Francesa MELTDOWN Over Mets | Dan Roche Joins Toucher & Hardy | Paul Finebaum for Senate? - 9/30 (Hour 2)
Toucher & Hardy
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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(00:00) Mike Francesa has a meltdown over the New York Mets.
(17:38) Dan Roche from WBZ-TV joins Toucher & Hardy
(35:06) Paul Finebaum is dabbling with the idea of running for Senate.
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| 0:00.0 | We are Toucher and Hardy. You can watch us on YouTube. Subscribe to 985. The sports up on YouTube. The New York Mets at one point this month lost eight games in a row. All they had to do was win two out of three against the Marlins. |
| 0:18.5 | Even win the last game of the season, and they got shut out. |
| 0:23.9 | They have the second highest payroll in baseball, Jonathan. |
| 0:27.1 | Yes. |
| 0:27.8 | To the Dodgers. |
| 0:29.0 | Yes. |
| 0:29.8 | They have an owner. |
| 0:30.4 | It's either them or Philadelphia, but they're up there, yeah. |
| 0:33.0 | Sure. |
| 0:33.6 | Well, they have an owner that is just, he's spend happy. |
| 0:37.5 | You can't get enough of spending money, so it is nice. Well, they have an owner that is just spend happy. |
| 0:41.3 | You can't get enough of spending money, so it is nice. |
| 0:48.8 | By the way, you're going to hear arguments that Milwaukee, look at Milwaukee, they were the best team in baseball and they don't have a big payroll. |
| 0:55.3 | I was reading something about your chances, like six of the top ten payrolls in baseball or like in the like it's ridiculous. |
| 0:56.7 | Like because the Mets don't make the playoffs and they have a high payroll that's considered |
| 1:01.9 | somehow justification for not having a salary cap and it's nonsense. |
| 1:06.5 | Because yeah, it's a big story. |
| 1:08.3 | The Jets didn't make the, or the Jets, the Mets didn't make the playoffs because they have a high salary threshold. They have a high payroll. Yeah. Mets, Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, top four. Right. And three of those four teams are in the playoffs. Toronto, by the way, five. Yeah. So four of the five top payroll teams are in the playoffs. You can pay to make the playoffs. |
| 1:27.9 | There will be a team that doesn't make it. |
| 1:30.3 | But for everyone that doesn't make it, four will get in. |
| 1:33.4 | So it's nonsense. |
| 1:35.5 | And it's not good for anybody. |
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