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Ty Butler in for the boys. We're going till 7:30 tonight. How about that? 800-919-3776. I'm on Twitter. Hit me at Ty D. Butler Instagram as well. We got the Yankees back in action tonight at home against a familiar foe, the Houston Astros and the Mets on the road in Milwaukee. I don't think so. I heard it. I, I saw this take moving around on, on social media. I think it might have been, I can't remember who it was, but it was someone@fan, met fan who said like why would you be panicking right now? Met fans are like just ridiculous to be panicking. And my rebuttal to that would be, my man, it's August 8th. It's August 8th and your team has lost eight of nine games. So if you're not panicking now, when would you be panicking? And I understand it's like Aaron Boone would say it's right there in front of them because it's not like Philadelphia is running away with the division. But to have a team this talented with all that money you spent and I said at the start of the season, if it's not championship or bust because of the Soto acquisition, you damn sure better get back to the nlcs. And all year long we've talked about how brutal the National League is. So for the Mets at this point of the season to be struggling this mightily, I would absolutely be panicked. Now I guess like the what works against that and to provide a counterpoint to what I just said is, you know, you had the talent to get it done. Like all we need if we're the Mets is to have the guys who have spent the entirety of their career doing what they did, just have that happen. And I'm talking about Alonzo Lindor and Soto just be forces offensively. They have other flaws. You still need length out of your starters. But you know, come playoff time you don't ask for your starters to give you six or seven. You can mix and match. You're not playing on back to back days. So it's a little bit of a different situation. But that offense to me remains the biggest question mark, and it is why I would absolutely be panicking. But I have made the mistake. You know, just three weeks ago, I said, ah, nothing to worry about. Lindor, Soto, Alonzo, they'll hit. It's August 8th and this offense is a mess. All year long, they've struggled with runners in scoring position. So I would understand if a Met fan right now is panicking, because this team, you watch them and something's missing. You don't watch the Mets and think, yeah, I'm watching one that could win the World Series on the Yankees. Here's the deal. It's on the table. They missed the playoffs. They're a game ahead of the Guardians for that third wild card. And someone said something interesting earlier. It was a caller. How dare I not say his name? He said something interesting and I completely agree with it. So the Yankees are not strangers to having bad second halves. Like, we've seen them get out to a hot first half of the season and then just get pummeled in the second half or be hovering around mediocrity. The difference this year is the other teams in the American League east have been able to take advantage of it. Toronto, now up to 20 games over.500. The Red Sox, despite trading Rafael destroyed, they've surpassed you. So the Yankees aren't able to get away with the crime that they've gotten away with the past couple years. And that is be close to, at best, be mediocre in the second half and still run away with your division because those other teams have gotten better. It's on the table. They missed the playoffs, and if they missed the playoffs, there's got to be some type of change that happens. And I'm not talking about getting rid of a hitting coach or getting rid of a bench coach or a pitching coach. We have to see something significant happen. I don't care that they got to the World Series last year. Part of that, by the way, feels a bit fluky with what we're seeing this team look like now. You beat the Guardians, you beat the Royals. Congratulations. And again, it's an accomplishment to get to the World Series. The problem is, once you got there, you got embarrassed by the Dodgers, you got embarrassed. And I don't want to hear about run differential and batting average. They embarrassed you. The fewest amount of games you can play in a series is four. You played five. And in that game, five at home, it was one of the most pathetic showings. We've seen ever in a game of that magnitude. That's embarrassing. So if for the second time in three years they missed the playoffs, yeah, I think there should be some type of a consequence. There absolutely should be some type of a consequence. And it shouldn't be. Well, getting to the World Series last year clinched the fate of these guys returning for years to come. That shouldn't be the case. And this, this, this to me isn't some overreaction. It's a product of having watched the sloppiness, the poor fundamentals. And it's not like how's not spending a ton on this roster. So if we go back the last four years, we go back. Actually, we go back the last five years and we say, all right, bounced in the wild card round, so didn't win a playoff game. Swept in a championship series by the Astro, missed the playoffs, lost the World Series in five games, then missed the playoffs again. You're going to meet. You mean to tell me like I'm overreacting by saying there should be some type of a change up top? Of course not. Because what you're doing is wasting the prime of a guy who everyone recognizes is the best player in baseball, and that's Aaron Judge, who I think once again is going to win an mvp. You're wasting his prime. You're wasting the prime of Garrett Cole, who's out for the year. And it's not like you can look at injuries as some type of an excuse because, you know, the Yankees love them. Some injury excuse. I had to hear people in 2022, I could not believe this. They got swept by the Astros in 2022. And I heard folks saying, you know what? They badly missed Matt Carpenter. Matt Carpenter, who, prior to that year, many of us had never knew existed. That was the excuse, man. What can you expect? Matt Carpenter badly missed his bat. Come on, now. So this is an organization that not too long ago prided itself on winning championships, now prides itself on making excuses on why they don't win championships. It is at the point where frustration doesn't even begin to explain it.