Allie Sherman coached the New York Football Giants 1961-1968. They lost the NFL championship game in his first three seasons and the team did not have a winning season with Sherman after 1963, falling to 1-12-1 in 1966.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allie_Sherman
By 1966 some spectators at Yankee Stadium took to chanting "Goodbye Allie", waving banners to that effect and even putting the slogan to song.
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I couldn't find a recording but it was basically the title of this post. The singing got pretty loud at times. I think Juan Soto will get some rough treatment that he does not anticipate when the Mets play the Yankees at the new Yankee Stadium. The football Giants played at the original Yankee Stadium 1956-1972, then in the Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT 1973-1974, Shea Stadium 1975 and then they ignominiously moved to New Jersey in 1976. Sort of like Soto going to the Mets.
As I had suspected all along. Juan Soto wanted to continue to play for the Yankees ... as long as they paid him the most money.
His appreciation of Yankee history and joining Yankee legends was Soto being ingratiating and/or polite. The word is that after the Mets made their big offer, Scott Boras, agent for Soto, went back to the Yankees and asked if the Yanks wanted to match the Mets and that the Yanks declined.
Was the total difference $70 million? 70/765=9.15%. About nine percent. In 2025 Juan Soto will be joining his fourth MLB team: Washington, San Diego, Yankees, Mets.
Juan Soto
Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left • Throws: Left
6-2, 224lb (188cm, 101kg)
Born: October 25, 1998
baseball-reference.com has Soto's career pay so far at about $80 million, including $31 million from the Yankees in his one season with them. Soto is set for life without the new 15 year, $765 million contract he's agreed to with the Mets.
Ralph Kiner serves as a sanity check. Kiner is in the Hall of Fame. Playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates he led the NL in home runs seven consecutive years: 1946-1952, twice hitting over 50.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ralph-kiner/
The 1952 Pirates lost 112 games, the worst record of any major-league team since 1935. Home attendance dropped by about one-third and Kiner’s batting average fell to .244. Despite his league-leading home-run performance, Rickey cut his salary to $75,000. When Kiner objected, Rickey told him, “Son, we can finish last without you.”
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Yankees: one championship in last 24 years. A fish rots from the head. Thursday, October 31, 2024
Most recent championships: 2000 & 2009...
... humiliating elimination loss of the 2024 World Series, in which the Yankees blew a 5-0 lead and allowed 5 unearned runs in one inning...
It appeared that the Yankees would become the first WS team down 0-3 to come back and get to a game 6 but these Yankees dashed the hopes of their fans and lost at home in 5 games.
Somewhere the sun is shining ...
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Somewhat like the 1952 Pirates and Ralph Kiner: the Yankees can lose the World Series again without Juan Soto.
The Yanks can use their Juan Soto money in the next few years, but much fewer than 15 years, by signing free starting pitchers Corbin Burnes and/or Max Fried.
Aaron Judge becomes only 5th player with at least three 50 Home Run seasons. Sunday, August 25, 2024
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2024-batting-leaders.shtml
| 1. | Judge • NYY | 223 |
| 2. | Ohtani • LAD | 190 |
| 3. | Soto • NYY | 178 |
| 4. | Alvarez • HOU | 172 |
| 5. | Witt • KCR | 171 |
| 6. | Guerrero • TOR | 166 |
| 7. | Rooker • OAK | 165 |
| 8. | Henderson • BAL | 159 |
| 9. | Marte • ARI | 155 |
| 10. | Ozuna • ATL | 154 |
Juan Who?
Goodbye, Soto. Goodbye, Soto. Goodbye, Soto, we "hate" to see you go (to the Mets).
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