Scotty Pippin away from Michael
Jordan.
These are Michael Jordan now.
I know you think you need him
for Michael to win all these
championships.
We're taking him away.
Well, we're gonna pay him more
than you pay Michael Jordan.
Well, that's what, that's what
we can do now.
And listen, I'm old enough to
remember when New York was a big
, a national league town with
the Mets in the eighties.
But so is Steve Cohen?
He remembers those days and he's
trying to get the Mets back to
that level and, and I do think
that they're, they're very close
to doing that and it was easy to
convince, I think besides the
money to Juan Soto that this
team is not done.
It's a really good team right
now.
They're by no means a finished
product.
There's going to be more
investments, especially into the
rotation for me.
Now that you've got Juan Soto at
this number, you've got to back
it up and it's a historic night
for Juan Soto.
No question about it.
But you see the Red Sox, the
money's there, the Yankees, the
money's there.
Obviously, there was other
teams.
The Blue Jays Dodgers in the
mix.
What's the pivot now for those
clubs?
And when do you start to pivot
immediately?
Right, immediately.
I I we said this earlier, the
Yankees had a plan b in place
before this decision was made.
Every team has to do their due
diligence.
I think they're going to move
very quickly.
There's no question.
I think the market is really
going to fly here in Dallas the
next few days.
But let's remember one thing,
one.
So to bet on himself several
times.
The Washington Nationals, if you
want to go back a few years, put
hundreds of million dollars on
the table.
No, thanks.
He goes to San Diego, Then he
goes to the Yankees.
The Yankees wanted to extend
him.
No, thanks and look where he
sits today.
A guy who bet on himself in a
incredible one of the best
platform seasons you will ever
see you talk about a clutch
player that was a clutch year by
a clutch player if he hits like
Aaron Judge in October, is he
agreeing to a $765 million
contract?
As you see turned down 15 years
, 440 million from the nationals
in 2022.
And he was criticized for it,
criticized.
I think the biggest thing in
what Tom kind of keeps that
going is the fact that we've
seen one of, I've talked to Hall
of Fame players.
I was just, I was just in Cabo
with Chipper Jones.
And if I asked him who's the
best hitter in the game, he'll
sit there and tell you Juan Soto
the way he controls the at bat
and he's 26 years old, we
haven't even seen the best
version of him.
And that's what Stevie Cohen's
expecting.
I just think the thing that's
interesting to me is the Mets
are not a finished product.
This is not like, oh, ok, we're
winning the World Series kind of
stamp our ticket from the
national league.
The Mets are going to represent
the national league in the World
Series.
Are they even the third best
team in the national league?
Will they win their division?
There's a long way to go here
this winter.
But I got to believe if I'm juan
Soto, I, I saw this bidding
start to develop and you had to
be, you have to think the new
York Mets wanted soto more than
the Yankees.
I'm saying that recognizing the
Yankees got out of their comfort
zone.
But when a team you hadn't
played for is putting more money
on the table.
And we saw those numbers on an A
au actually not that close.
There was separation between the
Yankees and the Mets.
It was not razor thin to the
player.
I realized there's enough money
on the table to be happy no
matter what.
But in terms of the, the Mets
stepping up and as you said,
change the landscape of baseball
, especially in New York, but
even nationally now the Mets are
now the, the east coast version
of the Dodgers, which is what
Steve Cohen wanted.
When he bought this team, I just
, I just have to take a step
back because as a former player
played a long time, played with
some of the game's greats.
I can't imagine what he's
feeling right now.
I can't even process the fact
that he gets to sit back with
his family tonight and I am
worth three quarters of a
billion dollars.
Yeah.
Went to the Washington Nationals
Academy as a 1516 year old signs
comes over.
Do I mean, just hats off to you?
I mean, you did.
She's changed the game because
Otani was an outlier.
We, we had never seen anything
like that.
There was no one really like I
get it.
There's a couple of guys trying
to pitch and hit.
Not at that level.
So it was like the 700 million
was ok.
This guy's different.
He's a global icon.
He's selling merchandise in
Japan.
Juan Soto is a hitter and he's
one of the great pure hitters
we've seen, I mean, he's putting
up at bats we haven't seen since
Barry Bonds.
Right.
He's that special.
What I think is painful for the
New York Yankees.
And I almost hate saying this,
but I'm going to, I believe we