Aaron Boone Doesn't Care About Winning

The Yankees fan base watched this organization introduce Aaron Boone as the new manager, in 2017. Telling us fans that Boone is 'right for this job' and that he's a "players coach". Meanwhile the guy never managed a team in his life. 

So the Yankees bring in an inexperienced Boone to replace the ten-year stint, '09 World Series Champion, Joe Girardi, in 2017, after Girardi just taking a young, Yankees team to a game of the World Series. Sounds like a weird hiring. But okay. As a fan, you sit back and see how this goes. 

Well, in his first five years with the Yankees, Boone in his first year took the Yankees to a ALDS in 2018, when they got embarrassed by the Boston Red Sox and lost the series 3-1; got beat by the Houston Astros in 2019 (almost lost three games at home); lost to the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2020 ALDS, then lose again to the Red Sox in the 2021 Wild Card Game and this year, 2022, got swept by the Houston Astros. 

Boone has never even sniffed the World Series. Never got close to it. So what was the point of replacing Girardi with Boone? I'm not saying Girardi was the second coming of Joe Torre, but if you're gonna replace Girardi, replace him with a real manager. Don't replace him with a guy who was a third wheel on an ESPN Sunday Night Baseball broadcast. 

Boone hasn't done anything in five years. 

During the Boone's tenure with the Yankees, we started to get the notion that he's not really managing. He's being told what to do. Which makes the whole hiring more bizarre and we makes me, personally, dislike him as manager - or dislike this philosophy. 

The general manager, Brian Cashman, believes in this philosophy of having the analytic team, who we never see, puts the lineup together. Boone doesn't put the lineup together - the analytic team does! If you're playing for the Yankees how can believe in your coach, when your coach is a puppet! 

I guess you can say Boone basically gets paid millions, to stand on the top step of the dugout, to pretend to manage. What a disgrace to human life. He's worse than these non-New York hispters who moved to Brooklyn, who have no jobs but somehow own lofts. 

And I like Cashman as a general manager. I'm not one of those fans who hate him; I think he's made lot of great trades; the Harrison Bader trade was great, the Wandy Peralta trade might be one of his best trades, ever. 

But I don't like Cashman's idea of having coach be his puppet. Maybe I should be screaming to have Cashman fired. Maybe the other fans are right about hating Cashman. Or maybe he needs to realize that THIS ISN'T WORKING. This puppet master system doesn't win games. 

You can tell me that Boone has won 100 games with the Yankees - listen, the Yankees have a lot of money. With the money they have, they can always make the playoffs. Besides last year, the Yankees barely made the playoffs. And nearly blew their division lead in the second half, when they were horrifyingly bad.  

And Boone doesn't care. He doesn't care how people look at him as a puppet - because he's getting paid millions to do nothing. That's why he accepts everyone calling him a puppet. Players may care what you think because they work hard and believe in their talent. What talent or system does Boone have? He has no beliefs. His belief to shut up and do nothing. 

Please - don't give me Boone's soft philosophy of hugging a player after an elimination, just like when he hugged Gary Sanchez after the team got eliminated in four games in the 2018 ALDS, by Boston. Give me a fucking break. After that, Sanchez who played his best with Girardi, sucked when his began playing for Boone. Then got traded to Minnesota. 

BOONE HAS GOT TO GO. This doesn't work anymore! I have no faith in this team next year if Boone returns, because that means it's gonna be same thing we've seen in the past five years. Nothing's going to change. 

And of course Boone's not gonna do anything because he's getting millions to do nothing. In his personal life, why fix it if the checks still keep coming in. 

As for the the fans, our checks keep going to the Yankees.