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.
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