00:00You have those two losses and it just, you got Peterson on the mound.
00:03You realize that the starting rotation's in trouble a little bit.
00:06And when Peterson, you got to win the Nolan McClain games.
00:09You had a 5-0 lead from that moment.
00:11Even though Soto's gotten hot and even Bichette's hit a little bit,
00:14there's just so much to overcome.
00:17And to do it with so many young kids and to do it with a rotation like that,
00:20you can't afford to have the slip-ups they've had over the last two games.
00:23Like that's, it's just the way it is, man.
00:25You can't, you cannot lose two straight games to the Nationals
00:28if you're trying to come back from where they are.
00:30Yeah, because it's hard to believe in them.
00:32It's hard to believe in them.
00:33Like you even said, after they took that game, the rubber match against the Yankees,
00:37it's like, hey, maybe they'll salvage the season there.
00:40I think a lot of people felt that way.
00:42Like, hey, not that you trust them complicitly, Nat.
00:45No.
00:46But it kind of felt like, all right, maybe get close to 500 by first week of June.
00:53Maybe get to 500.
00:55And now you've still got three months of baseball left.
00:57Yeah, to go do something.
00:59Absolutely, yeah.
01:00But when you lose the last two games the way they lost them,
01:02it's like, see, every time I want to give them some credit,
01:07every time I feel like, okay, I can buy into the Mets again,
01:11they do what they did the last two nights.
01:13Yep.
01:14So if you're a diehard Mets fan, I'm just wondering how frustrating the last two nights were
01:19because it's a reminder.
01:21You're not that good.
01:23No.
01:23You're not that good.
01:24And by the way, I can also back that up by saying,
01:26how many more minor leaguers are the Mets bringing up to play for them this year?
01:30Yeah.
01:31Like, it's absurd.
01:32Well, it's kind of like, you know, Evan and I were talking about in the newsroom,
01:36it's kind of like a rebuild.
01:38Like, they're a $370 million rebuilding team.
01:41Great way to put it.
01:42Like, they've had some injuries, right?
01:44Obviously, Nolan Doerr.
01:45You've also lost Alvarez.
01:46You're dealing with now Clay Holmes injury.
01:48You've got injuries.
01:50Polanco.
01:50I get that.
01:50Polanco.
01:51He's not playing.
01:52Louis Robert Jr.
01:53Like, the list goes on.
01:53Like, there's plenty of injuries.
01:54I get it.
01:55But you look at it, it's a youth movement with a lot of guys that this GM didn't draft,
02:00quite honestly.
02:01I think he did draft Benj, but he didn't draft Ewing.
02:03Like, he's, like, and they're trying to, like, build up the organization,
02:07and they're trying to give you answers in the rotation.
02:10They're trying to give you answers in the outfield with these young kids
02:12and the promise of where this team is headed.
02:15But right now, currently, it's hard to win with this many guys.
02:18It's hard to win.
02:19I agree.
02:19Like, they're going to, even if they come up like guys like Ewing who've come up
02:22and played really well, it's hard to expect a rookie to do that all year.
02:27Like, eventually, there's going to be tape on him.
02:28Eventually, the league's going to make an adjustment.
02:30And I have every confidence that he can make the adjustment back,
02:32but it's a process that takes time.
02:35So, like, it's very hard to see the Mets.
02:37It's very hard to see the Mets going on an extended run that they need to get back into.
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