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Evan & Tiki

Hour 4: Strawberry Rips Alonso, Paul Pierce’s Wild NBA Rule Idea & Mets World Series Hope?

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The 4th and final hour of Evan & Tiki is packed with strong opinions, sports history, and classic WFAN storytelling. The guys react to comments from Darryl Strawberry criticizing Pete Alonso for leaving the New York Mets for the Baltimore Orioles, sparking debate over loyalty, legacy, and whether the Mets ever really tried to keep him.

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I hate myself right now because I'm about to become a very big hypocrite.

0:37.0

But I believe in giving you the news and the information. And even if I'm about to become a very big hypocrite. But I believe in giving you the news and the

0:39.4

information. And even if I'm ready to move on, even if I'm the one saying Met fans are unhinged

0:45.1

and continuing to talk about Pete Alonzo, I have to bring up Pete Alonzo right now, Tiki, because

0:50.1

I think it's newsworthy. What happened? Darrell Strawberry has arrived at Metz Camp. And of course, Darrell Strawberry is another one of those guys, famous in Met History, an icon. We loved him, a legend, and he left as a free agent. Yes. So this is Darrell Strawberry opining on Pete Alonzo. I'm going to read you his quote. Are you ready? Yes. I was really shocked that Pete would leave New York for Baltimore, Strawberry said.

1:14.3

Pete could have broken all the records and could have been on top of every offensive category for this organization.

1:20.1

And then sometimes when you don't see that and realize how important that is, one day he's going to wake up just like i did and regret that you didn't stick where you

1:31.2

were at wow wow yeah strong words from down strawberry yeah it's almost i mean he's he's implying that

1:39.7

he left from money as opposed to loyalty to the met's so he's, at least trying to, met fans against each other because of how their

1:48.2

emotions are kind of split on Pete Alonzo.

1:51.1

Because somebody wanted them to go, like they were done with them.

1:53.5

A lot of people didn't because they wanted to see him be a 500 home run icon who was

1:58.4

start to finish as a homegrown New York Met and Darrell Strawberry is

2:03.3

throwing some fire, some wood on the fire, man.

2:06.5

The problem with what Darrell is saying is the Mets never made Pete Alonzo an offer.

2:10.4

So the only way this could have gone down is as he gets the five-year deal from Baltimore,

2:14.6

he would need it to have instructed Scott Boris, or himself, to call up Steve

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