Yeah, that seems, Jabba and I talked about it last week, we were saying like July at least, maybe, but yeah, June is a pretty great call, and I fully expect that, and you'll hear me ranting about getting replacement players in there so we don't have to deal with these divas, but yeah, I don't know, whose side are you on, the players or the owners right now?

Well, basically, they don't enforce the tax.

If they let the Dodgers get away with it, with the circumventing it with the deferred contracts, then the tax isn't working.

The tax should be able to work enough.

But the salary floor is just going to be a salary floor.

So now if you put the salary floor at $100 million, say, the teams that don't spend are going to spend at $100 million.

They're never going to go above the salary floor.

If we do, how long do you think it takes to build the fan base back up to what it is right now?

You'd think they would have been favorite against Detroit, too.

Oh, they would have been the clear favorite.

Here's the thing.

If you look at the Mets, Cliff Floyd wasn't playing because he was trying to.

He pinch-hit in the game, but he couldn't play the outfield because he had the calf or the hamstring.

Orlando Hernandez, before the series began... was doing wind sprints on the warning track the day before he was supposed to pitch game one.

He strained a calf muscle.

It changed overnight.

Let's go to our most

optimistic guy, Frank.

How are we feeling? Well, first off, you've got to understand about soccer is we have to build the program.

We have to build the program.

We can't just, oh, let's grab this guy.

We've been doing that for 30 years, just grabbing the hot guy off the MLS roster.

First off, the MLS is trash.

Somebody's got to win games.

How's the National?

Uh, just getting started.

Uh, looking around, uh, about to probably make my first purchase.

Um, are you squeezing out Mikey Betts?

No, he's just, he's just a busy guy.

He, he's getting his own podcast started.

Maybe not Alonso, because Stearns didn't want Alonso back when they gave him the one in one deal.

Well, Stearns is a moron.

I, I mean, I'm tired of this guy with his analytics.

Analytics this, analytics that.

You know, y- I, I...

The, the Mets put out these stats like W- OPS or xWOBA.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Christian Scott's been good.

Is that correct?

You know, I, I, I, I, I did not like how the roster was put together.

I mean, I let some people talk me into maybe it's gonna be a good season at the beginning of the season, uh, in spring training.

But I, I, I had this dreadfu- dreadful feeling.

And, uh, as negative as I am, this is about as negative as I, I, I could possibly be, you know? Uh, probably the closest to most misery factor is '93 season.

Of course, you have the collapses which are unto themselves miserable, but this has been the most miserable season I've ever had witnessed as a Mets fan in f- over 40 years.

And, um [tsks], yeah, I, I...

Uh, Lindor aside, Frank, uh, what was the move this offseason That you question the most in real time? 'Cause I know you were down on, on basically all the moves David Stearns made, but what was the singular move where that made you the most mad? Was it not re-signing Alonso?

All right, Frank, the Mets fire Carlos Mendoza.

Great day, right? No, it's not.

It's a disaster.

This team is a disaster.

The fact that this didn't happen two months ago is a disaster.

The fact that they're actually finally putting him out there, ending this misery is just incredible.

I mean...

All

What do you got?

Well, I'm going to give up three runs or give up a couple of home runs.

That seems what the openers do, isn't it? I mean, yesterday we had Kodai Senga return.

You know, they always say that he has the ghost fastball, the ghost forkball, and they hang up this ghost with a fork.

Well, that's not true.

You see, he throws meatballs, and that's the batter's going, ah, yes, yes, yes.

So it's a ghost meatball.

Oh, you mean that

They need everything though, right?

They ha- they're $170 million in dead cap space, so get the foundational pieces.

You got De'Von Achane, he's your running back.

Malik Willis, whatever, r- for bet- for better or worse, he's gonna be the quarterback.

Yeah.

That's what ...

I want offensive line.

I want, I want offensive line to be the pri- the, the, uh, the primary focus.

the whole thing is, is a disaster.

It's like, I, like, right at the start of the Riverwalk.

Or the end of the Riverwalk, depending on your, your, uh...

It's actually outdoor, nice outdoor deck dining.

Uh, and, um, great rib...

I had, uh, uh, they had great prime rib.

Mikey actually took his wife there for her anniversary two days earlier, and, uh, they kinda said that the Devils are, uh, supposed to be coming, so they knew I was coming for my birthday, and so, kind of things were, uh, set in, the, the, uh, the wheels were set in motion.

That would be ideal.

tootsky-wootsky?

I watched a Met team disintegrate.

I hear they don't want to bring back Pete Alonzo.

They want to sign Josh Bell to tell the fans we're going to help.

Basically, the Mets want to have every bum because they said that if you sign people who are motivated— Well, this is New

I think he's crying again.

He's shaking.

The Mets literally, I have called them feeble.

pounds.Hmm.

And, um, I've had some illnesses, MRSA.

I've had a couple of other things.

And, uh, we went to a game at Notre Dame and we had to w- walk a long way down to campus.

Shane Gillespie invited us.

So basically, Shane Gillespie was like, uh, kind of planted the seedling, and we had to walk a long way from where we parked to the, uh, Notre Dame stadium.

And then, uh, I, you know, I kind of struggled walking at the time and, and it was just like, "Why don't we walk...

I mean, does that help too?