00:00All right, Bob, I got to start out with one of our favorite teams here,
00:03the New York Metropolitans here.
00:06Is this the worst baseball team since the expansion year?
00:11It's a bad one.
00:12I mean, certainly it's more disappointing than the expansion year
00:15because expansion year is supposed to be bad.
00:18They have the highest payroll in baseball.
00:20They're supposed to be good.
00:21But, yeah, bad year, and they're getting bad luck too.
00:25Clay Holmes, you know, breaking his leg.
00:27Now they can't even trade him to trade that line
00:29because he wouldn't have pitched before, you know, July, August 3rd.
00:34So, yeah, everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for the Mets.
00:38You know, David Stearns, I liked him when he was in Milwaukee.
00:42I mean, this guy seems to know how to build a roster.
00:46He did a great job, I thought, up in Milwaukee.
00:48What's gone wrong for him in New York?
00:51I mean, is it just construction of the roster that he made just poor gambles?
00:57Yeah, I mean, some of the guys he acquired are injury-prone.
01:02You know, they got Polanco from Seattle.
01:05He's already missed more games in seven weeks than Pete Alonzo's missed in seven years.
01:10So that was a horrible thing.
01:13You know, tried different things.
01:14Tried, you know, Devin Williams instead of Diaz.
01:17That's worked out fine.
01:18Williams had a bad start.
01:20They're not hitting, you know, not like Pete Alonzo was trying to, you know, cover off the ball in Baltimore.
01:25But still, he was, you know, a big-time threat.
01:28So he's trying to do it his way, and they want to be a consistent winner.
01:32But, you know, it's a city for stars.
01:34It's like Dave Nabrowski says, people want to watch teams with big stars.
01:39And that's why you see the teams that Nabrowski's built over the years always has those big stars, where I
01:44think, you know, Dave Starr is kind of trying to win the margins, and, you know, knock the payroll down
01:51and keep a consistent winner.
01:52But it hasn't worked out, obviously.
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