Why Everyone Needs a Francisco Lindor

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Let’s face it, for the last few years, the New York Mets have made headlines in the most Metropolitan way possible. From first round playoff flamouts to million dollar fire sales to chucking gloves in the stands, something always seemed to be going wrong in Queens. But through it all, the one enduring constant has been their underrated superstar – shortstop Francisco Lindor. And with the Mets looking to make noise this October, his off the field leadership could be more valuable than his Hall of Fame numbers. So Jeff Passan joins us to explain why Lindor is definitely the guy you want in you clubhouse and how the Mets could be building MLB’s next juggernaut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeffrey last month I saw Grimace chugging a beer during a rain delay at City Field.
0:08.0	You know since Alex Hyacinth, our resident Mets fanatic, is not here.
0:12.0	I must be the one to make you answer for our purple friend
0:16.4	who is somehow still making news on my timeline, I'll be it a month at a time.
0:21.4	The fact that we're still talking about Grimus and it's mid-August Clinton, I think
0:27.1	is very indicative of the New York Mets place, not just in baseball in 2024, but in internet culture.
0:40.6	This has been a weird season, and it's particularly weird when an anthropomorphic
0:45.8	taste bud somehow comes to represent what your season is.
0:50.8	One day Ronald and his season is.
0:53.0	One day, Ronald and his friend spotted evil grimace running off with loads of shakes and
0:59.0	and...
1:01.0	This has been a weird season and it's particularly weird and yet I also think it's
1:07.2	misguided because as much as we want to make the 2024 New York Mets out to be like this meme team, there's something else that's happening here and something that's flying underneath the radar and it has to do with their shortstop who again and
1:26.4	again continues to prove himself as one of the best players of his generation.
1:30.4	That's driven to deep center field.
1:33.0	Jizum going back to the wall and it's out of here.
1:37.0	Francisco Lenora is the icing on the cape with his 11th home run of the year.
1:42.0	And it's 9 to 4 New York.
1:45.0	And quite simply never gets any recognition for how good he actually is.
1:51.0	The Meam team? That is a great name. That's better than the dream team,
1:56.1	better than the redeemed team, better than whatever all these other stupid people come up with.
2:00.9	This is brilliant, Jeff. That's what we're here for baby.
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