Bret and Jeff Francoeur talk about how a shift in mindset has made the Mets a fun squad and a potentially dangerous playoff team.
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Cash the ticket with us. Follow Cash the ticket in the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's turn to the Mets. Tell me what you see with this Mets. I don't know what to make of this Mets team. I saw them early. I don't think there was any there's always high expectations in New York but I think from the baseball world the analysts I don't think anybody was thinking two months ago that the Mets were gonna be a factor all the all the sudden they found their way back into the playoff mix as of today. The third the third team in the wildcard if the season was over today the Mets are in. Yeah. What do you see you got Lindor's had a big comeback year people are talking about MVP. Once again I think in that in that in the National League I don't think that's gonna happen but he has had a great year Alonzo. With all the back and forth of the Lonzo he's still sitting there he's got 30 plus homers again even on a down year. He's a guy that you can count on for that. Look at that rotation. Peterson's been a big boon to that rotation. Severino's really with all his years in New York and the injuries and in and out you know on that I. L. E. Tommy John surgery. He's really been an anchor at the top of that rotation. Give me your thoughts Mets overall. Let me tell you this when David Stern's got hired there. I remember thinking of Stevie Cohen will get out of the way and let him run this team. Let him build this team. Boonie you know as well as I do New York. Don't care what the media says. Do not pay attention Stevie Cohen if if they're trying to say you got to sign this guy you need to get this guy. So I think that's number one. They put Carlos Mendoza in there who learned obviously was one of your brother's right hand man's for a long time and who's I think ready for this job. He knows what New York is he knows what's expected and so he's been kind of even killed the whole time but the number one thing I think they've done is they've given these guys a chance to play and by that I mean Mark Vientos has finally been able to show what he can do. Last year man you know as well as I do in this game if you're young that's why I got lucky when I was young I came up for Bobby Cox if I went over four with three strikeouts I was in the lineup the next day I didn't have to worry looking over my shoulder wondering shoot him I gonna play today am I gonna be on the bench. Vientos the last two years has gone up and down up and down. There's been no chance for him to build confidence and all of a sudden now you have Lindor Bat and Leadoff you got Nemo Bat and Second you got Vientos Jadie Martinez when you know he's been able to be healthy and be in there you have a lawns though you have this flow of a lineup now one thing I get so mad at baseball now is the matchups and what they do I know there's platoons in baseball it's it's natural with certain positions but when I see a lineup and I see a guy hitting third one day and I see him hitting eight the next day because of a variety lefty that's a warning sign to me you believe this guy can hit third one day but then you think he's the eighth hitter of the next day like that to me that can't happen and I think if you've looked what they've done now is they're putting Lindor their their face of the franchise out there to hit lead off look at what the Dodgers are doing with those tawny now Brian Lucunia and Alana like I remember Brian McCann in 19 when he came back to the Braves he we had this talk because we were talking about I thought I was like hey Akuna why would you not move him to third or fourth give him a chance to drive him more runs and Brian was like right away no way that other manager and that pitcher they know when they throw the first pitch of the game dude they're in for a long ride because of who's that in first and so I look at that and I'm like they put Lindor Leadoff his his energy now has been incredible and this meds team dude they're fun to watch you're believing and I think for the first time in a long time I played there in 2010 2009 2010 all they cared about was what the Yankees were doing what the newspaper said and for the first time I think this team actually could care less what the media thinks and I think the manager the way David Stern's away Stevie Cohen's going they're letting them just play baseball and I'll tell you what man this med team is fun to watch right now like they get in the playoffs they could make some noise their new skipper Mendoza and he was on he was on Aaron's staff I didn't know him from Adam Aaron said hey Brett Mendoza he's gonna be really good he's a really good signing you know for the Mets and I was in Cincinnati early in the season and doing an event there and I went I was there to throw out the first pitch and I was I was on the field before the game and Mendoza came over to me probably because him Aaron and his relationship yeah and I felt like I knew him my whole life booty what's going on and I'm going okay this is Mendoza I don't know if I met him before but I got and I had about a 10 minute conversation with him I was really impressed once again not to overuse the phrase but he had a way about him and I think having a way about you when you're the skipper man it's it's it's it's not a thing that everybody has and I think when you got it you run with it and you and you've probably got a good thing so I agree with you on the Mendoza I think he's been a real plus for that organization
