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I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside, none other than Andy McCartee.

Rich, how you doing? Good, Andy. How are you? I'm good today. Alonzo signed. You know, I wouldn't

it's Super Bowl weekend, so that's always exciting.

But, you know, Alonzo's the kind of guy I wouldn't care about, except he's our guy.

You know, I mean, you don't have that many guys who come up in your own farm system, make the team.

And, you know, the guy has become, at least statistically

speaking, he's kind of a historic met given the number of home runs and RBIs.

And even in years, look, even in years when his batting average has been weighed down,

you can write him down for, you know, 35 home runs,

sometimes 50, and you can write him down for 100 RBIs. And that's, uh, that's not nothing.

So yeah, I was hoping he wouldn't sign with the Mets just to screw the Mets. But,

but it never made sense to me where else he was going to go. It didn't seem to be a

robust market. No, but it's a gutsy move because they kept offering him like six, seven years,

but at less than he thinks he's worth. So he's betting on himself, which I always think,

you know, sometimes that works out. Two years, 54 or 56 million.

Yeah, well, that's a good deal for the Mets.

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