Trade Deadline Haul with Joe DeMayo - We Gotta Believe

Good, man.

Well, terrible.

I mean, it's been awful, but let me ask you this.

Before...

We'll get into all the, you know, specifics of, of these guys and, and what you expect, but, like, how stunned are you about this season? Did you feel like this could have happened, or is this, like...

I mean, you know, we were predicting 90 wins, and people are hoping to be a World Series contender, and it's like, you know, could not be further from the truth.

So are you, are you shocked by all this, or did you see that there was some trouble with that lineup?

No.

Uh, uh, I...

Very shocked.

And given what I do with SNY, I, I get the, uh, I guess opportunity, which it's not gonna look great when they pull, when they pull the graphic back up at the end of the year.

Uh, they ask for predictions every year, and it's always like, pick each division, who's gon- who's gonna go how far in the playoffs, who's gonna win awards, yada, yada.

I had the Mets as a 94 win team and making it to the NLCS.

Uh, so...

And I'm on record, too, 'cause the Mets pod-

Yeah

... lives forever, that I thought this was gonna be a top five lineup in baseball.

Uh, a lot, a lot of things didn't go the Mets way this year, and it feels like one of those things that everything that could go wrong did.

And it just feels like the year from hell.

I don't, I don't know [laughs] what else to put it.

I, I remember, at least I thought that was last year.

I was like, "Guys, this is a good team," and everything that could have gone wrong did.

And that's why I was even a, a fan.

I was a, a proponent of bringing back some of that core.

Um, I don't think it would've made a difference, but I was thinking to myself, "This is a good team, and this was the anomaly.