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Laura Albanese

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659 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

You, you need relief pitchers.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

Uh, I thought for all the world that Tyler Rogers was going to come back and I thought, Hey, that's going to be actually pretty good.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

You know, you got your Devin Williams, you got Tyler Rogers, AJ Minter is going to be back eventually.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

Tyler Rogers goes to the Blue Jays because now everybody suddenly wants to go to the Blue Jays because they don't care about like Canadian tax anymore or whatever it was at the

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

You know, the doors are starting to close a little bit in terms of what's available.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

And this is going to be this is where David Stern shows his metal.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

This is where he kind of like proves this is why Steve Cohen, the richest owner in sports, courted me so heavily.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

The question is whether or not he's going to live up to that.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

But the market for Bellinger, I love Bellinger as a player, is going to be so inflated because everybody wants this guy now.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

Right.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

I don't think it is because, again, he wants to win.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

And people always fault players for being like ring chasers or whatever the heck you want to call it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

You're only playing Major League Baseball for a short period of time.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

Sometimes winning a World Series is the difference between getting into the Hall of Fame or not.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

It's the difference between...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

Like an iconic career and a very, very good career.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

You know, if you have that great World Series moment.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

I would never, ever fault a player for going where they think they can win.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

Nor would I fault a player for staying in a certain place because they're loyal to it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Laura Albanese Discusses What's Next For The Mets After Losing Edwin Diaz And Pete Alonso

I'm not gonna be like, Mike Trout, how could you have always stayed on the, no, I'm not gonna do that.