The New York Mets: Best Worst Team In Sports
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What was your favorite part of this book to write, Devin, as you were making your way through this deep, dark journey through the soul? |
| 0:16.8 | I was thinking that maybe it would be writing about any Chavez's catch or maybe it was writing about the 69 World Series. |
| 0:24.2 | But if I'm being honest, the most fun thing to write was trashing all your other crappy teams in the prologue. |
| 0:29.8 | That was really fun. |
| 0:31.2 | There was something just like processing about it, cathartic about it, and reassuring to me |
| 0:39.1 | that my team really is better at losing |
| 0:41.6 | than all of yours. |
| 0:43.1 | Devin, that is the most |
| 0:45.1 | Yankee fan thing |
| 0:46.4 | a Met fan has ever said. |
| 0:49.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.6 | Music Thank you. The life of a Mets fan isn't easy. |
| 1:02.8 | It takes emotional resilience to handle the mix of dizzingly high highs |
| 1:07.4 | and tragically low lows, often smashed right into each other. |
| 1:14.4 | Today, Devin Gordon dives into his thesis that the Mets are the best, worst team. |
| 1:22.4 | And he's got a lifetime of receipts. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, March 30th. |
| 1:30.2 | This is ESPN Therapeut. |
| 1:37.9 | Devin Gordon, I want to disclose at the outset here that I did grow up a Yankee fan. |
| 1:43.1 | I do identify as such, although I'm not like going to yell 27 rings, bro, at you, |
| 1:50.2 | like more than at least once. |
| 1:52.8 | I appreciate you to set it in a speaking voice. |
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