DESPERATE TO FALL INTO FAVOR WITH FANS, BOONE MAKES LINEUP TO MAKE FANS HAPPY

 

First off, this isn't real. Duh. Secondly, I was taken by what Boone said tonight when asked about being booed. If you didn't hear it, here is what he said.

Question: When Aaron is booed after a few strikeouts, you got a few boos during the introductions. Is that bothersome or is that just understanding knowing the expectation?

Boone: I mean yeah, I mean, we're trying to win a game so, the American League Championship Series, so you can't get caught up in that.

He was squirming the whole time. Look, booing your team is stupid. I will never understand that. If you want to blast them for lousy management style, listening to commentators and creating your lineup and position players based on what Michael Kay or Bleeding Yankee Blue says... well that just tells everybody that you're no qualified to be there.

Michael Kay is earning a lot of fans! pic.twitter.com/JdTV9uZMGe

— 4 Train Savages (@FourSavages) October 23, 2022

Kay's right by the way. I was really hoping our YES Network guys would go after Boone a bit tongiht and Kay did.

But there is no question that right now Boone is a marionette trying to cater to what the fans and analysts want because nothing is working.  But there's more...

Yesterday's lineup was awful.  And when I read it, you could see the desperation.  Rizzo first? Donaldson was still in the lineup and IKF has a higher on base percentage. Now say what you will about IKF, but as a singles hitter, he's like a second lead off in the 9-hole. 

Bader has the energy to be a lead off guy. You wanna move some of the guys around drop Judge down in the order alittle just to take some pressure off.  Rizzo needs to stay where he is because his approach has not changed. Carpenter? 

A great hitter that missed 2 months. But here's the key word... TIMING.  

If you are a major leaguer, you know that missing that much time does not allow you to get into a batter's box and smack home runs as quickly as you want.  What we have seen from Carpenter is a rush job by Boone to get him going, but here's the problem; Live at bats is how you get Carpenter back, but for him? He just can't be part of this post season until he's there.  

And so the irony of Carpenter's entire situation is that he was finally working through it tonight in Game 4, after several strikeouts before that. He finally got a single. If this wasn't the post season it wouldn't be amplified as much as it was, but this is the post season and Boone threw him out there to have him work through LIVE AT BATS IN THE POST SEASON. And oh yeah, Boone crossed his fingers in hopes it would work out. That is no way to manage.

Anyone with a brain in their head knows by the eye test what needs to be done with this lineup.  Looking through matchups on paper has not worked AT ALL SINCE THIS SERIES BEGAN, so throw that away and start over with the gut check. Because at this point? You can't lose.

Our back is against the wall.  We have no choice but to use our gut now. We don't have to look at matchups and spreadsheets and asking Michael Kay for suggestions. Boone just has to let these dude's play, because there is no question Boone's meddling is not allowing these guys to be consistent.

Hey... tomorrow is a new day and when I wake up tomorrow, I was still a huge Yankee fan.  That never dies. So, let's go Yanks... let's go Nestor... keep us alive.

P.S. I'm not in any way picking on Emily Nyman. She was just in my line of fire last night. The fact is we are all Yankee fans, and we all want this team to win.