Who did you want?

Like, I'm going to raise my hand and tell you who I wanted.

I wanted Corbyn Burns.

Right.

Hurt. Tommy John surgery. Like, when you look at... He wouldn't be available right now. He wouldn't be. Like, not to call Sal out, but I'm calling myself out on him. I know Sal wanted Walker Bueller. Well, what happened to him? Yep. So even if they were more aggressive in hitting starting pitching, I look around and say, well, who would it have been? Trading for Gary Crochet, sure. It was going to cost you a lot. It was going to cost you a lot in prospect capital. Would it have been worth it? Certainly with the way he's pitched, it appears that way. And the other one is your guy, Max Freed. But the Mets were never even linked to him.

And they were never going to make that kind of long-term offer. So, yeah, the pitching wasn't good enough. David Sterns has deserved a lot of blame, but there's not like there's that many guys that they could have gotten that you're like, damn it, why don't you get him? And you go back and look at all of them. And we, I think we did this at some point a month or two ago. And none of them

worked out the way that you would have thought. And we, I think we did this at some point a month or two ago. And none of them

worked out the way that you would have thought. And so you did the best with what you could,

with what you could get. And they were good for a little bit. But ultimately, I think what he said

first was the more pertinent part, which is that this lineup, and Carlos Mendoza says this every

time he gets asked about it, we have good players.

Yeah.

They should be hitting better.

Absolutely.

They just don't consist, at least not collectively.

They do individually, but collectively, they haven't had these type of breakout games or the

breakout game, like the breakout game we saw of the game we went to a week and a half ago. So if they just played up to their regular normal potential, you wouldn't have to worry as much about the pitching. No, you're right, but you can't pitch to the level where you get knocked out in the second inning. Can't happen. Brandon's in Boston. What's up, Brandon?

Hey, Evan.

I'm just, um, Tiki, first time, long time.

Big fan in the show, listen every day.

Um, so I just wanted to give a call because I was watching that Mets game last night.

And I'm almost positive that Gary Cohen did get into the whole Charlie Kirk thing. And he went into the fact that they were friends. His wife did text. Did he? Because I, then that's on me if I missed it, but I listened to it like twice just to make sure. I don't remember hearing that. So if I'm wrong, I'll gladly apologize because I didn't hear it. So you know what? I'll go back and listen to it.

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