Can't help but think that the Mets and Yankees, and really for me last night it was more the Yankees, but you could throw the Mets in there. Obviously they're in the same stratosphere of the payroll and all that stuff. The Yankees years ago, not going hard after Freddie Freeman, never really making him an offer. Obviously falling short of Otani. It's not their fault. They tried for Otani, but I don't think the Mets and Yankees have done nearly enough. You know, the Dodgers have superstars, and they add on top of that. And with the Mets and Yankees, as we start to look ahead to the offseason, and once the World Series is officially over, we'll get more into that. It's always, well, this guy, maybe that guy, it's never end that guy. And I think we've got to let go of those restrictions and make sure that both

these teams know that they have to go all the way in to truly compete at the level of the Dodgers.

Yeah, I mean, listen, there's obviously a difference between not trying and not doing.

Do you think it's a lack of trying or just a lack of getting it done?

I do.

I think it's a little bit of both.

Yeah, the Yankees could have had Freddie Freeman. Well, I don't know if they could have had him. They could have made him an offer a year ago. My whole thing back then, this was 2021, 2021, 2020, whatever it was. My whole thing was that he's never leaving Atlanta. He doesn't want to leave Atlanta. the Yankees never made him an offer

and then he ends up leaving and going to the Dodgers.

Now the Otani thing, the Mets The Yankees never made him an offer. And then he ends up leaving and going to the Dodgers.

Now the Otani thing, the Mets and Yankees both wanted Otani. Yamamoto, same thing. Mets and Yankees both wanted Yamamoto. And they kept upping their offer. That to me wasn't a lack of want or effort. That was just a lack of there's nothing you can do about it. they're going to choose the Dodgers.

Okay, well, in that case, you're screwed.

But that means you better go over the top for the others.

Soto last year, the that case, you're screwed. But that means you better go over the top for the others.

Soto last year, the Yankees drew their line.

It could have, like, instead of us saying, well, plan B was great, it could have been Soto plus the other guys to make the team better.

Same thing with the match as it pertains, whether it's last year or this year, like, I kind of took off the gas because I just wanted Soto and they got Soto, but why couldn't have been Soto and Fried or end a top pitcher? You know what I'm saying? I do. Same thing this year, it seems like, well, it could be Bregman or Alonzo, or if they bring back Diaz, maybe they can't do. Like, no, if you're trying to win and legitimately compete with the Dodgers, the Brewers may be a nice story,

you know, some of the other little engine that could do. Like, no. If you're trying to win and legitimately compete with the Dodgers, the Brewers may be a nice story.

You know, some of the other little engine that could teams are a nice story. That's not New York. We should have the higher expectations for the Mets again. I agree with that. Now, listen, so a couple things here. So the angels are never going to be a threat to the Dodgers. okay, once Cohen came with his money,

now the Mets' ability to take away for the Yankees, that dynamic

is shifted here. So what I don't understand that I don't,

I don't, I don't, once Cohen came with his money, now the Met's ability to take away for the Yankees,

that dynamic is shifted here.

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