Laura Albanese

I think I got it wrong for the first month and a half that we were doing it.

My co-host was like, Laura, come on.

Yeah.

I mean, obviously, it was the greatest collapse that I've ever witnessed in my sports journalism career.

But other than that, I mean, I really did enjoy kind of being part of the day-to-day grind of it.

Because before that, I was kind of just going back and forth between Yankees and Mets, which was also awesome.

But being there day in and day out kind of gives you a little bit better of an insight and a little bit better of a feel on the team itself.

Yeah, a little bit more about how players interact, kind of getting, you know, more of a sense because I feel like obviously when you're on the beat, you're just on the road more.

And you kind of see just guys have almost more downtime in the visitors clubhouse on the road.

They actually stay there as opposed to hiding from us in whatever back rooms.

So you did get to see that.

And I think part of it, too, was.

it was interesting because as a general assignment reporter, I covered all sports for a long time and you would kind of parachute in and you'd have to cram and cram and cram and cram about whatever this team was and what their personalities were.

Whereas there was almost like a little bit of a shorthand where if I go on a podcast like this, no matter what, even if I was covering the team for the last week or so, I would be doing all this studying in the world.

And I still do a lot of studying and a lot of research, but you know, you're there every day.

So I'm reading my own clips.

So it's like I'm reading my own information.

And that's how you interview every middle reliever known to man.

No, you will find no greater defender in the universe of middle relievers than me.

I love middle relievers.