00:00and that breaking news is the fact uh that the new york mets have fired their manager uh mendoza
00:06uh carlos mendoza uh is out andy green takes over as you see right there he was a manager
00:13previously in major league baseball uh he'll be the interim manager now for the rest of the season
00:19not the guy i would have picked we'll get that in a second but this is kind of like i
00:24don't know
00:24throwing the band leader off the titanic because the titanic is sinking uh if you're look i there's
00:31a couple aspects this number one it's long overdue he should have been fired around the same time that
00:36the phillies fired uh rob thompson for don mattingly because things got out of control very very quickly
00:43that being said i know a lot of people are yelling and screaming today well it's great they did it
00:49but
00:49they should have did it two months ago well they didn't do it two months ago it had to happen
00:54so
00:55you had a choice here you could have done it today which they did you could have waited till the
01:00all
01:00star break when you have the natural lull which is when a lot of teams make decisions like that
01:05or in theory you could have let them just be beaten down every day for the next three and a
01:11half months
01:12and be uh the the whipping boy for lack of a better term for the new york met franchise i
01:18will give
01:18steve cohen the owner of the mets credit for this they didn't do the latter they recognized that
01:25they were not going to pick up his option for next year they clearly had already decided that
01:30so if you know for a fact you're not bringing him back next year and this thing has gotten
01:35completely off the rails to level being embarrassing are you a good enough guy to put the manager out of
01:43his misery because say what you want about carlos mendoza who obviously uh is a failed manager now
01:49although he leaves new york with a winning record and did go to an nlcs with them two years ago
01:55he was
01:56not coming back it did not work so are you going to make that guy just take the slings and
02:04arrows
02:04every single day of a failed season or do you do the right thing which is you know put the
02:12uh put
02:12him out of his misery like if you come across a deer that you accidentally hit with your car
02:18in the middle of the road but the deer is still alive if you call 9-1-1 what the
02:25police do by rule
02:26is two bullets in the back of the head they put the deer out of its misery that's what the
02:32mets did
02:33and i know i'm going to be alone on an island on this it was the respectful thing to do
02:38to carlos
02:39mendoza no you're absolutely right about that at this point it was over and it was almost cruel to
02:45him because we know it's not his fault but you had to make the chase they should have made it
02:50sooner
02:50but it's better to do it late than never and if you respect the guy at all you put him
02:55out of his
02:56misery because knowing you're good you just can't do it you can't do that for an extended period of time
03:00with a manager like that and it's actually a good step for the mets i don't know if the previous
03:05ownership would have done it this well well listen it's the right thing to do uh the season is a
03:11wrap
03:11they're acknowledging now that the season's over obviously uh the next guy that all the attention
03:17is now going to be unrightfully so is david stearns their general manager uh my gut is the reason they
03:24also didn't fire mendoza earlier this year is because he like a lot of these failed projects
03:30with the mets was a david stearns hire that was a guy that the gm who's now in his fourth
03:37year or going
03:38into his fourth year uh wanted to hire as a manager so i look it's it's convoluted it's messy here's
03:45all
03:45you need to know the new york mets suck right i mean that's it like the new york mets are
03:52a bad
03:52baseball team no joke in five games against the cubs and the phillies prior to last night's game
03:58which they also lost and they got swept for the season by the cubs the new york mets let up
04:0350 runs
04:04in five consecutive games combined that's absurd and i say that because put that into context of what a
04:12normal baseball game looks like it tells you that the new york mets are non-competitive specifically
04:18from a pitching standpoint and they don't have the bats in that lineup to come back and win games and
04:25you get the feeling when you watch the mets that as soon as they're down one nothing it's a wrap
04:31that's the feeling you get i'm sure even teams like that in philadelphia where you know the offense is
04:36kind of brutal and you know every single pitcher is like man if i give up a single run we're
04:42gonna lose
04:42the game that's what the mets feel like right now last night they lose an extra innings they've now
04:47lost six consecutive games they're 13 games under 500 and this season is officially over now so mendoza
04:56is the final now in the 2026 mets coffin
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