New York - The first ongoing joke in the 2025 Metro series, a frustrating choir of resentment, was released 20 minutes before the first game of the first Friday, when Juan Soto was in the midfield extension of his Mets Grays.
"F --- Juan Soto!" echoed from the stands outside the walls of the right field, amid the booing around Yankee Stadium. Soto, Ever the Showman, did not directly admit the greetings. But he cleverly pulled the hat bill towards the stands, surely in the direction of some of the people who had showered last summer to fall, the historic tandem production of the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge and Aaron Judge to soto was abandoned for the first time in 15 years that had been scattered in the winter.
This is a battle between the first teams 10 miles apart, and the fact that it is just more than the usual weekend series. Soto, one of the biggest storylines in the sport, believes betrayal is the most anticipated meeting between clubs since the 2000 World Series, one of the biggest storylines in the sport.
Marc Chalpin occupies his usual bleach seat in Section 203 on the right, surrounded by his bleach biology brother, about 6:30 pm, which is expected to be inevitable. If he had his own way, fans wouldn't say hello to Soto when he returned to Yankee Stadium. "F --- Juan Soto!" For Chalpin, its obsceneness and creativity are incredible.
Chalpin's mission is to start Bleacher Creatures' famous rolling phone since 2016, and he doesn't believe Soto guaranteed Vitriol because he's only one season a Yankee and most importantly not winning the championship. But he knew that the three-word melody was coming, and the man turned down the home team-Metropolis.
"You'll hear it non-normally, but it won't be us," Chalpin said.
Daniel Cagan was one of the non-registered attending Friday. Cagan, a stubborn Yankees fan from Los Angeles, happens to be working in town, buys a ticket and attends a sold-out group therapy class in person. He wore a No. 68 Dellin Betances jersey, held a beer, and then sat in his seat in the 204th quarter, and he predicted what he hoped would come with it.
"confusion."
As Soto decides to reject the Mets Yankees in the offseason, “Re-sign!” Please hear from the stands in 2024 that he evolved into dozens of repetitions over the next three or more hours. They are scattered with prosperous circles and occasional fresh, less hoarse odes. This is how Yankees fans react to how other fan groups often feel about their balloons.
Free agents or trade from other teams have snatched the big, bad, wealthy Yankees, snatched the stars over the years. This time - probably not the last - Met billionaire owner Steve Cohen refused to bid, luring Soto to Queens from the Bronx after the Yankees offered a 16-year, $760 million contract. Soto chose the Mets’ 15-year, $765 million deal, which includes an option to increase the total value to $805 million, free access to a luxury suite at Citi Field, up to four tickets behind home runs, and all family games, and personal security for him and his family and out-of-home games.
"Seeing him going to the Mets, it's just, it rubs you in the wrong way," said James Roina, a 22-year-old Yankees fan sitting in the 204th quarter.
Roina wore a white pinstriped Soto 22 Yankees, who customized the Yankees that read "sell" on the back using packaging tape and markers. In the 203 and 204 quarters behind Soto, some brave Mets fans were sprinkled with his No. 22 blue and orange. Fans of both teams wore Dominican-style hats and jerseys.
"F --- Juan Soto" shout and middle finger fly every few minutes as fans of both sides occasionally exchange pleasure in nine rounds. In the first inning, it was so fanatic that the bleach creature was submerged in some rolling calls. Most interactions are easy. Sometimes a security guard intervenes to digest the situation. Nothing can escalate into physical disputes.
"(Soto) is only one year here," Chalpin said. "It was a very, very good year, but it was just a year. So he wasn't a Yankee great or something like that ever. It's not Paul O'Neal. He's never won here. He's won a great year here. But there's a difference between a guy who wins here and a guy who doesn't."
On the day of the game, Chalpin knew how he wanted the bleaching creature to welcome Soto.
"You know, he turned to us," Chalpin said. "My attitude is that we should betray him. I don't want him to hurt him, but I don't want him to succeed either."
So Chalpin and the dozens of bleach creatures in Section 203 ran to the right territory for the first time and turned around. After the game, Soto said he didn't notice the gesture.
Joe Lopez, a native of the Bronx since 1987 and a bleaching creature, joined silent therapy.
"I know he's not back," Lopez said. "Because the idea is to make as much money as possible. So do you want dog Soto to go after money? I mean, come on. He got everything he wanted. He got the money. He got the suite. So you got the suite. Do you want to hate him? He is not Judge Aaron. Judge Aaron can go home to give San Francisco money, but he wants more money."
Other chants occasionally surfaced. The judge's "MVP" hymn is louder than usual, and it's a reminder of Soto's efforts that he's not even the best Yankees player.
Another favorite is "We got Grisham!" Referring to Trent Grisham, another player the Yankees received from San Diego Padres and Soto, who was buried on the Yankees' bench last season but is now enjoying a breakthrough sports. Aptly, the praise came almost a year after they shouted “We want Soto!”. When Grisham replaced the injured Soto in the weekend series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Yankees fans shouted, "You can't play!" Soto in the first inning. They called him "a-hole" by rhythmic uniformity. Considering his monster contract, they chant, "Soto, greed!" Later, they discover the classic "overestimated" chorus.
All the time, Soto did his best to ignore them. He jokingly admitted his general mood before his debut, when he smiled and took off his batting helmet and poured it into the crowd, hitting his chest twice, opening his mouth, "Thank you."
However, bleach was not recognized at this level - until the eighth round of the agenda "You Miss the Judge"! The mockery broke out and Soto seemed to outline a heart to the stands. After a moment, Soto grabbed the final of the inning and threw the ball into the stands behind him. A fan threw the ball back after peer pressure, ignited another roar from the crowd.
"We finally found him," said Milton Ousland, another staple of bleach creature. "He knew the ode of F-Him was coming. We had to do something different."
Ousland has been sitting in the stands since the 1980s, when home games were at Old Yankee Stadium, the Mets occupied a share of town in the 63-year history of the franchise, the best team in the town. He became the cowbell man in the department in 1996, catching up in time for the first of four Yankees in five seasons. At the time, Ousland insisted that Friday's reaction to Soto would be G-level.
"It's nothing." "We used to be so bad that (oppose right fielder Jose) used to use DH. We used to lift bad words in Japanese. We used to shout the whole game Ichiro (Suzoki) in Japanese. We would raise our heads in Japanese. We would raise our heads in Japanese. We would raise our heads to everyone, and we would hand out a paper to everyone, just like they walked in, there were all the curse words in Japanese.
"We've really been the lead in players before. It's nothing new. The only thing new is that one person chooses the Mets."
There was a point late Friday when the Yankees gained a five-game winning streak when the two fans temporarily merged into one. The scores for the Eastern Conference Semi-finals Game 6 played at Madison Square Garden were shown on the video board at that time. The New York Knicks' hometown beat the Boston Celtics 46-27, winning an easy series victory along the way.
Ousland, wearing a Knicks hat, pounded his cowbell to celebrate as he ran around him. Pinstral people are high in brave blue and orange souls. The lightweight "Jalen Brunson!" erupted. But the truce is short. This quickly returned to business until Soto completed the game with a 2-2 victory with a 6-2 Yankees.