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We don't hold back and we don't waste your time. We get to what actually matters. That's Boomer and Gio and you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. Why not get the actual reporter on the horn? We welcome in Andy Martino of SMY. You can check out his columns on SMY. Also see him on baseball night in New York. I know he'll be on the show tonight at 6 o'clock. I heard their host is excellent as well. But Andy, thank you for joining us. Let's start with the Mets change here going with Kai Karea. My bigger issue is that I didn't think that this was a Mendoza choice. How did this come about and how was Kai Correa selected for the Mets bench coach? Is it a me head thing to pull the hoodie up on top

of the head? Like you guys, I could be here too if that's what we're doing today. It's freezing in

here. That's why we had the hoods up. I'm good. I'm good here the, with the hat. No, it wasn't, this wasn't something that was forced on Mendoza from everything I heard, Sal. I understand the suspicion. I think, you know, any coach who's 37 years old, you wonder, hmm, what's that about? Is that because he's moldable for a front office?

That's where the mind goes. But I do know for a fact that Carlos Mendoza likes this guy,

is on board with it. Obviously, the front office has to be on board with it too. And this instance,

he brings particular qualities that David Sternarns made very clear in his

post-mortem press conference a couple weeks ago that he was interested in, which is run

prevention. Mike Sarbaugh was an excellent infield coach, but the Mets decided to move on there.

And Kai Kare is a guy who's got a lot of experience coaching defenses, and that was a primary thing that appealed to them.

Now, I'll say this too.

I don't know the guy, so having no opinion of it out of the gate, as I was working last night on this and most

of the Yankees coaching changes stuff, which was more going on yesterday and I will get

to, I was just getting texts from people in the industry.

Like, oh, by the way, Kai Kare is awesome.

Oh, by the way, the Mets got better today.

I even heard that he was on a short list at one point in the recent past of being a Mets manager candidate before Mendoza came on the scenes during one of their cycles. So this is somebody who has a good reputation in the business. Yeah. He seems to have a good reputation. And the Mets absolutely have to catch the baseball better. They were just bad at that last year. So I think that that's wise, too, to try to tighten that up. And maybe I'm going to play the

semantical game, Andy, but to me, there's a big difference between the Mets shoving Kai Karea down the throat of their manager. And if you're saying that's not the case, okay, I'll believe you. but I still need to know

who first brought

Correa's name up.

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