But you're making it hard on me, Mendi.

Come on, you lost seven of eight.

I want to talk you into better circumstances. What's up, Sal? How are you, my friend? What's going on? Here we are, man, grinding, you know? Like you say, it hasn't been easy. It's not fun at all. But, you know, we got to keep going. We've got to keep finding ways to, you know, turn things around here, you know. And we will. We will. You know, got a lot of good players. Got to get them going. How have you handled adversity? You've been dealt it really right from the get-go last year, Oh-1-5. Hey, welcome to managing, right?

Managing in New York, big leagues, pressure, all this stuff.

O-1-5 right out of the gate, not to mention the other issues. You've had other spurts even this year. How have you been able to handle adversity and keep the club in line to where you always respond after these ruts? Yeah, look, I mean, just consistency, you know, with the personality, with the coaches,

and then the relationship with the players, you know, you keep communicating, keep having

conversations with them, keep connecting, getting feedback from players, from coaches,

and also understanding that you're going to go through stretches where it's not easy.

We haven't been playing well for quite a bit now.

We know that, and we're doing everything that we can possibly, could be doing right now,

looking at everything individually, collectively, to get things going here.

What do you think is the biggest issue with your club right now?

No, we've just been inconsistent.

We haven't been able to put everything together, you know, whether it's started pitchers,

whether it's offense, you know, defensively, we haven't been able to complete plays in

key moments.

So we just being inconsistent overall, you know, it seems like there's days where,

you know, we get the big hit with runners in scoring position, which is being a topic. It's been a

struggle, you know, pretty much for the most part of the year. Then when we do get the hits,

we don't, you know, we don't get a quality start or we make a defensive play. We don't make

a defensive play. So we just haven't been able to put a complete game on a consistent basis. And we've got to start doing that. I know you guys are built to be a balanced team, but really the offense. You were built to score a ton of runs. That hasn't happened. Why the inconsistency with the offense this year? Yeah. I mean, that's a, that's a tricky one there because when you look at our lineup

and when you're looking at a position player groups, it's like, man, that's the quality.

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