Episode 013: How AJ Ewing And Carson Benge Shift The Mets’ Season

One week ago, the Mets felt like a team waiting for the floor to drop out. Then the kids started hitting, the call-ups kept coming, and suddenly every game had that dangerous feeling of possibility.

We talk through the latest New York Mets roller coaster from a fan’s-eye view, including Carson Benge finally catching fire, AJ Ewing quietly stacking wins when he gets on base, and what it means when the roster starts to look like a full-on rookie movement. We also dig into the pitching side, from Christian Scott’s strikeout-heavy chaos to the gut punch of the Clay Holmes injury and how one moment can change bullpen plans overnight. Along the way we share why Juan Soto’s dugout presence matters more than the rumor mill admits, especially when so many young players are trying to learn Major League Baseball in real time.

Then we get into the debates that make a season feel alive: where Mark Vientos belongs in the lineup, what Brett Baty’s glove saves, how we think about Alvarez’s power versus double play risk, and why “Bo Bichette is back” only counts if the Mets actually win. We even take a detour to the Tampa Bay Rays as the league’s weirdly perfect example of roster flexibility, plus a fun back-half pivot into movies and pop culture.

If you enjoyed the ride, subscribe, share the show with a Mets fan, and leave a review. What is the single biggest reason you think the vibes flipped this week?

Transcript

Welcome And Quick Housekeeping

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Another episode of Stat Boys Mets Club. Everybody, how you doing? This is me, Giovanni Blanco.

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I'm Franklin Blanco.

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And here we are on the other side of this past week. It is now May 20th, 2026. A good what'd you say? Seven weeks in to the season.

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Seven and a half. It's technically eight, but the first week was only a half week.

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And um things have been topsy turvy. Before we get into anything crazy, let's just say thank you for watching. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe.

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A Rough Start Finds A Pulse

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This has been quite the week. We've been, you can say, hanging on a thin thread the last three weeks, it feels like.

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More.

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More. Pretty much since the beginning of the season. But more so in these last three weeks, I want to say, because it felt like, you know, it felt like, okay, this is it.

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Yeah. Which is it's it's always funny to think that because it was so early on. At least so early on. But also like we were like, what, like 15 games below 500? Like it was, it was bad.

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It's in last place. One of the worst records in baseball.

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Um I think right now we're cleanly not in last place. I think there's like five teams, at least worse than us.

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Yeah.

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We might not even be last in our division soon because the Marlins are only like two games ahead. Yeah. We're there.

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So look at the silver lining. No, I mean, I think I think more than anything, I feel also that since last week, primarily since that sweep, it felt like, okay, wait a minute, you know. Young guys. Young guys, Benj finally, finally catching on fire.

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The Mets are six and one in games with AJ Ewing. Six and oh in games where AJ Ewing safely reaches base.

SPEAKER_05 2:53

Ha ha. So yeah, so since the sweep, and I think he came on the last day of the sweep, right?

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I'm I think maybe.

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Yeah, and Ewing has just been kind of like in a weird way, kind of like what everyone thought Carson Benge was gonna be uh initially, and oddly enough, Carson Benjamin's kind of caught up to the the sort of uh expectations.

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I think Carson Benjamin's kind of like a little bit ahead of the expectations. Like, oh absolutely. I mean, as far as May's concerned this year, yeah, this this this month, he's like an all-star. Yeah, yes, he is, yes, he is. And he's been good defensively since the beginning. So it's like I'm I'm really happy about that.

SPEAKER_05 3:35

No, I mean it's it's kind of crazy because it's almost like, you know, I feel like that with the with the air, the vibes, it's it was kind of hard to not want him to kind of take off right away, and and unfair to give this rookie, you know, put all this pressure on him. Especially when all these so-called, you know, big deal players that we made crazy deals for or paid lots of money for, or veterans, or whatever, like everyone was just kind of falling apart.

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And it is also it's a scary place to be, because we are becoming a rookie team. And it's a really scary, because it's like it can go well, like it has been for the last week, or it could go bad, like Carson Benge's first month. Like it's it's like a it's a scary line to be walking, because like obviously they could have what we need, and they could also get into a little bit of a slump because they've never played Major League Baseball.

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So it's like an entire season.

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It's it's worrying, but it's also really exciting.

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Um tell us, you know, also it's like uh I feel that you this past week of yesterday we added Nick uh um morbuto. Nick Morabito. Morbido?

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He's Italian, he was on the Italy team.

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Oh, he was? Nick Moribido. Then uh today we're adding Zach Thornton. Zach Thornton.

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To be fair, we added Zack Thornton before Nick Morbido, but Zach Thornton's a pitcher, so today is his debut pitching. Um I really don't know much about Zach Thornton.

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I don't know anything about him.

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I mean, there seemed to be a lot about Nick Morabito, but uh I think they're uh honestly though, I think they're all like we've started adding the lower down guys. Like I think AJ Ewing really made a big splash.

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But lower lower down guys that have been kicking ass.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Yeah, they've been like consistently very like there's a reason we're bringing them up, but in terms of like how we know them, Zach Thornton was definitely like one of the lower down pitchers because there's a guy like Christian Scott, who we already brought up, not really a rookie anymore, but he was I mean he might be actually. I don't know when he got injured. I know he he came up to play, but I don't know if he reached the didn't he come last year? No, he was like 2023, 2024, and I think he played for like a little bit, and he had to get a surgery. Okay. So that's why he bet and I think he might still count as a rookie because of that. He didn't play that. I could I could be wrong, but I feel like he's bet on like the prospect. Like when I see like the list of Mets prospects, I feel like he's been there. Um so I think there's a chance that he just didn't get enough playing time.

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And how's he doing in general? I mean I feel like Christian Scott is so good. Yeah.

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The thing is, he's like he is the he's the wild thing stereotype, like to a T. Because every time he goes out there, he gets like eight strikeouts, but then he also has like three hits people and like walks everywhere, and he's he's got a bit of a control thing, yeah. But he is much better than I thought he was, not knowing much about him, which is really exciting. I'm kind of I'm coming I'm kind of loving that. I think he was like also like a higher up prospect pick, and that's what's kind of like expected.

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It's crazy that in this week, you know, we have you know, with Banjo already in the lineup, bringing up Ewing last week, now Nick, Zach, you mentioned Christian. There's a lot of, I feel like some of our players are still kind of on the younger side, some of the other guys.

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We have a lot of young guys because there's like the the trio young guys, Alvarez, Beatty, and Vientos are all like still 24, 25.

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Like that's and that's insane. You know, there's McLean.

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Yeah, McLean is still like 22. He's a rookie.

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Um I I just it's it's so it's kind of like the more we talk about it, the more exciting it feels because it definitely feels like, wait a minute. These are brand new guys that are like having the opportunity to create their own, you know, the their own patterns in the in the clubhouse and their own kind of, they're not, you know, it's not just like, hey, this, it's the kid on the team. It's like there's like 17 kids on the team.

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You know, that's like I feel like one of my favorite things was I saw somebody did like, it was a picture of Master Splinter from Teenage Meetings and Turtles. And he was holding the hands of the little baby turtles, and Master Splinter was Soto, and then all the little baby turtles were rookies, and I really love that. Did you see in that in the one game where uh Carson Bench walked it off, one of the games where Carson Bench walked it off, and then they like hugged, and like him and Soto hugged, and that became like a little a little clip, but it's like I love to see that too because people will always be like, Yeah, Soto is probably hating being on the mess right now.

SPEAKER_05 9:07

And I just I love to see a thing like that where he's like he's No, I mean it kind of like he's he has the opportunity to um brush off any sort of uh stupid rumors or or uh uh you know aspersions from other people as far as what they think he is to the team. And he's been showing slowly that he's a big support system. And also that he's involved because he's actually he's he's he's hitting well. He's like doing, you know, he's not he's not uh he's not cleaning house as much as you wish he would because he's like like supposed to be our home run.

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Uh but also it's like it's it's like uh there are those other clips and like like in the WBC on Team Japan, there's that clip of uh I think it might actually be Murakami, but like in the dugout, after Murakami strikes out or something, then Otani comes up to him and they talk through a bit of the swing and then. I remember that clip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the vibe that I'm feeling from Soto. Like I love having him. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

He's definitely like like a like a yeah, yeah, a support system, a big big brother, uh, you know.

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And he was like, I always forget this, he was one of the only like rookie guys to be out at like 19 in the major leagues. Soto. Like, yeah, there's there's been very few teenagers, especially like modern era, and he was one of those guys. So I think he definitely sees like he he can relate to what's what they're going through. Like he was a rookie rookie.

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He was a rookie rookie.

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Yes.

Call-Ups Everywhere And Soto’s Support

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But speaking of rookies, there's kind of there's something that I'm really excited about that I just heard. Jonah Tung was scratched from his triple A start because there's a chance he's getting brought up uh for our series against the Marlins, which I know he had like uh he had just like a so-so start last year, but I'm always a fan of Jonathan Tong, and he was kind of he's been doing really good in AAA. And I just I want to see him play. I want to see him.

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You know, I I I I'm kind of thinking that maybe too, that his energy will just be matching that new energy again, like that with all these new players, all the young kids, all the kids coming in, you know. Basically, there's gotta be some sort of synergy on that level that's happening too. That we're not just we're we might be uh discounting, that it's just like they're peers.

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I mean, yeah, every single I followed to the city.

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You've seen those Ewing Benge memes, like because they played together. I mean they played on the cyclone, was it the Cyclones, the the Brooklyn?

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And I believe it was Benge and McLean were on the same team, except they were both two-way players, and there's some so there's clips out there of Carson Bench striking out No McLean, which is just so fun to see. Um but I was gonna say something.

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We're talking about Soto and the rookie rookie.

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I think it might have been about Tong. Oh, yeah, Tong's coming up. I lost it. So Tong Tong might be coming up versus uh Marlins this week.

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Yeah, that's that's really exciting. Um Yeah, I lost what I was gonna say. I'm I'm just excited though. He's a really like happy go-lucky kind of guy. I remembered, I follow him on Instagram, and every time each of these guys has brought has been brought up, he like posted on his story, and he's like, let's go! Like he's these are his guys.

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These are his guys, and and and in turn, these are our guys. Yes, this is good. This is wow, that like oh like genuinely scared me. Sound like a machete slice. We would be remiss to just like say that we're kind of like super excited about this new energy in this past week. Because it's just like that. That's the beauty about baseball is that you know, in in a few days things can turn around. And it's funny because for me it was the sweep. Because it's just like this the sweep in a time where it felt like we would never win two games in a row, ever, again this year. You know, there were just talks. It's like, oh, we're on path to a hundred losses this year, all this stuff, blah, blah, blah. Okay, the sweep happened. Those games were kind of almost uneventful, you know, compared to what came after.

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Yeah, I will say, I think for you it was the sweep. For me, the sweep happened, and I was like, yes, it is the Tigers, but yes. And then afterwards, I only really started to get excited.

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Uh it was that last Yankees game for me.

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For me, it was it was the Yankees series. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um specifically, one guy, one guy really, really made. I actually I don't remember which game this was. It might not have been the Yankees.

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Who are you talking about?

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The big Tyrone Taylor. Um I think that might have been after.

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I think it was after, I think it was.

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That might have been after. But like I was starting to get there with the Yankees stuff because we were playing close games, and I think that's the best kind of baseball. But when I fully when I fully felt like we were back was Tyrone Taylor. By the way, I know you're a fan. I I love Tyrone Taylor. I wasn't watching that game because I had like started watching it, something bad happened, so I did the thing, I turned it off. Um, and then I turned back on, and we were like back in it in extra innings, and I didn't see that that three-run home run to tie the game was bottom of the ninth, two out.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Like that it was that close.

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No, no, no, no, no. It definitely was, definitely was. But but here's the thing, it's like, you know, to me, before, even before that, um, and I can't remember, I can't recall what game that happened in, but like you said, the sweep was cool, the sweep was just like, okay, I can't believe we actually swept, maybe that's just like a fluke, and we'll move on to our losing streak. Um knowing we were jumping into the Yankees, we lose that first one.

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Did we? I thought it was a win, a loss, a win.

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I thought it was a loss, win, win, but I could be wrong.

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Wait. No, it was it was probably a loss because that was the first game was where Clay Holmes fractured his deal.

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It seemed like there was a good chance until that happened, and then it was just like, oh, we just have bad luck. And let's talk about that for a second. How crazy was that?

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I think it was it was the last Yankees game.

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Yeah, the last Yankees game. I think Tyrone Taylor did that once. Because that's when we went into the X ratings.

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And yeah, because prom night we just had a win, and I didn't see that one.

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And then after that, Tyron Taylor Frankie had a prom sat a day night.

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Uh-huh. I couldn't watch the game. And we won.

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You had your own game going on. Was it a tie? Who won? My bad. Uh but that first one, we lost that first Yankees game, man, and we went in. It's so funny because we have Sad Boys Mets Club, right? And we're trying to keep up with the sort of the content and putting things out and stuff, whatever. And and I had created these kind of flyers, like images of, you know, just like it was like four cards that I was gonna put on to like an Instagram, uh uh, what do they call it when they do it across?

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Just like a post?

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No, the carousel. When you do like several pictures in a row. So it's like the first one was gonna be like Subway series tonight, and it was like Mr. Met, and there was I can't remember what the Yankees mascot was called, but they there was a Yankees mascot in the city.

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I thought they never had one.

SPEAKER_05 17:53

No, they had one for a year or two in the 80s that was just like the worst mascot ever. And actually, in a weird way, Grimace reminds me of that that mascot. It was like Stoopy or something like that. Dandy. Dandy? What a horrible name.

SPEAKER_04 18:09

That's yeah, no, I've seen this. It's like, you know, just like a big purple lump.

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Yeah, not a fan.

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So I had this sort of image of uh the like a cartoon or the Mr. Matt with Dandy, and it's like subway series tonight. And then it was just like the next one, it's just was Mr. Matt pummeling Dandy, and then you know, standing victorious over Dandy, like with his foot on his body. The next one, and then the last one was, Who are you rooting for? And I was just like, go Mint. And of course, I just in the in the process of creating these images and trying to put it like it animated somehow, the game started. And then, you know, the the Clay Holmes thing, and then never put those out. I just never put it out. It was just like, we're not good. This is suck.

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That was but I I don't you know what I mean, but that was kind of exactly what I was worried about after the sweep. Is like we win the sweep and now we're playing the Yankees. How could it get any worse? We get swept, and then and like I because in my mind we lose that game, and then we lost Clay Holmes, and that's like I'm at the bottom of like I'm at rock bottom, and then I like Clay Holmes. We kind of turned it back up. Clay Holmes was the ERA leader for the National League in like term in terms of people with qualified innings, and that's was crazy, and then because like the most runs he'd allowed was that game where he allowed three runs before he got taken out.

SPEAKER_05 19:47

I mean, but that was after the the hit.

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It was yeah, it was a bad he broke his leg and then he kept on pitching.

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He shouldn't he have been taken out. Like it's kind of crazy. No, it's weird because it happened and he's like, whatever, blah blah. And then you know, all the craziness happened, and then they he gets taken out, and then it's like, oh, his leg is broken, and you're like, you know, you've stubbed your toe, and you've been like crying for an hour, not you, you know what I mean specifically.

SPEAKER_04 20:22

To be fair, I've had some pretty bad toe stubs, but you know, it could be anything.

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Sometimes it's like it's it's uh it's I think it just had to have been so much adrenaline. Like he was like Oh my god, it because there's no other world where it wasn't because like he he broke his leg.

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He shouldn't have been standing.

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And pitching is like half of legs.

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No, yeah, yeah, yeah. So

The Sweep That Changes The Mood

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that's crazy. It reminded me of this is the image of I think it's Kurt Schilling from the Boston Red Sox from back in the day, and pitching and him having like a messed up foot that you could see the blood.

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Oh, the the blood, the blood sock. I do.

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His bloody sock, and he just had pitching, it was like, damn. And that's you know, except for the you know, now we lost Clay Holmes for a little bit. But possibly the season.

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That's why Thornton is here. It does also suck because our our pitching has started to slowly like like that. Was Clay Holmes's low point, and then yesterday we had Nolan McClain's low point, which really sucked. Because now he just has like a normal, like he he had insanely good numbers, and now this bad start, and now he's got again he is like Paul Skeens, kind of like to a T because Paul Skeens, like a week ago, had his not even a week ago, a couple days ago, had his first terrible start. So it's the first day of the year. And it like brought his ERA back to normal numbers. And like I I feel like there's there's comparisons to be made. I I do still think.

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Yeah, I just think I like I like Noel McLean and I'm hoping that uh I'm hoping that the addition of the other folks in his peer group will kind of somehow create an alignment of of all that like talent. You know, so so because he's if you look at his like win-loss record, it's like my god, well what the hell?

SPEAKER_02 22:42

But it's that's why wins and losses don't matter.

SPEAKER_05 22:44

I know, but they used to. I mean, because the whole point, it's like you were saying the other day, it's like nothing you were saying earlier about Bobichette. It's like, what's the point in getting a home run and driving a few in if the team doesn't win?

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Did you see that Angels athletics game? No. Most heartbreaking thing I've ever seen. What happened? The athletics pitcher, not the greatest pitcher, was pitching a no-hitter into the ninth, and the athletics were only able to score one run, and Zach Neto hit a walk-off two-run homer. He had a no-hitter into the ninth. Like as not the greatest. It was like right there. It was like he was at like it was like an 100-pitch night, and then he gave up that. It's like it just has to stop.

SPEAKER_05 23:34

But still, you know, you look at that at the end of the day, you know, that's those are all innings. You know, it's all ERA. It's all innings that just that will add up, that look good for him in this ERA. It just doesn't add up to a win, doesn't add up to a win to the team, and you wonder, you know, you have to take into consideration what kind of support, what kind of confidence do you get from winning games? You know what I mean? If you're winning games, does part of you take that in like adrenaline, like fuel? Or does part of you kind of settle? And like, oh, we're good. And then somehow you kind of drift off into like mediocrity. You know what I mean? It's like, it's hard, it's like I just wonder. Because it's like we need we need, we've been getting that spark that we've been asking for. And that's the thing about, by the way, that's the thing about the the Yankees series, is that the Yankees series was the first time, and it might have not been the first time that that that's happened, but it's the first time that I've noticed people, um, the Simeons of the world, kind of putting in their bit. Yeah, I mean, it's like I feel like he's woken up.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

I'm anti-Semian. He has woken up a bit, but I'm I'm still anti-Semian.

SPEAKER_05 24:54

I I you know, it's funny to me because I just like I can't, I don't want to ever say, never say never. You know, so to me, it's like I think of what I felt about Vientos at the beginning of the season. And as of right now, I want him to stay on first and play every day.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

I've always been Okay, though I will say, I like I like when Beatty is playing first. There was I don't know if you were watching the game uh which one that went that we had 10 runs in like the 11th inning. I mean the day before yesterday. That only happened because Beatty was on first and he made a really good play, and he threw out the runner at second instead of getting at the runner at first. Yeah, yeah. Otherwise, we would have lost that game before extra innings. And it's like I so I do kind of like having both those guys.

SPEAKER_05 25:46

Yeah, I mean, if Vientos or whatever Vientos can play. I'm I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

I but I do I do love Vientos at first base.

SPEAKER_05 25:51

I love Vientos at first. I mean, it's just like it's better than Polanco. Ten times better than Polanco or anybody else that we put on put in there outside of Bay.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

I feel bad for Jared Young. He got injured and we kind of all forgot about him. He was alright. He was. He he was alright.

SPEAKER_05 26:10

That's the thing. It's like right now we don't need all right. We need people who are like, I mean, uh, Vientos is on fire. Like Vientos is like literally multi-hits every day.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Two home runs, back-to-back games.

SPEAKER_05 26:24

No, I mean, and he he's doing it, and it just feels like it's almost like he's like cosplaying an all-star. It's like really weird. Do you get that feeling from him?

SPEAKER_02 26:36

Like a he's just he's just a really up and down player.

SPEAKER_05 26:39

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just but it feels like he's been a lot more up. Definitely. And also, not gonna discredit him because a month ago, he was like the only person hitting. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 26:52

And you know why he was hitting? What? Because it was a West Coast series.

SPEAKER_05 26:56

That's right. You were ha ha your West Coast theory, but they've been on the East Coast, yeah, they've they've been bringing it back, and Vietnam's has been hitting so so damned to be our our predictions or or theories, because he's he's proven us wrong, and that's awesome. That's awesome. I mean, it's like, you know, almost two, it's kind of crazy is how the media has been completely like, and just in a week, it's like there's nothing on Mendoza's firing.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

You know, you know how close like how close that was? I am still a little peeved he didn't get fired because I do want to see Carlos Beltron up there. I want to see what he can do. But at this point, I'm happy that he's still here because we're winning.

SPEAKER_05 27:47

We're winning, and obviously the choices that have been being made in the last uh 10 days are significant that we've been winning with not our best players. You know what I mean? Like he's moving people around, doing things that you're going, like, why would you put this person in a bat first? Are you crazy? Or like putting soda first, whatever, and it's like that was still like the most ridiculous. This is like the most desperate thing I've seen. Yeah, me too. I mean, I whatever, I'm not an expert. It just didn't feel right. It just didn't feel right.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

But like you don't even have to be an expert. Like, there's like the logically.

SPEAKER_05 28:27

Somebody said, here, put these two shoes on, and there were two like left shoes, and you're like, no, this is not why we why are you doing this? And I believe we didn't win that game.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Oh, for sure not. I think I think Benj is our best leadoff guy. I'm always a fan of like I I like the nimble guy in leadoff. That's kinda I think I'm biased because I'm like, my base setting is Lindor leadoff. So to me, it like makes sense, like, yeah, I want Benj there that fits. And it's been working so far.

SPEAKER_05 29:04

I still believe that in in a team where the people who um were brought in to do certain work would have been doing their work or their jobs and not be injured, that Benji's best position, best lineup position would have been ninth. But that's me, because I remember this, and this is like something that happened, I want to say, in the 90s, and I can't remember which which manager did this. It could have been the manager for the Phillies at the time. But they put one of their better players ninth. And, you know, the theory behind that was because you're like kicking off the the run game or the hit game before. Once you start, you know what I mean? It's like, as opposed to like going downhill and then starting all over again from the top of the lineup, it's like you go and then you reach to a certain point, it's like, wait, no, we got this guy. And then we start the lineup because if this guy kicks anything off, any of these guys could like hit get a kid, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 30:09

It's like that makes sense.

SPEAKER_05 30:11

I'm very it made sense for that team. Like that that I remember that it was a controversial, like managerial sort of thing. And I've always thought about that. And when we first were talking about lineups, starting lineups, I kind of liked the idea of having Ben Just because he was new, and because we had a lot of expectations, expectations that I felt like we both were spiritually really sure that he was gonna achieve. And he's he's definitely there, and like you said, past it.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

But I've I've always been no, I've I've just I've I've always been vibes based with my preferences of lineup. I've always felt like I like Alvarez way back there. I know it's it's less of a good, but part of the reason I like Alvarez way back there is there's no there's less of a threat of him grounding into a double play, which is kind of what we always need from him. I think I think he should always be back there. I hate seeing a lineup where it's like Soto third, Alvarez fourth. That's the biggest red flag for me when it's like we're so limited on stuff that we decide to put because it's like, yes, sometimes he has the power to bring Soto in when Soto gets blocked, but like most of the time he grinds into a double play.

SPEAKER_05 31:30

I I always looked at it this way. Like basically, I looked at it like if uh um this is gonna sound weird, right? That like a doubleheader movie, like a like a double feature. And if you're watching two movies in a row, the first one's gotta be the powerhouse show, like movie, like the one, the one that's really so, and then this movie you have your star or your two leads, and then your support and cast. And then you you just you know, so that's like one through five, or one through four, one through five. And then the second movie is like the sort of like the B movie version of that. You know what I mean? Like, who's your all-star in this sort of like alternate universe in Bizarro Land or whatever? That so like in that in that to me, in that sense, Alvarez is our like cleanup batter. In in in I think he's I think on side B of the cassette.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

He's my he's he's my B side backup uh cleanup guy.

SPEAKER_05 32:37

And it's like that's how you have to see it. Like, so after Soto has to be the first batter has to be what I like Vientos there. I've always man, I think the thing is that Vientos is just gonna turn into like, you know, two, three batter. Like, you know, he's like right before Soto.

SPEAKER_02 32:57

But like this this is my issue with Bichette. There's no good place to put him because he hasn't been around. I know.

SPEAKER_05 33:03

I mean I had the best place for Bichette. Basically, maybe like the Yankees or the Royals or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 33:11

Oh, he would be such a good royal. He would be a great royal. Actually, back to the Blue Jays. Everybody wants him there. They were so sad when he left. I'm just like, it's because yeah, I do think he should be up there, but like I l I think Benge first, Soto third, and then we need a guy who can like hit for power.

Clay Holmes Injury And Pitching Reality

SPEAKER_02 33:30

I think it's like very clear that like our Beatty is gonna be fifth. Like, that's always gonna be like I like that.

SPEAKER_05 33:37

I like Beidy, because I I like um I think Beatty's a good hitter. So the idea of Beatty after Soto or after like um who's after so after Vientos?

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yeah, like Beatty after Soto scares me because I feel like he's not consistent enough. And I know then I'm saying put the most consistent guy ever, Vientos after Soto, but I like it. Like I liked more when we had Melendez playing every day, and then Melendez was our number two. I like Melendez as a number two hitter. I know that that was like a little iffy, but I really enjoyed when he was playing number two. I did not enjoy that at all. I'm kind of curious where AJ Ewing should fit in. Because he's been really consistent, but he hasn't like done anything crazy. I think part of that might be.

SPEAKER_05 34:36

So he's neither like six batter. No, I mean fifth. I'd put him fifth. So if you put Vientos fourth, I'd put him fifth. And then, and then Alvarez.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

And then Alvarez?

SPEAKER_05 34:54

So then the the last bit is last bit is like, you know, child change.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 35:02

Last two. No, I mean, because the last two is just really like whoever in the lineup is you feel like you can't really position anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

You know what team we should look at for inspiration? If if we're really, if if we're running out of ideas of where to put guys, there's one team that I can say has is more of a like mishmash of like random guys. My second favorite team, move over Angels. Uh, the Rays is by the way. Tampa Bay? Tampa Bay Rays leading baseball in wins right now. Well, yeah. Um and they they have like such a weird team. They have my favorite second baseman ever, who is Richie Palacios. Great name. And he wears the most obnoxious glass. I love any baseball player that has to wear glasses, but his glasses are like that they have no border there, and then they have like a bright neon green band. And his name is Richie Palacios. Um he's been playing second base for them infrequently. Uh first of all, yeah, because it's like it's him. I love Chandler Simpson, I love Junior Camanera. This is a 13. I'm saying it's for him, not Machado. Um, but it's like they they really have like they have the team that Carlos Mendoza wishes he was managing because they really do have the team where like you could put anybody anywhere.

SPEAKER_05 36:31

It wasn't it was a scrap, but it was scrappy.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

The only for sure like locked-in guy is Junior Camonero, third base, third base or DH. He's always gonna be in every game, and they have Yandy Diaz. I forgot about like like they have the team last year that Carlos Mendoza wanted the Mets to be, but he just couldn't make it work, you know, and like they're doing that kind of playing style of like moving guys around everywhere. Yeah, and it's like I think that's I just wanted to bring up the Rays. Truth be told, I just wanted to I wanted to like cement a time in history where the Rays are leading baseball. We're third through the season and the Rays are leading. Yeah, I think they they're gonna make the postseason if all goes well. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_04 37:19

It's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

They've swept like nine teams. It's like they they're so good. They're so funny.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

I'm confused.

SPEAKER_02 37:28

They just finished an Oriol sweep, and I've I've watched some of their games, just like I've caught them bits and pieces. They're just such a fun team.

SPEAKER_05 37:37

I have to say, not to give uh props to or or a free commercial ad for the MLB, but I'm such a fan of the recaps. Like they're so cool to just get the either the condensed game or the recap. You know, I've I've never been much of a baseball watcher outside of my teams, you know, and I have several. So it's like, you know, but I love the Mets, I actually like the Dodgers as well. I'm sorry. And I like I like the I like the Angels as well.

SPEAKER_02 38:14

Somebody had the nerve. We were talking about going to see the Rays play the Angels and the way that they're they're working, they're playing the Angels, and then the series right after they're playing the Dodgers. They had the nerve to be like, we could go to all three Rays games, or we could save up and go to one Dodgers, all three Angels games, or save up and go to one Dodgers games. It's like, who do you think I am? That's the most insulting thing I've ever heard. You think I would rather watch the Dodgers play the Ra like it's I was so mad. Like, not that's a crazy thing.

SPEAKER_05 38:47

Um that person is now an acquaintance.

unknown 38:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:51

They're not coming with the race.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

Now they're just that acquaintance. Also, some people will hate another another race thing, some people hate. I love their field. It looks like their field. It's such a weird, messed up looking field.

SPEAKER_05 39:14

Why is that? I'm curious.

SPEAKER_02 39:15

Well, because it's like it's like a big fish tank. Like, I you might have to just see a picture because like their whole thing is that the rays they changed from the devil rays, as in like the creature, into the rays, like rays of light. So their their roof, which is when did this happen? It's it's a big shame. They were only at the devil rays for like a couple years back in like the 2000s when they started, and they were such a cursed, terrible team that they had to change it. Because they dropped the devil, yeah, exactly. And so it's like it's a shame because the devil rays stuff looks so much cooler. But they're they're just like the rays now, and that's kind of why I was always like on the fence about them. Because like it's like I don't know. They have like a they have a big massive dome with the rays of light coming from the center. It's like I just I love it so much. It's hard to zoom in on my phone, but I like it's weird, it's so it's like so it's like a fish tank.

SPEAKER_05 40:14

It's like a fish tank, but it's also very, what do you call it? Um when it's like old fashioned and it's got sort of wrought iron things to it.

SPEAKER_02 40:24

What it would like you know what else I found out just very recently, too? Yeah. They have a tank arrays.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

And that's never no one's hit a ball that's break it broken the car.

SPEAKER_02 40:38

I feel like somebody must have hit. I mean, because this is I always remember there was that one, it had to have been like the Marlins where they had the aquarium behind home plate. Yeah, like the foul ball, but like yeah. What did you think would happen?

SPEAKER_04 40:53

So stupid.

SPEAKER_05 40:56

It's so distracting, too, for the picture I imagine. It's crazy. So weird ballparks, you must visit Tampa Bay.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

Tampa Bay. I'm bigger fans.

SPEAKER_05 41:08

I guess maybe we can do that trip next year. Spring season, spring spring training.

SPEAKER_02 41:13

Let's go see the rays.

SPEAKER_05 41:14

Oh no, but then we wouldn't. Let's see the race training. We wouldn't be able to see uh, yeah. They would we would have to time it.

SPEAKER_02 41:19

Yeah, let's catch a little bit of spring training, go see the races. Let's see if they're I want to see if they're playing the home game first. That's the difference maker.

SPEAKER_05 41:30

While he looks at that, I want to remind people that we do have an Instagram and a TikTok as well. Sad Boys Mets Club, Sad Boys Mets Club, and we have also some merch too. So feel free to check out sadboysmetzclub.com and sign up, spread the word, like, subscribe, hit the bell, do all those things. Um it's nice. Uh, I'd like to, while he's still looking, I want to say too, just uh I've been seeing more of Keith Hernandez lately. So it's kind of a good, I don't know if that's the synchronicity of that with the winds and the sort of new vibes. Like I felt for a while there like we might not see you know Keith Hernandez beginning. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:27

I loved that when they brought the full booth back.

SPEAKER_05 42:30

I I I feel like it's just like the less we see Keith Hernandez, it's uh the there's like a certain uh vibe, energy level that is missing. Um button so it's good to see him, it's good to see him in the mix. Alright, what's next, man?

SPEAKER_02 42:50

There, I mean there's not there's not much next.

SPEAKER_05 42:53

I think what you wanted to say about Bichette?

SPEAKER_02 42:57

Yeah, I kind of covered it briefly. I was just like, I'm still mad at him. Some people will say Bo Bachet is back, he hit two home runs. We still lost the game. I if Bo Bichette wants me to think that he's back, I wanted him to run into the outfield and get that grand slam ball. I wanted him to get that ball. That's if he's not I don't care that it wasn't his fault. He doesn't he doesn't get credit for being back unless we win the game.

SPEAKER_04 43:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

That's I what I need today, I need to see him hit a home run and we win. Then I'll be like, oh my god, Bo Bachette is back.

SPEAKER_05 43:35

But it's always to me it's kind of weird because to say Bo Bochet is back, and he's never really been anything for us. So to say that he's back, back what in the Blue Jays.

Lineup Arguments And Who Hits Where

SPEAKER_02 43:52

Oh, there is one other thing that I wanted to talk about. Let's talk. Fernando Tatis still has not hit a home run and People more and more are saying trade him away. And people more and more are saying trade him to the Mets. Which I love to hear, but I also hate to hear because the most common thing is Fernando Tatis for Francisco Ledore. Not happening. Yeah, happening.

SPEAKER_05 44:18

Let's do it. Let's make it happen. You know what would be a great deal though? He can they can take Robert, Bichette, and Polanco for Tatis.

SPEAKER_02 44:29

That's what we're doing.

SPEAKER_05 44:29

Take them all. Trade Bichette. Trey Robert, get him out of here. Whoa, whoa, whoa. All these bench warmers. Let's get all these people out of here. You know, Tatis will be playing every day.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Oh man. It's I'm just like. Like, I would love to have Fernando Tatis, and I do think he needs a change of pace. He needs a pace.

SPEAKER_05 44:54

He needs to be amongst his people.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

Because it's yeah, exactly. Because it's like it's if he's in New York. Statistically unnatural that he hasn't hit a home run yet. No. I know he because he had that crazy like 40 home run season and then he went back down to like normal numbers. He's like the only one. He's a hitter though.

SPEAKER_05 45:11

He's a hitter though. I mean, it's like he's he's you know, he should be with the mouse.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

The only issue is that I feel like I doubt they'd ever trade him because right now they're sitting there and they're like they're like top of their division right now. And it's like they don't really need to trade him because right now they're performing great without him being at his the top of his game. So when he comes back, he'll be even better. So no, they need insurance. That's I would I would love. I would love if they could just be like, well, we're already good without him, so we might as well just trade him good. Like what if we just trade our prospects? What if we trade like Mitch Voigt? I keep I keep thinking about Mitch Voigt because every time my phone likes to do a thing where when I type in Mets, it goes to the Mets minor league news from when I opened it on draft day when we drafted Mitch Voigt first. Every single time I type Mets. So I think it's Mitch doing. I think he's good. I think he's like one in the top ten of our prospect stuff. But like he did just get drafted, so he's got some time. But like let's give him Mitch Voigt. I I don't care.

SPEAKER_05 46:23

I mean, I feel like no, because I feel like we're kind of like on a roll with these kids.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

Then give him like oh, who's our oldest guy? Togman. Togman isn't that old.

SPEAKER_05 46:34

He's the oldest. He's the oldest.

SPEAKER_02 46:38

No, let's give him Craig Kimbrell. That's the oldest. Is that he really on the team still? Well, yeah, he's I'm sure he's taking a bus to the graveyard right now, but like Craig Kimbrell, he he closed out that one game. The game where we got 10 runs.

SPEAKER_03 46:56

That's right.

SPEAKER_05 46:58

It was like uh crazy, like, oh, I think Beatty's gonna pitch today, kind of vibe.

SPEAKER_00 47:06

That was a rough one. But we won very well.

SPEAKER_05 47:09

The old guy in the room, the Kimbrel in the room, wants to talk movies. Let's talk movies. Uh let's jump into it, man. I don't want to ever I don't ever want to not talk about movies. I don't know if you've seen any this past week.

SPEAKER_02 47:24

I have. I've seen a couple.

SPEAKER_05 47:25

Which what have you seen?

SPEAKER_02 47:27

Pulling it up right now. Oh. Wait. It's gonna take me a little longer. I forgot that I'm not signed in. What have you seen this week?

SPEAKER_05 47:39

Well, you know, this week I haven't really seen anything, any movies. I've seen sub TV. I've started watching the last season of The Boys, which is great. I'm about four episodes in. And there is no other show on TV that kind of parallels the state of the country and the craziness of the world that we live in and the government that exists today and is real. But yeah, no, that's that show is so ridiculous to me. It's so over the top, and but but it's entertaining, and I love I love you know the commentary. It's just and we you know just so attach those characters as well. Really good. Outside of that, I've made lists of movies. I'm like this week, I was just like, okay. That's what I've been doing.

SPEAKER_02 48:34

Really? More making lists than watching them.

SPEAKER_05 48:36

I've been because I've been wanting to re-watch certain movies, like just go back and and uh you know what's funny, what inspired it, like we have the TV on in the background, that Roku home screen just made me go, oh, that's from this movie, that's from that movie, that's from this movie.

SPEAKER_02 48:52

I love I love the home screen.

SPEAKER_05 48:55

And uh so there's been a few movies I'm like, you know what? I need to kind of go back and watch the movies that I know are really good and just kind of like get inspired. And you know, like I wanna it's been maybe six, seven years since I've seen the graduate. I'm due to see the graduate again. Six seven, six seven. My god. Where am I? They have the toll booth and the Roku thing, which is like uh uh the reference to the godfather.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

Oh, I thought it was Doctor Who.

SPEAKER_05 49:32

No, oh, is it? I thought the the phone booth was.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_05 49:39

The toll booth is actually or I mean I'm guessing as uh I thought it was the Godfather.

SPEAKER_02 49:43

That was a reference to the phantom toll booth.

SPEAKER_05 49:46

Yeah, I thought the references were all moving.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

No, I it wasn't.

SPEAKER_05 49:52

Uh that's actually one of my favorite books of all time. I believe I read it to you.

SPEAKER_02 49:59

I believe, I believe you did.

SPEAKER_04 50:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:01

Um I've also been I've been feeling like because recently the new movies I've been watching have just been okay. Yeah. Like in the past month, I've watched like like a half of the movies I've watched that were new were just like three-star movies. Just like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 50:19

At best.

SPEAKER_02 50:20

It was it was just a movie. Um and that happened again. I watched another three-star movie, Bring Her Back. But that one wasn't that actually fun. Uh horror movie set in Australia. Oh. Uh, it came out a while ago.

SPEAKER_05 50:32

Oh, wait, is that the one with the with like the like the get the get they kind of go under hypnosis a little bit?

SPEAKER_04 50:38

Like uh it was like a weird one. Is that the hand one?

SPEAKER_02 50:43

The it no, no, see, I thought it was the hand like the one the talk to me. Talk to me. I like that. That's what that's what I thought, sorry, that's what I thought this movie was because the poster has a hand on it, and I thought that's what it was about, because I know that talk to me is like something, something to do with like somebody who's dead, something like that. I thought that's what this movie's about. Completely wrong. It was I just didn't really like it because it was uncomfortable to watch, because it was like just like it was it was a lot of the kind of like visceral, like this person's like possessed, they have a knife and they're chewing on it. It's like I don't I don't like to see that. I don't like to see this person biting through wood. That's not uh why I'm it was like it was a pretty it was a pretty solid movie, but uh I did watch probably the best new movie another three-star movie I watched was Maze Runner. I could talk a lot about that because I was Maze Runner.

SPEAKER_04 51:37

Oh, like based on those books, right?

SPEAKER_02 51:39

Yeah, I read I just read the book and it's like they changed a lot and I had a lot of take. Like the casting was weird, they changed a lot of stuff. Where it's like that movie's like 10 years old.

SPEAKER_05 51:48

I feel like I watched it when it came out.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

Yeah, you could have. It's 2014, 12 years old. Yes, I did watch it. Yeah, it was it was pretty okay.

SPEAKER_05 51:57

It was pretty it was like I don't know if I think some of the kids through the leads are still playing like young people.

SPEAKER_02 52:04

Oh, probably I mean, it's like the there's one guy in it who like looks so young and he's like always Thomas Brody Sangster. I remember because he was the ugly little kid in love actually who I hated. And then we looked at his we looked at his profile and we made fun of how he looked, and then we felt bad afterwards, but I hated him. And I didn't I didn't connect those two pieces.

Rays Envy Plus Social And Merch

SPEAKER_02 52:30

I also hated him in this. My bad. They did have Will Poulter, which is fun because I love Will Poulter. Will Poulter's it was like no, it was a good movie. Did you ever see them?

SPEAKER_05 52:40

The the comedy with Will Poulter and the guy who plays. My gosh. I think uh it's Jennifer Aniston, Will Poulter.

SPEAKER_02 52:50

We're the millers.

SPEAKER_05 52:51

We're the millers.

SPEAKER_02 52:52

I have not seen it, but I should. I'll add that. I like that I'm seeing a sombrero in the windshield already. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:03

I'll watch that. It's messed up.

SPEAKER_05 53:08

But he's great in it. He's great in it. What else did you see? You said there was some other something that was actually a good movie that he was.

SPEAKER_02 53:16

I didn't even cover, I was I was talking like I was gonna connect it to what you were saying about rewatching movies that we have saying, so there are two movies that I rewatched that are in my top five movies all the time. Okay. Because they both center around teenagers, and in that involves like the school dance vibe, and I was I was getting ready because I because both me and my girlfriend completely messed up and didn't do flowers, except I was planning to do flowers, but normally like you buy like a pre-made thing, but I just made the stuff myself, so I did sit down for like two hours and I just put on a movie in the background, and I watched first of all Perks of being a wallflower, but the more I think about it, that's more of a homecoming movie. So I'm gonna re-watch it at homecoming, but it will always be top five for me. It's such a good movie, it's such a good movie.

SPEAKER_05 54:06

It used to be my favorite movie, but the best movie that that guy's ever been into, by the way. Oh, for sure. Well, actually not the lead, but the guys.

SPEAKER_02 54:14

Ezra Miller, yes. Ezra Miller.

SPEAKER_04 54:16

It's like the best Ezra Miller movie.

SPEAKER_02 54:18

It was a crazy fall-off for Ezra Miller, the fact that he was in that, and then like everything was.

SPEAKER_05 54:22

It's so good in that, and then it's like if you ever see like what happened to Kevin.

SPEAKER_02 54:27

It's it's bad. It's it's awful. But uh Logan Luhrman, who's the lead. I always love Logan Luhrman because his name is Logan Lerman. He was like Percy Jackson, I haven't seen that, but he was in Bullet Train, really small role. But he was in a movie called Oh Hi, which I really enjoyed. It was about like this couple, and they go on like a little retreat, and they do like they're getting a little freaky, and they find like handcuffs in the closet, and they're like, Oh, this would be so funny if we tried it. And Logan Lerman's like, Oh yeah, sure, I can lock it up, and she's like, But actually, I want to see if you would if you would let me lock you up. And then, like, afterwards, before he's unlocked, they're like talking, and she's like, Wow, I'm just so happy that you're my boyfriend. He's like, We're not like exclusive. You know, we're not exclusive, and then she has a whole breakdown because they like fully went over the conversation wrong, and she kind of accidentally kidnaps him. Yeah, yeah. That's the whole movie. It was actually a really fun movie to watch.

SPEAKER_04 55:26

So it's like seeing the trailer, I'm just so curious about that one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:29

It was just it's like it's like an hour and a half short, funny. And then I watched the real prom movie, Ten Things I Hate About You. It's also my top five. Best rom com ever. Uh, I love Keith Ledger, I love Joseph Gordon Labbitt. It's just it's just a good movie.

SPEAKER_05 55:45

It's a good movie. Do you know what uh Shakespeare?

SPEAKER_02 55:48

Um the shrew. They mention it in the movie. I always, the first time I watched it, I was like, why is there so much Shakespeare? Um it took me like my third watch to finally connect that. Oh, it's because it's based off of that one.

SPEAKER_05 56:02

It's one of those things that I remember watching the movie, and I thought that that was the thing, was just like, oh. Yeah, you should be going back to the classics and see if you can actually like remake something.

SPEAKER_02 56:15

Also, Time Me of the Shro. Really funny. I was at it, I was at a like theater festival that I had to go to for school, and one of like the nominated things, like there was a whole thing like you go into separate rooms and get judged for your acts. Yeah, and then

Tatis Trade Dreams Then Movie Night

SPEAKER_02 56:30

like the best ranking ones get to perform in front of everybody who goes. Oh, nice. And there were people from our school who did like it was like a these two people and they did a scene from Timmy of the Troop. Very funny. I didn't know it would be that funny. But the new movie I watched that was actually good, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 56:49

Oh my god. I I've been wanting to rewatch that movie. Amazing. So what did you think? What was your favorite part?

SPEAKER_02 56:57

My favorite part was obviously the rabbit, because of course it was the rabbit. I also I mean, I liked a lot of it. It's hard not to like because it's like I I could list all of my favorite bits, but it is just a movie of bits. It is a kid.

SPEAKER_04 57:13

It's a skit movie.

SPEAKER_02 57:14

Uh it was it was very funny. Oh god, yes.

SPEAKER_05 57:19

It's kind of weird because you think of that. I mean, the the their show was so pivotal as far as like we think of things today that you know, the uncomfortable, awkward, uh weird, kind of nonsensical.

SPEAKER_02 57:36

The guy I always forget his name, chair company guy. It's his whole thing. Tim Robinson.

SPEAKER_05 57:40

Tim Robinson, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then there's a sort of like there's also the idea of like playing something that's normal into a state of absurdity, you know, that uh I feel like uh Keen Peel would do well. You know what I mean? Like It is so Keen Peel.

SPEAKER_02 57:58

That they were just speaking of Keen Peel, we never covered the Giants hump celebration. Had did you ever see that? Oh. Which by the way, the Mets did. The Mets did at one point. They did one time, they did a little hump. So what happens?

SPEAKER_05 58:12

So basically, what I this is what I heard that the Giants did it a couple times and they were like, no more, you can't do that.

SPEAKER_02 58:18

One time? One time, and it's because they went a little too too wild with it. A little too slap-ass with it. They did three pumps. That's do you do you know that sketch? No. It's the it's the football celebration one where you're allowed to do three. You know, you're allowed to do two, but the moment you get to the third, it's like a foul. Uh I do remember that. They did they did more than two. And then you know what's really funny? They got a letter from the MLB saying they couldn't do it anymore, and then when they did it again, it was only two. It was only they only did two. But the Mets also did like a little one, a little tame. It's all been tame since like the first time, but they did a little one tame.

SPEAKER_05 59:02

No, no humps in baseball.

SPEAKER_02 59:04

Yeah. This is also another situation where it's like the Dodgers are clearly the MLB's favorite team. I know it's crazy to say that, and I know that sometimes you can say that, and sometimes it's for the benefit. Like, I think the Shohei rule is only because the Dodgers are MLB's favorite team because they bring in so much money. It's like it's it makes sense why they're the favorite team, and the Shohei rule is only because they're the favorite team, but it also makes sense because it's the rule where Shoei only counts as one spot on the roster. Oh, CSP picked up for him. Yeah, yeah. And it's like that's like a rule, but it's also like I I agree, I think that should be rule, but the rule only exists because they're the favorite. Like, I I think for sure that should be rule. He should only take up one roster spot, but that's like a whole thing. But the Dodgers have been doing the craziest celebrations ever for the longest time. Kike alone is kind of wacky. I love Kike, but there's this there's like a clip of Muki, and he's doing like a wild, it's like it's like they and they never got anything for it. But then the the the Giants want to do like just three measly humps, it's over. But weren't the humps together? Well, I'm gonna show you this.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:16

It's bring on John Rebel and Boopy back to the city.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:34

We're really, we're really gonna give give the giants flack, but it's fine. They're they're doing it again a little bit. Um just side tangent. I love that that's a thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:48

I think uh we will end this week's episode on three humps and the splash to the face. I love Moogie Best Splash. Thank y'all for listening, thank y'all for watching. Um let's keep winning. Let's go mad.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:06

Let's go med. There's always next year.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:11

There's always this year.