The show is not scripted. I mean, I plan stuff out in terms of what to talk about, but no.

I could feel you like almost stuck. You're like, it's a playoff. Wait a second. What am I going to say here? All right, game's thanks. I mean Thursday. Let's go. Evan, I'm going to fix this for you. It's an elimination Thursday. Oh, you like that better? Much better. Quicker to the point. It's a send the hawks packin' Thursday.

We could have the Hawks and Mets both eliminated from the playoffs today. It's close. We'll get to the Knicks a little bit later on and also the Yankees because today you don't even know this. I don't know if Sean even knows this. Today is actually a big decision date for the New York Yankees that we'll address a little bit later on. But I was watching a MEC game last night and I did something that very few people did. I did something that you Tiki Barber didn't do. You Sean Morash didn't do. Boomer and Gio didn't do. Nobody did. I don't think anybody did it in this town except for about 612 people. You know what that is? What's that? I watched every second and every pitch of last night's met loss by a final score of 14 to 2. I watched it all. Yeah, you wanted to feel the pain? It wasn't just the pain I wanted to feel. I have a lot of thoughts. Was it cathartic? Did you feel better after you did this? I don't feel better, but at some point you already conceded loss. I'm dead. Well, yeah. I think when the seven runs scored in the fourth inning, I conceded the loss. So no, I wasn't watching the game with the hope of the miracle comeback. I was just watching the game. I was going through the motions. Right. I'm scoring it. I'm just going to finish the job. And as I'm watching this game, this just horrific final six innings, because again, the game was over in the fourth inning, especially when Brady House at the Grand Slam, had a lot of brain thoughts. And you tell me if this is cathartic, and I want Mets. You tell me of what I'm about to tell you makes you feel better. because it may, it may not make you feel better. I have no idea. But it's an observation I made about the Mets that is very tough to argue. I think David Sterns did a terrible job. We've set it out nauseam now for the last few weeks, blah, blah, blah. I think if the Mets brought back Pete Alonzo and the Mets bought back Brandon Nemo and they basically

just redid the core of the roster, I think they'd still suck.

Like I think the Mets sucked no matter what they did unless it's something no one can imagine.

Why? What makes you say that?

I'll tell you why. Thank you, too. Because'll tell you why. Because there's so many games that I think, even though Pete's having a tough start in Baltimore to this season, he helps you win those games because he's at least got three home runs or four home runs at this point. I would even assume that if Pete came back, he wouldn't be struggling the way he's been struggling, because I don't think there would be the adjustment that he's dealing with right now in Baltimore. So I'm even saying that under the assumption Pete's playing well. And Brandon Nimmo, and you guys obviously got to see him the last few days. He left with a hamstring injury. Hopefully it's not too bad. He's claiming it's not too bad. We saw him the last few days in the Yankee Ranger series. Here's why they would have sucked either way. And maybe this is cathartic for some. You tell me. Did you watch David Peterson last night? I did. We have for the last four starts. Okay. Do you think he's on our fantasy team, Sean? I think it might be time. I was going to say not after today. Do you think Pete Alonzo and Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nemo and Edwin Diaz

would have made any difference on the fact

that David Peterson sucks? No. Not yesterday. Okay, cool. Let's keep going. Sean Manaya is making

$25 million a year and is basically being used as a long man. He came in yesterday with the bases

loaded in two outs, hit a batter, and gave up a grand slam. Do you think if the Mets ran it back with their core, Sean Manaya would be better than this? No, he would not. Okay, let's keep going. Kodi Senga is now on the injured list with lumbar, lumbar stuff. Lumbar artists. Yeah. Do you think that Kodi Senga, who for whatever reason forgot to pitch after the June 13th injury, June 12th injury, do you think Kodi Senga would be good if all those guys came back? No. Okay, let's keep going. I ain't done yet. Geez. Let's get to these stiffs known as Brett Beatty and Mark Vientos. And I hate to call him a stiff, but even Ronnie Maricio, who's been disappointing. Let's talk about the baby mats. How about Francisco Alvarez? It wasn't done anything in about three and a half weeks. Do you think those guys' development would have been that different? Oh, I don't think they've peed a Nemo or so. I don't know if they'd be playing as much, right?

Benz would likely not be up here. Viantos would not be forced to play first base. So I don't think they'd be playing as much. Not as much, but they'd be playing. Yeah. They'd be... Their impact would just be... I don't know. They'd be the margin of what success is. They wouldn't be counted upon to be contributors like the Mets are counting upon them right now to be contributors. So I kind of buy, I'm half buying what you're saying, because I don't think they'd be as involved. Yeah, I think their roles would clearly be different. You're 100% right about that. First base would be handled differently. Brett Beat Beatty booted a ball and Pete Alonzo's there. He makes the play, blah, blah, blah.

My point to you, though, is the issues with the New York Mets run a lot deeper than the controversial decisions we hated. Their development of Mark Vientos, Brett Beatty and Francisco Alvarez has been putrid. We just have to, we have to accept that. And we can blame the players for that. We can blame the coaching staff for that. We can blame the front office for that. Whoever you want to blame, that's fine. You can pick it. The development of those players has been horrible. The two pitchers, really three pitchers that were supposed to close out the rest of this rotation after Peralta McLean and Holmes, they're unpitchable. They're not bad, they're not mediocre, they're unpitchable. One guy is in the bullpen, he's been relegated to be a long man, the other guy is on the IL with lumbar issues, and David Peterson is like, I don't know what the hell they're going to do with him. He might as well be in the bullpen being a long man. That's where he was better, actually. I don't want anyone to take this as a defense

of David Ste. Right. He might as well be in the bullpen being a long man. So that's where he was better, actually.

I don't want anyone to take this as a defense of David Stearns. He has sucked in the job that he's had of building this roster. But we need to be honest that the men issues run a lot deeper than Marcus Simeon, Bo Bichette, and Jorge Polanco. Those guys I just mentioned, Senga, Peterson,

Mania, Vientos, Beatty, Maricio, because of the Lindor injury, Alvarez. They're all pretty

much awful right now. And if they were awful, even upon keeping Pete and keeping Brandon Nimmo,

they may not be 10 and 20, but

they wouldn't be good.

But does the Met fan pine for Pete Alonzo and Brandon Nimmo and Jeff Big Neal?

Is that what they're pining for right now?

And I'm asking kind of rhetorically, because I don't think the Met fan is.

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