 Meet the Mets, meet the Mets, step right up and beat the Mets. Because that's what the Yankees are going to do this week, Jim. I was going to say weekend. I'm still throwing off from the London series. But Jim, does it get any bigger than this, the two biggest rivals in sports? No, they're not rivals because they're not because they're not that. But they have they inhabit the same city. Is that how you say it? They're both from the same city. Yeah. Yeah, pretty nuts. Yeah, Queens and the Bronx. Brooklyn and Queens and things. Biggie Smalls. What do you relate to more, Queens or the Bronx? I would say Queens, but I'm talking in the literal like rulers. Your dream has always been to be the Queen of France. The Queen of France. Well, the Yankees are playing in the Mets today. It's off to a loopy start here in the pregame show. We haven't had baseball normal regular in America baseball in a while, but we do have a pretty normal lineup. Jake voids on the IEL now. Abdominal strain underneath his belly button. This could be more precautionary than anything else. I haven't read the updates, but with they can backdate it two days now. They can backdate it because he didn't play on Sunday and he didn't play on Monday. So that's two days. And with the all-star break coming up, I can see a point where voids like, you know, I can play through this kind of like Clint Frazier sprained ankle earlier in the year and they're just like, well, that's seven games and you'd probably sit one of those games anyway. So we're talking about six games. So now that's an optimistic spin. If you want to say like the Yankees have had trouble with injuries all season, this could be way worse. I understand that thought process, but for me, I'm going to stay optimistic here and say they just saw the all-star break in the rest. And they're like, you know what, dude, you've been playing like one of our main dudes this entire first half anyway. Take a little breather, come back and second half and get him optimistic spin from my end. Do you have a different vibe about this? Not really. I mean, we I think it was funny. He took batting practice the next day and everyone was talking about that. Yeah. And again, I think it's Yankees mentality. You kind of have to combine last year with this year. Like there's been so much positive stuff. But I mean, just think about it. The Yankees are doing great things. Luke Voigt has proved he's not a fluke. Yeah, it feels like you're walking into so many jokes when you mentioned fluke around Luke Voigt. But yeah, I mean, why, why risk it at this point? Like we have the bodies. We're playing two nationally games where we don't have the DH. So we already had to take a body out of our lineup anyways. And then we're playing for against the rays on turf and we've seen what that's been like. So I think you're right. I think it was a very much, uh, Luke, we're going to throw you on the I L, you know, get get better. We'll have a huge second half for us. Yeah. Yeah. So the Yankees that are in the lineup are as follows. DJ, they may use leading off playing third base. Aaron Judge is playing right field betting second. Aaron Hicks batting third at center field. Gary Sanchez is catching. Didi Grores at shortstop. Edwin and Kronacion plays first base. Glebert Torres at second. Brett Gardner in left field. That's adding ninth. James Paxton. Batting ninth. Yeah. Big maple swinging a big maple. He has to. Right. Dude, I forgot. Yeah. Sorry. I don't like it. I don't like pictures hitting. So if you're James Paxton, though, by default, you have to swing a 40 ounce maple bat. If he's not swinging a maple wood bat. Johnny Damon used to swing maple, I believe, and it broke all the time. And they're like, Damon, why don't you try a stronger wood? And he's like, I like the maple maple guy. Do you think what do you think Paxton Paxton's offensive numbers are? Ooh, this is fun. Do we think James Paxton has a hit? I'm going no. You think he seems like a big time. Actually, the Canada factor is a big thing here because growing up in Canada, he was totally a star hitter too. Mm hmm. So you think he's gonna say he has a hit. Okay. He does not. He is 0 for nine lifetime. He did trust my instincts with two walks. Okay. Good eye. And one run scored. Okay. How many strikeouts? Nine strikeouts in nine at bats. He's never put the ball in play. Goes to my original theory of homeboys a straight-up pitcher. Does has never put the ball in play. No, no, no, no, no. He has two sack hits. So two times he's got a bunt down in play. Okay. Nice. So he's never like put a ball in play and made like. He's never swung the bat and put the ball in play. Nice. Cool. It's a good, good what to watch for there. Not rooting for him to continue to not put the ball in play. Don't get on base. Yeah. And then Jim or for your Metropolitan's it looks like we've got McNeal and this bat and leadoff PD Alonzo. Can you believe they got Ike Davis back and he's batting third. Can't hit a curveball. So it's good news. Paxton's got a nice one. So can actually I think it's JD Davis. Frazier the Todd father cleaning up speaking of old friends. What do you know? Robbie can know. And Ramos behind the dish con foito seven hole and then Ahmed Rosario. Your shorts. I think I did and then a Zach Wheeler batting knife and also throwing the pill is do you think this is the has Ken open batting this far down the lineup. What's he batting say six. I think he's betting fifth right. Okay. It's not bad. No, he's batted fifth three times this season. He was three hole for a while and there was a whole deal like he's most comfortable in the three hole were to keep him in three hole. And I was like, yeah, he's not swinging good and we got other guys. So then they finally moved him down. But I believe it was kind of a little thing with them. Yeah. Meet the mess. We got our favorite dude. Varna Wheeler stretching. Got excited there. No, you're a Zach Zach. Don't let him end up on Houston or Tampa Wheeler on them up on the bump. We we've been had Wheeler knocked them around pretty good Jim. Yeah, that was fun. Huh? Yeah, that was fun. And you know what Jake? The Mets. I want to talk about the Mets lineup. Okay. McNeil is crazy good. Yeah, he's an all star. Right. I know that's not our label, but the dude's hitting. What's what's he hitting on the year now 348? I guess. Yeah, that's a good guess. Thank you. He nailed it. It's a really good guess 348 412 OBP 922 OPS. I mean, but like it just it's very consistent in his last 30 games. He's hitting 373 with a 400 OBP in his last seven games. He's hitting 440 with a 500 OBP like dude's good. I know. Yeah. I don't want to give him full out DJ LaMahieu credit, but I think I think at the end of this year, there's going to be a bucket of players that just try to barrel up balls and put them in play and not try to put it out of the yard. And I think those guys are going to hit like over 330 this year. And I think Jeff McNeil is one of them. Yeah, can know it looks like has actually been getting better of late, which I mean, I still have like somewhat of a soft spot for Robbie Cannell because he was the right, but I do think it's funny to much trader for him. And if it fails, I'm going to laugh really hard. Oh, look at this. And can knows the last three games he has two hits in all of them. Look at that. That's pretty good. So that swing six hits in his last three games. No extra base hits, though, Jake, just six singles slapping it, babe. Crazy slap in the back. How about if Pete Alonzo hits two more homers before the break? He's got 30. Still he'd be he'd be tied with the yellow. But yeah, he's doing what judge did in 2017, but it's getting so much lost publicity. Going to be great when the Mets flip him for other players, huh? Don LaGreka on the Michael K show had a good point because I think I don't know if he's a Mets fan, maybe, but he was saying Peter Lonzo is doing so good, but Mets fans hate Mets fans. The Mets fans hate the Mets so much that they've they've blanketed their good story because they'd much rather talk about their inept owners and their inept GM and their inept coach. So like they're blanketing their own great story because he should be the talk of baseball. He's having a similar 2019 then judge did in 2017 when he was the talk of baseball. Judge had what was batting 330 with 30 homerons at the All-Star break in 2017. So Pete's on his way. Yeah, I think where the Yankees were in the standings is a big factor and just being the Yankees obviously. But yeah, he's I mean good for him. Him and McNeil. I mean, they're awesome. And then you look at the rest of the lineup and I mean, what I guess what's happened to Conforto? I think they just slid him down the lineup kind of for more lineup balance. And like the, you know, that Mets pitching staff just never happened. Now it's getting a little too talk show radio, but yeah. Okay. What do you want to know? How does Mets team fares against James Paxton? How do they fare against James Claxton? There's only one player that has multiple hits in the lineup today versus Paxton. It's Michael Conforto. Michael Conforto. Two for five. There's not a lot of, there's not a lot there. Todd Frazier is 0 for 7 though. And if this was talking Mets, wouldn't we be talking about, didn't they get to Paxton? Didn't Alonzo hit the first inning three run shot or whatever? Yeah. Paxton, that was when I was really mad at him. Yeah. They, he went two and two thirds with six earned runs versus the Mets. And I was very mad at him. I was so mad. Disappointed. It went McNeil, double J.D. Davis, single Peter Alonzo home run. That was the first three batters versus the Mets. We talked about needing motivation. What's that? We talked about Paxton needing motivation. Maybe that's it. Maybe a little redemption. These guys knocked you around. Like, not up, dude. Yeah. Maybe. We need Paxton to be good, man. Like, it's getting to that point where we're one or more of two bad outings away, where it gets very scary. Like, okay, who are you? His last outing is 4.16 earned runs to Toronto. Before that, two good starts. He needs a really good, he needs a good start today. Would it would be, you're right, Jim. I think my takeaway statement would be, it would be great to not have James Paxton be a talking point going into the All-Star break. And if he has a bad start today, it is. Yeah. I don't want it to be. So just pitch good, Paxton. Just pitch good, man. Well, even pitch well. High, low, inside, outside. Hit your spots. Good pitches. What about? Pretty easy. Oh, geez. Okay. What about Zach Wheeler? What's he been up to? I'm just going to assume bad. I feel like the start after they face the Yankees, I think he got knocked around pretty good again. Yeah, the Braves got him for 10 hits. But after that, Jake, he's been good. Seven innings pitch, 100 run, six innings pitch, 100 run versus the Cubs and then the Phillies. Is, man, yeah, his game log is pretty gross. It's not that good. Gross. So all the arm talent in the world. Yeah. Cool name, Wheeler. Zach Wheeler. Pretty good pitching name. What do you, what's your what to watch for? The path of victory for the Yankees is so simple. Yeah. It's, if you need the four horsemen, you got the four horsemen. If you need slop, you got slop. You need the best picture Europe's ever seen. Sass is ready to go. Bam. There you go. Actually, is he the only pitcher that's not ready to go because he threw up four innings on Sunday? Yeah. Yeah, he may be the only one. He won't have the best picture Europe's ever seen. Yeah, that's true. He is the best MLB pitcher. He's the, the pitcher that performed the best in Europe is Louis Sesson. Jim, I feel like I'm going to end up stealing your what to watch for. Um, I mean, it's just, we're going to know the tone of this game midway through the second inning. It's not the action. Are the Yankees here to polka for this last week? Do they want to go into the All-Star break with the best record in baseball? Or are they saying, damn, we've had a good first half, Voiter and G just got hurt. Let's uh, let's get a couple wins. Let's stay healthy. Um, and survive or they go and pedal to the ground and I, I'm just looking for that attitude early. And you know what, I highlighted it last time and it's such an easy thing to highlight. How about Lemahue in the first that bad of this game? If, if Lemahue starts this series again and he's still, I feel like the Yankees now in Lemahue, it's in every series thing. And it's like, is he going to do this again? And if he gets a hit in his first at bat, I think everyone's going to look around and be like, all right, let's run it. Um, okay, I like that. So yeah, how about the vibe in general, which is what everyone's watching for. But again, that, that Lemahue first A B packs it in the first inning, man. If Paxton can get through the first inning, I'm fine. He's been so bad in the first inning. He has a 10.38 ERA in the first inning. 10.38 is giving up 15 earned runs in 13 first innings. Jesus Christ. Drop bad. That is real bad. 15 earned runs in the first inning. 13 innings pitched. He's pitched 13 second innings. He's given up three earned runs. Yeah. He's pitched 12.2. Third innings is giving up four. If he can get to the fourth, he's lights out. 11 innings pitched one earned run in the fourth inning, but get through that first inning. Otherwise, I think like the vibe turns into. All right. This is our like this is our bookend game. You know, we got back from London. We're tired, blah, blah, blah. Paxton didn't bring it. Blah, blah, blah. We don't want that. Yeah. Yeah. Don't want that at all. Zero bit of me wants that. Keenan Thompson in the chat says, wow, that's bad. It is. It's really bad. Keenan Thompson. Keenan. Kaden. Won't you get it? Kaden. Okay. Jesus. Well, you kind of said Keenan. No, I said Kaden. Sounded a lot like Keenan. Who's the longest running SNL. Actor ever been doing skit comedy since 12 years old. It's birth. We need how many skits do you think Keenan Thompson's been from all that through SNL like skits? Like how many characters do you think he's played? It's got to be like 700. Is he the number? Has he done the most skits ever? I mean, there's probably some guy in British Columbia that performs every night at like a at an open mic at a bar. Like his brother owns the bar and they just let him go up there and go crazy every night, but it's him then Keenan. But not everyone starts at 12 years old. Yeah, it's an early start. That's true. It's like when you and when you're talking about like Curtin Clayton Kershaw is the same age as like Matt Harvey and they're like, yeah, Kershaw has been doing it forever. Yeah. Yeah, Keenan Thompson. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching, Kaden. Thanks, Kaden. Let's go to the Homer Draft. It's the Homer Draft. It's the Homer Draft. Jake's losing. Jake is losing. I've taken the lead in the series. It is eleven series one by me, seven series one by you. You haven't won a series in a long time. Total score looks like you're beating me. That can't be true. I hit dingers and I thought I beat you. I beat you last series, the series before London. So shut your butt. No, no one no one believes that. Well, yeah, beat me in a while and I've got less home runs. You did beat me in the series before I beat you in a London series. You beat me in the London series. You had a two home or day from both your guys, which is always nice. Mm hmm. So, so wait, hold on. So it's eleven to eight then. You've won eight series. Love and eight. Yep. Love and eight. Jake and you get to go first. I think I get. Yeah, you get to go first. We got Zach wheels up wheeler. We're playing in city field. Um, I'm going, I'm going Aaron judge, Jim. Why? Uh, that Peter Lonzo stuff rub me the wrong way. I don't, I don't even like them being mentioned in the same. I like Peter Lonzo. I just don't want them mentioned in the same sentence. The last guy they compared to judge was confordo. He's batting seven hole today. Remember, that was funny. Yeah. So it was funny when they said that and judge has a little prideful New York in him and he knows judge is going to be the guy in the dugout saying, Hey, let's finish out through the all star break. So he's going to set the tone. Yeah. That's a great reasoning you have right there. Judge is going to be in the guy in the dugout and he's even like, you know, let's set the tone. The only problem is it's not going to be judge who does that. Wait, who do wait? Who do you think it's going to be? Come on. I think I'm taking Gary and Gardner. Gardner loves facing the Mets. I don't know if that's true. I think could be making it up. Could be making that up. Let me see. I feel like Gardner has good numbers when he plays the Mets. He definitely does have a little bit of the New York. Like why why would you ever mention the Mets in the same newspaper as us? Yeah, he's a hard out. Yeah. You know the pitchers batting after Brett today. Lifetime versus the Mets 46 games 270 average 330 on base percentage 431 slugging 761 OPS. So not amazing. His lifetime stats to a T. Just Brett Gardner. It's exact stats. Cool pick, man. I'm going to go Didi. Okay, he's got a homerun versus the Mets last year and this year already. So that's maybe where the bias comes in. There you go. I'm going Didi lefty versus Wheeler. He got the homer in London, made all the great plays in London. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's the over under? What do you think the over under is James? My guess on this Paxton versus Wheeler in city field isn't city field, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think it's going to be set at nine and a half. 10. I change it to 10. Yanks offense is doing silly things. Yeah. The picture factor is tough. I'm going nine and a half. Okay. Stole my fucking number. See, nine or nine. All right. I'm going over just to let everyone know I'm currently 23 and 23 in the homer draft. So this is a huge huge. The over under. I'm going in the over under. I mean, I'm going over nine. Jake, you were going. You haven't gotten one right in your last three. Yeah. Better record on the season. I'm going. So stupid. Give me the under. No, give me the over. Give me the over. Oh my God. Yanks are averaging eight and a half runs per game in their last nine games. A little bit circus ball in London, but yeah. Even without circus ball, they were averaging like eight runs. Yeah, it's true. All right. We both got the over at nine turns of the chat. See what they got going on. Any questions in here? It's a lot of questions earlier. Brett for Frazier. Todd, do you want to trade Todd for do you want to trade Brett for Todd? Brett for Frazier then. DJ hits the homer. Some people taking the under. Who in your opinion has been the best start of the Yankees I've had in the past 10 years? It's got to be CeCe if you go 10 years. Yeah, CeCe. It's got to you mean like over the course of those 10 years or like who, what picture had the best season within the last 10 years. It's pretty hard either way. It's easy. Yeah. Yeah. They're not going to have a good year as first year. I feel like Corotor had a good year way back Corotor. Yeah. Corotor is great. Just didn't like playing baseball. No. Just feels like a job. I hope the Yankees don't get hit. Gary is due for homer on this side like that. It was a job, not a career for Corotor. Upstairs underneath the bed. Searching for something. I forgot his name didn't watch Yankees at the beginning of the season. I don't know what. Chin Ming Wang, Mrs. Chin Ming Wang. Yeah. Okay. See, there was some other y'all watch urinating tree. Was that y'all watch urinating tree? Question mark. I don't even know if I still know the question. I think it's do you guys. That's the y'all. Right. Watch urinating tree. Maybe this is a YouTube thing that we don't know about. Urinating. I don't think I currently I do not watch urinating tree. Oh, it's a YouTube channel. Okay. I'm guessing a sports one. Should we start watching urinating tree? Well, well, well, yeah, 272 subscribers. Good for urinating tree. So you want a bunch of cows? Yeah. So sorry. We looked, you know what urinating tree is? Oh, look, guess, guess that the urinating tree was oak. It's an oak tree. Good guess. Yeah. A lot of wood talk this this pregame show. I guess underneath the liquors. A lot of wood talk. People. Do a Yankees burn after this series. Jake burns every single Yankees game. Listen to talk in Yang's podcast and you will hear them. They're always pretty funny and pretty good. But someone stood on Instagram today, Jake. They're like, do this for every game. And I was like, whoa, he does them for every single game. Last two seasons out of the four professional sports. Baseball, basketball, Hawk. This guy wrote out of the four professional sports, base, basket, Hawk foot, but he wrote football. Good abbreviations. He knew he couldn't get away with foot. I appreciate how to go foot. You got to go base, basket, Hawk foot. If he goes foot, he knows he might lose us because when you asked if I was a Queens or a Brook or Queens or a Bronx guy, I went to Queens. If he left foot out there, that's too easy debate for us. Well, okay. There are only two days out of the whole year that these four sports aren't played before and after the All-Star game, trivia. Was he asking the question? I think he was giving a trivia question to the to the world and I answered it. So you read the trivia question and answered it within the same sentence. I knew the answer. You could have answered it if you were quicker. I didn't know it was a question. I still didn't know what we were leading up to. You're slow. Got to be faster than that. I thought you were still reading his whole statement. Yeah, out of the four professional sports, there are only two days out of the whole year that these fours aren't played. Anyone? I was the anyone that answered first. I'm faster than you. No, you. Okay. You were just over there playing with your buzzer like go and I already got the money buzzer. Yeah. Um, what do you think of Jason Dominguez? We talked all about that on Talking Yanks. If you're interested in that, um, we did talk about Tyler Skaggs and our radio show this morning as well. It's pretty sad stuff. Do you think the Mets will ever make the playoffs, Jake? Yes. What year? The Mets have pieces like not not to go Jakey video game GM, but like you can do a lot of things with this Mets team, but you have to rework it like you have to. Jake, question from Justice DeMore here who has tuned in to the Talking Yanks pregame show. Is it do we have a podcast? Is it, uh, what's your favorite baseball team? Ah, that's a classic pregame show question. Mm hmm. We lean Yanks lean Yanks. Yeah. Lean Yanks. All right. Fire the woolpence. We got to go record an episode of Talking Yanks and then the game is going to start soon. So thank you guys for tuning in. Appreciate it. Tom Davis leans with us. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. See you guys later.