Hour 1: Mets Send Early Message + Ian Eagle on St. John’s Big Test

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Opening Day delivers everything optimism, overreactions, and just enough weirdness to remind you baseball is truly back. The Mets kick off their season with a win that highlights a new identity at the plate, sparking excitement about what this team could become. From patient at-bats to manufacturing runs in multiple ways, there’s plenty to feel good about even if it’s only one game. The conversation dives into standout performances, early impressions of the revamped roster, and why this version of the Mets feels different from years past. Along the way, things take a turn into the bizarre with a dead bird incident in the outfield, a breakdown of the infamous 9-9-9 challenge, and a wild lost-and-found story that perfectly captures the unpredictability of Opening Day.

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0:00.0	If you're a Met fan, much like if you were a Yankee fan the day before, it was all smiles. Like, even after they went down 2-0 on that wind-dated home run, which I had no idea while I was on the train that was a wind-aided home run. I thought Freddie Peralta gave up a 500-foot bomb. No, you could tell because Carson Binge was kind of just settling under it, and he just kept walking back to the fence and like, wait, that's out. Yeah. That was a BS little fly ball to right field.
0:24.0	It really was.
0:24.4	And then the Mets and here's what I loved about
0:26.8	opening days about five different things we'll get to and we'll hear from you early and often 888
0:31.2	80810810119 whether it was the fun of being there whether was the traffic you hit whether you think
0:36.3	the Mets are going to want 105 get whatever it. I loved early on in this game just the way they grinded Paul Skeens. Like they didn't pound them, Tiki. They didn't hit line drives off of them. Yeah, there were some bloops. Yes, O'Neill Cruz doesn't want to play center field. I get all that. But how about the Lindor at bat. How about the Robert Jr. at bat? How about the way
0:55.9	they grinded the best pitcher
0:57.9	in baseball to where
0:59.6	they put themselves in a spot
1:02.1	where a fly ball to center field could
1:03.9	fall in or a line drive to center field could be
1:05.8	misjudged or a flyball by Boba Shek
1:07.8	could turn into a sacrifice fly. Even Lindor
1:09.9	taking the extra base on the Soto Blue.
1:12.0	Like, that was a grinded out, 98 Yankees kind of inning. And no, I didn't compare them to the 98 Yankees. You calm down over there. I'm calm. Calm down. I'm just glad we're not doing the open today, which is the best team in baseball, the Yankees of the Mets. Right. We're not there yet.
1:26.5	But just like the Yankees, though, on Wednesday night, the Yankees of the Mets. Right. We're not there yet. But just like the Yankees
1:28.6	though on Wednesday night, the Mets manufactured runs. Now, some of it was mistakes because of the
1:34.3	pirates. And eventually, I think the Mets made you feel good because they started smashing the
1:38.7	ball out of the ballpark. But if you can create runs in multiple different ways, then you got to feel really good about opening day.
1:47.1	Now, the only thing that you worry about from this start for Freddie Peralta is that he gave up two home runs.
1:52.8	Yeah, exactly.
1:53.7	The first one doesn't even count.
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