Laura Albanese

This guy doesn't talk in code.

He's a very nice guy.

He's, you know, sure, like sometimes his metaphors are a little bit out there, but I appreciate that.

I think they're fun.

But he meant what he said and he said what he meant.

I didn't feel appreciated.

It is my assumption there.

I would say I hope they appreciate me.

And man is transparency refreshing, which means refreshing means it's not something that you...

necessarily had a lot of um so no like in no universe i think where the meds going to offer him the five years i think they're probably capped at three but the idea that you know you could probably go back and not to say that he took would take a big hometown discount but to say hey you know

Four for a higher AAV, for a slightly higher AAV, and you get to be a Mets legend.

You get to continue this journey.

I think that could have moved the needle more than they would have thought.

And they just didn't want him that bad.

They just didn't think that he gave enough value.

And so it goes back to kind of like baseball is a business.

It's always going to be a business.

I'm not against baseball being a business.

But I've always said, you know, businesses are made...

of people, so sure, you didn't want Pete Alonso, that is totally fine, but how you treat these players on the way out, you do have to be careful with that.