Happy to have for the first time on the Carton Show with Big Mac, the manager of the New York Mets, Carlos Mendoza. Carlos, it's Craig Carton and Chris McMonigal. Appreciate you taking some time to chat with us. Say, how are you doing? Good, I'm doing all right. Thanks for having me. How are you doing doing? Doing great. Obviously, a lot to get to. So let me start off with the most obvious question.

And that is the clubhouse. And the rumors of last year, the clubhouse not getting along over

politics and wives fighting, et cetera. Juan Soto acknowledged yesterday there was a problem.

Francisco Indoor acknowledged, yes, there was a problem.

I know you've talked about at the end of last year, but it's a fresh year, new guys in the

clubhouse.

Can you give Med fans a little insight to what everybody was talking about in regards to the

disconnect amongst the players in your locker room last year?

I wouldn't call it that way.

That's a first for me about politics.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

I got a laugh.

I'm sorry.

No, no, I've been pretty consistent with the messaging.

It's not that the guys didn't get along.

We just didn't win games on the baseball field.

And, you know, it's pretty much the same core that had an amazing run in 2024, you know.

And last year we got out of the gate, and that second half was super hard for us, you know,

dealing with a lot of injuries and things like that.

And just when you don't start winning as many games, then, you know, it's hard.

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