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Chris Mad Dog Russo reacts to the crisis going on with NY Baseball

September 3, 2025·1 hr 4 min·4 clips

The Mets have four problems: shallow starts, bad splits, no third baseman, and four underperforming stars.

Joel Sherman welcomes Chris Russo back and starts with the state of New York baseball. Russo was a big hit the last time he appeared, and the conversation picks up there. The focus stays on the Mets and Yankees, which Sherman says have been struggling for eight plus weeks now, since early June. Sherman keeps circling back to the same point: New York baseball has not looked good since then. Russo is right there with him, and the two treat it as a current baseball problem, not some distant storyline. The episode does not waste time softening the slump. They note that the Yankees' historical weight can make the Mets look smaller by comparison, and that the Mets may also benefit from the Yankees soaking up so much of the attention. The Yankees get extra scrutiny because they brought in defensive players like Goldschmidt, McMahon, and Bellinger, yet the fundamentals still look shaky. Baserunning comes up too, with Chisholm last week treated as needless risk. Sherman then argues that the Yankees can still make the playoffs. He points to the schedule and the stretch of 23 games against the White Sox, Twins, Nationals, and Orioles. Russo sounds more optimistic than Sherman about that path, which gives the segment some real back-and-forth. Sherman says those are the kind of teams a contender should beat often enough to matter. He even reaches for a Rounders analogy to describe the trap of assuming you know who is vulnerable at the table. The point lands simply: maybe the Yankees are looking at easy wins, but maybe those clubs are looking at the Yankees and seeing the real sucker. From there, the show opens up a little. Sherman notes that injuries are everywhere in the sport, especially on the pitching side. He brings up the Brewers as an example of a team winning while missing key players like Freddie Peralta, Jason Mizorowski, and Jackson Churio. That keeps the episode from feeling like a pure New York gripe session. It becomes a broader baseball conversation about thin margins, injuries, and how reputation can blur what is actually happening. The ending slips into the show's familiar outro, with a push to rate and review the podcast and a joke about the hosts' video backgrounds. It fits the tone well: informal, lightly self-aware, and not trying too hard to polish itself up.

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A blunt New York baseball argument that keeps testing whether either team has a real answer.

Chris Russo lands in a useful moment for a New York baseball conversation, with the Mets and Yankees both in trouble and the same doubts hanging over them for weeks.

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