What do you want me to say; That I love the idea of Aaron Boone coming back to the Yankees to manage in 2025? I don't. I think it's ridiculous, silly, ignorant and baffling, but I also recognize the laziness of the Yankee front office enough to know that that option was put out there to make it easier for them to just keep the puppet around long enough to find someone knew... eventually.
I don't like the leadership of Aaron Boone. Let me rephrase this; I find the lack of leadership of Aaron Boone worthless to this Yankee club. In short, the New York Yankee players and their fans, us, deserve better. That's it plain and simple.
I have to laugh. The Yankee front office was clearly hurt by the tone and chirping of LA Dodger pitcher Joe Kelly over the past few weeks. The old Yankees would have ignored it, moved on, shrugged it off. You know why I know it bothers them? Because it's true.
If it wasn't Cashman and Boone wouldn't be out there addressing, it. If you live under a rock, Joe Kelly called the Yankees a mismatch in the world series against the Dodgers.
BIB on the Go: Joe Kelly Isn't Letting Up On The Yankees
— Baseball Isn’t Boring (@BBisntBoring) November 4, 2024
Listen here ➡️ https://t.co/CabMY3ksGx pic.twitter.com/iaXMRIXfv3
And you know what? He wasn't wrong. Ya'll can act all high and mighty and act like Joe Kelly is a fool and should shut up, but looking back on the series, the Yankees were mismatched. The Yankee fundamentals were terrible, baserunning, errors, we all saw the same games. You can't act like it wasn't an issue, in fact during and days after it was Aaron Boone that was in the frying pan because between sports radio and the papers, it was clear that the Yankees don't practice fundamentals regularly during the season, and if they actually do, well then it is not enough. That falls on the manager.
A failed season of not winning the World Series is a failure of the manager. Everyone knows it and that's been going on since the day baseball began. But for the Yankees, they reward with an option to stick around in 2025. And that goes back to me being disgrunted. The Yankees are not a good team. They don't address the issues, all Yankee stadium is is a money maker for Hal. The tickets are too expensive, the bad food is too and all you get as a Yankee fan is the hope the Juan Soto comes back... and that's it.
All Cashman can say is: "I acknowledge we played poorly in the World Series. We saw that and, unfortunately, our A-game didn’t show up when it counted the most. I also think, objectively, if you take a step back and analyze who we played, whether it was the Dodgers or any of the other postseason teams that were participating, whether it was us playing them or other teams in the National League, those rosters are all constructed with players that do things in some category better than others.”
And if you really look at that, it's a non-answer. First off we know we played terribly and we were definitely mismatched, but the word salad that Cashman and Aaron Boone do with our media is embarrassing. All it shows me is we don't have a finger on the pulse, and we have no idea what we're doing as a front office.
As Joel Sherman says in the New York Post: "what the Yankees suffered in blowing Games 1 and 5 to the Dodgers was not mercurial. It was predictable. They never cleaned up the finer points of the game. If anything, they worsened as the season progressed. This was not an October problem or a World Series problem. You could see this mounting from April onward."
All true. Every word.
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