Hour 4 – Pete Alonso Owns the New York Mets

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5:09There they. As bad as this season has been for the Mets, this is absolute rock bottom. Really? This is absolute rock bottom. There's no more embarrassing moment than the last two days where Peter Lonzo has come back to New York, gotten a heroes welcome, gotten fans to root for him over the Mets and gave him a curtain call when he had a home run in the 9th inning to tie the game. All right. That's unbelievably embarrassing. That's fandom. That's love. That's embarrassing. We should all hope that one person stands up in cheers and loves us that much in our life. Let alone a stadium full of New Yorkers. Dude, nobody does that anywhere. Nobody roots that openly for the other team to actually beat the team. You came to root for because they're not rooting for the team. They're rooting for that guy. You're right. But you're rooting for that guy. You're rooting for the other team.

6:09You're rooting for Pete Alonzo. Right? You're rooting for him. That's yeah. And he hit the home run and he got a standing ovation and he got a curtain call. And it was an incredible moment because it was his 300th home run in Major League baseball. He throws the bat further than he threw the bat when he hit the home run off at Devon Williams against the brewers of the playoffs two years ago. Like this is absolute rock bottom. It's the most embarrassing moment because you have a home team fan base that came to a game to root for a guy on the other team. Not to watch the game to see to root for a guy on the other team and when he beats you or ties a game that you went into extra endings and he wanted to beating you. Yeah, we're cheering for him and we're giving him a curtain call. They still wanted your team to win the game. That's so embarrassing. No, they don't go. But they don't go. Yes, you don't go there and root for two things. I want to launch it home run and I want the meds to win. Like, come on, man. You saw like a little kid when you say something like that. I want to win, but I want him to do well. And I want to know he said, well, come on, man. In the end of rooting for baseball for a player for a team.

7:10That's great. I got no financial investment. It's like when you're saying, well, I'm hoping Tom Brady throws for four touchdowns against the Jets, but I'm hoping the Jets win the game. Like, I mean, come on, man. Am I going to bench him because he's playing my team? No, if I drafted him, right. But if I drafted him, I'll say, hey, I really hope he sucks and I lose this week's match. But you know, I just said, okay, whatever's going to happen is going to happen, right? But like, I want my team to win, right? And it's not happening. You're a mess. I mean, look, all the good vibes. The meds have, look, second best record. Good vibes. Because that second best record in Bayesville. You're going to hang that banner on. Right? Oh, 100% they're hanging that banner. 100% right next to the mix. Hey, we played near when the nix one in 2026 Jets one and one and oh. What an oh, nix one, the title. Like, this is embarrassing, man. It's absolutely, I get giving him an ovation when he comes to bat. I understand. You know, he hits a long foul near home run. Oh, okay. All right. You got to get it out.

8:10You got to, you want to make sure that, hey, we miss Peter Lonzo. And this season has been such so abysmal and losing a Lonzo is what stands for the season. Okay. But the guy it's a home run to tie the game in the ninth inning off your closer, right? And, and, and still it's not. Oh, Peter Lonzo, it's well, not only am I going to cheer for him over our team, but I'm going to give him a curtain call. Like that. Peter Lonzo is going to finish the end of his career and he's going to be getting ready to go to the hall of fame. They're going to say, what were your greatest moments? Well, the home run against the brewers and man, that three game set against the match when I hit the 300th home run. And boy, they were all cheering for me and they were booing, chit and fire David Sterns. Like, this is the greatest moment of his life and it's so embarrassing for the meds. And then to lose not only that, a Lonzo hits the home run to tie the game. Then in the tenth inning, he makes a sparkling defensive play to help save the game, which what was the reason the meds were moving on from Peter Lonzo? Can't play defense. And defensively, right? Makes a great play in the hole, grabbing a ball, makes a good throw to first base.

9:12And if that doesn't happen, the meds wind up winning the game, right? And then in the, in the 11th inning, he has a chance to win the game. He strikes out. Okay. Well, the meds did it. They got him struck it out. Okay, two outs, two on. Maybe they'll win the game in the bottom. Nope. Nope, because our center fielder is playing two shallow, H.A. Ewing, a ball that goes to the middle of the warning track, bounces off his glove and becomes an inside the park home run. Yeah. Like that. You did score a run at the bottom of the frame. You, you were starting a rally. Bottom rock. But this is the most embarrassing moment for any team in Major League. I'm saying a lot. And that's a lot, man. That's a lot. And then that's lost 12 games in a row earlier this year. It doesn't get more embarrassing than we think you screwed up so bad that we're coming to a game now to root against the team and to root for an individual. And when he does something like tie a game or win a game, we're going to go crazier and be happy for it and want to give him an ovation and give a standing ovation. That doesn't happen. That's a respect to the guy. Look, that's the purest sports.

10:12The rest of it is when they announce his name up for the first time. You give him a standing ovation. They did it last night. Great. You want to do it tonight. It's new fans. Great. They announced people on the coming up for the first time. Give him a standing ovation. Tips his hat to the crowd. I get it. He meant a lot to the franchise. Name on the front of the jersey. Always more important. The name on the back. Nobody else is getting an ovation. And then the fans are rooting for them against the team you're playing against. Nobody. Nobody. Tell me where that's happened. Tell me. Tell me. What is this hurt you so? Because it's so embarrassing that we're turning on the team that we were doing. You're not turning on the team. They're rooting for the guy that went away. You're cheering him. Yes. And he saw it. When he hit a home run. He's cheering them. That you wound up winning. And they gave him a standing ovation. And they gave him a curtain call. Rightfully so. That is the love of a guy that hit 264 home runs in your uniform. That you had an investment in that you wanted to keep. And he came back. So you celebrated him and you were able to show him that love. Jason, are you not entertained?

11:13Okay. When LeBron James comes back to play the Lakers, what are they going to do if LeBron James is dunking and running up and down? Absolutely. Tomatoes to the face. Right. Okay. All right. Well, I don't want you woke up and chose anger. You woke up in the face. Okay. They're not going crazy for LeBron James and yelling triple, double, triple, double, five or polinka. That's not happened. Well, they've been looking to get rid of LeBron for several years. There's a much different thing. Everybody loved Pete Alonzo. LeBron James. I could flip a phone. One of titles. That's a long time ago. Nobody took. Nobody took. No one gives him any credit for that title. The other thing is for the last several years they've been trying to move on from the LeBron James. I can walk down and I can find a hundred Laker fans. And if I get anywhere near a 50-50 split, I'd be shocked in terms of the love versus I'm glad he's gone. Pete Alonzo, virtually every, I think we might find one outlier just to be a contrarian wanted Pete Alonzo in another uniform this year. We've had time to get used to it. He's been on another team again. But it's the home cup.

12:13This is the first time. I'm the competition. I get it right. Honor the guy because of what he meant for the organization. That's awesome. But to openly root for your team to lose because his doing well is your team losing. You know, there's not like I want Pete Alonzo to hit home run but not count on the scoreboard. That doesn't happen. There's no such thing. But that was just a tie. I'd be okay with that. I used to have the opportunity to win that game. You were winning the game. And now the decision to pitch to him is even stupid. He's an angel wanted in revenge for getting him hurt. That high throw that guy heard. He wanted because he wanted to strike him out. And then he'd be like, I'm are you not entertained? I am your God. Again, why this is rock bottom for the meds because with one out in the ninth inning Alonzo was up. Why would you pitch to the guy? You know, he wants nothing more. He's trying home run or nothing. He wants nothing more than to absolutely crush you. Why would you give him the opportunity? I'm with you. Why would you put him on him? You're out of your head. You're out of your head. You want to run at the plea if you if you if you the go ahead, right?

13:15If you want to go, if you want to go, if you want to go, if you want to go, if you want to go, if you want to go, and a guy at a home run. Okay. It's a it's a loss in a season where your 12 games under 500 nobody cares. But you give up that home run to Alonzo and look at the highlight. This has become look at what this has become now for not yet. Look at the highlight. This has become this stands for all the failures of this season. What do you think Ron Darling and Keith are in this road? They're no books. Oh my god. I showed you that video. What do you think they wrote? Mornings at my house are impossible. Two kids can't find their shoes and the sink starts leaking. So I post my tasks on AirTasker. Soon, the sink's fixed and a Tasker installs a robot litter box. My cat hates. Go to airtasker.com or download the app.

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18:23Have to quit and leave now. They were probably drawing a bullet bag. They have to leave now. Do you think if Sam Darnold comes back to play in Minnesota that the fans are going to go crazy and be excited? And when he throws a touchdown, they're going to go, Sam throw me the football. They're going to run in the field again. They're going to hold up JJ McCarthy's bad heads and say, this is the guy you. That's not going to happen. This is the choice you made. Nobody does that. It's out of control and it's embarrassing. Like I got fans like I thought that's why it's special. Okay, it's not special. It's special bad. Special bad is not special. Special bad is not special. Okay, when I think back to like when I was younger, I had a, you know, a big night out celebrating a big night. But if I had too much flashmonds one night and I wound up getting sick or I had too much black sand bokeh and wind up throwing up and looking like I had the plague. Uh, I'm not looking back at the night and going, oh, that was special. No, that's a bad night. No, it might have been a great night. That just ended badly. I did. I really felt like I had the plague. Oh my God. I'm throwing up on its black. Oh my God.

19:24That's how drunk you were that you didn't remember. What did I ingest? What's going on in me now? This is all poison. It was dancing with toilet paper around my head. That was terrible. So it was a great night until it wasn't. This is as bad as it gets. This is as bad because you know what that's saying? You have to, I know. And you know what that's it? You figure it when you get to rock bottom. No, no, we're going to show you that we can keep digging. We can't just let those guys. They got the ball back to him. That guy in the Carlos Delgado jersey. Three guys get the home run ball back to Peter Lonzo. Three guys catch it and they bring it back to him after the game. And he is signing bats. He's signing gloves. He's signing babies. What are you guys want? He's so happy. Take this. Take this. Take this. I'm getting the three because it's not a, that's a ball that is it worth money. Yeah. Is it worth a few grand? Yeah. But for these guys to give it back and get that kind of stuff, that's kind of worth it. It's more for the the blank you part of it. Oh, of course, that's why I like it a lot.

20:25You're going to have that over the threshold in his house when he goes in. But he went back into the back. It's brought out bats for each of these like, what do you want me to describe on it? Don't be shy. He's going to like whatever you want guys. Come on. He's going to wear that thing around his neck like a medallion. It's going to he's going to drill a like a flavor of flavor. This is the block. I hit my 300 home run against the Metz. Like now, Alonzo has won the war like this is the best two day span of his MLB career because revenge and getting even is so delicious. And he is now feel like I've won my war against this entire franchise. Again, Steve Cohen, David Sterns, all of it. And I've turned the fans against the team. They're chanting fire. Sterns, it's bad, man. And I've done that. I don't know. I might retire if I was along super villain. It's never going to get me better than it is right now for him. Because remember when it's all said and done, the Orioles are going to be right where the Metz are last place watching the playoff. So let's get that. There are a couple games out now. I'll have to face Mr. Rowsky on Sunday. But that's one game you're not winning.

21:28They're going to be sitting. They're going to be sitting, you know, they're going to be sitting out of the playoffs too. But but like he's won his war and it's so it's so embarrassing. No, no one's leaving the Yankees and coming back and going, oh, when Wansoto came back the day the day go crazy for Wansoto, they want Wansoto to hit home runs. No, Wansoto left. He went to the Metz. Okay, no, they're not saying all the Wansoto so great. Hey, we want to give him a standing ovation and a curtain call out of the day. That's not happening. No teams. Is that happened for us? Does not happen except for the Metz, which is so totally blank. Did you see the big transaction the night? No, ownership of the Metz went from Todd Nieman. Peter Lanzel saw that through the wire. Is that on Wikipedia? Is that the wire? Just getting through the New York Metz now owned by Peter Lanzel? Yes, they are. Sure. 100% yeah. It's bad. It's bad. Man, it's bad. It's all bad. I thought it would be okay after last night, but it's bad. It's like when Schwarzenegger says in true lies when Jamie Lee Curtis got the truth. She and Jamie Lee Curtis says, did you kill anybody? He goes, yes, but they were all bad.

22:30Like that. That's how bad. Yes, how bad was tonight? Yes, it was all bad. It was all bad tonight. We tried to warn you, Jason Mike. Me, everybody, Alex before the season started out. This was going to go. I'm showing them the tops now, card they made from yesterday's game. That's awesome. Welcome back with these. Tiffin is cap and everything tomorrow will be the autograph version of the unsigned. Coming. I saw that. That's going to the Hall of Famer. Are you kidding? It's still flying. That's good. They're going to put that right when you walk in. You can you're going to get to hold the bat and take a swing and recreate a home run with it. Hey, it's golf. I get to swing the bat and do it. It's great. That's pretty good. It's so embarrassing. No, come on. It is. Trust me. It is. People are happy. It is. They had a moment in the end. The Jets are 1 and 0 and the next one the title. This is first the Mets to reexamine. The way they look at their business. Let's give to reexgoobl 700 million dollars. This is how we buy ourselves out of it. Who's next? Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith show with Mike Harman weekdays at 10 p.m.

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28:41That's just stupid. Whether that was Andy Green's decision or Kodai saying is whatever is that's just stupid. I mean, I mean, I could have managed a team and said and I don't know what it kept us from this from this embarrassing story tonight. Hey, let's walk along. Why not just drill them while you're at the Lonzo. No, I don't choose violence. I just choose the alternate path. That's me. Hold up four fingers, send him down to first. Let's go after the guy that go. Let's go after the guy that if he hits one out, then we were down. But you want to talk about something stupid. I'm glad that I feel like today is the end of the Steve Sarkiesian, Holly Row, Archmaning controversy because the whole thing is stupid and it was entirely avoidable. So to go back to the beginning of this to get to where we're at today, because today, Archmaning apologized for laughing at the AI video that was put out yesterday of Steve Sarkiesian, smacking Holly Row, not a real video, obviously an AI creation.

29:44Everybody's laughing at the press conference really did not did was not something that you heard well when you said it was like, Oh, man, that real, I don't know that I would have said that. I don't know that I would have put fun that way. But the whole thing is this whole thing is stupid. And the reason stupid is because all you got to do to stop this from happening is be a pro, right? For Steve Sarkiesian, the interview with Holly Row at the end of the game, in which he yelled a couple of things, yelled, hook him horns and left and Holly Row, rolls a rise and goes off camera to go back to the beginning. Apparently, Sark was unhappy because at half time of the game, the ESPN was going to interview him, but there were some sort of technical difficulties. He waited around a while and left. So he's cooking on this for a little bit. Now at the end, ESPN wants to interview him on the field and he decides to do that. Be a pro, right? That's a Sarkiesian be a pro. ESPN doesn't hate you. They didn't do this because they want to see you lose. They didn't do this because hey, we want to keep them from the from the locker room. They don't do that because if someone picks against you on college game day,

30:47someone puts a head gear on the other team doesn't mean they hate you. They're picking a football game. And Steve Sarkiesian, who was what for every reason he was mad at ESPN, decided to do that. You know what? You've been in that situation plenty of times before. You've won big games. You talked to a reporter for a few seconds. You know, he's been not doing anything against you. And then you go. Holly Row was going to ask you, what did you tell your guys at half time? What do you think of Archmaning and the second half? And then you're done and you're going to hook him horns and go. But instead he chose I'm going to be bitter and upset. And I'm going to let my emotions get the better me again. Be a pro. He could have been a pro. Holly Row, be a pro. You've been in that situation plenty of times. You get paid for situations like that. You the easy part is asking Steve Sarkiesian at the end of the game. What'd you tell your team at half time? What'd you see from from Archmaning and the second half? That's the easy stuff. You get paid for when stuff goes sideways like this. How do you do it? You are a veteran reporter. You've been doing it for a long time, doing it really well for a long time. You this is where there are many things you could have done. Okay.

31:47Well, okay. Well, we lost Steve or Steve decided to leave. All right. But instead I'm rolling my eyes and walking away from the camera. You didn't look great either. You should have been a pro, right? But if both sides were pros, we don't have this. If someone had told Archmaning, Archmaning understands. Hey, when they bring up the AI video of your coach hitting, hitting Holly Row, laughing about it and talking about not a great optic man, not a great optic. Now I'm glad you apologize and maybe I don't know what was in Archmaning's mind when he's when he's talking about this. Yes, we're going to hear the audio in a second. But maybe it's the over the top of the AI. But get that, oh, hey, you're talking about a video of a guy hitting a woman. Even though it's an AI creation, everybody's laughing about it. That's not a great optic and anything that glorifies that, you know how that's going to be. So all of this was avoidable. Like there's all of this was self inflicted. Sark, Holly Row and Archmaning, keeping that thing going. Where it would have just died and moved on and that's it.

32:49Hey, just see that video. Yeah, I'm not talking about that. Or someone needs to tell Archmaning who's, you know, when you're 20 years old. Hey, you're going to ask about this video. Don't comment on it, right? Because I know as a public relations person, I know how this is my job. This is my job to tell you this is how it's going to play. Don't say anything. And then as soon as it came out, you knew he was going to have to apologize and he put out an apology today. I'd evidently talk with Holly Row over it and everything. But you know, from our larger. What we govern sports, how many of these cases do we have? We have this Josh Jacob story of, you know, stuff getting sealed and he's on the exemplarist. It goes under the rate under the radar for the most part and a number of those cases. And then this, you know, is front and center. So it's it's pervasive. And obviously when we look at, you know, the history here, the NFL, college football, et cetera, it's, it's not a place that's, that's been, I guess,

33:50it doesn't sit well, right? This is just the next chapter of it. And you've got a woman in Holly Row that's been part of that college football world for many years. And like you said, on the Saturday side, she didn't handle it well. So our didn't handle it well. What I thought that was the end of it. And then here we are 72 hours later, well, 48 hours plus still going. And with this, you know, your PR people, all those that are on staff. Media training, he's also a quarterback where normally you don't get much from quarterbacks. So that was the other side. It's like, all right, he leaned into it. The people assemble leaned into it. So just very, very difficult moment for college sports as you're still celebrating the start of a new year, start of a big, you know, a huge win, a comeback win, top five win and you're embroiled in controversy instead of this. And the thing is like for Sarkisian, like this is not the first time we've seen them

34:50be salty on the field when something has happened. You have to be able, when you're in a position like this, you got to be able to control your emotions a little bit. As a head coach, you got to control your emotions. You get down to the kids, you expect some kids, hey, when you're 20, 21, 22, hey, kids are going to make mistakes. I remember knucklehead things I did when I was 21, 22 years old, maybe involving a mailbox, maybe not. But I remember, okay, but when you're a head coach, right? Like, okay, you got to show, you got to set an example. You got to show, okay, I'm the coach. I'm not just some guy who, yeah, I'm really 25 years old and I'm at a kegger. And I'm right now, you got to understand that, okay, you're representing the universe, you're representing everything that goes along with Texas football. And there is a thing for that. You know, you're representing the manning family representing the number one overall pick. I think it's a big thing. And for Sarkisian, I'm just going to choose this, this Maverick cowboy way. Like, I'm just going to do this. Yeah, Pokemon, I'm leaving. Like, dude, come on, man. Like, like, I get that we're celebrating the villainist, the villainous people in college,

35:54ball now, but like this is a way where again, being a professional sometimes can go a really long. What's up with it? It's always the, what's the rest of the story, right? Because at half time, Holly Row interviewed Ryan Day. Maybe she asked an extra question. It's like, all right, come on. I got to get back to the locker room because because you saw the ESPN camera stayed with it. And right, yes, BN ABC. It's like, up there, Sark going up to the locker room and they had tried to have fun with it. Yeah, right? Okay, fine. And then they come back and like, well, we tried to keep Sark, but he had to go. And then in the post game, maybe, maybe he was still chappy about that. I'm sure he was. I'm sure he was done. You kept me there now, but I'll understand last. I got like, but how long was he standing there that point? You know that ESPN is not doing this to you to make you look bad or to stop you. Hey, he's not going to be able to talk to his team in the locker room at half time. This is going to be awesome because I got money on a high estate on Cal sheet. Like, I mean, that's not happening. No, but it's not a rational moment, particularly a half time one, right?

36:56Of, hey, you're getting your ass kicked and so you're salty and not you're standing here because you're going to sit over there. That escalated quickly, Sark. Sark, what do you think about that? Right, but that's the half time interview. It's like, boy, really tough, difficult to have. How do you turn things around? Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith show with Mike Harman weekdays at 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Pacific. What's he? Well, we got to work harder. We got to be cleaner with it. Yeah, what are my learning from that? Go, but that's why it's easy because you know you're not getting any, you're not getting any really hard questions. Hey, what happened in the first half? Well, we got to tackle better. We got to care of the football. We got to run the football better. Okay, see you later. Okay, same things, same thing. Now I kind of understand why we had that rash a couple of years ago with reporters saying, I just make stuff up. No, but exactly. I just like that, but that's the end game. It's like, boy, tell the two halves, hey, coach. I mean, that's it. I mean, that's what it comes down to the the archmaning stuff like that. That's just a whole other level of discomfort, but it all starts with two folks that couldn't get out of the road away.

38:03Yeah, I mean, let that's what that's why the parts that all of this was I get it if it wasn't avoidable. If something happened, forcing an action and a reaction, I get it. But this was something that Sark decided to do. Holly wrote decided to do archmaning wasn't thinking like all this stuff like, wow, this is really just guys just did this to yourselves. Like you took away from this great moment. This is the biggest win Texas has had in years like this big because it was it wasn't to look. They've been to the playoff and they've won. They've nearly got to the national championship before all big wins. But this is a vending the loss to Ohio State. This is the biggest win for Sarkisian. Now the biggest win for archmaning, the biggest comeback we have seen against the number one team in the country. All of this and what was the story after Sarkin Holly wrote Sarkin Holly wrote we didn't do this right. All the other stuff is going by the wayside now and it's gone. And like if you're if you're Texas like boy, we're going to like some focus on the get yeah. Yeah, you would like some more focus on the game. Sure. Yeah, your number one to number one team in the country. That's great. That's awesome.

39:04Yeah, the bad decision by Ryan Dave, the miss field goal, all of those things Ryan day is like, oh man. People aren't getting mad at me. So I'm okay. No, no, we did a bit earlier tonight. Check out the podcast where it goes up a little bit. They are getting later on. No question. But you know what? This this whole thing has made me come closer to agree with the guy that thinks AI is going to end us all. I mean, the there's thing to be honest, right? When the archmaning thing happened yesterday and this is what this is what's made this is what I feel like. I'm a college football coach like, oh, this era of NIL and constant recruiting. I'm going to retire. You're going full dabble. I'm waiting like like when the archmaning thing happened yesterday. Here's archmaning's reaction to the Holly Row Steve Sarkies and AI video. And I see him and he actually says, you know, when he hits Holly Row, right? Play the play Tysher Tysher. Play the archmaning video. Play the archmaning audio. You AI and it's stuff, but that's that's about it. I saw AI at a Sarge interview.

40:05I'll see you now. How's it going? Wow. I'm slapping Holly Row. It's hilarious. Yeah, not not great, man. Not great. But when that happened, I said to myself, now is that real? Like is that real? Did archmaning really do that? And I guess this shows you that boy that that archmaning really did something the bad in that when you say, oh, this can't be real. This is AI, right? I didn't know. I said, it seems real and it seems, but it's simply and it was and I a fraud. I said, Frostburg, this is real, right? There's a lot of that. You know, Yahoo picked it up. And I said, okay, when Yahoo picked it up, then I knew it was real. But this stuff that comes out and you got people with check marks and here's some website that you never heard of. Here it is from, you know, horns aplenty or whatever the website is. Here's an I go. I don't know is this real. So I got to wait and see if this is documented as this actually happened. And then Yahoo, I said to Frostburg, he goes, hang on. Let me look and Frostburg says, okay, I got it here. I said, okay, I got it here for Yahoo.

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