I think it was before the season. It might have been in the early part of the season.

We heard about this meeting that John Carlos Stanton and Aaron Judge had with the team essentially saying,

we have to approach every game like it's an important game, not just one of 162, where it doesn't matter.

And you felt the urgency at the early part of this season. Now they've dealt with some injuries, but they're weathering it.

And winning each series, it should be their goal because it sets them up to be exactly where they need to be come postseason.

And where they need to be is the team with the best record in the American League.

Which is not only say it's easily doable, but it's doable because of how poor the American League is,

even though some of it is starting to get a little bit better.

Look, right now it's Tampa Bay.

You look at the landscape of the American League, not just right now, but moving forward. Right. It's the Tampa Bay race. So you need to beat that. I'm not worried about it. I'm not either, but you would say you're not worried about Tampa Bay. No, I guess. I'm just saying in terms of where they are right now and looking ahead,

Tampa Bay feels like the threat.

Maybe the Blue Jays fix things, but these two wins. Tampa Bay. No, I guess. I'm just saying in terms of where they are right now and looking ahead,

Tampa Bay feels like the threat.

Maybe the Blue Jays fix things, but these two wins are been huge against Toronto, creating more ground. So these games matter. So instead of screwing around by having Garrett Colstar to rehab game, throw them right into the mix Friday night. I commend them for that. on the Mets side of things, I found this out at Madison Square Garden last night, even though I was scoring the Mets game.

I had no idea until a security guard at Madison Square Garden told me that Nick Borough Beto was wearing number eight.

That's where I got my information.

Yeah.

One security guard said, Evan, who are you rooting for?

Again, very intimidating look.

And I said... In the... Oh, in the... In the... To get into Madison Square Garden, the security... I put my bag through the machine like I'm going on an airplane, and he said, Evan, who are you rooting for? And I said, I don't want to lie to you. So why don't we just not answer that question?

And then he laughed and said, have a good time.

I said, thank you, sir.

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