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The NEW YORK METS miss the playoffs after a HISTORIC collapse! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  weight. I'm just kidding.
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  Well, ladies and gentlemen, it was a crazy, crazy weekend for
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  baseball. The New York Yankees head into
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  the playoffs and the Mets packing it up and going to golf,
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  and they're not going to be hanging out at the Ryder Cup
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  after all the New Yorkers and the way they acted, that's a
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  whole nother story. I'll get into that a little bit
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  later in the show because I think they're absolutely
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  horrific. They're horrible people.
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  I'm, I'm just saying it. Long Islanders at the Ryder Cup
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  were disgraceful, disrespectful. I don't care if they're
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  European. I don't.
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  If they're from the US or Canadian, you show little
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  respect. I don't care who you are and how
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  much you hate that person. These guys go out there, they're
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  making sure that they're entertaining you for what is it,
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  18 holes every single day, four days this past week and
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  embarrassed themselves. 36 those Friday and Saturday, 18 on
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  Sunday and there's only three days.
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  Oh, OK, Three days. Whatever.
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  I didn't watch most of it. I got.
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  I went there Saturday. I stopped there Saturday for
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  about, I don't know, 2530 minutes.
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  It was packed. I didn't want to deal with the
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  people. The media was crazy.
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  Everybody was trying to get most of the interviews with some of
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  the golfers at the tail end of probably the 16th or 17th hole,
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  and a lot of people were just trying to get their time and get
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  their recordings and they were walking all over the greens.
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  And I just didn't enjoy it. The little bit of time that I
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  was there, I didn't enjoy it. But again, Bethpage Black is an
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  interesting place to be. The restaurants are cool.
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  I like the food, so I'm not going to complain about the
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  food, but I I didn't get a chance to eat much of it because
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  I wanted to stay the hell away from it.
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  So, but it was, it was a nasty, nasty weekend when it comes to
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  the the New Yorkers that were there.
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  I I thought it was disrespectful.
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  I didn't like it was so bad. But the Mets fans are not very
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  excited. They're not happy right now
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  because the Mets are packing it up and going to have to figure
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  out what they're going to be doing in the offseason.
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  Do they make some trades? Do they have pitching?
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  There's a couple of big names that are going to be available
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  in the offseason, Allen being one of them.
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  Maybe the Mets make a run at one of these guys, but they can't
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  depend on the young guys. We will get into that.
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  I know a lot of Mets fans are not very happy about that, but
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  we'll get into that in just a few moments.
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  Wild card weekend, and I say wild Card weekend because there
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  were so many teams fighting for where they're going to be.
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  The Yankees could have won the division on Sunday.
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  Unfortunately, the Blue Jays went on a winning streak just
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  like the Yankees. They completely outplayed Tampa
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  over the weekend and the Yankees obviously tried their best and
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  worked their asses off to to win the division at the tail end of
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  the season. But after losing series after
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  series, you know, middle in the middle of the season against the
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  Blue Jays, it affected their opportunity to win the division.
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  So unfortunately, the Yankees are going to be matched up
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  against the Red Sox this coming week.
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  And if you're a Yankee fan, are you excited about that?
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  Well, it's the Yankee and Red Sox rivalry.
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  So you're going to sit there and you're going to enjoy it.
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  But to me, I'm not excited about that Jabba.
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  And then we'll get into the whole Judge and rally thing
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  because it seems like that's the talk of the town.
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  Who gets the MVP. Is it Judge who's had a superb
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  year? And if you want to ask and you
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  kind of look at what Aaron Judge has done over the last three
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  season, it's utter world worldly.
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  And I'm going to tell you this right now.
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  If you compare some of the great Yankee seasons, great Yankee
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  seasons, even the Mickey Mantle era, the Babe Ruth era, the Joe
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  DiMaggio era, those eras, these three years, four years that
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  Aaron Judge has put up and really shut people up as the
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  best player in the league could be some of the best years we've
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  ever seen a Yankees, a Yankee player have.
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  But Jabba, how are you? How was your weekend?
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  It was good. It was.
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  It's hot here now. It is literally like perfect
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  weather right when it needs to be, like in the morning, get up,
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  headed to the gym. It's awesome.
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  And then get stuff done. Then you go back out around
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  lunchtime and you have to change three times a day.
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  Living in Nebraska right now, living in Lincoln, because it's
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  it's the way it goes. And it's like, well, then you're
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  too hot. So you change clothes and it's
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  like at night, Oh, you want to just hang out outside on the
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  deck, put your feet up. You got to put a jacket on a
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  sweatshirt, but no, other than that it was great.
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  Is a great weekend for sports. Obviously not the way we wanted
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  to end it in golf, you know, a for effort and everything that
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  happened there. Was it great sports?
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  I don't know. For effort I mean.
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  I mean, the players, they work, they play.
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  Yeah, you could have gave it. I mean, yeah, fans are going to
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  be fans, though. I I don't know if you guys will
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  get into it. I don't we're not.
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  Obviously you guys don't like golf, so we're it's not even on
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  the conversation today, but I'm going to get into it because
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  there's a lot of golf fans around.
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  But what do you expect to happen in New York?
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  Literally, if you guys saw Chipper Jones said the same
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  thing. He played here 12 to 15 times
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  for 20 years. His wife and kids were never
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  allowed. Don't get it.
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  Understand you're going to get it.
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  And I, I have, I've been called worse.
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  I've been, I've had batteries thrown at me.
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  I've had everything understand what you're going to get when
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  you come in, unless it's attacking family, whatever.
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  And the. Thing was, it was.
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  Yeah, but nobody threw anything at Rory's wife.
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  They hit it. There's a there's a video of it.
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  They hit it out and they just so happened to hit her.
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  And so, yeah, the the part of is it right?
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  No, but what do you expect? I mean, that's that's fans,
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  that's what they're going to do. It happens everywhere and that's
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  just that's the nature of the beast.
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  You know what's going to happen. And when you chirp back, don't
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  expect them not to chirp back. There's videos of you chirping
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  as well, like so that's the name of the game.
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  Like it is what it is. It's not going to change, but it
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  was fun to see. Obviously not the ending that we
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  wanted, but yeah, it expected exactly what it was a little bit
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  closer on Friday, Saturday, Sunday was obviously impressive
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  for for a lot of guys. And you know, it was, it was a
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  fun weekend for, I don't know. I don't know about that.
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  It wasn't fun for Met fans. It wasn't fun.
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  Well, it was fun for the giant fans.
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  I know they're they're excited. Well, fun for you, but you're
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  not everyone jobber. You're one person.
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  There's billions. I know, but I'm just speaking
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  for myself. I don't speak for everybody
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  else. I'm saying I speak for me.
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  I got it. I got it.
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  The Met Mets collapse Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Mets
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  completed one of the largest collapses in baseball history,
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  getting eliminated from the playoffs on the last day of the
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  season. The Mets, in a must win
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  situation all week, lost two out of three games versus the lonely
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  Marlins while the Reds won two out of three games versus the
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  Brewers to sneak into the last spot of the National League Wild
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  Card. On Sunday, the Mets were shut
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  out four to nothing and only had five hits.
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  Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto both grounded into double plays
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  with runners in scoring position and Pete Alonso lined out with
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  the bases loaded. The Mets used eight different
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  pitchers in yesterday's game and many fans were questioning
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  Carlos Mendoza's methods of pulling pitchers too early.
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  The Mets had the best record in baseball at 45 and 24 on June
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  12th and had the best ERA in baseball since then.
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  They went 38 and 55 and had the fifth worst ERA.
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  And we're tied. And we're tied for the fifth
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  worst record in baseball with the Angels and only better than
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  the Rockies, Twins, Nationals and White Sox.
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  The Mets announced on Monday that yes, I know Met fans are
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  not very happy about this. They will keep manager Carlos
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  Mendoza for the 2026 season, while owner Steve Cohen
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  apologized to fans for their failure on social media.
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  Well, Steve Cohen has a lot to say, but little words to say.
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  And Met fans out there should not be very happy for what we
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  saw in the second-half of the season.
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  The second-half of the season was absolutely horrible and
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  mephedites are going to sit there.
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  They're going to make every single excuse, every excuse in a
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  book. And I'm going to get into Juan
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  Soda because the excuse that he made after the game speaking to
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  the media was just non apologetic because he should
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  apologize. You're the leader of this team.
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  You and Francisco Lindor are the leaders of this team and you
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  laid up a lousy goose egg the final two games of the series.
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  It was a must win weekend. The Yankees needed to win all
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  three games to try to win the division.
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  They did, but so did the Blue Jays.
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  The Yankees did what they needed to do to fight for the division.
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  The Mets had no chance of winning the division but had a
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  chance to go into the playoffs. What McClain and Tong and some
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  of the young players that they have on this roster and they
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  just didn't show up when they needed it.
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  They didn't show up. Pete Alonzo opted out right
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  after the game, as expected, and Pete Alonzo is going to go to
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  free agency and he's going to have a pick and he's going to
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  make the pick on where he decides to go because they're
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  going to be teams lining up for him the season that he had he.
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  Had the best batting out. Do you like, do you like how he
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  announced it right away, like right after the?
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  Loss or I do I do because he. Wants.
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  Because he wants the Mets to understand I am out there.
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  I'm putting myself out there. It's time to make a move and
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  make a move before the playoffs are over.
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  Because if you let me go out there and about to sit down with
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  team after team after team, I'm going to make my decision.
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  I don't want to be here. The Mets gave Lindor the
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  extension as soon as they traded for him.
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  They gave Juan Soto an extension after they they made the move to
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  bring them in. They they made sure that Juan
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  Soto got paid. They gave him $768 million.
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  Pete Alonso got a three-year deal.
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  To me that wasn't even worth the the value that he is as a
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  player. He is the face.
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  He's been the face of the New York Mets organization in their
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  farm system. Remember, this is a guy that was
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  called up as an older player. He was 25 years old when he came
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  up as a New York Mets player. Remember the Mets drafted him
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  and he and he just didn't develop.
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  He didn't develop in AAA or AA for a little while.
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  But once he figured things out, Peter Lonzo became the face, the
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  heart and soul of this organization.
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  I remember 3 years ago when he came out, he said I'm getting
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  rid of all my social medias. I don't want to interact with
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  anybody that is interactive with me and the team.
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  I want to go out there. I want to be a leader.
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  I want to show my leadership. By doing that, he's done
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  everything right. As a New York Mets player, he's
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  done everything right. He's put up the numbers.
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  He's when he's healthy, he's putting up those power numbers.
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  He's hitting over 100 RBI's over almost 40 home runs every single
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  season. The nickname the polar bear, to
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  me, that will be the biggest loss from this this season and
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  the offseason if Beat Alonzo decides he wants to part ways
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  with the New York Mets. It also showed you he believes
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  in himself. Yes, because instead of going
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  out and do it, he took a one year 30 million basically
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  saying, Hey, this is on me like and if I fail, obviously in a
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  walk year, it is definitely going to change what my number
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  could be and to go out and have the year that he did on the
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  level that he did. And you know, I just hats off to
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  him because it it takes it takes some big cojones to you know
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  what, especially in this market, he gets it.
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  He has he has the quirky, weird personality that fits really,
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  really well. I wouldn't say, and obviously
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  I'm not in the clubhouse, so I I don't know from a leadership
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  side, but the way he handles the media and interviews and how
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  he's just, I feel like he's authentically himself.
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  And I think the polar bear fits very, very well.
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  But hats off to him for for literally like, you know what,
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  I'm going to bet on myself. And not to say 30 million was
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  chump change for a year, but to know to not give in to what the
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  numbers were that he didn't feel like he was valued at right and
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  go out and do what he did. So I mean, it, it's it's going
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  to be fun for him. I mean, obviously he hopefully
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  he's playing this game for, you know, a championship, but you
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  know, he's he can look himself in the mirror and be like, I did
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  everything I could. And and he's going to reap.
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  He's going to reap the benefits of it.
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  That's he. Came out and said he wants to be
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  a Met for life. He he pretty much said that he
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  wants to be here. So it's not like he's going out
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  there looking for the most money.
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  The Mets can pay him the most money.
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  They have the richest owner in baseball.
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  So it's not like Steve Cohen, Uncle Stevie can't open up his
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  pockets. He opened in his pockets for
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  Soto. He's given Lindor the green
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  light to possibly be the captain of his team.
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  They have young pitchers that they can build around, but they
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  need veteran pitching. And that's something that the
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  Mets are going to have to go after.
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  So the Mets, again, are going to go into an offseason where
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  they're going to have to spend a significant portion of money
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  that you're talking about. Pete Alonzo is going to be
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  asking for about $180 million. That's what he's going to be
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  asking for between 160 and 180. And then you look at the
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  pitching that are going to be available.
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  There are going to be good pictures that are going to be
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  available this year, Maybe not as good as Max Freed was last
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  year, but there's there are good pictures that are going to be
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  available. So the Mets are going to have to
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  spend the money. But here's the problem.
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  And I know everybody is going to go through the what ifs and
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  after this weekend, what if the Mets won those two games?
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  Do the Mets make a run? Do they win a World Series?
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  Does this team have enough to win a World Series?
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  Last year? This is practically the same
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  team, just with Juan Soto and some of the youth pitchers that
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  they have. But that was just a miraculous
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  season they had, especially in the playoff run that they had.
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  I don't know if they're going to be able to mimic a season like
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  that. I said that to Met fans when
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  they went into the NLCS. I said this might never happen
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  again with this roster. We might never see this again.
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  So cherish this and hope the Mets can get over the hump and
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  beat the Dodgers and maybe play the Yankees in the World Series
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  and we see another Subway Series.
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  But it didn't happen that way. And the fact is, I blame Carlos
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  Mendoza because Mendoza got a lot of credits over the last two
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  seasons. He's been there.
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  Last year, what the Mets were doing in the season that they
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  had, he was up for manager of the year.
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  He was great. He did everything right.
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  And this year, I'll say this about David Stearns because
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  everybody is going to sit here and say, oh, David Stearns is
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  the grass. He's still a great GM.
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  Look what he's done. Look what he's put together.
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  Well, what does he put together? A complete debacle.
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  That is what he put together. This team fell apart, this
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  roster that he built in the offseason over the last two
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  season seasons have not done what they were supposed to do.
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  You added Juan Soda, you absolutely a playoff team.
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  You spent $768 million and you fall short with Juan Soda in a
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  lot of the career year Juan Soda had.
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  And then Juan Soda going out there and blaming the pitching.
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  That's what he said yesterday after the game.
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  While our pitching was sensational in the beginning of
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  the season, our ERERA was one of the best in the league and then
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  all of a sudden injuries and this and that.
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  How about take responsibility Juan and you're the captain or
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  one, one of the leaders of this team.
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  You're not captain. You're you're not you're going
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  to be a Co captain of this team. You Lindor, you're, you guys are
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  going to be the faces of this organization for the next 5 to 6
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  years because Lindor signed a long, dear long, long contract
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  as well. So you look at the picture here,
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  these two guys went out there. Lindor took responsibility.
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  I listened to his media press. I listened to what he said.
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  He said, listen, I got to play better.
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  It's on me to play better. I'm a leader.
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  I'm supposed to be out there. I'm supposed to hit.
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  I'm supposed to put myself out there and make sure that I could
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  put the ball in play. I couldn't do that.
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  Juan Soto didn't say that. Juan Soto said, well, we have a
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  chance next year to be good. We're going to work hard over
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  the offseason. How about this?
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  Going into the season, remember when you signed with the Mets?
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  Remember what you said at that press conference when the media
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  asked you what was your Why did you decide to go to the Mets and
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  not stay with the Yankees? Does anybody remember what he
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  said, Speedy? Do you remember what he said?
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  He said that the Mets were the best team in New York.
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  He said that he has a better chance of winning with the New
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  York Mets than he does with the New York Yankees.
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  Now let's let's Fast forward it from the whole season, 162
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  games. Was Juan Soto right, everybody?
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  What he said. Before this is a song.
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  He was never right. I didn't think for like a month.
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  The Mets are an organization. They're they're a trendy
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  organization. And everybody's going to ask,
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  what do you mean? Your trend on the Internet,
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  social media? Here's what the Mets do.
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  When the Mets are winning, fans are all over social media.
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  They're blasting. Look, we have a chance to win a
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  World Series. Look at what Soto's doing, the
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  unbelievable season. We've got some youth.
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  We've got this pitching. Look up McClain.
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  This guy's going to be a Cy Young winner for the next three
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  or four years, Tom, Look at these guys.
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  Lubricate the balls with this. And what happened, what
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  happened? You can't depend on youth and
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  youngsters to sneak into the playoffs.
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  And by the way, Holmes, Clay Holmes did exactly what he did
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  with the Yankees, with the Mets. He started the season off strong
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  as a starting pitcher and he was in the he was a relief pitcher
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  for the Yankees and he completely died off.
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  Then they moved him to the bullpen.
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  He was even worse in the bullpen.
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  And Edward Diaz came out and he said he's opting out, which
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  tells me. Edwin Diaz might be looking for
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  a new job in the offseason, playing for a new team because I
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  don't see the Mets extending him because they added the pictures
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  that they added during the trade deadline.
• 20:20
  They gave up prospects. I don't see the Mets doing it.
• 20:23
  Maybe they look at maybe two or three guys instead of 1 and
• 20:27
  Edwin Diaz pay two or three guys instead of 1.
• 20:30
  Because Edwin Diaz is going to be asking between 20 and 22
• 20:33
  million a year to get to be one of the best relief pitchers in
• 20:36
  baseball. And I don't see the Mets giving
• 20:38
  him that kind of money. And the Mets right now say
• 20:41
  whatever you want, guys, you're going into an offseason where
• 20:45
  there's a lot of questions, a lot of questions of this team.
• 20:48
  They're and they had the best, one of the top 10 farm systems
• 20:52
  in baseball in the beginning of the season.
• 20:55
  All those guys are called up now they're but now you're going to
• 20:58
  look at they're going into the offseason.
• 21:00
  When we look at the franchises and where they're their
• 21:03
  franchises are when it comes to talent in their farm system.
• 21:07
  I bet you the Mets are in the 20s, late 20s, mid 20s.
• 21:11
  They're nowhere close to what they were when the beginning of
• 21:13
  the season happened. And what does that tell me?
• 21:15
  You're putting a lot of pressure on these youngsters and the Mets
• 21:18
  fans are not going to sit here and make up all these crying
• 21:21
  antics. Well, if we don't bring Pete
• 21:23
  Alonzo back, we can't win. Oh, really?
• 21:26
  Oh, really? Because Mets fans, including
• 21:29
  Josh Silverberg and you know, Josh, if you're listening to the
• 21:32
  show, you could call. You can argue with me all you
• 21:35
  want. You're the one that told me that
• 21:38
  the Mets were not going to make the playoffs.
• 21:40
  I give you credit for that. You came out and you told me two
• 21:43
  months ago, this team is going to fall short and they're going
• 21:45
  to fall short. Short really, really hard.
• 21:47
  And what did I tell you, Josh? If the Mets fall short, it's
• 21:50
  going to be that final weekend in those last three games when
• 21:54
  the Mets, all they have to do is win one game and they're in,
• 21:58
  they're going to choke. Why?
• 21:59
  Because Juan Soto is one of those guys that chokes, chokes
• 22:05
  when pressure is on him. Yes, everybody's going to say,
• 22:07
  wait a second, Juan Soto won a World Series.
• 22:10
  He won an MVP in the World Series.
• 22:11
  Yeah, that was when he was 19 years old.
• 22:13
  What has Juan Soto done so far since that national
• 22:17
  championship? What has he done?
• 22:20
  He's done nothing. He's played for three other
• 22:22
  franchises since then. I'm not saying Juancho isn't
• 22:25
  great. He's a sensational player.
• 22:27
  But is he a winning player? Is he going to bring a
• 22:31
  championship home to the New York Mets?
• 22:34
  I'll tell you this and we're going to get into the whole Dak
• 22:37
  Prescott media service. Last night after the game, 40 to
• 22:41
  40, I, I want to say Michael Parsons absolutely laid out the
• 22:44
  lousy goose egg and I told fans why the Cowboys did not sign
• 22:49
  Micah Parsons and he proved why he is not good under pressure.
• 22:53
  I'll get into that a little bit later.
• 22:55
  But when you're a superstar player, you're making a
• 22:57
  significant portion of your team's money.
• 23:00
  You got to go out there and be the face.
• 23:02
  You got to go out there and make the plays.
• 23:04
  You got to go out there and get the hits.
• 23:06
  You didn't do it, Juan. The reason why the Mets didn't
• 23:09
  make the playoffs is the blame. And there's only one player to
• 23:13
  blame here. It's Juan Soto.
• 23:16
  It's Juan Soto. I'm blaming Juan Soto because
• 23:18
  Juan Soto came out there and said $768 million.
• 23:23
  I am the best player, one of the top three players in the league.
• 23:26
  He said that. Well, Aaron Judge came back from
• 23:30
  a UCL injury. He still played when he needed
• 23:34
  to make and he needed to hit and he needs to make plays.
• 23:37
  Aaron Judge did that. Is Aaron Judge starting in the
• 23:39
  outfield this playoff run? Absolutely.
• 23:42
  He absolutely is. That tells me that this man is a
• 23:46
  leader. This man will put up his body,
• 23:48
  will put his body on the line for this team because he wants
• 23:52
  to win. Are you willing, Soda?
• 23:55
  Are you willing to put your body on the line for this
• 23:57
  organization and this team and not worry about $60 million that
• 24:01
  you're going to make every single year?
• 24:02
  Because I remember at the All Star game during the All Star
• 24:05
  break, you were complaining that you didn't get voted in by your
• 24:08
  peers. You were complaining that you
• 24:09
  didn't get that $100,000. You're complaining every single
• 24:13
  part of this season that you need help.
• 24:17
  Well, guess what? The help is coming.
• 24:22
  What is What is going to be his excuse next year when this team
• 24:25
  falls short? What is going to be Speedy?
• 24:28
  You're a fan. What are you talking about?
• 24:29
  He needed help. He had Alonzo and.
• 24:32
  No, he, he, he says what that pretty much said he needs
• 24:35
  pitching help. That's what he said.
• 24:36
  He says we need help. So when you get help in the
• 24:39
  offseason, when you get the pitching, because you know,
• 24:42
  Steve Cohen is going to open up his pockets and David Stearns is
• 24:46
  going to get every bit of that money to spend it around and
• 24:49
  sprinkle it around like, you know, if you like, how can I say
• 24:53
  this? You like pasta without.
• 24:55
  You can't eat pasta without cheese.
• 24:57
  Grady cheese. You need Grady cheese.
• 24:59
  If you don't have Grady cheese. If I don't have Grady cheese,
• 25:01
  I'm not eating the pasta. OK.
• 25:04
  If, and that's what the Mets are going to have a chance to do,
• 25:06
  they're going to have the grated cheese.
• 25:08
  They're going to sprinkle it on this team.
• 25:10
  Is it going to be enough? Is this team able, with the
• 25:15
  players and the personalities on this roster right now, to get
• 25:18
  over the hump and win a championship?
• 25:19
  My answer Right now, as far as I'm concerned, the answer is no.
• 25:23
  It's hard when you look at a team culture that's never going
• 25:27
  to change, and that's a problem we've seen over the years with
• 25:30
  the Mets having these high expectation seasons and some
• 25:33
  things. 1993 was considered like the worst team money could buy.
• 25:36
  The whole book was written at that point. 2007 was the massive
• 25:40
  expectations of Sports Illustrated on the cover.
• 25:43
  They spent a lot of money with, obviously Beltran, Delgado and
• 25:45
  all those guys. They went to the NLCS and choked
• 25:47
  the year before, and now a new ownership comes in, a new regime
• 25:53
  comes in, still spending money, and the same problem happens
• 25:57
  again. 2007 it. Was 2006, wasn't it?
• 26:01
  2006 was the year they went to the NLCS, they lost it against
• 26:03
  the Cardinals. 2007 was the year after where they had their
• 26:06
  historic collapse at the time and then they did it again in
• 26:09
  2008. Not to the statistical drop off
• 26:11
  we saw, but they were still up by 5 games in the last month of
• 26:13
  the season. This year they were up in the NL
• 26:17
  ES just sweeping the Phillies in August and all of a sudden they
• 26:20
  forgot how to play baseball. They lost two out of three to
• 26:23
  the Marlins and the Nationals twice.
• 26:26
  That cannot happen. You don't have this kind of
• 26:30
  thing. There's teams that spend money
• 26:33
  and have a good system to work on it, and they do not have
• 26:36
  that. They have a arsenal of talent.
• 26:38
  They have a player development organization.
• 26:40
  That's gotten better, apparently, because the kids
• 26:42
  were the saving grace really in the end of the last two.
• 26:45
  Months. Didn't he spend $50 million on
• 26:48
  the the these mathematicians, these, these guys, these
• 26:52
  analytic guys he created, he built a whole system.
• 26:56
  Steve Cohen went out. There, what's Fish call him?
• 26:59
  Fish calls him the Lenny's or. Something Lenny's the Yankees
• 27:01
  guy. He has to think of one for the
• 27:02
  Bats guy. Whatever it is, the fact is, is
• 27:06
  he spent $50 million in the offseason to bring in all these
• 27:10
  these new, you know, analytic guys, these personal, personal
• 27:14
  guys that are scientists and guys that are figuring out the,
• 27:19
  you know, the the water, the new water system.
• 27:22
  I don't know, whatever he's he's looked for these guys, he has
• 27:26
  them. And everybody says this system,
• 27:28
  the way the Mets are spending their money, they're spending
• 27:31
  it, right? We'll put the Wilpons didn't do
• 27:32
  that. They didn't go and dig into
• 27:34
  their pockets the way they should have to help out the
• 27:36
  analytic program. The Yankees have been using it.
• 27:38
  The Braves have been using it. The Saint Louis Cardinals have
• 27:41
  been using it. All there's elite teams in the
• 27:43
  league have been using it. And Mets didn't want to go out
• 27:45
  there because the Wilpons were too busy giving off giving
• 27:49
  Madoff all their money and Madoff was robbing everybody
• 27:52
  and, and pretty much sitting behind bars.
• 27:54
  And now may he rest in peace. I guess he's he's gone now.
• 27:57
  But I don't want to, I don't want to put him down or any of
• 27:59
  that stuff. I don't like death.
• 28:01
  So. But to me, the Mets organization
• 28:04
  have been an absolute joke. And there's nothing to scream
• 28:06
  about besides this team and this organization needs to find the
• 28:11
  right, the right mathematical equation.
• 28:14
  And the right mathematical equation is not spending $768
• 28:18
  million. It's taking a significant
• 28:21
  portion of that money and splitting it off into sectors of
• 28:26
  this team that they have been missing.
• 28:29
  And I have, I've said this over and over and over again, the
• 28:32
  Mets bullpen is been really, really, really, really, really,
• 28:37
  really bad for the last 10 years.
• 28:40
  They have never, they have one good guy and the rest of the
• 28:43
  guys. And then I have two good guys
• 28:46
  and one guy goes down. And then the rest of the, the,
• 28:48
  the bullpen is they never healthy.
• 28:51
  And when they are healthy, they're all not playing well or
• 28:54
  one guy's playing well. It's, it's horrible.
• 28:57
  And I know everybody says it's bad luck, but when you go out
• 28:59
  there and you make trades, at the trade down line, you had
• 29:02
  guys that were All Stars, you added guys that were All Stars.
• 29:05
  Housley was an All Star this year, was he not?
• 29:09
  He was an All Star. And what did he do when he came
• 29:11
  to the New York Mets? He did nothing.
• 29:14
  Struggle Bus. He was bad, he was bad.
• 29:17
  And again, Mets fans, there is no excuse to this.
• 29:21
  And then you have Juan Soto throwing the pitching staff
• 29:25
  under the bus. He didn't say it in a in a
• 29:28
  derogatory way, but what was the first thing the media asked him
• 29:30
  was why do you think this collapse happened?
• 29:32
  He said, well, you know, our pitching was one of the best in
• 29:34
  the league in the beginning of the year, the year RA was up.
• 29:36
  And then all of a sudden injuries happened and everything
• 29:39
  started to collapse in the bullpen.
• 29:41
  That was the first thing he said.
• 29:43
  Instead of coming out there like a leader would and say, listen,
• 29:46
  I got to play better. I got to play better in the
• 29:48
  bigger games. I didn't show up in this week,
• 29:50
  these weekend, this weekend's games.
• 29:53
  I failed against a bad Marlins team.
• 29:55
  Everybody knows the Marlins are bad.
• 29:57
  You couldn't hit against the pigeon from the Marlins.
• 30:01
  Everybody was hitting against. Them, they got some good arms.
• 30:03
  They got some. Good.
• 30:04
  It wasn't those guys that were the missing.
• 30:06
  Though do you know what their ERA was?
• 30:08
  The Marlins ERA was in the month of September.
• 30:12
  Their ERA was over 8 the Marlins.
• 30:16
  But that's why I said when you're in this position now, you
• 30:21
  have nothing to play for being the Marlins and the National.
• 30:24
  Like let's go ruin somebody's season.
• 30:27
  Mind you, they're in the cellar anyway, so let's pour salt in
• 30:30
  the moon like those are. I would rather play teams in it
• 30:33
  and fighting. Sometimes you press and you do
• 30:37
  the you got nothing to lose. Like I already planned my
• 30:40
  vacation. I'm leaving October 2nd like I'm
• 30:42
  out. So let's, let's ruin somebody
• 30:45
  else's. Let's let's make sure they plan
• 30:47
  a vacation early. Like I don't I don't like them.
• 30:50
  We've seen it plenty of times where it's like these dudes have
• 30:52
  nothing to play for but themselves.
• 30:54
  It's it's the very few times and fortunate enough only in 2008 of
• 30:58
  my career to to not have that feeling of, Hey, we're going to
• 31:02
  the postseason where it's like, you know what, I'm going to play
• 31:04
  for myself right now. Because anybody that says
• 31:07
  they're not doing at that point, especially free agent guys like
• 31:10
  you want to go out on a high note.
• 31:11
  You want to go like, so you're playing for yourself and you're
• 31:14
  like, all right, well, here I go.
• 31:15
  Let me ruin somebody's season. Let me go rake.
• 31:18
  And that's what that's what you were saying.
• 31:19
  Like there's nothing to lose like with those types of
• 31:21
  pitchers too. Like Yuri Perez is good, but
• 31:23
  like the other guys they were facing are not like anywhere
• 31:25
  close to like you would think, tough pitchers.
• 31:27
  Perez is really good. Like he was great before he got
• 31:30
  hurt. But that's the problem with the
• 31:31
  Mets is they're just pressing as a result of this.
• 31:33
  And Arrow's right about Soto and and these other guys that just
• 31:36
  didn't in the clutch. Like obviously the pitching was
• 31:39
  the bigger like longer term problem with the two-month span
• 31:42
  that they had. But the the hitters didn't help
• 31:44
  their own 'cause either by not scoring off those guys.
• 31:46
  And remember Aaron Judge last year, remember when Aaron Judge
• 31:49
  hit a significant portion of home runs and everybody said,
• 31:52
  oh, what an excellent season, you're going to be the MVP.
• 31:55
  And he says at the end of the season when everybody knew he
• 31:58
  was going to win the MVP, what did he say?
• 32:00
  He said this season means nothing if I don't win a
• 32:03
  championship, right? That's what he said.
• 32:05
  Did you want so to say that after the fact?
• 32:07
  They didn't even make the playoffs?
• 32:08
  No. The first thing he said was I'm
• 32:10
  going to blame somebody. I have to blame somebody.
• 32:13
  I'm going to blame the pitching staff.
• 32:14
  That's what I'm going to do. I had a remarkable season.
• 32:17
  I I'm making 60 million a year. Why am I complaining?
• 32:21
  I did everything I was supposed to do.
• 32:23
  That's my team. It's me, me, me.
• 32:25
  When it comes to Soto, it's not we, we, we, as we all say in
• 32:28
  France. So to me, it's it's been a big
• 32:31
  problem for the New York Mets and the Yankees had that
• 32:33
  problem. We want Soto last year as well.
• 32:36
  It's a big problem. When Donaldson came to the
• 32:39
  Yankees. Remember that?
• 32:41
  Remember when Donaldson came to the New York Yankees, everybody
• 32:44
  was like, is this going to work? Is it not going to work?
• 32:48
  And then Donaldson, there were stuff going on.
• 32:51
  People were saying there was stuff going in in the bullpen.
• 32:53
  I mean, in the locker room, stuff was going on.
• 32:56
  You know, during the games, he was yelling at the fans.
• 32:59
  He was yelling at other teams in the dugouts.
• 33:01
  Remember that everybody thought, oh, this guy could be great.
• 33:05
  This guy was an MVP. This guy's a leader.
• 33:07
  Now, I'm not saying I'm not saying he is Juan Soto because
• 33:12
  he's not Juan Soto. But this guy won an MVP at one
• 33:17
  point of his career. He was a great player.
• 33:19
  And this guy was also a guy that the Yankees thought was going to
• 33:22
  be the missing piece to get him over the hump because they
• 33:25
  needed a third baseman that could play defense and give him
• 33:27
  that power, which they haven't had over there on that side it
• 33:31
  since Alex Rodriguez. Nick, tell me, Yankee fans, when
• 33:35
  was the last time they had a power bat at third base?
• 33:38
  Could anybody know? Does anybody know it was Alex
• 33:41
  Rodriguez? A rod.
• 33:42
  A rod. It was Alex Rodriguez.
• 33:44
  Think about that. Think about how long ago was a
• 33:48
  rod playing for the New York anchors?
• 33:49
  When was the last time Alex Rodriguez played for the New
• 33:52
  York Yankees? 2016 I believe.
• 33:54
  So 2016, so that is, ladies and gentlemen, that's almost nine
• 33:58
  years ago. Nine years ago.
• 34:02
  That's how long the Yankees have been looking for 1/3 baseman.
• 34:05
  The Mets have been looking for a superstar player, a top five
• 34:08
  player in the league for years. And don't give me Lindor,
• 34:12
  because he was just a top five player one year with the Mets
• 34:15
  and that was last year in his career with the Indians.
• 34:18
  He was not a top five player. He was a top 15 player, top ten
• 34:21
  player maybe at one point. He was never a top five player.
• 34:24
  Juan Soto every single year is a top five player.
• 34:28
  He's been a top five player when he was with the Padres.
• 34:30
  He was a top five player at the tail end of his career with the
• 34:33
  Nationals. He's been that with the Yankees
• 34:35
  the year that he was with the Yankees.
• 34:36
  Now this year he's top five play with the Mets.
• 34:38
  This guy is one of the best players in the league and should
• 34:41
  be one of the leaders of your team.
• 34:42
  And what did he do? He went there after the game
• 34:46
  trying to figure out you didn't hear Edwin Diaz do that.
• 34:49
  Did anybody see Edwin Diaz throw the pitching staff for the
• 34:51
  hitting or the roster? All he said is I hope Peter
• 34:55
  Lonzo, I hope the Mets bring me back.
• 34:56
  I want to be a Met for life. I hope if I opt out of my
• 34:59
  contract, I hope Pete Alonzo comes back.
• 35:01
  Me and Peter are very good friends.
• 35:02
  We're we, we're like a family here really.
• 35:06
  If you're a family wise wants soda throwing your family, his
• 35:08
  family under the bus. Does any family member usually
• 35:11
  throw their family under the bus?
• 35:14
  Usually you would say no. I mean, not good ones.
• 35:17
  So it doesn't look good for the New York Mets.
• 35:19
  It really doesn't. And now you're bringing it, you
• 35:22
  keep it. Carlos Mendoza, the same coach
• 35:26
  that couldn't keep this team together.
• 35:28
  There was a lot of fighting in the dugout throughout the
• 35:31
  season. There was a lot of craziness
• 35:33
  that was going on. Nobody was seeing it because
• 35:36
  they kept it. They kept it quiet.
• 35:39
  But David Stearns, who everybody says, oh, he was the mastermind
• 35:42
  of the Brewers, really the David Stearns is not there anymore.
• 35:46
  Are they winning? Are they?
• 35:48
  Have they continued to win? Well, everybody's going to say,
• 35:50
  well, it's David Stearns team. He built that team.
• 35:53
  I don't give a crap. That team is playing well and
• 35:56
  it's not what David Stearns. So stop it, Met fans.
• 35:59
  Stop telling me that David Stearns is one of the best
• 36:01
  baseball minds in a league because this baseball mind had a
• 36:04
  chance to make more moves when it comes to the pitching staff,
• 36:07
  and he failed to do so. And that's why, ladies and
• 36:10
  gentlemen, the Mets are going to be sitting home watching all
• 36:14
  these National League and American League teams play while
• 36:17
  they're sitting home eating Twinkies with Juan Soto,
• 36:20
  millions of Twinkies, because he's a very rich man.
• 36:23
  Last comment before we move on. Java, you've mentioned all the
• 36:26
  time like how you didn't like being used, like switching off
• 36:28
  roles and like not knowing what your role was going to be too.
• 36:31
  They did that literally in one game yesterday with eight
• 36:33
  different guys like Brooks, Rayleigh, they pulled really
• 36:36
  early, which I was surprised that even Brazobomb before that,
• 36:38
  he's a guy that can provide length and you're just going to
• 36:40
  pull him out of nowhere. Like you make none of these
• 36:42
  pitchers comfortable doing it that way.
• 36:44
  Again, it's one thing if you're doing it like throughout the
• 36:46
  season, you can get them used to different things, but it's
• 36:49
  another thing where you're randomly throwing them into
• 36:51
  these types of things with Minai in the beginning and then all
• 36:54
  these different relievers later on, then Diaz in the 5th inning
• 36:56
  and you're actually desperate at that point.
• 36:58
  So it really is just a bad formula and I'm surprised
• 37:01
  Mendoza wasn't a fireable offense for him.
• 37:03
  To The 2025 MLB Wild Card Round is set and will begin on
• 37:08
  Tuesday. In this format, the higher
• 37:11
  seeded team gets all the home games for the best out of three
• 37:15
  series, the National League. The number six seed Reds will
• 37:19
  travel to Los Angeles to play the number three seed Dodgers,
• 37:24
  while the number 5 seed Padres will travel to Chicago to play
• 37:29
  the number four seed Cubs. In the American League it is
• 37:33
  rivalry week as we all say as we will see the number six seed
• 37:38
  Tigers playing the number three seed Guardians and the number 5
• 37:44
  seed Red Sox facing the number four seed New York Yankees at
• 37:49
  the Bronx. The Cle Cleveland was able to
• 37:52
  win the Central and get home field in the playoff round,
• 37:55
  while the Yankees lost the tiebreaker to the Blue Jays for
• 37:58
  the American League East, but will host the Red Sox as the
• 38:02
  higher seed. The number 1C Brewers and #2
• 38:08
  seed Phillies await the winners in the National League, while
• 38:11
  the number 1C Blue Jays. Crazy to say that and #2 seed
• 38:15
  Mariners do the same for the American League.
• 38:18
  You know it's crazy. I would have never thought the
• 38:20
  Blue Jays and the Mariners were going to be the top seeds 2
• 38:24
  seeds in the American League. It just tells you how equal and
• 38:28
  how UN I'm savvy. I don't even, I don't even know
• 38:32
  what kind of word I can use about, well, how bad the
• 38:35
  American League is. It's bad, OK, The American
• 38:37
  League is bad. There's nothing good about the
• 38:40
  American League. Everybody knew that the Yankees
• 38:42
  have the best roster. The Tigers all season long
• 38:46
  showed why they're one of the best young teams in the league.
• 38:48
  Then all the stuff happened over there with the executives and
• 38:51
  the sexual stuff. And I, I don't know, I, I don't
• 38:54
  know what Detroit team we're going to see throughout the
• 38:57
  playoff because there's a lot of clouds over them, a lot of rain
• 39:01
  and thunderstorms over them. But the Yankees are the best
• 39:05
  team in the American League. I don't think you can argue that
• 39:07
  right now. Cleveland, they have the same
• 39:10
  roster they had last year. As a matter of fact, they lost
• 39:12
  pieces. They don't have Class A Class A
• 39:15
  is out for the year because of the betting scandal.
• 39:18
  They lost a load of pitch and Bieber's not no longer there.
• 39:21
  He was traded. There were a couple of players
• 39:23
  traded after trade deadline. Nobody would have thought
• 39:25
  Cleveland was going to sneak into the playoffs.
• 39:28
  And then they won the division and the Tigers and the Red Sox.
• 39:33
  Red Sox are a young team. There's two players right now
• 39:35
  that are not even going to make this roster, at least in the
• 39:39
  wild card game, the three series, the three-game wild card
• 39:42
  series against the New York Yankees because of injuries.
• 39:47
  You're you're looking at the American League right now.
• 39:49
  If the Yankees don't win the American League, it's
• 39:52
  catastrophical. It's catastrophic.
• 39:54
  Just think about it, the the National League is so much
• 39:58
  better than the American League. The Chicago Cubs are great, the
• 40:02
  Dodgers are great. They're getting healthy.
• 40:03
  The Reds looked really, really good the last month and 1/2 with
• 40:07
  Terry Francona and, and expect Terry Francona and the Reds to
• 40:10
  make a run this year because Terry Francona knows how to win.
• 40:14
  I took shots at Goody and Jabba. I'm going to take it back.
• 40:19
  I'm going to go back. You want to play this rewind
• 40:21
  game? This is the remix.
• 40:23
  I'll give you the remix. Jabba and Goody said that the
• 40:29
  Reds were going to make the playoffs.
• 40:32
  They believe somehow they were going to sneak in the playoffs.
• 40:34
  I did not think so. And after what I saw early in
• 40:38
  the second-half of the season, I said this team cannot find a way
• 40:40
  to win. They find every way to lose.
• 40:44
  And I was wrong. The Reds did make the playoffs
• 40:47
  and now anybody could win. Any bowl, team bowl or any
• 40:52
  baseball team at any organization could win in the
• 40:55
  playoffs. All they got to do is get in.
• 40:57
  We've seen it. Do we remember a couple of years
• 40:59
  ago the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Arizona Diamondbacks
• 41:03
  remember that? Nobody would have thought that
• 41:06
  the Texas Rangers in the Arizona Diamondbacks except me, because
• 41:09
  I picked it before the playoffs starting speedy would come and
• 41:12
  vouch for me. I was the guy.
• 41:13
  You picked Texas. You picked Texas to wear it all.
• 41:15
  Yes, you did. Over the Phillies.
• 41:16
  I. Believe.
• 41:16
  Was it Phillies? It was the Phillies, but the
• 41:18
  Phillies were close, too. They were right there.
• 41:19
  Yeah, whatever I I had, I had Texas winning.
• 41:22
  But I, I will, I will go back in and look at going into this up
• 41:28
  and coming three-game series with the Dodgers.
• 41:32
  The Dodgers are going to be a hard out.
• 41:33
  If somehow the Reds win this series and knock off the the
• 41:38
  deferred Dodgers, I call them DD double DS as a speedy, you know
• 41:42
  what double DS mean. The double DS, if they get
• 41:44
  knocked off the Reds, absolutely can surprise and shock the world
• 41:50
  because they match up very good against the Padres.
• 41:53
  They match up very good against the Cubs.
• 41:55
  I absolutely believe that. And, and by the way, the two
• 41:58
  teams right now, the Brewers and the Phillies, the Phillies are
• 42:00
  the best team. The Brewers have been up and
• 42:02
  down really the last two months. The Brewers are nowhere close to
• 42:06
  the team they were all in the first half of the season.
• 42:09
  They're not. It is wide open if the
• 42:12
  Cincinnati Reds knock off the Dodgers because the Dodgers are
• 42:15
  scary, because they got Otani, they got Mookie Betts, they got
• 42:19
  this pitching staff, this roster, this bullpen is stacked.
• 42:23
  I mean, they can hit from 1:00 to 9:00.
• 42:25
  I mean, there's nobody when it comes to the roster that can
• 42:29
  match up against his team, not even the Phillies.
• 42:31
  The Phillies were even with health, they're not anywhere
• 42:34
  close to the Dodgers. They're not, but I'll tell you
• 42:37
  why the Phillies are, are the favorite because Kyle Schwarber
• 42:40
  to me is the besides Otani. You can argue it's him or Otani.
• 42:44
  Schwarber and Otani have been the two best players in the
• 42:47
  National League and in the American League.
• 42:49
  We're going to get into a judge and rally and we can argue back
• 42:52
  and forth with that. I, I, I could really see
• 42:55
  Schwarber winning the National League.
• 42:57
  MVPI could see it. He's had a sensational
• 43:00
  second-half. Sensational.
• 43:03
  Wasn't he the MVP of the All Star game?
• 43:06
  I mean, I mean everything, everything.
• 43:08
  He's touched his turn to gold this year in Kyle Schwarber and
• 43:11
  he stayed fairly healthy. I think he played 100 and 43144
• 43:15
  games. This is a good Phillies team and
• 43:18
  they're healthy. The only thing they're missing
• 43:20
  is Wheeler. That will hurt them.
• 43:22
  But they have two sensational pitchers that made the All Star
• 43:25
  team or should have made the All Star team this year.
• 43:28
  So it's wide open. I, I think this is going to be
• 43:30
  one of the best playoffs we have seen in a very long time.
• 43:34
  You know why? Because I can honestly tell you
• 43:37
  I can't pick the winner that's coming out of the National
• 43:39
  League. And I definitely can't pick the
• 43:40
  winner. That's coming out of the
• 43:41
  American League, right? Now, now and you you mentioned
• 43:44
  it with the Blue Jays, like them being the one seed, it seems
• 43:46
  kind of surprising considering all the drama that they went
• 43:48
  through in the offseason. A-Team like a team that was
• 43:49
  aging and it seemed like a last ditch effort type of team that
• 43:53
  happened even two years ago with the young core that they had.
• 43:56
  It reminds me in the NHL with the Washington Capitals, nowhere
• 43:58
  the best team in the Eastern Conference, but were they really
• 44:00
  as good as they showed? And they end up losing in the
• 44:02
  second round. I feel like the Blue Jays could
• 44:04
  be vulnerable of that. Plus with the Pies too, which is
• 44:06
  something that's affected teams since this new playoff format
• 44:08
  started. So Toronto was going in on an 8
• 44:10
  game-winning streak or something like that, and now they're going
• 44:12
  to lose a lot of that momentum. So I do worry about them.
• 44:14
  Seattle is interesting because they have the pitching depth and
• 44:17
  they probably have the best bullpen of the American League
• 44:20
  teams. The Padres are the best bullpen
• 44:21
  I think of all the playoff teams, but the Mariners
• 44:23
  definitely have it in the American League.
• 44:24
  The Yankees have the best roster overall.
• 44:26
  I agree for sure now that they're healthy.
• 44:28
  In the American League. Oh, and yes, I think the
• 44:30
  Phillies and Dodgers are a little better than them on
• 44:31
  paper, than the Yankees, but the Yankees I definitely think.
• 44:34
  Are if, if Aaron Judge hits, if he hits in the playoffs, the
• 44:38
  Yankees are going to the World Series.
• 44:40
  If he hits, there's no way the Yankees are going to be stopped
• 44:43
  because you know you're going to get hits from Giancarlo Stanton.
• 44:46
  He's a great playoff player and, and, and I, I still believe that
• 44:51
  Bellinger is. We've seen what Bellinger has
• 44:53
  done with the Dodgers. We've seen what he's done as an
• 44:55
  MVP player. He is a great player.
• 44:57
  He's and by the way, he's the best left-handed hitter in
• 45:01
  baseball. He's batting 370 against left
• 45:04
  hand left-handed pitching. So the Yankees have been a has
• 45:07
  had a problem year in and year out against left-handed
• 45:10
  pitching. I you're going to have
• 45:11
  Bellinger, who's the best in the league now.
• 45:13
  So the Yankees are put in a position where they have the
• 45:16
  ability, something they didn't have last year with Juan Soto.
• 45:20
  As good as Juan Soto was, and he was great in the playoffs, Juan
• 45:23
  Soto had problems hitting against left-handed pitching.
• 45:27
  Bellinger is not. He's the best in baseball.
• 45:30
  So the Yankees are better than they were last year.
• 45:33
  We want so the crazy to say that, but they are.
• 45:35
  And Max Freed is a better pitcher than Garrett Cole was
• 45:39
  last year. Max Freed is 19 and five with a
• 45:42
  2.81 or 86 ERA. His WHIP is almost at one.
• 45:47
  This guy, besides the pitcher that he's going to be facing in
• 45:51
  game #1 is probably the MVP. Well, I'm sorry, Tarek is also
• 45:56
  up there. These three guys, these three
• 45:59
  guys from Detroit to the Yankees and the Red Sox.
• 46:02
  These three guys are up for the Cy Young either or could win.
• 46:06
  But I think it's Tara Tarik is the best pitcher in baseball.
• 46:09
  So I I think he's going to be the guy that's going to win the
• 46:12
  Cy Young. But it's it's crazy that the
• 46:14
  Yankees with the what the Yankees have done this year.
• 46:16
  And by the way, nobody could say that the Yankees weakness is
• 46:19
  their ERA because the Yankees throughout the season, they were
• 46:23
  up and down with the bullpen at one point, but as far as they're
• 46:26
  starting pitching, they've been amongst the top ten in baseball
• 46:30
  all season long, all season. Even with Clark Schmidt going
• 46:34
  down and getting getting healed back later in the season.
• 46:38
  This is a team that's had injuries.
• 46:41
  They didn't have Nestor Cortez this year.
• 46:43
  There was a lot of questions to this roster and rotation that
• 46:47
  questions were answered. Max Freed was worth every penny.
• 46:50
  The Yankees gave him every penny.
• 46:52
  Bellinger and Freed Goldschmidt was up and down this year.
• 46:57
  Wasn't really what I expected him to be.
• 46:59
  Fell off in the second-half. But what these two guys gave the
• 47:02
  Yankees was more than Soto gave, and cheaper than what Soto was
• 47:07
  going to cost the New York Yankees.
• 47:09
  Yeah. And when you look at this series
• 47:10
  too, you mentioned Crochet like how much he's gotten strikeouts
• 47:12
  this year. So that'll be a big test for the
• 47:14
  Yankees playoff identity because the Yankees have had post
• 47:16
  seasons where they have historic amounts of strikeouts
• 47:18
  collectively. And then the pitching depth
• 47:20
  after, that's going to be very interesting, those matchups to
• 47:22
  see which Rd. Don you't get in the post
• 47:23
  season. Like you said, Luis, he will be
• 47:25
  able to recover the way he did. Red Sox have Lucas Giolito
• 47:28
  probably be the second guy who's been very good in the
• 47:29
  second-half of the season. And they probably have AI
• 47:32
  wouldn't say a deeper bullpen, but a bullpen that's been a
• 47:34
  little more consistent. The Yankees just got to the
• 47:35
  extremes, but the Red Sox, they have nothing to lose.
• 47:38
  The Yankees have a lot of pressure.
• 47:39
  So it's going to be very interesting just to finish up
• 47:41
  with the National League before you go job.
• 47:42
  I agree with that. All the Phillies are the best
• 47:43
  team, I think. Yeah, the bullpen's a question
• 47:45
  mark, but there's not a lot of great bullpens in this
• 47:47
  postseason right now, so. You know, Giolito's out for the
• 47:50
  wild card. Oh, is that OK?
• 47:51
  I didn't realize that. So yeah, that should help the
• 47:54
  Yankees in that case, too, because now you're going to
• 47:56
  trust a lot of those younger guys, Bellow or Whitlock, any of
• 47:59
  those guys, to bounce back and like be that type of guy again.
• 48:01
  Whitlock's had a Goodyear for him.
• 48:03
  He's always been good for them like pretty steadily.
• 48:05
  He was better like probably in his earlier years, but he's had
• 48:07
  a nice year. But just to finish up with the
• 48:08
  National League, the Phillies most complete team and they have
• 48:11
  a good like collective of like brotherhood type team, good team
• 48:14
  culture and they're combined with the power combined with the
• 48:16
  on base. I think it's the best
• 48:17
  combination everything Milwaukee and they probably have an easier
• 48:20
  cluster playing the Brewer or the Cubs or the Padres down the
• 48:22
  road. But I think I still don't trust
• 48:24
  him over the Phillies of the Dodgers.
• 48:26
  Yeah, it's it's going to be interesting all around.
• 48:30
  Ariel brings up a good point. Like I think it's it's always
• 48:32
  been the AL like being, you know, in the NLS been and I I
• 48:36
  think it was more so with the DH and and stuff like that.
• 48:38
  And I, I think it's, it's definitely changed since that,
• 48:41
  that dynamic has been removed from the game.
• 48:44
  But it's, it's going to be exciting because they're, there
• 48:48
  are there, there's the expected teams, right?
• 48:50
  And then there's the other ones where you're like, Oh, I didn't
• 48:52
  expect them to have this good a year or this person.
• 48:55
  And that's the greatest thing about we're, we played 162
• 48:59
  games. Everybody's like the season's
• 49:00
  too long. This game, 162 mattered for a
• 49:04
  lot of things. And, and it made a lot of people
• 49:07
  money. It's going to have an
• 49:08
  opportunity to make a lot of guys more money because they
• 49:10
  made the playoffs. They get they get that
• 49:12
  opportunity to shine and to crazy that 161 doesn't really
• 49:17
  matter when it comes to 162 where you can change the
• 49:19
  division and wild card and like so I'm excited for it as it
• 49:24
  breaks down. I it's going to be tough for the
• 49:27
  Yankees to to get on crochet. I love watching him pitch.
• 49:32
  I think it's he bet on himself and and told the White Sox to
• 49:35
  fly a kite. I want to start and good for
• 49:38
  him. So yeah.
• 49:40
  And then the the NL two, I was reading some things today too.
• 49:43
  It's like it's weird. I have this eerie feeling that
• 49:46
  it could be an O9 rematch just, you know, with the Phillies and
• 49:50
  you know, and and Thomas, he understands how to win.
• 49:53
  They've been there before, guys that that know how to win, you
• 49:56
  know, bringing in David Robertson off the couch, which
• 49:59
  is a bold move And and D Rob's that that perfect dude to do
• 50:02
  something like that. He's he's that guy.
• 50:05
  So it's going to be interesting. I think Seattle has some stuff
• 50:08
  to prove. I don't know if their pitching
• 50:09
  is going to hold up. And then I mean, Cubs, you just
• 50:13
  never know. It was really cool.
• 50:15
  I don't know if you guys saw Matthew Boyd, just an emotional
• 50:17
  start in game one. It was really, really cool.
• 50:19
  And I got an opportunity when he was younger when he was really,
• 50:22
  really struggling and just a great, great dude.
• 50:24
  And it'd be interesting to see what Cade's going to do.
• 50:27
  Obviously up for Ricky, you Retrick Baldwin, the Braves, but
• 50:30
  he's got like a broken rib or whatever it is, so that that'll
• 50:33
  be interesting. I'm just excited.
• 50:35
  This is a great time. I I I love the wild card series,
• 50:38
  how it went from the winner take all to to this three-game
• 50:42
  series. And you know, obviously there
• 50:44
  there is pride in having the best record of being able to
• 50:46
  stay at home too. So I, I kind of love that
• 50:49
  dynamic of, of what they've created.
• 50:52
  In one of the most talked about MVP races and some time there is
• 50:57
  much disagreement over who should take home the American
• 51:01
  League honors. The National League race is all
• 51:04
  but overdue to the late push by DH and outfielder Kyle Schwarber
• 51:10
  of the Phillies, but pitcher DH Shahuatani is anywhere from
• 51:15
  -10,000 to -20,000 favorite for the award, which would be his
• 51:21
  fourth MVP of his MLB career. In the AL the odds are much
• 51:27
  closer with Judge and Rally being dead with some sports
• 51:32
  books favorite favorite Judge and others favorite the big
• 51:36
  dumper. Raleigh has had an incredible
• 51:39
  season breaking all the power records for catchers and tying
• 51:43
  Babe Ruth with 60 home runs and third most ever in the American
• 51:47
  League behind Roger Maris and who Aaron Judge.
• 51:50
  Raleigh finished the season with 60 home runs and 125 RBIs, had
• 51:56
  110 runs and fourteen stolen bases with a .247 batting
• 52:03
  average and a .94 O, 48 OPS and a 9.1 WAR.
• 52:09
  Judge hit over 400 until the last week of May and put up
• 52:16
  ungodly numbers in in his own right, winning the first batting
• 52:21
  title with a .331 batting average with 53 home runs, 114
• 52:27
  RB is Judge has a whopping 100 and 3737 runs scored with a
• 52:35
  1.145 OPS, 12 stolen bases and a 10.1 WAR.
• 52:41
  This is Judge's 3rd 10 plus WAR season in the past four.
• 52:48
  I I Some say the stats that are Judge's favorite shouldn't
• 52:53
  matter. Raleigh plays catcher, which is
• 52:56
  far more demanding than the outfield.
• 52:59
  Also, Judge missed 10 games this year while Raleigh played in all
• 53:04
  but three games. I will say this, Raleigh
• 53:08
  deserves a lot of credit. This guy is a switch hitting
• 53:11
  power hitter. I know a lot of people want to
• 53:13
  compare him to Mickey Mantle, He's not Mickey Mantle.
• 53:15
  Anybody that wants to compare him to Mickey Mantle is an idiot
• 53:18
  because Mickey Mantle, you can argue if he didn't have all
• 53:21
  those injuries, is probably the greatest player to ever play
• 53:24
  professional baseball. A lot of people would say that.
• 53:27
  I don't think anybody would argue that except Joe DiMaggio
• 53:30
  and he's got. The fact here is these two guys
• 53:35
  deserve a lot of credit. Aaron Judge hitting over 400 in
• 53:39
  the month of May is a sensational feat.
• 53:42
  I we haven't seen that in in about what?
• 53:45
  We haven't seen that in about 50.
• 53:46
  That was 15 years. Who is the kid that plays for
• 53:49
  the Padres that did it? I think he's the only one that's
• 53:51
  done it in the last 20 years. Who's the kid that that's a free
• 53:54
  agent this year? Luis.
• 53:56
  Oraz Oraz did it. He was closed.
• 53:59
  He didn't. He didn't get there.
• 54:00
  No, but he hit 400 for for about a month and 1/2.
• 54:03
  He was hitting 400 for a month and 1/2 so.
• 54:06
  This is the only the second time in his career he didn't hit 300
• 54:09
  right. So he only he only walked 27
• 54:12
  times in 650 plus at bat. So, yeah, and I agree with you,
• 54:16
  Raz is the only guy that hit over 400 that I could remember
• 54:20
  in the last 15 to 20 years. And that's crazy because we talk
• 54:24
  about Ted Williams and we, I don't think Joe Dimaggio's
• 54:27
  hitting streak will ever be broken.
• 54:28
  Ted Williams and it's 400 batting average.
• 54:32
  I don't think he'll ever be broken either.
• 54:34
  I I think it's, it's one of those things that I just, I
• 54:36
  can't see happening. I can't see it because 162
• 54:40
  games, the way pitching is now, the way the analytics are out
• 54:44
  there now where you can figure out ways to pitch against these
• 54:46
  guys. I I just don't see it.
• 54:48
  I don't think it's ever going to happen.
• 54:50
  But again, what Judge did this year is remarkable because
• 54:54
  everybody's trying to compare the last two seasons and what he
• 54:58
  was putting up the last two seasons, which was remarkable.
• 55:01
  And we talked about what Raleigh did with 60 home runs.
• 55:04
  Aaron Judge hit more two years ago.
• 55:06
  So you, we could go back and forth and everybody says, well,
• 55:09
  they had these balls as they, what do they call them?
• 55:12
  The Goldilocks, The Goldilocks balls absolutely ridiculousness.
• 55:17
  And and that's, that's perfect for ridiculousness.
• 55:20
  The TV show to me right now, Aaron Judge should win the MVP
• 55:25
  because if you look at the statistics and I don't have my
• 55:27
  phone and if I have my phone, I, I was looking at stats that he
• 55:32
  leads the league in. There's like 5 or 6 different
• 55:36
  percentage stats that are not even close.
• 55:39
  Not even close. And I'm talking about National
• 55:42
  League and American League. It's not even close.
• 55:45
  Not Shea Otani, not anyone. Kyle Schwarber even comes close
• 55:50
  to that. And this guy's a power hitter.
• 55:52
  This is a guy that a lot of people thought was never going
• 55:54
  to hit 300. This guy's a borderline career
• 55:58
  300 hitter. I think he's career 294 right
• 56:00
  now. By the time he's done with his
• 56:03
  career, he could be a career 306 foot eight, 280 lbs of muscle.
• 56:09
  It's ridiculous. Everybody's trying to figure out
• 56:12
  who's the next Derek Jeter, who's the next face of baseball.
• 56:16
  I don't think it's an argument. I know Sheratoni
• 56:18
  internationally. Is he internationally?
• 56:21
  He is. But Aaron Judge in America, here
• 56:24
  in the United States, Aaron Judge is the face of baseball.
• 56:30
  He is. If you go all over the country,
• 56:32
  there are more Yankee fans than any fan in the world.
• 56:36
  I'm talking about even football. When you go around and you look
• 56:40
  at the Cowboys, everybody says Cowboys, America's team.
• 56:43
  There are more Yankee fans and you can look this up.
• 56:46
  Anybody want to look at a statistic?
• 56:47
  There are more Yankee fans in the world that any professional
• 56:51
  team, except soccer. There are soccer teams, but
• 56:54
  that's European. I'm talking about here in
• 56:55
  America, there is nobody that comes close to what the Yankees
• 57:00
  bring in when it comes to money and endorsing and sponsorships,
• 57:04
  hat sales, jersey sales and who is the biggest sell, Who is the
• 57:08
  biggest sell for the New York Yankees?
• 57:11
  It's Aaron Judd. No, Raleigh has had a great
• 57:13
  year. He's a catcher.
• 57:14
  The position is so hard to play. It's probably the hardest
• 57:16
  position to play in baseball because he's the one that's
• 57:20
  calling defensive plays. He's the one that's shifting the
• 57:23
  infield, he's shifting the outfield.
• 57:25
  He's the voice of the manager in the dugout.
• 57:28
  So what he does is so very important and he's the best
• 57:31
  catcher in baseball. I don't think you could argue
• 57:33
  that, but when you look at statistics, statistics in
• 57:38
  baseball mean everything when you're trying to decide such a
• 57:42
  close race. You're batting 247 to a guy
• 57:47
  that's batting 331 and he's playing with a tear in his UCL.
• 57:53
  Think about that, guys. He is playing with a tear in his
• 57:58
  elbow. Elbow and he's putting up these
• 58:02
  numbers, he's extending and he's at the plate probably in a lot
• 58:06
  of pain, probably getting shots in his elbow every single game.
• 58:09
  I don't know if he is. He's not feeling no pain, by the
• 58:12
  way. Probably not because he's
• 58:13
  getting the shots, but you know what I'm talking about.
• 58:16
  You got to put your body on the line for your team.
• 58:19
  Is Juan Soto one of those guys that are going to do that?
• 58:22
  I don't know because Juan Soto threw his team under the bus.
• 58:25
  This man came back when a lot of people said maybe he should hang
• 58:28
  up the cleats this year. Maybe he should sit out.
• 58:31
  The Yankees have a lot of money invested in this guy.
• 58:34
  He's not going to be able to. He's going to be a bona fide DH.
• 58:36
  It doesn't matter. Aaron Judge is going to start in
• 58:39
  right field in game one on Tuesday.
• 58:43
  He is. Why?
• 58:45
  Because he's a leader. He stands for something.
• 58:47
  I'm not saying Raleigh is not a leader.
• 58:49
  I'm not saying he's not sensational.
• 58:51
  He's not Aaron Judge as far as I'm concerned with the National
• 58:54
  League, Kyle Schwarber, what he has done this year.
• 58:59
  And I'm not saying, oh, Tony doesn't deserve it.
• 59:02
  He wins it every year. He wins it every year.
• 59:05
  I'm not saying I don't know what job is going to say.
• 59:07
  So what? He earned it.
• 59:09
  He should win. I know what he's going to say.
• 59:11
  But here's why I'm going to say differently.
• 59:13
  Kyle Schwarber, if you remember, this guy was a catcher.
• 59:16
  He was brought up. He grew up in the Cubs
• 59:18
  organization. This guy had bad knees.
• 59:23
  A lot of people were wondering if he was a bonafide DH.
• 59:25
  Then he moved to the outfield. He was really bad.
• 59:27
  His first two years in the outfield, he was really bad.
• 59:31
  OK. And then the people were saying
• 59:33
  maybe he goes to the American League.
• 59:34
  I know the Yankees were interested in him.
• 59:36
  When he became a free agent, the Yankees, the Phillies decided to
• 59:39
  make a move for him and and really help him.
• 59:42
  And I got to give a a lot of credit to Thompson.
• 59:45
  I think Thompson is one of the most underrated managers in
• 59:48
  baseball. Because if you see what Thompson
• 59:51
  has done with this team since he's taken over for Joe Girardi
• 59:54
  is absolutely remarkable. They have the best National
• 1:00:00
  League winning percentage, yes, in the National League since
• 1:00:04
  Thompson has taken over this team.
• 1:00:06
  Think about that. You have the deferred Dodgers.
• 1:00:09
  You have all these teams in the National League, good teams.
• 1:00:13
  And since Thompson has taken over for the Phillies, they have
• 1:00:16
  the best winning percentage in the National League.
• 1:00:20
  Think about that. Snap that, snap that into
• 1:00:24
  however way you want to snap it. You want to take a picture of.
• 1:00:26
  It they have the best the best hitting coach too.
• 1:00:28
  Oh yeah, I know Long is is your your friend Kevin Long and I
• 1:00:32
  love. I literally he just, I just he
• 1:00:34
  just text me really. Kevin Log and I'd love to get
• 1:00:37
  Kevin Log on the show. Love to get him on.
• 1:00:40
  The show? Yeah, we'll get him on.
• 1:00:42
  I, I think it's remarkable what Thompson, Kevin Long, what this
• 1:00:45
  organization has done. And by the way, they haven't won
• 1:00:48
  in a very long time. Remember Rollins?
• 1:00:51
  I, I see him on TBS all the time.
• 1:00:53
  I, I, I, I, I was never a big Jimmy Rollins fan because he
• 1:00:58
  hated the Yankees. He hated the Yankees, but I
• 1:01:02
  respect what he has to say. And he said pretty
• 1:01:04
  straightforward about this organization.
• 1:01:06
  And I'm I'm speaking about the the Philadelphia organization.
• 1:01:10
  He says this was an organization of it.
• 1:01:12
  It protects their players and stands behind their players and
• 1:01:15
  stands behind management. Something must have happened
• 1:01:18
  with Joe Girardi when he was there for him not to keep his
• 1:01:22
  job and then to shift to Thompson.
• 1:01:25
  And they must have knew that Thompson was the best fit for
• 1:01:28
  this organization because this guy hasn't budged.
• 1:01:31
  He hasn't budged since he's taken over this team.
• 1:01:34
  He has been better and better every single year.
• 1:01:36
  To me, the Phillies are the best team in baseball.
• 1:01:39
  They're the best team in baseball right now, and I don't
• 1:01:41
  think you can argue that right now.
• 1:01:43
  They have been the best team in baseball all season long, going
• 1:01:48
  162 games. Comparison to the Brewers or
• 1:01:51
  what they did in the first half. This has been the best team in
• 1:01:54
  baseball. And the reason why is everybody
• 1:01:56
  buys in. This team buys in to Thompson.
• 1:02:00
  And what does that tell you about who he is as a manager, as
• 1:02:03
  a father figure to these youngsters?
• 1:02:05
  It tells you that this guy is the guy.
• 1:02:09
  This guy is a guy that these players are going to follow all
• 1:02:12
  the way through flames, fires and war.
• 1:02:15
  And I think that's why the Phillies have the best chance of
• 1:02:17
  winning a championship then they've had since the time they
• 1:02:20
  won a championship. Yep, it's a great mixture of
• 1:02:22
  like a brotherhood type team and analytics type team where you
• 1:02:25
  have the on base and power. And somebody like Kyle Shorber
• 1:02:28
  is like the epitome of that. Like when you look at like
• 1:02:30
  modeling your type of game based on the power and the metrics of
• 1:02:33
  today's game. And he's a tremendous playoff
• 1:02:35
  player too, one of the best playoff hitters we've seen when
• 1:02:37
  he was with the Cubs, even when he was with Boston that one year
• 1:02:39
  too, when they went to the ALCS. And he's definitely going to
• 1:02:42
  make it very interesting with him and Otani.
• 1:02:44
  As far as the American League, I definitely a great job.
• 1:02:45
  Just MVP. Like Kyle Rally's had an
• 1:02:47
  unbelievable year. I'm not.
• 1:02:48
  And I'm, I'm, I'm sorry to cut you off.
• 1:02:50
  I, I want, I know a lot of people like Raleigh and I like
• 1:02:53
  him too. And he, he deserves it.
• 1:02:54
  I don't know if we'll ever see Raleigh have a season like this.
• 1:02:56
  And that's why a lot of people would like to see Raleigh.
• 1:02:58
  You can't take it away from this guy.
• 1:03:00
  I, it's, it's impossible. When you look at these numbers,
• 1:03:03
  they're ridiculous. They're uncomparable.
• 1:03:06
  I'm going to tell you this right now.
• 1:03:08
  Everybody was talking about Alan Judge's season last year, which
• 1:03:10
  was remarkable. This could be one of the best
• 1:03:13
  two seasons a Yankees ever had. And I'm not talking about RB is
• 1:03:18
  I'm talking about all around statistics from from top to
• 1:03:22
  bottom. It's ridiculous how good of a
• 1:03:25
  season this man had. It's, it's incredible,
• 1:03:27
  incredible. Yeah, to to put it in
• 1:03:29
  perspective, Aaron Judges career OPS is one point O28 color,
• 1:03:33
  Ali's OPS this year was 928. Like that shows the difference
• 1:03:36
  in that in that career career trajectory.
• 1:03:38
  And then Aaron Judges this year, like you're saying 1.144 OPS
• 1:03:41
  this year again and rally do being a catcher, doing a lot of
• 1:03:45
  things, working with a pitching staff, that's very good.
• 1:03:46
  It might be the deepest rotation when you look at Gilbert, Wu,
• 1:03:49
  etcetera, and he has to call the games, he has to be able to
• 1:03:52
  switch it like you're saying. But Judges numbers are just too
• 1:03:54
  much off the chart. He plays the field like you were
• 1:03:55
  saying. It's not like Otani where he's
• 1:03:57
  just DH ING or Schwarber that he plays the field.
• 1:04:00
  But does he really play the field type thing?
• 1:04:01
  He does everything amidst all that.
• 1:04:03
  Yeah, he missed some time, but he only missed like a couple
• 1:04:05
  weeks. Like that's not going to hinder
• 1:04:06
  anything sample size wise either.
• 1:04:07
  Judges easily the MVP. Yeah, this.
• 1:04:09
  This is a fun one. Or not fun for some people
• 1:04:14
  because some people think it's life or death when you Give your
• 1:04:17
  opinion. But it's for me judge is just
• 1:04:24
  because if there wasn't such a discrepancy in some of the
• 1:04:28
  numbers, then I would 100%. And I've gone back and forth
• 1:04:32
  with with people all the time and love like their point of
• 1:04:35
  views and and what have you. But when when you done it.
• 1:04:39
  And that's not saying that cat what he's done is is crazy like
• 1:04:43
  as a switch hitter in the year that he had, But based upon
• 1:04:46
  numbers wise, he's not even in the top ten of switch hitting
• 1:04:49
  like categorically as as a whole.
• 1:04:53
  Obviously he caught 159 games like there there's something to
• 1:04:57
  be said, but I don't know what categorically or what ABC plus
• 1:05:03
  minus negative to the second square root how that plays a
• 1:05:09
  part in in what he does because square.
• 1:05:12
  Hearts, did you just say? I don't know.
• 1:05:15
  Yeah, there's there's a, there's a thing for every freaking
• 1:05:18
  statistic anymore. There is F plus in the minus of
• 1:05:22
  the negative. Scientific notation of of the
• 1:05:26
  the the a power. Jabba, don't plus anyone's minus
• 1:05:30
  anytime soon here with this stuff.
• 1:05:32
  Yeah, I'll tell. I'll tell you.
• 1:05:35
  It's got to be. I wasn't done yet.
• 1:05:37
  Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were done.
• 1:05:40
  No, keep going, big fella. Lay it on us.
• 1:05:46
  I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
• 1:05:48
  No, I just think there are different award like people are
• 1:05:52
  downplaying like batting average and there's a batting title
• 1:05:56
  still, correct? Yes, Best hitter is the Hank
• 1:05:59
  Aaron Award. OK, we have all of these set out
• 1:06:02
  to play Most Valuable Player And I've this has been a topic of
• 1:06:05
  conversation as well with with numerous people is if you take
• 1:06:10
  him out of the lineup, are they still as good as they are?
• 1:06:12
  Are they the Most Valuable Player or they the best hitter?
• 1:06:18
  And where does where do those two change?
• 1:06:22
  And now it's some people like they're backtracking like a few
• 1:06:24
  years ago. It's like, hey, his batting
• 1:06:26
  average hit less homers. Well, now you have the same dude
• 1:06:30
  doing the same thing and that's not taking anything because his
• 1:06:33
  his season is going to go down as one of the greatest ever for
• 1:06:35
  a catcher. Let's let's just be honest.
• 1:06:37
  Like that's not taking anything away from.
• 1:06:40
  I mean, he's a catcher and he has more stolen bases than Aaron
• 1:06:42
  Judge. Let's let's, I mean, that's kind
• 1:06:44
  of interesting. That's just a fun fact to throw
• 1:06:45
  out there. And there was somebody on MLB
• 1:06:47
  Network. They were like talking about
• 1:06:48
  they didn't want him to clog up the bases.
• 1:06:50
  He's we don't want him to hit two 90s clog.
• 1:06:52
  Well, he actually has more stolen bases than Aaron Judge
• 1:06:55
  and he does it all. He doesn't switch hitting and he
• 1:06:59
  doesn't take time off. He's a platinum catcher, Patton
• 1:07:02
  gold Gov catcher. Like we're not talking about
• 1:07:05
  just some slappy behind the the dish.
• 1:07:07
  Like just let me call some pitches I rake.
• 1:07:09
  No, you've got to be able to be special to be Cal and he's been
• 1:07:13
  special and that's not taking anything.
• 1:07:16
  Does he lead that team 100%? Is Julio having a OK year?
• 1:07:21
  Did he start off terrible? Yes.
• 1:07:22
  Did Cal hold it down? And if you go back and look, the
• 1:07:26
  trajectory of projected home runs for Cal Rally, every month
• 1:07:30
  was the same. It statistically stayed the same
• 1:07:32
  throughout the entire season. And that was how efficient and
• 1:07:36
  how consistent he was. We know he's not going to hit 3
• 1:07:40
  something. That's just not who he is.
• 1:07:42
  But he became comfortable with himself because he signed a long
• 1:07:45
  term deal. And that does something for your
• 1:07:48
  psyche that become that puts you in a place where now, now this
• 1:07:51
  is home. I can be me, not to say he's
• 1:07:54
  going to put up 60 every year, but we're going to get a better
• 1:07:57
  version of him. But a better version of him is
• 1:08:00
  still not as good as Aaron Judge.
• 1:08:03
  And that's that's just what now if he's hitting 300 and
• 1:08:07
  everybody's like, if he hit 62, does that change your No, it's
• 1:08:12
  two more homers. That's not changing anything.
• 1:08:16
  If he would have hit 62 other than he got to.
• 1:08:18
  But what's it matter? 62 is 62.
• 1:08:21
  That's not the home run record. People are going to say it is,
• 1:08:23
  but it's not. So you can talk about steroids,
• 1:08:28
  you can talk about whatever, but 62 is 62.
• 1:08:32
  That's what it is. But what Judge has done in every
• 1:08:35
  category and continued to play and obviously you you talk about
• 1:08:40
  his elbow, everybody plays hurt. You want to talk about and you
• 1:08:43
  want to say, Oh yeah, he's playing through a blown elbow,
• 1:08:46
  Try sitting behind the dish and do that for 159 games.
• 1:08:51
  There's a blown elbow is easy. I pitched with a blown elbow for
• 1:08:55
  six weeks. I know what it's like.
• 1:08:57
  This man is behind the dish catching, catching, catching
• 1:09:00
  foul balls, foul going up, raking.
• 1:09:03
  So when you talk about injury, put that aside because Cal Judge
• 1:09:07
  doesn't understand what that is. And and Cal will never
• 1:09:09
  understand what Judge situation is either.
• 1:09:12
  But to take away what he's done behind the plate as far as
• 1:09:14
  calling the game, being a great catcher, not a serviceable
• 1:09:18
  catcher and going out and hitting what he did and and
• 1:09:22
  basically running that team. You can't you can't blink at it.
• 1:09:26
  But it's just so hard with the discrepancy in how vast those
• 1:09:30
  and we're not talking just Cal. We're talking about all of
• 1:09:33
  baseball, not just him. We're talking next closest and
• 1:09:39
  and that's that's just hard because now it's what this game
• 1:09:43
  has become is stats, stats, stats and MLB posted on X like
• 1:09:48
  literally his OPS, homers, RBI's didn't even talk about batting
• 1:09:53
  average and he just won the damn batting title.
• 1:09:55
  What are we doing here? Jabba, he did it and I would say
• 1:09:59
  he has the largest strike zone in all of baseball and he.
• 1:10:02
  Hit 331 smaller. Right.
• 1:10:05
  He's got to have the biggest strike zone and he should
• 1:10:07
  absolutely win this title. But in 1961, there was a
• 1:10:12
  situation with two Yankees with almost the exact same scenario.
• 1:10:16
  If you take a look at Rodger Maris when he had 61 versus
• 1:10:20
  Mickey Mantle, who got hurt a little bit late in the season
• 1:10:23
  and missed like 10 games. Like Judge, he won the batting
• 1:10:26
  title with 317 bat or three, 14317 batting average and had
• 1:10:31
  all the advanced stats the OPS Just like Judge.
• 1:10:33
  It's almost mirror image where Maris had more homers and RBIs
• 1:10:38
  but Mantle had better everything else.
• 1:10:41
  But who won the MVP that year? It was Roger Maris.
• 1:10:44
  Now if baseball is truly as analytical and stat savvy as you
• 1:10:49
  guys think, then Judge should win because those numbers say
• 1:10:53
  Judge was a better player by a decent amount.
• 1:10:56
  However, precedent is they're going to give it to the guy who
• 1:11:00
  hit 60 or more. I wonder if the 62 would have
• 1:11:04
  given it to Raleigh. I don't think he gets it at 60,
• 1:11:08
  but I think it's that exact same scenario as we saw in 1961 with
• 1:11:12
  Mantle and Maris, just different teams.
• 1:11:15
  Very interesting looking at those stats.
• 1:11:16
  Very interesting. Thank you to all the fans on X
• 1:11:19
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• 1:11:24
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• 1:11:26
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• 1:11:29
  We love you guys. Keep up, keep downloading us.
• 1:11:33
  Keep up all the good work. And thank you to the one and
• 1:11:36
  only Gremlin for sucking again this week.
• 1:11:39
  I've got my New Jersey. Screw the Gremlin, as he will be
• 1:11:44
  out of the NFL. That could be another
• 1:11:45
  prediction. I that's just my prediction.
• 1:11:47
  Yeah. You're just waiting for that one
• 1:11:48
  together. That's going to be a slam dunk.
• 1:11:51
  By the way, I I would love to hear Quentin what he has.
• 1:11:54
  We're bringing him up when he gets his first interception.
• 1:11:56
  He's not getting an interception this year.
• 1:11:57
  You could book that. He will not have an interception
• 1:12:00
  this year. He has what?
• 1:12:01
  How many games left? It's 1213 now. 13 games, not a
• 1:12:05
  chance in hell, that's all I'm. In or if he goes off against The
• 1:12:07
  Jets. By a chance or something, still
• 1:12:10
  not going to get an interception.
• 1:12:11
  Anyways, that's it for our show, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:12:13
  Thank you again. We'll be back on Wednesday.
• 1:12:16
  Who do we ask all? Right.
• 1:12:16
  So returning to the show at 8:45 is our friend Mr. Obi Muhali,
• 1:12:20
  former Falcons and Ravens fullback, All Pro fullback.
• 1:12:23
  I did mention because we didn't mention at the end of the
• 1:12:25
  interview. Last time Yum Yum we.
• 1:12:26
  Were potentially talking about doing a collaboration with our
• 1:12:29
  with Michael Turner, who's on his show as well.
• 1:12:30
  I asked him about that, so I'll see if he'll have have him as
• 1:12:32
  well. But we'll definitely.
• 1:12:34
  Have a Yeah, I love Ovie. Ovie knows his stuff.
• 1:12:37
  And Michael Turner, at one point, I remember him on who?
• 1:12:41
  Who? What college team did he play
• 1:12:43
  for? Speedy, Let's see if you.
• 1:12:44
  Know was it Indiana I believe. Think about it.
• 1:12:46
  Think again. Oh, was he FSU?
• 1:12:47
  What was he FSU? Your Seminoles?
• 1:12:49
  No. Yeah, I don't remember him in
• 1:12:51
  college, actually. Fish, you know.
• 1:12:54
  I just remember him being the best backup running back in the
• 1:12:57
  NFL for the Falcons and then eventually getting the starting.
• 1:13:00
  Job Jabba, you know, really good.
• 1:13:01
  Does anybody know? Northern Illinois.
• 1:13:04
  I just. Looked it up.
• 1:13:05
  So that's not fair. If I, if you ask me.
• 1:13:07
  Who do you got? Wake Forest.
• 1:13:10
  Yeah. I want to remember that, you
• 1:13:11
  know, You know, I I know this because I'm a big Tim Duncan
• 1:13:14
  fan. I'm Tim Duncan.
• 1:13:16
  Went to Wake Forest. So that's how I know.
• 1:13:19
  By the way, Michael Turner was a great player.
• 1:13:20
  He was. He was a great player.
• 1:13:22
  Four years he was. I wouldn't say he's elite, but
• 1:13:24
  he was really good player. Yeah.
• 1:13:27
  He was a good running back in the NFL.
• 1:13:29
  Anyways, that's it for our show. We'll see you on Wednesday.
• 1:13:32
  Goodnight. It is the Worldwide Sports Radio
• 1:13:35
  Network. I like anal.