Deranged WFAN Juan Soto-Yankees fan conspiracy theory proves Mets fans are scrambled

It only took (checks notes) 2.5 weeks for New York Mets fans to give away free real estate in their brains to Yankees fans (who are pretty busy with other stuff right now).

Yes, after an entire season of Met fans flooding any Yankees highlight's comment section with a stream of, "Who cares? Juan Soto will be ours! etc." and an offseason that featured everything they could ever want, Flushing, Queens held onto the mental edge for approximately two episodes of "The Pitt".

If the pressure (for a first place team, by the way) wasn't already at a fever pitch, it certainly reached a boiling point in the Mets' finale against the Minnesota Twins, where Soto went 0-for-5, struck out three times, and watched his team get walked off in extra innings. That game just so happened to precede one where Aaron Judge hit a game-winning homer. It also followed in the footsteps of Soto lamenting losing Judge as protection. Admittedly, not a fantastic sequence for the Metropolitans. I have notes.

How did WFAN sports radio react to Soto stepping in it? With measured caution? With well-fed vitriol? What about mostly the second one, mixed with a heavy dose of flat-out conspiracy theorizing?

Evan Roberts - usually the measured one on the air - launched into some absurd bloviating on Thursday about how the Mets' home crowd against the Cardinals was almost assuredly going to be filled with some False Flag Yankee fans invading Citi Field, dressing as Mets fans, and booing Juan Soto to start a narrative.

Considering some of the stuff WFAN's Sal Licata said on the very same airwaves that Roberts shares, let me just say that such a covert operation to create the appearance of booing ... will not be necessary. Mets fans can take care of that all on their own.

New York Yankees fans aren't dressing up as Mets fans to boo Juan Soto at Citi Field...are they?

Considering a Citi Field vendor at last Monday's game against the Marlins that I attended heckled Soto over his salary during his first at-bat of the game (he later lashed a run-scoring double in a low-scoring affair), I don't exactly think Yankee fans stopping by Spirit Halloween on the way to Citi to buy their "Depressed Long Island Bozo" costume is necessary.

It's just absurd to see a fan base that spent the entire 2024 summer doing brash screaming, then saw that screaming totally justified by Steve Cohen's wallet flexing, already eating their faces off blaming Yankee fans for their true core feelings. If Mets fans earnestly think Yankee fans would go above and beyond to waste time messing with their little brother while they've got a pretty important season going on themselves, they should likely look in the mirror. After all, that's how they wasted a once-in-a-lifetime 2024 campaign themselves.