Boone On Work Stoppage, Mendoza Scratches His Head
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What are the implications of a potential work stoppage in MLB?
A couple of baseball things before we move on to some other items, as Al would like to say. Similar to the Giancarlo Stanton clip from last hour, Aaron Boone met the media yesterday before the Tony Clark bombshell came out. At this point, we simply knew that he had resigned as MLBPA executive director ahead of the impending CBA talks that are going to play out between now and next season, potential work stoppage for 2027, and Boone was asked about all of that.
All I can tell you is... I want to play baseball, and I hope that the two sides do come together in the end because I think we're at an awesome time in our game.
He thinks that the fans are into it, and there's a lot of viewership, and he's into the WBC and all that, but safe to say Tony Clark will no longer be involved in those talks.
You know what else they were into in 1994?
Exactly. Doesn't matter. I saw that reference in a few players yesterday, or in a few different places, I should say. More from Craig in McMonagle's interview with Mets manager Carlos Mendoza here on The Fan yesterday afternoon.
How does Aaron Boone feel about the current state of MLB negotiations?
So I played a few of the clips last hour regarding the locker room issues from last season. Craig teed him up on politics, players' wives, Lindor, Soto, and we heard Mendoza sound kind of surprised, almost caught off guard, and talking about the issue being their on-field performance in the second half, nothing more. So Craig circled back to make sure he was clear on his line of questioning. Longer clip as he laid it all out for the Met manager in detail.
I don't want to be disrespectful and push you on the answer. But the guys have acknowledged that there was something wrong inside that clubhouse. We've heard rumors that wives didn't get along. We've heard rumors that there was a faction of Trump supporters versus non-Trump supporters. And you're saying that when you were in that locker room and having your ear to the ground in that locker room, you never became aware of any kind of dysfunction in between the guys or families? With politics? Yeah. No. No. A lot of laughing from Carlos.
Found all this very entertaining. One more follow-up from Craig before they moved on.
Do you think there were clicks on the team where this group of guys didn't hang out with that group of guys? No, I mean, look, like I said, I mean, this is the same group that had a hell of a run in 2024.
They got a long fine. We just need to play good baseball. So he's sticking with that, and I will say, I mean, we heard some of the laughter. You know, never did it get contentious yesterday. I listened to the whole thing, and he was very cordial, and they talked about a lot of baseball items after this beyond the locker room stuff. So it was all good. They had him for about a half hour or so.
All right, so there's three possibilities here. One, Carlos Mendoza is lying. Right. Two, he's telling the truth and none of this happened. Or three, he was so clueless that he didn't know this was going on and it was.
I don't like three.
Yeah. Three would be a bad one. I hope he's just lying.
Or it didn't happen. We already went through that with a Met manager. What's that? We already went through number three with a recent Met manager.
Yeah. So which one do you think it is?
I think a combination of one and two. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
Oh, okay. Yeah, I would tend to agree.
What challenges does Carlos Mendoza face regarding clubhouse dynamics?
I mean, I don't really... It's probably true, though. Yeah, I don't think that there's... I mean, something like that doesn't just come out of nowhere and multiple people you'd respect have said these things.
But the idea that there's not... And this goes to the point of, you know, he's just trying to sweep this under the rug and move on now with a new team. The idea that you don't have clicks on a team that's got 25, 30 players, that's not realistic. It happens in every, I would think on every team in every sport, maybe not the NBA, it's a much smaller roster, but there's clicks on football teams, hockey teams.
This is at the other day. Hey, are we all best friends? No, but that's not how it works.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the implications of a potential work stoppage in MLB?
0:00–0:59
2
How does Aaron Boone feel about the current state of MLB negotiations?
0:59–3:08
3
What challenges does Carlos Mendoza face regarding clubhouse dynamics?
3:08–3:45
4
What were the locker room issues mentioned by Carlos Mendoza?
3:45–5:00
5
How does Carlos Mendoza respond to rumors of clubhouse dysfunction?
5:00–7:03
6
What insights does Carlos Mendoza share about team clicks and relationships?
7:03–10:25
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