Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lowry, discuss with Andy McCarthy, the latest legal and national security issues this week. What else? The Daniel Penny acquittal.

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And now, without further ado, I welcome to

this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside, none other than Annie. Hey, Rich, how are you?

Good, Annie. Congratulations on Juan Soto. You know, I, I'm not as overjoyed as I thought I would be.

I mean, I was very relieved to get him, but that's, I'm starting to sound more like you than, you know, like I really enjoyed the last baseball season.

And for you, it was like the expectations were so high that it becomes like attention convention.

And I now, you know, the Mets were really overwhelmingly good only one time ever,

which was the mid-80s Mets, probably from about 1984 until 1989, they were really good,

but they only won one championship. But I never had the

feeling of having a team that was just like expected to win. And the Mets identity for their entire

history, and I hate to point this out, but I'm a little older than they are, so I'm very

acquainted with this history.

But their identity has always been like the sort of lovable underdogs, and they're terrible

for large spates of time, but because of that, when they win, it's always got a sort of a

miraculous thing to it, and it's got a kind of a come

from behind, even 69, which was the first great year. You know, they went nine and a half

games out on, I think it was August 15th or 16th or 16th. Who's reading? The Cubs? The Cubs. Yeah.

It was a, it was a really hot summer in Chicago. And Leo DeRosher, who was the manager of the Cubs.

They played only day baseball in Wrigley Field then, and they played the same eight guys every day, inning after inning.

I mean, and they wilted at the end.

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