00:00So, SMY has a post-game show, as Yes does, and Steve Gelbs, who does a great job, asked Juan Soto about not making the All-Star team, and if he was disappointed.
00:17So, I was ready for Soto to say, of course I'm disappointed.
00:24I want to be amongst the best, I consider myself one of the best, because he has a legitimate beef that he's not on the All-Star team.
00:33Legitimate.
00:35You could hate Juan Soto, you could be a Yankee fan that's upset that he signed with the Mets, he is the very definition of an All-Star.
00:43Bad April, bad May, unbelievable June, National League Player of the Month, and he's had a good beginning of July as well.
00:50The only thing that you could actually pick apart with Juan Soto, he doesn't, this year up to this point, hit well with runners in scoring position, although he did that in the 10th inning yesterday.
01:02Got that hit.
01:04But you still look, everything is predicated on war, right?
01:06Wins above replacement.
01:08His war is better than that of Fernando Tatis Jr.
01:12He's got an OPS over 900.
01:13That's an All-Star.
01:14But instead of saying, yeah, I want to be amongst the best, I'd like to be in Atlanta, I'd like to be there with Pete, and I'd like to be there with Edwin, and I'd like to be there with Lindor, the perfect thing to say, here is what Juan Soto said.
01:29What do you think?
01:30I think it's a lot of money on the table if I make it.
01:35Oh, goodness gracious.
01:39Talk about being tone deaf.
01:41Come on, Juan.
01:42The last I looked, I didn't put that much research into it.
01:50You're making a smidge under $47 million this season.
01:58And you're upset that you're not making the All-Star game because of an All-Star bonus that you have in your contract?
02:07You know how bad that looks, that you said that?
02:09Even if you thought it, fine.
02:12I mean, what kind of expenditures do you have?
02:16And I don't even know, I don't even know what the bonus is.
02:21Let's say it's $500,000, which is nothing to sneeze at.
02:25But you do make $47 million this year.
02:29To even speak that, do you realize how it makes you look?
02:37There are players that make $40 million a year that they're going to look at that and they're going to roll their eyes.
02:42Why would you even speak that into existence?
02:46Do you know how bad it makes you look?
02:48So, when I first, I got to be honest with you, when I first saw that he said that, I thought that it was some AI nonsense.
03:00I said, there's no way he said that.
03:02I mean, talk about like making up something.
03:04There's no way that he said that.
03:05There's no way a guy who I know and is a smart dude and is represented by one of the smartest people that I've ever met in the business, Scott Boris, would ever say something like, what a dumb AI thing to do.
03:21So, I said, well, let me get the real deal and I'll go to SMY, their site on X.
03:28And there it is.
03:29There's the interview.
03:29It's not AI.
03:30He really said it.
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