Juan Soto Sadness: Should the Mets be concerned with his lack of hustle?; Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese discourse even MORE toxic (Episode 1280)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘caveat emptor’ as in buyer beware as in Juan Soto as in the Mets as in hustle as in the media. Let’s talk about Juan Soto and what we’ve seen through 48 games so far in his Mets career. The hustle? Not quite there. The private plane to games? Horse hockey. The expectations? You signed that contract! (16:45) Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese conversation is in a gross place. We have turned what should be great basketball into nonsense. (33:30) Review: SNL 50 - Beyond Saturday Night. (45:00) NPPOD. (48:40) Is the NFL going to allow players into the Olympics? It could happen today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	Here you go.
0:04.3	It is Tuesday, May 20th, 2025.
0:23.2	Buyer beware.
0:25.1	Boy, did we have an opportunity here, Koka.
0:27.4	We had an opportunity to talk about Juan Soto leading off a show.
0:32.4	And the reason that we have this opportunity is there's such a mess around Juan Soto.
0:38.1	Everyone's coming out with stories.
0:40.9	Everyone on the rate doesn't even matter.
0:43.3	He flies a private jet between games.
0:47.6	Ridiculous.
0:48.7	He's miserable.
0:51.1	Whatever.
0:52.8	Everyone wants to take a shot at Juan S soto who's played two percent of games for the
0:58.8	met's that he's contracted to play do the math 29 and 19 he's going to play 2,430 games in theory
1:07.5	if he's not hurt and he stays for 15 years and doesn't opt out after five years,
1:13.4	which coca says he won't.
1:15.8	He's got a 10-year, $460 million deal in five years.
1:19.9	Will he opt out?
1:20.6	Will he not?
1:21.0	We'll discuss it.
1:23.4	I thought about adding to the noise around Juan Soda this morning,
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