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Mets fire Carlos Mendoza, Philly’s wild Braves chase, Shohei Ohtani & Ernie Clement All-Star starters · Foul Territory

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: The Mets fire Carlos Mendoza. Remember, after last year not
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: making the playoffs and collapsing down the stretch, they got
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: it Basically their entire coaching staff besides Mendy. In the
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: off season, they did a lot of things. It is
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: not working. Mendy has been let go. Andy Green will
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: take over as interim manager. We're showing you some of
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: the statements from the team and then also from Steve Cohen.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: They also called it Carlos Mendoza's departure. I mean he
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: got fired unless I'm missing something there, and Cohen later
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  Speaker 1: said in the statement, I'm not going to read the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: No sugarcoating it.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: This season has been a disappointment, and our fans deserve
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  Speaker 1: better than what we've delivered. Todfather. They did trade David
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  Speaker 1: Peterson the other day. That doesn't mean they're trading the farm.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: They They've put out there publicly to writers like, we're
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: not trading everyone yet.
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: But let's be real about where they are in the.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Standings, and maybe they're trying to catch lighting in a
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: bottle like the Phillies did with Don Mattingly taking over
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: for Top Topp, or just like Topper did years back
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  Speaker 1: for Girardi.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: But let's be real here, where are we at.
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  Speaker 3: We're in They're in some trouble. I mean, let's just
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: keep it real. You know, the biggest thing with them
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  Speaker 3: is honestly, they they need leadership. I think that's part
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  Speaker 3: of the reason why everything is going down. I thought
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  Speaker 3: Mendoza a great guy. Everything else. New York Queens. It's
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  Speaker 3: hard man playing there for almost three years. It seems
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  Speaker 3: like there was always an issue. It seemed like there
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: was always a.
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  Speaker 4: Problem and there's no way of getting out of it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, whether you know it's an incident here, or
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: you know they're struggling, or you know this guy's doing this,
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  Speaker 3: and it gets a lot of it gets blown out
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  Speaker 3: of proportion.
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  Speaker 4: As we see.
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: A lot of it is very important, as we also see.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: But they're not winning, they're not clicking. The Cubs came
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: into town and did whatever they wanted to them and
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: basically away they went. Man, it's just not a good
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  Speaker 3: scene right now. And you know, looking at this season,
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: you know you got Juan Soto in the building and
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: you can't do nothing with it. I talked about it before.
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: You didn't pick up a couple of contracts. Edwin Diaz,
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: you gotta find a way to bring that guy back.
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  Speaker 3: How are you letting Pete Alonzo go? One of the
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: best hitters in baseball, Brandon Nemo a prolific hitter that's
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  Speaker 3: two seventy or higher. Even Jeff McNeilly had a bad year.
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: I still love Jeff McNeil. He was perfect there. So
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe I'm biased because I play with those guys,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, to say, oh, we haven't been winning
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  Speaker 3: because of these guys, or we need new people in there,
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  Speaker 3: these guys have been doing it. They made it to
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs. They you know, they lost to the Dodgers
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  Speaker 3: the year. Yeah, okay, everybody did. But guess what, it
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  Speaker 3: just hasn't been working out. Man, And I wish Mendos
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  Speaker 3: are the best. I like him, Man, good dude, but
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  Speaker 3: I guess it was time for a change.
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  Speaker 5: Mendy's the man. I don't care who you could add
• 2:51
  Speaker 5: Tony Larutz in his prime. You could have had Charlie
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  Speaker 5: Manu and his prime. This team was not built to
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  Speaker 5: have team success. In my opinion, I think they had
• 3:02
  Speaker 5: a lot of hopes. They had a lot of hopes
• 3:05
  Speaker 5: that Jorge Polanka was going to learn a new position,
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  Speaker 5: injury or no injury, that Boba Schet was gonna learn
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  Speaker 5: another new position, that Luis Robert was gonna stay healthy.
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  Speaker 5: Too many hopes for a team that has a lot
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  Speaker 5: of money and should be a playoff team, which in
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  Speaker 5: my opinion, they faltered at the end of the year
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  Speaker 5: last year, but they were still a good team. And
• 3:25
  Speaker 5: then they essentially gutted it along with their pitching coach,
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: Jeremy Hefner, And you say, okay, well this is what
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  Speaker 5: you get.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they get a team that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: worst in baseball right now and we're fifty percent through
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  Speaker 1: the season. Things can change, but you can't be that
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  Speaker 1: far back at this point in the season and then
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  Speaker 1: start trucking yourself back into contention. It is not easy
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  Speaker 1: to execute here. So for the Mats, here's the first
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  Speaker 1: question based on today's news. We've talked about this team
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  Speaker 1: a ton. Does any thing actually change here? I mean,
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: you guys know Andy Green too. This has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with Andy, although tell me about him if you can.
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  Speaker 1: What he's going to change with the team. The roster
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  Speaker 1: construction's not changing tomorrow. So can something be solved? Remember
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  Speaker 1: crats like you're good for this. Philly's gone through this
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  Speaker 1: twice now in season change. All of a sudden, the
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: team takes off. Can the Mets catch any spark? Is
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: there any realness to that for a club like this?
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  Speaker 5: Can the Mets catch a spark?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Because they have Francisco Francisco Lindor and they didn't before this.
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  Speaker 5: Luis Robert could come back again. It's all the same
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  Speaker 5: thing I said. It's hopes. Andy Green is a good
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  Speaker 5: manager when he was with the Padres and I had
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  Speaker 5: him in spring training, incredible communicator. I think maybe he
• 4:50
  Speaker 5: was a little overmatched with the pace right out of
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  Speaker 5: the gate when he first started managing the Padres, but
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  Speaker 5: he wasn't managing very good teams. Those were teams that
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  Speaker 5: were keeping like one or two or three Rule five
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  Speaker 5: guys that just hamstrings you with the roster. So yes,
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  Speaker 5: could the Mets catch fire? Yes? But something everybody has
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  Speaker 5: to start clicking that is not clicking right now. Boba
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  Speaker 5: Shet has to be the you know, leader in hits
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  Speaker 5: like he has been in other years. Devin Williams and
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  Speaker 5: Luke Weaver have to lock down the end of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Luke Weaver's really turned it around. So yeah, there's things,
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  Speaker 5: there's pieces, but it just looks like a disjointed team
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  Speaker 5: when it comes to winning a team ballgame.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard for them to kind of get
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  Speaker 3: back in a mix of things. I mean when you
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: look at to see how the Phellies did it with
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  Speaker 3: Don Mattingly, they got a squad, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Like those boys have been playing for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: They understand that they're gonna go through these ebbs and
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  Speaker 3: flows and understand that they might lose eight out of ten.
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  Speaker 3: But they're one home run away from Kyle schwamb or
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  Speaker 3: one cycle away from Harper of getting back into it.
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  Speaker 3: As you see, they are clicking right now. So I
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  Speaker 3: don't see it. I don't, but baseball gods can play
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  Speaker 3: with you a little bit, you never know. I love
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  Speaker 3: Andy Green. I haven't seen her talk to him in years,
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  Speaker 3: but whenever I did, do a great conversationists and he
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  Speaker 3: you know, he understands the game very well.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: Look at the Philly starting rotation and the Mets starting
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  Speaker 1: rotation right now. Anyone that watches the game mildly look
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: at those two rotations. Look at the numbers, Look up
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  Speaker 1: the stuff, know the names.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Look we have this right, Freddy p shall reeb out
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: He's this is the worst season we've seen from him
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  Speaker 1: in a minute, although there have been some changes, right.
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  Speaker 1: I actually talked about this this morning with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Like the extension for him used to be elite, top percentile.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's more mid range. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: story is behind that, but apparently it's hurting the way
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  Speaker 1: that his fastball is playing.
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  Speaker 2: The fastball. Freddy part's gone away.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Nolan McLain has great stuff. Oh my gosh. He's a
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  Speaker 2: video game dude. But this is his first full season
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  Speaker 2: in the big leagues. He's gonna run into some issues.
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  Speaker 1: Clay Holmes was their best starter in terms of run prevention,
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  Speaker 1: and he got hurt. He's going to be out for
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: a minute, all right. The rest of them, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of question marks. Here's here's my Hills rotation. Go ahead, Kratz,
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  Speaker 1: you can talk with Just make sure you tell everyone
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  Speaker 1: what the difference is between what I just said and
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  Speaker 1: then what we're looking at on the screen.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Yeah, now we're looking Now we're looking at
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  Speaker 5: the Phillies rotation, and you have Sanchez, top three pitcher
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  Speaker 5: in the game last year, who finally got his era
• 7:35
  Speaker 5: ABOVEVA two. You have Zach Wheeler, you have haesuslizarda wall
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  Speaker 5: can be up and down, has sustained success in the
• 7:44
  Speaker 5: big leagues. You got Zach Wheeler. You're able to do
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  Speaker 5: all this while Andrew Payter's been pitching poorly. Here's the
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  Speaker 5: biggest thing with the rotation. I think Nolan McClain can
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  Speaker 5: continue to do well because he's barely just a pitcher.
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  Speaker 5: He was hitting more recently than he's been pitching, so
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  Speaker 5: he's learning to pitch. I think he's going to be great.
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  Speaker 5: I think Freddy's going to have a regression back to
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  Speaker 5: his norm, which is going to be successful for the team.
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  Speaker 5: The biggest thing is really was has been emblematic is
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  Speaker 5: the fact that they had four heirs by four different infielders.
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  Speaker 5: That's never going in one game. That's never going to
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  Speaker 5: bode well for your rotation. People will be like, well,
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  Speaker 5: those are unearned runs, that's why they have, you know,
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  Speaker 5: an er. I get that, but it's also more pitches
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  Speaker 5: you have to throw when you're not playing good defense.
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  Speaker 5: Your starting rotation is not going to give you the length,
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  Speaker 5: the execution, the consistent chain, the consistent success that you
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  Speaker 5: really need out of them, because like, this team just
• 8:45
  Speaker 5: isn't built to have that run prevention that I felt
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  Speaker 5: like this team was ready to that was supposed to
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  Speaker 5: be built to have and kind of broke down last
• 8:53
  Speaker 5: year's team.
• 8:57
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• 11:35
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• 11:37
  Speaker 1: manager side. Yeah, he gone. That was a big miss.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: They really missed the mark on that one. John Harper,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: who covers the Mets, heard from it.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: He's on SNY.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I heard from a source today that Albert Pooholes is
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: in recent weeks letting friends know he'd very much want
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: the Mets manager job if and when they moved on
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: from Mendoza. Pooh Hooles managed the Dominican Report public team
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: in the WBC, and he has a.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: Very strong relationship with Juan Soto. Is Albert Poolholtz the answer.
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: Christy, I think you have your answer. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I want more players coaching. I'm a big proponent
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: a I love players coaching. Albert Poolhols looks like he
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: knows what he's doing. The World Baseball Classic is different
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: than Major League Baseball for sure, don't get me wrong. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's the best of the best. But also he had,
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: you know, the best of the best he was managing,
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  Speaker 3: So he was managing what I say, twenty five best
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: of the best.
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  Speaker 4: Now he'll have a couple. So how does he.
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  Speaker 3: Manage those guys compared to the guy, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifth guy in the bench. So I'm not saying
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: he can't do it. I'm not saying it's a bad idea.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be very intrigued and interested to see if that's
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  Speaker 3: the route they did. I'd be excited too, honestly, to
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: see if Albert can handle that and get after it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's the answer, but I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you why it's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's going to.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I'm just gonna tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: There's something specific with the owner of the Mets that
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: everyone should know. He does not like to spend money
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: on someone learning on his dime.
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  Speaker 2: That's like one of these.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you could also make a case that some philosophies
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: need to change.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe that one needs to change.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some philosophies that the front office have right now
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: with the player decision making need to change, or not
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: even maybe they definitely need to change.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: But that part Kratz to me, actually stands out right.
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  Speaker 1: You've had some inexperience there, You've had some misses, and
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: most of this has to do with roster construction.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be real. I don't see them going the route
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: of a new manager. I just don't. I see them
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: going the route of.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: Hey, Alex Cora, how much money does it take you to.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: Head over to Queen's.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Jim Boden pointing it out this morning, the Mets should
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: now do everything they can to try and land Alex
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: Cora as their next long term manager starting in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. That's from our resident GM.
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  Speaker 4: And then we can wait.
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  Speaker 3: Until the Giants play the Mets again and guess who comes.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Back into That would be interesting, That would be great.
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  Speaker 3: It'll bow tie to start. How you doing, welcome back?
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  Speaker 3: But yes, that would be interesting. He's a good manager.
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  Speaker 1: Man, much more likely to be the next manager than Poohles.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's from what I know about the
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  Speaker 1: man who makes the decisions at the end of the day.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: He is much more likely to choose someone that's already
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: done it. And there's others too. I think Brandon Hyde
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: has a much better chance of managing the Mets than
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Albert Pooholes.
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  Speaker 4: I think he'd be fine. I think Brandon would be fine.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I played against him as a manager for years
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: in the minor leagues, and he's got a fire in
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: his belly too.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Like the dude he's not. He won't take any crap.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind seeing him in New York because he's
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: he's no holds bar and he knows what the heck
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: he's doing, and he's got the red ass every once
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: in a while, and I love every second of that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, krats for you.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: At one point, do you say, hey, guys, you're not
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: playing well for two years now, I'm not worried about
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: bringing in some player's buddy or somebody that he thinks
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: is going to manage him well. Also, just in general,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Jan Soto doesn't need much help. He's really good. He
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: does not need much help from anyone. Right, It's not like.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Someone's going to come in and be like, oh, I'm
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: motivating Soda. SODA's putting up numbers.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: He's fine. So my thing is Kratz. I just want
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: to find someone who, of course, is best for the job.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: And if anything, I might want to make a statement
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: like I'm not bringing in your buddies because this ain't working, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I'll give you one example. And I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: know this is from several years ago, but it's it's
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: still burning them. And it's the trade that the league
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: uses when gms don't want to deal away a prospect.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Keith Hernandez just smashed it. On the broadcast the other day,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: ohro Armstrong run circles around the team, and they brought
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: in Hobby Biaz, who is a buddy of some right,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: including Lindor, but others too. And I'm not saying that's
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the only reason they acquired him, but that trade was
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: a bomb. It was a bomb during that season, and
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it was a bomb long term. And I don't think
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: they're in the business of trying to make sure everyone's
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: buddies are involved now. Also, if you do believe the
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: rumors that were spreading for months about dissension in the
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: clubhouse and you wanted to break that up, the new
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: model ain't working either, Okay, got news for you. I
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: sit next to aj Prazinski every day and he told
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: me that he played on plenty of teams where guys
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: loved and aided each other all in one ball and
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: it didn't matter because if they won, they won, and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: if they lost, they lost.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Game's about winning. The game is not about all your friendships.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: You develop friendships through seasons where you haven't anger issues
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: with each other, and you develop friendships through you know,
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: kumbaya sessions.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: As a team.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: It's about winning. I don't think oh uncle, Stevie is
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: going to be hiring somebody who's like, I'd love to
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: learn to manage in the big leagues. Hey, Won Soto's
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: my friend. Stevie's gonna be like, we don't need any
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: more Wan Soto friends. Jan Soto's got seven hundred and
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: sixty five million friends that I'm paying him to go
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: be him all the time. Like to me, if if
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Albert pushed that himself, that oh yeah, he's he's close
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: with Juan Soto, which a lot of things when you
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: read them, like people are pushing those things to reporters
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: when they want to become a manager, That just shows
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: me right there. He does not He does not get
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: what it takes to be a manager. He was a superstar.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: He is a Hall of famer, and his ability to
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: connect with what Todd said, all twenty five other guys
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: and not just Juan Soto will be the difference in
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: him being a Hall of Fame manager and a two
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: year run manager. And I think Carlos Mendoza did it
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: does and did an incredible job of connecting with everybody.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: I think this team's a flawed roster, and I think
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: if you bring in a hide I don't think David Ross,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: but guys that can get you can get a little
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: bit of the ass to the guys that need it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: It'll kick a team into shape when they need to
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: be kicked into shape, and will coddle them when they
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: need to be coddled. When my puppy Bella has something wrong,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to go around googling what to do.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kratz, let's have a better plan.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: From yesterday, Ian Seymour was riding a nice little no
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: no for the race while Junior Caminaro hit three dingers.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Nice performance for the for the old rays that nobody's
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Starling Martine needs to not tell Junior Caminaro needs to
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: lift more. I think it was on Tuesday they were
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: playing one of the series. He gave him the old
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: like flex a little bit more, a few more push
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: ups and everything, and well, I guess Junior did a
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: few more. But Man Seymour, the race, the race could
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: find some pitching. I would love to have seen him
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: go out for one more push it to one hundred
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: and ten pitches. I know, I know he was at
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: at ninety and that's where you're like, okay, but you
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: got a big lead. Maybe he can just throw a
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: few right down the middle. I'm not look for the strikeout.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Who knows how far he gets with that no hit
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: or perfect game.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: John, this might be wildly inappropriate, and that's not I mean,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Starling's well liked, but I'm not kidding. If he had
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: said that to me, and I know Kratz would have
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: done the same thing, I would have been like, well,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you were on the Juicy Juice for at least the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: time period and I never got to do that, so
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you're more Jack than me.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: It's not fair.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: I saw I saw Starlin. I saw Starlin before the
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Juicy Juice and after the Juicy Juice. We'll get into
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: it maybe one day about what I heard happened, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: it gives it gives my ex teammate a little bit
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: of credit. But yeah, you know what, Hey, he's he
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: tested positive and that's that's where it's at. But you're right, Junior,
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Junior hit it that want to hit off the position
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: player hit like the d ring or whatever that ring
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: was in in uh the trap that ball was crunch.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Hey, look at us ft on Snapchat. If you're a snapchatter,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you youngsters out there, we are here. Okay, we're on
• 21:10
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• 21:13
  Speaker 5: You'll let me get your snap. Yeah, let me get
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: your snap.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: You know, Krats, I mean you've got a whole team,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a whole high school team that you coach, and I'm sure.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of it. I always see this at
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: like the airport.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: You'll see like constant this, and and then it's it's snap.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: It's like we're by the pool and I'm like, what
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: are you doing? And why are you making that face?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Take that back?
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: It's this. Make sure make sure we stay on, make
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: sure we stay on the two shot here. But these
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: pictures right here, they send the half picture and it's
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: like my kids are like, I'm like, why did you
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: do that? Why did you just do that? Why did
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: you send a picture mostly of the ceiling or mostly
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: of the wall, And they're like just showing people where
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: we're at. Like sorry, I'm like I kind of dig it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I don't necessarily dig the fact that I don't get
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: a text message back from my kids, but you know what,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I if I snapped them. But I'm over forty five
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: years old, so I don't have Snap. But I'm about
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: to because FT's on it. So I'm definitely getting SNAP.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: So if you see me out like a lot of
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: people are seeing me out at these baseball tournaments, yo,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: let me get you Snap.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: One of the best flexes in FT history is Eric
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Kratz talking to a team of whatever fifteen sixteen year
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: old saying, yeah, I'm more viral than all of you,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: especially on TikTok. One of my goals in life, I
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: like to set goals right, is to do the same
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: thing with SNAP and have Kratz go to the team
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: next year and be like, I'm cooler than all of you.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I'm much more popular on SNAP and I've got a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: lot flowing there. So anyway, if you'd like to help out,
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  Speaker 1: mister Kratz, be cooler than the rest of the team,
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  Speaker 2: Sho, hey o Tani DHNL.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: So what happens is the top vote getter on the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: NL side, top vote getter on the AL side automatically
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: starting in the All Star Game.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's not the story.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Ernie Clement starting second baseman for the American League in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game because Blue Jays fans showed up
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and voted over and over again. And guess what, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I don't even care what the numbers are this year.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Ernie Clement was ridiculous in October and this is the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: way to honor him.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: It's not like he's been bad this year. Has he
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: been postseason?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Ernie Clement, No, I'm sorry, he's not hitting four hundred,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: He's only hitting what two ninety four. But Kratz, yeah,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I'm all for this.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: He yeah, I get it. You know you want the
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: hottest second baseman from the first half of the season.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Maybe to get it. What he did ignited the Blue
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Jays and were he was this close to winning MVP
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: of the World Series. Obviously we know who won the games.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: How close he came. He would have been the hero
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: and he would have been forever the hero. And that
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: they're they're kind of rewarding him, or fans are rewarding
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: him for what he did in the postseason with an
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: All Star bit.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: He was so good, it was so fun to watch.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: He was unconscious, ridiculous.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: He was on fire, and he was what everyone dreams of,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: every front office dreams of.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: In the playoffs, you want contact and sluck.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You want both, right, Sometimes people say, oh, well you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: need contact, No, you need both. Just looking at some
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: matchups for the weekend and also backtracking for a moment,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yankees Red Sox has already started.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Anything we should know.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Besides, the Yankees just getting by doing fine without mister Judge,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and the Red Sox did crack him yesterday, including Cam Schlitzler,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: but overall they are not playing good ball.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I mean listen, Before the Reds came into town, they
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: were doing good. You know, they lost two out of three,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: and then now the red they're losing to a Red
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: sock to It was one big inning, that's basically it
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: was the fifth inning. Uh big air by Rosario, ball
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: dropped in front of Cam Schlitzler, which should have been caught.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: A bloop of the left and that's baseball at the
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: end of the day.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: And then ky By Arrow had an easy out at
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: home at home on a sack fly was off target,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: and a big three run homer by oh Caleb Durbin.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, that's all took.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: They were up to nothing and they need they need
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: better pieces.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: In the bullpen.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing they need to do
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: come trade deadline, and they just got to find a
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: way to get some guys healthy too. So it's going
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: to be a struggle. Ebbs and flows. I say it
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: all the time. I hate to keep beating that drum.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: But whether there are two games up.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Right now on the rais in the division, can I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: complain for thirty seconds here our five second question to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: get your answer. Can Kebby just play short stop every day?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I would learn you doing just play shortstop every day.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Here's your best shortstop defender, and he's earned every day
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: right off season. You've got someone else in mind, that's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that's even more you know whatever, But right now he's
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: clear cut your best shortstop. Yeah, period, Just play him
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: there and let the rest because defense matters. Bet MGM
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: swing for the fences, swing for a shot daily to win,
• 26:13
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• 26:16
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• 26:22
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• 26:23
  Speaker 2: So give those a look.
• 26:24
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  Speaker 1: gambling braves. Fans, watch out. The Phillies are coming after
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: your bullpen, not yours. The Nats bullpen to be exact,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: as they just absolutely plowed through it. But they are
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: only four games back of Atlanta. And this is just
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: one of those timing things, Crats, where all of a
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: sudden the Braves are on a four game losing streak.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: The Phillies just swept up the Nats, and they did
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: it in such a fashion, right, That's got to give
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you confidence.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Is every win is just a win, Every loss is
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: just a loss.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: But can you gain anything from just continuously pouncing on
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a bullpen late with those comebacks? Or do you look
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: over at the statistics for the Nats bullpen and say, well,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a little different than facing where
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I sell Iglesias or Robert Suarez with Atlanta.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Oh for sure, it's a bad bullpen. But what it
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: does give you is confidence that when you're down, you're
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: still in it. Because when you're on a team that's
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: down five, three, six, four and you're looking at dugout
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: and everyone's like we're cooked, eighth, ninth innen guys are
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: coming in that. So they're gaining confidence from that. But hitters,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: I don't, I don't think necessarily are like, Okay, we
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: can't do that against everybody. They understand they're still facing
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: big leaguers with the Nats. Us as outsiders say, eh,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: like it was the Nats. Why are the Phillies still
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: struggling against Foster Griffin cade kVA. Who else did they struggle?
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Why is that that line of struggle the starting pitching?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Hey, because they're still big laders.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, Foster Griffin's pitching
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: well this year, Kate Cavally's got really good stuff.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, Okay, I'm not I'm saying. If you're the
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Phillies lineup and you're saying this offense has turned it
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: around because they scored what thirty runs in three games?
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Tell me why they aren't getting to the starters, why
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: they're behind in every one of these games? Is my
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: evaluation of if this is a World Series team or
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: a playoff team.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I just don't appreciate Foster Griffin catching strays like that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't. Every single outing this month is
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: one run, every single outing.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: This month, Foster, Yeah, exactly. But I get what you're saying.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Why can't they crack the beginning of the game. Also,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the real question mark for the Phillies is, Hey, after
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: three or four guys tops, right, four tops?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Where is everyone else? Right?
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: See that?
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I disagree with that. I take your disagreement and I
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: bring you my disagreement. Do you know who is the
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: highest slugging percentage with the runners in scoring position in baseball.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: It's not one of the top four guys that you're
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: mentioning in the Phillies lineup. It's Bryson Stott. Oh no, no,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: it's Bryson Stott highest slugging percentage of runners in scoring position.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: They find ways to manufactures runs. Yes, but how can
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: this lineup. We're talking about a lineup that is going
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: to be the make or break of this Phillies team
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: because the starting rotation in the playoffs. When I'm talking
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: about the playoffs and how far they make a run,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: this team has to hit. Last year, I think they
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: hit really well against the Dodgers starting rotation, which ended
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: up dominating the rest of the playoffs. It was the
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: bullpen that that faltered for them. The bullpen's a little sometimes.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: You know, they need two or three guys, two guys
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: to step up behind Johan Duran. But you have to
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: you have to say, as a lineup, we are a
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: veteran lineup, how do we get to the starting pitching
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: whoever it is out there, whether it's Paul Skeens, whether
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: it's Jacob Miserawski, I get it. He's you know they're
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: both cy young candidates and you're not really gonna get
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: to those guys. But on a consistent basis, this lineup's
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: not getting to the starter. And when they start doing
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: that and they continue to beat up the bullpens, now
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: I'm starting to believe in this lineup being the lineup
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: that's going to carry them to the World Series.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I've said it from before, like this team has never
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: out of it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I love the way they're playing.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Don Maddenley's got to be really happy and excited about
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: what they're doing. Kyle Schwarverz just hitting homers like he
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: does best. Harper's coming along here, getting exciting times, the
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: crowds getting back into it. They are right where they
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: need to be and they're not work all right, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I think the only thing stopping them right now is
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the All Star breaks. So for them, they're gonna keep
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: pushing it and they're gonna understand they're never out of
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: a game because of who they have that can play,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: and they're clicking right now. That's a sign of a
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: fierce team that you do not want to play right now.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: I don't care if thirteen to eight they give up
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: eight runs, They're still winning games and guess what they're
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: going against the Mets that we're struggling right now, So
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: could be another two three wins for sure.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they might catch the Braves by next week, forget
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the All Star break. So here's the pressing question for
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: both of you, Braves or Phillies regular season Braves or
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Phillies postseason. So looking now and weighing that the Phillies
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: are four games back, do you think they catch them
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and end up on top on the regular season standings?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: And then also just in general, when you're looking at
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: roster complexion, because we know the playoffs is different, which
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: team do you like better to go deeper in a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: postseason run?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: You want me to go first? Sure? I still think
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: the Phillies still, Yeah, I do. I I I don't know.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I love Chris Sale, I love everything they do over there,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: But I just I can't get it out of my
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: head that the Phillies aren't gonna win this division. I
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: think they'd have a really clear cut shot four games
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: back or not. You know, I can go over every
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: single name, it doesn't matter. They're playing well right now,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: so until they show me otherwise, and I just think
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: they're gonna just keep going from here on out and
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: inch their way up. They could go down six again,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: but they'll be back down two, then up four, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: then eventually they'll take it over.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: In my opinion, your question was who do you like
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: better in the playoffs?
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Both regular season? Give me both regular season.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: The Phillies are still four back and it took a
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: just a hot, hot stretch and the Braves this was
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: their first down stretch. Four games is a lot. Four
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: games is a lot unless you're talking about four games
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: against the Gnats, who are a worst team. You're talking
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: about the Braves, who I think have have they have
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: some issues that they need to figure out. I think,
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: you know, maybe that magic dust may have worn off
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: with Elder for this year. We'll see. I think the
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Phillies have a better I think the Phillies have a
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: better team to win in the postseason, and obviously that's
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: yet to be seen and we'll see where they get there.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: If they have to play in a short wild card series,
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: that can change a huge complexion. Winning the division is
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: first and foremost on their on their minds, but I
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: don't think they catch the Braves.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Offense. Which offense do you like better?
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I still like the Phillies.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I really like them. I know what they can do.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Kratzy understands what they can do.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I think their offense is the Braves offense is deeper, though, No,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: don't you think it's a tougher lineup to navigate top
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to bottom?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Or Am I wrong there? I feel like I.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Don't want to know.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I know, right, I just know.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: The Phillies of.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: They've overcome a lot of stuff during these last couple
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: of years, and I just don't I don't see them
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: faltering once the year comes to an.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: End, even without Acuna. I think the Braves lineup is
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: a better lineup, I'll be honest, just because because there's
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: there's a you know, if you can do player by
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: player comparison, Yeah that's not you know, that's that's always
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: fun to do, but that doesn't really show you the
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: complexity of a lineup. I just think that right now,
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: the Phillies are not putting together or haven't been putting
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: together enough team at bats. Do I think the ceiling
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: is higher for the Phillies lineup?
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Sure, But I think the Braves lineup on a consistent
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: basis without Austin Riley doing what he's doing. The Phillies
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: could get get a boost from Alex alec Baum, like,
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: you know, getting his hundred RBIs like he's been getting
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: hot lately. So I get it that there's guys that
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: are getting hot. I I feel like top to bottom
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: the Braves. May the Braves have a more balanced lineup?
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: It's crazy? Yeah, good, good debate. It's crazy.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: If the Nats even had a mid range bullpen.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: This year, they might make the playoffs.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know we have a whole second half
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: to go, things can change, but how many if they
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: had a mid tier bullpen, right? And basically it's like,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: look at their blown saves and chop it in half
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and then see how many more games they would have won.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: It's even if you don't chop it in half, right,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: even if it's a little less than that, give me
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: like a hey, let's cut thirty percent from that number.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And they're on pace have the most blown saves of
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: all time. So if you take a little bit off
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: that number, where are we at? Like they're not in
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: a bad spot even right now, but give them an
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: extra I don't know, six wins in the first half
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: of the season, and they're if you give them six wins,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: they're basically almost neck and neck with the Phillies right now.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're not and we're not talking about blown
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: When people say blown safe, they're not just blowing it
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: into a ninth Inny. You can get a blown save
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: earlier in the game for people who don't know that.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: So it's a it's a full bullpen epidemic that they
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: have going on. Yes, their lineups awesome, and yes, this team,
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: they put up runs. And when you put up runs,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: eventually and maybe this is the time, maybe this is
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: a series that swings in that season to the bad.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Eventually a lineup is just exhausted, Like, we just put
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: up eight runs. You blew it. We were losing six
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: to five. Now we're winning eight six and you're like,
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: we did all we can do. Whack crap, we lost
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: that game. How did that happen? It drains on.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: You that it does. Sure.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Thents the Nats. The Nats bought three trajects, Okay,
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: And if you don't have a traject in your system
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: right now, if you're a low market team and you
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: didn't spend five hundred thousand dollars for the traject system
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: because I think they have two down at the complex
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: and they have won in the big league team with
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: the big league team now, I think there's a direct
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: correlation to guys having success with that.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: And you don't want to look back on the year
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: at the NSA. It all the time. Man.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: You know, we could have been in the playoffs, so
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: we could have won the division. And next thing you know,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: you're like those six to eight games we probably should
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: have won and we would have been contention. So as
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: you brought it up, those are games that could hurt
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: the Nationals not making the playoffs.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're in rebuild mode.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: They can't.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: That's what they're still in.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they but they they traded away, Yeah, they traded
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: away McKenzie gore. They were talking about CJ. Abrams in
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the offseason. They didn't go after big bullpen arms because
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: they didn't expect to be good yet. And you got
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to give credit to the whole crew there, right, the
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: youngsters improving the coaching staff there as well, be terrorist
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: done a nice job. To Bony at the top of
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the front office has done a nice job. I mean,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's a surprising division, right, You didn't expect the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Nats to be where they're at. I even if you
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: were on the low end on the Mets. The Mets
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: fifteen back right now in the division already, that's heavy.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: It's crazy the Mets in the Mets in the National
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: League and the Red Sox in the American League. Sorry,
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: like that is crazy. What both of those teams haven't
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: done this year?
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: I agreed.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And they both don't have the same managers that started
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the year, right, remember Crafts, we did that segment. Oh
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: hard to see any managers being let go, And I'm like, dude,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: don't you worry. We're not even at the All Star
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: break and we've had three changes, right.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, I'd like to rerack that conversation because I
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: think all three of those teams came up that, oh,
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: if they do bad, they would definitely be on the
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: hot seat. But we see him doing bad here.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: We are, Yeah, other spots around baseball right now? Uh,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: National League Central, Cubby's been up and down for you
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Brewers running away right now, pro Crew pirates coming back
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: down to earth a little bit.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Well I knew that, Yeah, I know, but that's what
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: usually happens.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: It is and they're not playing well when Skins is
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: pitching too, so that's another thing. So I mean, listen,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: it's that midway almost midway point. It is midway. What
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: do we got?
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Every team this week is playing the their eighty first game,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: so we're midweek.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, where is that second life going to come through?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: What team is all of a sudden, Oh, we forgot
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: about that team, We forgot about this team or where
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: the heck did they go? So for me, it starts
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: after this week. Here we go, it's time to step
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: up again, and you know you got another half left.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Where's your second win? So who's gonna do this?
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Is the miz gonna be as dominant as cam Schlitz,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: They're gonna be as dominant. So there's some really cool
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: storylines that can pop up here in the second half
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: of the year.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I was just gonna say. I was just
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: gonna say, I think that's where the Pirates may not
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: collapse like they did other times because they've got veteran
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: guys in there. They have a little more experience. Like
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: you bring in Ohearn, you bring in a Brandon Lao,
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: and you say, okay, like these are the guys that
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: they're gonna have to lean on in the second half win. Normally,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: it's like, Wow, we did so good the first half,
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: and then we're right here and we're just slowly going down.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: I think that's where the pirates. They're gonna lean on
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: those guys and they have to be able to make
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: a run. They're not that far behind the Cubs. I
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: don't think you're catching Brewers.