Terminello's Take on Alonso 253 Featuring Ryan Pagano 8-15-25 (recorded 8-12-25)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
He just did it. He just did it.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
He just did That was me on Tuesday Night television
muted when Pete Alonzo made history, and we could not
end the week without having lou Terminello's take on Alonzo
two fifty three, and maybe a very special guest as well,
who's becoming a frequent contributor by the way, he hosts

(00:24):
a host show named Pag's Perspective, Ryan Pagano, joining the
conversation earlier this week. All right, well, I got my
two favorite friends and met fans on the line with me. Uh,
everybody was kind of surprised. I was wining my Mets
Alonzo gear yesterday, but for good reason, because he was
on the verge of hitting this record breaker, and he does.
And I'll start with lou Terminello. I know that you

(00:48):
have a lot of thoughts about Alonzo breaking the record,
so give us Tourminello's take on this major story.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, good afternoon, guys, Ryan and Alex. I mean, obviously
it's a big achievement for Alonso, who's been obviously a
power hitter since day one. He is now the most
prolific home run hitter in Mets history by the numbers.
I do think that everybody went a little overboard. And

(01:19):
you know how big a Met fan I am, and
I'm a big Alonzo fan also, But I'm glad it's
over with. I just want to hopefully the thirteen runs
they scored last night, the six homers that they hit
last night, is a sign of things that come to the
last six weeks. But Alonso is a Met, he wants

(01:39):
to be a Met, He loves the fans. He felt
the pressure last year, no doubt about it. Going into
his walk year. He has the ability to opt out
this year. I'm sure he will, but the Mets have
to resign him. And I don't care what the analytics
say about first baseman aren't important and they're devaluing his basement.

(02:00):
I don't care. You gotta sign this guy. I mean,
the guy is second to the National League in RBIs.
He's been the only men who's been consistent really from
day one, while the rest of the lineup has been shoddy.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
He's been the rock of the lineup. And I gotta
tell you, I think both of you could agree his
seeing him at like four hundred homers in a Met
uniform would be something pretty special. Now, Ryan, I know
you're going there tonight, maybe you've got a chance to
meet the polar Bear.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
But what was your dog?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Because we were in the studio watching this thing and
it didn't have the first time that happened the second time,
where were you when it happened.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, it didn't happen the first time. I was actually
on the other side of the glass with the Alex
watching the first at bad and I was convinced, and
I've told you this a couple of times. I was
convinced it was going out that first time, but it
fell just short of the wall down the left field line.
And then the second time I didn't see it live.
But I have to give a lot of credit to

(02:54):
you because you did send me your video of your
own call of the home run. It was kind of
an awkward fly ball, I'll give it. That line drive
to right center that really carried really well, went right
into the bullpens outed right center field, and I don't
think a lot of people really knew it went out
until once everybody really started to celebrate. But you know what,

(03:16):
props to Pete Alonzo. I've been a fan of his
since he cracked that Mets opening day roster in twenty nineteen, and.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
He found out a few days beforehand he was going
to make the team.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
And that and they had crazy and not only that,
but I still remember vividly getting my Alonzo jersey ordering
it off the fanatics, actually before your promo code, unfortunately, but.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Maybe I'll drop that as a link today. Why you
know what. You still can get your Alonzo Jurney with
my link.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
But I still remembered it, ordering it just minutes after
he one Rookie of the year.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's crazy, but low and Ryan. I was telling my
friend Dan, he was also a big Met fan. This
was a game that showed me the Mets were pissed
off about the way the weekend went. They did not
want to they they had a we're better than that
performance in my you would you guys agree last night?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well yeah, I mean they had to break out if
they hadn't scored. You know, the lowest scoring team since
June thirteenth in the major leagues, tied with somebody I
don't know, I forgot who, but the thirteen.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
There's like a date for every team.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, I know that that that date July June thirteenth.
June thirteenth, It's like a line of demarcation for so
many teams.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
And.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
But you know, Ryan was talking about it wasn't the
classic Alonso blast, and it wasn't. And it reminds me
of and this is obviously before your time, when Mark
Maguire hit number sixty two in Saint Louis. Obviously he
was hitting him into the second and third deck. He

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hit a line drive off Steve Tratzel against the Cubs
that went was a line drive that went right over
the fence, right down the line. So oh yeah, you
would expect it to be more like a home run
number two fifty four, which he hit like ur in
the game, which went over as Howie Rose calls it,
and it's a great it's a great call. The Great

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Wall of Flushing where and that used to be the
home run wall before they moved it in and they
have it because it was just too it was just
too deep. But I'm happy for Alonso. He's a good kid.
He loves the Mets, and the Mets gotta sign him, don't.
I don't care what analytics say. I don't. I really

(05:33):
really don't care. They got to sign the guy. I mean,
even last year when he had a down year, he's
still droven over ninety. He hit thirty four to thirty
five home runs. I mean that production means something. Let's
face it, nobody else is doing it. So but hopefully

(05:54):
that hopefully they can continue tonight.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I mean we can. Really, they only hope because
if anything, what last night's action told us, Lou it's
that the Mets truly are capable of breaking out of
this just horrid slump that they've been in over the
past two months. It's like they took all their bent
up frustration and anger over how those past two months

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have played out just completely took it all out on
the braves a team that really at this point of
the year, and I didn't think this would be the case,
but they're really just playing for pride at this point
of the year now. In fairness, it's all because of
the injuries that they've faced in their rotation, So just
an overall down year for them. But where this could

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perhaps kickstart another great Mets run, Will it actually happen?
We got to find out. I mean, if anything, they
have to prove that this isn't just a one off instance.
They got to continue this consistency, especially with the Phillies
playing the Reds this week as well, which is just
going to be the death of all Mets fans. I feel, uh,

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this whole series, which you know, which who do you?
We're Philly or Cincinnati? Nobody could really decide in Mets Land.
And this wouldn't have been an issue if the Mets
weren't in this bad slump. But this very convincing win
against the Braves last night, it might very well be
what they need to break out of it, especially with

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their September schedule straight ahead. It's certainly going to be
a tough battle.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's so difficult, but.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
They may be able to do it all.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Right now, they're calling up this prospect, what can you
guys tell me about McLain, which we just talked about
last night, louis right.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
I mean, obviously it's one of their their top uh
top pitching prospects, along with a Sprout and Tong who
they just called up from Binghamton to to Syracuse and
he's got a live arm. Again. The difference between one
level to the next is large, and they really have

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no choice right now. I don't think they want to
bring these guys up before next year. But let's face it,
the pitching staff, the starting pitching staff is in dire straits.
We've seen Clay Holmes, who did a nice job as
he went from relieve the starter, but then.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
He just completely melted down.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
It seems like, I mean, now he's more or less
proven that. And I hate to say it, because I
really loved Clay Holmes, especially in the beginning of the year,
and I still do now, but he's pretty much proven
at this point with his recent outings that he can't
go more than five innings. And it's even further that
maybe the Mets should have added the starting rotation arm.

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At the deadline, I know a lot of names were
being thrown out their likes of Standi Al Contra, Edward
Cabrera from the Marlin, Zach Gallon, among others.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
The guy I thought they were gonna get Brian and Alex.
I really thought they were gonna get Charlie mooreton I
said that that that's the perfect met for the for
these last two months. I thought that he might have
been on their raidar and maybe he was, but uh,
they didn't. I mean, they did fortify the bullpen with
some rentals, uh, but they're starting I mean let's face

(09:25):
Clay Holmes has now pitched almost as many innings this
year as he pitched in the last two years combined
as a relief pitcher. Yeah, you know, maybe he has
he's fatigued. I don't know what they're gonna do next
year moving forward with him. Is he going to Are

(09:48):
they going to put him in the back of the
bullpen like he was with the Yankees and before that
the Pirates. I don't, I don't know. I mean, the
guy obviously has good stuff, but what McClain is he
gonna come in? Is he going to be like a
phenom off the bat or is he going to be
on a pitch a pitch can account is Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
I mean, it's really anybody's guess. What's gonna happen with McLean?
The way that I saw it before the season, as
far as all their top prospects start top starting pitching prospects,
to be exact go likes of McLean, Brandon Sprode, I
always envisioned them playing a twenty fifteen no cinderguard twenty
fifteen Steven Matts kind of rolled down the stretch for

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the Mets, somebody that could come up straight from the
miners and pitch a lot of good innings, prove that
they can not only be in the show but then
also deliver some quality postseason starts. We saw that exactly
ten years ago with Thor, we saw it with Matts.
They had their fair share of good postseason action there,
and this was also with a much stronger rotation in

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twenty fifteen for the Mets. But no, they don't really
have the same thing. Now. Some good arms there, don't
get me wrong, but as far as a consistency angle
is concerned, it just leaves a lot to be desired there.
But if McLean can prove that he truly belongs in
the show and can play that twenty fifteen cinderguard role

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for these twenty twenty five Mets, I mean these possibilities
are endlessly But then again, his first start, it's against
the hot team in the Mariners right now, so we'll
see how it goes.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
A hot team with starting pitching that reman is the
starting pitching staff of what it used to be. The
Mariners and the Phillies have starting pitching staffs that can
go deeper. The ats, they don't nobody throws complete games anymore,
which is a joke. But they're more like the which

(11:45):
I don't want to say the old fashioned pitching staffs,
but the way pitching staffs were even ten years ago.
And they're on fire. The Mariners, and it's another hot
team that the Mets are gonna have to play after
the Braves. You know, they ran into the team.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
They don't really deal with Cleveland that well, So the
interleague is there.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Just look at the last three series. They played a
red hot Cleveland team, then a red hot Milwaukee team
which absolutely destroyed Pittsburgh last night, fourteenth and nothing.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
You think they were eleven straight then, right?

Speaker 3 (12:21):
I think that's eleven a crazy run by Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Uh, guys. And I remember that first weekend when Milwaukee
came to the Bronx and got got.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, so remember that like it was yesterday. Yeah you too,
we all do.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I had a lot of hopes for the Yanks
after that weekend.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
But but they bounced back. I mean Milwaukee bounced back.
You know, the torpedo bats and all this nonsense. Where
are the torpedo the torpedo bats now, Uh, majorly and
a lot of teams are using them.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
By the way, I noticed I noticed the h the
fans the Milwaukee because I know a couple of Milwaukee fans.
They're just raveling in the fact that counsel gets to
see them, you know, beat up on the Cubs because
of course he left them for the Cubs. And and
so when they get to beat the Cubs, I know
they love it a little more because of that situation
where he basically left the Brewers and the dust and

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went to the Cubs.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I was still surprised at that move, I have to say,
I mean, especially when they already had another manager employed
in David Ross. And I'm still recall he was very
shocked when he got fired from the back he had
already under Ryan.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
He was lost. He had done a decent job with them.
He was supposed to be there for the long haul.
And when they got a chance to get counseled, they did,
and that.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, I just think nobody handled that well. I don't
think counseled hinted that very well either, But that's another
story for another day. All right, So here we are.
It's August thirteenth. Both teams still sort of sparked. By
the way. I don't remember the playoffs starting in September
for a while I see the first game is in
September thirtieth, I'm like, where did that happen? So they
moved it up a little bit. It seems like to

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September thirtieth. But I want to say where we're at
right now is both teams are still struggling even after
these If they both win these series, I don't know
if that will truly truly propel them. I just don't
see this as propeller. Maybe, but what do you guys
think for both the Inks and the Mets. Is it's
a propelling series they needed.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
I mean, it could be, but they have to play
their cards, right, Alex. I mean, one win it's just
not gonna be enough in this day and age to
prove that, Okay, maybe this team truly is back or
something like that. It's a very good stepping stone into
getting back into a good stretch, don't get me wrong.
And I've said that this could happen for the Mets,
and I'm sure the Yankees, you know, if they pull

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up some pretty compelling wins of their own, I could
very well see the same thing for them. But it
all comes down to those September schedules. And I mean, well,
it just too promising. But at the same time, they
both squads are very equally capable of doing such a thing.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Mhm.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
But Ryan, you said the September schedules, and that I
mean starting on Monday night, you know, obviously at the
beginning of the Minnesota series out of the Yankees twenty
three of the remaining games six against Minnesota, three against Washington,
seven against the White Sox, seven against the Orioles, and
three against the Cardinals, which you can go either way

(15:25):
with them. I mean, that's that's that's cake, let's face it,
it should be.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
But I remember the Yanks struggled a couple of years
ago in Saint Louis, so I don't know anymore, but
we'll have to see. The Other thing about all this
is you mentioned the rentals, and lou was making the
point that the Inks did not get a lot of rentals.
Actually they got a couple of guys on contract that
could benefit the Yanks in the long run.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Right. Well, I mean, uh, they're not They're not going
to resign. Uh, Devin Williams, They're not. I mean, he
probably doesn't even want to be here because of the pressure.
I do not think that they'll sign Devin Williams, but
do Val is under contract for another year. I think

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Bennick is under a contract for two more years. And
I even think Jake Bird is on the contract next
year even though they sent him down to Syracuse. So
I mean, again, doesn't mean that they're not going to
resign Devin Williams. I don't think they are. And I

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think Luke Weaver is a free agent this year too,
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
And then they got them for a one year deal
last year.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, so a lot can happen.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Guys, it's going to be with that, it's going to
be interesting.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
And excuse me, Alex. Another guy who I believe can
opt out this year, and he's having a great year,
so he might opt out even though he has two
more years left on this deal is Edwin Diaz.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, no, and not. You know what's funny, he's not been.
I haven't heard a lot about him this year, to
be honest with you, it seems like he's.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Been, he's been likes out, but the Mets have only
used him three times, like in the last fourteen days.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Maybe that's why, Maybe that's why we haven't heard about
him as much. All Right, I want to just wrap
up with this other stat that Lou was telling me
last night. Since the All Star Break, who's leading the
home run category? This is unbelievable that you told him.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Here is here is the uh crazy stat of the
day since the All Star Break. The team the team
that leads the major leagues and home runs or the
pathetic Chicago White Sox.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
You can't make that up. And they went on Sunday,
the Yanks would be out of a playoff spot. You know,
would have gone all that's.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Right, they would have That's right, they would have been
out of the playoffs spot.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I got to ask you about this. So last week
we're at the game, and by the way, gave Williams
pitching tonight for Cleveland after his unbelievable performance, breaking news.
A pitcher can go eight and the third and not
have Tommy jobs right later. But to both of you,
I heard the chance fire Shavez after the game. You
seem to be a proponent of that, Ryan or is
it too late in the season to make a move

(18:10):
like that.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
I mean, Stearns has already gone on the record though,
saying that he's not really inclined to fire any of
those coaches mid season during the stretch, and look from
the Stearns's perspective, I get it. You know, you don't
really want to ruffle too many feathers in that clubhouse
by getting rid of your hitting coach like that, especially
when there's I'm sure there's probably a lot of Mets

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players that do like chob As' approach. I know there aren't.
That isn't necessarily the case for a lot of the guys.
I mean, just look at Francisco Alvarez. Twenty five homers
in twenty twenty three, solid campaign, solid coming out party
for him. But Chavez is but Chavez, And you know,
this kind of reminds me of Ray series with the

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Pirates in the mid twenty tens. Of course, they're pitching
coach back when they made all those wild card appearances.
The more one size fits all approach, where you know,
three hundred foot singles, that's kind of the way to go.
And he wanted Alvarez to be more of a contact guy,
which I can see. I mean, he's not really an
average he doesn't really hit for average, let's just put

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it that way. But at the same time, as a
hitting coach, you know, you're also very responsible for making
sure you're playing into all of your hitters strengths here,
and yes, Alvarez is much of a contact guy, but
you could still lean on him for that big home run.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I remember when Louis, I remember when Hojo was the
hitting coach for a long while. There wasn't he Yes,
he was. Well, what are your thoughts on Chavez? I mean,
I know you're not a proponent of firing anybody either
during the season.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
No, I am not. I mean I think it would
be it would be more detrimental than beneficial if they
do it now. Now again, hitting coaches are very many
times escapegoat for franchise failures, and it's really not on them.

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Is Chavez. The reason that Francisco Lindor's batting one nineties
since June first is Chavez. The reason that Soto is
not hitting what runs in scoring position is Chavez. The
reason that Alonso is having a fantastic year. I mean,

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I I don't think that's gonna help. You know, firing
him is going to help in any way. I am
just surprised that this met inconsistent hitting, whether it be
from the top four guys or the guys at the bottom.
I really thought Fiano's was not going to have that.

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And last year, let's face it, last year was really
his first year. I know he'd been up before, but
last year was his first full year and he not
only performed in the regular season with the twenty seven
ho runs, but he had a big postseason. He had
big home runs. I did not expect him to have
a quote unquote Souphomore Jinks type season. I mean, he

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doesn't look confident at the plate, and that's where chef
As I'm sure is trying to help him. And I
really think Ronnie Mauricio is still the guy. I know
they rushed him up when they when they had some injuries.
I think he's the guy. I mean, if he gets
I mean he's a switch hitter.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, look, last year Viendo was called above the year.
There could be that situation coming up here.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
So yeah, it could be. But again, guys, we are
now six weeks away from the end of the season.
You know, there's no more fooling around. And when the
Mets had the best record in baseball the day before
June thirteenth, the famous June thirteenth date at forty five
and twenty four, I said, wow, I said, this is great.

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The Mets of twenty four twenty one games, all five hundred,
and the hitting has been so inconsistent. Now, up until
that time, they were getting great pitching. But again, when
you go use your when you go to these guys
in the bullpen over and over and over again because
your stars aren't giving you length, it's not going to
be sustainable. And it's happened to the Mets, and it's

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happened to other teams too, and that's how it isn't
in Major League baseball. And I know we were talking
about hitting for average a couple of minutes ago. Uh,
I think I think it was Alex We were talking
all their last week in the major leagues. And I
don't know how it is today, but this was, you know,
seven or eight days ago, and obviously these things change.

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There were eight eight of players who were over three hundred,
and only another twenty seven that were over to eighty.
So that's only that was only thirty five total in
both major leagues combined is two forty Now the new
two sixty is too. Seventy is to seventy what two

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ninety used to be?

Speaker 2 (22:59):
I don't know home right, No, it's it's all messed up. Now.
I gotta say this about the trade headline real quick
because I'm just thinking about this. We saw two demotions.
I mean, Jake Berger getting sent down really surprised me
because I think he was pitching terrible. I know, give
the Grand Slam, but that was really sort of a
deadline bust. Ahmed Rosario gets injured. I guess Austin Slater

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gets injured too. So I mean, rating the deadline at
the first site, I thought it was great, But watching
these emotions happen for both him and Montos, does that
change your guys grading of the deadline or is this
just things happened and this is what part of the game.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well in in Ahmed Rosario and the Austin slaightest situation,
you can't you know, you can't figure out. You can't
figure injuries. True, So that's that's incomplete, right, I mean
you can't figure now. As Alex knows, I'm sure he
can find the Terminello's take from right after the winter

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meetings or right after the first year, whenever the Mets
signed Montos, I said that to waste the money. Frankie
Montos had a blip of a good year with the
A's one year. But really his career has been this contract,
this thirty four million dollar contract he got seventeen a

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year for two years. Analytics, that's what I bet you. You
got it. The eye test certainly doesn't say to sign
Frankie Montas. I bet you the analytic guy said this,
you should sign this guy. I wish the Mets had
signed Quintana and.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh yeah, no, yeah, I mean bringing him back. It
would have been perfect.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
By the way, and he was. He was sort of
Maddy Ice if you will. He had ice in his
veins when it mattered the most. Okay, I mean it's
just that that postseason game against the Brewers. I'll never
forget that. He pitched the game of his life that night.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, and not only that, but I still remember Kintana
being very vocal back in February saying I want to
go back to the Mets. Like those five guys from
that twenty twenty four run, they've all been on the
record saying, you know, I want to come back, even
if they may not have had the room at the time.
Kintana was very vocal about that. Obviously, Iglesias was very

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vocal about that. And if anything, even if Kintana was
playing more of a long reliever depth role slash occasional
spots starting role, even with these rotation issues, which surely
you wouldn't have been able to put it back on
opening day, that all this would have happened, he would
have been perfect for this ride about now. No doubt

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to the Brewers for scooping him up when they did,
because he has just been phenomenal for them.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, and I know it doesn't matter with Stevie Cohen
because he has so much money. But I think the
Brewer was signed up for ten million, that's right. Yeah,
So again, I'm sure of it, guys, and I an'll
know for a fact. It's just me observing from a fall.

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Are Frankie Montos? Analytics rewarded Frankie Montos because the eye
test certainly didn't.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, no, And I mean look, the Yankees experiment with
him did not work either, as far as I can remember.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
What did he played? He pitched like eight games in
two years, right, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
It'll probably kind of them on both of your hands.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Sure it wasn't what we call glamorous. If you will
so love to see all right, I want to switch
gears here because the last couple of days, as baseball
is ramping up and we're getting ready for the fall,
you have the Giants and Jets doing a you know,
joint practice. Now, Lou, I want to get your perspective
because when the Giants and Jets were not so close
in Jersey, when the Giants I guess we're upstated and

(26:42):
the Jets were in him send, I remember Jet joint
practices back in the day, do you. I never remember
this being a thing until recently.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well up until about ten years ago, ten eleven years ago,
it really wasn't a big thing in the NFL overall.
But many times when a team is playing, especially now
the Jets and Giants obviously or within a few miles
of each other, they're training camps. But just saying, like say,

(27:11):
I think last year the Jets played Detroit at home
at MetLife, and I think the Jets in Detroit had
had a couple of of joint practices. It's basically a
new phenomena. When I when I was, and I, like
I said, much older than you guys, that never happened.
There was no such thing as joint practices. But apparently

(27:34):
it was a good practice yesterday for both teams. There
was no scuffling. Usually many times in these joint practices
there's well year.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Today there was something that did happen. I guess there
was a violent thing in the second day of scrimmaging
between the two, but I don't.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Know exactly how I could see that. And I mean,
I know there's teams. There's times when in these joint
practices when teams are had going to have two days
practice back to back. I forgot. It wasn't the Jets
with the Giants. It was a couple of other teams.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I think it was Viking, these Rams or something like that.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, And the next day they decided not to have it.
They decided just to practice individually because the first day
was so you know, or so chippy.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
So I know, I don't want that to carry in
the regular season. I don't think that would be right.
Although I guess they have had that in the past.
I don't remember that being a case though, But imagine,
by the way Ryan had to leave us to attend
to duties elsewhere. But I'll tell you, if they started
joining practice during the season, that would be unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Alex, that's not gonna happen. That will not happen, but
both teams look.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I don't know why, but the idea that the preseason
first week in the preseason was more interesting to me
than the mob baseball. I never thought that would be
in August, but I was locked in the first week
of preseason. I don't know why, but it just felt
like it was.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
The only one. Because the Hall of Fame game on
Thursday night between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Detroit Lions,
where virtually no one played. I did not watch a
second of the game, even though I was home, had
over six point four million people watching it, which is

(29:24):
almost which is what the All Star Game. That travesty
of an All Star game got like seven million from
Major League Baseball, So you were not alone in your
thirst to watch preseason football.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
To put a button on the Alonso, I should really
see if Gary Cohen wants to join us, because we're
friends of them. You known him for a long time also,
I mean he would be a great guy. Or Howie
Rose to talk about Alonso because they've been there from
basically the bening beginning of this franchise, rooting for them
every day. It seems like this absolutely. That seems like

(29:58):
to put some feelers out and see what we could do.
But that'd be great if we could get one of
those guys on to talk about Alonzo breaking the record.
I'm sure they'd want to talk about it. That would
be great, all right, Louis, thanks for joining One Leg
Up once again.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Thank you, Alex, you have a great day, appreciate it.
And thanks Ryan. It's always good to talk to him. Also,