Craig Carton

And I'll tell you something else while I'm at it there, Mario, and I appreciate the question.

Combined, Soto and Lindor make over a billion dollars.

Is it that much for me as a paying fan to ask that they do hustle and run to second base on a ball in the gap?

Or that they know how many outs there are in the first inning of a game?

Like, we agree on that, right?

We do.

So at some point, if you tolerate it, and by the way, every team's got guys that do it.

I've seen half the Yankee lineup lollygag balls where they wind up on first base, stands worse than anyone, as opposed to getting to second, right?

And we yell and scream about it.

Not running a ball out.

Not trying to take an extra base, etc.

Some guys have had a physical, you know, excuses that we back up with, right?

But the reality is that we cannot separate, A, what it costs us to go to games, B, what these players make, and C, what our eyes tell us.

And I don't think it's asking too much.

I'm using his argument because I didn't bring Soto up today.

But using his argument, that if Soto doesn't run out of ball into the gap and sitting on first instead of second, and Lindor does what he did yesterday, it's not too much to ask a paying Met fan.

to say those two guys are going to make a billion dollars playing for the New York Mets, I think we should expect them to know how many outs there are in the first inning of a freaking game.

No, you're 100% right.

As a paying customer, I want Soto taken out of the game in the first inning.

That's what I want.