Laura Albanese

Where, you know, like everyone talks about clubhouse vibes, clubhouse vibes.

You can't really control that because when you start sucking, suddenly the vibes start sucking too.

So that's not necessarily his fault.

But regardless, the buck stops with him.

And he knows that.

So...

If I'm Carlos Mendoza, yeah, absolutely, I feel the heat.

I felt the heat the minute they said, hey, your entire coaching staff is out.

You feel the heat.

When he said that he was surprised when he got the phone call from David Stearns about the Brandon Immo trade, the first thought in my mind is like, how late in the process were you told that this was happening?

that's the first question I'm asking because it seemed like it was pretty late if you're telling me that you were surprised.

So, I mean, that, that tells you what you kind of need to know.

Um, man, like if you go by Reddit or social media, everything is doom and gloom.

I went to the Queen's Baseball Convention.

I was speaking there as part of a panel.

So that's one of those things where you get to interact with fans one on one.

And I think there was like some slight, you know, in person, people are less fatalistic than they tend to be online.

And I think there was some slight, well, like, let's hold on and see what happens, which I think is a very mature, evolved way of approaching your baseball fandom.

That being said, like...

Hey, like we talked about the leash being short for like these front office.