New York Yankees fans were on unknown territory when a superstar chose Crosstown -Rival Mets over their favorite team.
Juan Soto signed a 15-year-old $ 765 million deal, the most lucrative in sports history, with Mets this season after helping Yankees to the World Series in his lonely season with the club last year.
While some Yankees fans have favored Soto’s departure because it allowed the team to bring more players with the money it saved, lots of fans are still upset over it.
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Yankee’s fans during the 2024 World Series against Dodgers. (IMagn)
During Yankees’ games on Thursday against Arizona Diamondbacks, fans started to sing, “F — Juan Soto.”
Mets has long been called Yankees ‘little brother, but Michael Kay, Yanks’ play-by-play advertisement, said the roles were turned with these songs.
“We hear this silly quarrel back and forth about Big Brother, little brother. You know what it was yesterday, everyone? I hate to say that and you won’t like it. It was Little Brother -Nonsens,” Kay said on his radio show Friday afternoon, which is sent to Mets’ flagship radio station.
“Why are you singing about Juan Soto? Your team wins. And that’s what you come up with? You have to be a little bothered.
The New York Mets Right Fielder Juan Soto (22) follows through a RBI -double towards Toronto Blue Jays during the sixth lap at Citi Field. (Brad Penner/Imag images)
“Shame all of you. Really, shame all of you. It’s such a terrible little look. … You’re still Big Brother. Mets haven’t won anything. They won a bidding war for Juan Soto. They haven’t won a championship since 1986,” Kay added. “It’s been 39 years since they won a title and you sang ‘Bleep Juan Soto?’ I don’t get it.
“Color me confused. I don’t get it and it’s a bad look. It’s a bad, bad look. … I think it’s a terrible, terrible look of all of you. All of you! And I would have addressed it yesterday if I actually heard it through my headphones.”
Soto debuted with home with Mets Friday and went 1-for-4 with an RBI double. It’s been a bit of a slower start for the outfield, hitting .240 in his first seven matches.
It is not uncommon for Yankees fans to also sing similarly against Jose Altuve, who has been public enemy # 1 since Houston Astros’ sign-steel scandal in 2017.
New York Yankee’s TV stations Michael Kay before a game against Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium April 20, 2024 in New York, New York. (New York Yankees/Getty Images)
Altuve beat Aaron Judge, then a rookie, for all MVP, while Astros beat Yankees in the ALCs in seven matches that year. Two years later, Altuve hit a walk-off Homer against Yanks to win the pennant again, but his hesitation of getting his shirt taken off, has led to untested speculation that he was wearing a kind of unit under bats.
Soto returns to Bronx for a game between Mets and Yankees May 16.
