Mets Panic Early, Volpe Questions & Yankee Reality Check

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

With the season barely underway, frustration is already boiling over for Mets fans as concerns about roster construction and early struggles take center stage. The conversation questions whether this team has real upside or if fans are watching a flawed blueprint play out in real time, creating tension between patience and panic. The discussion also shifts to the Yankees, where expectations around young players like Anthony Volpe are being recalibrated. From debates about earning playing time to the dangers of early season overreactions, the final stretch of the show blends sharp analysis with fan emotion as both teams face very different, but equally intense, scrutiny.

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0:00.0	I have a memory.
0:01.4	I have a long memory.
0:02.8	I want to take you guys back to 2009.
0:05.8	Okay.
0:06.3	That was, of course, the last time the Yankees won a world championship.
0:09.0	They also did make the World Series since they won a world championship.
0:12.2	They lost their home opener by a final score of 10 to 2 to then Cleveland Indians.
0:18.8	I want to jump up to 2024.
0:20.9	That was the other time the New York Yankees made the World Series.
0:24.5	Didn't win it, but made the World Series.
0:26.7	They lost their home opener to the Toronto Blue Jays by a final score of 3-0.
0:31.2	So in the history of the new Yankee Stadium, the formula to success is to lose the home opener.
0:39.0	Your thoughts?
0:39.8	What?
0:40.4	Two examples?
0:41.4	In 2009 and in 2024, the two world series appearances the Yankees have made in somewhat recent time,
0:50.6	they lost their home opener sort of in embarrassing ways.
0:53.7	10 to 2 to Cleveland and getting shut out by the Blue Jays. You're leaving out something I can't tell if you're doing it on purpose. Have they won every other home opener besides those two? Well, I just told you they're 11 and 6 all time at the New Yankee Stadium, so that would make them 11 and 4 in the other 15 home opener. So, in other words, it means nothing. Yes, exactly.
1:11.2	I'm just telling you that losing doesn't...
1:12.9	Your mathing isn't mathing.
1:14.3	My math is it way.
1:15.8	So what if they lose?
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