Hour 1: Fire Mendoza Now! Mets Hit Rock Bottom After 11th Straight Loss
Evan & Tiki
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's time. And it doesn't mean it's his fault. It doesn't mean he's the reason the |
| 0:04.4 | Mets have an offense that does absolutely nothing. It's not his fault that Devin Williams |
| 0:08.3 | threw a fatty right down the middle to Michael Conforto. It's not all his fault. But as you sit |
| 0:14.1 | here and the Titanic is sinking and the fire is everywhere, you have to do something. |
| 0:20.8 | So you, Sean Morash filling in for Tiki, he'll be back on Wednesday. If you want to call me the irrational, petulant child, you have every right. But I'm just going to be open. I'm going to be honest. And I'm going to be brutal with everybody. They got to fire the manager. Sorry. I'm a bad guy. I'm a jerk. I'm calling for someone's job. They suck. And you can't fire the GM. You can't release every player. So I'm sorry. That's what they need to do. What time is it? Let me tell you what time it is. It's 12.03 a.m. Good morning. Good morning, Evan. Now, did you reach midnight |
| 0:54.9 | Sunday from a jump from 8 to midnight or do we get to 10? We get to 11 on Friday, Saturday? No, no, it jumped to midnight. Here's my issue. I'll give you more reasons as we go on, but go ahead. So I'm not going to push back on that because 11 straight is 11 straight, no matter how you slice it. And managers in baseball, better ones than Carlos Mendoza, have been fired for far |
| 1:13.6 | less than 11 game losing streaks in season. If you're not doing that, what are you doing to change it? Because Evan, on Friday afternoon, as the weekend started, as much as that game kind of was an implosion early, I felt like the Mets offense late in that game was starting to show a little bit of signs. |
| 1:28.6 | I know the pressure was off. You know, call what you want, but at least they had some runners on. Alvarez did drive in a run. I said, you know what, at least in these last three innings, the MET lineup looked like you could see tangible signs they were going to rebound. And what the hell happened on Saturday and Sunday. Now, we can talk about Devin Williams imploding, but guess what? |
| 1:45.5 | It's a one-to-nothing game because you again can't score after you can't score on Saturday. They don't have any life in the offense. Acting like Juan Soto is just going to be this, you know, cleanser of all things. Yeah, he'll help. But the lineup issues go way deeper than that. And you're not making any trades right right now Carlos Mendoza just for the sign of the clubhouse that this can't stand has to be fired. You hit on it, what do you do? What are you going to do about it? They're in the course of an 11 game winning streak and one option is to say hey there's too much talent in the room. Yeah. They're just too talented. Eventually they'll turn it around. Juan Soto's coming back. Francisco Lendor is better than this. Boba Chet is better than this. And naturally the Mets will just get better. And that's an option. And that is probably David Stearns's preferred option right now. But I've watched this sport for a long time, and you hit on it. Some managers have been fired for less. And if we make this about, well, |
| 2:36.1 | it's not Carlos Mendoza's fault, it's actually David Stearns's fault, you're losing kind of the |
| 2:42.1 | discussion. Right. Because the discussion isn't whose fault is it. We all know it's David |
| 2:47.5 | Stearns's fault. Absolutely. He built the roster. He made the decisions that some of us didn't like. It's the players' fault, obviously. But you're not changing those things in the middle of a season. You're not. You're trying something to spark the team. And you asked a great question, because on Friday I was out about 815. So what caused me, I think, a rational Metfan. I mean, I like to think of myself as a rational Met fan. You can tell me if I am or not. But what made me jump four hours? Obviously, three more losses. Yeah. But I'll tell you the other thing. And this is the thing that's actually bothered me as the day has gone on yesterday into the evening as Roman |
| 3:25.4 | Raines brought glory back to the WWE. I'm becoming a world champion. |
| 3:29.5 | Acknowledge him our tribal chief. The only championship I'll see in my freaking lifetime is a |
| 3:33.7 | wrestler winning a title. Can I guess? What? You hated his answer about pitching to Nico |
| 3:38.1 | Horner. Oh my God. It's not just the answer to pitching to Nico Horner. It's the decision. I think the answer might have been worse. The answer is worse, Sean. I'm not disagreeing with you. But there are certain moves that go 50-50. There are certain moves like deciding we're going to make David Peterson the bulk guy or when to take out David |
| 3:58.2 | Peterson or when to go to Wascar Brazabon. Even the decisions around Devin Williams for the last |
| 4:02.4 | two weeks, barely pitching him, which certainly doesn't help considering his two performances |
| 4:06.3 | in the last 13 days have been disasters. Those are like 50, 50, 60, 40, 70, 30 managerial debates. When there there is a runner on third, and for those that we're not watching, I'm going to describe it very quickly for you so you can understand the brain dead move that Carlos Mendoza made, because this was as bad as it gets. It is a tie game in the 10th inning. There's a runner on third and less than two outs, and the batter is Nico Horner. |
| 4:32.2 | Nico Horner doesn't strike out. Like literally, he doesn't. I came with numbers. He strikes out 9% of the time. What does that mean, Evan? The league average is 22%. So he does not strike out. Right. He's putting the ball on play with a runner on third and less than two outs. He's also a 350 hitter. |
| 4:47.9 | So you walk him because the on-deck hitter, Michael Bush, is not only hitting 150, he strikes out 27% of the time. And in a situation in which you lose with good contact, to me, this isn't a debate. This isn't a, let's take your calls on the Mendi decision. There is no debate. There's no |
| 5:05.6 | other side of things. I love debates that have two sides. This doesn't have a second side. The idea |
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