00:00The team tied with the fewest wins in all of baseball, which means it could be the Phillies
00:06or it could be the Mets, have made a decision. It's time for a new manager. And while I spent
00:14the majority of my day yesterday talking Met fans off the ledge as to whether or not Carlos
00:20Mendoza was going to be fired, the majority of Met fans want him to be fired. They think the team
00:25needs a shakeup. They need new direction. They need a new manager. Somehow, someway, Mendoza
00:31survived their off day. And yet six minutes ago, the Philadelphia Phillies have decided
00:39that the last man to take them to a World Series, Rob Thompson, is no longer suitable to be their
00:47manager. My pal Don Mattingly takes over as interim manager. The Phillies are now the
00:55embarrassment of all of Major League Baseball. Or do you think the Mets are the embarrassment
01:01because the Phillies at least did something to try to shotgun start their season while
01:08the New York Mets sit back and do absolutely nothing? Yeah, I think the Phillies did a move
01:15they had to do. Now, I don't think... Nine wins this year. I don't think Rob Thompson's
01:19the problem. But you can't be... The manager's almost never the problem. I'm
01:23with you on that. Yeah, you can't go nine and 19, though, have that same manager putting
01:27out that same lineup. They're not hitting every night. Yeah. And just let it happen. You
01:32have to do something. I agree with you, by the way. So, to me... And I think most Philly
01:36fans are probably saying, look, we appreciate Rob. There was about five years ago now when
01:40he took over for Joe Girardi and took the Phillies right to a World Series. I think he's made the
01:45playoffs every year that he's been the manager. One of the last two divisions. But when you
01:49start a season off nine and 19 and your payroll's north of $300 million, you know, that's the
01:54only guy you can fire. Right. And I think the Mets are in the same exact boat. So, it's
01:59just... I like the fact that Philly went first. Yeah. Because whoever goes first is the
02:04biggest loser. No, it's not. Because they gave up first. It's like, you know, there's
02:08no thing in the military, Tyrone. And... All your time in the military? Yeah. There's
02:13no thing us military guys like to talk about. Yeah. And it's something that coaches historically
02:19have used as a rallying cry for their teams. Matter of fact, Coach Coughlin, Tom Coughlin
02:25used it for the New York Giants in their first Super Bowl, winning with him as head coach.
02:29And the concept is burn the boats. And what burn the boats mean is...
02:34That when we land on foreign territory... Yeah. We burn our own boats so that the men
02:40know there's no retreating. Either we win or we die. Uh-huh. And that's the message you
02:47send to the team. That's not a smart plan, though, because what you can do is... Burn
02:52the boats. No, you get back on the boat, regroup, come up with it. No, you don't do
02:55that. Why not? Because then guys know they've been out. No, there's no out. You want guys to
02:59know. There's no out. Either I conquer or I die with valor. Right. But what you can
03:06do is you can come with a different approach, go to the other side and re-storm. Yeah.
03:11No, that's not... What you do is you take the boats away. Yeah. Put the boats far away.
03:15Don't burn them. That's your generation's military. No! That's smart. Our generation's military.
03:20World War I. World War II. Burn the boats. War one. Burn the boats. Wait a minute. You're
03:27150 years old? I'm old. No. Yeah. I'm like Benjamin Buttons. This is ridiculous, your suggestion.
03:34Yeah. The smart thing to do is, before the season's over, we are still in April, technically.
03:39Yes. I mean, yeah, till Friday. May's had a couple days. Right. We're still in April.
03:42Mm-hmm. You don't want to give up on a season in April, so you make a move to try
03:46to salvage
03:47a season in April. Yeah, I'm with you on that. That's why I think... That to me is the smart
03:49move.
03:50I'm glad Philly did it first, because I can mock Philadelphia. Worst team in baseball. First
03:54team to fire their manager. Those two things go hand in hand. But I'm with you. The Phillies
03:59are saying, hey, wait a minute. We have 130-some-odd, whatever it is, games to go. We have too
04:05much
04:05talent here. We're desperate. We've got to do something. Got to do something. I thought
04:10the Mets were going to do that yesterday. I really did. And I think they should have.
04:13Because they had an off day. Right. Philly did as well. Now the Mets do have, to be fair,
04:17three-game series left in this nine-game homestand, and it's against the Nationals. They also
04:21thought they were going to beat the Rockies. They got swept. Right. They also thought
04:24they were going to beat the Twins. They didn't. Right. You know, sweep the Twins. So I thought
04:30the Mets were doing yesterday. The Phillies do it first. So I suppose, from a managerial
04:36concept, the Phillies are this, this much more competent than the New York Mets. Not a good
04:42place to be for either franchise, obviously. Right. And the New York Mets obviously did something
04:47that is greed on top of greed. It's like Gordon Gekko type stuff. So the Mets honestly thought
04:54that this new roster they put together, I'm sure the Phillies thought a similar thing,
04:59was going to lock them into the playoffs, maybe win the division, win 90-plus games,
05:05et cetera, et cetera. Right? Yeah. Now I'm not sure if Philly did this. I'd like you to find
05:08out for me. The New York Mets decided not to put any of their single game tickets from July
05:161st on up for sale. And the reason they chose not to do that is they thought they were going
05:23to be so good that they could do dynamic pricing from July 1st on, thinking that, hey, if we
05:30are the best team in the National League East, if we are a playoff team, if Juan Soto's killing
05:35and all that stuff, that we can price gouge our fans on a per-game basis and or some more
05:42seven-game packages, ten-game packages, which every team does, right? Yeah. But when you
05:48start off 9-19, who's buying tickets in July and August? Nobody. So because of their hubris
05:58where they thought, hey, we've got a $370 million payroll. Hey, we're going to be the best team
06:04in the National League East. Hey, people are going to be looking for our tickets on a per-game
06:09basis. They made none of them available. They're going to be sitting on thousands and thousands
06:17of ticket inventory, all because they got greedy.
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