Die-Hard Yankees Fan Corey B Is NOT Okay with His Son Rooting for the Mets

Corey B came on the show with a baseball problem the Yankees front office cannot help him solve. His 9-year-old son, growing up in New York, has decided of his own free will to be a Mets fan.

The boy's name is Lexington. The household is a Yankees household. Lexington wants his father to drive to Queens.

"This man wants me to travel to Citi Field," Corey said.

Rich asked the obvious question. Why the Mets?

Corey's theory was medical, possibly contaminated water during pregnancy.

"It's like a Bartolo Colón chromosome," he said.

The deeper offense, Corey explained, is that Lexington has a thing for Juan Soto. Soto was a Yankee before he was a Met. The conversion did not start with Soto. Lexington only got interested after the trade.

"He didn't like him when he played for the Yankees," Corey said. "So why like him now?"

Lexington's other sports allegiances confirmed something is happening upstream. The family went to a Knicks game against the Toronto Raptors.

"I want the dinosaur team to win," Lexington reportedly told his father.

TJ, who is a Mets fan, found a kindred spirit. He offered the floor for what he would tell Lexington if given the chance.

"It's filled with just pain," TJ said. "But you know it's going to make him stronger as a human being."

Chris pushed back, leaning on his Yankees-fan credentials and four World Series titles in his lifetime.

TJ had a counter ready.

"You haven't won one since 2009," he said. "We haven't won one since 1986. Going to make us a little bit stronger as a human being. And probably a little tougher and he's going to need that."

Rich offered what he called Rich Eisen Show Consulting. He volunteered to call Lexington personally and walk him through the math of disappointment versus happiness. Then he revealed his own son problem.

"My son is convinced that he will one day play for the Dodgers," Rich said. "He has told everyone this. And he thinks he is the second coming of Shohei Ohtani."

Rich added that he has had to remind his son, repeatedly, that he is not Asian and is unlikely to be 6'4".

"As if that's the first requirement," Corey said.

The segment closed on Lexington's daily commute. Corey takes him on the subway to Mets games as a form of character building.

"I'm making him strong," Corey said.

Rich, a Los Angeles resident with the 405 freeway between him and any ballpark, conceded that the subway, even on a 7 train running to Citi Field, beats anything he sits in.

The official Rich Eisen Show consulting recommendation for Lexington was that there is still time to switch.