Because if you're going to trade for Tariq Skubel, who is a flight risk, like, let's just be honest.

He's Juan Soto.

Yes.

He's the pitcher Juan Soto. And just because you have a lot of money and Steve Cohen does have a lot of money, it doesn't guarantee you're going to keep the player. Hal Steinbrenner has a lot of money. They offered $750 million. Like, you just do not know. It's just not a guarantee. So if So if I'm trading for Scoobel, I need to reinforce my lineup that just took a

major beating over the last few weeks. And I think the MET lineup is not as good as it was last

year with your ideas. But okay, we're moving back to the Mendoza line. But the other problem

you've got to run into is if you're giving up Carson Benj in a trade

for Tariq Skulball and Jet Williams, or one of them, but dare I say both of them, a part

of the MET plans involve one of the outfield spots being filled by a young player.

Well, if those young players are traded for Tarek's school bowl,

now you need to add another outfielder. That's where Louis Robert Jr. comes into play. So now you want Luis Robert Jr.? Yeah, I wasn't a fan of his, but looking back now, it'd be a one-year thing. Basically, there's a team option on year two, but they could easily say we're good. And I don't think it'll cost as much to trade for him.

And he gets a fresh start in New York as well. Yeah, I'm intrigued by Luis Robert Jr. because... He's kind of been on the block for a minute now. Yeah, last off season. It feels like we talked about him all last off season as well. And the trade deadline. And nothing happened with him, obviously. I was more into Luis Robert Jr. a year ago because he was coming off of one bad year, but now he's coming off of two bad injury-prone seasons. But Robert Jr., and this is not a compliment on him, but I'm being fair on how it could work out, reeks like someone who just needs to be on a better team. And right now he's been on the Chicago White Sox. And if you put him in a room with the hardest working man in baseball on Juan Soto and an MVP candidate in Francisco Lindor, and you figure he's going to wake up. He's going to be the guy he was three years ago when he had 38 home runs and still 30 bases. The other thing is I heard he hasn't been happy for a long time. so somebody that could be Fagasy, not wanting to even be there anymore. Which is bad for him. That's a bad mark. But you can imagine when you've been on a bad team for that long. That doesn't care to win. At some point, you start to question yourself. Like, why am I doing this? I get it, but it still doesn't make the player look good. No, it doesn't. You still got to still try, but it's just, I can understand it. But if you can get this player for very little, and according to John Hame and the Mets, we're talking to Chicago and the disagreement is, they want the White Sox to pick up a portion of of the contract and then they'll throw in a decent

prospect right and the white socks are like no we want you to pay the whole thing my reaction

to that is wait a second steve first of all you've raised ticket prices on season ticket holders right

and you just lost pita lanzo and brand the memo so i don't want to hear it all right don't tell me

i right i'm gonna throw in some no, no, just pay the contract

and don't give up a prospect. And I was talking, this came from a, the neighbor of mine in the

section I sit in at Cityfield. Okay. Season ticket neighbor texted me unprovoked and said,

how does that price increase taste now? And I said,

it's rough. And he went on a diatribe. This isn't me speaking, saying, how could he do this?

How could he raise ticket prices? And then allow a homegrown hero to walk out the door because they don't want to go to five years. Well, it's not even that. I think, I'm increasingly following the, the Louie thought process here, that they just didn't want, they didn't want them. No, no, forget that. Like, I'm not saying Tommy's wrong or you're wrong or the baseball argument isn't wrong. I get all of it. I am showing you maybe one voice, but I think one

voice that represents a lot of Metfans. We're talking about a season ticket holder who is saying how could they do this? Right. They're taking more of my money and then they're not paying the guy that I wanted. Correct. And this man's point was, I think you have to be patient and see who they pay. Yeah, but here's the problem.

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