WHERE'S THE YANKEES RALLY CRY?

It's pathetic that there is no leader in that Yankee clubhouse to motivate, inspire and rally the troops.  With Aaron Judge in Tampa trying to get right for this team, the idea of a true leader is lost.  Why?

I'm sorry gang, but the team on the field is not the team we have on paper. Or maybe it is, but the guy at the top just doesn't know how to move the chess pieces. Yes... I think that's what it is.  If you can't translate it from paper to the field, there is only one place to look for answers... management.  And not only our unqualified manager, but brass as well.  Yankee brass has continually let this happen year after year.  If I didn't do my job... if you didn't do yours... we would be fired. It's pretty simple.  

We have been up and down emotionally for years based on Boone Bingo and bad press conferences.  What is Aaron Boone's strategy? "Hitting a baseball hard", being "right there" or having a guy "looking good tonight" doesn't equate to wins. It's Aaron Boone fumbling over words, just not knowing what to say to the media.  He's lost, he's struggling... he's no leader.

Without the leader... without the rally cry... you really can't win.  Well, maybe secretly that's what the Steinbrenner family wants.  Maybe the Yankees NOT making the playoffs will make it easier for Hal and company to let guys like Boone go... maybe even Brian Cashman. The truth is, we've heard they are safe too often, but nothing changes EVER. There is no motivation, urgency, nothing.  It appears that golden boy Boone just wants to ride this out.

But maybe we need to lose and not achieve our playoff goal so changes happen. Maybe that's the only way.  I'd hate to see the Yankees miss the playoffs this year.  But in this world that Yankee fans live in now, there is really no reason to be excited, thrilled or willing to even attend a Yankee game.  

Leaders matter and we've had really good ones before. We've had seasoned, confident leaders. In life good leaders have goals, have urgency. Ideas MATTER. But in this new Yankee world of complacency, I am having a hard time understanding where this Yankee team is pulling their fire from? Put it this way; You can be a personal leader all you want, but on a team, you need an entire group to rally with that leader.  Many times that stems from a manager with goals.  A loudmouth motivator that commands respect.  

Let me ask a serious question;  Do you really think for a second that Aaron Boone has respect from these players? Do You? I don't.  If he did, guys like Sean Casey and Andy Pettitte, well respected players in the MLB wouldn't be suddenly inserted in the Yankee clubhouse.  

Boone has no game. Boone has no Rally Cry.  Boone is not a leader.  Yankee fans deserve better.

I guess we need to let this season fail to finally see upper management make changes folks. I guess Steinbrenner can't sack up and fire this guy now. I guess, and this is my opinion... that we need to miss the playoffs for true change to happen.  

It's tough being a fan these days... it really is.  It's tough when you look out at the world, your office space, your team, whatever and see complacency, lack of urgency and the lack of will to make change by showing strength. We lack leaders in this country, but now, drill down to this team... we have no leader in that clubhouse... What is wrong with spineless Aaron Boone? Why can't he command respect from his players? Why does he have no Rally Cry? What is happening?  

I wish I had the answer.  I don't. 

All I DO know is I know the cause.  

#FireBoone