First off: what fun! Glad we can generate it ourselves, instead of depending upon the miserly jerks who run our favorite ballteam.
All right, so the question before us: Is Juan Soto a generational talent?
The defense rises to make our case.
To begin with, yes, it is a vague term. And to dispense with the charge by Doug K., co-counsel for the prosecution, that Soto is indeed all too typical of his generation, I say this is an irrelevant and scurrilous charge.
Yes, Soto went for the highest offer on the table. And why not? He didn’t owe us nuthin’. Let's face it: with their usual determination to finish "second" in free-agent hunts, it is not even clear that the Yankees would have LET him re-up.
Didn’t we just get through bemoaning that, if he wanted to win a World Series, Aaron Judge should not have re-signed with the Yankees? He will always have a special place in our heart for having done so—but the fact is, the Yanks underbid for him, too.
Forget the luxury box, and the however many millions extra. Steve Cohen proclaimed that he wanted to build a World Series winner. Hal Steinbrenner proclaimed that he didn’t like paying taxes.
Who would you rather play for?
Steve’s motives have become rather murky of late. But signing Bo Bichette this off-season is signing one more star than your New York Yankees have.
Ballplayers tend to look at money as respect, which is a bad habit to adopt. But they’re not wrong, when it comes to their sport. The Mets respected Soto. The Yankees scrambled around and did all they could to find a reason NOT to sign him, while insisting that they wanted to…the same as they always do.
I move to dismiss this charge as a silly one…With all due respect to Counselor Doug.
"I move to dismiss this charge as a silly one…With all due respect to Counselor Doug."
ReplyDeleteHoss, I believe it was the barrister Hamilton Berger who, after being bested for the 432nd time in his career said, "Shit! "
I would also like to point out that I am a silly man.
And yet...
"Yes, Soto went for the highest offer on the table. And why not? He didn’t owe us nuthin’. "
Didn't he though? Because if he didn't then aren't you besmirching pretty much the entire Yankee Fan Base in general and one El Duque, whose malice towards Soto is seemingly bottomless, in specific?
Are you calling the founder of this blog and one of the best baseball writers in the country a hater? For no reason? Shame on you sir!
"it is not even clear that the Yankees would have LET him re-up."
So it's "not even clear" yet you base your conclusions as if it WERE perfectly clear. Again, yet another accusation against a loyal fan base and lovers of the game who are only guilty of caring too much!
Fie upon your lack of clarity.
In conclusion, I don't ask that you change your opinion. Just that you dismiss your dismissiveness.
Perhaps this time the Berger is on the other bun. Would you like some fries with that?
Ah, Ham Berger! How he must have blanched whenever Perry came in the courtroom, no doubt wondering what completely unlawful tactic he was going to get away with this time.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite: when he got a lipstick impression from a woman in the audience by pretending to stride distractedly up the central aisle, and then suddenly pressing a handkerchief against her lips. Won the case! And sent her to prison!
Hee-hee! Now THAT'S entertainment!
My argument was not at all based on money, so I abstain.
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