High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast - High Hopes Chapter 1: Carlos Correa is a Met (and a cheater)

Episode Date: December 22, 2022

Don't have time to listen to the entire High Hopes pod? Check out this segment where Jack Fritz and James Seltzer discuss the Mets swooping in and stealing Carlos Correa from the San Francisco Giants. Presented by Miller Lite. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

um but completely in the trust tree like i um was sitting there yesterday you know this started to get circulated where it was like oh carlos correa like there's worry about his um his physical and i was like that freaking steve cohen is gonna they're gonna get him like they're gonna find a way to get him so when i saw the news this morning it was like the least shocking thing ever i was like of course they did um and it's it's crazy i can't believe correa is a freaking met it reminds me so much of a rod going to the yankees that was like out of nowhere too when he's uh it's supposed to be a red sock he is now playing third base and like i don't know if i don't know if a ball is going to get to the left side of the infield i gotta be honest like i don't think

it's gonna get through um but like for as much as i am oh mets this mess that like i just think the nls is gonna be so much freaking fun next year and there is so many storylines um to get into and uh my overall take is we got trey turner so whatever we got trey turner yeah i look i'd rather have trey turner than carlos correa there's no question about that at the contract and all that but i'd certainly rather pay the guy to play shortstop than to play third but man steve cohen is is he's a wild card man every owner in baseball hates this dude and i absolutely love it like i again i baseball needs 30 steve cohen it really does the guy he's so good for this for. Like the Red Sox.

The Boston freaking Red Sox are crying poor right now. The Boston Red Sox are crying poor. And I love that Steve Cohen is just like shining a light on how absolutely cheap they're being. So that's great. But like enough, bro. Like enough already. Like the numbers are insane. The number, like, did you see this like

so for those who might not have seen it so with the their their payroll right now is 384 million dollars he will be paying 111 million dollars luxury tax dollars jack fritz that's essentially the st louis cardinals more or less in luxury tax team going and bang and then think about this prior to this the most any team had ever doled out in this season was a little under 350 million dollars he's almost 150 million above that. He's basically the Houston Astros above the highest spent team in the history of baseball. Like it's crazy. The Houston Astros are 153 million. The whole team, they just won the world series. He's the Houston Astros above the previous most expensive team in the history of baseball it is wild man like this guy is wild and good for him and good for you know i'm i'm jealous and we got a guy we're lucky all right we're the third highest payroll in baseball you know no complaints middleton jack no doubt

but cohen is just lapping the field man he's like steinbrenner it's crazy well i think um like his his luxury tax bills is higher than like 11 teams payrolls yes it's 111 million man i don't see it's probably more than 11 teams it's probably like you know 12 14 something like that like like i said more than 11 i'm like it could be 12 so i have so i have two i'm two things i have two things that i that i'm here to admit um one i thought i was getting out ahead of this i thought it was a good take at the time um but turns out hand up uh steve cohen might not be a fraud he might like might be because i was thrown off the set a little bit like he was

deferring money you know like they want to pay the gram you know the kumar rocker thing kind of fell apart and i was just like listen steve cohen on fraud watch um i am here to say off don't think he's a fraud and the other thing just ended yes the other thing is that so you know my password trick where uh oh do i i'm surprised you're telling you're telling the world about your risky maneuver here you know well to be fair you are about as careless with your um whatever needs a password and that So for those who might not know, a little inside baseball here, Jack is the king of just leaving computers unattended

with all his Twitter, his email, like everything just open. Like literally every time when I have to go record a podcast, like Elliot and I will do Go Birds after my show. And we'll go into the studio next door and Jack will have been there all day and I'll log in and his whole life is there like i could do whatever the hell i wanted like i never

do because i love you and you're my guy i'm not surprised that you were like who cares about the password you don't know biggie well here's my here's here's the problem the personal dilemma i have with that is that on one hand it's's like, yeah, probably not the best idea. On the other hand, on the other hand, content. So it's like really hard to balance the two. So I have this thing about passwords where anyone. So when I first started noticing that I had a problem, I just write it like, let's go. OK, good.

So when I first started noticing that I had a problem, it was when I would put Phillies in there. So I would have like Wheeler, whatever. I would have Okay, good. So when I first started noticing that I had a problem, it was when I would put fillies in there. So I would have like Wheeler, whatever. I would have Harper, whatever. I would have like Kingery. I remember my Kingery phase. And then I was like, wow, this is like ruined. Every one of these guys. So I was like, you know what?

I got to start putting my mortal enemies in there. So I got to put Acuna in there. I put Lindo in there. Lindor was one I remember. Lindor was one I remember. Lindor was one of them. And it pretty much worked. Lindor had a terrible season. Alonzo was still pretty good.

But I noticed that the more and more people that I put in there, more often than not, it would lead to good events for the Phillies. So I put Steve Cohen as a part of my new password and it has totally backfired. So it might be time to like, honestly, I keep waiting for the, those annoying expired password emails just so I can get out.

Like I seem to get out. I need to change my password because it's, it's backfired so much, but I also don't want to put the effort in of changing my password without waiting the 45 days until we have to change it again. So, yeah, the Cohen password is completely backfired. But I will say this, James. You know, I woke up this morning.

I checked Twitter. It was just a minefield of people upset. Can we calm down? I understand. It's a little scary. Carlos Correa is a New York Met, DePereflin Doerr, and McNeil, and Alonzo, and freaking Nimmo's back, which I hate,

and Kanye, and whatever. Can I just remind everyone that they're still the Mets? Like, they're still the Mets? They're still the Mets. And whether you want to believe about the physical thing, whatever, the reporting on it is so weird. Whether you want to believe, come on, we all know what happened here. There is no chance that this was not nefarious in some way. Collusion, whatever.

Something happened here that was not, you know. That's fine. That's fine. Explain to me. Just explain to me. Why was it the Giants doctors that failed him? I don't know. I don't know.

It's crazy to me. The whole thing makes no sense. But my guess is Scott Boras wanted him to be a New York Met, and he became a New York Met. I don't know. I don't know how that Steve Cohen and Scott Boris wanted him to be a New York Met and that's what happened and I don't

know how they got there and I don't know what they did along the way but that's what happened are you saying that a special envelope might have gotten delivered to the executives of the San Francisco Giants who knows real quick though I was thinking about this because I mean this is and obviously they never had the press conference so different we've had the press conference for turner so slightly different but like imagine waking up this morning and finding that trey

turner was now a met like trey turner and just you know the philly's physical it didn't work out right and it's like he's gone like can you imagine i It must have – being a Giants fan this morning must have been tough, man. Like that – I don't really have much sympathy for National League fans, and I have no sympathy at all for fans of teams that have won three World Series in the last 12 years or whatever. Like zero. Zero. Like you could lose 162 games a year for the next decade and i'm not

gonna feel bad for you felt a little bad like that was like a real i because i thought about me and i thought about how if it were trey turner that i've been like how how soul crushing that would be for me you know like it's just after free agency's done now you can't like go back and get someone else you'll be like all right we'll just go sign xander we'll just go you can't do that anymore like man i was just like that's some real phillies fan stuff right there like that's some real that would happen to us kind of stuff you know what i mean well so first thought is i was with you um but then i remember cody ross and i was like no like straight up good no no

the emotional torture that Cody Ross put me through this is what you get for winning World Series with scrub ass rosters like three times in a row I know you deserve this