Best of the Mets on WFAN: When is it time to panic?

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This week's Mets highlights include Boomer and Gio debating the biggest culprits behind the team's rough stretch, while BT and Sal wonder if this is a summer swoon or the sign of bigger problems. Evan and Tiki pick a lineup out of a hat to try and spark the offense, while Evan and Sal sound off on more losses. Plus, some Subway Series preview.

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0:00.0	It's just so ugly.
0:01.7	13 out of 16.
0:03.6	The offense stinks.
0:04.9	The pitching stinks.
0:06.4	They're lifeless.
0:07.6	They're trying to figure it out.
0:09.1	Team meeting last year worked.
0:10.5	I just didn't work the first time this year.
0:13.2	So it's, I mean, I know we do this whole thing about we learned a lot last year and not burying the team.
0:19.0	And I'm certainly not doing it.
0:20.0	But this was completely
0:21.1	unacceptable for a team that has a payroll that high and stars on this team like that. You could
0:26.3	never get your ass whipped by the Pittsburgh Pirates 30 to 4 over a weekend. It's just completely
0:33.3	unacceptable of your Carlos Mendoza, David Stearns, and Steve Cohen. Got a bunch of other stuff, including some weird LeBron wording yesterday that makes me think that he might be going somewhere else. Good morning, Boomer. How are you? Yeah, good morning. No, he actually opted into his contract. Yeah, I know, but no, no, no, no, no, no. So we'll talk about that. Like I tell you, as a Met fan, I'm not happy this morning at all, man. I'm actually disgusted.
0:55.4	Yesterday I put out a post on X and I basically said... So we'll talk about that. No, no, no, no, no. Like I tell you, as a Met fan, I'm not happy this morning at all, man. I'm actually disgusted.
0:55.0	Yesterday, I put out a post on X and I basically said, you know, hey, some Met player has to throw their glove into the stands because I think it's where it all started last year. That was the low point. Yeah, it's part of it. I think, I don't know, maybe that was the game where Gary said, oh, this is the low point of the Mets season.
1:10.4	There's always a new low point, and this is the ultimate low point for a lot of different reasons.
1:14.7	The Pirates had 32 wins going into this series that come out of it with 35, obviously, sweeping the Mets 30 to 4.
1:21.6	What's really disgusting about all of this stuff is that the New York Mets have a payroll of $325 million.
1:29.2	Just think about that for a second.
1:31.8	I think about it all the time, Boomer.
1:33.0	$325 million, and the Pirates, and this is all according to Spot Track, have a total payroll of about $90 million.
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