It's been a lot of fun, and this is why I wanted to come back.

This is why I wanted to be here.

It's home.

It's a community I'm familiar with.

It's very comforting for me to see the general enthusiasm and positivity that's around

the team right now.

What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Mets Pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac. Visit your Tristate Cadillac dealer today. I'm your host, Connor Rogers, joined as always by my co-host,

Joe DiMayo with a very special guest in Mets President of Baseball Operations, David Stearns.

David, we've been hoping to get you on for a long time.

We're really happy to make this happen.

Thank you for joining us today.

Thanks for having me on.

I'm glad we found a time and I look forward to this discussion.

So in some of your early media availability, which Joe and I track like crazy,

we've really enjoyed listening to you, talk about this job since you got it. You spoke in depth

about learning this organization, right? You come into a world where there's just so many layers

to a baseball organization. Can you point out a couple of things that you didn't know at the time

that maybe have impressed you so far

after a couple of months in?

Yeah, there's a lot.

I think when you come into a new organization

and something of this size,

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