May 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Juan Soto faces backlash on his handling the media following the Subway Series.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right. Now. ESPN's baseball game last night was the
Mets and the Yankees, and prior to the game, they
had arranged, or at least they thought they had arranged
for one to one Soto to be miked up. And
of course I think this is a little bit overkilled,
but hey, we're being media friendly these days, and so
we want the players that matter to wear a mic
(00:25):
when they're in the outfield and talk to us during pitches.
First first off, First off, tell me how you feel
about that. Andy, It's not not my face. My concern
is and we saw this last year. If somebody's going
to make an error while they're talking to Carl Ravage
and they're going to lose the game based on an
era when they weren't paying attention to the game and
they were trying to figure out, or they're going to
(00:48):
drop a word that they shouldn't and the ESPN delay
guy's going to miss the button in time, or.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Maybe they just don't hit the button at all. I mean,
we know how it goes over there at the Four
Letter Network.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They just apologize.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, so you know, a ground ball is short and
somebody some excellent comes out of the mouth.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh, We're sorry. He said that, Yeah, me too. Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Uh anyway, uh but anyway, right before the game began,
when they went to put the microphone on Sodo, he said,
now I don't want to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So they had to switch to Brandon Nemo, who he's
another one of their players, the Mets players. Yes, you
don't know the Mets roster by heart. You don't know
their starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I know, I know Soto, and I know Pete Alonzo
and Pete Alonzo Cob basically lost in the game yesterday
with an air in the.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I think that's it. Is the grom still on that
on that roster. No, the Groom's not on that roster.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, they have the shortstop Lindor Francisco. Lindor's on that
team too. There's others. Anyway, let's get back to what
I was trying to get to here. Uh So, Wan
Soto said, no, if I were the Mets, I would
have find him.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Twenty five grand put it in the in the entertainment,
in the in the charity coffer. When you are asked
to do something, I am paying you seven hundred sixty
three million dollars you can be inconvenienced and talk about whatever. Now,
he didn't have a particularly good series, but Aaron Judge
never says no.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Apparently the only thing that Sodo was interested in was
rekindling his friendship with Judge, which Aaron Judge's friends with everybody.
You have to work really hard to not like have
Aaron Judge not like you. And he had a conversation
with Aaron Boone and with Jash Chisholm, and Chisholm's on
the il so he wasn't even playing. So but he
(02:32):
didn't have a particularly good series. And New York the
Yankees won two out of three, and that became part
of the storyline. And then after the game was over,
the reporters wanted to ask him a few questions and
he goes, wait a second, I got to go say.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Goodbye to my family.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And he walked out said goodbye to his family and
never came back in the locker room to do the
postgame oop stuff oops. And that was that I have
to go see my family was leave me alone so
I can escape the locker room and get on the
on my car and drive back home.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, okay, here's where I'll defend a little bit. What if,
for one, because you've already said that you don't like
the fact that they that they ask them to do it.
What if he just flied out, just didn't want to
do it because he didn't want to be distracted as
far as he should have said yes in the first place.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, you don't say yes and then rescind it for
no reason. Okay, I am like I said, I am not.
I understand we have a people look at this generationally
different than I do. I don't think a player having
a conversation with the three guys in the ESPN booth
is going to say anything impactful that's going to make
(03:37):
me enjoy the game more in the heat of the game.
What I would prefer is what he says after the game,
or what he says in a pregame interview. To me,
when you are in the midst of a game, your concentration,
your focus needs to be on the game and this idea. Well,
you're playing right field. How fast does the ball? How
does the ball get to you? It gets to the ball, nos,
(03:57):
and the ball knows if you're not paying attention to
the game, it's coming your way. The weakest link on
your roster, on your defense is going to be exposed.
And not that one Soto's a bad fielder, but when
he's talking to somebody else while he's trying to do this.
Plus he's got fifty thousand fans that are all over
him in right field that are glad that he's on
the other team so that they can give him whatever
(04:19):
salute they want. There's plenty of other distractions. Now, I
also understand it from the other prospect. We're trying to
sell the game. We're trying to get more people to watch.
And if millennials need one Sodo or whatever generation we're
in now, if they want, if they need one Sodo
to do a fourth inning interview with Carl Ravage to
(04:39):
be able to watch the game. It's just like doing
the walking talks on the PGA tour. Now, if that's
part of what we have to do to get people
to watch, that's fine. But I'm going to go back
to what I said about Angel Reese and I said
about Rory. You're one Sodo. You're the most highest paid
baseball player. I guess you and Otani are neck and
neck in terms of total dollars, although you're getting years
(05:01):
now and he's getting his later. But if you're going
to be that kind of a superstar and that kind
of a lightning rod, and we're going to interview you
when the Dodgers give you that money, and we're going
to interview after you at the game winning home run,
you have to say yes when you have bad days, and.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
If you have.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
If you have your fans interested heart, if you have
your sponsor's interested heart, the answer is never no unless
you have a major extenuating circumstance. You have a you know,
you leave the game in the eighth inning because you've
gotten word that you've had a family member and a
car accident or something. All right, you're not good. I
don't care about your media obligations. Go take care of
(05:41):
your family. If you've got some kind of an emergency
to get to after a game, or you got you
shouldn't have a plane to catch because you're with the team.
If if the team's leaving the everybody's going to get
to the airport, and everybody's going to leave when everybody
gets there, there should not be a reason for you
to say no to this. And this is how you
get your information to your fans and.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I've always said this.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
A couple of years ago, I was asked to help
a football player who was a little media shy how
to answer questions, and I said, if you don't like
the question, just answer a different question.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Just you don't have to get.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
All they want is something from you because you're the
star of the show or you're the you're the quarterbacker,
you're the defensive backer, you're the guy that people want
to hear from. If somebody ask you something that you
don't know the answer to, it's okay to.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Say I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And then if you want to, you know, talk about
something that you want to talk about, talk about that
they may re ask a different question, you re answered
a different way. You can control the narrative when you're
doing all this and when you're standing up in front
of the media, and more people respect guys like Aaron
Judge and Tiger. I mean, Tiger said no a couple
of times, but very rarely did he say no.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But Aaron Judge never says no.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And then most of the star players, I don't know
that I don't know. I can't remember how many times
Kobe declined postgame stuff. But we're going to make sure
that you. It's it's the player's obligation to address their fans,
and the fans aren't in there to do the interviews,
and that's why the media is there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And I think it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Would be okay to call out some of these rogue
media things. Are the people that call themselves media, you know.
I know when I'm at the Texas Open, I see
a lot of local media, but I see the golf
media that travels with the tour every week or at
least most weeks, and when they do interviews, the questions
are are are concise, they're thoughtful. And then you'll have
(07:37):
some random guy that works for my dot com website
that they created on their own and they're just trying
to get likes and clicks, and they'll ask a question
and everybody in the room's like, have you ever played
golf before? Do you know what into the club to hold?
And then you then you Unfortunately, most.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Of the they'd ask stupid questions like me be like, what.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Is the three The most elementary question that you would
ask would be would better than what some ask. But
it's never the golf media. It's never the it's the
it's the blogger. It's the the guy trying to get
his name out as a as a podcaster or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Ask about like the rumor stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, you know they want they want the dirt so
they can lay are they have they have their camera
rolling and they can post it on Instagram to get likes.
I understand that that's part of our media circus now,
and you want to control that message if you're Rory
or Tiger or Scottie or Juan Soto or anybody else.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But we've got to.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Start making sure and I think that most of the
players understand this. If we're going to talk to you
when you win, you got to come to us when
we lose.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You lose again.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'm not going to fault Wan Soto for declining the
ending thing, because again you've gone on record and say
you don't you don't like it. What are they going
to give me that I'm not going to give in
postgame or pregame?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, what is the coach going to tell me at
the end of the second third quarters that I don't
already know?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
In fact, the coaches interviews have gotten so bored. We
got to pull some guy off the bench that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Doesn't even play, Uh to uh uh the uh that
isn't even in the game to do the endgame interview. Yeah,
he played two minutes and scored three points in the
first in the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, what's the problem here, Why aren't you winning?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
If nothing else, why not just get him when they're
in the dugout, when they're in the dugout, when they're
actually batting that way, you're he's not his his focus
isn't taken off. Jay.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If you're the second or third or fourth guy to bat,
that would be all right because you're not even going
to the on deck circle until the guy before.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You use at the plate. Yeah. Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And as far as for for after, you and I
both know that if he just generally maybe forgot or
got taken.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He didn't forget. He did that on purpose. I'm not
giving him the benefit of the doubt on that.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt because we
know what times when you're that high profile, at times
you're getting managed by everybody. We need to go here,
I gotta go yet, that's gotta be And what if
he actually said that, and whoever the handlers that were
there said, hey, you want we don't have time. You
got to go do something else. Now I gotta go.
Do you control yourself in that? Listen?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The best, the best ever.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Was David because David don't I think in the years
that David Robinson played, I remember one time where he
was really mad because he got ejected and he left
and he didn't do anything, and he apologized the next day.
But David after a game had to go do a
massage and a whirlpool and three or four treatment things
that might be forty minutes after the game before he
got around, and I'd be sitting in there waiting for
(10:29):
him because he was the star of the show. I
couldn't sell anybody else. Do you want to talk to
Sean Well? I already got Sean and Navery and whoever
else was in there. But the ones that CBS and
AP wanted that they were going to pay me for
was whatever David said. And he'd be forty minutes after
the game. He walks in and go, you're still here? Yeah,
I got three questions, let's get it over with and
(10:50):
he would answer him. So we did that all right.
More coming up, It's the Andy Everage Show.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
On the tickets
All right. Now. ESPN's baseball game last night was the
Mets and the Yankees, and prior to the game, they
had arranged, or at least they thought they had arranged
for one to one Soto to be miked up. And
of course I think this is a little bit overkilled,
but hey, we're being media friendly these days, and so
we want the players that matter to wear a mic
(00:25):
when they're in the outfield and talk to us during pitches.
First first off, First off, tell me how you feel
about that. Andy, It's not not my face. My concern
is and we saw this last year. If somebody's going
to make an error while they're talking to Carl Ravage
and they're going to lose the game based on an
era when they weren't paying attention to the game and
they were trying to figure out, or they're going to
(00:48):
drop a word that they shouldn't and the ESPN delay
guy's going to miss the button in time, or.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Maybe they just don't hit the button at all. I mean,
we know how it goes over there at the Four
Letter Network.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They just apologize.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, so you know, a ground ball is short and
somebody some excellent comes out of the mouth.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh, We're sorry. He said that, Yeah, me too. Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Uh anyway, uh but anyway, right before the game began,
when they went to put the microphone on Sodo, he said,
now I don't want to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So they had to switch to Brandon Nemo, who he's
another one of their players, the Mets players. Yes, you
don't know the Mets roster by heart. You don't know
their starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I know, I know Soto, and I know Pete Alonzo
and Pete Alonzo Cob basically lost in the game yesterday
with an air in the.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I think that's it. Is the grom still on that
on that roster. No, the Groom's not on that roster.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, they have the shortstop Lindor Francisco. Lindor's on that
team too. There's others. Anyway, let's get back to what
I was trying to get to here. Uh So, Wan
Soto said, no, if I were the Mets, I would
have find him.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Twenty five grand put it in the in the entertainment,
in the in the charity coffer. When you are asked
to do something, I am paying you seven hundred sixty
three million dollars you can be inconvenienced and talk about whatever. Now,
he didn't have a particularly good series, but Aaron Judge
never says no.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Apparently the only thing that Sodo was interested in was
rekindling his friendship with Judge, which Aaron Judge's friends with everybody.
You have to work really hard to not like have
Aaron Judge not like you. And he had a conversation
with Aaron Boone and with Jash Chisholm, and Chisholm's on
the il so he wasn't even playing. So but he
(02:32):
didn't have a particularly good series. And New York the
Yankees won two out of three, and that became part
of the storyline. And then after the game was over,
the reporters wanted to ask him a few questions and
he goes, wait a second, I got to go say.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Goodbye to my family.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And he walked out said goodbye to his family and
never came back in the locker room to do the
postgame oop stuff oops. And that was that I have
to go see my family was leave me alone so
I can escape the locker room and get on the
on my car and drive back home.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, okay, here's where I'll defend a little bit. What if,
for one, because you've already said that you don't like
the fact that they that they ask them to do it.
What if he just flied out, just didn't want to
do it because he didn't want to be distracted as
far as he should have said yes in the first place.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Okay, you don't say yes and then rescind it for
no reason. Okay, I am like I said, I am not.
I understand we have a people look at this generationally
different than I do. I don't think a player having
a conversation with the three guys in the ESPN booth
is going to say anything impactful that's going to make
(03:37):
me enjoy the game more in the heat of the game.
What I would prefer is what he says after the game,
or what he says in a pregame interview. To me,
when you are in the midst of a game, your concentration,
your focus needs to be on the game and this idea. Well,
you're playing right field. How fast does the ball? How
does the ball get to you? It gets to the ball, nos,
(03:57):
and the ball knows if you're not paying attention to
the game, it's coming your way. The weakest link on
your roster, on your defense is going to be exposed.
And not that one Soto's a bad fielder, but when
he's talking to somebody else while he's trying to do this.
Plus he's got fifty thousand fans that are all over
him in right field that are glad that he's on
the other team so that they can give him whatever
(04:19):
salute they want. There's plenty of other distractions. Now, I
also understand it from the other prospect. We're trying to
sell the game. We're trying to get more people to watch.
And if millennials need one Sodo or whatever generation we're
in now, if they want, if they need one Sodo
to do a fourth inning interview with Carl Ravage to
(04:39):
be able to watch the game. It's just like doing
the walking talks on the PGA tour. Now, if that's
part of what we have to do to get people
to watch, that's fine. But I'm going to go back
to what I said about Angel Reese and I said
about Rory. You're one Sodo. You're the most highest paid
baseball player. I guess you and Otani are neck and
neck in terms of total dollars, although you're getting years
(05:01):
now and he's getting his later. But if you're going
to be that kind of a superstar and that kind
of a lightning rod, and we're going to interview you
when the Dodgers give you that money, and we're going
to interview after you at the game winning home run,
you have to say yes when you have bad days, and.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
If you have.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
If you have your fans interested heart, if you have
your sponsor's interested heart, the answer is never no unless
you have a major extenuating circumstance. You have a you know,
you leave the game in the eighth inning because you've
gotten word that you've had a family member and a
car accident or something. All right, you're not good. I
don't care about your media obligations. Go take care of
(05:41):
your family. If you've got some kind of an emergency
to get to after a game, or you got you
shouldn't have a plane to catch because you're with the team.
If if the team's leaving the everybody's going to get
to the airport, and everybody's going to leave when everybody
gets there, there should not be a reason for you
to say no to this. And this is how you
get your information to your fans and.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I've always said this.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
A couple of years ago, I was asked to help
a football player who was a little media shy how
to answer questions, and I said, if you don't like
the question, just answer a different question.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Just you don't have to get.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
All they want is something from you because you're the
star of the show or you're the you're the quarterbacker,
you're the defensive backer, you're the guy that people want
to hear from. If somebody ask you something that you
don't know the answer to, it's okay to.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Say I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And then if you want to, you know, talk about
something that you want to talk about, talk about that
they may re ask a different question, you re answered
a different way. You can control the narrative when you're
doing all this and when you're standing up in front
of the media, and more people respect guys like Aaron
Judge and Tiger. I mean, Tiger said no a couple
of times, but very rarely did he say no.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But Aaron Judge never says no.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And then most of the star players, I don't know
that I don't know. I can't remember how many times
Kobe declined postgame stuff. But we're going to make sure
that you. It's it's the player's obligation to address their fans,
and the fans aren't in there to do the interviews,
and that's why the media is there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And I think it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Would be okay to call out some of these rogue
media things. Are the people that call themselves media, you know.
I know when I'm at the Texas Open, I see
a lot of local media, but I see the golf
media that travels with the tour every week or at
least most weeks, and when they do interviews, the questions
are are are concise, they're thoughtful. And then you'll have
(07:37):
some random guy that works for my dot com website
that they created on their own and they're just trying
to get likes and clicks, and they'll ask a question
and everybody in the room's like, have you ever played
golf before? Do you know what into the club to hold?
And then you then you Unfortunately, most.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Of the they'd ask stupid questions like me be like, what.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Is the three The most elementary question that you would
ask would be would better than what some ask. But
it's never the golf media. It's never the it's the
it's the blogger. It's the the guy trying to get
his name out as a as a podcaster or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Ask about like the rumor stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, you know they want they want the dirt so
they can lay are they have they have their camera
rolling and they can post it on Instagram to get likes.
I understand that that's part of our media circus now,
and you want to control that message if you're Rory
or Tiger or Scottie or Juan Soto or anybody else.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But we've got to.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Start making sure and I think that most of the
players understand this. If we're going to talk to you
when you win, you got to come to us when
we lose.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You lose again.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'm not going to fault Wan Soto for declining the
ending thing, because again you've gone on record and say
you don't you don't like it. What are they going
to give me that I'm not going to give in
postgame or pregame?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, what is the coach going to tell me at
the end of the second third quarters that I don't
already know?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
In fact, the coaches interviews have gotten so bored. We
got to pull some guy off the bench that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Doesn't even play, Uh to uh uh the uh that
isn't even in the game to do the endgame interview. Yeah,
he played two minutes and scored three points in the
first in the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, what's the problem here, Why aren't you winning?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
If nothing else, why not just get him when they're
in the dugout, when they're in the dugout, when they're
actually batting that way, you're he's not his his focus
isn't taken off. Jay.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If you're the second or third or fourth guy to bat,
that would be all right because you're not even going
to the on deck circle until the guy before.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You use at the plate. Yeah. Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And as far as for for after, you and I
both know that if he just generally maybe forgot or
got taken.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He didn't forget. He did that on purpose. I'm not
giving him the benefit of the doubt on that.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt because we
know what times when you're that high profile, at times
you're getting managed by everybody. We need to go here,
I gotta go yet, that's gotta be And what if
he actually said that, and whoever the handlers that were
there said, hey, you want we don't have time. You
got to go do something else. Now I gotta go.
Do you control yourself in that? Listen?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The best, the best ever.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Was David because David don't I think in the years
that David Robinson played, I remember one time where he
was really mad because he got ejected and he left
and he didn't do anything, and he apologized the next day.
But David after a game had to go do a
massage and a whirlpool and three or four treatment things
that might be forty minutes after the game before he
got around, and I'd be sitting in there waiting for
(10:29):
him because he was the star of the show. I
couldn't sell anybody else. Do you want to talk to
Sean Well? I already got Sean and Navery and whoever
else was in there. But the ones that CBS and
AP wanted that they were going to pay me for
was whatever David said. And he'd be forty minutes after
the game. He walks in and go, you're still here? Yeah,
I got three questions, let's get it over with and
(10:50):
he would answer him. So we did that all right.
More coming up, It's the Andy Everage Show.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
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