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'Where's our leadership?' Pedro Martinez on Mets 2nd Half Collapse | MLB on TBS · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Quotes really quick. Nimo said, we can turn it around
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  Speaker 1: in an instant. Alonzo said, We've just got to win,
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  Speaker 1: winning cells everything. But what's going on in that Mets
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  Speaker 1: locker room?
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  Speaker 2: Right? I actually agree with some of those stuff, But
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  Speaker 2: I think the Mets are just one big moment from
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  Speaker 2: making a turnaround. They saw it last year. But you
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  Speaker 2: have to also look at your yourself in the mirror
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  Speaker 2: and and and kind of ask yourself, where's our leadership?
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  Speaker 2: Why was I with the team even though I was
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  Speaker 2: in the sling because I felt like the team needed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some of the leaders around them. They needed
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  Speaker 2: to see leadership. Now, the one question I have for
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  Speaker 2: the Mets is who is gonna stand up and say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the leader in this team and this is what
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  Speaker 2: we should do to make things happen. Because you can't
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  Speaker 2: just sit out there see your league go away. So
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  Speaker 2: much work I want in fifty six games. It's an
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  Speaker 2: entire season almost, and you haven't really find a way
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  Speaker 2: to figure something that you need to do in the
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  Speaker 2: last fifteen to twenty days. Everything starts with leadership, and
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  Speaker 2: I think they need to look at themselves in the
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  Speaker 2: mirror and kind of figure out what they need to do.
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  Speaker 2: They have enough experience, enough players, enough talent to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and figure something out to beat up the
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  Speaker 2: little teams like the Nostrums.
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  Speaker 3: And it's funny just looking at last week when we
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  Speaker 3: had them on we had on Monday where we didn't
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  Speaker 3: have them on Monday, but Monday Peter Lonzo hit the
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  Speaker 3: walk off which stopped the losing streak, and we're like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: that was that big moment. He talked about a big moment.
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  Speaker 3: The next night, Lindor and the guys go off, his
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  Speaker 3: wife plays the violin. It's like, okay, things are starting
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  Speaker 3: to hit up. So in our mind, the Mets are
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  Speaker 3: back on track enough to at least get in that
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  Speaker 3: playoff spot. And then what happens, Like what happens we're
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  Speaker 3: not in that clubhouse. We don't know. But Pedro's right,
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  Speaker 3: who's going to be the one to say, guys, ourselves
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  Speaker 3: go way too far. Now we're in this position. We
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  Speaker 3: have to find a way to win these last six games,
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  Speaker 3: no matter what. If Cincinnati goes on to win six, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we put ourselves in that position. But if they slip
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  Speaker 3: up one time, we need to be ready to snatch them.
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  Speaker 3: Man and when you're the team that's playing Chase, you're
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  Speaker 3: just looking for any reason to be inspired.
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  Speaker 4: I think the challenge though offensively, all those names you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned are stepping up, all the ones doing it, and
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  Speaker 4: it's like, all right, and you don't want to point fingers,
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  Speaker 4: you don't want to blame. But that was always a
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  Speaker 4: challenge for me Paedro, like, if offensively we're going or
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  Speaker 4: we're struggling, Jimmy, you and I, we could call a
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  Speaker 4: hitters meeting, right, we can start doing some things and
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  Speaker 4: try to turn the bats around. Right, But if we're
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  Speaker 4: scoring runs and we're doing it but we're still losing,
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  Speaker 4: I always felt like a little weird to call out
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  Speaker 4: the pictures, like is that a pitcher to do that?
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  Speaker 2: Or do we still as.
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  Speaker 3: The position players have to do that?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't agree with that. I think what they
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  Speaker 2: need to do right now is actually take it personal
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  Speaker 2: and just evaluate themselves around what they have done first
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  Speaker 2: time all year, after being all year in contention actually
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  Speaker 2: one of the favorites to actually do anything against any team.
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  Speaker 2: And you found yourself four days ago in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of everything, and all of a sudden, you see yourself
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  Speaker 2: out there. You need to check yourself, and also it's
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  Speaker 2: all mental. At this time of the year, You're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna get in better physical shape. You're not gonna do
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  Speaker 2: anything bigger than you have done the entire season. You
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  Speaker 2: have already put the numbers. Now, what you need to
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  Speaker 2: do is mentally stay in the game for the two
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  Speaker 2: and a half hour, two hours and thirty eight minutes
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  Speaker 2: on average that they go in a game one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent in that game, one game at the time. You
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  Speaker 2: can't try to do too much or too little. You
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  Speaker 2: have to just stay engaged with the game for two
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  Speaker 2: hours and thirty eight minutes and hold everybody accountable. Mental
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  Speaker 2: mistakes are not allowed, especially in the situation that they ought.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the remaining schedules, because who
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  Speaker 1: you face in these last six games are so important.
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  Speaker 1: The interesting thing with the Mets, all six games are
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  Speaker 1: on the road. The only four teams in Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball with the worst road record Pittsburgh, Colorado, Minnesota and
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  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox four of the five worst teams in MLB,
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  Speaker 1: so they're gonna have to turn that around. The Reds,
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  Speaker 1: they got the Pirates right now at home, then at
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers. The Diamondbacks had the hardest schedule.