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Mets Manager Carlos Mendoza on Soto shuffle’s return, Lindor’s toe · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: A lot of pitches that they were closed up.
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  Speaker 2: They were cold walls and true enough, when the news
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  Speaker 2: came out, we weren't surprised by it.
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  Speaker 1: We knew something was up.
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  Speaker 3: Mets manager Carlos Mendoza right now, Mandy, Great to have
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  Speaker 3: you back on.
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  Speaker 4: Really appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 3: Last time you were on tons of views and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of activity from our fans, so this means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Great to see you first take us through the litmus
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  Speaker 3: test out did the Mets stack up against the Dodgers?
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Felis, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Todd cratzy Man, what a great series, you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and he's always fun when you're matching up against one
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  Speaker 2: of the best things in the league, you know, the worst, worst,
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  Speaker 2: serious champs and uh to go to LA and uh
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  Speaker 2: to be able to compete against them, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: for four days, Uh, it was pretty intense. And UH
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  Speaker 2: when I say, what three out of those four games
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  Speaker 2: were decided by one run? Uh and he was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of back and forth. Uh, yeah, it was. It
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  Speaker 2: was pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: Mandy.
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  Speaker 5: What does that look like going into the series? Do
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  Speaker 5: you sit there as a and I know you don't
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  Speaker 5: do as much advanced stuff as you used to. But
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  Speaker 5: do you sit there and go over the advanced stuff
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  Speaker 5: looking at it, and you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough matchup.
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  Speaker 5: This is a good team, and how do you convey, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: you guys are better than them because they have they
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of glitz and glamour. They have diamonds
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  Speaker 5: that are shiny at the top of that lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know when you're going through and you're doing
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  Speaker 2: we do go through all the scouted reports and we
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of advancing and all that, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the top, you know, that lineup is pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't think there's a soft
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  Speaker 1: spot there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people talk about the first three hitters of
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  Speaker 2: that lineup of what's behind in with Will Smith?
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  Speaker 1: They all scart Muncie who you know, he's on fire
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know you got a Pah swinging by.
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  Speaker 1: He's swinging like there's not a soft spot there.
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  Speaker 2: And when you're trying to go through, okay, who which
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  Speaker 2: guy is not gonna beat me?
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  Speaker 1: That's a tough one there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, all right, we don't pitch too Otani and
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  Speaker 2: you got Mookie, well, you know, pitch to Mookie, then
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  Speaker 2: you got Freddie and he goes on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it just comes down to sticking to
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  Speaker 1: your strength, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, knowing what we do well as a team, how
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  Speaker 2: we are going to attack certain guys, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the situation of the game will dictate, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: of the adjustments that will make.
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  Speaker 1: So tough lineup. But proud of the way we play
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  Speaker 1: against them.
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  Speaker 6: Forget about the Dodgers, man, Let's stay in the East.
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  Speaker 6: The master doing it, baby, forget about it. We don't
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  Speaker 6: need no reports. The Mets are doing really good. I
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  Speaker 6: got to give credit to Jeremy Hefner man. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: talk a little bit about the pitching and you know,
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  Speaker 6: you looked on paper, you're like, oh, don't be okay,
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  Speaker 6: but these guys have been doing it. Man, give him
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  Speaker 6: a little credit and talk about where you guys are
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  Speaker 6: at with your pitching staff right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you brought up his name, thought, because
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  Speaker 2: he's been unbelievable. You know, it is a blessing for
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  Speaker 2: me to have that type of guy, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: a pitching coach leading the pitching department.
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  Speaker 1: But he's so good at connecting with people. Meeting players where.
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  Speaker 2: They just getting to know the player as person, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as the human first. You know, yes, have brings a
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  Speaker 2: lot to the table because you know, he played, he
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  Speaker 2: played at the highest level.
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  Speaker 1: Playing the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: He struggle, he was hurt a lot, so he knows
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  Speaker 2: what players are at and the biggest thing for him is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he.
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  Speaker 1: Recognized how much to give a player.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like there's players that want a lot of information,
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  Speaker 2: there's players that want the very minimum, and he recognized
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  Speaker 2: that very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: He uses all the resources.
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  Speaker 2: We have a great group on our pitching department, you
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  Speaker 2: know Dessi Druschel who came over from the Yankees posts
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  Speaker 2: as a bullpen coach.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know the whole front office group.
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  Speaker 2: Uh they work well together and uh but half man like,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, his ability to connect, his ability to communicate,
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  Speaker 2: to filter the information, and his ability to make adjustments
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  Speaker 2: in games because you know, we all know that you
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  Speaker 2: could have a perfect game plan, it's never going to
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  Speaker 2: be perfect. You got to be able to go in
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  Speaker 2: and adjust, you know, readswing, what are the hitters are
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  Speaker 2: trying to do? Because we yeah, we put together a
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  Speaker 2: game plan, but they they got a game plan as well. So,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like those conversations in between innings with
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  Speaker 2: the catcher, with the starters, you know, when our reliever
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  Speaker 2: comes in, Uh, he's he's been phenomenal, Mandy.
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  Speaker 3: I know when you were with the Yankees, you saw
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  Speaker 3: this all the time. A reliever comes through to the
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  Speaker 3: Bronx and all of a sudden, similar story happens, right,
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  Speaker 3: they unlock something. And you've seen this, I think even
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  Speaker 3: more amplified with the Mets now. So I'm curious, are
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  Speaker 3: you surprised at how many pitchers that you're pitching development department?
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  Speaker 3: Have you everybody else involved has been able to take
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  Speaker 3: to the next level. And also, I just want to
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  Speaker 3: shout out David Stearns in the front office. How do
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  Speaker 3: they play in this equation too, in terms of who
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  Speaker 3: they're looking for and you know, even conversations that might
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  Speaker 3: start before they get to camp or get to the
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  Speaker 3: team about what they think they can unlock that they
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen from them yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a group efforts, and he starts with David
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  Speaker 1: and his team in the front office, you know, identifying
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  Speaker 1: talent and how can.
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  Speaker 2: We unlock certain pitches and you know adjust you know repertoire,
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  Speaker 2: but then getting the buying from the coaches and then
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  Speaker 2: the players, you know, uh, putting it together at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day. You know, I feel like he's
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  Speaker 2: a really good system that we got in place here, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, working together, and it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a two way street, you know. Okay, we are presenting
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  Speaker 2: ideas front office present ideas to the coaching that coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff presenting it to the players, because that's the key
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  Speaker 2: to like, how are you going to present information to
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  Speaker 2: the players, you know, because they're the ones competing, They're
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  Speaker 2: the ones that got to go out there and execute.
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  Speaker 1: So just bringing in.
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  Speaker 2: The talent, how can we make that those guys better
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  Speaker 2: and then just making those guys believe that they're they're
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  Speaker 2: good at what they do, you know. And again, it's
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  Speaker 2: exciting to see it happening in front of your eyes.
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  Speaker 2: With the Yankees, I saw it as well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they do a really good job of, you know, unlocking
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  Speaker 2: certain pitches and individuals out of nowhere, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're doing a really good job of that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of examples, but again, I
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  Speaker 2: think it comes down to players going out there and executing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's a secret sauce. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's magic to it. I think it's just keeping things simple,
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  Speaker 2: meeting where players are at, and uh, just trust in it.
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  Speaker 5: Mandy, there is a secret, sauce. It's fundamentals. Half of
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  Speaker 5: fundamentals are fun and the other half are mentals, fun dementals.
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  Speaker 5: You guys look like you were having a lot of
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  Speaker 5: fun on the bench the other day. Akunya had you know,
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  Speaker 5: he had the mask on. They were, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: boys were yucking it up at the end of the dugout.
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  Speaker 5: Do you let that happen? You came from a very
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  Speaker 5: buttoned up, you know, everything together kind of dugout in
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  Speaker 5: New York in the with the Yankees, and then you
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  Speaker 5: see something like that going on at the end of
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  Speaker 5: your dugout against the second best team in the National League.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel like you have to step in and
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  Speaker 5: be like, guys, maybe not now we're kind of beating
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  Speaker 5: the brakes off the Dodgers. Or is that something that
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  Speaker 5: if you're losing six to one or you're winning six
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  Speaker 5: to one, you still want those guys to do that
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  Speaker 5: kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want the players will be themselves, you know. Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna respect the game. We're gonna respect your you know,
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  Speaker 2: the oppointings and all that. But again, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: a game, man, and people forget at times and take
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  Speaker 2: it too serious. Yes, we're like I said, respect comes
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  Speaker 2: number one. Right, We're not trying to show anybody off here.
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  Speaker 2: We're We're just I just encourage our players to have fun,
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  Speaker 2: to be themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It comes down to creating an environment where people are
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  Speaker 2: allowed to be themselves, you know. But yes, there's a
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  Speaker 2: way to go about your business. There's a wave of
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  Speaker 2: preparation and then we gotta go out there and compete.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, we're gonna keep it fun. I thought
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  Speaker 2: when I was with the Yankees, he got you know,
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  Speaker 2: towards the end, and I gotta create. Gotta get credit
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  Speaker 2: to Aaron Bunk because he kind of like allowed those
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  Speaker 2: players to be themselves as well. And I learned a
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  Speaker 2: lot from that. Uh And now here with the Mets,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's the same, you know, like let the
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  Speaker 2: players be themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, understanding, they got we got business.
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  Speaker 2: To take care, but just creating a positive environment where
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  Speaker 2: they're loose, they're having fun. But in the In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna respect and we're gonna go out there.
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  Speaker 1: And we're gonna compete.
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  Speaker 6: Chat BCC Sean Michael, one of our members and fans,
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  Speaker 6: asked good question here about Soto. How how good is
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  Speaker 6: it to see the Soto shuffle back?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: In business? So that means he's working a little more. Now,
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  Speaker 6: talk to me a little about that shuffle. Is that
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  Speaker 6: good thing or bad thing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? We all love it, you know. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: part of the show. It's part of the one Soto deal.
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  Speaker 1: But I think when he's.
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  Speaker 2: Not feeling his swing, when he's not feeling like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting pitches here and I'm not missing it, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think the shuffle will come in.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been saying it like it'll come naturally. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a second or the third game
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  Speaker 2: that he was locked in every pitch he took, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and then you see the conviction on his swing and
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  Speaker 2: the balance on his finish and uh, and we started
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  Speaker 2: to see some results because I feel like he's been well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the numbers is not gonna lie, but the
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  Speaker 2: guy's being so lucky. You know, but he's just good
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  Speaker 2: to see one being Juan Soto doing his thing and
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  Speaker 2: just gonna yell with the guys there in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 5: How about Lindor's pinky toe? Is that something that you
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  Speaker 5: are gonna have to it feels so like, oh it's
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  Speaker 5: pinky toe. It must be okay, a broken toe sucks,
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  Speaker 5: but he's willing to play through it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something?
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  Speaker 5: As manager, are you like, do you watch to see
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  Speaker 5: how much he's limping on it and maybe give him
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  Speaker 5: the seventh, eighth, and ninth inning. Oh oh wait, No,
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  Speaker 5: he plays shortstop for your team. You can't give your
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  Speaker 5: short stop a day off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah no. And with Francisco Man, he's a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Because he never wants to come out of the lineup,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like to give him a day off is
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  Speaker 2: almost impossible. Even that day when he gets hit on
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  Speaker 2: the first inning, we kept checking because he was limping
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  Speaker 2: pretty bad in pretty much every inning. I was going
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  Speaker 2: up to him. The trainers were going and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not coming out of the game. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: can take a look at him after the game. I'm fine,
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  Speaker 2: I'll play through it. I'm hurting, but I'm gonna fly.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and then you know, we took the X race
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  Speaker 2: and he shows that factor, right, but the doctors are saying,
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  Speaker 2: just paying tolerance here, and we're on the way back
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  Speaker 2: to the hotel on the bus and he's like, wait
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  Speaker 2: till tomorrow. Don't don't send that lineup yet, you know,
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  Speaker 2: give me a chance. Like he's fighting to be in
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  Speaker 2: the lineup the next day. Again, he's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: day to day thing. It's not easy for him to
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  Speaker 2: be in the lineup. And and honestly, I don't enjoy
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  Speaker 2: having Francisco in the dog off for nine innies.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Like, he's just he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of different things, like he's going he's driving
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  Speaker 2: himself crazy there.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully he's a player for us, either today.
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  Speaker 2: Or in the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: Mandy, I've got a question for you on Francisco Albarez.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a big fan.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think one day in the game, he
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  Speaker 3: could be a whatever, thirty five plus homer guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's still so young.
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  Speaker 3: I know he does a great job with the pitching
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  Speaker 3: staff during this series. You know, I watch a lot
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  Speaker 3: of Mets games. They were talking about what they can
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  Speaker 3: do for the bat, and I think it was Keith
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  Speaker 3: Hernandez mentioned, He's like, maybe maybe he does need to
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  Speaker 3: just get the swing back.
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  Speaker 4: You go down for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: How do you handle that when there's one side of
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  Speaker 3: the game that he's doing so well, on another side
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  Speaker 3: that he's just not hitting the potential yet. I know lately,
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  Speaker 3: maybe you know the classic pitch him in get him
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  Speaker 3: to chase Sloan away. Where do you think he's at?
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  Speaker 3: And would you ever consider that or do you would
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  Speaker 3: you rather see him swing out of it?
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  Speaker 4: In the big leagues?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's hard job, you know, as a manager,
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  Speaker 2: as a coaching staff, we take that personal, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because he's part of the development. You know, do you
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  Speaker 2: continue to teach these guys, not only the younger players,
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  Speaker 2: but in general big league players want to continue to
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  Speaker 2: be coaching, want to continue to develop. And in this
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  Speaker 2: case with alb he's a young player that he's going
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  Speaker 2: through it right now. And the good thing is that
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  Speaker 2: he works extremely hard. He's very positive, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like he's getting better. The result hasn't been there yet,
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  Speaker 2: but I feel like he takes his swing decisions the
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  Speaker 2: conviction on his and he's getting there. He's very talented.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean, look, this is a guy that
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not trying to make excuses for him,
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  Speaker 2: but he missed the whole spring training, uh with the injury.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's not it's a tricky one, but those
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  Speaker 1: handmaids injury.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as a catcher, they're receiving him, and you
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  Speaker 2: know he in the off season he worked in his
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  Speaker 2: swing and you know, I feel like he's still trying
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  Speaker 2: to get the field for where he's at as a hitter.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I feel like the past few games he's
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  Speaker 2: getting to a better position. He's you could see some
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  Speaker 2: conviction on the swinging, and we got to continue to
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  Speaker 2: help him.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Too good of a player. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: upside there and he's a big part of this team
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  Speaker 1: moving forward.
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  Speaker 6: I have a couple of quick headers for you. What's
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  Speaker 6: your favorite food?
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a steak guy. I'm a steak guy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: also the I Cross Italian?
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  Speaker 6: You know, Okay, Hey, that's I love that. I love
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  Speaker 6: every second. Is there is there a show that you
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  Speaker 6: watch right now or that show you've seen that's your
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  Speaker 6: favorite show.
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  Speaker 1: Right now that you love watching.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not. I'm all baseball time. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not at the ballpark. I'm with my two boys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my wife. I'm not a tea And that's
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  Speaker 2: something that my wife keeps keeps selling, like let's go
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  Speaker 2: watch a movie on this what like, let's.
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  Speaker 1: I'm either watching a baseball game. I'm and I know
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  Speaker 1: I got to get better at that.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, all right, No, I was scurry. I want to
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  Speaker 6: get to know you a little bit. That's great. Baseball
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  Speaker 6: all the time. That's awesome stuff. Yeah, hey, I was
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  Speaker 6: That was my last question. What do you do during
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  Speaker 6: and off day? Is there there's something you love doing
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  Speaker 6: or you're just hanging with the family.
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  Speaker 1: Hanging out with their families. We usually pick a spot
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  Speaker 1: to uh have a dinner. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we go to the ballpark, you know, I take
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  Speaker 2: the boys and we go here to the cages.
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  Speaker 1: We filled around balls. Yeah, but like I said, he's
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  Speaker 1: more family off days. They don't come too often.
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  Speaker 2: You're just trying to take advantage, get your mind out
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  Speaker 2: of it a little bit as much as you can.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, then here we are here, I am
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  Speaker 2: on an off day watching whoever's some on TV, whatever
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  Speaker 2: game it is, and then I got my boys and
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  Speaker 2: my wife telling me, like, get your mind out of it.
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  Speaker 5: What's the biggest things that's changed? You went from not
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  Speaker 5: a big league manager, besides your grease palo, besides your
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  Speaker 5: gray hair, what's the biggest thing that's changed to say?
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  Speaker 5: I you see you put a little color in there,
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  Speaker 5: but loosen too losing it too. Hey, I know about that.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: But what's the biggest thing that's changed for you as
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: a person since you become a manager of not only
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: a playoff team, now a team that last year at
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: this time, you guys were like pressing to try to
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: get there the whole way the end of the season
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: and then you made it. Now you're a manager of
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: a team that's best heard international league.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: What's changed?
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: That's a good question, Crats, because I feel like I'm
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm trying to be the same guy, trying
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: to be consistent you know, where it was last year
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: where before I became the manager. That's one of the
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: things that I take pride, just being consistent with your personality,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: whether you're you.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Know, don't get too high, don't get too low.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: So just being myself, trying to get the best out
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: of the people that you work with but I don't
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: know that's that's that's a that's a good one there, because,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: like I said, a tragedy every day. I treated like, all,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: what what can I do today to help players or
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: coaches or you know, how can we get better as
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: an organization?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And as far as like what's different, I don't know.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: All right, Tom, I'm gonna give you the last one
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: and stairs right back to the thing that we love here.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, you're all baseball.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: So I'm curious because I think last time we had
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: you on the story hadn't come out yet. Did you
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: know about how the strike zone was being evaluated a
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: little bit differently and how much of that goes into
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: game planning. We've asked some players some coaches about it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Logan on Hopey for example, was like, I couldn't figure
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: it out. You know, the Angels catched the first few weeks.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: He's like some of the calls were a little off,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: not that they were wrong, He's just like they weren't
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: what they used to be.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: So what was your experience did.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: You know about it going into the season, and once
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: you did find out about it, whatever it was five
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: weeks in is there anything that the coaching staff did
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: live differently.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't know going.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Into it, to be honest with you, but we started
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: noticing that, man, these guys are not calling in strikes
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: that's the way they used to.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: You know, that the.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Strike zone looked seems to be smaller, especially they're catching
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: guys when they're going over the next day and reviewing
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the game and all that. Like, man, a lot of
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: pitches they were closed that they were cold bulls and
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: ture enough.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: When the news came out, we weren't surprised by it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: We knew something was up, but as far as like
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: adjusting game plan and all that, No, every team, you
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: know go you know, going into a game, you know
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: who's behind the plight and where he likes to call,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: and but that doesn't affect the way you put together
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: a game plan or how are you going to attack
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: a certain lineups. But we saw it at the beginning
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: of the year without knowing anything about it, and then
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: when the news came out, Uh, we weren't surprised by it.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Mandy, real quick, last one for me, Is it a
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: fair poll or a foul poll?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Are you trying to tick me here?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I mean fair. I mean, is that fair fair?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Okay? And is it an rb I or if you
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: have multiple or they RBIs.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I said rb I. Okay, that's about it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I get the tough questions for you, Mandy.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's what Kratz is there for. I like it, Mandy.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: This was awesome. Always really enjoy this. Good luck this weekend,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: and we'll catch you again next month.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, good seeing you. Appreciate you, You.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Too, appreciate you. Carlos Mendoz a Mets manager with us
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: on FT. Really fun conversation there. And then also, of
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: course we've got a Mets show on the FT Network.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: If you're unaware, you can check out James Ciano and
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Mark Luino on Mets Up every single really after every
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: single series, three times a week.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: At least, these guys are bringing it