All right, I'm back from vacation, and Keith Hernandez joins us for this episode of the Shannoning podcast.

The Mets seem to be potentially spiraling their lead in the division has shrunken down to just half a game going to a big series with the Phillies.

We'll discuss how they got here, what they can do to turn things around.

It all starts right now.

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You know, Keith, it's funny.

I was obviously on Safari during the trade deadline.

So I was kind of out of it.

And I wasn't really in the trenches with Mets fans and hearing from them on Twitter as much as I normally would be or doing the show every day. And, you know, I got to say, I was really

surprised to see the Baez headline. And I thought starting pitching was their biggest need,

but really realistically, innings were their biggest need. And they

traded for Rich Hill, who's maybe one of five pitchers in the big leagues who was guaranteed

to give you like only four or five innings per start. So I thought that was a curious

decision. Not that he's a bad pitcher, but he's just not a perfect fit in my opinion.

So I, and I love Bayas the player. I think he's entertaining from a perfect fit in my opinion so i and i love by as the player i think he's

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