The Curse of Odell Beckham, Bad Mets Trades, and Cold Pursuit Movie Review | Giant Mess

On this week's episode of 'Giant Mess', Giants-Mets fan Neal Lynch talks about... 1:08 - 13:06 - The Sopranos Season 3 - Carmela in therapy, Meadow & Noah (but not Caitlin?), Meadow & Jackie, Jr., Tony and Gloria (Annabella Sciorra), Ralphie beating 20-year-old baby mama to be and stripper Tracee to death, Tony getting the most aggressive beej of all-time, do the producers hate “Gladiator”?,  and is Breaking Bad better? 13:07 - 37:19 - The anniversary of Saving Private Ryan (1998), Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (2004), The Village (2004), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood hit theaters, date night with the wife, Cheesecake Factory, Zombieland 2: Double Tap trailer, Cold Pursuit review (Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum and her veteran cop partner, the actor who played “Viking”, the “son for a son” ending, Elway vs. Manning, and the $20 bill move at the motel). 37:20 - 46:46 This Week in Mets History (Vince Coleman, Anthony Young, trading Carlos Beltran for Zack Wheeler in 2011, Jeff Kent and Jose Vizcaino for Carlos Baerga in 1996, the infamous 2004 trades that brought Victor Zambrano for Scott Kazmir and Kris Benson for Jose Bautista plus Ty Wigginton, and Mike Piazza inducted in the Hall of Fame in 2016). 46:47 - 1:00:43 - Mets have the most negative contract value in Major League Baseball, the 4-year anniversary of Wilmer Flores crying on the field (2015) and the several players acquired in and around the trade deadline to finish strong that season, the Marcus Stroman trade (https://neallynch.com/2019/07/29/marcus-stroman-mets-trade-2004-benson-zambrano-kazmir/), Diaz going to the Red Sox, the Jason Vargas trade. 1:00:44 - Giants training camp off to a horrendous start due to The Curse of Odell Beckham Jr. (https://neallynch.com/2019/07/26/ny-giants-wide-receivers-obj-curse/), Sterling Shepard fractures his thumb, Corey Coleman tears his ACL, Golden Tate’s suspension for PEDS (https://neallynch.com/2019/07/29/golden-tate-suspension-curse-of-odell-beckham/) and who will step up to fill the void (Kelvin Benjamin, Michael Crabtree, Pierre Garcon, Mike Wallace, Victor Cruz, Cameron Meredith), and the 5 biggest questions facing the Giants heading into the 2019 season.