ESPN: A well-known fan shoot back when Juan Soto sends a brutal 9-word message to Yankee fans.
Yankee supporters are still very happy despite losing generational slugger Juan Soto as a free agency after the New York Mets gave the 26-year-old outfielder the biggest deal in baseball and professional sports history. With 27 World Championships, the squad has more than twice as many as the second-most successful club.
The St. Louis Cardinals would have eleven. Additionally, the Yankees are coming off a 94-win season that saw them win the American League East pennant in the “what have you done for me lately” category. The World Series was their destination. To make up for Soto’s departure and return to the Series, the franchise seems ready to keep investing in free agency quality.
The Yankees’ continued annoyance over losing Juan Soto
Even still, Yankee supporters are still upset over Soto’s leaving. One notable Yankee fan with his own media platform took offense to Soto’s cruel message to Yankee fans during his Mets debut news conference on Thursday, December 13. He felt obliged to retaliate against the superstar who would play for the fourth team in his first eight years of career in 2025.
During the news conference, Soto tried to justify his decision to go from the Bronx to Queens in order to play for the Yankees’ crosstown foe, the Mets, for the next and maybe last 15 years of his career. The two groups provided similar amounts of money. The Yankees allegedly offered Soto a contract of $760 million over 16 years, while the Mets made an offer of $765 million for 15 years.
Soto said his decision was heavily influenced by the New York City Mets fans.
According to Soto’s press remarks, “It’s been a Mets town for a long time.” Yankee supporters were offended by that remark.
The legendary sportscaster has always been a Yankees fan.
The host of the multiple-Emmy-nominated Rich Eisen Show, Rich Eisen, had heard all he could about that comment. Because of his groundbreaking work at ESPN and his role as the first on-air talent at NFL Network when it debuted in 2003, Eisen is among the most well-known media sports pundits in the nation. The devoted Yankees supporter reserved a portion of his Friday program to criticize Soto’s assertion.
Eisen launched into a tirade against Soto, saying, “This one got me.” “It’s been a Mets town for a long time,” said Juan Soto. What is he discussing? I’ve lived in New York City for fifty-five years, Juan. He has existed for as long as the New York minute. Get out of here, dude. Leave this place with that loudness. It is identical to what is found in Los Angeles. Town of clippers? Leave this place. Is this a Mets town? In your mind, yes. He only spent a year living the Yankee way.
Compared to the Mets, the Yankees have a more accomplished history.
Since joining MLB as an expansion team in 1962, the Mets have participated in the Fall Classic six times and won two World Series, in 1969 and 1986. Founded in 1903 as the New York Highlanders, the Yankees are one of the original eight teams in the American League and have won 27 titles in 41 appearances to the Series.
Eisen was born in New York City and is 55 years old. Before accepting the unprecedented contract from the Mets and changing teams, Soto played his lone season in the Bronx, in 2024, with the Yankees. Soto played for the San Diego Padres in 2023 and the second half of 2022. He signed with the Washington Nationals as a 16-year-old international amateur free agent from the Dominican Republic in 2015, and he played his first 5 1/2 seasons with them.
Soto made his Major League debut on May 20, 2018, at the age of 19, after the Nationals gave him a $1.5 million signing bonus.
