If you don't know by now, I'm a HUGE Mets fan and this past offseason they doled out the biggest contract in MLB history if not sports.
For the most part there are things that Juan Soto is doing that an average ballplayer would get tons of kudos for especially the on base percentage and being on base for almost every game he's played so far this season.
BUT he's Juan Soto and so far looks nothing like the real Juan Soto. He's just average. It's New York and you got a huge contract so average is not tolerated.
He's being humbled right now and he'll snap out of it and he's going to be a monster for us but the question is how long will he let the pressure and perhaps regrets not staying with the Yankees weigh on him mentally?
Suck it up young man. It's time to earn your keep!
PS - thank you Juan for opening the door for Pete Alonso to come out the gate like gangbusters. The Mets would not be in first place right now without him.
Nice level-headed analysis to start the season. Not a given for all Mets fans. Big Mets fan here too, from a family of Yankee fans, because I liked baseball without the DH. Shame about that...
I hear you. Luckily I have some like minded fellow Mets fans - fans and family but always overwhelmed by Yankees fans.
Queens is nicer than The Bronx anyways!
I’m a Brooklyn Boy but I lived in Astoria for a bit and loved it.
Been in Bushwick for the last 5 years working in nightlife. This is where the juice is!
Bushwick. I lived on Irving Avenue between Harman and Himrod for a chunk of years. I had family who owned a building and they rented out a room where I chilled. The weed up that way was on point especially the Chocolate Thai that we used to cop on Cooper. Tony's Pizza on Knickerbocker after a blunt was extremely satisfying. I lived mostly on Atlantic Avenue in my early part of life more on the Brownsville and East New York side. Not too far from Biggie in Bed Stuy. Bushwick had the only mamitas. I'm going to assume a lot of that up that way is gentrified opposed to when I hung tough with the crew back in the day.
We still go to Tony's on Knickerbocker for pizza! I'm just a few blocks away, by the police station on Wilson and DeKalb.