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Mets lured Juan Soto with a private suite? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: As we take you up until five o'clock. We're here
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week this week, and so that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, travel sometimes takes us away, but we are
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  Speaker 1: here during the course of this week, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our usual features and things that we've already.
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  Speaker 1: We've already had some and we'll have more as the
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  Speaker 1: week progresses. I we talked a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: college football scene and the Long Corns impending matchup with
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  Speaker 1: the Clemson Tigers, and that is still twelve days off,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, or eleven days off before they play on
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  Speaker 1: December twenty first. But we heard from both head coaches
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday after the announcement was made after the field
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  Speaker 1: of twelve was revealed, and obviously it showed the matchup
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  Speaker 1: for Texas and Clemson. And and we're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: some more from Dabosweeney, the head coach of the Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: here in a few minutes. But I did want to
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  Speaker 1: get to a couple of things. The baseball Winter meetings
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  Speaker 1: are going on, as we know. We had Gene Watson,
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  Speaker 1: our MLB insider from the Chicago White Sox front office
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  Speaker 1: on with us yesterday. So we were talking about the
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  Speaker 1: one Sodo deal him leaving the Yankees to sign with
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  Speaker 1: the Mets. It was really interesting the difference, say, in
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  Speaker 1: Soto's contract and that of shoe Aotani's. Shoetani had a
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  Speaker 1: ten year, seven hundred million dollar deal and Soto fifteen years,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty five million dollar deal. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: the interesting thing. Otani's contract came with six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty million of the seven hundred million deferred money down
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  Speaker 1: on the road. That, however, is not the case with Soto.
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  Speaker 1: In Soto's case, every dollar will be paid to him.
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  Speaker 1: The deal also comes reportedly with a huge signing bonus
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  Speaker 1: as well, and something that will kick in during the
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  Speaker 1: after the fifth year. So there's all kinds of upfront
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  Speaker 1: of money and things like that that will be going on.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one other thing. It wasn't just about
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  Speaker 1: the money with one. So I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: heard this Storycam, but his decision to lead the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: for the Mets. Yeah, money was involved. So was the
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  Speaker 1: Yankee stadium security guard. Oh dude, tell well, there were
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  Speaker 1: there were a lot of a lot of reasons. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: he chose the Mets. John Hayman of the New York
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  Speaker 1: Post that followed pretty closely. Yeah, there was seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty five million reasons. Why, Well, I'll give you
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  Speaker 1: a couple more. The Mets owner Steve Cohen had Sodo
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  Speaker 1: come over to his mansion in Beverly Hills, and he
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  Speaker 1: served him Latin food for lunch, showed him a film.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't just do a PowerPoint thing. Showed him a film. Okay, yep,
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  Speaker 1: showed him a film, and and Hayman, the writer wrote,
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  Speaker 1: the Mets have excellent intelligence. They were aware that while
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  Speaker 1: Sodo liked being a Yankee and loved having Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: protect him in the lineup and lead them all in
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  Speaker 1: the clubhouse, he was allegedly upset early in the year
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  Speaker 1: by an overzealous Yankee security guy who disallowed a family
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  Speaker 1: member and a chef slash driver from certain areas to
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  Speaker 1: come in to the clubhouse. And apparently it wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: only issue he had with the Yankees. Interesting he also
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  Speaker 1: asked to have his own suite. He's denied that run back.
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  Speaker 1: They balked at the idea of offering him a swite
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  Speaker 1: in the deal. He said the fact that Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: pays for his own sweet, and even Derek Jeter had
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  Speaker 1: paid for his during the playing, they seemed to prevent
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  Speaker 1: them from budgeting on the request Yankees like, look, Derek
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  Speaker 1: Jeter paid for his own sweet. Aaron Judge pays for
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  Speaker 1: his own sweet. We can't give you a swee okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, no problem to Mets. They gave him a
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  Speaker 1: sweet without batting an eye. So is that? And more
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  Speaker 1: friendly security guards and seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Juan Soto will be a New York Met
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  Speaker 1: and not a New York kick. Off the top of
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  Speaker 1: your head, in terms of biggest free agency moves, like
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  Speaker 1: shocking moves, what does this range? Because you have the
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  Speaker 1: element of obviously the fifteen year contract, but also Craig
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  Speaker 1: the element of him going from the Yankees to the
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  Speaker 1: Met it's, you know, for the Mets of the Yankees. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. It's it's the Yankees, right, But going
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  Speaker 1: from the Yankees of the Mets is what that's like
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  Speaker 1: big brother to little nephew. Yeah, it's different. For example,
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  Speaker 1: if you could have made a greater Southern California comparison
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  Speaker 1: to Otani from the Angels to the Dodgers. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the step up reverse. Yeah, so I get what you're
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  Speaker 1: saying there. It'd be like somebody going from the Giants
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  Speaker 1: to the A's, yeah, you know, or the Cubs to
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox. You know, it'd be that kind of thing. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the money just continues to climb. I remember when Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Harper elected to sign of the Phillies coming from Washington,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that three hundred dollars was mentioned. It seemed like, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, an astronomically high number, and it is, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, for monch of us in the regular world,
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  Speaker 1: but not in baseball numbers now. And apparently you know
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  Speaker 1: Otani sevener, Like I said, we're not that far away
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  Speaker 1: from the first one billion dollar baseball player. It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: We're win the first billion dollar baseball player. Yep, yep,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's definitely gonna happen. All right. Up next, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear from Dabosweeney, the head coach of the Clemson Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: more on his thoughts about his team matching up with
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Longhorns and the connections between the two. When
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