Pete Crow-Armstrong

you've made this such a such an easy space for me to be myself and i'm i every day i'm grateful for the encouragement to do that um yeah i think you've gotten the best out of me up to this point and we got six more years of that so um and then jb we go way back um and i don't know if i'd be in a cubs uniform if it wasn't for you um

So I appreciate the tough love the very first day that I showed up late to Mets camp.

But I think that's where our relationship started.

And I gained a lot of respect and admiration for you that day, just because you didn't care that I was

a first-round pick and this guy that's walking in with his hair all bleached and an earring in and With the tough love you still encouraged me to be myself.

So I guess we're seeing a common theme here, but that's what I felt from this organization and I

I appreciate how you guys run this ship.

So Carter, thanks for working with me and Ham and Ollie.

And then Counts, excited to be with you for another six.

And I appreciate the way you lead all of us.

So Miles, DK, Veej, thank you guys for always having my back as well.

Bushy nice to see your face dog love you so it'd be nice if my high school coach Garrett Halpert could be here but he's got big fish to fry himself but he's another person that has gotten me here so I don't really know how to end this I'm gonna just keep rambling if someone doesn't stop me we'll take questions now yeah question we'll go here to Megan

I don't think there was ever gonna be a time that wasn't right to get this done.

I think the entire process, I've been really appreciative of Jed and Carter.

recognizing that the, the amount of focus I wanted to put into just being on the field.

Um, and there was never any pressure to get this done.

So like bottom line, they knew I wanted to be here.

Um, so with that, I think there was, whenever this got done, it was going to be the right time.

Um, and I'm just grateful I got done when it did.

The money, I don't quite know how to feel about that part of it.