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The Mets have now lost 7 straight, and Craig’s had enough. It’s not even just the losing anymore - it’s the 'tone deaf' and 'out of touch' Tweets from Steve Cohen, as Craig says the “cool owner who gets the fans” vibe is pretty much gone.
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00:00I'm a main man. Mr. Akash sings coming by. Very funny comedian. You may know him with Andrew Schultz.
00:06He's at the Radio City coming up in a couple days. We're going to have some fun and some laughs
00:11with him.
00:12And if you want to talk about what's funny, those Mets always deliver the goods.
00:19Always deliver the goods. Congratulations to you, Big Mac. You win the prize.
00:24That's right.
00:25You said that Francisco Lindor will get his first RBI in this series.
00:29Remember this, Mets fans? I got your back.
00:32You have their back.
00:33I was right. I knew Lindor would come through.
00:35Yeah, he came through in the first and that was it.
00:37And that was it.
00:38The entire offense from the moment on did absolutely nothing yet again.
00:43Impossible to watch the Mets play baseball. Seven straight losses.
00:46And that ninth inning against, I don't know, their third or fourth best reliever to close the game out.
00:51Where, what did he throw? Ten pitches, nine of them outside of the zone.
00:54It was damn near what you guys called that. Not a perfect inning, but immaculate.
00:57Immaculate inning.
00:58Damn near an immaculate inning.
01:00And he didn't have to come inside the zone.
01:02Yeah.
01:02Like that, some of the at-bats in this game, some of the way the players look offensively.
01:08Now, look, Yankees were just as bad last night as they got their doors blown off.
01:11But there is something.
01:13It just feels even more inept with the New York Mets.
01:16It's like, man, what a tough series for them right now.
01:19Yeah, let's start with them because we'll get to the Yanks in a sec.
01:22So, look, I know you're frustrated if you're a Mets fan.
01:24You should be frustrated.
01:25The Mets suck.
01:26They're listless.
01:27They have no offense.
01:28I know they care, but they don't appear to care.
01:31Mendoza's got no answers.
01:32I don't think there are any answers.
01:33There aren't.
01:33You just have to wait and hope that one day you roll the ball out there and, you know, a
01:37bunch of guys get hits.
01:38And you score a bunch of runs and feel good about yourself.
01:40But I do think it's time that the Mets fan base is allowed to comment and keep it real with
01:46Steve Cohen because the honeymoon's over, guys.
01:49And I know that it was a well-deserved honeymoon because he represented the anti-Wilpon, right?
01:55He's going to spend all the money he's got.
01:57You're going to be a top three spending team.
02:00If there's a guy you want, you can go get him.
02:02Of course, it hasn't actually worked out like that either.
02:04But right now, they do have the highest payroll in baseball.
02:07So Steve Cohen can certainly say, look, I made you a promise that I would spend.
02:11I've spent.
02:12Now, they have nothing to show for it other than a couple postseason appearances.
02:15But obviously, no World Series championships.
02:18But the twittering's got to stop.
02:20The tweeting's got to stop.
02:21It's got to stop.
02:22Because you are so out of touch with the Mets fan base.
02:27It's really comical.
02:29And part of me wants to say, well, how could you expect a multi-billionaire to be in touch with
02:35a blue-collar fan base?
02:36So I give him a little grace on that, that he has lived a different lifestyle that the average person
02:42gets to live, right?
02:43Right.
02:44But when you put out, after your seventh consecutive loss, that, quote-unquote, I saw some green shoots tonight.
02:56Now, maybe I've got more financial experience than you do in life.
02:59I'm older than you.
03:00I would think you have.
03:00I would think you have.
03:01All right?
03:01I've heard about some of your expenses, yes.
03:04But I can tell you that at the ripe old age of 41 that I am today, I've never in
03:11my life heard that term.
03:12No.
03:13I had to look it up.
03:14And I know it's a financial term.
03:15I now know what it means.
03:16I did not know what it meant.
03:18I've never heard the terminology before.
03:20Never heard green shoots in my life.
03:26Never heard of it.
03:53Soto's jogging.
03:54And I'm saying to myself, you're not a Met fan.
03:57Yeah.
03:58And to be fair, he didn't grow up a Met fan.
04:00He's a Yankee fan growing up quite famously.
04:02Yeah.
04:02And now, of course, he is a Met fan.
04:03His wife's family, I don't know if they're Met fans or Yankee fans anymore.
04:07But just play this out for a second.
04:10Because I'm with Met fans on this.
04:12You have every right to be pissed off.
04:14Yeah.
04:14You've lost seven consecutive games.
04:16You have no offense.
04:17It's listless baseball.
04:19But your owner wants you to smile.
04:21And be happy because Simeon almost hit a home run.
04:27That's...
04:27Gosh darn it.
04:28If it was only warmer in L.A., maybe that ball would have carried out in the building.
04:33Like, you can't be this tone deaf.
04:35No, it's...
04:36It's clear to me that Steve Cohen just pays lip service to trying to relate to his fan base.
04:44Yeah.
04:45Is that fair?
04:45I mean...
04:46Because he has no idea.
04:48Green shoots?
04:49I have no idea what that is.
04:51Bichette, not only does he get a double, but he hit the ball to left field.
04:54Ooh!
04:55As opposed to being right field prone lately.
04:59Yeah, yeah.
04:59What the hell is he talking about?
05:00He has no idea.
05:02Not only...
05:02Not only is he completely lost in what he's saying or sounds tone deaf like a billionaire
05:07talking about green shoots.
05:09What the hell?
05:09He sounds like a guy who doesn't know baseball.
05:12Yeah.
05:12After being right field prone lately, I have never heard the term right field prone.
05:18Because no one's ever used it.
05:19Real problem, he's right field prone.
05:21Yeah.
05:22Like, even if you just say it was good to see him pull the ball.
05:25Something.
05:26Right field prone?
05:27Yeah.
05:27I don't know what the hell he's talking about.
05:29Yeah.
05:29And he's talking...
05:30Simeon looks completely washed.
05:32This is more than...
05:33It sounds like more than just excuse making, which it clearly is.
05:36It's also justification.
05:38It's justification for the idea that he waited and waited for Stearns to get here.
05:43He needed Stearns.
05:45That's who he wanted.
05:46When Stearns finally became available, it was the worst kept secret in baseball that he
05:50was going to hire him.
05:51Now that he's hired him, he's finally got his imprint on this team.
05:54He wiped away everything else that was before it.
05:57He has built a team in his vision.
05:59And he has to come out here and give you ridiculous baseball talk to defend what Stearns
06:04has done with this team.
06:05Defend his comments telling the fans they have to show up.
06:08Like, all of it.
06:08He is defending what they have done to this Met team and why it's so bad as of late.
06:14And he can't just sit there.
06:16He's got to give you green shoots and right field prone and fly balls that might have
06:20gone out on different nights.
06:21And that's the one.
06:22Look, green shoots, nobody understood.
06:23So let's even throw that to the side for a moment, okay?
06:26Yeah, Lindor leads off with the homerun.
06:27That was great, obviously.
06:29And had one other hit in the game.
06:30But when you're trying to quell the aggressive nature of Met fans' discontent by saying to
06:39them, and I want to be clear about this, we are not paraphrasing here.
06:43We are reading a direct quote from the owner moments, I guess an hour after or so, after
06:49their seventh consecutive loss.
06:50And I'm going to read it to you word for word.
06:53Simeon hit a shot that might have been a homerun on a warmer night.
06:59Like, if you're a diehard Met fan, as you are, Pete, what are you supposed to do with
07:04that?
07:05No, I don't know.
07:05Are you supposed to go get a couple drinks, have a party with your wife last night?
07:09Because the out-of-touch, tone-deaf owner said, well, if it was August, that ball might
07:14have left the park?
07:15Yeah.
07:16You know how embarrassing that is?
07:18I just don't.
07:19And out-of-touch and tone-deaf?
07:21It's similar to me.
07:21Steve Cohen, I'll tell you right now, you don't win people over just by writing big
07:26checks, and he is proof positive of that.
07:29And I said this a few weeks ago, and everybody yelled at me, you don't know what you're talking
07:34about.
07:35You're a turncoat.
07:36You left the Mets in 09.
07:38Yeah, shut your mouth, Carton.
07:40Well, guess what?
07:41Who's laughing now?
07:43Me.
07:44Because once again, I was right.
07:47Your owner is a tone-deaf billionaire who has no concept of how frustrating you fine people
07:56are.
07:57Yeah.
07:57And I got your back.
07:58Every one of you Mets fans, I'm on your side today.
08:01And again, I just don't know what he thinks he's accomplishing.
08:05It's similar to the 58%.
08:07Green shoots.
08:07Like, I don't know what he's thinking he's accomplishing here.
08:10Like, even if you want to just voice the frustration and go, I know this is bad, Mets fans, but
08:13I
08:14fully believe we will turn this around.
08:15Just leave it at that.
08:16Or how about, stop that for a second.
08:17How about just say, I'm pissed off too.
08:20Yeah.
08:21Period.
08:21Which, by the way, and I heard Evan talk about it, in 21, he did come out and talk about
08:26how bad the offense was.
08:28He came out and he talked about how frustrating it is and he can't understand the approach
08:32and this team should be better than that.
08:33He's come out and been aggressive, but that was when it was brand new.
08:37It wasn't when it was his team.
08:40Yeah.
08:40He shaped this team.
08:41He made dramatic changes to a core that this fan base, okay, maybe didn't love or could
08:47understand why it needed to be tweaked off of last year's debacle.
08:50But they sent away guys that this fan base loved, Pete Alonso, Nimmo.
08:54They jettisoned them for players that are failing and he needs to, and Simeon and Bichette
09:01are not like, they're purposely chosen because those are the guys you brought in here.
09:07We had that caller on when he first made the changes.
09:09Bichette replaces Alonso as far as the power hitter in the lineup.
09:14Simeon was traded for Nimmo, who's off to a great start with the Rangers.
09:17Those two guys are particularly picked to be in this tweet because he has to justify
09:22the changes that were made to this team.
09:25It's no longer the Wilpons team that he's took over.
09:28Over the last five years, and I know he gave a championship mandate over five years.
09:32Forget that.
09:33Over the last five years, he has changed this roster.
09:37It is now his.
09:38He can't turn and hide it behind anybody else.
09:40He wanted Stearns.
09:42Stearns made the changes.
09:43And it's no surprise that Simeon and Bichette are singled out in this tweet because those
09:48are the guys replacing who you kicked out of here because you determined that's not the
09:53best way to build a baseball team.
09:54And instead, this is what we're seeing from the best way to build a baseball team.
09:58And it makes it worse because you have an owner that doesn't get you, that doesn't understand
10:03what you're going through.
10:05And maybe how could he?
10:06He's worth your $15 billion.
10:08But he positioned himself as, I'm a Mets fan.
10:11I understand Mets fans.
10:12I know what Mets fans want, and I'm going to give it to them.
10:15And yes, he has spent the money, so he does get credit for that.
10:18But he obviously has not spent the money wisely.
10:20And now you're saying things that the average Mets fan is saying to themselves, like, you
10:26got to be better than that.
10:27Don't tell me after my seventh consecutive loss where at least I scored a run, but I only
10:32scored a single run.
10:34Don't forget, this New York Mets team has now scored a single run in the last 29 innings.
10:40And we're now having fun on Twitter by going, well, in the summertime, that Marcus Simeon
10:46hit might have been a home run.
10:47Oh, guess what?
10:48Bichette had a double.
10:51Benji had a hit.
10:52It's like we're talking to our Little League team.
10:55And I'm sorry, but it's embarrassing.
10:58And I feel for you, Mets fans.
10:59You guys like a charity case for me today.
11:01So I'm going to treat you like the charity case that you are, and I'm going to support
11:05you.
11:05I'm going to build you up, and I'm going to let you know this.
11:07You've got one guy on the radio that has your back.
11:10I think Big Mac does also, but you're kind of at odds with Mets fans because you're a
11:14diehard Yankee fan.
11:15I'm a fake Yankee fan.
11:16But that being the case, I think Mets fans need to be able to vent today.
11:21So we're going to give you the opportunity to do that.
11:23888-808-1019.
11:26And think about the last three tweets that Steve Cohen has put out, other than responding
11:31to my tweet about those heroes that saved the man's life at opening day, which he also
11:36poo-pooed and minimized.
11:38Steve Cohen, the last three tweets, the free ticket giveaway was fully subscribed within
11:44hours.
11:44Guess the percentage of no-shows.
11:47Answer?
11:4858%.
11:49And then there's last night's tweet where he's waxing poetic about green shoots and
11:54about an out that in the summertime might have been a home run.
11:59That's your owner.
12:01Yuck.
12:01There's only one thing, and you know how I love to play devil's advocate.
12:04It's my favorite thing to do.
12:05Is it?
12:06I don't get the sense that you do that.
12:07Really?
12:08Yeah.
12:08I love to do that.
12:08I get the sense that I do, and then you criticize me for doing it, but that's okay.
12:11No, that's not true.
12:12I criticize you for many things.
12:13That's what Pete and I were talking about at lunch today without you.
12:15Yeah.
12:15Yeah.
12:16I'm thinking, here's the one question I'll ask, or the one thing I'll say, because to
12:20me, I always look at this, like I did the 58% tweet and about the free tickets.
12:24What's the purpose?
12:25What's the purpose?
12:26Yeah.
12:27Well, can I ask you this?
12:28Is there a purpose behind or a thought behind what are we talking about today?
12:32We're talking about the owner's tweet, and what are we not talking about today?
12:35We're not talking about the manager being fired.
12:37Oh, you think that's why you put the tweet out?
12:39Well, I'm just saying, is there something...
12:40I'm just getting started.
12:41Is there something...
12:42That's a good point.
12:43But I'm just saying, is there something like, if I'm the story, Mendoza and the team aren't?
12:49I know that's very heady thinking.
12:51I don't think that's what's up.
12:52But there is an angle to that, maybe, perhaps.
12:56But ultimately, I don't know why, because that's what I'm trying to figure out.
13:00Why put out this tweet?
13:01Right.
13:01What is the benefit?
13:03He's a smart dude.
13:04I agree with you.
13:06Tone deaf.
13:06Some of the wording in this makes me think he's not even a baseball fan, like a baseball
13:10guy.
13:10Some of this wording is weird, and obviously, to put green shoots out there, like, we all
13:15know what you're talking about.
13:16Yeah.
13:16Have no idea what you're talking about.
13:18Nobody did.
13:19But, like, on some level, does he want to take and put the pressure on him as opposed
13:25to the team that's floundering?
13:26That's what managers do.
13:27That's what leaders do.
13:28Is there something to that?
13:30I don't know.
13:30Yeah, and let me just, for those of you that don't know what it means, I might as well
13:32give it to you.
13:33Yeah.
13:33So, green shoots in the financial sector are an early, often fragile sign of economic
13:40recovery or improvement following a recession or a downturn.
13:43So, he's suggesting that the New York Mets right now, to use his financial terms, are in
13:48the middle of a recession or a downturn, and he thinks that they're going to come out
13:53of the recession soon because Marcus Simeon almost hit a ball out of the ballpark but
13:59didn't.
14:00And I'm not even like, it's funny, right?
14:02No, it isn't.
14:02So, he thinks the fact that they made contact last night, which they've not done a lot
14:06of in the last couple games, that in his world means the recession is almost over.
14:11Yeah.
14:11You know, bountiful joy for everybody at a ballpark near you soon.
14:15But remember this, they get swept tonight against Otani, if that happens, that's eight
14:20consecutive losses, right?
14:22Then you have to go to Wrigley Field, and you have a three-game set at Wrigley against
14:27the Chicago Cubs, who's to say that the Chicago Cubs are not going to take three more from
14:33you, right?
14:35Chicago's a 500 team right now, they're 8-9, okay?
14:38So, they're not off to a great start either.
14:39No, they're not.
14:40But I'm sure they view the Mets as our green shoot.
14:43No, 100%.
14:44Right?
14:44The Mets represent a streak buster if you're a losing team or a 500 team.
14:51And we're going to get healthy and right against the Mets, you know why?
14:54Because the Mets don't have any offense.
14:56No.
14:56Nolan McClain was brilliant last night.
14:59And that's what's frustrating about it, too.
15:00Much like the Yankee losses when you get an eight-inning performance from Weathers, you
15:04get what you've gotten from Max Freed.
15:06He was out there throwing wiffle balls.
15:08I've heard a bunch of people reference it.
15:10The spin Nolan McClain gets on the baseball is otherworldly.
15:14Like, he looked incredible last night.
15:17You get that kind of performance, you've got to make it stick.
15:20Like, you've got to be able to win that game.
15:23And I understand, you know, coming in, walking the leadoff man in the eighth is a killer.
15:26There's a lot to this game.
15:28And, you know, there's many reasons why you lose.
15:30But this offense has just been absolutely dreadful.
15:34And you've got to make that stick because now you don't see McClain for another five games.
15:37Right.
15:37You don't know what you're getting from Simeon.
15:39Clay Holmes is going tonight.
15:40He's dealing with some sort of hamstring thing.
15:41Like, I just, Peterson absolutely stinks.
15:45Like, that's a game, all you have to do is scratch out two or three runs.
15:49You find a way to win the ball game.
15:51They are inept.
15:52Now, there are people out there, Big Mac, that are comparing you to Steve Cohen.
15:57Sure.
15:57Yes.
15:59Matter of fact, our pal Hinky Haynes.
16:01Hinky Haynes.
16:01Is one of them.
16:02Yeah.
16:02And he says when Steve Cohen talks about the Mets positive after their seventh consecutive
16:07loss, he reminds me of another shill we all know and love.
16:10Yeah.
16:10I'm not sure who he's referencing.
16:12Probably me.
16:13Here's the difference.
16:14No, no.
16:14A hundred percent you.
16:15Here's the difference.
16:16And I talked about this.
16:17And I don't care what anybody says.
16:19I think he has.
16:19This isn't a shill.
16:20This is logic.
16:22The Yankees are running back the same offense that led the MLB in runs scored last year.
16:28They led all of baseball.
16:29Scored more runs than the Dodgers.
16:31Scored more runs than the Blue Jays.
16:33Scored more runs than everyone in baseball.
16:35And they're running back the same offense.
16:36You can point, and I said this yesterday, one of the clips we put out.
16:39You can look at the Yankee offense and say, I can see this getting better because we saw
16:45it last year.
16:46It doesn't necessarily mean it a hundred percent will, but you can look at it and point to it
16:50and say, look, this is the same group that accomplished something last year.
16:54This is a brand new team.
16:56This is a group of Simeon who we're praising for hitting long fly balls.
17:00You can't look at this Mets team and say, I know this will come back.
17:05I've seen this guy do better in this uniform.
17:08I know what we got with this group last year.
17:11This is a radical new group that has done nothing all year long.
17:15Like the Yankees, I can point to and say this offense has been productive.
17:20I mean, a Rose Bay or the name would still smell sweet.
17:23A shill is a shill.
17:25Right?
17:25You and Steve Cohen connected at the hip now.
17:27Very much so.
17:28Connected at the hip.
17:29I hope so.
17:29If you start using the term green shoots for the Yankee offense, I'm going to be very impressed today.
17:34Let's put my money on the table, his money on the table, and split it.
17:36And we'll just be shill.
17:37That'd be nice.
17:37That'd be nice.
17:38By the way, we got lots to do today.
17:41Yankees trying to take the rubber match tonight against the Angels after last night's embarrassing performance.
17:48And that's what it was.
17:49Offensively, pitching-wise, the whole thing.
17:513-0, five pitches into the game.
17:53Turn that bad boy right off and go watch a bad Justin Timberlake movie last night.
17:57We'll get all your calls.
17:59Call Palmer.
18:00He's in it?
18:01Yeah, he's the star of it.
18:02He's an actor or he plays himself in like some sort of...
18:05Oh, he's an actor.
18:05Yeah, it's called Palmer.
18:06Oh, Justin Timberlake.
18:07I'm sorry.
18:08Who did you say that?
18:09I thought he said Bieber.
18:10No, Justin Timberlake's in a movie called Palmer.
18:11You were talking about Justin Bieber yesterday.
18:12Yeah.
18:13Okay, yeah, Justin Timberlake.
18:14Awful movie.
18:15I got forced into watching last night.
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