Laura Albanese

And I think the Mets do know that because that stuff starts percolating around.

It's only free agents.

You know, the same way that the Mets had a wonderful reputation last year for being family friendly and everything else, it's something everybody wanted to come to the Mets.

The tide is shifting.

Do you want a different sort of reputation that maybe makes you less attractive to free agents?

I'm a 40-40 player.

40-40 player.

No, I, my, my thought is that the Orioles probably outbid everybody.

I'm fascinated to see where it goes, because like this is this is probably I mean, everyone talks about like last year being David Stearns is like most pivotal offseason.

I don't think that's true.

Getting Juan Soto was a huge, huge, huge, huge deal.

But it was one deal when I think about.

something career defining, you got to build this thing from the studs now.

It's not just about navigating one deal, which as thorny as it was, is still one deal.

Now you have to pick from pieces everywhere else.

And this is where you show the genius.

It is easy to say, let me throw as much money as I can at a generational player who's going to play here for a long time.

Hey, I have the money for it.

Let me give it to them.

That's one thing.