. Aaron Nola is doing Aaron Nola things. He
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is very good. Ranger Suarez is extremely good. Like these like this is
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a very good baseball team. And I think it's very well rounded, very
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few like true weak points in it. And I think that what they're doing
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is sustainable over the course of the season. It is if everybody stays healthy
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too. And I know that you know that's common sense, Okay, you
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gotta stay healthy if you're going to win baseball games. But look, I
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mean the have had some struggles because of some injuries. Of course. Look
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at the Houston Astros, for God's sake. I mean a team that has
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been extremely relevant over the past decade, and they have been decimated, especially
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from a starting pitching standpoint with regard to injuries. And look where they are
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at the bottom of the freaking barrel in Major League Baseball basically. So it's
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just injuries are going to help your team if you're able to stay healthy,
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you know, and injury, I should say, injuries are not going to
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help your team. You gotta stay healthy, that'll help your team. Injuries
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are going to potentially derail an entire season early on here. So anyway,
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as we're moving along here, Alison, have a two part question for you
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about the NL least here just about overrated teams and underrated teams here in the
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division. So let's start off with Let's start off with the fun overrated team
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in the NL least at this point, who do you think the most overrated
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team is within the division here? I sat there and thought about this and
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like was like, I have to give an answer other than the Mets.
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I don't want to say the Mets. I don't want to say the Mets,
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but I don't think the Phillies are overrated. I just talked about how
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good they are. I don't think the Braves are overrated because the Braves are
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still one of the best teams in baseball. And you know, the Nationals
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and the Marlins. I think it's hard to say either of them are overrated.
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So it has to be the New York Mets, does it not?
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I think, you know, Unfortunately, it's my beloved New York Mets.
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Coming into the season, people thought that they would be wildcard contenders. Obviously,
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the Mets are hovering around five hundred very easily could be a wildcard contender
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still because you know, the state of the the NL East is a very
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tough division to compete in this year, but the state of the National League
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as a whole is not so great. Eighty four wins could do it again,
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which made it all the more frustrating in twenty twenty three when the Mets
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couldn't even accomplish that, despite the fact that they you know, signed some
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big ticket free agents, etc. It's a twenty twenty four similar story and
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the Mets win eighty four games. I think they can still, but you
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know, it's early on. It's looking like the Mets were who we're supposed
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to contend for wild card and may not do so, and so by default,
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I think that kind of makes the most overrated team. All right.
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I think it's fair. I think it's fair. I love your objectivity,
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I really do. With regard to our conversation here, I know I don't
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like saying it. I've been there. I've been there. I've been there
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as a Phillies fan over the past eleven years doing this podcast show. But
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who do you think is the most underrated team in the NL? Least?
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Because I mean there's some there have been some performances from some teams, and
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it's maybe not been really really consistent, But there are some teams here that
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you look and you say, wow, they got some underrated play going on
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here. So for you, who is that? I mean? I said
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that the projection systems always criminally underrate the Phillies. But I'm actually gonna give
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this to the Washington Nationals, who I who were supposed to be you know,
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awful again, Yes, are are are in third place right now?
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They have a better record than the Mets. They are over five hundred they
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I mean, I do do I think that the Nationals are a wild card
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contender? Probably not, although I may eat those words. But they have
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been way way better than anyone probably imagined. Oh, I thought the Marlins
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were gonna Seriously, I thought the Marlins were gonna be like third or fourth
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and and the Nats were gonna be just fifth. Consistently all year. They've
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surprised me. Me too, I thought that the Marlins were gonna be way
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better than they are. The Marlins are obviously awful, and I don't think
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that that is changing. Obviously. They also just traded away one of their
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best players, so that is already the Marlins have given up. So that
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is over the the Nationals. C. J. Abrams looks like a legit
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star. He's very very good, and they've gotten, you know, great
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contributions from their their starting pitching. And you know, I just watched the
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other day. I was I live and Watchington DC. For those of you
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who don't know, so I get, you know, a little bit closer
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look at the Nationals. Most than most non Nationals fans in the NL East.
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I go to a fair number of Nats games. And I was at
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the bar the other night watching the Knicks in the playoffs, and the Nationals
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were on the other television and I watched Patrick Corbyn carve up the Red Sox
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and I was like, sure, okay, Patrick Corbyn, who hasn't been
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good in a while, is put forth solid effort. So I don't know
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if that's just a failing of the Red Sox or just you know, Patrick
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Corbyn doing a little dead cat bounce. I don't know, but the Nationals
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have been a lot better than anyone expected, and I think that, you
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know, they deserve credit for that. Absolutely, they're my most underrated team
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in the NL East right now. At this point here in mid May,
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again, folks were talking to Alison McCaig from a pod of their own.
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Check out everything they got going on over there. I listen on Apple podcasts
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and you should as well, or on whatever podcast platform you're listening to us
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on. And as we're moving along the conversation here, I'm already like thinking
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playoffs here. That's that's how overly eager I am at this point, being
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a Phillies fan offs, exact playoffs. I haven't even won anything, so
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I'm just waiting for the rug to get like pulled out from under us,
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because that's what usually happens to us Philadelphia sports fans in some way, shape
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or form, at some point during whatever season it is, for whatever team.
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But look, at this point, the Phillies, Braves, Brewers,
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Cubs, and Dodgers are all playing some really good baseball within their respective divisions.
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So again, here in mid May, Allison, if you had to
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pick which teams would be heading to the NLCS, and I know we got
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a long way to go, which two teams would they be? And why?
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Yeah? So obviously like playoff randomness is playoff randomness. The Phillies fans
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know that all too well, yep, and so but if I had to
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pick today, I would probably pick the Phillies and the Dodgers. The Dodgers,
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it's just impossible to ever bet against them. They're, in my opinion,
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still the best team in baseball despite everything, despite you know, yea
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Mamoto getting off to the slow start, despite all of that, they are
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it's impossible to bet against them. They're a jug or not. Like the
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Dodgers are just the Dodgers, and they're probably gonna end up in the NLCS
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probably, like I just can't bet against them. If I were a betting
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women, it would be impossible for me to bet against them, but i'm
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not because baseball is too random for them. As that said, I'll pick
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the Dodgers because they're just they're just too good. But I'm gonna go with
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the Phillies over the Braves, and I think that that's somewhat surprising. But
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right now they have the best record in baseball, and I think they have
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this slight edge over the Braves right now because I think that a the Braves
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are a little too injured right now, and who knows what the situation will
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become October. The Braves, I don't think will miss the playoffs because they're
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too good for that. So I think that they're going to be in the
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playoffs regardless of whether they win the NA least or they get a wild card.
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But their injuries are pretty bad. And I think that the Phillies have
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a rotation that sets them up for playoff success in that they have a really
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good, like top three slash kind of top four, really really good and
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that's kind of all you need. The twenty nineteen Nationals proved and past Phillies
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teams that have recently had playoff success have proven that all you need is a
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few good starting pitchers and that can take you very, very far in the
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playoffs. And I think the Phillies once again have that. So that is
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the main reason I'm betting on the Phillies, not even Bryce Harper, though
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of course Bryce Harper is an incredible baseball player. It's really that those top
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starters that they have. Yep, i'mkno going on wood here. Let's knock
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on wood here that it happens, all right. Well, to close our
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discussion here, Allison, And it's a very general question because I've actually been
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giving some thought to this because I'm glad that in general, the Philly sports
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teams that we cover and that we follow here at Philadelpha Sports Taple podcast show,
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you know, are generally relevant in the in the sports world. Like
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I'm very very grateful about that that I'm able to get in front of this
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microphone and talk about the Phillies, Eagles, Flyers, Sixers in Union and
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it's it's not terrible, but man, there are some fan bases out there
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where I genuinely feel awful for them every now and again, So if there
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was one major League Baseball team that you're really happy you're not a fan of,
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who's that team? And why so when you send me these questions,
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this is the one I had to think the least about. I answered.
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I answered in my head in two seconds. And it's the Chicago White Sox.
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There you go, all right, easy answer for me. I mean,
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and it's I think it's in part it's there's two reasons for that.
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Number One is just like pretty obvious. Like gestures at the Chicago White Sox,
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like, look at the vibes are heinous. It's just they're so bad
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and there's no like excitement for the future. Like another bad team like the
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Marlins, you can at least squint and say, like maybe Peter Bendix can
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like do a raise thing with them and like build like a better team in
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the future. He will be, you know, horribly cheap in doing so,
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and it'll be frustrating, but maybe he's he's a talented executive and maybe
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he can build like a decent team. It's not right now, clearly,
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but maybe in the future. The Chicago White Sox I cannot even squint my
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eyes and see a positive future for that franchise, and like, not only
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that, they brought back Mike Clevenger, who is like a noted like terrible
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human being, and they just like brought him back and makes it like hard
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even if you are a person who is a fan of the Chicago White Sox,
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it makes it hard to root for them. I know, I know
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lots of White Sox fans, and so this is kind of the second reason,
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Like I know a few White Sox fans we had there isn't there's an
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all women led like White Sox podcast as well, So anytime there's another like
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all women led show, we kind of like we always have like a close
27:15
relationship with those folks, right and we we we have talked to them a
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few times over the past couple of years, and I just my heart breaks
27:22
for them, like I like I cannot imagine, and like, being a
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metsine sucks pretty pretty bad. It's been pretty bad in my lifetime. The
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Mets have not won a single championship in my lifetime, right, But I
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still would rather be a Mets fan every time than be a Chicago White Sox
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fan. Like their their ownership, their front office, everything in that organization
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from top to bottom. The vibes are just ranted and I can't see them
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getting any better. You got it, You got it. The vibes are
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terrible. The vibes are absolutely terrible, and it was so great talking to
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you. Allison. Please come back and join us down the Road. I
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would really really love to have you on the show anytime, Jeff. Hopefully
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the next time I join you, the gulf between our two teams will be
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even bigger. Yes, I'm a feeling it will be absolutely again, folks,
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and other awesome Mets podcasts at petite PhD on Twitter, slash x again,
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Alison, it was great talking to you. Always have fun, always enjoy
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our conversations. Let's do it down the road, my friend sounds good.
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Thank you, Jeff, what a great discussion with Alison Like I said,
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I'm kind of waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under us as
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Phillies fans as we're moving along with the season here. But look, the
28:55
Mets have been extremely surprising. And again, like I mentioned during the course
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of our discussion, injuries can derail seasons, or at least derail parts of
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seasons. Can the Mets actually get back into some sort of contention within the
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NL East? And when I say contention, not necessarily from a division leading
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standpoint, but possibly looking to get that wildcard spot. Yeah, it's absolutely
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possible. There's still a lot of baseball to play. Washington Nationals, they've
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not been playing terrible baseball the surprising and underrated team that they are, But
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it's gonna be real interesting to follow this NL East as we continue to move
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forward here in twenty twenty four. So it's gonna do it for us here
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