NFT- Juan Soto is a Met!

[Trench]

Did you cry about his loyalty when he left the nationals and the padres?

Or is it just because you're salty he's left for the Mets?

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My issue is he went across town to the rival team at the peak of his career. That is my issue. I don't care about his free market stuff. Be loyal. Build something.

I would have had no issue had he left for a different city. But to go to a team in same city is an absolute disgrace to the fans and his teammates.

[TDToomer]

My issue is he went across town to the rival team at the peak of his career. That is my issue. I don't care about his free market stuff. Be loyal. Build something.

I would have had no issue had he left for a different city. But to go to a team in same city is an absolute disgrace to the fans and his teammates.

I can speak for the Yankees fans who no longer live in NYC that we do not care about the Mets. City rivalries mean nothing to me anymore when I am no longer working, living, seeing NY sports fans everywhere. They are just another team that plays in the NL and they meet for a series or 2 throughout the season. Soto signing with the Sox, Jay or O's would be a epic disaster for the Yankees and far worse. I am glad he chose an NL team.

[Grime Time]

It's Barkley vibes,  accept im not sad about it. 

[Just_jimmy]

My issue is he went across town to the rival team at the peak of his career. That is my issue. I don't care about his free market stuff. Be loyal. Build something.

I would have had no issue had he left for a different city. But to go to a team in same city is an absolute disgrace to the fans and his teammates.

He's not a yankees guy, he's only there because they paid more than his last team.

If someone had offered more than the Mets, he'd be there. 

As someone else said its free market economics.

I like my job but I'd be out the door in a shot for double my salary etc. It's life.  He played under a contract, both sides met the terms until it ended and he's moved on for more money.

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[DaveBrown74]

Yankees fan here. Baseball needs a salary cap. This and what the Dodgers are doing is insanity.

Come on, TD. Don't act like the Yankees haven't benefited greatly over the years from the no cap policy. And they were just a hair below the Mets' bid at 15 years/$760mm. It's not like they weren't right there every step of the way.

[DaveBrown74]

He's a disgrace. Everything that's wrong with sports. Show some loyalty. Be like Eli.

I hope Soto chokes in the biggest of spots. He is a disgrace to the game. It's one thing to leave to another city but another to leave to an adjoining team all because of greed. He's a disgrace.

He was on the Yankees for one season! You make it sound like he was some long-time Yankee and owes them some sort of major show of loyalty. Were you denigrating him like this when he left the Padres to come to the Yankees?

[DaveBrown74]

Steve Cohen is not messing around is he? Will it work?

Seemed to work pretty well for the Dodgers who paid this kind of sum for a player.

[DaveBrown74]

My issue is he went across town to the rival team at the peak of his career. That is my issue. I don't care about his free market stuff. Be loyal. Build something.

I would have had no issue had he left for a different city. But to go to a team in same city is an absolute disgrace to the fans and his teammates.

The Mets have lost players to the Yankees under past ownership that they couldn't afford to keep. Did you view that as disloyal then, or were you happy to get those guys?

[DaveBrown74]

He's not a yankees guy, he's only there because they paid more than his last team.

If someone had offered more than the Mets, he'd be there. 

As someone else said its free market economics.

I like my job but I'd be out the door in a shot for double my salary etc. It's life.  He played under a contract, both sides met the terms until it ended and he's moved on for more money.

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Precisely.

I'm hearing a lot of sour grapes here from fans who think players owe their team the favor of playing at a discount to the highest bidder just because they were on the team for one single year. As if one year is a long enough time period to expect loyalty and the player was on two other teams before that.

Especially when the team in question (the Yankees) is a huge market, huge payroll team that has bought big ticket players and pulled them away from poorer teams for decades and won championships that way.

Give me a break. Just being bitter because it happened to them once for a change, unlike all the countless times they have done it to someone else and benefited from the no salary cap system themselves.

[Messiah717]

He was on the Yankees for one season! You make it sound like he was some long-time Yankee and owes them some sort of major show of loyalty. Were you denigrating him like this when he left the Padres to come to the Yankees?

He was traded.

[jgrangers2]

My issue is he went across town to the rival team at the peak of his career. That is my issue. I don't care about his free market stuff. Be loyal. Build something.

I would have had no issue had he left for a different city. But to go to a team in same city is an absolute disgrace to the fans and his teammates.

Irony of this is that he never actually "chose" the Yankees. He was traded there. The only team he ever truly chose prior to the Mets were the Nationals. What sort of loyalty is he supposed to owe a franchise that he was a part of for all of one year?

[Trench]

Irony of this is that he never actually "chose" the Yankees. He was traded there. The only team he ever truly chose prior to the Mets were the Nationals. What sort of loyalty is he supposed to owe a franchise that he was a part of for all of one year?

The fans embraced him. He knows it. He said on record he is basically interested in money. Good. See ya. Don't let the door hit you in the ass. Hope he gets a case of the yips

[AZGiantFan]

Ironic that the SNL cold opening kind of predicted this.

[DJN]

[DaveBrown74]

Hahaha.

Maybe, although he's 6.5 years younger than Judge, so that process is coming sooner for the Yanks than it is the Mets.