Francisco Lindor: New Hope For Mets Fans?

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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With the 2021 baseball season still months away, the Cleveland Indians dealt two of their stars, Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco, to the New York Mets in a blockbuster deal. Could this be the hope Mets fans are looking for? Buster Olney joins the show to explain how the trade went down. Then Atlanta Dream forward Elizabeth Williams reflects on the Georgia race for US Senate, and Raphael Warnock’s defeat of Dream co-owner Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sandy, this deal is not perception, it's reality, but it changes the perception of the Mets as a big-time player in Major League Baseball.
0:10.0	Sometimes perception is reality. Sometimes it's not. What we're trying to do is change the reality and let the perception follow.
0:23.9	That was Sandy Alderson, president of the New York Mets, on the first blockbuster of the
0:29.7	MLB offseason, his acquisition of 27-year-old Francisco Lindor from the Cleveland Indians.
0:40.3	Today, Buster Olney dissect the Mets new superstar, their new reality, and what this all signals about the sport. Then, we talked to
0:46.9	Elizabeth Williams of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream about campaigning against the team's owner in the
0:52.9	Georgia Senate election and watching the highs and lows of American democracy from far, far away.
1:03.9	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, January 8th.
1:08.2	This is ESPN Daily.
1:26.4	Thank you. January 8th. This is ESPN D. So Buster, we've been waiting for a big splash, a big domino to tip over in the MLB off season, and we got one yesterday.
1:33.3	The New York Mets acquired Francisco Lindorke and Carlos Carrasco from the Cleveland Indians for two short stops and two minor leaguers.
1:34.9	An enormous transaction.
1:37.2	How surprised are you that this happened?
1:39.0	Not surprised at all.
1:45.0	Buster Olney is the host of the Baseball Tonight podcast, and he has been covering baseball for more than three decades. Look, in the last few years, there had been so much industry speculation about when
1:51.5	would the Indians trade Lindor. In fact, a couple of years ago, Paul Dolan, their owner,
1:56.8	told the fan base, look, enjoy him while you can, because it was an assumption he was going to be traded.
2:02.1	I think if not for the pandemic, he would have been traded in the middle of last summer.
2:06.9	So the Indians moving now. And the fact that the Mets were the buyers, that's not surprising either
2:11.7	because I think Mets fans have been waiting for Steve Cohn's team to make a big move.
2:17.7	And he certainly did that and getting the best shortstop in baseball.
2:21.2	Yeah, I want to ask you about the Cleveland side of the equation in a little bit.
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