this off season was fun for us and for our show.

It felt like, you know, every few days there was a new move.

How fun was it for you?

That was the intent.

I think.

It's good for the show.

We kept something in the, in the, in the, hopper.

I figured as such.

What's up, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the MetsPod. I'm your host, Connor Rogers, alongside my co-host as always, Joe DeMayo. And we have a very, very special guest in Mets

manager Buck Showalter. Buck, how are you, man? We are so excited to talk to you today. Good fellas. Just got back from my eye appointment down here in St. Lucy. You can tell my eyes are deleted.

So I'm not, you know, shot, bloodshot or anything. Don't start worrying about it.

Yeah, you're playing hurt today, Buck. and we appreciate that about you coming on the part.

That's right.

That's absolutely right.

So kick things off here, something I was really excited to ask you was when you made

your return to the dugout last year with the Mets, what was something you missed about the

game being in the dugout that you didn't even realize until you got back in uniform and down there with the team.

I don't know about didn't realize. I think the thing that you miss is being part of a team,

being part of a group of people and a group and a group of fans and an organization that everybody's trying to get to that,

you know, that promised land, so to speak,

where everybody's pulling on the same rope. And, you know, I talk all the time about not having an agenda and not, there should be nothing that makes you pick aside. And I think I'm just that

singleness of purpose that, you know know every day you wake up knowing there's

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