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00:00Let me just give you some more of the particulars here on Soto before I move on from it.
00:11$765,000 for $15,000.
00:13He gets a $75,000,000 signing bonus and Heyman Roan here, a state tax advantage because he's
00:21a Florida resident.
00:23I guess that means he doesn't get taxed on the $75,000,000 because he lives in Florida.
00:27I guess that's how all that works.
00:29He gets about $120,000,000 overall pay in 2025.
00:34No deferred money in this deal.
00:36He can opt out after five years.
00:38He'd only be 30 years old.
00:40He gets a Citi Field suite for his family.
00:43That's an estimated value of $500,000 per year needed.
00:47That's sweet.
00:48Gets a suite as well in the deal.
00:51So there you go.
00:52Lots of the particulars when it comes to Soto.
00:57He's did bid $760,000 for $16,000.
01:01Now there's another story that's been floated in the last hour or so that Howell did have
01:06a chance to go match blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:12Who cares at this point?
01:13He's a man.
01:14I don't want to hear all the, all the secondhand stuff.
01:17He's right.
01:18At least people that want to carry water for the Yankees and for Howell and try to make
01:22it look like they were so close, but whatever, they didn't get them.
01:26They didn't get the job done.
01:27And that's that.
01:28So that's, it's over with.
01:30And he can leave in five years.
01:34He can opt out in five years.
01:36Yes.
01:37Now, would you opt out of a deal where you get, I guess you're only 30 years old.
01:42I guess.
01:43Can you get another 700 million at 30 years old?
01:44I'm not too sure.
01:46Although I'm sure five years ago, we didn't think someone would, or maybe we did think
01:51someone would get $765 million.
01:53So what do you think someone could get five years from now when they're still 30?
01:58So I guess it's possible that he could, you know, we saw A-Rod do it with the Yankees.
02:04A billion.
02:05Someone's going to get a billion.
02:06I think some player will get a billion.
02:08Bottom line is this, if he's miserable in Queens and if, you know, it doesn't go well
02:14and they're booing him and he hates it, he can leave in five years.
02:18And I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
02:2115 years is crazy.
02:23I don't want to give anybody in any sport that many years.
02:26I think it's too much.
02:27I mean, the money's gargantuan.
02:29Good for him.
02:30He gets all that, a suite and everything else, and he can leave in five.
02:34He got all the cards.
02:36He got all the cards.
02:38That was probably the deal breaker for Hal.
02:40He didn't want to give him the suite because that's money like, yeah, he gets money from
02:43the suite.
02:44I'm just, I'm making a joke, obviously.
02:45I'm sure Hal didn't want to give him a suite when it came down to it at the end of the
02:49day.
02:50The Mets were 12 to one for next year's World Series before signing Juan Soto.
02:55They moved all the way up to seven to one after signing.
02:59They are the second choice on the board behind the Dodgers, who of course spend also like
03:05drunken sailors.
03:06So plus 340 for the Dodgers, plus 700 for the Mets.
03:11And look, this is, remember, it was a good run for the Mets to the NLCS last year, but
03:18they were, what did they finish in their division this year, Scotty?
03:22You know, they, it was, you know, they were, they didn't win the division.
03:26They were a wild card team.
03:27You know, it's.
03:28They were good.
03:29They were a good team.
03:30Now, who can they sign is the question.
03:31When they give this guy all this money, how can they sign other people?
03:32You start wondering about who they're going to be able to sign.
03:33It sounds like Alonzo will be gone.
03:34I don't think so.
03:35I can't say him.
03:36Oh, I don't think so.
03:37I think he'll bring Alonzo back.
03:54I think he'll sign either Fried or Burns.
03:56I think he'll get the Tanner Scott, you know, go get him too.
04:00It's just, you got to remember what now you see the Mets fans are going to, they're going
04:04to love this.
04:05They are now what they hated forever.
04:08The Mets are now what they hated.
04:10They despised the Yankees being able to do this for a very long time.
04:14This is now them.
04:15Uncle Stevie can just walk up the aisle like he's at the, like he's at the supermarket.
04:20I'll get a starting pitcher here.
04:22I'll get a closer here.
04:23I'll get a first baseman here and he'll just keep throwing things in the cart because there
04:28is no limit.
04:29The guy's worth seven or $8 billion or whatever.
04:31It's probably more than that.
04:32I probably selling him a little short.
04:34There's no limit to what he could do.
04:36This is a drop in the bucket, $765 million for Juan Soto.
04:40I think it's the first time they've ever really shown up the Yankees.
04:45This guy's finally done it.
04:47He's made them, you know, more important than the Yankees.
04:51They got the best player.
04:53You saw what he did for the Yankees.
04:54He took them to the world series.
04:55He carried him on his back.
04:57Let's face it in the playoffs.
04:59He was their best player.
05:00It wasn't judge.
05:01It was Soto and he was just clutch as hell and now he's playing for the Mets and the
05:06Mets are now the deal in town and his buddy judge is left out there in the outfield without
05:12him now.
05:13So I think they have to go sign pitchers.
05:15I think they have to go spend money now on other players.
05:19Like I said before, they lost Adamas.
05:21So go get arms.
05:23Arms are what win playoff games.
05:25Arms are what gets you to the world series.
05:28You get a couple of bats like they had last year with judge and Soto.
05:33It gets you into the playoffs, gets you to the world series.
05:36But Soto is the reason they got there and then they blew it.
05:39Obviously now he's gone.
05:41So they got to go get arms to make that team better because the bottom line was they were
05:46just outclassed by the Dodgers.
05:49Let's face it.
05:50They got their ass beat.
05:51They got their ass beat and they have got a lot of work to do now.
05:56Now that they are not going to have Soto back in the Bronx.
05:59But it sounds like they have a lot of money that they can now spend.
06:02The question is, will they spend it wisely or will they spend it foolishly?
06:07We shall see what the Yankees do with all that money they now have to go through.
06:12So there'll be a lot of deals the next few days.
06:13There's been a couple as well here.
06:16We've been the San Francisco Giants have been trying to hand money to people for years now.
06:21Right.
06:22I mean, they try giving money to everybody.
06:25Willie Adamas.
06:26They finally found somebody to say yes.
06:27Willie Adamas, seven years, 182 million for him as he goes out to San Francisco.
06:36Nice deal for Adamas, who was really the only big guy who said, I'm not waiting around for
06:39Soto.
06:40Someone's offered me 180 million.
06:41I'll see you later.
06:42I'm out of here.
06:43Do you think he's worth a buck?
06:4482?
06:45No, I don't.
06:46No.
06:47So much money.
06:48And remember this too.
06:49I think he's a good player.
06:54But one thing about playing in that park, that is not a big offensive hitter's park
06:59out in San Francisco at Oracle.
07:01It's not.
07:02Those numbers are not going to look the same for him going out there.
07:07There's only one guy who put up enormous numbers at that place.
07:11And that's Barry Bonds.
07:12He's the only guy.
07:13You know, that's just nobody else really goes there and hits 40 homers, 35, 40 homers.
07:18It's you know, that's just not what you do out at that place.
07:20So I don't think.
07:21They got better though.
07:22They got better.
07:24And with Adamas, now they got a couple of bats and a couple of guys that can really
07:29on that left side of that infield that can win gold gloves.
07:33It's going to be hard to get the ball through there if you're playing the Giants.
07:36They got a nice defense now on that side of the field.
07:40And you know, bottom line is they're in the same boat as the Yankees.
07:43They need more arms.
07:45Now you got a couple of bats.
07:46You got a couple of really good fielders.
07:48Now you got to go get the pitching to go with it.