When you look at the way they were playing in June, there was a lot made about this team not being nearly as good as maybe we thought they were.

You know, I mentioned in the first segment of the first hour that, you know, April and May went so well, even with Juan Soto not doing what you expected them to do, that when June came, we expected, I think, more.

And we expected when Soto got going that they would really take off.

And it was quite the opposite.

Soto started hitting.

And the Mets went into a collective funk, essentially, and had a pretty big June swoon, if you will.

It kind of carried into July.

We sit here now and you look at a seven-game winning streak.

And I thought they played really well at home last week, and then you get to this series against a good Giants, not a great Giants team, but a good Giants team. I was impressed with what they did this weekend over San Francisco. Anytime you're going to go West Coast swing and have to deal with these teams, right, you're really far away from home. You're on the road for a while.

It is, it's not for the faint of heart. You don't take it lightly, even if the Giants haven't been playing

well. In June, by the way, the bullpen ranked 29th in ERA, right? It doesn't really get much worse than

that 29th in the entire league compared to what they were doing in the beginning of the season, which is really frustrating. And I know they had a ton of injuries. I know their left-handed relief core were completely wiped out. And Edwin Diaz still, right, coming up clutch, still being that guy, still important. Read Garrett is a guy that we're not talking enough about. This guy is going to be so clutch for them down the stretch.

He has a whip that's under one in the last month or so, which is elite. Ryan Stanik, another guy who's been really important for them. And I think it's just kind of finding their footing. Like it's frustrating, similar to the Yankees, the inconsistencies that they've had. For example, right? you mentioned Soto, who when he got hot, everybody else seemed to cool off.

And now he and Lindoror over the last two weeks have not been good. They're hitting under 200 right now. It just feels like there's a bit of a power outage or just in general, any kind of offensive production from these guys, which in turn puts more pressure and more eyes on Mark Viantos. Why isn't Mark Viantos playing

the way that we know he can when he did it in October, right? Brett Beat Beatty has been playing better.

Ronnie Maricio looked really good, especially yesterday on Sunday night baseball. Big stage,

guy comes up huge, which is important, but it's just a little inconsistent. They regressed

to the mean. They were so good to start the season. There was no way they were going to stay that hot, but it's just a little inconsistent. They regressed to the mean. They were so good to start

the season. There was no way they were going to stay that hot, but they've come back down to earth. All of that being said, Jerry, they're still in first place. They are in first place. And they have that lead right now. And they're going to have to fight with the fills to get through it and get past it. I was curious if, I was really curious, were Mets fans, Yankees fans for the weekend when the Phillies were in town?

Like, do Mets and Yankees fans do that?

So this was, what do you think?

This was a talking point with CMAQ overnight last week.

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