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Pro, how you doing, man?

I've been better. It's not exactly been the greatest sports week of my life.

As you well know, I mean, it's been a bit of freaking disaster.

Let me ask you this then based on that, because I was thinking about this last night in regards to the baseball decisions.

Yep.

I'm too young for the midnight massacre.

How would you compare the 24-hour period of losing Diaz and Alonzo to that famous night?

Well, I really look at it in three different segments, okay?

You know, I look at this.

I said this the other day, and I can't use the words I used,

but it's 50 years of Met Management basically screwing the fans.

And that's what we've gotten.

Okay, let's be honest about it.

It started with that M. Donald Grant, you know, the Siva thing, Dave Kingman's M.

Donald Grant and McDonald, doing what they did with Siva.

And it took them, you know, that was, you know, I felt violated.

Honestly, I felt violated, right? That was 24 years old, I felt like I was violated. And it took him eight years, whatever it was, to really get back again, 84, Davey Johnson, you know, bringing Keith here, Daryl, Doc, all of that. So that took until that, about eight years there. Then the second time I felt that way, you know, Now we we got the Wilpons and Doubleday and, of course, Frank Cashin, and he dismantles the 86 championship team.

Ray Knight goes, Lenny Dykstra gets traded, they trade Darling, they trade Moogie, they trade Mitchell, they eventually dumped Darrell.

So that's the second time.

And I was about 37 years old, right?

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