We talked to Gellbs about the Mets briefly with the Yankees.

I know you're a Yankee fan. Yeah. We are sitting here now on December 31st. Their pitching is fantastic. I am not questioning that. Devin Williams is now a Met. Okay, fair enough. Cody Bellinger is still out there. Still out there. And to me, this lineup is still very incomplete. While you still have the best

player on the planet, or at least arguably one of the best players on the planet and Aaron

Judge, you still have an aging John Carlos Stanton on this team. Belinger is not currently there.

If Bellinger, I say if, because who knows, I think he wants to be a Yankee, but money will talk. If he ends up with the Mets or even back with the Dodgers or wherever, what in the hell are Yankees doing? I don't know. It's a weird offseason. It has, but I also think right now, for me, I'm trying to, is it a numbers thing? I think it's a numbers and a years thing.

Yeah, I mean, you've got a lot with Hal Steinbrenner and the luxury tax and kind of setting a specific number of salary.

He doesn't want to go over.

You've got Bellinger by reports, because you know what Boris is really asking for.

He's not.

I've seen some stories that Bellinger wants seven years.

I've seen five years.

I think most teams... The number I saw her was seven. Yeah, well, that's been out there. I think even six is out there. And I think most teams, I'm I'm really referencing mostly the Mets and the Yankees. I don't think either team would have any issue giving him a three or a four-year deal. But if you're going to start tacking on four, four, five, six, seven, I think that's where the problem lies. And you always wonder, as we're getting into the new year now. And they're talking about, not, not, I apologize, they're talking about seven, what, 30 million? Something like that. Something like that seems like they're going right. See, we withdraw this $30 million out like it's nothing, but yeah, it seems going right.

You know, spring training, pitchers and catchers will report to spring training officially like six weeks from now. And at some point, whether the Mets, the Yankees, that's why I asked Gell's like what he thought the met lineup will look like opening day. There is still a lot of work to do for these two teams.

And if he ever win, I don't think it's going to happen, but if he ever went back to the Dodgers or another team swooped in and grabbed him, I think both teams are kind of sitting there left like, huh, now what? Well, I think a reference to the Yankees, if you, if you're trying to ride the momentum of off what you did last year, you want to get this done as soon as possible. You don't need this distraction going into spring training. I think for the Mets on the other side, you just let go Alonzo. You watch Edwin D. Like, you've, you've lost some star power. This guy, you feel like in fill a void. A lot of them. A lot of them. And now it's just about you know I think for Corey I think what him is the security and I understand that from a ball player standpoint you want to know where you're going to be you want to feel like you have a role and you're cemented in an organization like the Yankees where you know they're they bleak the blue jays they're back where they were prior to that you have a roster that I can compete you know, they're, they bleak the Blue Jays. They're back where we're prior to that. You have a roster that I can compete. You know, I think you just want to get the deals done sooner than later. But it just has to make sense. And I think at this point of his career, it has to make sense for you overall. And not just from the ball club, you have to feel like you know where you need to be. Well, but then comes the question. Like, where are the offers coming from? Because it does

seem like if that's the, his asking price, all is essentially quiet. And at some point, he's going

to have to make a decision on where he wants to play. When I say he is the perfect fit for both teams,

to me, I got a guy who can play first base. He can play center field. He can play left field. You want him to DH one. He just does, and he does it all very well, which is why he's a unique player. But still dangling out there. And until you got him, you ain't got him. But do you see this thing happening? I don't know. I really don't know. I've always thought he was going back to the Yankees, going back to last season. I've seen him. I remember Susan Waldman did an interview with him. Well, the issue for me, the Yankees passed on an outfield that can back an outfit or that can back judge. Like, they don't a backup for a judge right now. And like, so for me, it's like, get it done before the Mets say, listen, let's, let's bring you in. And then the Yankees are stuck. That's been hanging over their head. And still it hasn't motivated them to up the years if the reports I'm reading are true, that they're kind of holding firm on what they want to

offer.

So my point was, though, when Susan talked to him in April or May, I remember listening to it.

It was one of those pregame conversations for one of the games early in the season.

And is you talking about Bellinger?

Okay.

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