{"id":262,"date":"2025-08-07T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:13:18","slug":"boomer-esiason-rips-juan-soto-for-loafing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/boomer-esiason-rips-juan-soto-for-loafing\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomer Esiason Rips Juan Soto For Loafing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_461608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461608\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-461608 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 05:  Juan Soto #22 of the New York Mets walks back to the dugout after striking out during the eighth inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Citi Field on August 05, 2025 in New York City. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2228712704-1024x706-1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-461608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Juan Soto saved the New York Mets from embarrassment on Wednesday by hitting a one-out home run in the ninth inning to break up Gavin Williams\u2019 no-hitter, though his squad still dropped the game 4-1 to finish off a sweep at the hands of the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have now lost eight of their last nine games, and analyst Boomer Esiason tore into Soto despite the home run for his attitude.<\/p>\n<p>During Thursday\u2019s episode of Boomer &amp; Gio on WFAN, Esiason called out Soto for loafing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s loafing\u2026he\u2019s got a nice smile on his face, he\u2019s laughing. I\u2019m sick of it. I want to see attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He&#8217;s loafing \u2026 he&#8217;s got a nice smile on his face, he&#8217;s laughing. I&#8217;m sick of it. I want to see attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boomer Esiason rips Juan Soto after Soto&#8217;s home run to break up a Cleveland no-hitter in the bottom of the 9th on Wednesday: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VtLHqFFEKU\">pic.twitter.com\/VtLHqFFEKU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1953512540354621656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s valid to be frustrated with Soto in this moment, especially considering the record-breaking contract the Mets gave him in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>When you land a 15-year, $765 million contract, that is going to inevitably bring criticism when things aren\u2019t going well for the team, whether it\u2019s warranted or not.<\/p>\n<p>In Soto\u2019s case, he has been as advertised thus far with the Mets and has an .864 OPS with a career-high 17 steals and solid defense in right field.<\/p>\n<p>However, he hit just .210 in July and hasn\u2019t done much during this recent losing skid, so Esiason surely wasn\u2019t the only one perturbed about his jovial nature when coming to the plate late in Williams\u2019 near-no-hitter.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s offense has been spotty during this recent stretch, while the pitching has fallen off a cliff, and it\u2019s fair to want the $765-million man to light a fire under this squad, even if that isn\u2019t really his style.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/boomer-esiason-rips-juan-soto-for-loafing\/\">Boomer Esiason Rips Juan Soto For Loafing<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\">The Cold Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images) \u00a0 Juan Soto saved the New York Mets from embarrassment on Wednesday by hitting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doudounemonclerpascherfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}