00:00I want to take you back to the Mets again a little bit.
00:02Is David Stearns next, in your opinion?
00:05Is he the next guy to fall here?
00:06Because they spent more money, George, than the Los Angeles Dodgers.
00:10And this may be actually worse than the worst team money can buy back in the 90s.
00:16I mean, is he next?
00:18$380 million.
00:19That's the price tag for the Mets.
00:21$380 million for a team that's, I mean, six hours the other night.
00:26They have all sorts of problems here.
00:27Well, what's going to be next?
00:29You're going to see the players being traded, right?
00:30David Peterson's an appetizer, and a low-end appetizer at that.
00:34You have Peralta's likely to go.
00:35Maybe Clayton Holmes goes.
00:36Several others might go as well.
00:38Bichette, who can opt out at the end of the year anyway, he might go here at the deadline.
00:42So that's going to be next.
00:43After that, there's no one else to blame.
00:45Got rid of the manager.
00:47Got rid of the players.
00:48You're next, David.
00:49I think he gets one more year, all right?
00:52I don't think – he's got a guaranteed – not that, listen, kind of the Cohen cares about.
00:55I think he's got two years left, $10 million.
00:56I don't think Cohen cares about $10 million.
00:58The guy's a gazillionaire.
01:00But that being said, I think he gets one more year.
01:02Talk to me at this time next year.
01:03If we're having the same conversation, Dan, a year from now, then he has no choice.
01:07He has to move on here.
01:09I think the biggest problem with Stearns has been this.
01:10He was very good with Milwaukee, right?
01:12Small market team, knew how to handle that.
01:14He couldn't translate it to a big market team.
01:17Spend the money.
01:18You cannot be afraid to get an ace.
01:20And he's been afraid to pay for an ace.
01:23Been afraid for it.
01:24And it's killed you.
01:25The Mets offense has been blah, but the pitching's been horrific.
01:28It's been horrific.
01:29You don't have an ace.
01:30Peralta never was that.
01:32He's a good two, maybe a three.
01:33He's not an ace.
01:34And he's not pitching up well through all performance anyway, the standards here.
01:38So, Stearns is next.
01:39But I don't think it'll be this year or in the offseason.
01:42Now that they really crater.
01:43You know, I think it's this time next year.
01:45If you and I are having the same conversation, yeah, I think he'll be on a chopping block.
01:48Yeah, and you just make a great point there about Stearns being up in Milwaukee and then
01:53having to go to a big market like New York here.
01:56And you take a look at what they're doing in Los Angeles with Andrew Friedman.
02:00Friedman comes from a small baseball team with the Rays, takes those dimes and pennies,
02:05rubs them together, and they go to a World Series against the Phillies, right?
02:09Then you put him in a big market.
02:10Look what he did.
02:11I think the difference there, what he's done,
02:13you tell me if you think I'm wrong here, George.
02:15I think that he maintained still building a minor league system when he was there in Los Angeles.
02:21And the minor league system, they got a kid who could start on any baseball team right now
02:25down on the farm.
02:26And you look at the Mets farm system, it's nowhere to be seen.
02:30So, again, the two contrasting differences right there in how you run a big market team
02:35when you come from a small market team.
02:37And Andrew Friedman's that guy, no?
02:40Oh, completely agree.
02:41Completely agree, right?
02:42And Friedman has not been afraid to spend money, right?
02:45They go out and sign, Tucker, Ohtani, okay, it was a no-brainer.
02:48Mookie Betts was more of a trade, but they signed into the big contract, Freddie Friedman.
02:50You go on and on and on, they haven't been afraid, all right?
02:53And they do things a little differently, all right?
02:55We're seeing this a little different in baseball now,
02:57where they give higher AAV but shorter contracts, right?
03:00We'll give you three years at $65 million a year rather than eight years at, you know, $600 million.
03:05All right?
03:05So they do things a little differently here because they don't mind paying for performance.
03:08They don't want to overpay in five years from now when you're not that player anymore.
03:12I like what Friedman's done.
03:14You bring up a great point about the minor league system, right?
03:16River Ryan, who's on the IL now in the minor leagues, he could start for any team here.
03:21Dodgers have talent up the wazoo, which, by the way, trade deadline, about six weeks away here.
03:26Dodgers can go out and get anybody they want.
03:28They have that talent.
03:29They want Tariq Skubel.
03:30They can get him.
03:31They want Byron Buxton, who I think they should be going for.
03:34They can go out and get him.
03:35You know, they can be that team that goes out and gets anybody they want.
03:38All right?
03:38So we'll see what moves they make.
03:40And they will make a big move.
03:41I have no doubt the Dodgers are going to make a big move here.
03:43They're not going to rest on their laurels here and hope they can go for three straight here.
03:47But the Dodgers are probably the model franchise, Dan, up and down on the major league level and the minor
03:53league level for how they operate.
03:54Just, you know, it's not all about spending money for the Dodgers.
03:57They bring up the talent as well.
03:58MVP could be Andy Paz.
04:00That's one of their minor league players.
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