Joe Benigno on the Mets offseason

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00:00There's only two things that matter to me in this offseason as a Mets fan.

00:03I want Alonzo and Edwin Diaz signed.

00:06Whatever you do after that, obviously we need starting pitching.

00:09There's no question.

00:10That's got to be addressed.

00:11You could trade anybody not named Lindor, Soto, and McClain.

00:15Oh, well, that's a very positive outlook, I think, because, you know,

00:18they did have Pete and Edwin last year and didn't do so well.

00:22What do you think happened?

00:23But you know what?

00:24But they did.

00:24Look, Edwin Diaz was the premier closer in baseball last year,

00:27and he has been for a while now.

00:29I mean, let's be honest about it.

00:30And Pete had a monster year.

00:32I mean, let's be honest.

00:33And he's an all-time Met.

00:35See, this means a lot to me, John.

00:37I was a Met fan since the beginning of the Mets.

00:40I was nine years old in 1962, and I have seen this franchise get rid of,

00:45basically with the exception of David Wright, every iconic player we've ever had.

00:50They traded Tom Seaver for basically four stiffs.

00:53What a disaster that was.

00:55And I'm not even going to get on the Nolan Ryan trade,

00:58but everything after that, starting with the Seaver trade,

01:01you had that a**hole Frank, excuse me, can I say a**hole?

01:04That a**hole Frank Cashin who destroyed the championship team,

01:09saying Darryl Strawberry wasn't, at the time, a $5 million a year ball player.

01:13Let him walk away to the Dodgers.

01:14What a disaster.

01:15I could go on and on.

01:16That's my feeling.

01:18I want Pete.

01:19He's an all-time Met.

01:20He's a homegrown Met.

01:21He's our all-time home run leader in the history of the franchise.

01:24I want to see this guy play his whole career here.

01:27I don't know if he hit 500 homers, but certainly over 400, 400 and something home runs.

01:32And, you know, number 20 eventually go up into the rafters.