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All right, we've got 58 minutes and change the little less than 58 minutes to the trade deadline

in Major League Baseball. The Mets have traded just in Verlander, a couple of days at the trading

Mac Scherzer, and Peter mentioned a story in the athletic, where they got to hold the

Mac Scherzer and Peter, you've got to relay the quotes because they are kind of startling

and for met fans, I'm sorry, very sobering.

Yeah, I guess I was a little taken aback by these quotes.

It wasn't what I, I don't know, I just wasn't ready to go this far in terms of what a rebuild

looked like, but according to the athletic article, quote, Scherzer did not think

he would be traded. He was not in his words, quote, itching to jump ship, but he said he

agreed to wave his no trade clause because Steve Cohen and General Manager Billy Epler informed

him the team was taking a step back next season and building more for the future.

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