Michael Kay tells Juan Soto to get over it: 'Can't put the milk back in the udder' Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images

If Juan Soto regrets spurning the New York Yankees to sign with the Mets, Michael Kay has three words of advice: get over it.

As Juan Soto struggles in his first season of a 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets, there’s this growing narrative that he’s upset about leaving the Yankees. That narrative has reached new heights after Soto returned to Yankee Stadium as a Met for the Subway Series and had a disappointing showing.

Tuesday afternoon, the New York Yankees play-by-play voice told Soto to get over his remorse.

“He’s gotta get over it. He’s not going back to the Yankees. He’s just not. He’s locked in for 15 years with the Mets. This is his home. He’s gotta make the most of it. And again, he’s not in hell! He’s in a great team with great players that have a chance to win a World Series,” Kay said on his ESPN New York radio show. “You gotta get over it, Juan. You didn’t land in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. You landed in New York City, in another borough. So even if you have some wanderlust that, ‘maybe I shouldn’t have left the Yankees,’ you gotta get over it!

“Because it can’t be undone. You can’t put the milk back in the udder. You’re a New York Met, you’re a New York Met for a long, long time. And I’m telling you, people will push back on me, he’ll get over it. Even if he is feeling the things that a lot of people think he’s feeling, that he really wanted to be a Yankee and might still want to. He’ll get over it.”

Kay has been one of the people pushing the narrative, but he isn’t alone. Longtime New York area sportswriter Bob Klapisch recently claimed Soto is “miserable” with the Mets. Kay, meanwhile told his radio audience that unnamed Mets officials have said Soto is “very glum” around the clubhouse. Kay furthered his report by claiming Soto wanted to stay with the Yankees, but his family pushed him to the Mets. And now Kay is telling Soto to get over it.

But what if there’s nothing to get over? Soto hasn’t complained about being with the Mets. And it would be one thing if he seemed glum about leaving a team like the Washington Nationals, where he started his career as a 19-year-old and won a World Series. But the Yankees were already the third team of Soto’s career. Soto may have loved his one season with the Yankees before moving within the same city to the Mets, but it’s hard to believe he loved that one season so much that it’s already causing him to sour on the $765 million the Mets are paying him.

And even through his disappointing start, he’s still on pace for 27 homers, 67 RBIs, and a .379 OBP. Numbers that aren’t worth $765 million, but numbers that are almost identical to his 2022 campaign. It’s not like he’s producing at a historically low level.

Maybe Soto will start seeming happier once everyone stops telling him how miserable he is to be on a team with the wealthiest owner in baseball.

Michael Kay tells Juan Soto to get over it: 'Can't put the milk back in the udder'

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Brandon Contes is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. He previously helped carve the sports vertical for Mediaite and spent more than three years with Barrett Sports Media. Send tips/comments/complaints to [email protected]