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far as Sunday's concern, can

1:03

we start with the greatness of Jose Buto? My

1:07

man, Big Buto. I love

1:09

Big Butos and I cannot lie. And

1:11

by the way, I get no credit for that because you know who wrote? I

1:14

love Big Buto and I cannot lie, Pete. You know who

1:16

said that first? Not me. So

1:19

you said wrote. So I'm assuming that means

1:21

it's either a tweet or an email. I'm

1:24

going to say it's a tweet and it's from... No.

1:27

Morash. It is not a

1:29

tweet from Morash. It's not a tweet from anybody. At

1:31

least not that I saw him. Maybe someone else did

1:33

it. And it's not an email. It's

1:36

the City Field scoreboard. Come

1:41

on, man. That's a good job. That's

1:44

good. That's the City Field scoreboard.

1:47

When they threw that up,

1:49

were the dancers on there as well or no? The best

1:51

dancers? I want to

1:53

say this about the dancers because before the game on

1:55

Sunday, I went to Sunday's game. Obviously,

1:58

Doc Gooden Retirement Ceremony. Doc

2:00

coming up in a few minutes. I ran into

2:02

Frank the Tank and I do

2:04

want to say this about Frank the Tank I know

2:06

that there are some listeners to the Rico who do

2:08

not like him I know there are

2:11

some listeners to the Rico that love him Frank

2:13

the Tank and I said this to anybody who asks

2:15

me is who he is The

2:18

idea that he's fake the idea that he's a

2:21

fraud the idea that he's you know acting that

2:23

way to get attention I'm telling it's not true.

2:25

Like he literally is you want to say he's

2:27

too negative of a fan. Yes He's a negative

2:29

fan, but that's who he is. So I

2:32

like Frank because I think he is genuine. So

2:34

I ran into Frank the Tank and He

2:37

says to me said we talked about a few things.

2:39

But one of the things that was bothering him were

2:41

those dances And

2:45

I said to Frank when I'll tell you guys now The

2:49

game I went to on Sunday was my

2:51

fourth game of the season. So

2:53

they have now played nine home games I've been to

2:55

four of them. So I'm at about a 50% pace

2:57

a little bit underneath that I

2:59

have not noticed that Like it's

3:01

not even something whether it's my

3:04

fault for not paying attention that I'm too

3:06

focused on the game or scoring it or whatever

3:09

I have not noticed their existence other

3:11

than briefly on opening day So

3:14

it's not something I hate Because

3:17

I don't notice it That's

3:19

I'm being dead honest about this. Do they not I

3:21

picked on who they not do they not announce it?

3:23

Like let me put this way. I

3:25

went to three I went to that entire Toronto

3:27

Blue Jays series at Yankee Stadium

3:29

because my son's been Yankee fan they all wanted

3:32

to go whatever cases I Noticed

3:35

every single like thing they did

3:37

every single day like every inning

3:39

they did the same thing It

3:41

was on repeat like did

3:43

they not put it on notice on blast it like

3:45

hey, by the way Met city dancers

3:48

coming up like they didn't even They

3:50

all acknowledge it. I think they did. I

3:52

just don't think I noticed it Like I'm not

3:54

listening to everything that's put on the scoreboard now

3:57

I know that there's a lot of in-game

3:59

entertainment So they'll play the

4:01

hat game, you know, they'll put the thing under the

4:03

hat and everybody'll guess. They'll have everybody

4:05

vote on what song is going to be

4:07

the sing-along song in the eighth inning. They

4:10

have a segment where a kid usually runs

4:12

from third base to left field to replace

4:14

the third base bag. Like there's a lot

4:16

of things I do notice, so I'm not

4:18

completely oblivious. I think they mention it, I

4:21

just don't think it garners my

4:23

attention for whatever reason. It just doesn't, it's

4:25

not, and by the way, I think that's a compliment.

4:27

I think that means that it's not, you know,

4:30

blaring in my ear and so

4:32

over the top that it's annoying me. It doesn't mean

4:34

anything to me. Like my experience at City

4:36

Field feels very similar to the way it's been over

4:38

the last couple years, other than the fact that they

4:40

took a a gate away from us, those

4:43

who sit in my section. By

4:45

the way, I've had a lot of season-taking-olders come up to

4:47

me when I see them at games

4:49

and say, can you believe they took the Hodges away? I'm

4:52

like, yeah, no, I know it sucks. Trust me, I

4:55

agree. It sucks. What can you do? They're

4:57

charging you more money and they're

4:59

giving you less features, which is always a

5:01

very, very tough sell. But

5:04

as far as Sunday's game was concerned, obviously

5:07

we had the dock retirement ceremony, which I'll

5:09

get to after we talk about the game

5:11

and everything else from this weekend. But

5:13

what jumped out at me and really has to

5:15

excite you, if you're a Met fan, this has

5:17

to excite you, is Jose Budo.

5:21

And the reason why we now have

5:23

to start to get a little like, oh, maybe

5:26

we got something here, is for

5:29

those of you who

5:31

watched the latter part of last year,

5:33

who hung in there as

5:35

things were getting ugly, Jose

5:37

Budo was in the rotation down the

5:39

stretch of last season. And

5:42

as you may recall, it was only a

5:44

handful of starts, but in the month of

5:46

September, Jose Budo looked good. Jose

5:49

Budo looked very, very good. He

5:51

made five starts in the month of

5:53

September and four

5:55

of the five were

5:57

very good to excellent. So if you... You

6:00

didn't pay attention in September. And

6:02

look, we talked about it on the Rico. What do

6:04

we read from this? Does this mean he should be

6:06

in the rotation? What does this mean for

6:08

the young man? So we

6:10

talked about it, but we also didn't know because it was

6:13

September. Six and a third, two runs

6:15

against the Nats. Five innings, one

6:17

run against the NL champion Diamondbacks. Six

6:20

innings, one run against Miami. The

6:22

mediocre start was against Philly. Forwardings,

6:25

four runs. And then he comes back

6:27

against the Phillies. Six innings, two runs.

6:30

Jose Budo is 26 years old. He

6:34

gave you a good September. And

6:36

now he's given you two starts to

6:38

the season. One in the

6:40

double header, and then this one on Sunday

6:42

against Kansas City, in which he's looked very,

6:45

very good. And the one on

6:47

Sunday, the one we're talking about right now, was

6:49

his best. Because outside of

6:51

the lead off double he gave up to Salvador

6:53

Perez in the second inning, he

6:55

dominated. Like this wasn't just

6:57

a guy who was getting lucky. He

7:00

got a ton of swing and misses. He had

7:02

nine strikeouts, including the side to start the game.

7:04

He fought through the trouble in the second inning by

7:07

getting a huge couple of strikeouts. And

7:10

for the most part, was just in complete command.

7:13

And the reason why this has to excite you

7:16

is there are three things. Well,

7:18

maybe four things if you want to stretch

7:20

it out. Number one, the fact that this

7:23

was the beginning that we saw in September.

7:25

Four good starts, which means it's now six

7:27

of seven starts that Boudeaux has made since

7:29

entering the Met rotation back in September, have

7:31

been very good. That's number one. Number

7:34

two, 26 years old. Like

7:37

we're not talking about a 32 year old they picked

7:39

up off the scrap heap. He's 26 years old. And

7:42

here's number three. Do

7:45

Grom becoming a superstar when

7:48

he was never even a top,

7:50

top prospect always puts the

7:53

back of your mind that maybe

7:55

you're going to find that next great

7:57

or just in this case, very good.

7:59

Hopefully start. the sporting pitcher from

8:01

anywhere. So what

8:03

Jose Budo proved with this performance against Kansas

8:05

City and Carlos Mendoza made that very clear

8:08

after the game and this should be obvious

8:11

to us all is that he's in the rotation.

8:14

And now Jose Budo's got himself a fair shot and

8:16

if he struggles in

8:19

his next start, which by the way, is going to be against the

8:21

Dodgers. Good luck Jose like you want to step

8:24

up in competition. Here we go. I think he's earned

8:26

now. He can have a bad start against

8:29

you know what I mean? Like not not that we're not going

8:32

to care. Will care, but he can have that.

8:34

I think he's earned that opportunity now to

8:36

make the next four or five starts. So

8:38

I will take it from there. Obviously if

8:40

he struggles, you know, we'll have a discussion,

8:42

but I think that his performance now was

8:45

good enough in these two spot starts. The

8:48

one in the double header and then the one on

8:50

Sunday against the Royals in conjunction with

8:52

the four starts he made at the end of the

8:54

year to say, you know what? This

8:56

kid deserves a shot, so I'm

8:59

cautiously excited. That's how

9:01

I'll phrase it. I'm cautiously excited about Jose

9:03

Budo because I love big Budo and I

9:05

cannot lie that opportunity now to make the

9:07

next four or five starts. So

9:09

I will take it from there. Obviously

9:12

if he struggles, you know we'll have a discussion, but

9:15

I think that his performance now was

9:17

good enough in these two spot starts. The

9:19

one in the double header and then

9:21

the one on Sunday against the Royals in conjunction

9:23

with the four starts he made at the end

9:25

of the year, to say, you know

9:28

what? This kid deserves a

9:30

shot, so I'm cautiously excited. That's

9:32

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9:34

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9:36

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