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Evan & Tiki

Pete Alonso leaves the Mets as a Hero

Evan & Tiki

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4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Pete Alonso is leaving the Mets with no Mets fans angry with him

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0:00.0

We'll get to the Met fans in a second how you're feeling on a back-to-back punch-in-the-face kind of day.

0:05.5

Yesterday it was Edwin Diaz, and today we're just tuning in. Pete Alonzo is now a former

0:10.6

Met. He is signing a five-year, $152 million deal with the Baltimore Orioles. But Pete Alonzo

0:17.0

has done something that is very rare in New York sports. He has left as a free agent for a

0:22.3

lucrative contract elsewhere. And when guys do that, it is met with anger towards them, along

0:29.3

with anger towards the team. But when Robbie Canoe left, there was anger towards Robbie Canoe.

0:34.3

You heard it yesterday concerning Edwin Diaz. There were a lot of Met fans, Tommy being one of them, angry at Edwin Diaz.

0:41.0

Pete Alonzo is leaving New York as a hero.

0:45.6

You will not hear one person betmouth Pete Alonzo on the way out.

0:50.5

And then you throw in the fact that he goes to the most unobnoxious team in

0:55.1

Met's history, like a team in the American League East that, you know, other than the 1969

1:00.5

World Series, we don't have any issues with. Like, Pete Alonzo is leaving in a way in which

1:07.2

we're all loving him and hating Cohen and Stearns.

1:11.6

And so that's unique because even Darrell, Darrell left.

1:13.9

He was met with a mixed reaction upon his return.

1:16.6

Everyone gets somewhat of a mixed reaction.

1:19.3

Pete Alonzo is going to be universally loved upon his return on September 14th at Cityfield.

1:25.3

Because he was pushed out the door.

1:27.2

And it leaves us now asking why.

1:30.4

And there are many different reasons why.

1:32.8

One could be, as we were just talking about, it's a business decision.

1:36.3

They don't believe that it's going to ultimately pay off because they're not going to win a championship

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