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00:00Boy, it's hot as hell in the city, but who told the Mets that they could get cold and start playing their worst baseball of the season?

00:07They dropped 10 out of their last 11. Come on now.

00:09This is a little brother behavior.

00:11And this lineup that Francisco Alvarez once called the best in baseball, they're getting exposed.

00:17This is when you're supposed to be the hottest thing in the city outside of this temperature.

00:22The Yankees are going on a slump of their own.

00:25There's no real Knicks news going on.

00:27Who knows when they're going to hire a head coach?

00:28And the Jets and Giants don't start up again for another couple of weeks.

00:32This is when you're supposed to go on that run and ham it up with the bat flips and the handshakes and shuffles and the songs.

00:41But to go on a run or to sustain a run, your role players and the depth pieces have to have star moments.

00:47And that's just something we haven't seen throughout the course of this slump.

00:50No panic. Still a lot of baseball left.

00:52But I'm worried this team is too star driven and too top heavy in the lineup.

00:57And that needs to be addressed.

00:59One through four, oh, they're one of the best in baseball.

01:02Five through nine, it's the complete opposite.

01:04They're one of the worst.

01:05And this bullpen is looking extra thin.

01:07If David Stearns doesn't add depth at or by the trade deadline, just like he did last year,

01:13I don't think this team gets out of the NLDS.