Pete Alonso’s Message to David Stearns Reopens Mets Wounds

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber react to another frustrating Mets loss, even as the team finally strings together back to back series wins. The conversation centers on why moral victories are not enough for a club still buried under .500 and why every missed opportunity feels magnified. They also dig into the renewed Pete Alonso drama, David Stearns’ roster building, Juan Soto’s quiet big moments, and the frustration around a Mets lineup that still does not look good enough. What should have been a step forward instead becomes another reminder of how much work this team still has to do.

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0:00.0	The Mets situation is odd and it's unfortunate because, yes, they've won back-to-back series.
0:05.3	Yes, they won two out of three on the road in Anaheim and they won two out of three on the road in Colorado.
0:10.6	And they're starting to play slightly better baseball.
0:13.6	And that's a good thing, right?
0:15.2	Winning series.
0:16.0	I mean, that's major progress after their 12-game losing streak.
0:19.3	The problem is threefold. Number one,
0:22.9	the games they've lost on this
0:24.7	trip, the two losses that they had,
0:26.8	they should have won both games.
0:29.2	Like, it's not as if
0:30.7	they lost the game, never really had a shot.
0:33.6	Yesterday's game
0:34.4	featured a lineup that caused major
0:36.6	issues among the Mets fan base because you're looking at Austin Slater as a cleanup hitter, and Andy Abagnas playing. And Tyrone Taylor for some reason. And Tyrone Taylor playing, and Vidal Bruhan playing shortstop. So you didn't have the most ideal lineup. Then you saw the offense, led by Juan Soto, failing in some of the biggest spots, come up very, very small, and you saw the Mets lose a game on a foul ball grand slam.
0:59.0	Like it sucked. It was a bad, bad loss.
1:01.2	So despite the whole, hey, they won two out of three aspect, when there's a winnable game in front of you, and you've already created this hole in which you're multiple, multiple, multiple games under 500.
1:11.8	Now it's nine games under 500, but they went into yesterday's game, eight games under 500.
1:16.4	Then, yeah, unfortunately, you can't afford games like yesterday.
1:19.8	So I found myself very frustrated with yesterday's loss despite the fact that, yes, they've won back-to-back series for the first time all year.
1:27.0	Yeah, they won back-to-back series, but you're still double-digit games out of first place in the NL East. And it just feels like, as we talked about before, when they went on a little bit of a run, you still have to make up for losing 12 games in a row. Yes. And you haven't done that yet. And you can win series all you want.
1:45.5	But until you rip off six to eight wins in a row, it's not going to feel like you've made progress to get back to 500.
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