Mets Fire Carlos Mendoza: Is David Stearns Next?

Carlos Mendoza is out as manager of the New York Mets, and Will and Erik jumped on for an emergency episode to react to the news.

The guys break down why the firing felt inevitable, why Mendoza was part of the problem but not the only problem, and why David Stearns, Steve Cohen, the players, and the entire organization deserve blame for where this season has gone. They also get into the Mets’ awful stretch dating back to last season, the roster construction issues, the failed “run prevention” philosophy, Mark Vientos playing first base, the future of David Stearns, and who could be next in the manager’s chair.

Is Alex Cora the obvious target? Would Carlos Beltran make sense? Should Stearns even be trusted to pick the next manager if he’s already on the hot seat?

This wasn’t supposed to be a regular episode, but the Mets ruined everybody’s Friday!

Transcript

00:01.04
William Hernandez
Greetings and salutations and welcome back to Two Dummies That Just Watch, a sports podcast between friends. As the title will suggest, I haven't written it yet, but you've seen it by now.

00:16.31
William Hernandez
We are talking about Carlos Mendoza and the New York Mets. I am here with Mr. Eric Pimentel as Lee Jay is still in North Kakalaki.

00:30.59
William Hernandez
Erik, sir, we're here. we were We weren't supposed to have an episode this week, but we did say we would jump on here if something breaking happened, and and behold, look what the fuck was bestowed upon us.

00:45.58
Erik Pimentel
Can't take a week off every year and if we want to.

00:48.60
William Hernandez
yeah It's like, what the hell? Holy shit. So let's um let's let's let's dive into it because this is not going to be a regular episode. and you know We'll go as long as the topic the topic suggests. So you know obviously by now, everybody knows the Mets put out a statement this morning that Carlos Mendoza is no longer the manager of the New York Mets.

01:16.18
William Hernandez
And I will quickly read the press release here. Thank you, Larry, for passing this along to us. New York Mets today announced the departure of – I love how they put this, by the way, though that the departure.

01:29.74
William Hernandez
Bro, you got fired.

01:29.89
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm. yeah

01:31.88
William Hernandez
that's like Come on. why are we Why are we mincing words here? Jesus Christ. Anyway, the New York Mets today announced the departure of manager Carlos Mendoza. Andy Green will take over as interim manager for the remainder of the 2026 season. The announcement was made by Mets president of baseball operations, David Stearns. Quote, Carlos has led the organization with passion and grace and is beloved by everyone who works with him on a daily basis, said Stearns. Carlos's impact on our players, staff, and culture over the last three seasons

02:04.60
William Hernandez
Three seasons has been transformative. Unfortunately, we know we are falling short and change is necessary to move forward. Jesus, I'm throwing my mouth reading this stuff. I want to express, that this is from Steve Cohen, by the way, who you know finally somewhat makes an appearance. Quote, I want to express my deepest gratitude to Carlos Mendoza for his leadership and unwavering commitment.

02:26.62
William Hernandez
He represented this organization with integrity and dedication throughout, and I wish him and his family all the best, said Steve Cohen. Our commitment to bringing our fans a championship caliber team has not changed. There is no sugar coating it.

02:41.40
William Hernandez
This season has been a disappointment and our fans deserve better than what we delivered. Mendoza was named the manager prior to the 2024 season and helped guide the club to the NLCS that year. He was named a finalist for NL manager of the year 2024 and twenty twenty four and put together a 206 and 198 record during his tenure with the organization. Green, 48, joined the organization in 2023 and previously served as senior vice president, baseball development.

03:12.25
William Hernandez
He will serve as the interim manager effective immediately for the remainder of the 2026 season. Green previously managed the San Diego Padres from 2016 to I like how they said this guiding the club, to a 274 and 366 record.

03:31.46
William Hernandez
That's a 428 winning percentage, by the way, for those who are wondering.

03:34.54
Erik Pimentel
That's a guide down a cliff.

03:35.54
William Hernandez
Yeah, exactly. The infielder played parts of four major league seasons with the Diamondbacks and appeared in four games with the Mets in 2009.

03:46.04
William Hernandez
nine Sir, what was your initial reaction when you heard the news this morning?

03:55.29
Erik Pimentel
My initial reaction was what took so damn long. I mean, it's something that that we we talked about this when we first, you know, previewed the season.

04:06.14
Erik Pimentel
It's like he needs to get off to a good start or he's not going to pass the all-star break.

04:06.78
William Hernandez
Right, yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

04:12.34
Erik Pimentel
And then, boom, here it is.

04:12.57
William Hernandez
yeah

04:14.33
Erik Pimentel
um You know, it's it's something like, ah not surprised, not surprised. You could see in... in the moves that he made, you know, bullpen moves, lineup moves, you know,

04:29.33
Erik Pimentel
it and there a lot of people aren and aren't putting the blame on it on him, but he's part of the problem.

04:36.50
William Hernandez
Oh, obviously.

04:36.72
Erik Pimentel
that's it That's what they, you you need to, as Mets fans, if you're a diehard Mets fan, you know that Mendoza was part of the problem.

04:37.02
William Hernandez
Yeah. Yeah.

04:45.24
Erik Pimentel
And sometimes you just need a new voice in the clubhouse.

04:45.27
William Hernandez
a

04:49.62
Erik Pimentel
Look at what happened down the road in Philadelphia.

04:52.31
William Hernandez
Right. Yeah.

04:53.33
Erik Pimentel
They got off to a horrible start. Don Manley is taking over and their record show, you know, is proof is in the pudding. So sometimes even even if you think the manager is not at fault, if your team's in a rut and this team has been in a rut for over a year now, guys.

05:10.33
Erik Pimentel
um Just that new voice in the room could make a difference.

05:15.58
William Hernandez
I'm glad you brought up over a year because I texted this to Lee Jay and Eric earlier today. And it's something that I have brought up before on this show. Since June 12th of last year, okay, that was, they went into, what was that series against the Rays, if I'm not mistaken, right?

05:35.83
William Hernandez
They are 72 and one one. and one oh one

05:41.45
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm.

05:42.19
William Hernandez
That's a 416 winning percentage. So not only has this continued into this year, this was happening when you had Alonzo last year and had Diaz and had McNeil and had Nemo and had that core.

05:59.64
William Hernandez
Now, there's a lot of this blame go on Stearns. Oh, no shit. And you know what? That motherfucker finally today took responsibility And just quickly, because I know Lee J sent over the the video, but I'll read the... yeah Hold on, because I don't want this to... Despite... oh This is what he said.

06:23.19
William Hernandez
Despite all of our efforts, Mendy's included, we haven't been able to get it going this year. I take responsibility for that. Ultimately, everything that occurs in baseball operations, including our Major League record, is my responsibility. I also have a responsibility to push us forward.

06:42.14
William Hernandez
I don't know how that happens at this point, but this overriding sentiment that Mendoza isn't at fault here is bullshit because we've said it.

06:53.21
William Hernandez
I've said it. And i by the way, I'm seeing other people steal my talking point. Just FYI. Just want to put that out there. You know, ah number one, this stuff was not supposed to happen under Steve Cohen, who, by the way, by the way, in five and a half years of owning this team, we have now had, including this interim, because that does count, four different managers.

07:18.20
William Hernandez
And we're about to have number five in October or November. That is, that's not stability. That is not, you're already past the five-year window to win a championship. It's already gone. That's it. It's done.

07:30.91
William Hernandez
it's It's not happening this year, right? So this this, going back to the sentiment that Mendoza, because who was saying that today? Steve Galvis was saying it. Gary Cohen.

07:42.04
William Hernandez
I saw a few other people saying that, saying that, that it's not Mendoza's fault. Yeah, he's partly to blame. So is Cohen. So is Stearns. So is Mendoza. So are the players.

07:52.95
William Hernandez
So is the guy who checks the fucking video replay. It's his fucking fault to you. Everybody's at fault here, man. I just, I don't understand why we are letting this guy get a free pass Bro, he was you guys were watching the game, I think, on not last night, the second game of the doubleheader.

08:11.63
William Hernandez
At least Lee J was. Did you watch the second game?

08:15.22
Erik Pimentel
I saw some of it.

08:15.66
William Hernandez
Yeah.

08:15.94
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

08:16.54
William Hernandez
And I think, I don't know if it was you or Lee J that said, I saw some of it that he looked checked out in the dugout.

08:23.90
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. the Yeah. Lee J said that. Yeah.

08:25.34
William Hernandez
Yeah, because Lee J was watching it, and he said that Mendoza looked checked out in the dugout. Bro, i I thought that they weren't playing yesterday because I thought it was only a three-game series. So when I saw that, there you know, i get the alert on my phone that the game's starting, I'm like, oh, my God, they got to play again today?

08:42.36
William Hernandez
Because I was thinking that something was going to happen yesterday, but I didn't realize that they were playing.

08:46.13
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

08:48.13
William Hernandez
And guys, don't think yesterday was game 81, halfway through the season. Today, know, they did the shit on purpose. eighty Yeah, yeah, new year, new me.

08:56.41
Erik Pimentel
New year. Yeah. Yeah.

09:01.21
William Hernandez
New year, new me. Bro, it's just frustrating, man. I'm just, I'm fucking, I'm frustrated.

09:06.20
Erik Pimentel
yeah

09:07.77
William Hernandez
This should have happened sooner. We talked about this, that last year when they went through the coaching staff changes, right? And they got rid of everybody else except for Mendoza.

09:18.17
William Hernandez
And I thought, man, this guy, yeah, the writing is on the wall that if this doesn't start off well, that he's going to be gone.

09:18.56
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. Writings on the wall.

09:25.66
William Hernandez
And lo and behold, We were fucking right about that. And now you're going miss the playoffs two years in a row with a hefty payroll and fucking Juan Soto on your team.

09:28.92
Erik Pimentel
Yep.

09:36.83
William Hernandez
It's unacceptable.

09:36.90
Erik Pimentel
Yep.

09:37.79
William Hernandez
Unacceptable.

09:38.95
Erik Pimentel
That look that's that Bendoza had on his face, we've we've all had that look. We've all worked at a place

09:46.61
William Hernandez
Right? Yes.

09:47.41
Erik Pimentel
that you walk in there and you're just there to collect a paycheck because you hate working there.

09:47.83
William Hernandez
Yes. Yeah.

09:52.17
Erik Pimentel
We've all been there. that's the look That's the look that Mendoza had, man.

09:53.62
William Hernandez
Sure.

09:56.10
Erik Pimentel
He looked checked out. He looked like he wanted to get fired.

10:01.27
William Hernandez
Yeah.

10:02.10
Erik Pimentel
You know, and and you could you could go back to last year with the press conferences after the game, bro. He just, he had no, it was the same rinse and repeat answers every night.

10:08.02
William Hernandez
Oh my God.

10:12.50
William Hernandez
Yes. huh ahha

10:13.62
Erik Pimentel
And it was it was getting to a point where it was pissing me off that I didn't, I'm not one to to look at post-game interview, post-game press conferences, but I would do it just to hear his answers.

10:27.13
Erik Pimentel
And then after,

10:27.64
William Hernandez
yes

10:28.44
Erik Pimentel
after a week of hearing the same shit, he went a year talking the same way.

10:33.85
William Hernandez
Yeah, the same thing. Yeah.

10:34.87
Erik Pimentel
The same exact thing.

10:35.26
William Hernandez
Yeah.

10:36.11
Erik Pimentel
Well, guys, we tried hard and this and that, better result. Bro, it was all like cliche answers. he He wanted to, I don't want to say he wanted to get fired, but he knew he was getting fired.

10:48.82
Erik Pimentel
And unless they were making a dramatic change, a dramatic, you know, bro, when they went on that 12 game losing streak, we were saying it.

10:57.91
William Hernandez
Yeah, we were.

10:58.58
Erik Pimentel
To get out of that 12th grade losing streak, you got to go on a big winning streak.

10:59.38
William Hernandez
Yeah.

11:02.10
Erik Pimentel
And since then, they haven't recovered. They're 12 games under 500 or 13, whatever the hell it is. you know They never recovered from that losing streak. Good teams don't go on losing streaks like that.

11:14.69
Erik Pimentel
And if they do, they they you know they combat that with a winning streak. Look at Philadelphia.

11:20.30
William Hernandez
Right.

11:20.76
Erik Pimentel
i know we hate Philadelphia and we hate that city, but you know what? They didn't wait. for the fucking Titanic to to to go down.

11:29.50
William Hernandez
Right. Yeah.

11:29.91
Erik Pimentel
They made the change, and now look at them. look They're only four or five games ah behind the Braves.

11:34.33
William Hernandez
Yeah. Only four games behind the Braves. They have, I'm just gonna get the standings right now. They have the they have the top wild card spot right now. And guess guess who the Mets have to fucking go against tonight?

11:41.66
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm.

11:45.52
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

11:45.62
William Hernandez
Zach Wheeler. Another guy, and I know Lee Jay never liked him. I'm sorry. That was a fucking bad move. I will say that now. I've said it then. That was a terrible move letting Wheeler go.

11:58.20
William Hernandez
Terrible fucking move.

11:58.32
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. and And that's not Sterns. That's Wilpon's shit.

12:01.21
William Hernandez
Yeah, it is.

12:01.40
Erik Pimentel
you know

12:01.81
William Hernandez
It is. Yeah.

12:02.55
Erik Pimentel
but But still, it was a terrible move. Yeah.

12:04.50
William Hernandez
Yeah, because you look at it look you look at it now, You telling me the Mets couldn't use Zach Wheeler right now? Come on, man.

12:10.86
Erik Pimentel
Oh, boy. Yeah.

12:11.93
William Hernandez
Come on, the dude's I know he was hurt, but still. he's been He's been a Cy Young Award candidate since he's been with the Phillies, by the way.

12:21.59
Erik Pimentel
yeah Oh, yeah.

12:21.82
William Hernandez
So I don't want to hear that they couldn't use a Zach Wheeler. Again, i know it's a Wolpont thing. I get it. But still, the point still stands that that guy should have been a Met for much longer than he was.

12:35.51
William Hernandez
I don't know. if Did you see what Lindor said, by the way?

12:38.27
Erik Pimentel
Oh boy. What the hell did he say?

12:40.70
William Hernandez
ah let me Let me see if I can get it up here quick because he said he was shocked. That's the thing I don't understand. Like, I don't understand how these guys are, like, surprised that change.

12:56.41
William Hernandez
Here we go. This is what he said. That was – we've – hold trying to see. Okay. This is the caption from SNY Instagram.

13:08.44
William Hernandez
Francisco Lindor speaks about the Mets firing Carlos Mendoza and is asked about David Stearns accepting responsibility for the Mets' struggles. Quote, that was very professional of him, meaning third Stearns, to try to take the responsibility.

13:21.88
William Hernandez
But at the same time, dot, dot, dot, we failed Mendy.

13:24.80
Erik Pimentel
Yeah,

13:26.23
William Hernandez
I failed Mendy. I didn't play to my capability to help him win as many games as I could. This one, this one's on us as well.

13:36.35
Erik Pimentel
or no shit.

13:38.72
William Hernandez
Yeah, right. Like, seriously, dude. Like, no shit. You know?

13:43.70
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. I don't know how these guys are surprised. It's bro. If you're bad at your job day after day after day, something is going to happen. You know, like i like I said before when we were talking in that group chat, I don't know what it is about these New York teams that hold on to coaches and managers that underperform year after year after year.

13:54.63
William Hernandez
Yeah.

14:06.85
William Hernandez
Mm-hmm.

14:06.90
Erik Pimentel
The Giants did it with day ball. It took forever to get that dude fired.

14:09.66
William Hernandez
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

14:10.36
Erik Pimentel
You know, it's... Come on, bro. It's... ah This is about this is a winning business. You're supposed to win to keep your job. You're supposed to produce to keep your job.

14:21.85
Erik Pimentel
And Mendoza didn't do it. Say what you want. I mean, definitely, obviously, the players have a lot to do with that. And Stearns has the most to do with it, in my opinion.

14:32.28
William Hernandez
Sure.

14:32.31
Erik Pimentel
But it's a result orientated business. If you're not going to put wins on a board, bro, your job is on the line and he and he's gone.

14:41.50
William Hernandez
He's gone. By the way, David Peterson got traded. He's in the Cubs now. MJ Melendez is gone. He got DFA'd because Tyrone Taylor is is back because you know that's going to make a fucking difference. um i like i One thing, like here's... I had to laugh because um you know you talk about not be playing with the hand that you're dealt right and trying to Do what you can with what you're given.

15:15.10
William Hernandez
And here's here's the bottom line, guys. Let's take Mark Vientos as an example. Because the Mets just keep on trotting him out there. Bro, I could not believe when I realized there was a game yesterday and I saw the starting lineup and Vientos is playing first base again.

15:36.15
William Hernandez
And guess what? He did last night. To be fair, you could have made that you could have given that error to to Mauricio as well. He should have made a better throw. And I think the error was on Mauricio.

15:46.97
Erik Pimentel
No, there was on Mauricio.

15:47.92
William Hernandez
Okay, okay.

15:48.13
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

15:49.12
William Hernandez
So there was there was blame to go around there. Does Pete Alonzo, and I hate to do this. I fucking hate to do this.

15:55.18
Erik Pimentel
Don't do it.

15:55.32
William Hernandez
Does Pete Alonzo make that pick? Yes. Because you know what? He fucking mastered that shit. And they had a they had this weird stat that there is something that they keep track of when guys pick it up like that.

16:08.22
William Hernandez
There is something that they that they track.

16:08.60
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

16:09.70
William Hernandez
And Alonzo was always number one. Does Eric eric Young, not Eric, what's the Young? What's his first name? ah The guy?

16:17.15
Erik Pimentel
Jared Young.

16:17.89
William Hernandez
Jared Young. Does Jared Young make that play? Probably. Does Ryan Clifford make that play? i don't know. I haven't watched a kid play. But at least he fucking plays for his base.

16:29.65
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm.

16:30.28
William Hernandez
That's his natural position.

16:31.91
Erik Pimentel
Yep.

16:32.63
William Hernandez
Like, I don't understand why. and I know there was a lefty on the mound and Vientos hits lefties better. I don't give a fuck.

16:40.21
Erik Pimentel
DHM.

16:41.14
William Hernandez
Yeah, exactly. Why wasn't Vientos, I mean, Young playing first base last night?

16:46.19
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm.

16:46.36
William Hernandez
This is the type of stuff when I see stuff like that is why you cannot say that Mendoza is without fault but at the end of the day.

16:56.02
Erik Pimentel
Exactly. You got guys. I mean, listen, we, when the roster construction of this team is horrendous, let's, let's just face it.

17:02.14
William Hernandez
Oh yeah, absolutely. absolutely Yes, yes, yes, yes.

17:04.67
Erik Pimentel
Mendoza was, was thrown a shit in front of his face and he tried to make the best of it. um Beatty playing w right field is horrendous. ah Bichette has gotten a little bit used to third base, but he still makes bonehead plays.

17:19.26
William Hernandez
Yes.

17:20.25
Erik Pimentel
So you got... Lindor was out all of his time. So your infield is trash. Your outfield, besides the young the young kids, is trash. And even Bench. Bench makes errors here and there every so often.

17:33.43
Erik Pimentel
So it's like, what do you do with the shit that's thrown at you? So obviously you know Vientos can't play first base. Why you keep trotting him and putting him there? Again, that's a Mendoza problem.

17:45.51
William Hernandez
Right, yes.

17:45.98
Erik Pimentel
That's what one of the reasons he got fired. Mark Vientos is... a third baseman, not a great third baseman, but at least he's a third baseman.

17:54.61
William Hernandez
Mm-hmm.

17:55.64
Erik Pimentel
Put him at least at third. it didn't At the beginning of the season, didn't we talk about Beatty playing first base? bait When's the last time Beatty's played first base?

18:03.28
William Hernandez
I, that's a great question. I don't know. It's been a while.

18:06.26
Erik Pimentel
You know, so it was supposed to be him and Polanco competing for first base.

18:10.08
William Hernandez
Mm-hmm.

18:10.46
Erik Pimentel
And then all of a sudden, Polanco gets hurt. Beatty's playing right field. but Sometimes... if a And I know nowadays and the way they're developing players is to play multiple positions.

18:24.76
William Hernandez
Yes. Right. We've talked about that. Yeah.

18:26.97
Erik Pimentel
Sometimes there's there's players that could do it, and then there's players that are just third basements. There are players that are just first basements.

18:32.68
William Hernandez
Mm-hmm.

18:33.50
Erik Pimentel
You need to know that. you need As a manager, when you're putting that lineup on that card, you need to know that. But again, being, like we said, Mendoza has been checked out for a while.

18:44.89
Erik Pimentel
I guess he was just trying to put his best offensive lineup every day and not worrying about the defense. And you can't do that as a manager.

18:53.14
William Hernandez
especially Especially when we were sold on this run prevention bullshit from Sterns.

18:58.04
Erik Pimentel
Oh, God.

18:59.94
William Hernandez
That's the other thing too. Like if you're if you're if you're talking, ah like it's a running joke now, right?

19:05.10
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

19:05.13
William Hernandez
It's it's become it's become the running joke with this team.

19:05.46
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

19:08.21
William Hernandez
Especially, what was it? The first game of the doubleheader or the second game the doubleheader where they made six errors?

19:13.69
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, one of those, don't know.

19:15.39
William Hernandez
It's just like you can't, you can't, you can't. It was a second game actually because I know Lindor made one of those errors and he played the second game.

19:22.46
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, yep.

19:23.38
William Hernandez
um It's just like, what do you want? It's just, it's frustrating. if i'm There is frustration across the board here, which leads us to our next kind of situation here.

19:39.26
William Hernandez
How much rope do you think David Stearns has left? Your thought there.

19:45.40
Erik Pimentel
Well, we we another question that we mentioned before the start of the season. um stearns I hate to say it, Mets fans, Stearns ain't going nowhere, bro.

19:56.60
William Hernandez
yeah he's not I don't think he is. Yeah.

19:57.85
Erik Pimentel
He is not. So he's he's going to get at least another year to fix this.

19:58.78
William Hernandez
I agree with you. Yeah.

20:02.90
William Hernandez
Yes, he will.

20:03.80
Erik Pimentel
He will get another year. So I'm going to say he's going to get another year. But then after that, he may just get another one Because think about it. Who is out there that's going to take this job? You know, Stearns was the target from the moment that Cohen owned, bought this team.

20:19.46
William Hernandez
Yep. Absolutely.

20:20.94
Erik Pimentel
He's a New York guy. he grew up a Met fan. He he turned to Milwaukee around. That's all you kept hearing. And he was just ah Cohen just kept bringing in guys temporarily until Stearns was available.

20:34.68
Erik Pimentel
So now he got his guy and now his guy has turned his franchise into shit. He turned his he he turned his roster upside down.

20:42.86
William Hernandez
Holy shit.

20:43.42
Erik Pimentel
And now you know what? Fix it because it's is your problem. Now you need to fix it. All of these these moves he made in offseason, bro. Now, one of those moves that I like, I didn't even like the Bichette move.

20:55.13
Erik Pimentel
but well let me Let me rephrase that. The Peralta move I liked, but it was with a caveat.

20:59.86
William Hernandez
Yes, so did Yes.

21:02.58
Erik Pimentel
I said, he's not a true ace. He'll be our ace, but he's still not a true ace.

21:05.74
William Hernandez
Right.

21:07.91
Erik Pimentel
He's a five, six inning guy.

21:08.12
William Hernandez
Yes. Mm-hmm.

21:09.98
Erik Pimentel
and And he's been horrendous. The Bichette move I didn't like. Because I think it was ah like a move because they lost on lost out on on the outfielder from um Tucker.

21:25.27
William Hernandez
ah Tucker ky Tucker yeah mm-hmm Right

21:26.37
Erik Pimentel
They lost on Kyle Tucker. And it was a reactive move because Bichette was the last big bat in and off on the market. And I think and and that was just a reactive move. And then they said, let's sign him, and then we'll figure out where we play him.

21:41.02
William Hernandez
Yeah

21:41.24
Erik Pimentel
that's You don't do that. You don't build a team that way. And especially, like you said, you emphasize run prevention. Run prevent these.

21:53.08
William Hernandez
By the way, Kyle Tucker's had a horrendous season.

21:55.51
Erik Pimentel
He has. He has.

21:56.11
William Hernandez
And he's hurt.

21:56.63
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. yeah He has.

21:57.59
William Hernandez
So it's just like, at least, yeah.

22:00.84
Erik Pimentel
He has. But you can't. But still, you can't. You can't react that way. When you lose a guy, yeah it's...

22:06.34
William Hernandez
No, no, no, I agree with what you're saying. Yeah.

22:09.69
Erik Pimentel
Listen, this whole this whole season, couldn you know, starting from the offseason has been a mess, man. We were, as Mets fans, obviously we were optimistic.

22:20.42
Erik Pimentel
We were looking at the glass half full. We were saying, okay, if this breaks right, maybe this. You know, people that that we absolutely hated, like Beatty, we were giving Beatty a chance.

22:31.56
Erik Pimentel
We were saying maybe Beatty playing every day could turn it around.

22:31.58
William Hernandez
Yeah.

22:34.96
Erik Pimentel
Nope. Vientos, who I was a big fan of his bat. He's been decent with the bat, but he strikes out too much and he's been horrendous on the field. You know, all of these guys, all of these Mets that were Alvarez, all these guys that that has come up in the and the farm system that we thought was going to be the future in 2024 or 2023.

22:44.98
William Hernandez
Averis.

22:54.23
Erik Pimentel
Now, those guys, I'm done with every single one of them. Get rid them.

22:58.78
William Hernandez
Yeah, I mean, it's it's time. it's it's you can't You can't keep depending on these guys that are failing day in and and day out. The only, and this is what I think, because we talked about Stearns and his job.

23:14.90
William Hernandez
ah you know You know, the thing that's saving him right now is guys like Bench and guys like Hewing, who would not be, and LeeJ has said this, those guys would not be up here if everything was working out.

23:31.83
Erik Pimentel
And those are guys he didn't draft.

23:33.27
William Hernandez
Right, exactly.

23:33.98
Erik Pimentel
yeah

23:34.27
William Hernandez
So, and I think, you know, that's going to be the issue, I think, going forward, is, you know, this guy Mathis that they got under Peterson trade.

23:46.01
William Hernandez
I don't know, maybe could be something. He seems like he's decent. He's the number, he's actually, i think, a top 15 prospect in in Major League Baseball. What that means now, I don't know. Maybe the Cubs are better at developing players than the Mets are, you know?

24:00.34
William Hernandez
We'll see. We'll see what happens. But um I just, I don't know. I don't know what the quick fix is, if there's any, because there's nothing you can do this year.

24:11.10
William Hernandez
Nothing at all. ah Which is why I think at some point, you're going have to start settling off some of these parts. One thing I wanted to bring up, because we've talked about how we're now in the second year that this has happened with the pitching, right?

24:27.83
William Hernandez
So, i and i and i made the I made the point when I was on that West Coast trip, out of the five games that I went to, I think three of them had openers. Like, what are we what the fuck are we doing? It it was Brazabon twice,

24:43.70
William Hernandez
And I forget who the other one was that was also an opener. It might have been Mania, if I'm not mistaken. So here's what Chelsea chelsea Janes at S&Y, she made a good point today. I watched a little bit of the coverage today from S&Y, and she basically said that the Mets have not protected themselves in the pitching department because of the way Stearns operates with those contracts. And and we've seen that, right?

25:09.98
William Hernandez
You give fucking Montez, you know, Holmes. Holmes is like, I'll give him credit for Holmes because that's actually worked out well. Despite the freak injury, Holmes has been great when he's been healthy.

25:22.62
William Hernandez
She made the example that the Yankees, they signed Max Free to that eight-year deal. They knew they going to get eight years of him. They knew that. But if you get four to five, that protects you long term.

25:36.12
Erik Pimentel
And get a championship out of it.

25:37.53
William Hernandez
Yeah, exactly.

25:38.36
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, then it's worth it.

25:38.37
William Hernandez
And now the Yankees have all these guys coming back healthy. Who knows if they try to get Scoble? They actually might have, if that if that trade does happen and the Yankees get Scoble, you're going to end up having one of the greatest rotations ever with all those guys ah all those guys healthy.

25:56.48
Erik Pimentel
Thank

25:58.84
William Hernandez
She also made the point that if stearns can't If they don't change their mentality with the pitching, then maybe he's not the right guy for the team going forward. So I think what's going to happen after this off after the season is that him and Cohen are going to have to sit down and they're going to have to hammer out like, what okay, how are we going to fix this?

26:24.60
William Hernandez
Because this cannot this cannot happen again next year. It can't.

26:30.99
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

26:31.38
William Hernandez
You can't waste another year of Soto.

26:31.51
Erik Pimentel
Well, the good thing is there will be no baseball next year. So. hmm.

26:38.84
William Hernandez
Christ. That's for a whole different episode because there are so many things. I was reading some of the shit that was coming out of like ah what Major League Baseball posted yesterday on on Instagram.

26:50.94
William Hernandez
I'm reading some of the proposals and I'm like, I don't know if this any of this is going to work. um Okay. Now here's the next question. This will probably be our last big talking point.

27:03.76
William Hernandez
Who's next? It's not stop Bill Goldberg, obviously.

27:06.52
Erik Pimentel
yeah

27:09.21
William Hernandez
But and I guess it there's this is a two-part question in some way. Because let's just say if Stearns stays, and I think he's going to stay. i agree with you. I think we all agree. He's got another year to fix this shit, right?

27:23.35
William Hernandez
But if he's on the hot seat, Do you really want the guy in the hot seat making the choice about who the manager is?

27:31.46
Erik Pimentel
that's That's the question I posed last episode.

27:32.18
William Hernandez
That's the... Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah.

27:34.68
Erik Pimentel
I, I, I, we don't trust this guy.

27:38.07
William Hernandez
Right.

27:38.55
Erik Pimentel
You know, it ah is he going to, is he going to go into the off season, you know, low balling pitchers again?

27:38.71
William Hernandez
Yes.

27:44.03
Erik Pimentel
The pitchers are going to be like, nope, I'm not going there.

27:44.53
William Hernandez
Mm-hmm.

27:46.90
Erik Pimentel
so you're going to get stuck with the same guys that we have, you know, and he's he's made constant mistakes. I mean, you already mentioned the Frankie Montas, the Shamanaya contract has been a disaster.

27:59.65
William Hernandez
Yep.

28:00.06
Erik Pimentel
You know, everything that he's touched as far as pitching, except for Clay Holmes, has been horrendous. Everything, man. It's, you know, the constant players that he brings from Milwaukee.

28:10.54
Erik Pimentel
Like, like Milwaukee is a is a, yeah.

28:12.09
William Hernandez
Right. Tyrone Taylor and yeah.

28:13.57
Erik Pimentel
I mean, all of these guys, all that, it's, I don't know who's next, man. I don't know what happens next as far as, um yeah, um I don't know, man.

28:25.50
Erik Pimentel
I'm i'm kind of, I'm i'm less speechless. I'm, I'm thinking more of who's going to be the next manager more than who we're going sign because more important at this point in time is more important who's a matter and who's the next manager going to be.

28:33.56
William Hernandez
Yeah, that's more important, I think, right now.

28:40.12
William Hernandez
I think... Listen, i think the two leading candidates right now are Carlos Beltran and Alex Cora. Obviously Cora.

28:51.23
William Hernandez
I mean, i there's not even a question in my mind that Cora is...

28:51.48
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

28:56.18
William Hernandez
I think that's going to be the guy that Steve Comins is going to be like, give him a blank check. You go ahead and fill it out. and then And then we go from there. I don't know if that's the right move or not. Does he have the pedigree?

29:11.61
William Hernandez
Sure. And I know there was a lot of bad blood when Cora got fired earlier this year because he felt like, and even some of the players felt like,

29:23.83
William Hernandez
management and the owners weren't doing enough to help the team win and like invest in a team. So that being said, I probably, I would like Cora.

29:37.50
William Hernandez
I mean, if you had to put a gun to my head and said, you got to choose between Cora and Beltran, I would say Cora only because he's got the, he's got the experience and he's been there and done that.

29:47.32
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

29:47.49
William Hernandez
as both a player andnna and a manager. So, Beltran, I don't know, man. He was a manager for the quick minute, then he got in trouble because of whole, whether that's fair or unfair.

30:02.58
William Hernandez
But he's definitely probably the leading internal candidate, for sure, I would say.

30:06.94
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, I mean, I would hate for him to take the job at this point that, you know, he's he's going into the Mets Hall of Fame. He's going into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

30:15.99
William Hernandez
right, yeah.

30:17.02
Erik Pimentel
Bro, and you know Mets fans already hate him because of the strike three.

30:21.21
William Hernandez
Right. Yes.

30:23.06
Erik Pimentel
So it's not going to end well, man. Let's face it. um I agree with Cora. um I just think that Stearns and this new analytic bullshit where they're just going to look for anybody that's just is just, they just want a yes man.

30:39.30
William Hernandez
That's what I'm worried about. Yeah.

30:40.12
Erik Pimentel
as a manager, you know, and guys like Bruce Bochy, who would be, I mean, even though he's an older guy, he's a great manager. i don't see Bruce Bochy coming here to take Stearns' shit.

30:52.47
Erik Pimentel
You know, maybe eight maybe even Cora.

30:52.49
William Hernandez
No. Yeah.

30:55.54
Erik Pimentel
I know Cora was part of the Astros in Boston. They do they do have their analytic stuff.

31:00.92
William Hernandez
They do. Yeah. Yeah.

31:01.72
Erik Pimentel
um

31:01.92
William Hernandez
yeah

31:02.74
Erik Pimentel
but But, man, it's like this day and age where I think, They don't ask the manager for their opinion on players they're bringing in. i honestly think they don't do that.

31:15.43
William Hernandez
Yeah.

31:15.77
Erik Pimentel
Especially, they they cut off Mendoza's balls when they fired his old staff. So it's like, if they fire your whole staff, you think they're gonna come up to you and say, what are your thoughts on this free agent?

31:20.09
William Hernandez
Exactly.

31:25.15
Erik Pimentel
They're just going to sign them and be like, here, put but put them in the lineup.

31:27.84
William Hernandez
Yeah.

31:27.96
Erik Pimentel
So a guy like Bruce Bochy is not going to want that. Who knows? Maybe. i don't know. So Alex Cora may be on my list. I know jokingly, you know, they people have been throwing out Albert Pujols.

31:39.99
Erik Pimentel
um bro I don't know. I don't know who's going to be the next manager at this point in time because I don't trust the Stearns. I think he's just going to. grab some pencil pusher analytic guy and be like, yeah listen, take off that suit and tie and put on a uniform.

31:55.31
William Hernandez
Well, here's the thing. like Clearly, i don't think the pencil-pushing thing works. You know what I mean?

32:01.24
Erik Pimentel
No.

32:01.75
William Hernandez
And I think it – because I saw some people saying today that they were surprised that Kai Correa wasn't the guy that's taking over. And that dude is one of the analytical dudes.

32:11.70
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

32:12.22
William Hernandez
And the fact that he's not the manager right now, what is what does that say? Maybe they're realizing that that analytics approach doesn't work.

32:20.63
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

32:21.77
William Hernandez
It could be, yeah.

32:22.65
Erik Pimentel
bottom Bottom line, your manager has to impose authority, has to, you know, has to be the loudest voice in that room. Look at what's going on in San Francisco.

32:35.51
William Hernandez
Oh God.

32:35.51
Erik Pimentel
they They hired a manager that never, a college manager, a guy that never sniffed the MLB as a manager, coach, player, anything.

32:39.54
William Hernandez
Yes. Right.

32:45.34
Erik Pimentel
Look what's going on. They're running over him. Devers is getting pinched run for. He's like, nope, I'm staying right here. They don't respect him. So you got to have a coach that's that's demands. Respect is the is the one voice in that clubhouse.

33:01.27
Erik Pimentel
And i'm ah I'm afraid that Stearns is not going to hire that guy.

33:05.78
William Hernandez
Yeah, and it seems like that guy right now is somebody like Korra. So, ah I mean, who...

33:10.39
Erik Pimentel
and he makes And he makes a lot of money. or you know You talk about four you know five managers in five years.

33:12.86
William Hernandez
Yeah.

33:17.72
Erik Pimentel
he's still Cohen is still paying those guys because those guys were fired.

33:21.18
William Hernandez
Right, exactly. Yeah, fuck, yeah.

33:22.17
Erik Pimentel
And add Mendoza to the list. So you want to pay all of these guys that you fired and bring in a high-priced guy like Cora? I don't know.

33:32.44
William Hernandez
Yeah, I don't know, man. It's... some Besides those two guys, I just don't know who else. We're not going to really know until like the season's over and see how things things shake out. ah good God, I can't even fucking... um You know Jorge Posada's name's going to come up.

33:51.70
William Hernandez
Not Jorge Posada.

33:53.31
Erik Pimentel
Molina.

33:54.04
William Hernandez
Not Malia. Well, maybe Malia. What the hell's name?

33:55.96
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, her name will come up.

33:57.40
William Hernandez
Oh, God. Why am I drawing a blank?

34:00.40
Erik Pimentel
Wally Backman.

34:01.23
William Hernandez
No, stop! Stop at that! Enough! Enough! Enough with Wally Backman. Let him stay fucking Staten Island. Oh, no.

34:13.30
William Hernandez
What's the guy's name? um Former Yankee catcher.

34:18.53
Erik Pimentel
Former Yankee.

34:18.55
William Hernandez
Oh, my God.

34:21.05
Erik Pimentel
Francisco Cervelli.

34:21.40
William Hernandez
e No.

34:23.70
Erik Pimentel
he

34:25.57
William Hernandez
No. He managed to fucking jarardi Girardi.

34:27.80
Erik Pimentel
Oh, Girardi, Joe Girardi.

34:29.67
William Hernandez
Girardi.

34:30.55
Erik Pimentel
ah

34:31.43
William Hernandez
Girardi's going to come up for sure.

34:34.25
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, he's another one.

34:34.39
William Hernandez
Hey.

34:36.47
Erik Pimentel
Girardi don't take no shit, man.

34:38.71
William Hernandez
Yeah, he does it. you know who You know who would be really interesting, but I don't think yeah because of how they're playing? Because I feel like the Phillies going to keep Madeline now as a manager going forward.

34:50.74
William Hernandez
But if he was to become available, how funny would that be to see him managing the Mets in New York City?

34:54.39
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, i know I know for a fact, because I used to hear people on a radio, Don Mattelie's not a good manager.

35:05.23
Erik Pimentel
wrote statistic Statistically, he's not a good manager.

35:09.43
William Hernandez
Yeah, right.

35:10.18
Erik Pimentel
he's He's just hot right now. And it it is what it is.

35:11.90
William Hernandez
Yeah.

35:13.06
Erik Pimentel
If you're a hot, you're hot. But we've seen him on the other side with the Marlins. He's he's not that great a manager. He's just a he's just you know a famous name in New York. um So, yeah, that would be kind of crazy if he came to manage the Mets, but.

35:27.96
William Hernandez
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. um Yeah. What do you think? um I guess the final talking point here.

35:37.53
William Hernandez
You know, this is not going to... This team is not suddenly going to fucking turn it around. It's just not going to happen. um I mean, do you think it's that's go a possibility or no?

35:47.93
Erik Pimentel
not not with this roster man not we've seen in the past in with other teams and even with the mets you you fire a coach it lights a fire on their ass for whatever reason jerry jerry manuel comes to mind hey 99 when they when they did a mendoza to bobby valentine they fired all at that staff and it you know turn it around um

36:00.41
William Hernandez
Jerry Manuel comes to mind.

36:08.98
William Hernandez
Right. They got rid of his coaches. Yeah.

36:13.27
William Hernandez
He turned it around. Right. Yeah.

36:15.96
Erik Pimentel
The best thing you could hope for is to try to get to as as close to 500 as possible. It's the best thing you could hope for.

36:21.56
William Hernandez
I agree.

36:22.29
Erik Pimentel
I mean, it's, I think to, to hit that, I think we, we said that we're going to win 88 games. We predicted, I think they got to go like 54 and 27 to get to 88 wins.

36:28.54
William Hernandez
Yeah.

36:32.68
William Hernandez
That's not going to happen.

36:34.04
Erik Pimentel
That is not going happen. So again, what I look for the rest of the season is trade, trade Peralta, um,

36:45.37
Erik Pimentel
I would, ah honestly, I would trade Bichette, man, because you know somebody's going to be desperate for a batter.

36:52.12
William Hernandez
I've heard that come up, Bichette, yeah.

36:53.75
Erik Pimentel
Somebody's going to be desperate for a batter, and you could get haul for that dude. i would I would, at this point, man, there's nobody I'm keeping on this team except for Ewing, Benj, Soto, McClain.

37:06.86
Erik Pimentel
That's it. Everybody could go.

37:07.81
William Hernandez
I will say this... I will say this too. I don't know I agree with that. I will say this too about um trading some of these guys, Perata and maybe Bichette and AJ Minters, another name that's come up.

37:20.28
William Hernandez
I want to see Stearns get back major one or two major league ready, not even major league ready prospects. People who have already been in major leagues for like a year or whatever.

37:31.16
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

37:32.55
William Hernandez
You know what I mean?

37:32.86
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, yeah, that you can plug them in right away.

37:33.39
William Hernandez
want... Right. I want to see guys that can get plugged in right away that are under, you know, they're, they're under, um, they're still under arbitration, whatever eligible stuff for the next two or three years. I think that's the way you quickly fix this.

37:49.94
William Hernandez
That's number one. Number two, bring up Tom, bring up Ryan Clifford.

37:57.56
Erik Pimentel
Everybody bring them all up

37:58.03
William Hernandez
Uh, I know Thornton starting tomorrow or today, actually.

38:01.78
Erik Pimentel
Today, yeah.

38:01.90
William Hernandez
Well, They said it was supposed to be today, even though the last time I checked that the picture thing, heat it was it was blank. Bring those guys up. Let them take their knocks up here.

38:12.37
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm.

38:12.60
William Hernandez
And then, you know, another thing too, i don't know if you saw this. Have you seen this video going around of Soto and Lindor talking in the dugout, like extensively?

38:21.81
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. Yeah.

38:23.22
William Hernandez
i am so curious what is happening there.

38:26.61
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm.

38:27.42
William Hernandez
Maybe they've made their peace. I don't know. But I feel like those two need to fucking step up in a leadership role big time and just like try to get this back on track this year and then next year you really got to take off and and put your differences aside and just and just go from there slow

38:49.54
Erik Pimentel
I'm glad you brought that up because yesterday, well, you saw the video I sent to you guys about Tiki Barber saying that Lindor was emasculated because he didn't get the captaincy.

38:56.44
William Hernandez
yes yeah I don't believe that

39:01.66
Erik Pimentel
Give me a break, bro.

39:03.70
William Hernandez
think that's stupid.

39:04.89
Erik Pimentel
These guys, listen, this ain't this is this isn't high school when when your your rival on your team got the captaincy over you. just These are grown ass men making a lot of money.

39:15.21
William Hernandez
Mm-hmm.

39:16.99
Erik Pimentel
That's bull crap. You know, having a C on your chest doesn't define who you are as a player. So I don't care if he has the captaincy or he doesn't.

39:23.65
William Hernandez
Yeah.

39:27.00
Erik Pimentel
You go there and you put up your numbers. And the fact that Tiki Barber said that that emasculated Lindor. Give me a freaking break. um The videos, like you said, him and him and Soto talking.

39:39.51
Erik Pimentel
Listen, maybe maybe they just came up to each other like, listen, we're not boys. We're not going to hang out. But when when we have this uniform on, we're going to we're going to perform the best we can and we're going to propel this team.

39:45.72
William Hernandez
Yeah.

39:52.06
Erik Pimentel
Hopefully that's the conversation that happened.

39:54.25
William Hernandez
I hope so. I hope something... I hoped i hope... um Listen, I'm not expecting a miracle to happen. I'm just not. I'm not even sure if I'm going to watch the game tonight. im Maybe I'm curious.

40:05.56
William Hernandez
i'm I'm curious to see what ah the opener is because you know that's going to be the opener. It's going be talking about Gary and...

40:12.05
Erik Pimentel
Mm-hmm.

40:13.48
William Hernandez
gary and and

40:13.75
Erik Pimentel
Well, i I saw the lineup. The lineup looks different a little bit.

40:17.05
William Hernandez
Oh, does it really? What's the lineup?

40:17.88
Erik Pimentel
ah He's got... So he's got... um He's got... a little Well, he's got Soto hitting second. I know lately he's been having the inning third. And he's got Bichette behind Soto.

40:29.62
William Hernandez
Interesting.

40:30.81
Erik Pimentel
And then he he he brought Ewing up a little bit in the lineup. I think Ewing's hitting like six now.

40:36.18
William Hernandez
Okay.

40:37.21
Erik Pimentel
So the lineup looks a little different. So...

40:39.69
William Hernandez
Oh yeah, i'm looking at it now. So it's, it's Benj, Soto, Bichette, and Bichette's DH-ing, which is interesting.

40:46.12
Erik Pimentel
Mm. Mm.

40:47.02
William Hernandez
Lindor batting cleanup. Then it's Young, Hewing, Mauricio's at second. Beatty's at third. Torrance is in the starting lineup tonight, and Torrance is pitching.

40:58.90
William Hernandez
So a little bit better defensively, i feel, in in some ways, because I do think Beatty's natural position is third base.

41:03.99
Erik Pimentel
um

41:08.38
William Hernandez
um Yeah, I don't know.

41:11.16
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, it just looks it looks different right away.

41:11.94
William Hernandez
We'll see.

41:13.40
Erik Pimentel
I mean, beat beat playing third Mauricio playing second.

41:13.56
William Hernandez
it does. It does.

41:18.30
William Hernandez
Yeah.

41:18.46
Erik Pimentel
And I know what's the name is heard. That's why he's playing second. But the the fact that Lindor is batting fourth, that's a that's a change.

41:21.53
William Hernandez
Right. Yes, yes, yes. I mean, yeah.

41:25.43
William Hernandez
Yeah, it is. It is.

41:26.26
Erik Pimentel
So who knows, man, maybe maybe this sparks a little bit. I don't expect them to win 12 in a row, but I just I just want to see some confident baseball, man.

41:31.54
William Hernandez
No, I don't either. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. um ah Anything we missed here? Anything you want to say or...

41:44.60
William Hernandez
ah Yeah, I'm i'm out.

41:45.85
Erik Pimentel
Bro.

41:46.97
William Hernandez
i'm I'm not out, but you know what i mean. I'm just like, I'm so frustrated this season.

41:51.16
Erik Pimentel
Again, like I said, man, basketball season is over. and now all the eyes are on you. and And right away he gets canned. oh Yeah, it's... Again, man, we and guys, next next week at this time, me, Will, and Lee J are going to go to Truist Park and and watch the Mets play. So...

42:13.05
William Hernandez
And that heat, oh my God.

42:13.88
Erik Pimentel
And yeah, and we're going to be melting our balls off. um So we just want to see, bro, we just we're not asking for a miracle. We just want to see competitive games. We don't want to see mental and physical errors.

42:28.06
William Hernandez
Yes.

42:28.34
Erik Pimentel
Just play a play a clean game. And if the team that's on the other side of the field beats you, they beat you. But play a clean game.

42:34.43
William Hernandez
Right.

42:35.10
Erik Pimentel
We don't want to see like Keystone Cops on the field.

42:38.57
William Hernandez
Right, no, I completely agree. um All right. Well, this was, uh, I feel like months in the making this, this episode because, uh, you know, we were, we were not confident that Mendoza was going to last.

42:51.00
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

42:55.55
William Hernandez
By the way, thanks for the Mets for fucking ruining my Friday. Thanks a lot. I had this fucking plan, you know, cause I was gonna, I have summer Fridays, stopped working at one o'clock. I was in a drive to, uh, to Port Jervis, which is like a 40 minute drive from here.

43:12.79
William Hernandez
ah I was going work on some podcast stuff for the podcast that that Eric and I are working on and and and this podcast as well. I only got to work on one thing. That was this. We're going to get into that. These guys next week um when we we're all together. but But I was going to try to go see Supergirl tonight.

43:32.34
William Hernandez
Fuck you guys for doing this today.

43:35.86
Erik Pimentel
you know what ah You know why they did it?

43:36.21
William Hernandez
because what it

43:37.62
Erik Pimentel
They did it on a Friday because it's it's ah it's like a PR dump. Nobody does work on Fridays.

43:41.08
William Hernandez
Yeah, yeah, it is. Yeah.

43:43.02
Erik Pimentel
That's why they did it.

43:43.06
William Hernandez
Yeah, it definitely is. It definitely is. Um... Whatever, man. Listen, we said that we were to this more. So when I saw that, I was like, well, if these two guys can't record at all, I have to come out and say something. Like, it's got to be some kind of statement of record. But what's going to happen is, so Monday, we'll get back to a regular episode. ah We do have a summer schedule, which I will, I think I'm going to post that on Instagram.

44:08.44
William Hernandez
But i' I'll mention it on on Monday. So Monday, what we're going to do is, we're going to finally put the Knicks season to bed. There's a lot of stuff happening with that. We'll talk about the draft last for that that happened this past week.

44:22.49
William Hernandez
Interesting things there. um And then we'll talk about the Mets again because I want to get Lee J's... God, I can't wait to hear what he has to say. He's like, you want to talk about angry man-yos, old man-yos at clouds. I can't wait. I can't wait for his fucking rant on that.

44:40.50
William Hernandez
Yeah, we'll see if a weekend made a difference at all with this new you know what this new way of things. so um Sir, what do you got going on for the rest of the weekend? Anything good?

44:50.23
Erik Pimentel
Man, I've talked about sweating my balls off. I'm going to painting my deck.

44:56.66
William Hernandez
Oh, God.

44:57.46
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, in this hot ass weather.

44:58.59
William Hernandez
Oh, yeah.

45:00.38
Erik Pimentel
um So tonight I'm just going to prep it. And then tomorrow I'm going to wake up mad early. the good The good thing is, is that the sun, the the deck's in the back of my house.

45:05.97
William Hernandez
Okay.

45:10.04
Erik Pimentel
The sun rises in the front of my house.

45:10.17
William Hernandez
Gotcha.

45:12.38
Erik Pimentel
So so if I can knock out a good amount before that sun gets to the other side, I'm good.

45:12.46
William Hernandez
Gotcha.

45:16.22
William Hernandez
Yeah, yeah, damn.

45:16.82
Erik Pimentel
Yeah.

45:18.74
William Hernandez
Bro, I see those temperatures that are coming for next week. I'm like, God damn. We're going down there in the wrong time.

45:25.37
Erik Pimentel
Yeah. Yeah.

45:26.84
William Hernandez
Bro, like 105 degrees or something.

45:26.94
Erik Pimentel
yeah

45:29.43
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, I mean, they say it feels like 105, but yeah.

45:31.77
William Hernandez
Yeah, it feels like 105.

45:33.43
Erik Pimentel
Yeah, it's um typical, you know, Georgia weather. um

45:37.11
William Hernandez
Yeah, ah hope your ac I hope your AC system is in good good working order.

45:38.50
Erik Pimentel
yes' Yeah, it's it's it's always on.

45:44.41
William Hernandez
yeah i can

45:45.69
Erik Pimentel
Always on.

45:47.42
William Hernandez
Good, I like to hear that. All right, guys. We will, thanks for tuning in for this ah quick episode. I'm Will Hernandez here for Eric Pimentel, and we will see you in just a few days.

46:01.02
William Hernandez
Peace out, everyone.

46:02.62
Erik Pimentel
See ya.