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slash New Jersey. Doug Williams, alongside Andy Martino, Andy. I want to get into the, into what

actually happened in your brain last week, because you, I said this morning to you and our producer, Jeff,

that last week you said the Mets are out of it.

Then midweek, you tweeted Mets are back in it.

I regret that comment.

Which comment to you?

The second one.

I should have stuck with my guns because I knew it was true after the Philly series.

Well, what I was trying to say this morning is it is different to say the Mets are in it than the Mets are going to make the playoffs.

Sure, but whatever, it's all shades of the same thing.

They're not going to make the playoffs, so therefore, I mean, what do you want?

You know, they're not going to be in the playoffs,, therefore, I mean, what do you want? You know, they're not,

they're not going to be in the playoffs. So however you want to award it. And the Phillies series,

to me, was the nail in the coffin. The Dodgers series was important because they had a nice

week against the Diamondbacks, so it created relevance for the Dodgers series. But the fact is,

I mean, if they'd swept the Phillies,

if they'd swap their actual divisional and wild card contender opponent last weekend,

losing two or three to the best team in baseball, arguably,

and the Dodgers, you could actually write that off a little bit better.

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