00:00Carlos Mendoza missed out on such a big opportunity.
00:04And you know what that opportunity is?
00:06What's that?
00:06Was to bench him.
00:09And the reason I say that is, yeah, can you do that this early?
00:13I think you can.
00:14Six games into the season.
00:15This guy was right up there in the MVP voting a couple years ago.
00:21He was almost your captain.
00:23Yeah.
00:23Can you bench him after six games?
00:25I'll tell you why.
00:26Go ahead.
00:26Francisco Lindor can handle it.
00:28Much like Tim Duncan handled Greg Popovich publicly reaming him in front of his teammates.
00:35The way Tom Brady handled getting publicly reamed by Bill Belichick during team meetings.
00:40The same way you probably could have handled getting reamed by any coach you ever had.
00:44Right.
00:44Because you get it.
00:45Right.
00:45And you know that the reaming of you isn't about you.
00:49Right.
00:49It's not a threat to my job.
00:51It's not.
00:52But what Carlos Mendoza missed out on was not benching Francisco Lindor because he's an idiot,
00:57but benching Lindor because it was an opportunity to show the rest of that locker room, hey,
01:02if he could bench Lindor for making a mental mistake, well, then all of us should be on hot alert.
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