Met Fans Boo their own player - is that ok?

It's the last week of the twenty twenty six baseball season. But our big story this week's gonna talk about booing your own team when it's okay and when it's not, and some of those things that went on this week that that makes us talk about that. the playoffs are right upon us. Next week we're in the postseason.

It should be the most exciting week of the season, right? 'Cause everybody's, you know, battling for playoffs except that a lot of the juice, I think, has come out of it because you really only have two things that could happen right now that are of of real interest. Because right, and you know this. Right, right. You're looking at what's gonna go on with who's getting the fourth spot in the NL Wild card. That's it. That's all that's left because the Dodgers, the Brewers, and the Atlanta Braves are all gonna be division champions. Mm-hmm. Okay. And it looks like the Dodgers and the Brewers are going

To be the one on the two seed. The Brewers are already far and away, I think number one ahead of the Dodgers. So that makes the Braves the three seed, and they'll have to play a series in which they're the home team, a three-game series in their ballpark. Okay, and so the the wild card teams are a big jumble, right? Because you've got the Phillies, the Cubs, and the Padres all within a game of one another. Basically, whatever order they're one of those, you know, those three teams were so the playoffs are pretty set in the National League. No one else is coming out of the woodwork to know the teams that are participating.

But we can't actually predict basically any of the matchups. So right now, you know, we could talk about it right now, but because they're so closely matched, one game apart or here like that. Right, right, right. Who's gonna go to Atlanta? Is it gonna be the Phillies? Is it gonna be the Cubs? And then the other two teams will play each other. They all play. But the more important thing about the other series is that being the higher seated wildcard team in that second one gets you the three home games. So that's really big, right? So being the worst team sends you to the Braves. Being the best team has you hosting the three games.

So, whereas in the American League, we also have division champions. We have the Rays. Well, they're not completely division champions, and they're going to play the Yankees this season. They're basically even too far ahead to get that. And it'll be interesting to see. I will talk about that in a moment. you've got the other two divisions still up for grabs, with the Guardians now the second seed if the season were to end today as the champions of the of the AL Central, if they hang on there ahead of the White Sox. You've got the Rangers and the

Astros in a dogfight. I think the Astros might have a one game lead right now. And it's interesting because in theory the the Mariners are basically clinging on by the the only reason they have e they're even alive is because they played the Astros. Right. And so it gives them a chance where it's like, okay, well, if you sweep the Astros, you insert yourself back into the conversation with some help from Texas. But the Guardians came up with a winning streak at the right time of the season to leapfrog the White Sox, who had led the division for

Months. Such a terrible way for them to not make the playoffs. Yeah, well, and that's that's a great point you made, right? Because what happens, right? At the White Sox, man, we were in first place, we were almost at the finish line, and we don't even make the playoffs. Now, the good news for them is that they're very likely to be the third the last wild card if they don't win the division. Well, I don't

likely in that necessarily because you've got the Rangers and the and and the Astros. Right, but one of those teams is going to win the division. Right. So that that leaves the other team as the team that's vying for that last wild card. right, right, because you're playing for that last wild card. Right. So that team the loser of the AL West and the White Sox probably unless they somehow have a great week and come back. Because the Red Sox are going to be in

And the Yankees are And they're gonna say, in fact, the the Red Sox right now are gonna go to the Yankees, it looks like, and play a three game series in Yankee Stadium. So that's kind of delicious. That's great baseball. That's kind of delicious right there. And so and then you'll have the byes when the Rays will have a bye, and right now it'd be the the Guardians have a bye. And then you'd have the AL West champion, which is Houston or Texas, hosting the what could be the Texas, could be the White Sox. That's kind of the way it's gonna go. Interesting where it could go. Right. Those two teams could end up beating each other, but you know, for competing to see who wins the division just for the right to host.

The other one. And you have series coming up this week. The Yankees are going to play the race, but the Rays shouldn't pitch anybody important. Right. The Brewers shouldn't pitch anybody. And that affects the race because the teams they're playing, right? You know, are The Rays, the R the the Braves, the Brewers, and the Dodgers are all settled into what they're doing. So they're not concerned about what goes on this last, you know, two series of the season. So they're just going to make sure everything's lined up as they like it, make sure everybody's nice and healthy, and very different than compared to these these teams that are in the race, whereas like the Phillies, the

Cubs and the Padres are all incentivized to go as hard as they can because of the difference between finishing the top wild card and either of the other positions. Right, right. And so you've got the early in the week, you've got the White Sox going to Kansas City, and so the the Royals get to play spoiler. And I don't know how important it is to baseball teams like, we spoiled the White Sox season. They're a division rival. I'm sure you want to win. Right. People are giving Matt Quantrell a bunch of because he's the Royal Manager. They're giving him lot of crap because he was he had some comments this week about how you know his team was obviously out of it but you they're gonna keep giving the same good effort that they've been giving all season and people are like your team is 67 and 89 are you sure you want to keep them to keep giving that effort they've been giving all season right what what he what he was trying to say is like no I know my guys we're even though we're out of the game these are professional athletes they have pride they're gonna go out there and compete so I think as much as we like to think teams don't kind of compete well when you're playing a baseball game it's hard it's hard not to want to win that's what you do.

And so the the Wh where where the lack of drive happens isn't on the field during the game. It's all of the stuff between the game. It's sticking to your diet. It's doing all the extra gym workouts that you need to do. It's showing up the extra hour early to take either more ground balls or get more time in the cage. That's what drops off when you're sixty seven and eighty nine. Not your desire to win when you're actually playing the game. Right. The the Marlins will go to Chicago and play the Cubs. The Marlins gave it a good run, but they're not gonna make the playoffs. That's pretty obvious, right?

now. how hard do they play those games? The Cubs have to play the games hard because they're trying to secure their their spot in the playoffs and and make sure they don't be the they're not, you know, the third wild card team. That's what I'm saying. With the games don't count to us anymore. Exactly. So it's really interesting how that's gonna, you know, shake out here. And the and the Dodgers are hosting the Padres. Now the Dodgers are sort of gonna set up their playoff rotation and they're gonna get a bye, it looks like, in the first round, which will really help with Shohei.

Tani's hopefully getting a little bit healthier by the time the playoffs start. But the Padres need the games. So they're gonna have to go full on to try to beat the Dodgers in the games. The Dodgers don't listen to the Dodgers. Do we not try and let the Padres well they're not gonna do that? I don't think they're that they're that concerned with that something like that. But but because the Dodgers aren't gonna be going full tilt necessarily, that's interesting. Right. It has an im it has a downstream impact on all these other series. And then to finish the season, you know, the only real interesting series, you are okay, so Milwaukee.

Milwaukee goes to Philadelphia. Milwaukee doesn't need the games, right? They're gonna pitch Joe, Harry, and Eddie, you know, because they don't want to pitch anybody who's gonna have to pitch, you know, in the next, you they're gonna give the guys. The Phillies very well could need those games. They're gonna you're gonna see their best pitchers out there making sure that you know they secure their spot and hopefully get the home advantage or whatnot. Right. They're gonna play it differently. And that meeting so much home advantage in a three-game series. Because they remember the games are home. That's exactly what I was about to say. It's not like you're playing, like, okay, well, you know, we play the first game here, then we go back to your stadium for a game before coming back here for a game three. No no no. All three games are there, which means you don't need to fly there. It means you don't need to think about, you know, leaving your family behind for potentially like a week. You know, we th it's we're home, we're here, yeah. It makes all the difference. Playing at home you are so much more comfortable than you are on the road.

And the Mets who are are not going to the playoffs, as we all know. Shocker. They're gonna go to Texas in a and that's kind of a series that doesn't happen every every other year, I guess. They play them at home and the and the other. And it's interesting from the perspective of that Texas needs the series. Right. But the Mets don't. Don't. And but I also don't know the only like because of who just recently pitched for the Mets, I don't think McLean Scott are t like they're younger. McLean's gonna pitch again. They want him to get thirty two stars. Right, so McClain and he would be the one guy that would pitch in this series. So you're

Unlikely to see anybody shut down here from the Met perspective. And you still want all your offensive guys to continue to stat, so I don't see them shutting anybody down. So the Mets are ostensibly going to be playing a win this series. Right, but but Texas is, you know, they're catching the Mets certainly at a at the right time given that they've got a lot to play for. We will talk about it later, but I think the Mets season effectively ended in the ninth inning about a week ago when Pete Alonso hit that home run. well their season ended in May, actually. You know what I mean though. the Cubs play at the

Red Sox and the Cubs need the game to finish the season. The Red Sox don't really need the series because they're kind of locked in in as the second wild card in the AL. Right, right. So they're not going to pitch anybody, and that helps the Cubs. They only need to kind of play the series, though, because you only play the series. No, no, but the Red Sox do too. Because if you mail it in in that series and get swept by the Cubs, and then you're playing on Monday or Tuesday. Right, right. Now there's a chance suddenly you're no longer now, all of a sudden, you might be having a chance to get jumped by like.

A clean let's say the White Sox and the Guardians play well down the stretch, and now all of a sudden you get jumped by the White Sox and you're the third wild card slot. Right. And now instead of going to play the Yankees, you're go-I mean, you actually might like that a little bit more. You're yeah, wait, I gotta go play the Rangers. This works out well for that. I'll play the Yankees without Aaron Judge at this point. Right, right. You might like that too. And you and you know the Red Sox would always love a chance to beat the Yankees in the post. And look, I I want that to happen that series. baseball fans, as much as they get annoyed about how ESPN treats that that matchup, it's

It's great drama every time it's on. So Texas will finish the series after they play the Mets at Minnesota. Minnesota has nothing to play for, per se. Side that that would and Houston will play their final series in Sacramento. So I would say advantage Astros in that situation a little bit, although nothing is but right. But that at the same time, that's the kind of stupid nightmare series where you go to Sacramento and the terrible ballpark just gets to your pitchers. It's the end of the year. You gotta c you get like you lose one close game in the first

game then you get a guy gets shelled in the second game and now you're staring down a nightmare third game in Sacramento being just like please keep the ball the ballpark you can't do that there's a ballpark. And and the last I'll mention is that the the Padres finish after they played the Dodgers they finished at home against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Now it was only a week or so ago that the Diamondbacks were one of the teams that were vying to make the the wild card and so now they're out of it because they kind of had a bad week week and a half. So they might be actually interested

Well, you know, like if we give it a shot, like if the Padres have a bad series, like the Padres, what they need to do is just go into that last series without it being a possibility. Whether meaning anything, right. Right. For them. They c but it probably will mean something, it just may not mean the difference between making the playoffs or not. It means where they are. Right, right. But it could be position they them losing that series could affect their position and then, you know, in Chicago or somewhere. And let the diamondback sneak in then over some other team.

Potentially.

So, you know, with one week ago, the good teams are in a pretty good situation that they're just setting up their pitching rotation and they're gonna get the three, four days off at the beginning of next week before the division series starts later in the week. So, you know, that that's a good position to be in right now, just to not have to run your guys out there at this point. and and the Guardians won the season series from the White Sox, which may come back to haunt the White Sox, right? 'Cause they'll get that tiebreaker and that and

That that might end up meaning something. the White Sox did finally get indications that they're going to have a new ballpark. And it's hard for me to believe a little bit because I'm I'm old enough to remember the old comiskey before they moved into the new one, which I think started as U.S. Cellular Field or whatever it was, which is they called the new Comiskey. And now that park is old enough to be replaced by another ballpark. It didn't seem like it was that long ago. Right, exactly. So and I don't know if they're gonna call the new one the new new comiskey. when

They open the new park at this point. a couple of news items from the week before we we get to our topic of the week. I I noticed that Kyle Schwarber, who is gonna I think he's got forty five homers. he is probably not gonna get to fifty, but over the past four

four five seasons in Philadelphia, he's hit two hundred and thirty two home runs, which is the most all time over that five year span over the in baseball history, except for a guy named Babe Ruth, who had two hundred and thirty. Anytime you're on a list with Babe Ruth is a good thing. So and I actually surprised me that with all the homers that Ruth hit, I guess he didn't stack up one one right after the other, to be able to average what, f almost forty six, forty seven homers a season over five years, which is still pretty darn remarkable.

what else? Alex Bregman, you know, we've been giving him a hard time. I mean, you did you hear what happened today? No. Very scary th incident in Chicago. He was standing in the on debt circle and he took a foul ball off the

He got hit in face with a foul ball and he was escorted from the field. So we don't know what kind of condition he's gonna be in. But he got I mean, I think you're gonna be okay, but like you just that that's a big you know, a big thing. What a thing to happen in the on deck circle. But he turned what was b bad season around to a good season where he's gonna hit just shy of thirty home runs and he's hitting in the clutch or he has been all the way up to now and the Cubs gotta feel real smart about having a guy like him out there, hopefully, for the playoffs as they you know as they finish their season. And the Braves

Did complete and they are the division champs this year. Right. That's right. So the the there's nothing for them to play for because they're not likely to catch the Dodgers for the second you know best record in the National League. I noticed once again, because I'm I'm on this kind of stuff, that there will be no 200 hit players in the major leagues again this year. Now it's it's it's happened before in recent years, but we've had a couple of years where it has, you know, we've had them recently where a guy got 200, and it's just an indication.

of how the game has changed, where not one player is going to register 200 hits. Right, right. And that's as much of a a reasoning of how we value offense in baseball now because what we realize is weirdly one, walks are way more valuable. And so having a guy be selective at the point plate to the point of trying to walk over, trying to put the bat on the ball is

Is is in part because defenses have gotten better. Not just are the players, but our defensive alignments are they're so much better than it's hard to hit them where they ain't. It's hard to hit them where there ain't. And just putting the ball in play generally isn't enough. You know, yes, obviously we've seen series, you know, in the World Series where that's been a strategy, like, yeah, just put it in the field and they they'll mess up. But on average, just putting the ball in play isn't good enough. And because we now realize that just getting any hits in any game, you know, it also players are now

Facing most games, three to four pitchers. I I think I think that's true, but there's a player I think that we should talk about who is kind of going against that trend, right? He he he doesn't hit the ball, he's got one of the lowest exit velocities in the major leagues. I think he's either leading or at the top of the American league in batting average. He he is in the lead among the leaders, if not the leader in steals. he's done this for the past couple of years. He plays for Tampa. Chandler Simpsons. Chandler Simpson. So there's the the I because he hits for a high enough average, because he runs like crazy. and and he can disrupt the game, but there aren't enough players like that. That's almost like an old school player, you know, that that he's able to be successful in this day and age, which makes him a little different than Arias because Arias doesn't have that kind of speed, even though he can put has the bat the ball skills that that would be, you know, the among the best, if not the best, in majors.

And and you know, he's a guy that's got forty steals this year and zero home runs. Champ Chandler Simpson. He didn't hit any last year either. Right, right. So he he's doing this year after year. And it's interesting because he's a guy that's, you know, he's hitting 309. He hit 309 this year, he hit 295 last year. He's got a 333 BAPIP this year and a three twenty-seven bap-ip this year. That's not actually a crazy bap pip to the point where like he's

overperforming per for instance. Like, you know, if his BapP was trending up more towards 400, then you would say, like, okay, he's obviously benefiting it to a degree to just sometimes somehow hidden it where they're not. But like to me, this up is the guy's probably a good

Bat contact, bat skills hitter, and it's just really hard to survive like this at the major league level. I'm not looking at it. What's his on base average? Because you just mentioned before that three thirty-seven. That's not good enough. Right. And that could be that's not good enough. Right. And so when you look at his weighted runs created plus for this year, ninety-six. Right, because if if his if his on base average was three sixty or three fifty, three i i it would the whole thing would be better because he'd be a much bigger threat. He'd also have scored a lot more runs and he'd probably have more stolen bases to boot because he's just he's just you gotta get on more.

More than thirty three, thirty four percent of the time if you have no power. Right. And you see this reflected because this is a guy that's going there see he stole forty bases, he's hitting three he's hitting three nine this year. He stole forty five bases, he's hitting three nine, and guess his war is for the season? Two point six. Yeah.

Not actually doing as much to contribute to winning as some other players. A guy who leads the league in stolen bases and is a batting and and is a batting, you know, vying for the batting title should be more than that. Right. He's got an OPS plus of 96. Yeah, yeah. Well he's just got he's he's a punchless hitter, as they used to say. and it's interesting because in the playoffs, right, the we all talk about it's really hard to build runs one at a time by getting four hits in an inning or something like that. That doesn't favor a guy like Chandler Simpson's game. Especially if you're Chandler Simpsons.

What you really have to have happen is you have to come up first in an inning, or you have to come up when there's men already on base in scoring position. Because if you come up when there's two outs, you being a guy that gets a lot of singles when there's two outs in an inning doesn't super help if you get a single and there's nobody on. It's like, okay, cool, now I'm at first base. Somebody else do the hard work. Exactly, exactly. So we will do a preview show over the playoffs because it's fun to talk about that after the games next Sunday, which I think they all start at three o'clock. Yeah, next Sunday is probably one of the most exciting weekends in sports. You get football and you get all the baseball games ending at the same time. Hopefully, some of them will matter because by then they could be all done. Right, right. We were looking like we were potentially going to be getting an epic race to the end of this year. I'm not sure what we're Unless the ALS decides to, you know, give us some exciting stuff on Sunday, we might not have a lot to cheer for. I want to talk about this on another podcast, but my my cousin Rick sent me something this week he that Sports Illustrated did earlier this season was they ranked the top 25 players of all time. And so they just have a

From one to twenty five, and he said, Well, what do you think about it? And I looked at it and I'm not gonna remember the names. We'll talk about it another time. But I just thought I don't really like lists like that because I find them like, Okay, I want this guy, I want that guy. Unfortunately, if nobody asked me, I was I don't think sports serious see illustrated is a serious publication when it comes to this kind of thing. Interesting point. but I I think you know the the guys they had on there, my my my reaction was fine.

Fine, they have like really really good players. They're all Hall of Famers except for I think Clemens is on the list. So, you know, they and Barry Bonds, you know, is on on that list. So but those guys should be in the top twenty five if I did them. And we'll talk about it another time because I I think lists like that obviously with ears and being what they are, there's so much to sort of contextualize if you're going to say this guy, you know, Babe Ruth was number one on the list, for instance. And it's like, okay, because he did something that had never been done before with the home runs and changing the way the game is played, is that why he's number one? Or was he the

Is it a statistical argument? And you can argue both sides of it anyway. Anyway, we'll we'll talk about that another time. So let's get to the topic today. And I wrote an article about this because we we watched the games last week. So Pete Alonso had his homecoming at Citi Field, and the Mets have been eagerly, the fans and more than the Mets have been eagerly awaiting this return, you know, for the whole season, right? Because we you know he's gone on and he was a really big fan favorite player, and it was significant. So he set the home run record franchise record for the Met C.

And then he comes into New York on 299 home runs. So he comes in from his career. So he comes in one short of 300. So Met fans that were also big Pete Alonso fans are now thinking, I gotta see Pete's 300th as we go into the series. Now at the same time, Francisco Lindor, who's a Met, who has the I get the third most home runs in the history of baseball for a shortstop, is also on at 299. So could they do it in the same game? And anyway, so Jonathan, the Mets

young starter is starting the game and he gets Alonso out the first time. but the second time Alonso's up, you know, he's he's you know pitching to him on a three and two pitch, and he's a tough at bat, and he walks Alonso. Right, he walks him on a pitch that's not particularly close, from what I remember. And so the fans start booing. They're booing. Right. Now and people are interpreting this that they're booing Tong. And I don't think in this chase they were booing Tong. They were booing that Pete didn't get to swing. They would rather have seen Pete make it out or hit a ho get a hit w rather than walk. Walk was just a anticlimactic thing to happen in that circumstance. And so Met fans were taking it sort of on the chin a little bit for how could you boo your own player? Some people thought like you that that's just you know and if you're in another city, by the way, right, if you're not New York, right, and you're booing your players, it's it seems to be worse form other places than it is in New York. Pause. Have we seen the city of Philadelphia? Well they they they they don't boo, they throw batteries. So let's not

Let's not act like They're good at it too. Let's not act like other cities are Well, we've seen what happens in Boston as well. It's not like they're getting angry. So I think this is the kind of thing where like let's let's not pretend here that like other cities are blameless. Or new you new you you know New York was uniquely terrible in booing Jonah Tong here. I think what's more interesting is that they were booing Tong in a situation where nothing nothing particularly noteworthy bad happened. It was just a walk. And so it's like usually they get booed when it's just like, you made a bad

Or you're playing bad. Right. Not like, you walked a guy we wanted to see hit. That was probably more what I think people were saying there. But I still don't necessarily agree with it. So we'd agree that, you know, you certainly and and look look, New York fans in particular, we're great at booing, you know, players. I mean, remember anybody. Bobby Bonia got booed, you know, rightly so when he was here. I'm pretty sure I've seen the mascots in the Burroughs race get booed if they don't run fast enough. I I remember you you don't you weren't around when this happened, but the Yankees had a pitcher named Ed Whitson who who got traded to the Yankees and

And couldn't pitch in New York for whatever reason. He was he was just terrible. And the Yankee fans were merciless on him. They they they hated this guy so much, they booed him not only in the games, but they put nails in his driveway at his home so that he would puncture his tires. Right, which is like which is like a ha ha ha ha. It's funny, but at the same time, you're like, my that's psychotic behavior. That's a little much. I don't blame him for not responding well because it's one thing if you're getting booed at the game because you're not playing well. It's another thing when fans are coming to your home to disrupt your life. But the so so

Boeing your own team is fine, but what happened the next night after the first night that the Orioles played the Mets and Peter Lonzo is paying. He's still on 299. So Pete Alonso comes up, and sure enough, gets top of the ninth, Orioles are down a run. Kodai Senga is Trying to close the game out. And he throws a meatball of a ghost fork, and Pete hits it into the second deck. Pete pops off, throws the bat, yells at the dugout, hyping up his Orioles guys. Because let's not forget, the Orioles at this point were still trying to fight their way into a spot. Obviously,

didn't end up in this way, but they they desperately needed this series from the Mets. That was a big home run in the situation. Right. They they didn't end up, you know, they had a terrible weekend this weekend because they were playing Milwaukee, but they needed that series. So it was a big moment for them because they needed that game so much. And of course the Met fans went nuts. Right. So they're screaming for P now remember, they just gave up the go-ahead home r the tying home run. It was three two. It was a solo shot, so it made it three three. The save was blown, if you if you want. And that and and the they n

And only were cheering Pete like crazy, he went in the dugout, and the Mets fans cheered so much that he came out and gave a curtain call. Okay, well, some of the old-time baseball fans, like this is beyond, you know. And the Met players had the temerity to start complaining about the way the fans were behaving. Well, you know what? Here's what does it make sense. You can't say temerity, but then also say the old heads were beside themselves because how dare the fans do that? Because then that means the old heads agree with the players, and it is beyond the pale on some level.

So I I I think I understand why the players are upset. You don't want them to like it. Right. I don't want them to like it. I don't want them to be happy that their fans are cheering for an opposing player. But the way they did it was there's no way to do it and not come off. Shamaniah came off in cell. I was a little bit surprisingly.

Because either you take the tact of going, listen, I don't enjoy the fact that they're cheering for another player, but it's our job as players to give them something to cheer for. Pete Alonso was a longtime Met and I can understand why they're excited for him. All the players know that. The manager had to say that, by the way. They had to ask him and he goes, Yeah, I know. Right, right, right. And it's like what would he expect them to say? Like, yeah, no, we're so happy that our fans are cheering for another player because we're not good this season. Because what we all also know is that if the Mets needed that game, if they were in the playoff race would have been

Very they would not be excited about that home run. They would have been a cheer, but they wouldn't have given a I think he would have gotten a much more tepid cheer. A muted response. A muted response because people you have to remember, Heat was not just like a player for a lot of Met fans. You got this was the most recognizable player in franchise history since David Wright.

He he would rank above me than Harvey and De Grand. Agree. And so so acting like he did not mean a whole lot to a lot of Met fans. He he's the biggest name they've had in a long time. It is not surprising that the fan base was very primed to cheer for him. And had had the management, David Stearns and the and the brass gotten a better replacement at first base than simply nobody or where they tried to tell you it was Jorge Polanco, that didn't work out. So that just magnifies, you know, the the disaffection the Met fans found.

Because they let Pete go. He's having a good year. and and they don't have anybody who looks like he can play first base at all for the most part, aside from Jared Young. And that was an accident that they got him in there in the first place. And then he got accidentally taken out. That was at a scary moment. Right, right. And I think I think David Stern's dislikers aside, I think evaluating his performance, you run into this weird thing where it's basically impossible to talk about him.

fairly because you have one set of people who act like he's done nothing wrong, which is no I mean, no, the guy's definitely made some mistakes. But then the other there's another contingent of where he can literally do nothing right and any of the things that have gone right would have just gone right had he not been there, which I think is not necessarily fair to say either. Because you can look and there's a lot of things that you can be hopeful for about Mets the Mets next season. But I think probably where I would agree most with the David Stearns attractors is I shouldn't have been looking at the 2027 season. Well that's a season I'm feeling a lot of hope for going into it. I should have been a little bit more concrete about what I had going into this season. Yeah and and what he had was a mismatch team that was never really in a position to compete to do anything but maybe make the playoffs at their very best, which they were not at at their very best. And and so you had the owner come into the and into the booth with the the the T V team and Steve Cohen and and they asked him about this and he he he gets it, you know, enough to know me.

I'm not gonna like it. He's so not Steinbrenner in that respect, because if you know, 40 years ago, if that Steinbrenner in there, Steinbrenner is screaming and yelling and going, How can you do that? you know, well Steve goes like they come here, they cheer for Pete. He was a good Matt. I'm not surprised that that happened. It still bugs the heck out of him, I'm sure, but he's smart enough not to say anything about it. Right, especially because saying anything is just gonna further make the fans mad at you. So here's my my recommendation to people. If you go to the ballpark and you don't like what your team's doing, you know what I do? I boo. Right. And I think you can too.

No reason you should never not feel like you should be able to boo your team. That is why you are as much as you are there because you want to cheer whenever they do something well, being a fan means you also get a boo when you think they're not doing well. And what's going too far is cheering for the opposition. That I can't do, right? If you're in your own ballpark and all that kind of stuff, you're so upset with your team, you know, that you're gonna cheer for the other teams. Right, right. Like the c the cheering was not for the Orioles, it was for Pete Alonso. Right. Exactly. So yeah, I think you know.

You know, folks, be happy, you know, that your team is not as bad as the Mets and you didn't have to go through watching your team get yelled at for booing.