Happy Friday everyone, hope you have glorious plans for the long weekend. Zach here. Memorial Day is the first real checkpoint of the baseball season, a time to take stock before we charge ahead.
Yesterday Hannah did some Taking Stock with Tim Healey, the excellent beat writer who has just left the Mets (who he covered for Newsday) and is about to start covering the Red Sox for the Boston Globe.
it’s a wide-ranging conversation, so I’ll let you get right to it. There are some links on the other side. Hope you enjoy.
~ Show notes ~
0:21: Tim’s wildest day(s) on the Mets beat.
3:57: All the many general managers and managers Tim has covered.
5:38: What covering all those managers taught Tim about the ways in which managers do and don’t matter.
7:26: How to go about establishing a new working relationship with leadership after a regime change.
11:14: What was the biggest difference covering the Mets pre-Steve Cohen vs. now in the Steve Cohen era?
14:02: Side track on how more owners should make themselves readily available and more overtly likable for the sake of public image.
17:33: The most challenging part of covering the Mets.
21:42: Which player(s) Tim covered had the longest character arc.
23:35: Why is Hannah so emotionally invested in Edwin Díaz’s success?
26:40: On intentionally “media friendly” players and the contrivance of seeming likable.
30:20: How Tim’s job is different when the team is very bad vs. very good.
33:20: Where to eat on the beat.
36:15: New York travel hacks from a well-traveled beat writer.
37:10: How did Tim tell the Mets he’s leaving.
40:00: What Tim loves about being a beat writer, and specifically why he’s looking forward to doing it covering the Red Sox for The Boston Globe.
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