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Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. It is Wednesday, September 15th. On this episode,

we will take a look at the latest surprising turn in the Mets front office. As it appears,

Sandy Alderson will be returning for 2022. We don't really know why, but we're going to try and explore what possible reasons the

Mets could have for continuing forward on that path.

We're going to dig into some journeyman hitters for the bulk of this episode.

A lot of interesting names that have been picked up over the course of the season for fantasy purposes.

Try to get a sense for who those players are going to be going

forward, what kinds of roles they might have, and maybe figure out some common threads that

will help us find players like that in the future. And we've got a few emails we're going to try

to get to before the end of the show as well. You know, I think we found out on Monday night

after we recorded our last episode that Sandy Alderson is supposed to be returning as the Mets team president in 2022.

And when you think about all the things that have happened under his watch with the Mets, the hiring of Jared Porter, Jack Scott's DUI, the Mickey Calloway situation.

All of these things he's been presiding over, I would have assumed he was long gone,

even if there was time within his contract, long gone at season's end, because I assumed,

very wrongly, that Steve Cohen would, in fact, clean house and start over.

But here we are.

And it's not even LOL Mets anymore.

It's just why, Mets?

Like, why are you this way?

What is wrong with you?

Why can't you be even just a little bit decent when it comes to making decisions like this?

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