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00:09Now, we talked a little bit about Carlos Mendoza before, right guys?
00:14And Wardy's used on this show a bunch of times the word proactive.
00:20And I really don't like talking about people's jobs and necessarily getting fired.
00:25But if Mendoza is going to be here at this critical juncture that we're talking about,
00:30and I don't also want to go back to 2024 and say that, okay, maybe they can get on this
00:36run again.
00:37But what buttons does he have left to push with this team, right?
00:40Especially with the way this roster is right now, guys.
00:42We're talking about young guys, a lot of injuries, waiting for guys to come back.
00:46Is there a button left for Carlos Mendoza to push here that can get this team to competitive baseball once
00:54again?
00:54Or are we just kind of like, let's just see how it goes.
00:59You know, I don't know what that button is when you have games where you're batting Marcus Simeon at cleanup.
01:04And, you know, putting Eric Wagaman.
01:07And now, listen, Wagaman hit a home run.
01:09But, you know, I just don't know what buttons are there for him.
01:14You know, maybe you flip-flop Mania and Peterson bullpen and rotation.
01:20I mean, you know, now you're really talking about...
01:23Mike, we're talking about flip-flopping Mania and Peterson.
01:25That's not good.
01:26That's not good at all.
01:27Really talking about operating at the margins here.
01:30I mean, I don't know what button there is.
01:33You know, and it's not like there's a stud down at Syracuse really tearing it up that, hey, you know,
01:40let's bring this guy up.
01:41And just, you know, they've went that route with bringing up some of the prospects.
01:47And it gave them a little bit of a boost for a while.
01:49But, you know, and now Bench is obviously looking like he's a legitimate major league player.
01:55But, you know, we'll have to see about A.J. Ewing and Morbido's already been up and down.
02:00But, you know, they've already shot that bullet.
02:03So, you know, I don't know where else you go from there.
02:06Yeah, if that was the case, they'd hire you as manager there.
02:11Wardy, do you feel there's anything Mendoza can do?
02:14Or is the button to be pushed by David Stearns in this situation?
02:19You know what I'm going to say in response to this, okay?
02:21Because at the end of the day, you know, in today's MLB especially, when these type of issues happen, as
02:27consistently as they do, it usually starts with the manager.
02:29Even if the manager's not a fault for everything, because I've been very consistent in saying that there's a lot
02:34that Carlos Mendoza, I believe, is not a fault for.
02:36It's not his fault that the roster was built the way that it was.
02:38It's not his fault that the team has, to a degree, not been able to find a resilience going back
02:44to last year.
02:45Like, you could say, yes, maybe he missed the mark in one way or another in trying to uplift the
02:49team.
02:50I don't know what goes on in the clubhouse, so I don't want to speak on something I don't know.
02:53But just you try to rationalize and come to a conclusion as to how did we get here, okay?
02:58Because for the sake of Carlos Mendoza and the Mets and what I think is best for them this year
03:02is this is, and we've been very consistent on this, Dexter, going back to spring training, that this is not
03:07about the Mets not playing bad just now.
03:09This is about the Mets being one of, if not the worst team in Major League Baseball for almost a
03:13calendar year once we get to June 12th of this summer, okay?
03:17Since Kodaisinga went down with injury, the Mets have only had around 60 or, I think, 61 wins over what's
03:22been 150-game sample size.
03:24I mean, it's been absolutely dreadful.
03:25So, knowing that this has been a continued lack of winning, there's already, I think, something against Mendoza to stay
03:32here as is.
03:33Now, to Mike's point, the question is, okay, we're now almost in the month of June.
03:38How much is it really going to change things if you decide to part ways with your manager in season?
03:42That's a great question, and that further reaffirms why I was as adamant as I was going back a month
03:47ago, the same time that the Phillies parted ways with Rob Thompson.
03:50At the end of the day, yes, you don't know what you're going to be getting in a new interim
03:53manager, whether that is someone that the Mets say is going to be their in-house option of a Kai
03:58Correa,
03:58or if that's someone more in the front office of a Carlos Beltran, or that being an Andy Green, one
04:04of those types, if they don't go externally,
04:06you don't exactly know how much that's going to move the needle.
04:08But the point is that when you're already 10 games below .500, and you have a team that looks deflated,
04:13and a team that one way or another, as Ron Darling stated on the broadcast over the past couple days,
04:18the team is not responding clearly enough to whatever is going on with Carlos Mendoza's voice in the clubhouse, as
04:25well as on the field.
04:26So in my mind, the bar's already as low as it is.
04:29It's only going to continue to get lower more than likely.
04:31It's not going to move up high enough more than likely to justify, say, Mendy being here for a renewed
04:36contract at the end of this season.
04:38So for all those reasons, why not consider someone else when there's actually a potential, at least, of a team
04:45maybe getting a spark,
04:46getting on a little bit of a run, just something to actually give them the momentum that they desperately need.
04:51Because between David Peterson, between it sounds like Mendoza more often than not, these guys just sound so depleted and
04:57defeated.
04:58And I don't know if there's going to be a point of return with keeping everyone here doing the exact
05:02same thing every day.
05:04Have a great day.
05:06Have a great day.
05:08You
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