Mets Podcast - We Gotta Believe
Jul 24, 2026 · 27 min · 16 segments
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It's disgusting how far this team has fallen.
Goddamn, that's a good point.
So we're in July.
We're in July of 2026, and I talked about this with Kev a little bit, but, and I think I said it the week before.
July of 2026, you tell those bright-eyed and happy kids in April of 2021 with Uncle Stevie coming in, this is where we be.
Granted, we did have a pretty sweet 2022 and 2024 along the way, but man, 21, 23, 25 have just been, and 26, have just been a whole lot of dog shit along the way.
So, uh, it's not great, and it's kind of tough.
And Phil, I mean, you can probably speak on the inner, the inner workings of all this, but again, not Mendoza's fault.
You know, they've, they've won pennants or World Series, and they go on these runs.
They're both in the race, all those fans, and we're the Squidward meme just watching those two fan bases have the time of their lives during the race.
Well, the main difference with those two teams is the Phillies, when they fired, um Rob Thompson, Zach Wheeler came back.
Mm.
That's three starting pitchers, three all-star level p- pitchers giving you a chance to win every day.
The Red Sox have had, like, one of the best rotations in baseball, even with, like, Crochet and guys missing time all season.
So it was more like their pitching was always keeping them in it, and then the rest of the team followed through.
It just never, [laughs] never clicked.
It-
Three days a week, you were starting Freddy Peralta going five innings, four runs, whatever it was, Kodai Senga being batting practice, Sean Manaea throwing 88, uh, David Peterson for those first three months.
Like, yeah.
Freddy, five-inning Freddy is, like, a dream now.
Yeah.
It's disgusting how far this team has fallen.
Goddamn, that's a good point.
So we're in July.
We're in July of 2026, and I talked about this with Kev a little bit, but, and I think I said it the week before.
July of 2026, you tell those bright-eyed and happy kids in April of 2021 with Uncle Stevie coming in, this is where we be.
Granted, we did have a pretty sweet 2022 and 2024 along the way, but man, 21, 23, 25 have just been, and 26, have just been a whole lot of dog shit along the way.
So, uh, it's not great, and it's kind of tough.
And Phil, I mean, you can probably speak on the inner, the inner workings of all this, but again, not Mendoza's fault.
You know, they've, they've won pennants or World Series, and they go on these runs.
They're both in the race, all those fans, and we're the Squidward meme just watching those two fan bases have the time of their lives during the race.
Well, the main difference with those two teams is the Phillies, when they fired, um Rob Thompson, Zach Wheeler came back.
Mm.
That's three starting pitchers, three all-star level p- pitchers giving you a chance to win every day.
The Red Sox have had, like, one of the best rotations in baseball, even with, like, Crochet and guys missing time all season.
So it was more like their pitching was always keeping them in it, and then the rest of the team followed through.
It just never, [laughs] never clicked.
It-
Three days a week, you were starting Freddy Peralta going five innings, four runs, whatever it was, Kodai Senga being batting practice, Sean Manaea throwing 88, uh, David Peterson for those first three months.
Like, yeah.
Freddy, five-inning Freddy is, like, a dream now.
Yeah.
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