Al Leiter Refuses To Give Up On These Mets! | EVan & Tiki
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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MLB Network's Al Leiter, an Emmy-nominated and snubbed sports broadcaster and former Yankee pitcher, joins Evan Roberts, Tiki Barber, and Shaun Morash to discuss growing up a Mets fan, being drafted by the Yankees, playing with legends, and where the Mets and Yankees are today.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the men I trust on the mound as a New York Mets fan. |
| 0:03.0 | They're great, I'm lying. |
| 0:04.8 | You used to get mad at me. |
| 0:06.0 | Of course I did. |
| 0:07.3 | Yeah, we got mad at you. |
| 0:09.4 | That doesn't mean I didn't trust you. |
| 0:11.6 | I got mad at everybody. |
| 0:13.3 | So what are your thoughts? |
| 0:14.7 | On you or the Mets? |
| 0:15.9 | No, forget about me. |
| 0:16.8 | Oh. |
| 0:17.3 | Do you see this year closer to 1999? No. Oh, God, 1999. What are you crazy? Do you know what happened in 1990? Yes, we lost in the NLCS to the Braves. Had a great comeback and turned the season around against the Yankees. That's what you meant. Yes. Yeah. After the coaching staff got fired. Hey, dude, why are you channeling that? I was in my, I was in my third year, sucking at football. You were in your third year. Doing WFAN and overnights. Wait, you were done in 99? No. But I sucked it in 1999. So I was doing radio? 100%. I've been doing radio forever. While were playing 100% with Joe Beningo to be honest |
| 0:56.5 | Oh my gosh Joe would kill you and then Tiki would come on |
| 1:00.5 | That 1990 team though and look that that is vivid and you're a big part of it |
| 1:04.9 | That Sunday night game you pitched that game against that overrated |
| 1:07.7 | Steroid using Roger Clemens sorry I said it not you not you. Don't worry. I didn't say anything. I can't wait until we have Roger Clemens in studio at one point. He's going to punch him. You will not. He will break you like a... Well, of course, it'll break me, but I want one question for him. You would never say that. Would I call him a steroid? Probably not that part. |
| 1:28.1 | I'd bring up the bat stuff from the 2000 World Series. |
| 1:43.5 | I'd say, how could you throw a freaking broken bat? Because he thought it was a ball. Do you believe that out? No, no way. No way. How come nobody went out there and kicked his ass? What did you want me? Because he's two. Not you. He'd have beat my ass too. |
| 1:45.5 | That wasn't asking you. There's he, Roger. |
| 1:46.6 | I bet Roger looks like a dam. He's two. Not you. He'd have beat my ass, too. |
| 2:00.2 | That wasn't I scared you. There's he, Roger. I bet Roger looks like a horse, man. Like a linebacker. He's like, oh. No way. Be like saying, why didn't you go out and beat up Lawrence Taylor? I wanted Mike to do it, to be honest. Yeah, well. That's thrown at him. Go out there. Dance with the guy. |
| 2:03.5 | But I think it all comes. |
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