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This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, April 22nd, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday.

I'm Buster Only.

I'm working here in Bristol, Connecticut, where we just got done a baseball writer summit that

we have our folks here at ESPN.com.

And so I'm joined by David Sean Fields, Jorge Castillo.

How are you guys doing?

I'm good.

I'm happy to be here in Bristol doing this life. Nice. Well, I appreciate you guys doing it. So coming up on the show later, we have a great conversation with Mani Machado, third basement for the San Diego Padres. We talk about the Padre sale price. Kevin and Gandhi, you see him on 6 o'clock sports center. McComville who is a producer here Mets and

Phillies fan and it's kind of a group therapy session but we're going to start with our

I got to say like there's no question about that session yeah in the in the two days that we've

been here there's no question the Mets have generated the most conversation.

Everyone talking about what's going on with the Mets. Yeah, our colleague Jesse Rogers, is still, you know, recovering from his weekend with the match to Chicago, man. That guy had a rough weekend. Still talking about it, but it's ugly right now for the Mets. It's a lot of questions. That offense, to me, it comes down to the offense. You know, 11 game losing streak as of right now.

They're playing tonight against the twins.

Nine of those 11 games, two runs are fewer. Juan Soto, not having Juan Soto hurts, but it shouldn't hurt this bad. Yeah, it's been brutal. But look, Buster, when your superstar hitters hurt, your other superstar hitter, Francisco Lindor, is not hitting.

Your other semi-superstar hitter, Bobaichette's not hitting.

The team's going to look really, really bad.

So they have enough talent to bounce back from this, but I got a stat for you.

Since 1996, 64 teams have lost 11 or more games in a row at any point in a season. Only three of those finished with the winning record. Wow. I thought you were headed toward made the playoffs.

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