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You're listening to Comedy Central. You ever been fired? I've been fired. I've been fired a lot. I've been fired from bakeries that I worked at. I've been fired from women's clothing stores. I was once fired by my brother. My brother fired me from a war. But one thing that's never... I was fired by strippagram once. One thing that's never to me is that I've been fired at 3:00 in the morning, 3,000 miles away from where I live. Willy Randolph, the New York Mets manager, my beloved Mets. This guy, okay, the Mets suck. Fine. But they could have fired Willy Randolph at any point over the last year. So what they do is they wait before he takes a trip to Los Angeles. They fly him all the way out to Los Angeles. He wins the game, and then they fire him that night at three o'clock in the morning. When you get a call at three o'clock in the morning, that's for sex. That's not for being fired. He did not deserve that. It is classless. Here's how bad it is. This is the New York Post. Tiger Woods. They didn't even have time to put Willy Randolph being fired.

Classless. I mean, maybe they flew him out to Los Angeles because they thought, Well, we're going to fire him. He should at least get his frequent flyer miles. I don't know. Bastardos. And this is the worst part. We have a tape of the call of him being fired. You cannot believe who they got to fire him. Hey, Willy, it's Mr. Met. Good morning. Oh, and guess what? You're fired. So pack up your crap, get the out of the clubhouse.

Give me your shit. What, you want to meet the Mets?

Why don't you meet Mr. Met?

I'll meet you in a fucking parking lot, you bum. Oh, another thing, keep your dirty mitts off of Mrs.

Met, your son of a bitch. No disrespect.

All due respect. Forget about it. How you doing?

Not right. Willy didn't deserve this. My guest tonight, the third basement for the New York Mets, his charitable organization, the David Wright Foundation, is hosting its third annual Do the Right Thing Gala, taking place right here in New York City on November 15th. Please welcome to the show David Wright. David. Two and a Come and sit. Great to see you. Always a pleasure.

I was hoping- A true Mets fan.

A true Mets fan since 1948 or whatever. I was hoping that we would be doing this interview under more pleasant circumstances, the World Series having ended, you being crowned World Series champions. It was not to be.

Next year.

Seriously?

2008.

Okay. You heard it here first. If I put money on that like I did this year.

If I was allowed, I'd pay you back.

I really appreciate that. The Mets, what does it feel like? You're a great young player. My guess is you stay off the horse juice. You're going Hall of Fame.For now.Are.

You on the horse juice? Absolutely not.

Who's on the horse juice? On your team. This The Mets were ahead by seven games with 17 to go and didn't make the playoffs. Are you still feeling that?

Have you bounced back?

The next day, do you still think about it?

It's one of There's things where it's tough to say right now, but I think in the long run, hopefully, it helps us out. It built character. It learned how to deal with adversity throughout those last two weeks. We were getting ripped pretty good, and we learned to deal with that.

Exactly. Winning the World Series It would have been too easy this year. It would have been the wrong move.

I'm 24 years old. What would I had to look forward to?

That's exactly right. You're 24 years old. You hit over 300. You hit 30 dingers. You stole 30 bases. You signed a huge contract. I want to be you. That's what makes me so angry. There's been some talk in the city, and this has got to be hard because in entertainment, it's similar to that. They talk about people taking over your job. Alex Rodriguez opted out of his Yankee contract. He's third basement. They say, Oh, maybe the Mets will go after him. You're the Mets third basement. Do you call them up and go, Hello?

It's just seeing the way the Boston celebrated, seeing the winners of World Series, first and foremost, I want to win. So am I saying that I would change positions for a guy like Alex Rodriguez? If the front office called me and said, Hey, look, we want to make this team better and you're involved, I would absolutely I want to sit down and listen. But for right now, I am the third baseman of the New York Mets, and I'm going into the 2008 season, prepared to be the third baseman.

What if they call you and they say, Hey, what about John Stewart may be playing third base? I'm all in. You're all in for that? I'm all in. I say no, A-Rod, and I'll tell you why. He seems like bad medicine. He seems like a very good player, but when he gets on the team, it's like he weakens the team. He's like the Dick Cheney of baseball. I don't mean that. Nobody seems to like he's doing. And by the way, you don't have to comment on that. Does he watch the show? No. No, okay. He definitely doesn't. But no, it seems like he's a bad chemistry guy, and chemistry is important, is it not?

52 home runs are important, too. Last time I checked.

That could be a lot of chemistry. Okay, I see what you're saying. Do you think the Mets end up signing a lot of these high-profile free agents, or you're happy with the way things- I think we got a good young core group of guys.

I love my job here, so I don't want to go anywhere. So no trade for me, hopefully. But I hope we go out and make some improvements. I think pitching side, obviously, that fell apart down the stretch. We could use another big bet, so maybe through the outfield.

But other than that-You could use some pitching, am I right? Let me show you something. I was at a play that game, the New York Mets versus the St. Louis Cardinals. Do we have tape of that? This is apropos to what we were... Okay, hold on.

I was one of the ones booing.

Were you actually booing?

I was one of the ones booing in the background.

Have you had the experience yet of 45,000 people booing you?

In April this year. Did you really? Yeah, I got off to a slow start this year. Derek Jeter has been booed in New York, so it's a rite of passage. That's what I tell myself.

In a lot of ways, when you look at that footage and you see the crowd booing me, you almost think to yourself, wow, John Stuart is just like Derek Jeter and David Wright. Correct. David Wright, Derek Jeter, John Stuart.

Thank you.

Except I may be the only one of you guys who can't reach home plate with a ball.

You didn't get to warm up.

That's exactly right. That's what it is, and I'm decrepit. Offseason, do you go out? Do you start to play the scene, enjoy the fruits of your labor, or is it all strictly business?

After the end of the year, the way it ended, you have a bitter taste in your mouth. You want to get going for next year. Obviously, being 24 years old, I like to go out, have a good time every now and then. But it's basically business. It's getting ready for next year. It's working out, trying to hope that next year the same thing doesn't happen. A little bit better.

Well, I really appreciate you coming by. I'm a huge Mets fan. I wish you all the luck in the world. You're a great player and a great guy. And just take me with you. Absolutely. Thank you. David Wright, everybody.

I'm Aaron Madison III. And I'm Louis Fertel. This year, we're excited to bring you new episodes of Keep It covering the Holy Trinity of Awards season, Emmys, Grammys, and the granddaddy of them all, the Oscars. It's like the Super Bowl for Hollywood, but with more sequels wins and fewer concussions.

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Welcome back to my guest tonight for My Money. He is the most exciting pitcher in the game today. He's the face of the New York Metropolitan. Please welcome to the program, Matt Harvey. For God's sakes, look at this. Come on.

So this is what, 17th season, right? This is perfect.

It's exactly my size in that it can function as a shirt and pants for me. Thank you so much. I'm thrilled to have you on the program. Yeah, thanks, brother. Jesus, come on. What are you doing? This thing, just get it on there. Will you please? It's just perfect. If it gets thirsty, just give it a little water. You got to You got to protect the moneymaker, my friend. There you go. Nicely done. Let me ask you a question. How old are you?

Twenty-six.

You're 26 years old. You got in New York City. We have not seen a player of your ability in In many years, maybe Doc Goodin, Darryl Schroeber, back in the mid '80s, the last time that we experienced, I guess, what some people would call, it's been so long, success. What is that? Does it feel like a responsibility? What does it feel like? Is it just all excitement? Are you enjoying yourself?

I think it's excitement. I think for us and the whole staff, I think we're excited about the future. We're excited about now. I think the most important thing is to focus on what we're doing now. We're not looking to next year, the year after. We're trying to win now. You're in the moment.

You haven't been hurt before like many met. Does it feel strange? Do you feel the pessimism of the Met fan? The Met fan is a... We are a beaten creature.

I saw an article today about how I should be pitched until I'm abused, almost. So I think for- Pitching until you're abused? Yeah, pretty much.

Why? Because they think you'll leave? Yes. Because you're with the Mets? Yeah. How do you think it is the Mets. Here's my thought. You dominate the league for two years, and then they trade you for a milking goat and some magic beans. Because that is generally the way that they handle excellent ball players.

I guess.

I would say that the team now is, what, 27-21. If you told a Met fan, the New York Mets are going to be 27-21 at the beginning of the season, at this point, I think anybody would have taken that. But the way the young arms have pitched, it almost feels like it could be more. It could be better. How's it feeling in the clubhouse?

I think we definitely feel like we should have won a few games that we didn't. But we're close. I think the Nationals obviously had a slow start and then came up.Oh, they've been playing.They.

Got some pretty ridiculous.It's a banger. Yeah. Is it frustrating for a pitcher? You had a game, and you get these a couple of times. You throw eight shutout innings, something like that, and the offense maybe gets you a run, or they don't get you a run. Does that feel frustrating to put in that type of performance? But the hitting lags behind, is there a split between offense and pitching in the clubhouse? Or do you guys just try and pick each other up and everybody's got patience with everybody else?

I think it's a patience thing. I think I could say maybe two years ago, I think I might have gotten upset.

Sure, you were only 24, now you're 26.

Big difference. Huge difference.

It's a huge difference.

Especially with the police lines.

Just keep it, please. You don't know this loose site could very much damage that. I don't want anything to happen to you. You're my future. I'm leaving the show. You're all I have left.

I know. While we were talking, I was like, Got I'm going to get you out and take some BP or something.Me?Yeah..

That would in no way be a dream come true. Absolutely good. Is it competitive with the other young pictures? You got Syndagard out there. This kid's a beast. He's what? 23? 22. 22. Throws shutout ball, and he hits a home run.

It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. I think my face, I saw it on Twitter a bunch of times. I think the face that I had after the home run was... Just shocked.

Yeah, it was-It's crazy. You, DeGrom, Darnot, this is a really young core. Do you feel like you can change the culture of a team that's suffered? It's a lot of pressure to put on. You got the Yankees across town, you got all these other things. Do you guys talk about that, or it really is just about, Man, let's go out, let's have fun. Let's remember why we love this game.

I think our mindset and has been for all of this year, especially, I think coming into spring training, we had one goal, and that was to win. I think we all believe that. I think it was a lot different than in years past, spring trainings. We've carried that to mostly every game. I think for us, being a young staff, I think we try and bring a lot of energy to the clubhouse.

I'm so excited. I'm going to bring my whole family down. We love going to the games. We love watching the team. And you guys have given us a reason to be very hopeful for the first time in a long time, and I really do appreciate it. And you're a beast out there. I look forward to seeing you pitch more and more.Thank you very much.Thanks for coming on the program. Absolutely. Young man, Harvey Everybody. Let's see him. Watch yourself. Welcome back, my guests, tonight on New York Mets legend. His new book is called Moukki: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets. Please welcome to the program, Moukki Wilson. An honor to see you here. All right, great. Thank you for being here. No, thanks for having me. This is really the last time in many years that I can actually say that to a New York match.

It's been rough times.

It's been some rough times. This really was, you write about '86. There is something truly indelible about a championship season that makes it worthy of Remembrance. What was it about the '86 team when you guys won the World Series besides the dramatic fashion you wanted it?

I think it's the characters. I think that we're a group of individuals that weren't afraid to be themselves. I think you need more of that in sports, actually.

More of that? Yes. But the '86 team had Doc Gooden, Darryl Strauby, Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter. But you were a beacon of maturity in that. That's good. Don't you think? You were the one guy everybody loved and nobody ever worried about. You always thought Keith Hernandez, at some point, 6:00 in the morning, somebody's going to be like, Where's Keith? Muki Wilson never had that issue.

No, I think the team, we had this group over here that was really outgoing. A lot of people called him the Scum Bunch. Then we had this other group over here that was really Gary Carter's Ron Darlings, guys like that. Then had those guys in the middle, like myself and Rafael Santana, that kept it all together.

And that chemistry. Yes. It brings up an interesting... Everybody is talking about this Donald Sterling, this relationship between a racist owner. Sports really is an unusually, almost paternal situation with the owner. They can ship you out to another city. Do the players feel that relationship?

I think it's always it's going to be that weird relationship between players and management, knowing that management does have the last word. It sometimes doesn't matter how well you play. It's all about relationship between the player and ownership. Now, this basketball situation is really, really different. We got a lot of racist remarks, and here he owns a team that's over 80% black. That's weird.

That is That's weird. That's weird. But it's always you find in these league, the owner is typically white. The athletes, typically African-American, the athletes who are African-American had to fight to be allowed to play, and even now still have to fight for rights. It's this idea that, okay, you're allowed to leave after seven years, but you have to put in this amount of time. Do you think this could be a turning point in that relationship?

I don't think so. I think that sports has survived. I mean, over the years, as much as we've tried to mess baseball up, we haven't with strikes and all that. The game will survive. I got thinking, you can make all the rules you want to, but until you change the attitudes of people, you're going to have this idiocy. No matter what you do, it's just going to happen.

As a player, how do you handle that? These guys are in the midst of a playoff run. Now, you played in New York. There was a tremendous amount of distraction, a tremendous amount of media. They're the same in Los Angeles. Is it even possible for an athlete at that high level to still compete with this type of emotion under the surface?

Well, first of all, for me, it's that athletes deal with pressure every day. Every day to go out on the field, it's all about what you do that day. And this is no different. They're not playing for the honor. They're playing for their own self-respect. I've heard things about, Well, should the team boycott and not play? That serves no real purpose. I mean, it would defeat the purpose of you being there, playing basketball at the NBA level, that's a great, great honor. And to let some idiot not let you fulfill the potential that your team has. I think you'll be doing yourself a disservice in the league itself.

Do you see what I mean about you having the maturity? Look at me. I'm ready to fly off the handle. Just walk away from the game and you brought me back. Here's what I think should happen. Yes.

Okay.

The Clippers rally around this. They play unbelievable basketball for the next month. They win the NBA Championship. And in the locker room, in the jubilation, the trophy is handed to them. Donald Sterling is right there, and they get the tallest guy. Let's go with Blake Griffith. He's about 6'11, and he just holds the trophy up like this. And Donald Sterling just has the... Can't get it. And done. They don't let him have it. Are you still able to get together with some of the fellows and reminisce about it, tragically, Gary Carter, of course, passed away. Great character guy. Are you able to get together and still revert back to form from the '80s and have a great time together?

We don't want to go back. No, I don't have. Okay, we don't want to. But we do get together, and when we do his one big week on Reunion, and we talk a lot, and we lie a little bit, too. That's what reminiscing is all about.

That's what it's all about. Who would have thought that that would be the last championship the Mets ever won? Well, it's an absolute pleasure to see you and to have you here on the show. Get yourself Muki, one of the greats. Muki Wilson, ladies and gentlemen. Explore more shows from The Daily Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your podcast.

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