You will have the New York Mets and their home opener at City Field. You can watch all of the coverage, as always on SNY, as the guys, Gary Keith and Ron, and of course, Gelbs as well. Back for yet another season. We love them so much. The sound of their voice, just the image of them

popping up on the television makes a smile.

Easy. You're going to give him a big head. And he's got a big enough one already. And it's Ron

Darling who joins us now. Ron, good morning. How are you?

Good morning, guys. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

Hey, Ronnie, so give me your first impressions of what David

Stearns has done here, the roster, what it looks like in your eyes,

and can they be better than most people think that they're going to be?

Yeah, it really feels like a boomer NGO.

Doesn't it feel so different from last year when there was so many expectations

you brought in or you had the two Cy Young Award winners and you just thought that everything

was going to fall into place after 101 wins the year before? But I don't know, watching them

all spring training, tension to detail, all those little things that are important and cliche.

What does that mean for the season?

I like the roster.

I think offensively, they, and with Eric Chavez back as the hitting instruct, I think

the offense is the given on this team.

And it's just, it's going to be what they get to me anyway. I think the bullpens

strong enough, especially with Diaz back, but what they get out of Severino, what they get out of

Mania, and holding the fort until Senga comes back, I think, to me it's the true test.

Do you think we're going to see a major difference between the way Buck Showalter handled this

team and the way that Carlos Mendoza will be handling this team?

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