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Met fans. I, I just, I don't know what to
tell you, man. I, I, I just, I mean, I've got
some thoughts for you, but my God Almighty, if you would have,
if you would have given me like 10 options on what the Met
season will look like at this point, I would come just, I
mean, 10 and 20 at this point would not have been an option.
They are just an unmitigated disgrace.
They can't win more than one game in a row.
They've lost 16 of 19. They're already basically 12
games out of the NL ES. Now the Phillies think too.
But I mean, you've got so many teams to catch.
Their run differential is almost -40 at this point.
Sean Minai is morphed into a $25 million mop up man David
Peterson stinks. Lendor is going to miss months.
For some reason, Melendez is suddenly your 3 hitter.
I, I, I guess Alvarez didn't cut it as a three hitter, so now
it's MJ Melendez's turn. Marcus Simeon's washed none of
the young promising kids with kids, whether it's Alvarez,
whether it's Mauricio, you know, whether it's baiting, none of
these kids seem to be. I'm not talking about Ben's.
The other, the other crew, obviously Mark Vientos, none of
them really amounting to anything that many of us thought
that or at least some of us thought that some of them could.
Maybe not all of them, but I mean, you think that you would
think that at least one or two of these guys will be really
influencing the bottom line every single night.
I mean, it's just it's if the managers lost, the general
manager stinks, the fans are livid.
The stadium's empty. Roberts likely headed to the IL
now those are all things that we know all right so anybody can
talk about things that we know you can't just skip over the
main story. I mean, although I do have some
positive stuff, I'm going to surprise you with some stuff
here today and we'll do some Yankee stuff.
And as I said, Michael Kay right around 11/30, 11:45 on an early
state of the Yankees and a lot of NBA last night.
And obviously get ready for the Knicks and the Celtics, see if
they're that collision course continues anyway.
So I mean, it's it's really I'm not going to yell and I'm not
going to rant and scream because I've already said that I would
have fired the manager. It's not all this fault.
Just to reiterate that I, I know that it's not the roster is
deplorably mismanaged and horrendously constructed.
I mean, it really is amazing for a general manager who talked
about run prevention, tighten things up.
Everywhere you look, basically every single player is out of
position with the exception of one or two.
So I don't I don't really think that it's going to get better,
all right, At least better to the point where the Mets, you
know, wind up having a good season.
I don't think they're going to win 60 something games.
I mean, maybe they get hot, maybe Lendore comes back.
Maybe eventually they mess around and, you know, RIP off
some wins and, you know, maybe they get to the 83 wins they had
last year. I would bet much on the under
there. You know, maybe they don't even
get to 500. I, I, I don't know.
But here's what I do know, all right?
And you know, it, it, it's a lot of reading things from a
distance and reading body language and, and that's a
little tricky. You know, we all think we know
everything that's going on. We all think that we know the
inner dynamics of of every team and every relationship, right?
Opening day, the Mets are introduced on the first base
side at Citi Field. They come out right and
everybody's pumped up the handshakes and you see soda on
the door basically go like this. And then of course, everybody
reads that they can't stand each other.
You know, the Dr. the Puerto Rican WBC, that backdrop,
they're not feeling with each other.
All right, I mean, maybe there's an element of that that is true.
All right. And then the other aspect, I'm
going to, I'm going to get back to that in a minute.
Why? I'm not sure that it's true, but
I want to give Juan Soto some credit here.
And really the only way that the Mets can save their season is
that Juan Soto has to turn into the basically the basketball
version of Michael Jordan. Now, the good news is, is that
he's capable of doing that. And I think he's already in the
early stages of doing that. I mean, Juan Soto starting to
hit. But what, what, what, what a
shocker. Juan Soto's good, All right, So
I'm not surprised by this, and I fully expect it to continue.
The problem, though, and we've talked about the civilian way
sideways, so this pertains to Aaron Judge with the Yankees.
And, you know, no championships for him.
Like in baseball, you really, truly are a byproduct of what's
around you. You can only elevate the bottom
line so much, All right? You play a game.
If Anaya, you know, can't throw a strike or Peterson can't
navigate the first couple of innings without giving up seven
runs, like what do you expect? Once Soto can't hit a nine run
home run, he can hit it off the Shea Bridge.
It's still worth one run if nobody's on base.
So we we've got to operate within the context of what Juan
Soto can truly do for this team. All right?
That's the baseball stuff that's going to take care of itself.
I want to look at two things that have been said in the last
couple of days now. The first one, J Rod, the Lindor
thing, get that up after I want the first thing.
This was 2 days ago when they beat the nationals.
And you know, Juan Soto is, is largely positioned as a guy
who's just to himself and, and really doesn't care about team
dynamics, whether it's celebrations or chemistry or
being a leader. And this is what Juan Soto said
the other day after the Mets win, quote.
We've been grinding every moment, every swing, and it
finally comes through. Now, of course, they followed up
last night. They get absolutely bamboozled.
Not his fault. So it seems a little more hollow
now. But this is not the point.
This is just the beginning. We're starting something special
right here. We're trying to go all the way.
This is just a little taste of what it's going to be at the
end. All right, J Rod, and get me
back up. We'll get to the Lindor stuff in
a second. That is a guy who was doing at
least #1 he's, he's performing right now, but he's also taking
steps and taking measures to, to try to do things that many of
you, including myself, have have said in the past that he's
either reluctant to do or really just incapable of doing based on
his personality. Like, that's leadership right
there. You know, we, we, we could guess
and we can throw darts all day. Nemo and Pete, they're
Republicans and Landor's the Democrat.
It's not working. Get him out.
And it's not all the conjecture, all the speculation.
See, chemistry is an interesting thing.
It's not tangible. Like I could give you a million
stats. Like I went through the baseball
Saman stuff the other day with with Ben Rice, right, and all
the red and I, I just wanted to trace through some things why I
believe he's an absolute superstar.
And what you're seeing is real because you also saw this last
year based on the numbers, right?
Those are things that we can you could try to argue numbers, but
you're not going to argue numbers with me because I'm not
going to waste my time. Like I'm not going to argue
math. I'm just not, you know, the
numbers are what they are now in small samples.
Sometimes numbers can be, I'll certainly grant you that.
But numbers are irrefutable. They are statistically,
statistics are irrefutable. They are hardcore, tangible
things that you either choose to accept because you believe that
math is is what it is, or you don't.
And if you don't, that's on you. The other stuff is a much more
interesting conversation because there's really no right or
wrong, because we really don't know the depth of leadership,
the willingness of leadership. We can take stabs at it.
Like you could watch the Knicks play and say, hey, Josh Hart, I
hope, and by the way, hopefully he's all, I don't know if he's
gonna play tonight with that back injury.
You saw him the other night when he hit the deck, you could tell
that that was a little different than when Josh Hart usually hits
the court. So I, I, I would not expect to
see him tonight. And that's not necessarily a
good thing. But I, you know, anyway, you
know, you look at Josh Hart, you look at the Knicks or you look
at hockey teams, captain's assistance, the leadership, it's
just it's there. It's omnipresent, whether it's
after a win, whether it's after a loss, There's an there's a
reliable emotional and personality trait that doesn't
fluctuate, right? It's funny, I see this with a
lot of young players, some of the kids that I coach like and,
and it's, it's normal, it's natural.
It's not a knock on the kids, although they should change by
the time you're an adult, especially if you're a pro.
But a lot of young kids when they're doing well, they're
riding high, they're right, but not, I don't mean it an arrogant
way, but their confidence is flowing and they're feeling good
about themselves. Their body language is really
good. And then, you know, couple of
whips, couple of pop ups, bang into a double play, get rocked
on the mound, make a few errors in the field.
Suddenly that very obvious glow that they have as young ball
players, for some it dissipates and for ease, even a fewer more
than the sum, it actually becomes a detriment because then
their body language becomes terrible.
And then that's something you got to navigate.
You don't really see that at the big league level, but you do.
But you do know when somebody is emotionally reliable.
All right, like I think about this, right, some of the shows
that I grew up listening to, and I'll start with Mike and Chris,
right. You knew that you could be you
could be more of a mic fan, you could be more of a dog fan,
stuff like but you knew when at one O 1 every single day and
good afternoon, everybody, like you just knew.
Bang, here comes Mad Dog energy ready, you know, buttoned up and
then Mike parachutes in with the knowledge that, of course, Mike
is more the the authority, if you will, and like you just knew
what you were getting every single down.
Of course, some shows were better than others.
That's just the way it goes in our business.
Not every shows in a plus, but it, it kind of always sounded
the same to start, you know, no matter what was going on because
they're human beings as well. Argument with a wife, a kid,
sick, whatever it might be a, a contract issue.
Show starts good afternoon, boom.
And here we go basically 5 1/2 hours of of muddiness and
greatness, right. That is reliability.
That is a, that is a, those are personalities that are reliable.
And, you know, I think in the case of Juan Soto, there's been
so much guessing and so many theories about is he happy here?
Does he regret leaving the Yankees?
Does he get along with Lindor? Does he want to be a leader?
Is he even feeling Queens like, you know, I, I, I don't know the
answers to all that. And I don't really care right
now because what I'm going to do, I'm going to give Juan Soto.
I'm going to do something a lot of Yankee fans don't do.
And I'm going to do something that even some Met fans aren't
doing right now. I'm not talking about playing in
terms of talent and production. I'm going to give Juan Soto the
benefit of the doubt in terms of him at least trying to be a
leader. OK, slap that up again.
Just slap that up once more. And then we'll get to the
endorse stuff, which I think is another, another example of of
Juan Soto trying to elevate this moribund, pathetic, lifeless,
said sack joke of a baseball team that you watch every night.
We've been grinding every moment, every swing, and it
finally comes through. This is just the beginning.
We're starting something special right now that's obviously
debated. I mean, special.
I mean, you couldn't be. It's the exact opposite of
special. But this is him.
We're starting something special.
We're trying to go all the way. This is just a little taste of
what it's going to be at the end.
All right, so #1 there's two ways to lead, right?
You can lead by your certainly by your actions, and you can
lead by your voice. Now, one thing about sport, it's
hard to lead with your voice when your production is not
there. And it's really hard to lead
with your voice when you were emotionally inconsistent.
And that's this goes back to what I said about the kids.
Like, you know, they give it. Not, not.
I don't even know if a name pops into my mind, but there are a
lot of Major League players, right?
And I mean pro athletes at every sport by extension, where when
things are going well, yeah, rah, rah, rah.
Do the dance, do the handshakes, whatever they're doing, right?
And then when they go with a funk or they're not getting
playing time or whatever it might be, then the the the
energy which we and leadership, which was one once palpable and
very visible and infectious. OK, what then starts to happen?
Because they're so wrapped up in their own situation that there's
a radical shift in what they omit.
All right. And that is, I mean that that's
it takes one ounce of St. sense to figure that out.
This dude, this dude's a fake. This dude's not a real leader.
All right. So to me, anybody can say
something good when things are going well.
Anybody can give a state of the team when you've won eight of
nine and everybody's happy and the stadium's rocking and you're
in first place and things are good and everybody is espousing
the virtues of your team and social media is popping off
favorably and all the calls to the fan.
Mets are awesome. Mets look great.
What an offseason. Mets are going all the way.
That's easy. The hard thing to do is to
deviate from your character a little bit, which I do think
that Juan Soto did right there as he gave this, this early
assessment of, of where they are and, and maybe more specifically
where he believes they're going to go.
Now, I don't think that that's going to happen, but that's not
the point. This is not necessarily about
the 30 games the Mets have played.
This is more about and, and 20 of which have been losses.
This is more about a guy who we all know is a great hitter,
average fielder, whatever, but a great hitter, you know, at
elite. It's so many different
categories. I, I, I think trying to break
out of a shell and, and project, you know, a, a voice that is
sorely needed cuz you're not getting it from the manager,
that's for damn sure. I mean, I, I actually feel bad
for Carlos Mendoza. I really do.
I'm, I'm watching the press conference last night.
I think sports night started early actually, right?
So I'm watching it was obviously Gary Apple watching the end of
because the Yankees played during the day.
I'll get to Elmo Rodriguez, We'll do more Yankees in a bit.
Michael Kay coming up in about an hour and 15 minutes, right?
So we'll do a lot of Yankees then.
But I'm watching this and I'm like this, this pork.
What? What do you expect him to say?
What is he supposed to say that's going to satisfy you?
The thing that I find very interesting, and he said this 2
days ago, I think it was the day when he first revealed that
there was forearm tightness for Juan Soto.
All right, when he he basically said he has not spoken to David
Stearns or anybody within the organization.
To me that is, that is strange. Like I don't need to
characterize it any other way than straight.
What I mean, if I'm David Stearns or if I'm Steve Cohen,
I'm like, yo, let's you know, all right, I still believe in
you here, but we got to figure this shit out and I want to know
what's going on. Why are we losing every night
and why are we losing every night by multiple runs?
We can't score, we can't pitch, we can't run, we can't feel.
What the Hell's the deal, Skip? You know, we hired you because
we believe in you, but we're not going to run this out in
perpetuity. Like you got to figure this out.
So he was either lying to us, which I don't believe is the
case, or he really hasn't spoke to David Stearns, which is
strange. So there doesn't seem to be much
leadership from the top down. Cohen hasn't tweeted in a while.
Cohen hasn't said much. And that's fine.
You know what? I I think sometimes that could
make it worse. Hold.
I got to blow my nose. J Rod, do me a favor.
Jump on camera for a second, will you?
What's up? What's up?
Sniffle. Hold.
On Hey unleash fam how's it going on this beautiful?
What is it Thursday? There we go.
Also wait. I want to test something out
here. Your couch, he said.
Put up a pole on the Mets making the playoff.
OK. I kind of want to test that out.
Go for it. Allow me all.
Right. Of course I'll listen, man.
Now listen. You know the rules, Anything
that goes wrong is always J Rod's fault, and anything that
goes right is always my, is always me.
No, do it, man. Listen, we're still somewhat in
the experimental phase. We busted out the goals last
week, which we'll get to today as well.
Do you have the pole ready? You want to.
Sling Yeah, yeah, let me try that.
Let's. Go.
I'm curious how it's going to look.
Is it going to at least look cool?
Like, I'm curious how this thing's going to look.
Here, all right. Will the Mets make the playoffs?
Now the answer is no, but I don't know if we need to poll
for that. But we we could do the
experiment anyway. Will the Mets make the playoffs?
I mean, will the Mets win more than 79 games?
All right, so it's time to up there, Yeah.
I mean. They they got to step that up.
They got to make these bigger. But yeah, they do.
Now. How do you vote on that do?
Do you vote on the chat on YouTube?
I think you tap yes or no. OK.
Well, let let me let me get my mouse here.
No, my mouse is over it and I don't see into either way.
Maybe we can figure that out. We can continue to experiment
with that, you know, maybe get it on the left side.
I don't want that getting in the way of my Emmy, you know?
There we go. We're going to make sure
everybody can see the hardware. All right, so now Juan Soto is
trying because nobody else is saying anything.
All right, so now I want to get to this right.
Everybody has talked about the relationship with Lindor and
Soto. And listen, do I believe that
they're best friends? No.
Do I believe that Lindor is a good leader?
No. I mean, we basically, it's been
four or five years, starting with the bias thing, with the
fans, with the fight in the tunnel, with the raccoon, with
McNeil. I mean, every year there's some
little flare up here and it's Lindor's team.
So when you are, you know, before Soto came here, the best
player on the team and there's constant questions about
leadership or chemistry or consistent play.
I mean, I I got to look at the best player who's making the
most money again before Soto came.
So so no, I don't think Lindor is a very good leader and he's
not going to be here cup for a couple of months, which is why I
think that Soto is really trying to push this forward.
Now that was the comments that we that we just hit on that was
after a win. Look at what he's you might have
to move the pole because I think as you get this quote, this
quote board up there. Yeah, maybe not how you figure
it out. Let's get this up there.
Oh, OK, very nicely done. It does fit.
There you go symmetrical, some might say.
Now this is coming from a guy who everybody thinks does not
like Lindor. He's either the biggest phony in
the world or, you know, just short of that, he's taking one
for the team and really trying to be a leader.
Or maybe it's not nearly as bad as some people think it's been.
Quote. I think it's really tough seeing
a player like that, a true superstar like Francisco, who
impacts the game both defensively, offensively and
defensively. He's exactly the kind of talent
any team would love to have in their lineup every single day.
It's unfortunate what happened to him, but we're all hoping and
praying for a full and speedy recovery and we'll be right here
waiting for him. End Quote, guys.
I know that you don't want to. You know, what can you get that?
I don't know if I like that. You know what if people are
voting on it, you could keep it up, but I don't know if I love
the way it looks. But we'll rock it.
We'll go. Then I can toss it down.
Whatever. Listen, whatever you want.
How many people have voted on it so far?
Do we have some action? Or no like 20 something.
Keep it up. We'll we'll let peace.
That's fine. I I don't know what else you
want from Juan Soto. You know, I, I think that.
This has been a a new step, a new stage for Juan Soto.
Like eventually guys, Lendor's going to be gone.
You know, last year he wasn't the same defensive player that
he was, you know, years prior. We know about the slow starts.
We know about Nimmo and Pete get now.
I'm not saying it's directly attributable to Lendor and their
relationship, but you know me connect some dots there.
They're not that hard to connect guys that you love.
They're gone. The Mets have played 30 times.
They've lost 20. Statistically, they are the most
inept team at all the baseball in multiple important offensive
categories. Again, Sean and I has become a
$25 million mop up man. Peterson stinks.
It's just awful. And he got 5 or 6 guys playing
out of position. You got Alvarez batting third.
They they went from like from Keith Hernandez, David Wright to
Melendez and Alvarez batting 3rd.
Just it's just a really sad demise what these Mets are and I
don't think it's going to get much better, but I do.
I wanted to at least point down that the guy who who catching a
lot of shrapnel, granted, a lot of it's from Yankee fans because
they can't keep their mouth shut and they just kind of he got
always got to incorporate the Mets up, which, by the way, I'm
not necessarily mad at you because Mets fans were trying to
tap dance on the Yankee grave forever.
We got soda. We did this.
We're the new Kings. We own the city.
Yeah. OK, you 10 and 20, you own
nothing. You bet.
You barely own the deed to the stadium that you're playing at
that. And now they're banging
fireworks. You're down 14 to 2 and there's
fireworks in Queens. My God.
I mean, symbolic of something. Yeah, it's an implosion, that's
for sure. All right, now I want to get to
this as well, and it's a question.
Can somebody explain to me why nobody is banging on Bichette
more frequently? Why is Beau Bichette free of
criticism here? Like you've heard a couple?
Hey, you know, Beau's got to get going.
Expected a little bit more from Beau.
No, no. It's got to be 3 levels past it
at this point. This weekend is the Kentucky
Derby. The Mets are another bad week or
two away, and I could sit here and say they're not going to be
a playoff team, which I really do not think that they will be
that. I don't think that they'll get
to 500, which I wouldn't bet on that.
I wouldn't bet on that either way, but if you ask me my
opinion, I, I think they'll fall short of that.
But I, I'm going to give him a little room because it is still
late April to figure things out. But it's not that early.
Like when your season's up in flames and the guy who you gave
40 plus $1,000,000 a year to come here and help help, you
know, elevate things and save you after last year when he's
doing what he's doing, Beau Bichette cannot escape any
criticism. Beau Bichette's got to get his
head out of his ass because Beau Bichette has stunk so far.
Now you're talking, what about a guy?
It's not like Louise Robert coming from the White Sox, who
granted, a couple of years ago, he was pretty good.
He had a couple of decent years, but low average guy, high
strikeout total. That's not, that's not the
evaluation of a bichette. And that's not the player that
you got like Louise Robert. As I said, the story, the show's
probably going to go on the IL with that jacked up back, which
which is not good, not that it really matters.
He's not doing anything. And he had three good games to
start the year. And everybody's like, oh, what a
move, What a move. And now, you know, you're back
to basically Louise Robert being the the bad White Sox version of
Louise Robert injured and not productive.
But the point is Robert was born here.
You know, I remember constructing the Mets lineup
over the week, over the over the winter.
And for me, optimally, I guess I could do it again if I remember
off the top of my head, but I know that I had Robert like in
the seventh spot, like bottom third of the order and let me
see I Lindor one. This was my line.
I'm not what I thought they would do, what I would do.
Lindor 1/2. I had both Lindor one, both 2.
I had Soto, obviously. 3/4 I had Polanco unconventional, 4 more
for contact, whatever and then like 5 I was into I think Beatty
certainly against righties and Beatty's been a dog.
He's just he has not been very good at all.
Another error last night at first base kicking things around
and and then like and then maybe like Alvarez 6 and Robert set
seven. I think I had bench 9th.
I knew he was going to make the team either way.
Robert was basically an ancillary piece on this team.
I mean, as long as he showed up and found this way to Port Saint
Lucie, he was going to be a better offensive player than
than Taylor last year, you know? And then he even played McNeil a
couple of games in center field. You can say, and again, I'm
pretty sure statistically irrefutable that the in terms of
OPS and power production that the Mets had the worst center
field situation in all the baseball.
It was horrendous, right? So I thought it would be a big,
big upgrade. But the Mets season was not
hinged on Robert rediscovering what he was early in his White
Sox career. Beau Bouchette's arrival was.
So don't get it twisted. This guy's a 292 career hitter
and everything about Beau Bouchette and, and I've watched
him for years against the Yankees, not to mention playoff
games, etcetera, was his clutch value.
And now listen, I don't think he's necessarily A320 hitter,
which is what I think he hit a 310 last year.
I don't know if he's really that kind of guy, but I mean, Beau
Bouchette has a 236 average and that's only because he's gotten
a little hot in the last seven days.
He's got a 273. What is this?
Is this Anthony Volpe? He's got a 273 on base
percentage and his OPS is 598 and he's hitting 185 with
runners in scoring position. Where is the energy for Beau
Bouchet start as a New York Met? I'd like to know because I
don't. I'm not saying he's got a total
pass here, but he has been gliding here.
Now, I'm not saying he's not trying.
I'm not implying that at all. I'm sure inwardly he's grinding
and it's driving him nuts. He's from a baseball family.
He's been a grinder. I wanted the Yankees to get him,
but you don't get it. But you're not absolved and you
don't get a pass here just because there's other components
of the team that are a mess. Like Sean Minai was thrown 87
mph in March. We all knew the dip in velocity,
the dip, the dip in the Sean Minai is dip in V low.
We all knew that that that was going to be an issue.
Now, some of you tried to marginalized it.
I'm like that's that's generally not a good sign.
But a guy's throwing 87 miles an hour and it's like 2026.
You know, you're not Jamie Moyer or Jimmy Key in the 90s.
I mean, it's 2026. Everybody throws 95.
He can't be throwing 87. Either way, you cut it.
He's not Manaya, you know, he's not even Peterson talking about
talking about Boba Shett. He's not Beatty or even Alvarez,
who was once the number one prospect and all the baseball
God, how much did they miss that?
Yikes. You're not Beatty or Mauricio or
Vientos. When we talk about, well, can
Vientos with this this offseason, maybe Vientos can
recapture what he was two years ago.
Like, those are all questions that, I mean, we're getting the
wrong answers to if you're a Mets fan, But they weren't
primary questions to what would determine the Mets season.
This Mets season was really going to be determined in large
part by the strength of their 1-2 and three hitters, Lindor,
Bichette and Soto. Whatever order you want, Lindor,
Soto, Bichette, if you want to flip two and three, you know
what I would do. But and then obviously the top
of the rotation, Peralta and McClain.
McClain, I love him. He's the Mets version of
Schlittler. And Peralta's been good, but
he's got to be better. He has been great, All right?
He's got to be better. And one thing we know about him
from Milwaukee, he does not go deep into games, which which is
the problem, right? Oh, yeah.
By the way, we don't even know where the help Devin Williams is
because the Mets can never get a safe situation.
So there are so many things wrong with the Mets, The
construction of the team, the managers awful.
You know, all these other guys that you were hoping would take
a step forward have not stable veterans, have taken a step
back, regressed like Peterson, like Manaya, But Beau Bouchet,
guys getting $40 million. Dude, can you have a week where
you hit 390, you know, with five double s and four home runs and
driving eleven runs and get the player of the week?
And I don't mean in July when the Mets are 20 games out, you
know, I mean now when there's still theoretically a season to
be had. What?
And I know what Beltran did in year one.
I've sixteen home runs. But it's different.
It's different because Bouchette is not going to be here for very
long. Kind of parental with the opt
outs. And although if he keeps playing
like shit, you know anybody, why would you opt out?
No one's giving me that money. Point is, I see Juan Soto raking
and I see Juan Soto taking out of, which is not a surprise.
And I see Juan Soto taking out a leadership position, which is a
little bit of a surprise, but a pleasant 1.
And I want to make sure I give him credit for that because you
know that Juan Soto is stepping out of his comfort zone a little
bit. Guys, think about this, right?
And if you say that I'm overreacting to the positive
quotes, both of which one was about Lindor, what was about the
overall state of the team? Well, you can't have it both
ways. Because think about what we were
saying when Juan sort of returned from the from the IL
with the camp injury, when he missed 15 games when he was
asked, hey, have you had any contact with with, with you
guys? He's like, no, haven't.
And and I even found that odd. Like this is not 1973 where
Thurman's trying to call Reggie on a Rotary phone that you would
stick your finger in and by jam it so it could go faster if if
you're old enough, you know what I mean, text him.
So I found that odd. I did.
And I also thought that the body language, like it was almost, I,
I, I, you know, there's a moment where sometimes you say
something and you know, it didn't come out right or, you
know, it's not going to be received well.
And there's an immediate like quick recalibration in your
mind. Then you try to try to fix it
just a little bit. And I thought in the middle of
that, I, I thought my, I could be wrong.
I thought that he recognized that.
Then I thought it was good self-awareness.
Like maybe that didn't sound so great here.
And, you know, he kind of tried to reposition it.
And I don't know, maybe maybe this is just the next step of
him trying to make sure that there's no mixed messaging, that
he's going to be the leader, that he's going to try to will
this team out of the wilderness. But yo, Beau Bichette is
stealing money right now and I don't care.
Beau Bichette winds up with a 289 average, you know, and a
solid OPS and has a couple of good months.
And he wins the player of the month.
If you at some point during the summer, if you do it during the
stage of the season where you are this close, literally this
close to being written off and playing in front of 12,000 fans
on a daily basis, it doesn't mean anything.
You've got to produce now. You have to.
So that's where I'm at with the New York Mets.
It's just it's amazing. Like I was, my son had a rec
baseball game talk about. So last night there was actually
a rain delay in a rec baseball game.
I'm like, come on, man. I mean, I love baseball as much
as anybody, but what are we doing?
And I'm not disparaging wreck Like I'm not one of those guys.
Oh, you know, Rex. No, no, I mean, it's it's a
chance for the kids who don't don't play, you know, maybe on a
on a higher level to feel good about themselves and learn the
game. And, you know, if they practice,
maybe they they do wind up playing at a higher level.
So I'm never going to disparage wreck ball, But I mean, I'm not
exactly in the business of sitting there during, you know,
wreck baseball games when I felt like I was watching a football
game or like November, like 50° and cold, wet rain.
What are we doing? Anyway, the point I say that
because I asked one of the coaches about my buddy, he's a
big Mets fan. And I'm like, what's the score?
And what are the Mets doing right?
Because I was, I was doing some other stuff and I, I, my phone
was in the car because I was going back and forth, but I
would just come out with my son was up.
I didn't want to get wet. So I'm back and forth, right.
And I left my phone in the car. I'm like, what's the Mets score?
And he goes 310? My God, when and he goes not
losing and then literally like a couple of minutes later he's
like 9-1. I'm like, what?
I'm like, Oh my God. So any energy from the previous
night when they won is obviously gone.
And I, I just don't, I'm going to read this in a SEC.
I just don't know. I know I'm throwing a lot of
different things at you today, but I just don't know how much
longer you can go without making a change at the managerial spot.
I don't know whether it's for the fans.
Like sometimes you have to do something even if you really
don't want to do it, but because it's the only, it's the last
resort. I mean, I mean, just say if the
Mets lose, you know, I, I don't know that they will, but say if
they lose 3 the next 4, right? You know, at that point you're
what, 11? I mean, you're 11 and 23.
You know, we're even 2 out of three.
You know, you're, you're 11 and 22, right?
So I don't know how much longer you could stretch this, stretch
this thing out without doing something that is is at least
like you only have so many chances to reverse this.
This is not Mets started hot. Mets looked awesome.
Mets have lost five straight. I don't like the way they look
now. But there was enough evidence at
the start of the season where, you know, the Mets will figure
this out, kind of like the Yankees.
Now, the Yankees aren't perfect, but the Yankees started well,
pits the hell out of it. Then they lost five straight
like the Mets. But then the Yankees have
basically won every single series since, you know, And
there was a reason why I wasn't going nuts through and I wasn't
loving it. You know, they weren't hitting.
McMahon was a mess. Nobody was hitting.
Jazz was still a mess at that point.
You know, Judge hadn't really turned on the power big time
yet. Wells was doing nothing.
Grisham was doing nothing. Like there were there were some
issues, but I'm like, starting pitching is going to be
phenomenal. Ben Light, Rice looks great.
Nobody's running away with the American League East.
Yankees pitching is awesome. There's a track record with
Aaron Boone in this team. Judge is going to probably win
the MVP again or finish top two or three.
He'll get cranking out to. So like there's no feel, no
frustration. This Mets group hasn't earned
the benefit of the doubt. Like where can, what can you
look at with this Mets team and definitively say, I believe it's
going to get X amount better, which will in turn really alter
the course and trajectory of their season?
Well, the one spot would have been Juan Soto, who missed 15
games but mean less. Juan Soto was great again last
night. They lost 14 to 2.
I mean, they gave up two touchdowns then and they had a
safety late. I mean, so it's not that.
I mean, you you can you can certainly hope guys start
playing better, but there's no evidence in the young guys,
which is why I brought that up earlier, that they're going to
elevate their play and sustain it.
I don't mean for a week or so, you know, but all these
Mauricio's up, all right. I mean, I keep hearing about
Mauricio. I know he's got tools.
I know he's got a quick back when he hits a home run, it
seems to go a long way, but I don't think he can hit a
curveball and I when you can't hit a curveball, you're just not
going to be an effective Major League hitter.
That's my opinion on Mauricio. I don't think he's very good on
the bases. You know, Beatty is what he is,
Viantos is what he is. Can't run, can't field, no
position, doesn't even hit home runs anymore.
So that's an unrealistic ask. I think the things that you can
lean on, and it's a short list here, Soto carrying this team,
but it's really hard to carry a baseball team.
It's not like Brunson cranking out 39 or or Cat doing what he
did the night before the game before the triple double
baseball. Different is different as we
know. But maybe Soto can maybe Soto
can carry them. You have to hope that Peralta
has, you know, 15 to 20% more in the tank and really does.
Oh, I got to sneeze here. Excuse me?
You see that? You see that quick I I did quick
catch. Was that you?
Yeah. Yeah.
Nice dude. Look at you.
I don't know if I sneezed like, too loudly into the mic that it
just jolted it. No, no.
I. I got I got like the millisecond
all audio that's. So like if I've got a snot
hanging, you could just, you know, hit that black button and
say hey, get, you know, blow your nose or something.
I like it. I didn't know about that.
Very good. You got a whole Peralta's got a
little more in the tank here and and, you know, really resembles
a tree. He's been fine.
But, you know, I mean a true, true A and then you go, you
know, 40% of the time back-to-back Perolta and
McClain. And then if and when you ever
get some real leads to hand over to the closer you got to hope
that Devin Williams is going to get the job done.
Oh my God. All right, Charlie, F6675
Cohen's Cohen's got to grow a sack here.
Step up and sign Cora. If Stearns is scared as well,
give him whatever he wants. Coors got the respect of the
players and the resume. Yeah, right now the there was a
term that we used to say on the old show, the sacometer, I mean
the sacometer for the Mets right now is, is, is a 0.
I mean, you're not seeing much sack at this point.
I I do agree. I feel like, you know, if an end
listen, if this continues for another week or so, there is no
way that they can just keep running Mendoza out there
because the optics are just unacceptable and they're
detrimental to the brand. I mean, if anything, right, like
it might not change the bottom line this season, but it would
at least be an infusion of positivity and hope.
I mean, right now again, and I, I, I say this sincerely, I'm,
I'm not, I'm not messing around when I say like I, I watched
Carlos Mendoza at these post game press conferences, man, I
feel for the guy I like. What what are you going to say?
I mean, if I was Carlos Mendoza, what I'd really like to say is
what I'd really like to say, OK, I did this with Boone a couple
of weeks ago, right? So, J Rod, do me a favor.
I want you to play the I like you play the you play the role
of reporter and ask me, you know, you know, hey, skip, in
your own terms, like what's wrong with the team?
Why do you guys look so bad? Go ahead.
Something like that. Hey, Skip Mendoza, you know,
season's clearly not gone off to the start you wanted, you know,
what do you think's the problem here?
What do you think's the impetus of these issues?
Oh, the impetus. What?
What do I, What do I think the impetus is?
What do I think the problem is? I think the better question
would have been what's the solution?
Because that would be much quicker because you think you'd
win with this team. Does anybody in this room,
anybody in this room think that you would come out and win with
this team? Polanco's hurt.
The center field that we brought in hurt, Shortstop hurt.
Soto missed 15 games, was hurt. Manaya stinks, and my dopey GM
gave him $25 million a year for some stupid reason.
All right, we rolled the dice on Devin Williams, and he's been
asked so far. You know, when I came here and I
took the job, all I heard about was this great vaunted Mets farm
system that we had here, and I was really excited to be a part
of it. Mauricio can play 80 stinks.
Vientos is worse. Alvarez is probably 30 lbs
overweight. He's a mess.
He stinks. So what would you do with this?
I want you to answer that, Joe. What would you do?
What would you do different, Joe?
You know, I'd and then exactly Joe, I have nothing.
I have nothing. You have nothing, Joe, because
there is no answer. Because my general manager gave
me a shit sandwich and I'm supposed to present it as a nice
roast beef and looks at that with some roasted red Peppers, a
little little little drizzle, oil and vinegar.
I mean it. This, this is it.
You want to eat this. You guys want to coach this, You
guys want to manage this team. Honestly, we got five guys out
of position. Oh, change, change the line up.
How what? Who should I bat first?
Alvarez, What do you want me to do then?
The guy that we gave $42 million to, you know, stinks.
Sink 236. So I understand I'm a big boy
and I've been around the game for a long time, been around the
game a long time. I love this game, all right, and
I love the Mets, I really do. But I understand how it's going
to work. The first one to go, it's going
to be me. Because if it was easy to change
the roster, half of those scrubs would have been shipped out
already, all right? And I'm tired of defending them.
And I'm tired of lying for him. Because I come out here every
night when we get our face kicked in and I go back into
that clubhouse and I see a bunch of guys who are not good enough
to win anything of significance. So there it is.
Maybe that's a little too honest, New York.
Maybe that's a little too raw, But I'm sick of being the guy
who's the scapegoat. All right now, maybe I'm not
Davey Johnson, maybe I'm not Billy Martin, maybe I'm not even
my buddy Aaron Boone across town.
But I know I'm a whole hell of a lot better than this.
But you got to give me some horses to run the race.
The Derby's coming up on Saturday.
You think of Poodle, you think a little Chihuahua would win the
Derby. Give me somebody that can
gallop. Give me somebody that can move.
Give me a chance. So if Cohen wants to get rid of
me, go for it, because quite frankly, I'm tired of this shit.
Then you walk away. Fire.
You know what? Fire yourself.
Go do it. Fire yourself.
Just quit. Just just be like, I've had
enough. Oh man, that.
Was great. Jeez.
I mean, I don't know. I do feel badly for him now.
I don't think he's a good manager.
I've said that many times. But you know, I'm not trying to
take shots of the guy when he's down.
I don't think he's a good manager, but I also know his
team stinks. Juan Soto's overpaid bad
clubhouse guy. I got my Red Sox hat on today.
No, you don't. Come on, dude, don't start with
that. Maybe we need Rudy to take a
picture with Mr. Come on. What shit?
The the opposite political spectrum there.
Keep it up. You're great.
Thank you very much. Yeah.
I mean, I I get the jokes here, but oh, my God, do I remember?
Do I remember? I do.
God, I do remember the butt cheeks guy.
Vaguely. I do.
I don't know if you ever got me. I know there's some dude who
call, what's his name? Buchanan.
Like that guy.
Is that you, too? I do remember that.
From 10:50. Yeah.
Speaking of 1050 now 880, obviously.
Michael Kay. My buddy Michael's going to be
on the show in about one hour. Hey, by the way, pop this up.
Right. I'm going to show this to Kia.
Has not seen this. Pop up.
This is at Michael's wedding. Pop up this picture.
You got it ready. We'll do it For look at this.
If I told you how many scotches I had at that point that that
was Michael's wedding. And that was what year did he
get married? 20.
Let's see, when did I leave? ESPNI think I left in 2011.
Yeah, I left in 2011. I'm pretty sure he got married
in February of 2011. And what I tell you outside of
my wedding, which was on the beach it in Boca Raton, which
was phenomenal, that was by far the best wedding I've ever been
to. I mean, hammering back shots
with David Cone, talking to Willie Randolph's wife.
I mean, it was, I mean, it was just crazy.
Daryl was there, Mazzilli was there, it was great.
John Sterling was there. That was a long time ago.
My God. So looking forward to getting
Michael on. All right, let me get a little
Yankee stuff up here. Independent of the conversation
I'm going to have with Michael, though, I will run this by him,
get to some mixed up as well. Last time it was a big night in
the NBA, not just for the Knicks tonight, but I want to hit some
national stuff as well. Can you get the tweet that?
Yeah, there you go. Thank you very much.
Now, we've talked about this year, guys, and one of the
things that I've said is this Yankees rotation is going to be
the best in baseball when it's what is fully healthy and whole.
And we're getting there. You know, yesterday, Cole, 5 2/3
gave up a couple of the home runs, whatever.
But you're looking at below, you're looking at health, you're
looking at location, you're looking at secondary stuff.
So the Yankee Report, I guess Jack said this on TV the other
night. You can keep it up, Jay.
I did not see it, but we, we've thrown this around.
So first of all, when Jack Curry tells you something, whether
it's like the Hot Stove Show about their interest in a player
or something like this, believe it #1 Jack Curry is a great
reporter. He's so good.
And let's face it, I mean, he's on the guest network and he's
got great reporting chops. So, you know, he's getting fed
this directly from the Yankees on some level.
So Jack says that if all goes well, no order, you're going to
see Freed Schlittler, Cole Rodan Warren, Elma Rodriguez and
Weathers would go to the pen. And yeah, I agree with that.
When Jack speaks, listen, the Yankee report of those guys do a
nice job now when I talk to but you can get it down there, Jake.
When I talked about this, my only question was is it going to
be Weathers or what? I mean, it's really the only
question you because obviously fried Schlittler, Coleman, Rodon
would be starters. So what would happen at the five
spot? And this I even started this
conversation when Louise he was coming off a good game before he
got banished to the minors. And I don't I don't really think
we get much from Louis seal the rest of the year at all.
I'm just I'm very down on him. I just don't I don't trust him
anymore. So Louis seal to me is not even
a viable bullpen arm right now. So it's it's going to come down
to Warren and weathers. That's the only thing to debate.
So when you look at this, and I said this, I I love weathers his
high end stuff, even though will Warren has has good stuff too.
Weathers, his stuff is better all right.
And because he's a little wild, I don't know if I love him
coming out of the bullpen, You know, even though he's kind of
harnessing that now he's been a little bit more a lot more
consistent. He's thrown some gems, but you
never know when that that inconsistency can rear its ugly
head and he just has a rough time hit the strike zone.
So I I thought that Weathers would be a better option to stay
as a starter and will Warren probably the better option going
to the pen. I did go back and forth.
I wasn't really definitive because I was still evaluating.
But the other thing that I did say, which is why I ultimately
kind of leaned on Warren staying in the rotation, is that I don't
know that you want 3 lefties in your rotation when 65% of the
hitters in Major League Baseball are right-handed.
Obviously, you know, you prefer more righty, righty matchups,
slider stuff going away from them rather than lefties coming
in. And if you leave something over
the plate, you know, you're gonna really, you're gonna do
some damage. So that doesn't surprise me, but
I did think that that was very interesting.
Elmo Rodriguez, you can tell he was, you know, he was a little
bit nervous. The couldn't find the strike
zone early. They challenge.
I still don't know what what what the confusion was at second
base. They challenged.
That was a big play. They challenged the strike,
right, which was strike three. Nimmo was on the move.
He kind of stopped running, which is odd because Brandon
Nimble sprints down the first pace after a walk.
I don't know why he was jogging a second base on a steal.
That was very, very unbranded Nimmo like, but the Yankees
challenged it. Wells did correctly.
I was that a scar either either way, it was I think was a scar.
It was challenged right and it was the right one.
And then boom, boom, double play gets out of it.
You, you know, and and he was you.
You could tell why he's going to be tough to hit now.
How good is he? I don't know.
I mean, I've got to see a lot more.
His minor league numbers are filthy.
He's got 5 or 6 pitches. He's got a deep bag.
He's got a sinker that he throws hard.
He's got a four seamer that he could get up to 9798 when he has
to. So he's got that juice.
Well, I think, and they were talking about this during the
game, Coney his his wind up. It's kind of a slingshot and
it's coming more like like this rather than more up here, more
conventionally. And it's A and it's on you
quicker because he kind of conceals the ball.
So I think that that plays into why he's going to be a tough
out. That's a guy that I can see
coming out of the bullpen and, you know, getting some some
bigger outs and then you throw Clark Schmidt on the board as
well. And eventually who's probably,
I'd say at least two months behind, certainly Rodan who will
come back before Cole and then Cole will who will come back
before Clark Schmidt. But there's just so many
different things to like about this New York Yankee team, even
though they lost yesterday. Whatever.
I mean, obviously at at Gerndog 9 O1.
What do you think of the Jason injury?
Yeah. Would you call up Spencer Jones
if Jason goes to the ILII? Just you know, these are based
on conversations I've had with the Yankees.
I just I'm just telling you what I know.
They they do not believe that Spencer Jones will be able to
make enough contact at this level.
They just don't. And I've heard that for two
years, and there's nothing that he's done in the minors that has
disproved that. Like when you've got AI, don't
know what it is now, but it's very high when you've got
consistently 35% strikeout rate in the minors.
I mean, just conventional thinking, it's not going to get
better. It's going to get worse because
the pitching is a whole hell of a lot better.
So I do think he's a much better defensive option in center field
than Jason Dominguez, who is a wretched left fielder.
But, you know, I mean, not not, not not really good timing for
Dominguez here with Stanton going on the IL And the Yankees
ran him out there a couple days in a row, played, you know,
played the field a little bit, got some at bats against a bunch
of righties starting with lighter.
That first game. The Yankees just never hit of
ALDI. It's actually very frustrating
at this point. I think I saw something this
morning of the 20 this, now that I think about it, if this is
true, like I don't think I read this wrong.
It was fast. The Yankees in 23 starts against
Nathan Ivaldi, they've scored three runs or less now.
I mean, he's been around for 15 years.
So I mean, 15 starts is and he's been on a lot of American League
East team. So that measures up and they
never hit him. So I guess that part measures
up. So maybe it's true.
That's crazy. That is absolutely think about
that 23 times your face. I mean, it's like it's Pedro.
I know he's got good stuff, but they just never solve him.
It's crazy. So you can tell the kid was a
little bit nervous last night or yesterday, but I I'm I'm
intrigued to see his next start. I think they were fairly Boone
was fairly non committalist in terms of when he will get one or
if he will, but I'd be stunned if they don't run him back out
there, they're not going to call heel up to start.
Rodriguez gets another one, all right, the the pinstripe bugle,
they do a good job. Follow him on Twitter as well.
They do a lot of good work there.
What do you make of the way Boone's making the lineups this
season, the way the team is making roster moves more
aggressive than years past? It's a great point.
And I actually tweeted about this.
Thank you, man, the other day, right.
So to me, one of my biggest gripes about the Yankees, aside
from, you know, when I said a couple of years ago, the whole
Brian Cashman thing is not earn the right in terms of roster
construction to rebuild this team.
The way the Yankees need to be rebuilt is that there was too
much tolerance. And this is also on Boone for
mistakes, OK, Whether it's Jazz in space, you know, whether it
was Josh Donaldson pimping home runs that weren't home runs and
then not make it at the second or getting thrown out of second,
Aaron Hicks running him out there.
Like I think the Yankees have given their players too much
room, even Volpe for sure last year, right, to figure things
out. Like, I'd like to see a little
bit more of a repercussion when there's an like an extended
amount of bad play. And I don't just mean I'm not.
So let's differentiate between like a baseball slump and like a
mental slump, you know, being asleep on the bases.
You know, we've seen it with Jazz in in I guess that was in
was that in Tampa where, you know, the pop?
And he then he said he would have done it again, like, and
then not knowing how many outs there were and then, you know,
fixing his his his sliding MIT like Lindor getting picked off
like those are blowing a bubble in the World Series.
Like I just I can't I just can't with that stuff.
If I was managing the Yankees, his ass would have been on the
bench. Same with Donaldson, same with
Hicks and same with some of these other guys.
But what you are seeing now, and this is exciting, it does seem
like they're operating with a different level of urgency,
which is why I'm fully confident that if Anthony Volpe, whenever
he's called up, that's something that is not an easy navigation
because Caballero's playing well, whatever.
But they're not just going to run him out there.
Oh, he's 2 for 26 with 13 whiffs.
Well, we draft them in the first round.
He's our guy. Go get him.
Hope he's going to be sitting all right or he's going to stay
in the minors. If if I don't know what's going
to happen, but it's not going to, it's not going to mirror
what's happened so far as as a Yankee for him.
Louis Hill the other day didn't have it.
Get out. See ya shipping you down.
And even some unconventional moves that I think some of you
thought they would never do based on the analytics, like
sitting McMahon early against the righty even though he's a
lefty, playing Rosario against the righty, even though he
bashes the lefties and basically struggles against righties.
You know, all right, Dominguez. Now, I thought Dominguez should
have made the team out of spring training and I've given you
reasons why, but he was too deficient defensively and in
their eyes it was unacceptable. So you're in the minors, you got
to catch the ball man. And and I like that.
In big picture, I would agree. It does seem as if they are
moving with more urgency and that's why even in the even some
of the lineup stuff, you know, now you got to get Grisham out
of the one hole. I just can't watch this anymore.
Well, I got to find something that we did yesterday.
Enough, enough, man. Like to me, the Yankees are a
lead off hitter away. And you know, whether it's going
to be Quan from the Guardians, who the heck knows who it might
be? But that they could ever really,
and I don't mean now, but if the Yankees can swing a move for a
legitimate lead off hitter, I mean, you, you just start, you
start to look at their lineup. But it's like, all right,
legitimate lead off hitter 1 Ben Rice 2 Aaron Judge three belly,
4 Stanton, what he's whatever. And then obviously Stanton's
always wild card because of the injuries.
But then you can kind of plug things in from there.
And you know, if if you had a speed on base, guy at the top,
more contact rate, etcetera. Well, now Ben Rice gets more
fast balls and Ben Rice mashes. And then because Ben Rice is
mashing, there's guys on base, which means you can't pitch
around Aaron Judge, which means Aaron Judge will mash because he
matches no matter what. And then obviously sick like,
you know, and it's terms of a cyclical downstream residual
impact favorably for the Yankees, you know, hey, by the
way, and we're still working on the digital store here.
It's taking longer than I thought.
How about did I show you this? I think I showed.
You that one maybe a couple times before, yeah.
I did right? We need.
I need that. I need.
I need that. I got to get you one.
You're right. All right, So I was just looking
for the tweet. So with Grisham, all right, 69
of 89 of Grisham's at bats this year have been from the lead off
spot. So basically, you know, 8080% of
them, he's hitting 130 all right, with a 520 OPS from the
lead off spot, 89 at bats for the year, 69 lead off man bat in
$1.30 OPS under 600. You know, and I know it's it's
still early and I know he was good last year, but let you know
very good with certain OPS of 81134 bombs.
You know, I mean, he was good, you know, even though I didn't
want him back, he he was good. So you at least have to respect
that less. But but it's the outlier.
Think about all the other seasons prior.
So that's why I didn't I didn't want him back because I thought
that they were paying for something that was not
necessarily real. Now it's not $50 million, it's
22 QO, but, you know, there were other things that I thought that
they could have done, which I because of the qualifying offer,
which was accepted by by Grisham.
Unfortunately, I I think that that to what extent, I don't
know, but I think on some level of prevented them from doing
some other things that would have made them more whole, you
know, and it's not me hating on Grisham.
And I told you, Boone can't stand when I talk about this is
the lead off man. He's not a lead off man, dude.
I'm talking to my boy Boone. It's not.
I mean, if, if I was, if I see. To me Trent Grisham is a six
hitter on a good team, like a good team.
He is A7 hitter. We're 7 through 9 on a World
Series team. Where do you think Trent Grisham
would hit on the Dodgers? Anybody want to answer that
promise? It's not first.
It's not second, not third, not 4th, not fifth, maybe 6,
probably 7th World Series team, you know, So J Rod.
Yes, Sir, give. Me.
A word describing your energy for your Celtics tonight.
Excited. Nervous.
It's not excited the words, not excited the word.
What is it? It's like, listen, you know,
something's just got to get done.
I don't know what that is. I don't know what feeling that
is. It's not a feeling of
excitement. It's not necessarily a feeling
of terror. It's more so a feeling of
rolling your sleeves up and just going, let's get to work.
Let's get these dishes done. Almost like the like, I don't
want to do it, but we got to do it.
Like, you know, I don't think this is going to be some blow
out victory by the Celtics, as much as I'd like to see that
and, you know, coast through a game game with some ES.
No, I think this is going to be somewhat of a battle between
them and MB tonight. Now, now, do you think that
that's just because of the match up or because of what you've
seen so far and you've seen some inconsistencies from Boston and
you're reluctant to stamp them? Hey, I feel really good.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, Nemus Cada has had at
least three fouls in every single playoff game this far
this year and has had four for most of them.
For four of them, he's had four and five for two of them.
So he's literally your best defensive center is unable to
stay on the basketball court. What are you going to do not
only for Embiid, but once Cat comes to down, what are you
going to do? That's your problem, man.
You guys got to figure that out you.
Know like, yeah, so honestly, I'm not feeling.
I think we'll win tonight, but I'm not feeling great.
I'm not feeling. Great.
All right, All right. I think that's probably pretty
fair Before I do a little Knicks stuff here, Les, that was a good
night in the NBA. So the really all three games
were good. You think about the Pistons, you
think about the the Rockets, who made that a series now with two
straight, you think about the Cavs.
And you know when you dive into these games and I was watching a
little bit, I didn't, I didn't watch the Rockets Lakers.
I was watching some of the first two games.
So the Pistons win and and they had to and Orlando still up 32.
So that's probably going 7. Kade Cunningham.
We talked about Kade before last night.
He had 24 turnovers in the three games prior total, which was the
highest playoff turnover, whatever stat were, or most
turnovers in three games in the playoffs since they started
recording turnovers as a stat in 7879.
Very. I had a couple more last night.
But he also dropped 45. He was 14 for 14 from the stripe
and was five of eight from three.
So Kate Cunningham was great. Nice job by the Pistons.
The Cavaliers, I mean, they were losing this game.
Like everyone I'm I'm watching, I'm I'm at the field.
What, you know, watching my son's game, I come back, yeah, I
didn't really watch much of the Mets because it was such a
route. But as I'm bouncing around doing
stuff, I'm like, oh, shit, this is I got to I got to jump on
this game. That's what I that's what I jump
in. And the Cavaliers outscored on
2517 in the fourth quarter. Their defense was very good.
So now Cleveland, that's a coin flip here.
The Raptors have been far more feisty than I thought they would
be. Member.
Everybody was saying that was to think the Cavs are soft, right.
I think it's probably more a referendum on the Cavs than some
elevation of the Raptors. But Cleveland's up 32.
I go to RJ Barrett, played very well.
Give him some props there. And then the Lakers, now we all
know they jumped out to a three O lead. the Rockets come back,
They've won two straight. Durant is out for Game 6.
Reeves will be back for the Lakers.
The Lakers were up three. O yeah.
Could you imagine? I mean, you'd love it, you would
love it. You would love.
Jordan wouldn't do that. Kareem wouldn't do that.
Kobe. Will do that magic.
Wouldn't do that. That would be a an oil
impossible to get out stain. You couldn't get that out with
Mr. Clean or downy or any brawny any of those any of those stain
removers. If he blew a three O lead, it
would be over. Oh my gosh.
Oh man, that would be the final nail in his goat coffin, that is
for sure. Yanks were a fast team.
Beldi could run, Jazz Cabbie Dominguez as well, Bolby could
run. I mean, there's just too many
dashes and letters. And I don't think that that's a
bot, but if it's a bot, it's it's a pretty good take.
So you can see the username right there.
By the way, you guys want to get the Super chats humming like
this sub it out all that other stuff.
We we haven't taken a call yet here.
I know that if you're new to the show, J Rod, we haven't done.
This. Listen, I will say, yeah, we
probably let me check again to see if he's still here.
We could get our man Seth up. We could get our man.
Set in a while. I mean, on a few days we don't,
we don't have to take. Yeah, yes.
What I did tell Jared the other day because you know, I would
always be a little bored by this, whether I was hosting or
listening on the fan. Now some callers were
outstanding. Some callers really do add
something to the show and I think so far BT at least callers
have been awesome like that's that's my expectation and you
guys delivered there and I want to get some more here because
coming up soon Michael Kay and then there's no more phone
calls. So if you want to get on the
phone today call, but I did tell J Rod, I said I don't want I
don't want the same, you know, 789 callers every day.
So we got to mix it up a little bit.
All right, so if you haven't called yet and you want to give
it a shot, nothing to be nervous about, man.
I mean, if there's something you really want to challenge me on,
bring it. I mean, I'm going to give you a
chance. I I would always give you guys a
chance to to get after it on the fan.
Like I that engagement is what would it really excite me?
I was never one my really my entire radio career.
I was never want to take a call, Joe in Manhattan.
Joe, what's going on? Yeah, BT Yankees.
All right. Thanks for the call there, Joe.
And then respond to what he said.
I like I like to keep you on the line.
And what why? I've always said what's when
some people say, hey, I'll hang up and no, no, don't hang up and
listen. Because if I say something you
don't like or you want to push back on, you can't because you
hung up and you're listening. So if you want to, you know, do
a little verbal little jousting here.
I mean those that's my favorite part of any show outside of the
open and all the other stuff. Like I love that.
So if you're reluctant to call, don't be if you don't know how
to call because it's not the same as, you know, conventional
stuff. J Rod, tell them real quickly.
How they do it I just toss it in the chat again in the comments
section. Also in the description there's
a link to the service we use, stream yard.
I learned last night not to give them a pop.
Not to give the company a pop. What do you mean Like a little
promo pop? If you down download the Stream
Yard app, it's incredibly easy to join these calls.
Like you literally like it just opens up.
You see, you see the private chat in front of you.
You. Oh, really?
Yeah. So it's like if you have the app
on your phone, it makes it a little bit more of a seamless
process. It's still pretty easy.
You click on the link in the chat Stream Yard, you'll be in a
little studio similar to what we're speaking into.
I'll ask for your question and then I'll send you another link
to this Stream Yard. So 2.
Clicks. 2 clicks and you're right here.
Clickety clack. It sounds like it's pretty
convoluted. I'll do here.
Click this, click. It's actually once you know how
to do it, it's simple. So let's get some of those fired
up. Let's get another one here.
Ken C-N7 N what I'm going to have a I'm going to have a
little little rule here. Anything with more than two
dashes and five or six consonants and or three or four
consonants in a row in a row without a vowel, I will not read
J Rod will. Ken CN 7 N Well, that's an.
Easy 1 thank you there J Rod Stearns replace guys that play
every day and produce with the guys that often injured and
suck. Stearns is a moron.
I mean he's not a moron and a terrible GM Go back to
Milwaukee. I mean that part might be true.
Listen I very well. I mean, right now I'm wrong on
Stearns and and by the way, just so we don't revise history to an
extent that is not recognizable now, many of you did not like
what he did this offseason. I was intrigued enough and I
liked enough of it to give it a chance because you know where I
stood on the Mets core and that core and their ability to ever
win. It was not happening.
So you had to change something. And their short term deals and
they have a good form system or at least you know, and I still
think that they do like Ewing's. Interesting.
Whatever, but I I think that the to separate the two thoughts
here. When the Mets hired Stearns,
everybody loaded it. I don't know anybody that didn't
really. I mean, universal is like this
guy's a baseball genius. All right, I may be a little
hyperbolic there, but certainly a sensible baseball man knows
how to build a team the right way.
He's going to pitch, going to get some athletes going to catch
the ball, going to make some contact like a a real modern
team, right. Why I was so intrigued with
David Stern's coming to the Mets is because to me, his skill set
there was obviously transferable because it's the same premise.
It's baseball. You're not you're not going to
be the GM of basketball. So you still got to find guys
and draft guys who can run and catch and all the things that
that you valued in Milwaukee. But to accent those skills was
one of the biggest checkbooks in sports.
Cohen And I'm like, it's a home run.
I mean, look what he did in like, did they never win in
Milwaukee in terms of the World Series?
Did they not win a World Series in Milwaukee because David
Stearns wasn't good enough or because some of the other teams
kind of, you know, more comparable in terms of building
teams but just had more resources?
Like, to me, it's the latter. You know, I can't prove that.
I mean, maybe if David Stearns would have spent the $100
million more with the Brewers and they had a payroll that
mirrored some of the, you know, top teams in baseball, you know,
like the Dodgers, like the Mets, like the Yankees, like the
Phillies, teams like that. Toronto, maybe, maybe it
wouldn't work. So maybe I'm giving them undue
or unjust credit there. But we don't know the answer.
But I was really intrigued with finding out what the answer
would be. So when the Mets got and then
he's a Mets fan. He grew up here.
I'm like, this is perfect. So I'm never going to, I'm not
going to run from that. I can't front.
Like, I thought that Stearns was a great hire at the right time.
All right, what he did. And I liked what he did this
winter. Ken, I was wrong, at least so
far. This team is a disaster.
Oh, disaster. Speaking of disaster, guess
who's coming on the show next week?
Who? We got you.
Got Joe B going to hop on. No way Joe B's going to hop on.
Let's go, go. B's going to hop on.
So we got my buddy Michael K coming up in about 30 minutes.
Joe B next week. And Joe is horrendous with the
texts, right. And because Terry, his wife is
the one who basically always responds on the text.
Like, you know, if like back in the day, I played golf a few
times with Joe, like we used to have the same agent.
It was, it was me and it was Joe and it was Tiki.
I I think, I think Gio had the same agent too.
Either way they were, but, but I was, you know, I got to know Joe
pretty well. And obviously Tiki was my guy, a
partner. So we had the same
representation. So Joe and I would go get out
and play a little bit. Then I remember like the first
time I played with Joe, he's out there.
He's like, see smoking a joint when, you know, I'm like, this
guy's a fucking trick man. He's out.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, he's And then the next
time I play with he's got like these these Argyle socks up to
his knees. And I'm like, holy, now you you
listen, I've talked about my struggles with golf, but I
remember seeing him on the T box the first time I ever played
with him. I'm like, this guy is he has got
to be awful. His, he was gripping down like
his, his, his hands were basically on the shaft, not even
on the leather grip, not even on the Yeah.
And he was basically bent like a catcher who was too old to get
into the Crouch. He just wasn't standing, you
know, you want to have a little bend.
But he was like so low and his legs were so wide.
But he actually got the ball in the fairway.
Not very far. But then Joe kept playing, kept
plugging, kept playing. He's got like 4 hole at once.
That's crazy. At least three, I guess.
I know he's got at least three. And when it's funny, I have.
I haven't seen Terry. His wife is awesome.
I haven't seen her in years. I really haven't even seen Joe
in a while. But one of the first times I
played with with with Joe, Terry came.
She's a really good golfer too. And like their dynamic on the
course is hysterical. You know, like he's like, I
don't even try to give her advice, bro.
I'm like Joe, I'm like, you know, I think because she's
good, she hits the ball really well.
But if I recall, she was rough around the green.
Like like many people, it's hard, you know, chipping out of
the sand putting. I'm like, Joe, why don't you
just you know, maybe tell her because, you know, I was, I
didn't want to tell her necessarily.
He's like, Nah, bro, she gets mad at me, bro.
No, no, figure it out. So we'll get Joe.
I think we'll get him Tuesday. He said I might be playing golf
on Tuesday. So if it's not Tuesday,
Wednesday, if not Tuesday, Monday, whatever it might be,
but we'll get Joe on next week. And that's the first time that I
texted and I haven't texted him in a while.
That's the first time I texted Joe that he got back to me.
It's always been Terry. So I guess Joe has finally
learned, unlike my dad who has a flip phone.
Still, Can you believe? That really respect dude I
didn't even know. No, no respect.
Well, I mean total respect my. But it may.
It probably makes things impossible dude.
You got no freaking idea. You have no idea.
Like my dad still, he's probably watching right now.
He emails, you know, whether it's about one of my kids games
or he was emailing me about a basketball camp that that my son
might go to. And it's like, and it's kind of
far. He's like, I can come.
This is during the summers, like I could, I could come and I'll
take him a few nights or I'll spend a few nights and I'll take
him like those are things you could text, right, or talk
about. And The funny thing is, excuse
me, the I, I just stopped trying.
There was a point early on in our marriage and certainly when
the kids were born. I'm like, I'm getting you the
iPhone, I'm getting you the iPhone.
I don't care what you say. I'm getting it for you because I
can't stand having now my mom's the best on the on the phone.
She's the best in everything. But I text my mom automatically
right back, right. I but I have to text, I have to
text my mom videos. Hey, look what look what you
know, look what your granddaughter did.
Look at, you know, look at the home run your grandson just did
and then I'll show dad, you know, make sure that you show
dad instead of just being able to send it to dad.
So. Exactly.
So she's got to do it by proxy. She does and again, I gave up on
this, but he's like, I don't need it.
I don't want it. He goes, that's always his
response. And then finally I'm like, he's
just not going to change. He's stubborn because there was
about a three-year kick where I'm like, I'm doing it like I'm
get, I don't care what you say. We're getting you the iPhone for
Christmas or for your birthday. We're getting I don't want it, I
don't need it. He goes, I don't want to answer
the phone. I don't need text, but he goes,
I don't need that shit. That's exactly what he said.
I don't need any of that shit. He goes, if somebody wants to
call me, they know how to get me.
My phone works. All right, Phone works, doesn't
work for what I want, want to send you, but yes, if somebody
does call you physically, yes. That it does work.
It does. It does work.
I've got no expectations once Peterson, Sanga, Beatty and
Vientos were considered to be a big part of the team.
Mehndi has no fire or desire. Willie under score, Long Beach.
Thank you for that, Willie. Speaking of Long Beach, shout
out to my buddies over at Borrelli's, Mike Quinn, who was
the best big St. John's guy, big Knicks guy.
I think I'm going to be out of Borrelli's.
We were, we were texting the other day.
Thank God he can answer his text there.
I I, I think I'm going to be out of Borrelli's for one of the
Yankee Mets Subway Series games. I've done a couple of the watch
parties out there. Saint John's a big Knicks one as
well. And who knows?
I mean, we could even maybe do something with the Knick playoff
game before that. But love Borelli's great crew,
great people, great part of of New York.
I love it. So shout out to Long Beach.
Yeah. I mean, you look at the Mets
core, right? And I, listen, I I can do this
with, with both. Both.
I can do this with. I'm going to, you know what I'm
going to do with both teams. Hold on.
Let's got to write this down. Hold on.
First base, second base. This is actually going to be
depressing on some level. Forget about the pitching staff
right now. Center field, left field, DH.
All right, so I'm just going to give you a yes or a no if in two
years, the players that are currently playing the positions
for both the Yanks of the Mets are here.
Not five years, not 3-2 years. All right, First base Yankees.
Yes Mets. No Second base.
Yankees, No Mets. Yankees no Mets, yes, Probably
Lindoor at that point could be at second.
He could be gone. Lombard's going to be playing
short. So that's why I say no for the
Yankees third base right now. Yankees, No Mets, no catcher.
Yeah, I think. Wells will be here.
Wells, yes. And Alvarez, I'm I'm going to
say no right field for the Yankees.
Yes, right field for the Mets is currently bench.
That'll change at some point, but I'm going to say bench will
will, will absolutely. I like bench.
He's a good ball player. So I'm going to say yes there.
Center field for the Yankees. No with Grisham, Louise, Robert
no left field right now for the Yankees.
Bellinger, yeah, he he could be at 1st and you know, right, Rice
could be ADH catcher, but yeah, Beldy will be here and Soda will
be here. So yes, yes.
And then DH Stanton, no. And then, you know, Mets, I
mean, whatever. No, the answer is no.
So for the Yankees, I've got 1234 yeses and for the Mets,
I've got 123. All right, not the disparity I
necessarily thought. But then he gets a pitching,
it's a little different. Whatever.
All right, let's get to the calls here.
Michael Kay coming up in a bit. Who do we have there?
J Rod? Let's go, brother.
We've got James from Hoboken. James.
What's happening, man? Hey BT.
Sorry about being a previous caller.
No, no, no, listen, I just don't want the same ones every day.
But. It's, you know, there's going to
be some repeats. It's all good.
What do you got? Yeah.
Cool. So yeah, on the Mets.
Yeah, I guess the only silver lining at this point is the
tickets seem a little bit reasonable on the secondary
market that they seem cheaper than.
I know obviously because the team's awful, but I mean.
What can you? Do Anyway, I just had a question
for you. How, how important do you think
team leadership and team chemistry is on baseball team?
Yeah, that's that's yeah, it's, it's a.
Simple question, but it's a really good one.
I think it's least the least important of all the sports.
I really do. You know, like in the NBA,
chemistry matters, hockey chemistry matters.
Football chemistry in a different sense, Like offensive
lines gelling, defensive lines gelling secondary's good, good
that conversation good that what's the word?
Good interaction. You know, you've got to have
that in terms of responsibilities and good, good
communication. That's what I'm searching for
now. Baseball, there's myriad
examples where teams couldn't stand each other and they they
wanted the highest level. And you can look at the Yankees
of the mid 70s, like Thurman and Reggie couldn't stand each
other. Goose got into a fight in the
shower. You know, metals and Reggie
didn't like each other. So the dynamics of the baseball
team. David Wells when he was here
with the Yankee. I know, I know he was boys, but
Coney and they were out there carousing all the time.
But Tory, you know, he was on Wells drove him nuts.
And I'm sure Jeter was was bothered by Wells's sloppiness.
I'm I'm sure a rod and Jeter weren't best friends when they
won an O 9, even though they kind of resolved some of those
mended defenses a bit. I do think when it's this bad, I
do think chemistry matters more in baseball, but it's an
individual sport, you know, disguised within a series of
team events. I can do my job independent of
you. I'm a hitter.
It doesn't matter if I hate you, right?
But I can do my job at the plate.
Whereas off if I'm say Brunson and they don't, but like say
Brunson and Cat couldn't stand each other, Well, subliminally
on that subconscious, you know what?
He's open, but screw him. I'm giving it to OG like that's
going to manifest itself and I in a more real way.
So I know that's a bit of a long answer.
I think it's important, but at the end of the day, you need
talent and the Mets just don't have enough.
Yeah, in my opinion, I think it's more important than maybe.
You do just just. Well, I mean.
I mean just. Taking the Mets, for example,
they they're they're really lacking team chemistry and well,
hold on James, hold on James, hold on Joe.
If you look at the good. Teams, if you look at the good
teams like the Yankees. And the Dodgers?
They have it in spades. Well, hold on James.
Here's where I think players, but I mean it's.
Definitely more of a factor than.
Than maybe, but James, I think you're missing this, right?
What? And it's just my.
Opinion. I respect yours but I don't
agree even though I can't prove that you're wrong.
But I'm going to give you my further opinion here.
So you are picking situations, right where, All right, Yankees
have good chemistry. Yankees are good.
Dodgers have good chemistry. Dodgers are good.
Well, they have good players. Ohtani Betts, Freeman, Will
Smith, Aaron Judge, Ben Rice, Cam Schlitzler, Max Freed.
A manager who's been there forever.
Now, you might not love Boone, but he's good.
A manager who's been with the Dodgers, who's won multiple
World Series. Is the chemistry really good or
are they just good right but going into the season.
With the Mets right? Despite the losses, you know,
with Pete and Edwin and and Nimmo, right, do you think they
made, do you think they replaced those guys with like solid
players like I, I like what they did.
I mean, I, I do think I understanding Polanco was never
going to deliver 40 bombs like Pete.
I thought he'd be, you know, as a former shortstop, I thought
he'd handle first base well, better at bats on base a little
bit more, a little bit better on the bases.
Bichette's one of the most clutch hitters in baseball.
It's documentable over the years.
So I love the Bichette signing. I understood the Louise Roberts
signing. I thought it was time to get rid
of McNeil. So I certainly understood, you
know, and, and certainly Nemo as well.
Semi did second catching the ball, Peralta as an ace.
McClain I love, you know, I I kind of did like what they did,
but I'm not the GM, so if I'm wrong, it doesn't matter.
I'm just trying to understand what's plaguing in this team.
I mean. They suck.
They're not executing on the field because they're, they're
bad player. They're not bad players.
They're they're, they're, they're, they're bad.
They're young guys. Are not good.
They're first of all, some of the guys that just mentioned
aren't healthy. Polanco hasn't played in 10
days, whatever it is. So you know #1 #2 I mean, think
about the lineup. They're rolling out every night.
So couple of times we've seen Francisco Alvarez hit third.
He's an 8 hitter. He just is.
He swings from the heels every single time up, doesn't make
enough contact, doesn't have enough power consistently.
He's just sloppy like so. He's not good enough.
Beatty's not good enough, Mauricio's not good enough, and
I'll give him a little more room to prove because he's younger
and he hasn't played as much. We know Vientos is not
consistent enough or good enough in two of the three aspects of
baseball, catching and running, fielding the ball and running.
They're rolling out three or four guys every night who are
basically minor leaguers. And I think Simeon's washed and
I didn't think that coming in he's done can hit.
Yeah. I just thought overall like with
with. Lasagna Bouchette, right?
You got Soto Lindor and you got Polanco.
I thought that was a pretty good core going in.
I mean, I don't know what happened.
Like obviously Polanco was injured and and obviously Lindor
as well, but it's just falling apart so.
So, so dramatically. I mean, it really has.
I know, yeah. Yeah.
I mean, that's a thanks. Thanks.
For the call man I. Appreciate it, James.
That's why it to me at this point, I mean, you know, you're
two or three more losses away and I've already hit my
expiration point. I would have moved on from in
those, with all due respect, but I just don't know how much
longer you can let this thing bleed out without trying to get
a towel and and just see if you could clot it with somebody
else. I I don't know how much longer
you could do this. How much longer They're 10 and
20. They're not 3:00 and 7:00.
It's 10 and 20. It's pathetic.
You know, what do we got next? Jay Who?
We've got the boy, Seth. From from North Carolina, first
set in this week. Let's see man.
Yo, I am going look. Last night's game, Peterson on
the mound, it was the shit I've been expecting for a while.
He's hiding an injury and he just doesn't want to want to
explain what that injury is covering it up and and and you
know this how Seth? It's the same shit that happened
in 23 with him. Remember.
Yeah, I, I, I. I remember, but I'm.
Saying, how do you know he's? Hurt Seth.
That's a pretty big statement think it bad.
The ERA is blown like a. Balloon One of his previous
outings against Minnesota, he had to come in from a bullpen
that screens covering an. Injury up and you look at what's
sang. That had was basically being
forced out to lower lumbar infection the L4 and L5 disc of
his spine. You know that we I had that
L4L5. S1 that's what I had surgery on,
so hopefully Sang is going to be all right, but in his case, shut
him down for the rest of. The year I shut him down for the
rest of his Mets career. Ship his ass out.
Kodai Sangha lost and then when you consider that Sodo may need
to be shut. Down in August so we can get
Tommy John surgery on his elbow. Come on, Seth.
Now we're getting nuts here. I mean now.
Now we're getting a little irresponsible.
Seth. Come on, buddy.
I mean, he's been complaining about Elbow.
Soreness. Why do you think he's not in?
The outfield, he also had a well, yeah, I know.
No, I know. That was a couple days.
Ago I get it, but he also had the same situation when he was a
Yankee where he missed that Dodger series in the Bronx a
couple of years ago and Aaron Judge had the same thing last
year. Little flare up a little forearm
tightness a little, you know, little elbow, you know, older, I
don't know quite the owner collateral ligament, but that's
obviously when that ruptures or that rips that's Tommy John
surgery. But that was barking on Judge
and you know Judge is going to hit sixty home runs this year.
So you just I mean, to say that he's going to be Tommy John is
is ridiculous. Seth, come on.
But having said that, yes, how much?
Longer. Is it going to take for Sterns
to pull his head out of his ass and cut the strings from the
puppet? I don't know.
I don't know, I mean. I don't know, the way he
structured this team. It's Wiley.
Coyote picking Acme goods. They're deliberately sabotage
and we'll fail him constantly when trying to catch the fucking
Roadrunner. Jeez.
All right, Seth, do you feel was that cathartic?
Do you feel a little bit better? You got to feel a little bit
better after that, a little better the sooner they get swept
by the Halos and. Cohen finally puts his foot
down, hires Alex Cora, who will not take any of Stearns's
bullshit the better. OK, man, I got you, Seth.
Wow. Thank you, buddy.
Thank you for the call. J Rod Wow.
Oh my. Well, someone commented I I.
Really think we ought to, you know, hit this guy with this.
Yeah, we got. We got to get.
Some drops going like we do have to incorporate that a little
bit. I, I, I added some today.
Let's hear him. What do we got?
Oh yeah, Long story. There's a long story, all right.
And then this one. Listen, we're going to, I think.
This one's more for my. Personal humor.
I mean, we'll, we'll, we'll figure out how to drop.
That gunshot, what was that? What was that?
It's like the, you know, I don't know if you've ever watched like
the. Instagram or TikTok.
But like, like, let's say you were like the Mets should trade
Juan Soto. Oh, I see what you're saying.
All right, all right. All right.
Anything else I'd like to either take the initiative.
What else I don't know. I'm just going to keep going
through. I've been.
Yeah, just keep bad stuff as I've been seeing I.
Mean I had like this. Week.
That's like a breaking noise. One breaking news.
Had another glass breaking one, but we'll keep at it.
We'll keep at it. All right?
All right, Jay. There you go, buddy.
There you. Go.
You're fired up for Michael Kay coming in today.
Oh my gosh, I cannot wait for that.
I mean. One, you know, as you say, give
a little state of the Yankees too.
It's just like he's like, I mean, everyone's a legend that
we've had on so far, but like he is a legend legend, so great to
have him on. And I I.
I just thought the first one was cool and like, I really like
that, you know, he's he's he's interested in doing it live.
I mean, I know he, he does his own ESPN show live, so it's a
pretty similar format. But yeah, dude, cannot.
I can't wait to get into. I mean really, I mean the
Yankees look good. They look really good and
there's a lot of a lot of things to to like here.
There's also questions like I'm very curious.
I saw some of his clip yesterday from his show about Volpe, how
they're going to handle him. You know, Lombard and let's face
it, guys, and I've said this for a long time, AA has been the new
is really been the new AAA for the last 10-12 fifteen years.
It used to be you had a sequentially go A2A3A bigs.
It's it's not like that a lot of guys skip triple AI mean the,
the really when you perform at AA, you are, you are deemed
ready. And I, I, I don't think provided
he doesn't fall on his face in triple AI, don't think it's
going to be that long. The more I think about this, I,
I, I think, I know we're going to see Lombard at some point in
2026. I think we might see him a lot
sooner rather than later. I, I really do.
I also want to ask Michael Eddie Cam comp like I always find that
interesting here when you talk about young, young players, you
know, hey, who do they remind you of?
And I I haven't really found one yet for Cam Schlittler, you
know, if he was a lefty, you know, maybe maybe you go like a
smaller version, a younger, like a a mini Randy Johnson, because
he is he is tall. The balls on you fast.
So maybe maybe you know, somewhat of a of a mini
right-handed Randy. Either way, it's going to be
great talking to Michael. Can't wait for that.
Going to be an absolute blast here.
All right, let me get some more chats up.
See what we got going here. Stearns.
Let me see Stearns replace guys that play every day and produce
with the guys that are often injured and stink.
Stearns is a moron and a terrible jam.
Go back to I mean, there was nobody that I I don't know
anybody and I don't blame you that believes in David Stearns
at this point. I I just, I just don't see it.
This one's interesting here, guys.
A cross between Nick Costos and Bubba the Love sponge.
Pity, pity, right. I was just that's not bad.
You know, we used to have Nick on the show.
Nick's good guy. Nick's a talented guy too.
Nick Costos. Shout out to Nick if he's
watching or if this gets to him, we would have him on on Fridays,
you know, do the whole gambling stuff being Sal and good, great
energy, really talented, good dude, good content.
And Bubba, I've I've never, you know, listen, I've never really
listened to Bubba there. Obviously, you know, he's down
to Tampa, although I think he's probably syndicated.
But I was ironically, I was watching something with Bubba
the other day, which I've never sought out.
Like I've gone back like, you know, when I'm jumping in
YouTube like old Howard Stern interviews, whether it's
Jennifer Aniston or some other people, like what a back in the
day. Not now back in the day and like
Tommy Lee or Pam Anderson, stuff like that.
And I, I watched the Hogan documentary, all four parts on
Netflix, loved it. But then as I was, you know,
because then it's got the algorithm.
So when you look for one thing, it's going to kind of bring you
in the neighborhood of, of something else that maybe
applies to it. And there was an interview with
Brooke Hogan, who's obviously estranged from, you know, most
estranged from Hulk. And she was on Bubba.
She was, she was in studio with Bubba.
They remain great friends, calls him uncle.
And it was a really good interview about how they both
thought they really misrepresented a lot of things
in the documentary, like, yeah, yeah.
And, And she came across across as very classy, very grounded,
very stable and, you know, very warm and, and very welcoming.
And it seemed like she really tried to do right by her dad,
even though there's a lot of stuff going on at the end, as we
know, the divorce and and a lot of other stuff.
But she she basically said she wasn't even mad at Nick, her
brother. She's like, yeah, but Nick was
in, I think he was in California, wherever he was.
She's like, I was the one who was flying, you know, back to
Tampa every time my dad had his surgery.
She's like, I got a whole text chain of, you know, doctor's
appointments and but yet if you watch the Hogan documentary and
made it seem like Nick was the one who was there, Yeah, yeah.
Listen, I'm not trying to get in their family.
Business he's. No longer with us.
I'm I'm really not like yeah, I love Hulk Hogan.
He's not perfect, said some dumb things, but you know, I love
him. I I I really do just he's just
grimy. It's based on his wrestling.
Yeah. You want his promos and all that
stuff. But the the the interviews, like
Nick was there a lot in in the I don't think Brooklyn.
No, she declined to be a part of it.
It was just interesting how she said a lot of things were kind
of misrepresented, even Neidhart.
Neidhart, Jim, the Anvil Neidhart daughter was in it a
lot. And Bubba was like, yeah, I
mean, it made it seem like she was part of the equation.
She wasn't around at all. So and I I don't know the truth
to that. It just seemed like the way it
was presented by Netflix a little bit was not necessarily,
at least in the opinion of a Bubba and the opinion of Brooke.
That wasn't necessarily the way it went down.
But but I wasn't there, so I don't, I don't know.
Cam is a young Curt Schilling. Interesting.
Cam is a young Curt Schilling. Yeah.
I don't know. No, I don't.
I don't. I don't really agree with that.
I don't agree with that. You know why I don't agree with
that? Let me just look.
So I'm going to geek out for a SEC.
I know I'm in the neighborhood, but I want to just want to
double check. So the thing about Curt
Schilling, before he really popped with the Phillies and
eventually the Diamondback, I think Kurt should be in the Hall
of Fame. I know he's very polarizing, but
I'm going to talk about as a baseball player, Curt Schilling
was a monster man, a big game pitcher, but early on, it could
throw a strike. And when you look and came up
with Baltimore. Yeah.
All right, here we go. So can.
So you talk about if you think Cam Schlitter's a young Curt
Schilling, I think you're misremembering what Curt
Schilling was early. So it was first year.
All right, these are small samples.
Whatever 9.82 ER, a very small sample 6.23 but even like in 93
when now he's in a couple of full seasons with Philly.
That was a great Philly's team as we know the great, you know,
World Series, Toronto, all that stuff.
Great Darren Dalton, John Kruk, good baseball man Mitch
Williams, his ER Ray was, you know, four O 2.
Then the next year was 448, you know, I mean, and then obviously
he's he really, when he went to Boston, he was a beast.
And when he went to before that or right after that Arizona now
I don't it's not, it's not. I appreciate the the attempt
there. I don't agree with that.
I'm not, I'm not really seeing the same thing there.
What else we got here? The Mets are about to ascend to
the deepest depth of hell. Well, that's depressing at Ocean
View Coffee Shop. I mean, how much further is hell
from 10 to 20 with a $390,000,000 payroll?
I mean, how many more levels are there?
Stadiums empty. Everybody's abandoned hope.
What if there's a lower level of Mets?
Hell, I mean, I'm, I'm kind of curious to see what it is.
It's going to be Karl. It's Karl Marx hugging.
Mr. and Missus met Jesus. Yeah, it always goes back.
To Mr. and Missus Met, doesn't it?
Like I remember years ago the Mets were in a rough spot.
I forget the exact year, but and you you probably don't remember
this, but Mr. Met was caught on video giving a fan the finger.
No way had a game. It was just the imagery was
perfect for the Mets, this big bulbous baseball head Mr. Met
hat with a big smile. And then there's I'm not going
to I'm just going to put up my my point and Mr. Mets like this,
you know, in the tunnel, like and it was like a 7 second
video. Like that's a good GIF, though.
It was fun. It Woah, woah, that's yes, for
sure. So you say Jif, you don't go
with GIF. I say Jif.
I think it's a soft G as well. It is like it is literally Jif.
Like that is what? The inventor of the term has has
coined it as but obviously I guess it's tomato, tomato sort
of deal. Then he throws out.
No, that's that's. Not as debatable.
Cam's more of a Randy Johnson. I threw that out.
That was the first name that I thought of.
I feel like that's little and even Randy Johnson, you know
what? And geek out.
I'll get to the Super chat there in a minute.
Even Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson early on with the
Expos, remember, he was traded to the Seattle Mariners.
Could not throw a strike. Let me see.
It's crazy Randy Johnson played. For the Yankees and.
It is really crazy. All right, so you look at Randy
Johnson in. 1980. 9, His ERA was 4.82.
This is with Montreal and he made 28 starts and he had 96
walks in 160 innings That that's high.
His WHIP was 1.5. Now.
He also had 130 strikeouts. And then, you know, the next
year, you know, whatever, whatever.
Even his first couple of years with Seattle, you definitely saw
more improvement. But yeah, I didn't even realize
this. I thought it kind of got better
faster in Seattle, 199091 and 92 back-to-back to back.
He led baseball in walks. So yeah, I mean, he just
couldn't throw a striker on the eye.
He just couldn't do it. So I mean, that's not Cam
Schlittler. Cam Schlittler doesn't walk
anybody. That's why it's a very tough
comp. And I'm curious what Michael
says. Michael K in a couple of minutes
here, going to be awesome. Let me get coming from.
All right, Poland. Oh, coming from Poland.
Great to hear you guys again. Any chance Jazz gets traded and
they flip Volpe to 2nd checking in from Poland?
Michael, I appreciate that. That is outstanding.
So we have now had London check in on BT Unleashed.
We have had Australia check in, not to mention at least seven or
eight states, you know, within the United States.
But yeah, you start across domestic lines here.
You know what now? Now we're getting, we're getting
Poland. I mean, it's just we need to get
like South America up in here go.
Asia up in here, I mean, I know we have viewers in Asia and
South America, obviously, you know I I can see that too.
You can, and I know you know this, but.
You're right. You're not just saying that like
I. When I look at the analytics of
our channel, you can see what percentage of consumers of our
show male versus female, you know, age demographic country.
Now it's it's basically like 98% United States, but then they
break down into sub, sub categories within the 2% and
there is a little Asia there and there is Australia there.
So now there's no doubt you're not lying.
Jay Roth does not lie. You know, I might stretch.
I'm like, I'm Abe Lincoln with it.
Come on out of. Stave, there you go.
All right, let's get another call.
Maybe the last call before we get my buddy Michael K up there.
Who do we have here? Jay Roth.
All right, we have our friend Blind Beard.
I don't. Believe he can hear us, though.
All right. Right now.
So why, Adam, I'm realizing some people, I think on their phones,
if they stay in the studio for too long, it can it like, cuts
your audio, but then and they just have to refresh it.
Yeah. OK.
All right, I think. It might be a.
Like a phone issue with the with the service.
Got it. Yeah, they just refresh the
page. All right, all right.
Well, let's give it a shot. So I assume he's going.
To say what he's got to say and then jump off like I don't know
if he's, I don't know if he's let.
Me. Let me just test this.
Go for it. See if he's right.
Yeah, it's OK. Go for it.
Can you? Hear us.
Can you hear us? I don't believe.
He can, I will. Figure this out by the way I
I've heard about this I. Want to watch this MN tage one?
The Lamar Odom doc on Netflix was absolutely insane.
I mean, I've heard stories when he was with Kardashian, he was
at the brothel and one of them in in Vegas in Nevada and he was
like on crack. I mean no.
And he owns that, you know, have you, have you seen that?
I haven't seen the the dock that I mean most.
People are talking about now. I, I, I need to see it.
Man, what a wild ride Lamar Odom's been on.
My God. Oh boy, oh boy.
I mean, imagine when you're doing crack in a brothel in
Nevada, you, you know that something's got a little bit
awry with the life. It's it's it's probably time to
certainly I'm not making light of this.
Check in somewhere as he has and as he did, but got to reassess a
little bit. All right.
Are we ready to talk a little more?
Yankee baseball, The voice of the Yankees, my good buddy, he
was on about a month and 1/2 or so ago and we had a long, long,
awesome, you know, all-encompassing chat, you know,
fighting in the Bronx. What his dad said, get down
there and don't let that kid say what he just said to you.
Obviously, his rise to superstardom and everything in
between. Today, it's pretty much just
about the Yankees. And I know it's his wife's
birthday or he's doing stuff for Jody, so he's juggling.
He's got his own show coming up soon.
So I welcome in the great and my friend Michael K Mike, what's
going on, buddy? How are you, man?
How you doing Brandon? I am good.
I am. Good.
Now do we have a little delay? J Rod, is everything good with
the audio? You tell me.
Hold on hold. On we seem all right.
With the audio, Michael, can you hear us?
Huh. Yeah.
OK, Michael. Michael.
Reload the page really quickly and then try again.
Yeah. Now is that just is that
sometimes because. Listen, I'm still learning this
here. That seems to happen with the
callers. Is that, is that just a random
YouTube thing? Is it a it more has to do?
No, it more has to do with the connection wherever.
You are, but also, Yeah, I mean, listen, if, if, if, if live.
It's not working out right now. What we can do is we can just
flip it to the record, flip it off in a second.
Yeah. So you tell you tell me you.
Want to give it another shot here, Mike?
You, Mike, can you hear me? MM Can you hear us OK?
We'll, we'll try. Can you hear me?
Gotcha. Yep.
Yes. All right.
What we'll do? There's a delay.
Yeah. What?
What we'll do, Michael, you're good.
What we'll do, we'll just run it.
We'll just run a recording really quickly and then we'll do
it that way. So.
All right, so let me so let me wrap up the live stream.
That's what we're saying, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bang Bang, appreciate the Super chats.
Great job on the phones, see? You guys tomorrow with 10 we
were going to have Michael on the live show, which would have
been great, but we got to, you know, recalibrate, you know a
little technology or it is what it is and then we will just get
this up on the on the stream there, not on the live stream,
but on the page. So see you guys tomorrow with 10
peace. We'll get to K coming up.