Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
I think I got it wrong for the first month and a half that we were doing it.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
My co-host was like, Laura, come on.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
Yeah.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
I mean, obviously, it was the greatest collapse that I've ever witnessed in my sports journalism career.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
But other than that, I mean, I really did enjoy kind of being part of the day-to-day grind of it.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
Because before that, I was kind of just going back and forth between Yankees and Mets, which was also awesome.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
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.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
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.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
And you kind of see just guys have almost more downtime in the visitors clubhouse on the road.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
They actually stay there as opposed to hiding from us in whatever back rooms.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
So you did get to see that.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
And I think part of it, too, was.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
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.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
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.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
And I still do a lot of studying and a lot of research, but you know, you're there every day.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
So I'm reading my own clips.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
So it's like I'm reading my own information.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
And that's how you interview every middle reliever known to man.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
No, you will find no greater defender in the universe of middle relievers than me.
Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Expect From Round 2 Of The Pete Alonso - Mets Negotiations With Laura Albanese
I love middle relievers.