Mets lured Juan Soto with a private suite?

Hour 3 of Tuesday's program. Sure, Juan Soto has 765 million reasons to be a New York Met but there are also a few other reasons including a nasty security guard and a private suite.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we take you up until five o'clock. We're here
throughout the week this week, and so that's a good thing.
You know, travel sometimes takes us away, but we are
here during the course of this week, and we have
a lot of our usual features and things that we've already.
We've already had some and we'll have more as the

(00:20):
week progresses. I we talked a little bit about the
college football scene and the Long Corns impending matchup with
the Clemson Tigers, and that is still twelve days off,
I guess, or eleven days off before they play on

(00:41):
December twenty first. But we heard from both head coaches
on Sunday after the announcement was made after the field
of twelve was revealed, and obviously it showed the matchup
for Texas and Clemson. And and we're going to hear
some more from Dabosweeney, the head coach of the Tigers,

(01:03):
here in a few minutes. But I did want to
get to a couple of things. The baseball Winter meetings
are going on, as we know. We had Gene Watson,
our MLB insider from the Chicago White Sox front office
on with us yesterday. So we were talking about the

(01:24):
one Sodo deal him leaving the Yankees to sign with
the Mets. It was really interesting the difference, say, in
Soto's contract and that of shoe Aotani's. Shoetani had a
ten year, seven hundred million dollar deal and Soto fifteen years,

(01:47):
seven hundred and sixty five million dollar deal. Now here's
the interesting thing. Otani's contract came with six hundred and
eighty million of the seven hundred million deferred money down
on the road. That, however, is not the case with Soto.
In Soto's case, every dollar will be paid to him.

(02:10):
The deal also comes reportedly with a huge signing bonus
as well, and something that will kick in during the
after the fifth year. So there's all kinds of upfront
of money and things like that that will be going on.
But there was one other thing. It wasn't just about

(02:32):
the money with one. So I don't know if you
heard this Storycam, but his decision to lead the Yankees
for the Mets. Yeah, money was involved. So was the
Yankee stadium security guard. Oh dude, tell well, there were

(02:54):
there were a lot of a lot of reasons. Apparently
he chose the Mets. John Hayman of the New York
Post that followed pretty closely. Yeah, there was seven hundred
and sixty five million reasons. Why, Well, I'll give you
a couple more. The Mets owner Steve Cohen had Sodo
come over to his mansion in Beverly Hills, and he

(03:16):
served him Latin food for lunch, showed him a film.
Didn't just do a PowerPoint thing. Showed him a film. Okay, yep,
showed him a film, and and Hayman, the writer wrote,
the Mets have excellent intelligence. They were aware that while
Sodo liked being a Yankee and loved having Aaron Judge
protect him in the lineup and lead them all in
the clubhouse, he was allegedly upset early in the year

(03:40):
by an overzealous Yankee security guy who disallowed a family
member and a chef slash driver from certain areas to
come in to the clubhouse. And apparently it wasn't the
only issue he had with the Yankees. Interesting he also
asked to have his own suite. He's denied that run back.

(04:04):
They balked at the idea of offering him a swite
in the deal. He said the fact that Aaron Judge
pays for his own sweet, and even Derek Jeter had
paid for his during the playing, they seemed to prevent
them from budgeting on the request Yankees like, look, Derek
Jeter paid for his own sweet. Aaron Judge pays for
his own sweet. We can't give you a swee okay,

(04:27):
all right, no problem to Mets. They gave him a
sweet without batting an eye. So is that? And more
friendly security guards and seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
That's why Juan Soto will be a New York Met
and not a New York kick. Off the top of
your head, in terms of biggest free agency moves, like

(04:49):
shocking moves, what does this range? Because you have the
element of obviously the fifteen year contract, but also Craig
the element of him going from the Yankees to the
Met it's, you know, for the Mets of the Yankees. Hey,
that makes sense. It's it's the Yankees, right, But going
from the Yankees of the Mets is what that's like
big brother to little nephew. Yeah, it's different. For example,

(05:12):
if you could have made a greater Southern California comparison
to Otani from the Angels to the Dodgers. But that's
the step up reverse. Yeah, so I get what you're
saying there. It'd be like somebody going from the Giants
to the A's, yeah, you know, or the Cubs to
the White Sox. You know, it'd be that kind of thing. Also,
the money just continues to climb. I remember when Bryce

(05:33):
Harper elected to sign of the Phillies coming from Washington,
the fact that three hundred dollars was mentioned. It seemed like, like,
you know, an astronomically high number, and it is, by
the way, for monch of us in the regular world,
but not in baseball numbers now. And apparently you know
Otani sevener, Like I said, we're not that far away
from the first one billion dollar baseball player. It's gonna happen.

(05:56):
We're win the first billion dollar baseball player. Yep, yep,
It's it's definitely gonna happen. All right. Up next, we're
gonna hear from Dabosweeney, the head coach of the Clemson Tigers,
more on his thoughts about his team matching up with
the Texas Longhorns and the connections between the two. When
we continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone
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