Mets and Yankees Talk Big, Dodgers Deliver!

Mets and Yankees Talk Big, Dodgers Deliver!

You know, the Dodgers have superstars and they add on top of that. And with the Mets and Yankees, as we start to look ahead to the offseason and once the World Series is officially over, we’ll get more into that. It’s always, well, this guy, maybe, maybe that guy. It’s never end that guy. And I think we got to let go of those restrictions and make sure that both these teams know that they have to go all the way in to truly compete at the level of the Dodgers. Yeah. I mean, I listen, there’s obviously a difference between not trying and not doing. Do you think it’s it’s a lack of trying or just a lack of getting it done? I do. I think I think it’s a little bit of both. Yeah, the Yankees could have had Freddy Freeman. Well, I don’t know if they could have had him. They could have made him an offer years ago. My whole thing back then, this was 2021, 2020, whatever it was. My whole thing was he’s never leaving Atlanta. He doesn’t want to leave Atlanta. The Yankees never made him an offer and he ends up leaving and going to the Dodgers. Now, the Otani thing, the Mets and Yankees both wanted Otani. Yamamoto, same thing. Mets and Yankees both wanted Yamamoto and they kept upping their offer. Like that to me wasn’t a lack of want or effort. That was just a lack of there’s nothing you can do about it. They’re going to choose the Dodgers. Okay. Well, in that case, you’re screwed. But that means you better go over the top for the others. Sodo last year, the Yankees drew their line. It could have like in instead of us saying, “Well, plan B was great. It could have been Sodto plus the other guys to make the team better.” Same thing with the Mets as it pertains whether it’s last year or this year. I kind of took off the gas because I just wanted Sodto and they got Sodto. But why couldn’t it have been Sodto and Freed or and a top pitcher? You know what I’m saying? I do. Same thing this year. It seems like well it could be Bregman or Alonzo or if they bring back Diaz maybe they can’t do like no if you’re trying to win and legitimately compete with the Dodgers. The Brewers may be a nice story. You know, some of the other little engine that good teams are a nice story. That’s not New York. We should have the higher expectations for the Mets. I I agree with that. Now listen. So a couple things here. So the the Angels are never going to be a threat to the Dodgers. Okay, once Cohen came with his money, now the Mets ability to take away from the Yankees, that that dynamic has shifted here. So what I don’t understand, I don’t I don’t pretend to know the origin of this, but there was a point where New York Yankees were the destination for every Japanese star. And now you hear, I guess this came out with Otani, that the that um that the Yankees never had a chance and that he was always going to go to the Dodgers and the Dodgers the favorite, you know, the the the favorite team of of the Japanese uh player. the first time they had a chance to when he went to the Angels, but that’s true. That’s true. Remember the Yankees were involved in that. I know they were. I just don’t know why it’s changed here. So, but it has changed. It doesn’t really matter why. I I guess the question is what do the Yankees or the Mets do to change this up? Well, the first thing is, you know, there’s an opportunity this winter here, S, to really change the course of the future. Hey, the Mets, even I don’t think the Yankees will do it, but the Mets, you want Scooble, go get him. Somebody want Kyle Tucker, go get him. Like it’s not like this is a a free agent class or a trade or potential trade class where there’s belisters. There are multiple A-listers, right? And the other thing too is and I I think this is going to impact both the Yankees and the Mets favorably. When we talk about 2027, the very real possibility that there’s going to be an absence of baseball to me, you got to go for it now because if there is no baseball in 2027, uh, and or or even if it’s a condensed version, then, you know, now now Judge’s prime is further is further complicated. Same with Lindor. Same with some of these players who were right in that that like the middle of their prime. So, I think that I I think the Mets I think will take a big swing this winter. I do. I really do. I’m I’m I’m less convinced on the Yankees, but with your ultimate point, I’m with you. Like, there’s no reason why there should be the Dodgers and like the Yankees and the Mets at the altar bowing to the Dodgers going through the same damn thing. The the Otani spend some money. The Otani Yamamoto things are immensely frustrating because there was a realistic alternate timeline. Had Otani signed with the Yankees years ago, we like we could have been talking about Show Otani for the last 5 years as a Yankee. I mean, think about what he’s done with the Dodgers. Imagine him doing that with the Yankees. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the Yankees fault. He didn’t want them. Okay? He didn’t want them with when he chose the Angels and he didn’t want them again when he chose the Dodgers. Now, the second time around, the Mets would have been involved as well with Cohen’s money, but he didn’t want New York. He wanted them. Yamamoto, same thing. As for the other parts, that’s where to me it gets interesting. You mentioned school or you mentioned Kyle Tucker. Do you think the Dodgers are are going to just sit back and not do anything like like we we’ve how many times we’re going to see the Dodgers Seriously? Like that’s fair. They they they did get involved in Sodto to a little bit. Now, they weren’t going to go to the lengths that maybe the Mets did and certainly weren’t going to Sodto was going to have that money deferred. I don’t know all the details there, but the Dodgers were ruled out, but it’s not like they had no interest in them because they were already loaded up. I I would expect them to make a run at Kyle Tucker and and maybe even make a run at trading for TK school, but like there is no end to the way the Dodgers go out there and acquire star after star after star. So why then here in New York with two of the richest owners in the sport with the biggest city in the sport in New York, why would we make it well, okay, they got this guy and their payroll is this, so it you can’t go anymore. like no I’m sorry and I don’t want to be greedy and that’s why sometimes I do lay off but they the Mets should be able to resign Diaz bring back Alonzo and upgrade elsewhere whether it’s school ball whether it’s Bregman I know that not always spending money means you’re going to have success however the Mets specifically are in a spot where they do have to overspend to make up for lost time here where they maybe a different position they do the Mets at the closing Mets need pitching there’s no doubt about that Mets need another stick or two as well so and and the Yankees need some stuff I just don’t know like and I said this before like you look at the timeline whether it was Arabu who wasn’t very good you know Matsui who was great Tanaka who was really solid everybody’s saying that again this I don’t know why this has it changed because the Dodgers simply have won and they’re more appealing see I Yankees were the spot you’re I know I can understand for a long time this is not me taking a knock at the Mets it’s really not but I can understand why for a long time like the the star Japanese player never viewed the Mets as a real destination number one the will pods were never coughing off the And number two, they weren’t championship viable enough that they didn’t have they weren’t the Yankees, right? Well, not only that, they weren’t the brand in Japan that you grow up seeing the Yankees and the Dodgers now. Well, but yeah, now, but it used to be the Yankee thing to your point. You mentioned Tanaka, you mentioned Matsui. The Yankees were the team that would land the premier superstar from Japan. Yeah. And there was a point, Sal, and and this is really your ultimate point, although you stretch it out to the Mets, which I get as well. There was a point any time and I like I would just sit back there and Yankee fans, you know, I’m not alone with this. Like so and so Japanese superstar uh about to hit the mark and I’m like, “All right, when are we getting him? When is he posting? What is he coming? What position? Where’s he hitting? Is he behind A-Rod? Is he after A-Rod? Is he behind this guy?” Now, it it just hasn’t worked out that way. I don’t know why. I I will say this, and this is the sheer reality of one thing that nobody really wants to address, really even want to say. I’ll say it and I’m I’m from here like you so it’s not a knock. New York is brutal. I mean now the traffic in LA taxes California is even more broken than we are. So but the weather like if you look at and again I’m not going to get into the taxes and this and but but but just a broad you know broad like a little shot here. Taxes stink in both places. Traffic stinks in both places. So what has become more appealing uh for the do from the Dodgers versus the Yanks and now the Mets? the weather and now the winning. That’s it. But like even even the Knicks like when you were also the travel to Japan that’s absolutely a big deal. Good point. That’s true. When Aru went that it didn’t dissuade them. Now, like when like I don’t know if this isn’t why LeBron didn’t come or Durant or whatever, but if you’re a free agent, all right, and you want the bright lights in New York, which by the way, you don’t need anymore because Madison Avenue a Avenue has been mobile for 10, 12, 15 years now. The world is no longer just in New York City, as we well know. I think that you you’ve got to really weigh some logistical issues like, all right, if if you want to come to the Knicks and you want to live up in Westchester, get a beautiful home by the practice facility, fantastic. Now you got to keep coming down the West Side Highway on game night. It’s a pain in the ass. You want to become a Met and get a beautiful mansion out east? Fantastic. You could do that. Good luck getting to and from games. You want to be a Yankee? All right, go to Alpine, you know, which is an incredibly, you know, affluent CC’s there. Or he was. I know a lot of the Yankees that make a lot of money go to Alpine. Great. Good luck getting back and forth over the GW when you try to go to a game. So, there are logistical issues. But again, I say that there’s there’s also logistical issues in LA where the where the traffic is worse. So to me, it’s really more a reflection of the way the Dodgers are now perceive their the brand, their forward thinking, their ability to put together these very uh innovative contracts with the deferments. Hey, hey, I just said a lot there. Let me say it more succinctly. The Dodgers are better and smarter and wealthier than both the Yankees. Well, not wealthier than Cohen, but certainly the other things apply than the Yankees and the Mets, period. I think that’s the biggest thing. The Mets are it’s an uphill battle. It will it will take years to get their brand anywhere near where the Yankees were and are and certainly the Dodgers where they are now. But if you just go Y cuz the Mets now have the money. That’s the only reason why they’re in the conversation. If all things are equal with the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets, the Mets are third place. Like I know that they could have if all things are equal. They have to spend more to get in the conversation. That’s why Cohen kept going up and down. They didn’t spend as much more as much as we thought extra for Sodto. I thought there’d be like a $100 million stack. There wasn’t. But still they kept going up and up and up and at some point the Yankees just tapped out and whatever you want to talk about the owner suite and the box all that stuff whatever it may be. Yamamoto Mets up and up and up. They know that they have to do that. That’s just that’s unfortunately what they have to do because of their their history in comparison to the great Yankees and now Dodgers. But if I ask you you know 10 15 years ago what was the better brand like everybody wearing the Yankee hat. No doubt. Yeah. Yeah. The Yankees were the national brand the New York Yankees coming off the dynasty run of the ’90s and now I don’t think it’s any doubt unfortunately. Oh yeah. It’s not even close. It’s the Dodgers. You can make a case s this is going to be crazy that the Dodgers brand is even more powerful than the most powerful brand in the NFL, which as we know, you know, basically runs the ship in terms of, you know, sports attention. You could was there flying like a moth. That can’t be a good sign. I don’t know. If there’s a black crow that pops in, we really got issues here. Jesus. the um maybe Minko brought it with him by the way. Did Minko bring him off? Minko’s here. He’s going to pop in later. I don’t know. I think that like if the Apex maybe of the Warriors brand a couple of years ago, uh that was obviously incredibly high. The Chiefs with Mahomes and the Niners back in the day and even Dallas’s brand and the Yankees, which has been diminished a bit. You can make the case that of all the sports, the Dodgers have the number one brand. And the scary thing is it’s getting better. It’s getting more powerful. Which is why to to bring it back and we’ll get back to the calls here. The Mets and Yankees, they may not feel like they want to go over the top and they may feel like they already are doing it with the way their payrolls are. It’s not good enough. Unfortunately, to compete with the Dodgers, the highest level, you’re going to need more. BT and Sal on the fan. Our friends at Town Fair Tire remind you that at Town Fair Tire, you always get the guaranteed lowest price on name brand tires from Connecticut to Maine. Nobody beats Town Fair Tire. Nobody. Ralph is calling from Manhattan starting us off. What’s up, Ralph? By the way, I thought New York was the center of the universe. Boy, I’m glad you opened my eyes because, you know, I thought Manhattan was everything back in the old days, but not not as much as it used to be, Ralph. I I guess you’re right, BT. Unfortunately, because I liked it better that way. But, too, but here here’s a and a side note before I say something. Otani, if there was any doubt in anybody’s mind that dedication and hard work and putting in the time was not the key to success, Otani just proved them wrong because this guy is phenomenal. And I I I’m a tough marker and this guy is unbelievable what he does night to night. If you if you want to go into a baseball season, guys, with 14 teams somewhere about 14 teams that are actually in contention, well, we’ll continue down the money road and we’ll go into oblivion and baseball is going to go down the tubes because if you throw enough money at your team, the Dodgers, proof proof and point, you throw enough money, you’re going to be a contender. Now, do you throw that money smartly? Do you do it well? Do you do it with finesse? That’s another story. But essentially after all is said and done guys, the most money wins and that’s not good. Yeah. I mean it’s not guaranteed Ralph and thank you for the call. But it certainly helps and that’s why the idea of like oh well look at what the Brewers are doing or look at what the little engine that could teams are doing. Oh the Guardians, they compete all the time and look their payroll. No, in the end you’d rather be like the Dodgers every time. And by the way, they could go out there and sign Tanner Scott as they did and he could be totally useless and they still overcome it. How come the Mets couldn’t get in on Blake Snell? Like we always talk about some of the other guys that were out there. Blakes now. Other teams could and the Yankees could add him as well. Why why couldn’t they go get Blakes now? Dodgers did. They get Glasno on top of that. They get Yamamoto Sasaki on top of that. Obviously Ot like why is there no why is there no end to what the Dodgers could do and they could just continue to churn out big trades with their prospects as well. But yet here we’re hugging the prospects. We’re waiting for the development. We’re not going all in on the free agents. we’re not adding on top of like you mentioned Scooba and it seems like a perfect fit for the Mets and even I would say like well the Yankees don’t need him well why not like would they not benefit from from adding TK school on top of already with Garrick Cole Max why not they’re the Yankees right go load up the way the Dodgers are yeah well especially with the news you know what came out’s not going to be ready for the start of the season I think that Garrett Cole is going to be pretty close to being Garrett Cole but he’s not going to be ready by opening day Clark Schmidt’s going to be out until late August with the Tommy John yeah I’m with you there’s window. Go out and get him. You know, flex here. This is the time to flex, guys. He’s available. Everybody knows that the Tigers aren’t going to give him half a billion dollars, whatever it might be more, whatever the number is. And I’m not even imploring the Yankees to necessarily do that. But get rid of some of these prospects and bring him in for next year. And then from the Mets point of view, you know, I listen, I really do think Mlan could be special. And I understand, and I mean special, not good. I mean special. And I understand the push back like ah you don’t want to give up MLAN for a possible rental and and I do you know from just baseball sensibility I do understand that but I even would disregard that and say no you there’s no way you can enter the year next year with mania think about it this way and hoping that all these guys are back to form and healthy and the MLAN and I I I give up anybody form would you give up Schlitler? No. Okay. Hold on. I know. I know. I know. It sounds like I’m like it’s a contradiction. It is because it’s not though because the Yankees don’t need school as desperately as the Mets. But but the point is those guys, Schlitler and Mlan are the most valuable commodities in the sport. That’s the most valuable asset that you could possibly have. A young pitcher with star potential that is under control for years to go. I’m with you. And and by the way, if school ball like if it were skins, different story. School’s under control for one year. So that’s the only I’m not a prospect targeter. You can take literally anybody else. You want Alvarez, you want Mauricio, you want Ben, you want Jet Williams, like from a from a Met perspective for school. Literally, and Sprro, Anton, like multiple others. You could have anybody else. MLAN’s the one thing. Same with Schlitler for me. Like you could have Dominguez, you could have Spencer Jones, you could have Lumbard if you want. Like to get school ball, you could have those are the guys we’re talking about here. I can’t give up the young star pitcher. that’s already shown star potential that’s under control for years because that’s the most valuable. All right, so let me ask you this. I I get the I get it and I respect the philosophy. All right, but even the most battle tested philosophies could be pushed to a limit. Let let me tell you, let let me say that the Mets open up the checkbook and they get Kyle Tucker. Now where he play Well, they’ll figure that out. Okay, you got Sodto, you got Tucker. I’ll even say that they’re able to bring Pete on a deal. You know, that’s better than last year. Not quite as nuts as some people. Six or seven. That’s not going to happen. Basically, what I’m saying is the Mets load up for 2026. You’re still not giving up those G. You’re not giving up Mr. for that one push for the World Series. To me, he’s a number two. So, and also you could just say that you would just go sign him next year. Like, I know what you’re saying. And maybe there is a world where you can convince me if it were MLAN straight up for school. You know what I mean? Like, I’m not giving up anything else. It’s going to have to be more than that. That’s not going to get done. Well, but then you like Schlitler for school straight up wouldn’t get it done. You could have to give up more. You could have, but the Yankees could get them and the Mets could get them, too, I think, without giving up Schlitler or Mlan. And by the way, the point is it’s not it’s not about whether we would do like that’s a separate conversation. It’s more about going for it. You’re going for it. Yeah. And and going for it is not like, well, we had a nice plan B, correct? Or well, we signed Sodto and now it’s it’s it’s not Listen, guys, this is not about the Yankees or the Mets being viable or being really good. That’s obviously now the Mets have more work to do, but both teams are going to be right in the mix next year. There’s no doubt about that. This is about taking a swing for the fences that really neither team has taken in a long time. I mean, don’t don’t just try to squeak one over the right field wall. Let’s go top 10. Let’s go nuts this off season. Yankee fans are pissed. Listen, we aired the press conference. We aired Boone and we aired Cashman. We aired it live. Then we took all the calls. Not a single Yankee fan was happy with the way the season ended and rightfully so. And the way the Mets season ended, Met fans were disgusted and rightfully so. So get in the box, dig in and try to hit 1450. There’s big names out there. Let’s go. Triple8 808109 BT sound on the

The Dodgers keep stacking superstars Freeman, Ohtani, Yamamoto while the Mets and Yankees settle for “maybe that guy.” BT & Sal say it’s time for both New York teams to stop playing small and finally go all-in like the Dodgers. From Skubal and Kyle Tucker to Soto and Alonso, the message is simple: spend big, swing bigger, and bring the star power back to New York baseball.

Chapters:
00:00 — Why the Dodgers Set the Standard
03:15 — Yankees & Mets Keep Playing It Safe
06:30 — Losing the Japanese Superstar Pipeline
09:45 — Dodgers Have Become the New Yankees
13:00 — BT & Sal’s Message: Go Big or Go Home

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