DISGRUNTLED YANKEE FANS SEE BOONE'S FLAWS WAY CLEARER THAN THE YANKEE FRONT OFFICE

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
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— Baseball Isn’t Boring (@BBisntBoring) November 4, 2024

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."

Bleeding Yankee Blue echoes exactly this, and if you look at the body of work that BYB has been together since April here, you will see that we knew this was going to be how it would end.  The reason? Fundamentals, lack of leadership, complacency.  You see, it's much harder to see those things when you're part of the problem and Boone and Cashman are exactly that.  But anyone on the outside, Sherman, BYB, Joe Kelly sees the Yankees for what they are. Lucky, Sluggish, not fundamentally sound.  It hurts to hear it, but it's true.... all of it.

I gave up my Yankee tickets in 2023. In 2024, I went to 1 game, it was against the Rays. I sat in right field and watched a quiet Yankee team lose 9-1 in July. In fact, we left the game in the 7th because they looked like absolute garbage.  And the tickets I got for free, because I will never pay for tickets at Yankee stadium again.  Why? Because they have a lousy manager and a shitty front office.

Don't believe the hype folks.  I will always love my Yankee TEAM, but I will never ever cave to the Yankee front office or support Aaron Boone as our manager. He is unqualified, meaningless and just plain awful.  

Oh yea, and when Soto signs elsewhere this offseason, remember that I told you so.