Laura Albanese

And then he said the line, I appreciated my time here.

Past tense.

Um, and I hope they appreciate me, which is very pointed.

That's one thing.

And then the next day, you know, you have nothing.

Yeah, actually it was the next day we got on a plane and we're talking to David Stearns at Citi Field the next day.

And, and David Stearns says all the stuff that he said last year, we love Pete.

We want him to come back.

All right.

You said that last year and what happened, but then you also spent the entire, or a large majority of the press conference talking about, uh, run prevention and

which is different from run production.

And that's, that's also very much just like, you know, like if, if you want to read between the lines, I'm like, well, are you, are you saying that Pete's defense could be a deterrent for him returning?

Yeah, I mean, like, and like, I don't want to like overstate intangibles, because I tried to kind of stay away from some of that, because you don't really know what people's relationships are.

But for as long as I've covered this team, and even though this is my first year on the beat, I've covered this team since 2015.

I've seen all of Pete's career, and he's a good clubhouse guy.

He's good to have around, you know, he tries to keep things positive.

He

desperately wants to win he cares very much about winning and um i know we kind of take that little professional athletes they should all care very much about winning yeah but there's tears to it yeah he really really really cares uh there's that reason that he's there 162 and i think it's important yeah i mean it's not where it's he's worried about 162 not the brand you know i mean it's which as you said some guys are worried about the brand man like it's just not what it is um go ahead

Oh, and I was just saying, just like, I mean, we saw evidence of that.

I mean, it had to have been a little bit hard to kind of have your tail between your legs and be like, okay, I'll take a two-year deal with the Mets.