NPDS - The Mets $391 million season goes down in Marlins flames, Astros postseason streak ends, AL East battle ends with Blue Jays title! (Episode 1356 Hour 2)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Mets are not in the playoffs. $391 million. No postseason. All they need was a win on Sunday vs the Marlins and they were shutout. 3rd time they’ve been eliminated by the Marlins on the final day of the season. (19:00) Now let’s talk about the Astros. Houston has a problem for the first time in years. They missed the postseason. (24:30) The Toronto Blue Jays have won the AL East. Tied with the New York Yankees, but the tiebreaker got the win. First title since 2015! Alex Cora talked after the Red Sox made the postseason. He said no one believed in them. Hmm. (37:00) The Guardians did it. They won the AL Central. How? 15.5 games back! Sorry, Detroit! (42:00) Let’s go over my preseason predictions in baseball. Aaron Judge is the MVP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. New York Mets will not be participating in the playoffs this year.
0:40.3	And I can't say that I'm unhappy with the Marlins eliminating them again.
0:46.7	It wasn't as big a highlight as winning the World Series or anything.
0:50.2	But eliminating the Mets in 07 and 08, there was satisfaction that we got.
0:55.3	When you're not going to be in the playoffs, it's sort of like misery loves company.
0:58.9	You want everyone to suffer the way you're suffering.
1:02.0	Sports related.
1:03.9	That's for sure, only sports related.
1:08.4	Last night, I was thinking about so many things and one of them is what Steve
1:13.8	Cohn was doing because I thought back to the 17 closing days that I had where I
1:18.9	didn't make the playoffs out of 18 years and how you think about what what's next that
1:24.6	you think about you've spent an entire year pushing a boulder up a hill,
1:31.2	step by step, trying to get to the top.
1:35.4	And for 29 out of 30 teams on your last day, the boulder comes crashing down,
1:42.0	crushes you and the village at the bottom of the mountain, and then you spend the
1:46.5	off-season putting the boulder back together, rebuilding the houses, and pushing it up the hill again.
1:55.6	For the Mets, their boulder was the size of the Armageddon Mete meteor because they had the second highest payroll in the sport.
2:05.5	Steve Cohn was at the end of his prediction.
2:08.8	When he took over the Mets, he said three to five years, World Series or bust?
2:13.6	Well, this was the end of year five.
2:15.9	Didn't get a World Series, didn't get to the World Series, got to an LCS, but he will be well known and better known for during his period of great depreciation.
2:28.5	He spent a ton of money, lost a ton of money, and didn't win a thing.
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