NEW YORK – The first supported trials in the Subway 2025 series, a raw and raw choir with repressed resentment, were raised 20 minutes before the first launch in match 1 Friday, when Juan Soto emerged to stretch in the central field of his New York gray.
“F — Juan Soto!” Reverbed in the stands beyond the wall of the right field in the middle of the huts all around the Yankee Stadium. Soto, never the showman, has not directly recognized the greeting. But he subtly pulled the bill of his stands to the stands, surely in the direction of at least some people who had doubled him last summer last summer while the New York Yankees mounted Soto and Aaron Judge Historic Tandem Production at the first appearance of the world series of the franchise in 15 years before Soto adasted them in winter.
It was a battle between the first place teams to 10 miles from the other, a fact that only more juice would have provided than usual to the weekend series. The addition of Soto’s perceived betrayal, one of the greatest scenarios in sport, may have made the most awaited meeting between the clubs since the 2000 World Series.
Marc Chalpin took his usual headquarters in the 203 section behind the right field, surrounded by his white creature brothers, around 6.30 p.m., anticipating the inevitable. If he had his way, the fans would not have greeted Soto when he returned to the Yankee Stadium with vulgarity. “F — Juan Soto!” was, in Chalpin, both exaggerated in his obscenity and disappointing in his creativity.
Chalpin, responsible for launching the famous roll of the Bleacher Creatures since 2016, did not think that Soto justified vitriol because he was a Yankee for a single season and, above all, did not win a championship. But he knew that the three -words melody was going to arrive for the man who had pushed the team at home for the – sips – puts.
“You will hear non -regular,” said Chalpin, “but it won’t be us.”
Daniel Cagan was one of the non-regulars present on Friday. Fan of the Los Angeles Duree Yankees, Cagan was in town to work, bought a ticket and attended the group therapy session with a countertop by itself. Wearing a n ° 68 Dellin Benances jersey, with a beer in hand before going to his headquarters in section 204, he predicted what he expected to follow.
“Green.”
With Soto’s decision to reject the Yankees for the food during the offseason, the “Re-Sign Soto!” The pleadings heard stands in 2024 have been transformed into repeated scorching of tens of times in the next three hours and more. They were interspersed with cycles of huae and occasional of fresh and less coarse songs. It was a reaction arising from the introduction of Yankees fans in the way other fans’ bases have often felt their ball club.
For years, the big, bad, richer than the Yankees, the Yankees have snatched stars, via a free agency or a business, other teams. This time – and probably for the last time – the roles were overturned: the billionaire owner of the dishes, Steve Cohen, refusing to be overnchoring, attracted Soto from Bronx to Queens after the Yankees offered a $ 760 million contract. SOTO opted for the $ 765 million diet contract over 15 years, which includes an option to increase the total value to 805 million dollars, the free use of a luxury suite at Citi Field, up to four tickets behind marble for all home matches and personal security for him and his family for home games and outside.
“To see him go to food is just, as, that rubs you in the wrong direction,” said James Roina, a 22 -year -old Yankees fan who was sitting in section 204.
Roina wore a White Pinstriped Soto No. 22 Yankees jersey which he personalized to read “Sellout” at the back using adhesive tape and a marker. A few courageous fans of food were sprinkled in the 203 and 204 sections behind Soto, proudly carrying his n ° 22 in blue and orange. Fans of the two teams wore hoods and swimsuits with Dominican flavor.
“F — Juan Soto” The songs and fingers in the middle stole every few minutes while fans on both sides have sporadically exchanged jokes during the nine sleeves. It was so noisy during the first round that Bleacher’s creatures were drowned for part of the call. Most of the interactions were light. On occasion, a security guard intervened to defuse a situation. Nothing has degenerated to a physical altercation.
“”[Soto] was only there for a year, “said Chalpin.” It was a very happy new year, but it was only a year. So he’s not a great Yankee of all time or something like that. It is not Paul O’Neill. He never won here. He had a great year. But there is a distinction between a guy who won here and a guy who did not do so. “”
In the days preceding the game, Chalpin knew how he wanted blancist creatures to welcome Soto.
“You know, he turned his back on us,” said Chalpin. “My attitude is that we should turn his back on him. I do not wish him harm, but I do not wish him either success.”
So Chalpin and dozens of bleachers in the 203 section turned his back to Soto when he ran to take his place in the right field for the first time. After the match, Soto said he hadn’t noticed the gesture.
Joe Lopez, a regular native creature of the Bronx since 1987, joined the silent treatment.
“I knew he didn’t come back,” said Lopez. “Because the idea is to earn as much money as possible. So how are you dog Soto to go after money? I mean, go. He has everything he wants. He got the money. He got the rest. So you will hate him for that? He is not an Aaron judge.
Other songs have sometimes surfaced. The songs of “MVP” for judge were stronger than usual, an effort made to remind Soto that he was not even the best player of the Yankees anyway.
Another favorite was “We have Grisham!” In reference to Trent Grisham, the other player that the Yankees received with Soto San Diego Padres and which was buried on the Yankees bench last season, but which is now enjoying a campaign in small groups. Rightly, the praise came for almost a year after singing “We want Soto!” When Grisham replaced a wounded Soto in a weekend series against Los Angeles Dodgers.
Yankees fans have shouted: “You can’t in the field!” in Soto during the first round. They called him, in a rhythmic, a “a hole”. With his monster contract in mind, they sang: “Soto, gourmet!” Later, they unearthed the classic “surface” chorus.
Throughout, Soto did his best to ignore them. He joked the feeling before his first appearance in his first plate when, smiling, he removed his shot helmet, turned him to the crowd, patted his chest twice and mouth, “thank you.”
The stands, however, did not obtain this level of recognition – until the eighth round, when a “you miss the judge!” Taunt broke out and Soto seemed to describe a heart towards the stands. A few moments later, Soto caught the round of the Channel and threw the ball into the stands behind him without looking. A fan, after a certain pressure of the peers, rejected the ball, triggering another roar of the crowd.
“We have finally come to him,” said Milton Oansland, another essential for the creature. “He knew that the F-Him songs were coming. We had to do something different.”
Oansland has been sitting in the stands since the 1980s, at the time when home matches were in the old Yankee stadium and the dishes were, in one of the 63 years of franchise history, the best team in the city. He became the cow’s cow man in the section in 1996, in time for the first of the four Yankees championships in five seasons. At the time, Oansland insisted, Friday’s reaction to Soto would have been classified G.
“It’s nothing,” said Oansland. “We were so bad that [opposing right fielder Jose] Canseco used for DH. We used to find bad words in Japanese. We used to sing cursed words in Ichiro [Suzuki] The whole game in Japanese. We watched him and would distribute a paper to everyone, as they entered, who had all the words of a curse in Japanese.
“We were really at the top of the players. It’s not new. The only thing that is new is that a guy has chosen the food on us.”
There was one point at the end of Friday’s match, the Yankees holding a five -point lead, when the two fans momentarily merged to become one. This happened when the score of match 6 of the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference, played at Madison Square Garden, was shown on the video table. The hometown of New York Knicks beat the Boston Celtics 46-27 on the way to an easy victory in the series.
Oansland, who wore a Knicks cap, struck his bell to celebrate while the stands are unleashed around him. People with thin stripes have filled the brave blue and orange souls. A slight “Jalen Brunson!” Song broke out. But the truce was ephemeral. He was quickly back in business until Soto, who finished 0 for 2 with three goals on bullets in a 6-2 Yankees victory, made the match final.
