Hey, everybody. It's another edition of the Shea Anything podcast. My regular co-host is back.

Hi.

He knows to my left. He's coming off a long night at Cityfield covering a long and cold baseball game.

There was a writer in the press box somewhere when we were in hour four or five or six

or whatever it was and it was still going and Jason Vargas was in there.

Someone said, I can't imagine why young people aren't into this.

I like that.

One of the, actually, one of the themes of a lot of your writing since you've last been on the podcast has been that what we've learned about the Mets so far this season is that they're going to score runs.

Right.

Which is a great thing.

Last night we're coming off this rare blip in the radar for Jacob de Grom on, as I said, a cold and damp, foggy night.

Travis Darno was behind, thank you.

Travis Darno was behind the plate, which we'll get into a little bit.

But, Andy, it goes to your point that on a night where the Mets give up a ton of runs, no matter who's pitching, you realize when

Pete Alonzo hits a garbage time home run late in the game or you start to see some good at

bats and Ahmed Rosario puts together a great at bat, that it's a bummer that that doesn't

matter on a night like last night. So that's kind of to your point. You feel like the Mets need to

make sure that their pitching is up to the task. You feel like the Mets need to make sure that

their pitching is up to the task. Look, yeah, and this is more than about one game because obviously

this is something that's been a theme since the beginning of the year. I think in spring

training, I think it'll continue to be. But to use one game, which happens to be the night before

we're taping this, is a microcosm. Yeah, the run production is better than we

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