Sean Morash

So just because Pete Alonzo's hitting one for the Orioles doesn't mean anything.

And then yesterday, I guess Darryl Strawberry says that, and I understand he ends up leaving the Mets and going to the Dodgers, and his career was affected by all of this.

We get that whole part of it.

Right, exactly.

But he said that Pete Alonzo's going to regret leaving the Mets.

He didn't want to leave.

This is where I will defend him.

The Mets didn't want to bring him back.

Steve Cohen and David Stearns did not want Pete Alonzo back.

So it's not like he's going to be regretting not staying here.

I mean, he certainly wasn't going to sit there and take some...

ridiculously under-market deal to stay with the Mets, which I don't even know if they would have even offered him that.

Yeah, I guess his brother was out there for a little bit and told him how amazing it was and the stadium and the weather and the team and the winning and everything.

And I understand it's a very expensive place to live, but as we've talked many times, this consortium of...

Yeah, he went babe on me.

Deferred money and all of the things that that consortium of billionaires does to take care of these guys to make sure they're not getting crushed by the taxes out there.

But yeah, so I just want that message.

Yeah, that's what everybody's saying right now, which stinks.

But as I mentioned before last week, when the one...

Saving grace is the fact that these TV deals are coming up and expiring, and they believe that.