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And now we bring in one of our favorite people. We really like this guy. Now I'm not at

the level of Steve Young, but right below that.

He's getting there though. And he's getting there and that is our good friend, the brilliant

Jeff Passon from ESPN. Jeff, how you doing?

I'm taking my go. That was excellent use of soccer thanks by you by the way.

Thank you.

Way to go.

Did you panic at all about the Mets when they went off on this Lucy Street? Do you think

this is a team that's in trouble?

I'm not going to say the Mets are in trouble, but this is an alarming start for the first

quarter of the season. And I tend to judge the Mets as I said on the show before by the

text messages I received from my Mets fan friend. And there's like a half dozen of them.

And all they do is piss and moan about this team. And I've been trying for like a month

and a half now to talk them off the ledge because it's not as good as it should be.

It's not as good as was expected, but it's not as bad as it seemed either.

And the games that they've won the last two days in the fashion that they've won them yesterday,

the game tying home run and the ninth inning from Alvarez and the game winning home run

from Alonzo. And today, getting that monster shot from Alonzo and holding on to a lead

against that team in baseball. I mean, those are two pretty good wins, guys. And I think

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