The Mets Are Releasing A Documentary About Signing The Generational Juan Soto And It Looks Like A Cinematic Masterpiece

Someone tell Christopher Nolan and the entire A-List of Hollywood he has shooting "The Odyssey" that they better not finish shooting for another year if they want to win an Oscar because "The Pursuit" has pretty much locked up every statue based on that 2:45 trailer alone. Most sports docs have devolved into essentially self-fellatio of the subjects since they are usually the people who bankrolled the project. But not "The Pursuit". That just looks like old fashioned non-fiction film making in its purest form.

Ahhhh who am I kidding? That is 1000000000% blue and orange state sponsored propaganda designed to use the 3/4 billion dollars forked over to the legendary Mr. Soto to help grow the Mets YouTube channel, which is a genius business move from the Mets media department. What's the point in signing a future Hall of Famer before he reaches his peak if you can't get snag some views and pat yourself on the back for winning a bidding war against a crosstown rival that had never lost one? I'm not even sure if we'll get one new story of the entire negotiations with Soto and to be honest, I don't care. I will happily listen to the same regurgitated nonsense that we heard while we were glued to Twitter for that neverending month before Juan signed.

However, if there is some new material in this doc, I hope we find out which rumors were true. Did Carlos Mendoza's son really have intel on the meetings? Were the Blue Jays willing to spend more than the Mets to pay the tax of having to play in Canada for Canadians funny money? Did Steve Cohen break out his Bobby Axelrod persona to get these negotiations past the finish line? These are the questions I'd love to have answered and I personally will be the first person in the theater on YouTube to watch it when it premieres (I will watch this in a movie theater if they choose to release it there and know thousands of Mets fans will do the same so we can all smile like idiots while basking in the glory that Juan Soto chose our baseball team this winter).

Now let's hit the music which should obviously be playing during the closing credits of this movie.