Touched on it a little bit last hour, but David Stearns comes out and gives that vote of confidence.

Carlos Mendoza says this is not a managerial problem, which is another thing that also puts it at his feet.

The issues that the Mets have with roster construction.

The thing that drives me crazy, though, about what's going on now is they can use injuries as an excuse.

And I don't think that that's the reason why they're so bad. It definitely contributes to it. But what I don't want is for them at the end of the season when they missed the playoffs to go, oh, you know, well, we miss Lindor for this amount of time. We miss Soto. And then Louis, Louise Robert Jr. got hurt and then Polanco. All right, you brought in Robert Jr. the guy had a history injury. You guys never healthy. He gets hurt. Jorge Polanco is an aging player and he's got injury history. He ends up getting hurt. Kodi Senga is a guy who absolutely stunk since God. I mean, we haven't seen him pitch well since the first year he was here. And he has gotten hurt multiple times.

And now I don't know if this is a faux I-L stint or what, but he shouldn't be on the team. So it's not just like, oh, people get hurt. You don't know how they're going to get hurt. It depends who's on your roster too. Now, Lindor and Soto are two guys who don't get hurt a lot and play a lot of games. and that has happened this year.

But a lot of these guys that David Sturts has brought in that have gotten hurt have injury history. So I just don't want

that to be an excuse for why they're bad. They're bad for a lot of reasons. And mostly it's

because David Stern's vision since the trade deadline last year into this offseason has been an epic failure.

Yeah, plus the decisions that go around, some of the players that he has signed,

including Juan Soto, give him in the suite and everything else,

and separating him from the entire roster just by virtue of being great for other teams.

Yeah.

So, I mean, you also have that issue there.

I mean, I just, you know, the Phillies fired their manager, and Don Mattingly has gotten them now to

five and one since he took over.

That's right.

Yeah, five and one in the last two series.

And again, I hate even calling for managers and coaches jobs because I know how difficult they are.

And something says I do, like I said earlier this morning, I do appreciate David Stern sticking with this guy.

I have to say I do appreciate that.

But I also understand that there's a reality that if something doesn't change,

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