Rich Eisen couldn’t consider what he was listening to from Juan Soto.
After taking part in one season for the Yankees, Soto signed throughout city with the Mets on a 15-year deal value $765 million.
Eisen, a lifelong Yankees fan, wasn’t upset with Soto over the monetary resolution, per se, however took challenge with one peculiar remark made by the celebrity outfielder throughout his introductory press convention.
“It’s been a Mets city for a very long time,” Soto stated.
Eisen was perplexed.
“This one bought me,” Eisen stated on his eponymous multi-platform present. “It’s the final paragraph of the ESPN story the place I’m studying about what yesterday was about. Juan Soto ‘It’s been a Mets city for a very long time’. What is he speaking about? Juan, I’ve been round New York City for 55 years. He’s been round for the proverbial New York minute. Dude, get out of right here. Get out of right here with that noise. It is rather like right here in Los Angeles. Clipper city? Get out of right here. It’s a Mets city? Yeah, in your head. He simply lived the Yankee life for a yr.”
Eisen continued to rail on this selection of phrases.
“Don’t give me this nonsense that it’s been a Mets city for a very long time. A very long time?” he requested.
Eisen in contrast the respective pedigree of the 2 franchises.
“Guess what? For 100 years, there have been championships from the Yankees,” he stated. “The Mets have 1969 and 1986. Get out of right here … That I cannot continence.”
Soto spent final season with the Yankees after being traded by the Padres. and helped the Bronx Bombers attain their first World Series since 2009.
