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DiPietro & Rothenberg

Hour 4: Are the Mets a true contender?

DiPietro & Rothenberg

ESPN

Sports

4.6626 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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After landing Freddy Peralta, are the Mets title contenders? Plus, the Jets are struggling to generate interest in their DC vacancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is D. Pietro and Rothenberg.

0:52.1

I think we're back.

0:53.0

Hey, we're back, baby.

0:53.6

You just go click, click, click, click on the delete button. Just start on plugging stuff. That's all you do. Restarting stuff, unplugging everything. I also got the full plumber experience, too, which was great. Arjand to the desk. You want things to work or not? I think what you did was heroic. If you're going to do that in the workplace, why even put fans on that, buddy. This is D. Pietro

1:13.4

and Rothenburg. You knew you were If you're going to do that in the workplace, why even put pants on that?

1:14.3

This is D. Pietro and Rothenburg.

1:15.6

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Nothing's by accident.

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And streaming live on YouTube.

1:44.9

All right, D&R with you, ESPN, New York. So here's what I would like to know. And here's what I would like to drum up for some phone calls, 800919-376. The Yankees keep Bellinger. So they are, for the most part, the same team. Right? They're bringing back the same team. And I know a lot of people are kind of turned off by that. I'd like the reaction to that.

1:46.5

Are you excited as the Yankees fan?

1:58.3

Are you, hey, we're treading water and we're going to be what we were last year, which is not so awful. But I don't think a lot of people look at the Yankees and say, that's a championship caliber club. And then on the flip side, you have the Mets who, do you realize how new the Mets are going to be?

2:04.0

First base new, third base new, second base new, left field new, center field new.

2:34.5

I mean, your everyday position players are more new players than returning players. Right. But, I mean, they wanted to make a change. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying like, it's different. You, you, I can't, you can, I don't think anybody consider it to say the Mets are going to be this, because how could you possibly know with all these new faces on this team? Well, the only way you know is because of past performance, right? Like, you know that, you know that Boba Chet is a really good offensive player, right? He's going to hit for average. average. I mean, that's going to be... Correct.

2:35.0

But I don't know what Bo Bichette's going to be defensively. No, I have no idea. I don't know what Polanco is going to be defensively at first base. Right. But there was clearly, I get there was a type of player that they were looking for. I talked about professional at bats, not giving at bats away. you wanted to get better.

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