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Ride for the home team till the last fight. [Music] What’s up, Mets fans? Welcome back to the Amazing Mets pregame show right here on the channels and on X. And unfortunately, we come to you this pregame show with the impossibility of a sweep from the WA to the Washington Nationals. And they did not deserve to win yesterday and we’ll get into that. Chris, how you feeling, buddy? I’ve got no words for you. I I I like am debating whether I should just go off on this team or just or just sit here and just ponder about how they lost. They they and you’re right because they did not deserve to win that game whatsoever. But a competent team, a true playoff team finds a way to win that game in the ninth. And yes, I’m looking directly at Brandon Nemo who’s going on every post game and telling us, you know, everything is going to be great. It’s going to be all right if we get hot at the right time. Well, thanks Brandon. How about you come through in a situation where you can win your team ball game and get hot at the right time. A lot of conflicting stuff is going on with this team. I don’t know what to make of it anymore. This was a must sweep. I am now disappointed. I don’t care about the end result today. Of course, the Mets need to win and will never, you know, not root for a win, of course, but like this this needed to be a sweep. And now the Reds are one game back. You don’t hold a tiebreaker over them. Things are getting messy for the New York Mets and they’re hanging on by the last thread in this wild card race. It’s It’s really unfortunate. Yeah. And you know what? This positivity [ __ ] from players and it starts to creep in with some fans is just it’s unacceptable. I don’t Where is the anger postgame from these players from the in the media when when they’re speaking postgame interviews? Where is the anger? like why are we the only ones angering being angered angry at this team and their play and yet I have to hear Brandon NMO like you said post game with all this stupid positivity like you do realize there’s seven games to go you don’t hold the tiebreaker against a team that is one game back who have been playing really damn well and and beating a pretty damn good Cubs team I know the Cubs aren’t playing for much but they’re actually scoring runs in these games they’re playing you know they they give leads in those games and the Reds continue to come back. They’re on the verge of a four game sweep of the Chicago Cubs. Why can’t we get upset? Why are these Why is it It’s all of them. It’s not just one or two. It’s all of these guys that speak postgame interview. You know, the the positivity nonsense is annoying and and this is the loser mentality I cannot deal with, right? They’re okay with losing. Like, I don’t care what anybody says. They’re okay with losing. It’s f it’s very hard to believe that they care enough with the lack of urgency and the stupid comments postgame where I I literally can say they don’t care enough. They don’t care enough. I’m sorry. Not only were the b at bats were bad the last couple of innings of the game. Brandon Imma was an absolute joke. Like I I don’t know what you’re looking for. Like why why are this there’s too many of these players Chris? We talk about it all the time. The simple oneonone of hidden look fast ball adjust the breaking ball. This team can’t do that. When it came to a big crunch time in the game, they started to look breaking ball. Why? The guy’s throwing 99 to 100 in most of these last two innings and you’re just standing there looking at fast balls right down the middle. I just don’t understand it. And I’m sick and tired of the positivity after the game. Mendoza is part of that problem. And I just, again, this is the sustained success model that is just infuriating. We do realize the last two seasons, even if we make the playoffs or not, we’re a below 90 win team the last two seasons. Why is that acceptable? Why are we fighting for our playoff lives? And let’s not act like we weren’t fighting for our playoffs lives last year until game 161. Do we all forget that the anger needs to come from this team? I’m sick and tired of Met fans, myself, Chris, people in the chat, other content creators being pissed off. And we’re watching this team act like there is so much time in the world for this team to turn it around and have positive um postgame interviews. Like you guys should not be angry. Where is the anger, Chris? That’s my biggest problem because the play on the field hasn’t been good for three months. It’s it’s postgame stuff that’s annoying. The lack of urgency and both like and I don’t really expect them to go into a postgame interview and hold themselves accountable because we have rarely seen it and so that’s just unfortunate. I don’t think I’ve seen it from you know what there has been some times where Juan Sto has done that and I actually respect when he does that. Um but yeah I don’t I don’t know man it’s absolutely infuriating. absolutely infuriating. Um, the defense is the biggest thing. The lack of fundamentals, like that is the biggest thing for me that is absolutely mind-boggling from a team that claims they want to be in the playoffs. You have to play good defense. This is and the Nationals are making their fair share of mistakes, but guess what? You know, the Mets don’t win game one. I don’t think maybe they probably do, but they they like if the Nationals didn’t make so many mistakes and compounded that, that’s a lot closer of a ball game than it really uh was at the end, right? It’s a whole different complexion of the ball game. And so you are you have a team that is making mistakes against you and you are just matching them error for error. You know what I mean? And I’m sorry that Cedric Mullen’s play was embarrassing. That’s embarrassing. I And I see a lot of Mets fans coming to Cedric Mullen’s defense and I have no idea why. I have no idea why. That is like a guy that doesn’t know how to play the position. You know you’re not catching that baseball. You know you’re not catching that baseball. You know who hit the baseball and how speedy that guy is. You know that. Everybody knows that. He’s flying. He’s been flying around the bases all series long. You have to play that off the wall. Okay, you give up one run, but you cannot have that happen where it just tums out into no man’s land and this guy’s racing home for the inside the park home run. That’s unacceptable. That’s a lack of awareness. Like that’s like that’s something where fundamentally that’s a that’s the basics of baseball. This team is lacking the basics. And and like I sound speechless and I really am just speechless about how this team can go out there and do something like that in crunch time. Same thing with the at bats to end the ninth inning. Brandon Nemo joke. Stling Marte joke. What what is going through these guys heads is is the better question. You know what I mean? You know, and Mendoza too, you know, he has to hold these guys accountable. He has to I don’t know, man. I We always You always say it, Jeff McNeel, center field. You don’t want to see him make, you know, mistakes in center field. A true center fielder went out there and embarrassed himself and the New York Mets. And he didn’t cost Cedric Mullen didn’t cost this team the game by himself. We all know everybody is a part of that loss, but like you’ve got guys playing in position now that are making these routine errors, and that is the most unfortunate thing about it. So, um I you got to feel for like Pete Alonzo and Juan Sto. Juan Sto just as clutch as can be tying that game up when he did. Um you know, for for the better part of the entire game up until like the eighth inning, you know, around the seventh or the eighth inning, Kade Cavali was carving this lineup up. They had no answers for that guy. Zero. Absolutely zero. It was unenthusiastic and just poor at bats. just really bad. Nolan Mlan didn’t have it, but he kind he grinded through five innings and that’s what I can respect because Nolan Mlan that is not the version of Nolan Mlan that we’ve been seeing over his first couple of starts. Everybody knows that. But he grinded through a respectable five innings because anytime you can hold an opposing team to three runs with your starting pitcher, you would expect the offense at that point to keep up with that pace if not outmatch three runs. And the Mets just had nothing. They had no answers for the Nationals. And even when they did have answers, they found a way to choke. They found a way to choke. That was a choke job. Yeah. Um I’m sorry. That’s not what a playoff team does, Rob. It it that’s not what a playoff team does. You know what annoys me? Obviously, the errors are the problem. You know, throwing the ball around like they don’t care. It’s it has to be the lack of focus and and that’s a problem within itself with at the time still eight games to go while they’re playing it. I just I just don’t understand this team. I really don’t. Like this is what what did I say yesterday? I’m not confident in this team because one day they look like a juggernaut, the next day they look like one of the worst teams in baseball. Like there’s no consistency here. And that’s why I can’t really feel confident in this team. Even if they do make the playoffs, like obviously I’d be excited they made the playoffs, get to watch some playoff games, but the confidence level isn’t high. And you know what? When it comes to Brandon Sprro, when it came to Mlan yesterday, they were bound to hit a speed bump. I It’s just a fact. Regardless of who you’re facing, like I I think a lot of us forget that baseball is a very unique sport. Anybody can beat anybody. You know, it’s not like other sports most of the time. Like a lot of the times, the better team usually wins. And it’s rare that bad teams consistently beat better teams. And can we can we be honest? Are the Mets really that good of a team? Like when you’re 15 what are they 18 games over 500 under 500 over the last couple of months? They have not been a good team for whatever reason. If it’s pitching, whatever you want to blame blame them for. They’re just not consistent enough and they’re not a good team right now. They’re just not. And we’re putting Sprro and Mlan in the savior category. And if you want to include Tong in there, it’s it’s unfair, but it’s reality. And until people realize that that this team has been bad, you you again, you go back to your GM who didn’t do enough when he was supposed to, when he had time to do it, he could have done it. you know, the the lack of urgency from the front office and it trickles down to the manager to the players and it’s obvious you can’t make that many mistakes with a couple of games to go here in the season and act like everything’s okay. It it just doesn’t make sense. You know, Akunia popping up um popping up a bunt that was a bad bunt and Marte didn’t go again. Marte was in a bad spot there because if that ball’s caught, he can’t get caught in between second and third and get doubled up there. So, I understand Monte not going to third there, but that’s a bad bunt. And by the way, why are we bunting? You only need that run. Why give up an out just to get him to third base? So, the attempt, which this team is not good at playing, you know, situational baseball where they they they can bunt, but why do it in that spot when they have when they’re a big strikeout? They strike out way too much when runners in scoring position. They always try to hit home runs when you only need a base hit. And that was obvious yesterday. You did not need to bunt in that inning. That game was over. You tell me you couldn’t get Mullins. Are you talking about Mullins? Uh was it Mullins or was it Akuna? Uh maybe I think Mullen I think it was two buns. Yeah, because Mullen definitely bunted the the inning prior. I think Say that again. I think Mullen’s definitely bunted. I think both of them did. So I think it was two. Well, Mullins moved you over to to to to second if I’m not mistaken in that in right because the Kuna one Marte was on second. It was the it was the ghost runner. Maybe maybe I’m mistaken. Maybe it wasn’t Mullins then because it doesn’t matter. Well, the fact of the matter is we didn’t score in any of those situations. So, it really doesn’t matter. But overall, it’s like little manager decisions like that is just idiotic. You need one run. If you if you don’t trust any of your guys to get a base hit to score Marte, then you got a bigger problem than just worrying about a worrying put down a bunt. And the at bats, like you were saying, Chris, or I think somebody in the chat was saying, they’re swinging for the fences for what? Why are you trying to swing for the fences there? It just doesn’t make sense. If you’re down by two, I could see you trying to try to jack one, you know, over the wall. But you got to be you got to be understanding in those situations. And it’s the lack of situational hitting. It’s the lack of focus. Obviously, the lack of focus was really evident in the beginning of the game or the first couple of innings when they were throwing the ball around, they couldn’t catch balls. It was just a bad performance all around. And the Nationals were giving them favor after favor, making the same mistakes, if not more. that that that’s what’s even more frustrating. If the Mets were making mistakes and the Nationals played a clean game, you’re like, “All right, the Mets did it to themselves. They played bad errors, lack of defense, lack of um situational hidden, and the Nationals played a clean game. I can say, okay, the Nationals just got one over on us. But they were giving us the game at every level with errors, with bad at bats, with base running mistakes. And they and the Mets couldn’t even get that one run. And of course, you get a guy who’s batting 189, hits a shot to center field, and I agree with you. Mullins needs to know you’re not going to get to that ball. You got to make a decision on that play. If you didn’t think you were going to get there, you got to hold up because that ball’s going to take a carum whatever way it’s going to take a carum, you know, position yourself in the best way possible. And the ball hit the bottom of the wall and it ricocheted. You got to be better than that. That run’s going to score most likely, especially if you knew you weren’t going to get to that. You got to try to prevent that second run. Even if that guy, he was going to get a triple probably anyway out of it. You got to try to prevent that run. You can’t let an inside a park run happen in the 11th inning like that. You got to be smarter than that. You know, you know where you were playing. You have to understand that. Especially a guy who plays center field. You got to know that. You know, you are a center fielder. You got to know that. And I’m not saying that Tyron Taylor would have made that catch or Jeff McNeel would have made a better play, but Mullins was in center field. He needed to do better in that aspect. And again, the Mets didn’t score one run anyway. So maybe it wouldn’t have made a difference if that fourth run only scored. But it’s just too many bad mistakes. And you again, they better play a sound game because I’d said I say it every time in the pregame, play a clean game, limit the mistakes. You limit the mistakes, you got a good chance of winning. The Mets made one more mistake than the Nationals and it turned out to be a loss for the New York Mets. Uh, this team makes too many mistakes. That’s the problem. And it’s been a thing all season long. They have not been fundamentally sound, which is uncharacteristic for a David Sternsled team when they preach defense, defense this, defense that. They they’ve been a horrible team irrespective of the statistics. Like I don’t even know what the advanced metrics say defensively about this team as a whole, but they’ve been bad. They make too many errors and they’re like matching the Nationals, you know, air for here, which is the most infuriating thing. If the Mets are struggling against the Nationals, right, we always talk about these teams that want to ruin it for, you know, play spoilers like the Nationals. Do we have any confidence in the Mets being the Marlins on the road? Like I I don’t I don’t at this point. You know what I mean? You know, you got a tough team in the Cubs coming up too. Um I’m sure they’d love to ruin the chances of the Mets getting into the playoffs because I’m sure all of these National League teams would rather see the Reds in the playoffs over the Mets. um you know just because I think the Mets are actually the better team at the end of the day. But it doesn’t really matter uh if the Reds get there uh and the Mets don’t you know these these teams like don’t like the Mets. I think that’s a very well-known fact around this league that if the league can see the Mets not make the playoffs and just continue loling the Mets, they will do it. And so, um, I I wish that this type of team had the mentality to realize that that everybody is out to get them and that they need to be super sound, especially at this point of the season. But with a game like yesterday, you can just tell I had questions about this team and the focus and the urgency back when they played this very nationals team in DC when I was watching them just, you know, jog around the field, look lifeless in the dugout. I saw it with my own eyes. I mean, nobody can tell me that I didn’t see it when I was sitting five rows up and I’m looking at these guys like they don’t even want to be on the field. And that’s the type of game that they played yesterday. The problem is is I think that this team takes days off. Like they take days off because we’ve seen them at their peak. They we’ve seen what they can do. They are an explosive team and they will win games and put up runs in a hurry on you if they really want to. But yesterday I’m like if there’s no urgency, it just looks like they’re taking the day off, Rob. It’s like, okay, we’ll cruise through the first seven, eight innings and then turn it around to ninth inning. And that’s just no way to play a baseball game. Unfortunately, you can’t do that, especially if you want to make the playoffs. Well, Chris, who’s to blame, right? Are we going to blame Are we going to blame the only scapegoats we always can in the coaches? Because that’s what everybody’s going to go to. Everybody’s going to go to the manager. Everybody’s going to go to the coaches, right? But guess who’s been been here for a long time? The core, right? This is the same core that don’t we see this way too much year after year? [ __ ] the numbers. [ __ ] the numbers. All right. I talked about pad and stats all the time with a lot of these guys. All right, the padding of the stats are one thing, but when you constantly are no-shows in a lot of these games, and you talk about taking days off, there’s too many times where your best players, and that includes Lindor, that includes Sodto as well, but the the homegrown talent that everybody seems to not want to get rid of ever, they take time. Like again, did anybody see the defensive capabilities of Peter Lonzo yesterday? He can’t flip a ball to first base. Yes, I’m going to talk about it again. This is a huge problem. He can’t make embarrassing coming home on that one throw too, the pass ball. He looked like he was going in slow motion. I mean, jeez. I mean, look, the Petono was um late in backing up that ball. Like, he needs to be going after coming home on that play to back up a baseball if there happens to be a throw as well. He was late to that. He made another terrible throw when he got the ball back. It’s like, what the hell are we doing here? Like, it’s the lack of focus. It’s the lack of understanding where you got to be in certain situations. It just doesn’t make sense. And it’s too many times this year. How why do we talk about this every year? Like, we’re not faking this, guys. We’re not lying to you guys. You guys watch the games as well. Go back year after year. Go back to the last five years. Let’s just go back five years. How many times have this team have become no shows in the lineup, in the rotation, just a team overall just don’t show up? And yet, let’s blame everybody else but the obvious guys that are constantly here on this team, right? Different managers, different coaches, different owners, different GMs, and yet it’s the same [ __ ] and it’s the same guy still here. Let’s act like we know what we’re talking about here, guys, because you guys see it. If you don’t want to admit it, that’s on you. But let’s be honest, this is why changes have to happen internally on the roster. You have to make changes. If it doesn’t work, you can’t keep on going back to the mill and keep on going back to the same [ __ ] that doesn’t work. You’re changing everything else around it. Yet, it’s still continue to be problems. I mean, am I wrong, Chris? Like, I’m not saying I’m 100% right. I I don’t believe I am. But when you constantly change, right, you get Juan Sto, you get Lindor, you you change the rotation, you change the the complexion of a roster around the Brandon NMOS, the Peter Lonzos, the Jeff McNeels of the world, and yet the same outcome continues to happen. Why are we blaming the scapegoats on this team? And yeah, let’s blame the guys that are making the most money, but yet it’s the same guys that constantly are here that are going through the same problems that we continue to talk about. I don’t know. Am am I completely wrong or am I just crazy? It’s a fair statement. It’s a fair statement. It’s a fair statement. Um it’s it’s it’s tough, but I agree with you 100% that there definitely should be a shakeup regardless of how this season ends because it just it just I don’t know, man. It But you know what the worst part about this is? is that you know whether the core or not that this season has been this season is a fail because the veterans are a fail. Yeah, I agree. The veterans are a fail and that’s the most infuriating thing. Um you know what but but but you know this season isn’t a fail yet because we don’t know how it’s truly going to end. Let’s let’s let’s let’s also take a step back. I will be the voice of reason here. I know we’ve been kind of going on this team for the first 24 minutes of this stream. I get it. Let’s take a step back. The Mets, by some miracle, are still in the playoffs about right now. They have a chance to hold on to it starting today, this afternoon. Each of the last seven games are must-win games. This this is all factual information, right? The Mets, if they lose today, I have no confidence that they make the playoffs. None. Like, this is a this is the game where it’s like you either take this series and go ride high into Chicago or that’s it. It’s it’s done. That’s how I view it. But they have a chance to shut us the hell up today and win a ball game. Are we still going to be skeptical of this team moving forward? Absolutely. Because I truly think that the team that we saw yesterday, we’ve seen it too many times this season for them not to be that team. You know what I mean? Not to uh take on that lack of energy, taking days off. Like I I really think at the end of the day, unfortunately, and we say this all the time and and yesterday it reminds me of this like to a tea, the Mets own like worst enemy is themselves. They’re their own worst enemy. They beat themselves. Like we could be talking about a 90- win team right now if this team just got its head out of his ass a handful of times during the stretch of bad baseball multiple times this season. We could be talking about a like we can count on two hands, maybe even four, you know, two of these and if Rob puts up both of his hands too about games that we just pissed away, for lack of a better term, this season, it’s it’s infuriating. It’s absolutely infuriating. And so, um, I agree the scapegoats are usually the coaches, but I don’t think that these players not executing, right, is is going to is truly a reflection of Carlos Mendoza. Yeah, Mendoza, we said on the pregame yesterday, right, we know that he hasn’t been the soundest of managers in terms of decision-m compared to what he was doing in 2024, right? That’s understood. But Mendoza is not out there. Like he doesn’t control if Brandon Nemo can come through to win the Mets a ball game yesterday in the ninth inning. Mhm. Like he doesn’t control that. You know what I mean? He doesn’t control um you know Peter Lonzo not being able to feel this position and throw a baseball like like Peter Lonzo. This is I love Peter Lonzo. I want him back. Like we all know that. Rob, you might disagree, but the fact that you still cannot throw a baseball or flip a baseball to a pitcher, you know, and it’s what, year six of you in this league at the same position. You’re you’re a workhorse, you know, you you’re out there early taking ground balls. We always hear defensive improvement, defensive improvement, gold glove, first baseman. How can you not throw a baseball? Because how can you not flip a baseball? Well, how can you not flip a baseball? Right? Because the play that he charged, first of all, the double play this series where he hit James Wood in the back trying to turn the double play, the flip to first base yesterday, the backup of the the wild pitch by Mlan where Mlan is ducking for Petalono to get the ball home and he throws a lollipop over to Alvarez. It’s Like are Yeah. Is it is that like but like and Ken saying that’s why you have field in coaches. That’s the problem. You cannot use the coaches as a scapegoat for why Pete Alonzo can’t make a simple throw to first base. Ken just proved my point. How many time have I said fans need scapegoats and the only scapegoats they can turn to because you can’t fire the players is the coaches. Right. You really think the fielding coordinator has something to do with Pete Alonzo can’t throwing a baseball his entire career when he probably had how many fielding coaches? You know what? He probably couldn’t do it in Florida at the University of Florida. Couldn’t do it in the minor leagues and can’t do it in the majors, right? He’s got much better, right? Nobody. So, the fielding coordinator doesn’t get credit for pimp um scooping balls. Who’s he’s probably one of the best first baseman doing that in baseball, right? So, he don’t get credit. You see the problem with that? I talked about it with the hitting coaches, right? Wano to hit 40 home runs, his most home runs in his career. Does Eric Chavez get any credit for that? No. Nobody’s talking about that. But when he’s failing, oh, Eric Chavez, you’re the problem. Oh, Jeremy Bonds, you’re the problem. Hefner, you’re the problem. Right. Shawn Maniah, Luis Severino, no credit given to Hefner. But this year, it’s all the blame on Hefner. You see the problem with that? You need a scapegoat. Every fan needs a scapegoat. And the coaches are the easiest one because it shuts up the fans. I don’t want to hear about the fielding coordinator. You know what? Can you give a little blame to Mendoza? He’s not throwing a baseball. He’s not putting the glove on. Pete Lonzo has notoriously before Mendoza was here could not throw two baseballs. By the way, he can’t flip baseballs either when he’s trying to throw rainbows to no one playing at first base. And then on top of that, you even said I even I forgot about that one, but yeah, he hit wood in the back like step and throw. And you know who brought that up? Keith Hernandez, did you hear what he said? Peter Lonzo doesn’t step and throw and follow through on his on his balls. What does he do? He uses his upper body. He turns his hips and throws. You got to step into it. You got to step out of the line of the runner and throw the baseball. It’s baseball 101. Baseball 101. This is simple things that they shouldn’t make. And this is not one mistake. These are multiple mistakes throughout games, throughout series, throughout weeks. This has been the problem. And you know what? If you want to continue to blame the coaches, go right ahead because you’re the problem when you blame the coaches. You are the problem. This isn’t football. All right? Coaches matter in football. Baseball, can we understand that? Do we understand that this is the one sport where you’re in control in the batters box, right? It’s you and the pitcher. It isn’t the other eight fielders on the field. We got to stop. And Ken, yes, it was. It was, darling. Thank you. Even a pitcher knows you got to step into a throw. Pete Lonzo has done amazing work with picking balls. He’s one of the best in baseball in doing that. And he’s gotten a lot better making c making diving catches, getting to balls with the glove. That hasn’t been the problem. He’s worked on that and I gave him credit for that. But where is the work in throwing baseballs, right? You can catch the ball all you want, but if you can’t turn the double plate, if you can’t flip it to a pitcher, you’re costing your team. If you can’t throw it to home plate, god, can can a Mets first baseman throw a ball to home plate and throw a strike? How many more times we have how many more replays we have to see a first baseman throwing balls all over the place? It’s a home plate. What are we doing here? This is an embarrassing team. An embarrassing team. There’s too many veterans on this team. I don’t care if they’re homegrown or bought veterans. There’s way too many veterans in this team. And Alonzo’s a part of that, by the way. But it’s not just him. It’s a lot of these guys, right? The other day when Juan Sto missed the baseball. You can’t do that. Get in front of the [ __ ] ball. Lindor, you know, balls popping out of his gloves left and right. What are we doing? These are veterans. You know what? Even if Batty or Vientos guys, look, they shouldn’t be making these mistakes. Easy mistakes. You know, once okay. But when it consistently happens, I’m not blaming the coaches at that point. What are the coaches going to do? Hey, don’t do that again, sir. Okay, no problem. Like, they don’t know that. Stop having a scapegoat. Cuz Met fans, baseball fans, let me let me let’s not just Met fans, but baseball fans, they love the scapegoats because it shuts you up for a couple of months and then you’ll [ __ ] and moan about the next hire. Just exactly what happens. Why do you think Mickey Callaway is not here? Why do you think Luis Rohos isn’t here anymore? Buck Shalter, right? Buck Ball, what happened to that? Myth fans turned on him just like that. Because you needed a scapegoat. Collins Mendoza could do no wrong last year. People bitched about him not being the manager of the year. Now half of them want him fired. Like what what are we doing here, guys? Come on. Come on. I think that’s actually crazy. Yeah, I think that’s I think that’s just a a very premature discussion to have about Mendoza trying to fire the guy after year two in what is a [ __ ] show of a season roster-wise for the Mets right now given the lack of production. So, I I agree with you. I mean, I I think that coaches matter to a certain extent, but the way like I and I do actually think that, but but the like the amount of scapegoating that this fan base has done across all three levels of baseball on this team that has failed is just way too much. You are right, Rob. At the end of the day, these guys are professionals. At the end of the day, Pete Alonzo should know how to throw a baseball or flip a baseball over to first base and do it routinely because it’s really not that hard. It’s really not that hard. I feel like, right, I mean, you know, it’s easy for me to stay behind, you know, you know, on a podcast here, but I’ve played baseball before. I think we both played baseball before. It’s just like that’s something like that’s not even like mechanical. It’s just like a mental thing. I I feel like once you’re in your head about that, we’ve seen great careers ruined by something as as simple as not being able to throw the ball consistently and on target like we like that’s happened before in this game. And so I’m not saying that’s what like Pete Alonzo’s issue is, but it’s just very it’s it’s getting to that point for me where I’m like, “All right, Pete, are you ever really going to get, you know, grow out of this or is this going to be a continuous thing for your career?” So, I don’t know, man. David thinks that this this team is playing too hard. I don’t think so. Hard enough. You know, Rob, I just I I had to laugh, man. like when things go this bad, all you have to do is laugh. And I just like I was just sitting here watching like listening to you talk and I was just like, “No wonder everybody shows up in the chat to listen to you talk.” Cuz I’m like listen what the line about guys. And and I want to be honest with you guys. When the Mets are bad or the Mets are going through it and there’s a lot of negative stuff out there, the views are just on another level. Like there’s no unless it’s the playoffs, win or lose during the season, negativity sells. It’s unfortunate, but it’s true, right? I don’t want to do like you don’t think I want to be smiling and happy and talking about Mets winning. Of course I do. But we’ve been here before. I’ve had this channel for almost four years now and it’s been a lot of negativity because they provide that, right? That’s not just the players fault, right? The players are here. They got to perform. But yeah, I saw Ken in the chat talk about, “Oh, the Montage, are you blaming the players, Montage and Siri and this guy?” Yeah. Well, yeah, Sterns brought him in, but these guys were already bad players. It’s not like they were good players. David Sterns brings in reclamation projects. Reclamation projects aren’t always going to work. We got very lucky last year, which nobody likes to talk about. This was a bad team that got lucky that got people that they figured a lot of people out, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be consistent every year. And people expected that, which is stupid from a lot of fans. Let’s be honest. I know a lot of people don’t like when I talk about that, but it’s a fact. Reclamation, like what did the Brewers win with David Sterns, right? David Sterns talked about sustained success, right? That’s what he that’s his words. Sustained success. I’m just going back to Milwaukee Brewers. What? Just making the playoffs. Because if that is your end goal, you’re wasting everybody’s time. And if you’re a fan that says, “Hey, we make the playoffs three out of four years. You should be happy.” Really? Do you want to lose like 2022? Do you want to lose like last year? Do you want to possibly not make the playoffs like this year? Yeah. Okay. Sustain sex is cute. But when you consistently make the playoffs and not get to your goal of winning the World Series, it becomes stale. And it, you know what? I don’t How are we not a 90 team? That’s the other thing. There’s no reason for them not to be. There’s no reason for them not to be. Like, it’s just I don’t know, man. It’s You know what? I’m this this game we we do have a game unfortunately. Uh unfortunately enough Sha Maniah we get to see the reverse of what we saw the last go around with Klay Holmes and Sha Maniah. It’s now Shamana and Klay Holmes going into this game against Jake Irvin. Uh lineups to lineup. I really do think I’m curious actually how this combination is going to look reverse. Uh because we know that you know Holmes and Maniah held it down for the whole nine innings the last goound. And I really do think that they’re just trying to see who’s comfortable in which role. I maybe it’s because the the Nationals have, you know, a plethora of lefty bats, I guess. But like I don’t know, man. I think trying to get, you know, 2Q and seeing this combination how it works. If it worked for you the last time, you got production nine innings, why not just go with it again? like playing this reverse kind of thing has the like because if we’re going to be talking about this Maniah to Holmes instead of Holmes to Maniah not working today, you know, everyone’s going to be talking about and the same thing that I’ll be talking about, you’ll be talking about is why did we get cute and put Maniah first? Why wouldn’t, you know, Klay Holmes just start a ball game and just replicate what worked? It’s like, you know, and we’ve seen a a plethora amount of times, plenty amount of times, you know, this season where the Mets, and I do think that this is on Mendoza. Why are you trying to change something that worked for you before and now you’re trying to change it up based off of this matchups crap and lefty, lefty, lefty, righty, whatever, because we know that always works out, right? Like, why are you trying to change it up? Anyways, I mean, you know, I guess analytically they can always defend the decision, but I’m just going to say this right now. I mean, if Mania goes out there, he doesn’t look good. He doesn’t look great. If the Mets lose this game, that’s what people are going to be talking about. That’s what like that’s what and I’m not saying that’s what’s going to decide this game, but that’s what us fans are going to want to know. Why did you reverse the order of these pitchers? So, um I say this, this is my final thoughts. Go out there and win. Um there’s nothing really else to it. There’s nothing else that we can really say, Rob, at this point where the excuses have been over like weeks ago, but especially now, there’s no excuse for a game like yesterday. There’s none. There’s it’s not justifiable. There’s no defending it. Nothing. The you are going to win this game if you can make fewer mistakes than the Washington Nationals. You failed to do so yesterday and you lost the game. Defensively, this team needs to be sound. I’m looking at everybody one through nine here that is playing in the field. They need to play good defense to not only beat the Washington Nationals because beating the Washington Nationals should be like an automatic like this should have been an automatic sweep. You know, then we could talk about potentially taking a series from a really good team in the Cubs, right? But now we’re talking about barely scraping by the Nationals and hoping for a win in the rubber match here. And that’s got myself and a lot of Mets fans nervous, especially when you have the Cincinnati Reds breathing down their necks. And then and guess what? The Reds do have the Pirates coming up as well. So I I I wonder if they’re going to take care of business against the sub 500 team because we know that the Mets sure have not. So play fundamental baseball. I don’t know how many times it’s it’s easy for us to say and it just seems like a such an easy concept, but it’s an easy concept to everybody but the New York Mets defenders. Uh unfortunately, so we’ll see how this game goes. 1:40 start time. Um I don’t know, man. That’s that’s all I got really. That’s all I got. Yeah. I mean, this season has been a trial run for for for Mets executives and Mets coaches. Like they don’t like everything’s been a trial run. Oh, you know, let’s uh let’s not bring the kids up in June when we have no pitching. Let’s, you know, try Shawn Maniah. Yeah, there’s more lefties in the lineup uh with the the Nationals, so let’s do matchups and that always isn’t the perfect scenario, but they’ve done this all year, right? Let’s bring up four guys from the farm system that play the same positions because that that’s just going to work out so well. It’s a trial period this whole season when you’re supposed to be one of the best teams in baseball and that’s all it’s been. It’s been trial run after trial run and this Shawn Mania pitching right now. If you’re going to talk about matchups, why didn’t you do it every game this year? No. Today Today we’re going to do we’re going to go on matchups, but tomorrow we’re going to go on our gut, right? It’s been very inconsistent. It’s it there’s no plan. The the plan is inconsistent. And that has been the the the 2025 season in a nutshell. Listen, sound game. They limit the mistake, they’re gonna beat the Washington Nationals. They can’t continue to make mistake after mistake and act like they’re just gonna walk in there and win. Sorry, this the Nationals are trying to keep their jobs. These players are trying to keep their jobs. The Mets need to stay alive. It would be nice if the Mets at least going to tomorrow in Chicago or on Tuesday in Chicago or on the off day tomorrow, at least having a one-ame lead on Cincinnati with six to play. That’s all you can hope for. And maybe they’ll lose and we’ll be up two games with six to play. I said the magic number is five. I think five wins over that next the nineame stretch that we had pri two days ago should be enough because then the national the the Reds would have to go seven and one, but the the Reds don’t seem to lose. So, I don’t know. At this point, I still think it’s five wins, but get it done. Get it done. That’s it. It’s not that hard. Play a sound game. You beat bad teams. You make mistakes. You give them an opportunity to win a ball game and show Mania step up, right? You’ve been fine out of the bullpen when you when you piggyback their tag team with Klay Holmes, you you better pitch four innings because I doubt Klay Holmes is going to go six if you only go three. So get it done. Step up. You are paid like an ace. $25 million. I don’t want to hear no more excuses from this guy either. With that said, guys, thank you for tuning in to the Amazing Match pregame show. Hopefully I am talking about and me and Chris if he if he’s able to get to the postgame show talking about a Mets win and a series win maybe we might be a little bit more happier. So enjoy the game guys. Let’s go Mets and I’ll see you on the postgame show guys. Let’s go Mets. Go Mets. Seven train rumble headed to the field. Orange and blue vibes the energy reveals. Brooklyn the Queens repping both hunts. Robin CB, keep it fire,

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