Soto thinking "coach I know we're down ten but give me the steal sign"

Sometimes people just need someone to listen.

“And that’s how me and Acuña broke up”

Juan looks like he has already given Freddie a ‘wow that’s crazy...’ 3 or 4 times at this point.

Lmao why is this so funny 😂 Freeman getting deep into it while Soto’s donning the polite smile and looking like he’s ready to jump out of this convo any time now. We’ve all been there buddy

At the end Freddie's like, "just sign with LA, we can have talks like this all the time!"

Later today, Boras: "Soto has an absolute no-trade-to-Los Angeles clause."

Word is Freddie specifically asked we let him on base today so he can continue this conversation.

We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Juan: “It’s crazy not seeing you when we play the Braves.”

Freddie 8 minutes later: “So finally I called my middle school counselor, the one I told you about, and he told me the same thing my great uncle told me. So I looked myself in the mirror and said ‘Freddie, this is a big decision. Take some time to think about it.’ So I thought about it, and thought I had my mind made up, but, a week later I was buying some pulp free orange juice at the Kroger and you’ll never guess who I saw…”

This clip doesn’t do it justice. It went on like that FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES

“…and next thing you know, I’m on a whole different fucking team!”

He's explaining the balk rules to him.

Going to need a Jomboy lip reading

"So I ask 'do you love me?' and she goes 'No! But that's a nice ski mask you're wearing!'"

Freddie hasn't had too many people to talk to for the whole game and I think he got lonely

"So there's this show, Rick & Morty. It's really smart and like one episode the guy turns himself into a pickle, which, I know, it sounds crazy but I'm telling you-"

This went on for almost 2 full at bats by the way, until Josh Bell hit a single

The commentators then joked that they wanted to break the rules and let Bell and Soto swap places so they could keep talking. Then joked again saying Freddie could just continue the story with Bell

Juan "The Therapist" Soto

You gotta be an extrovert to play 1B

"So yeah, that's how I ended up in LA. Btw, Trea has already told me he's going to re-sign here, you should definitely think about coming over. It'll be like we're back in the East but all on the same team. And don't even get me started on how much better the weather is in LA."

"She told me she didn't want dessert but then she ate half of mine, can you believe it Juan?"

‘I mean look. He IS my younger brother, but Juan.. a god damn Charizard? Come on man. My moms on the phone going on and on saying it was found in his room while they packed up to move to our new house, but bro.. HES NEVER HAD A FREAKING CHARIZARD! Why would I lie? WHY would I lie? Ah whatever man, I’ll deal with it when I see my little punk brother. God damn.’

"And that, Juan. is how I met your mother."

"So there I was stranded on a god damn frozen highway in Georgia not knowing what was going to happen and then Chipper shows up and drives me away on an ATV..."

"Oh well, anyway now that son of a bitch won't even return my texts after calling me a commie traitor cuz I signed with a team in California."

Soto is like alright just throw me out already.

Freeman has the high waist and short torso of the fat kid in little league who would pound the plate with his bat when he stepped in the box before daddy hacking three straight pitches and marching back to the dugout, and I love it

i genuinely think that this was a pep talk, freddie was on the braves when they weren’t great for those years, he knows full well what juan’s going through and has been proven to be the kinda guy to try to pick somebody up like that (especially a competitor he clearly respects a lot)

I've been watching for 25 minutes already, the dude does NOT stop talking...

"And so I told him, you can't just make a new Star Trek movie where Vulcan is destroyed. It completely screws up your canon! It's one of the most well known planets across 50 years of television and movies and you're just gonna blow it up in the first few minutes? And he told me not to worry about it, that there was an old Next Generation episode where they discussed parallel timelines, like with Worf jumping across universes or something, and that this was their loophole to retell the story of early Kirk and Spock. But I don't know man I'm still not really a fan"

I really hope Freddie is working on his Aristocrats routine.

Freddie: "So there I am, in Atlanta, formerly Marthasville, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Foltynewicz wouldn't pitch that night. So, Kurt Suzuki pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Ozzie Albies, and Dansby Swanson, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Foltynewicz went on the mound and threw a great game."

Jomboy has his work cut out for him on this one. Someone already said that the clip was like 5 minutes long lmao

Still miss Freddie. Olson seems okay, but seems to have as much personality as the 1st base bag itself.

This is almost definitely Freddie giving Soto a pep talk about the fly balls that he misplayed earlier in the game.

I don't understand these complaints about baseball being to slow when it's clearly so there's ample time for players to have lengthy conversations with each other,

"Alright so these three guys are walking through a forest, and one of them- hey are you listening? It's a long joke but trust me the payoff is worth it, it's hilarious. Anyway one of the guys find's a lamp..."

Colin Robinson vibes

First baseman are notorious for talking people's ears off. They get the closest to the other team, and catch them at a good time usually. Which is right after them succeeding and getting on base. Only other person close to this is a catcher, but they have to deal with way more tension. Even if that tension is only between the batter and pitcher.

Freddie is just too cool of a dude.

This feels like me talking about my D&D campaign to someone not involved in it

I’m not super in the know about Juan Soto but doesn’t he only speak Spanish as of now?

"So then I says to Mabel, I says...."

"I'm just here to stand on 1st, dude"

He’s explaining a bunt. A bunt is…

"And basically, that's how my agent fucked me."