Boone Ain't No General, He Ain't No Manager Or Leader... He's A Hack

This entire series was predicted… by me.  

It takes a true leader to lead a team.  I have said this for years. Aaron Boone is not that leader.  He doesn’t truly understand how to manage a short series, and he doesn’t truly understand what needs to get done during tough times. This, my friends is the toughest time of his career and he is a no show, he’s nowhere. He ain’t no manager, he surely ain’t no General.  

Generals are tough. Managers are smart.

Yup General Patton is there, for good reason.  Now you can get angry at me and say that war is not baseball and how dare you.  My imagery is for heavy reaction because it’s not about Patton leading soldiers to war… it’s about a leader leading his players to deliver.   Boone doesn’t understand what it takes. He has been exposed. How else to you explain changing up the lineup last night and pulling Austin Wells, putting in Jose Trevino to replace him, and then pinch-hitting Wells for Trevino later on?  

That’s a manager second guessing himself.  For me, it was the most glaring indication of a manager that is unclear on how these games work and the importance of a short series.

I don’t know why any Yankee fan is surprised by the way this World Series is going.  The New York Yankees are the most inconsistent team in 2024 and Bleeding Yankee Blue has been harping on this and writing about it since the season began.  They are just moving along, a win here, a lose here and a hot streak in the beginning of the season and a hot one near the end.  It was like a fake season. And by the way, absent Boone had really nothing to do with anything except make bad decisions and trust me, Bleeding Yankee Blue has documented all of them.

I don’t understand what is wrong with the integrity of these Yankee players.  They defend Aaron Boone for “Backing them”.  If backing them means he argues ball and strikes as theater to get kicked out of try and fire up the fan base, I have news for you, that’s not what true leaders do.  If that’s what they hang their hat on they are also part of the problem and they should all be fired.

Last night the Yankees had a big opportunity, probably the only one they were going to get all game.  Gleyber Torres at bat, men on base and on a ball out of the strike zone and high. The umpire calls a strike three.  Now for you, for me, for Gleyber, for my mom, for the typical Dodger fan that at this point takes pitty on us… we ALL knew it was a ball and an opportunity to walk and maybe Soto could have started something big… you know, momentum.

Got him!

Torres is caught looking at strike 3 up in the zone.

📺: FOX pic.twitter.com/YDLHNBlVVt

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 29, 2024

But Gleyber struck out on a bad call.  And what do we get? We get a cutaway of Aaron Boone spitting out seeds.  No fight in a game that actually means something.  All season long this guy looked like a fucking clown arguing balls and strikes in meaningless games.  But this is when we need him most. This is a leadership moment.  And he doesn’t budge.  He spits his bacon ranch seeds and sits there lifeless.  WHERE IS OUR MANAGER?

Let me also state the worst part of last night’s game and something a lot of Yankee fans do not know.  Joe Davis is on the Dodgers broadcast team. John Smoltz is just anti-Yankee ever since the Yankees beat him and the Braves in the ’90s.  So, it’s no wonder why they took every opportunity to slam the Yankees with backhand compliments and critical comments for the past 3 games.  My favorite “rooting of the Dodgers” moment came when the Yanks pegged out the Dodgers runner at home.  Listen to Smoltz:

My favorite highlight of Game 3. Because he was wrong. pic.twitter.com/0VL59opESL

— Robert Casey (@BleednYankeeBlu) October 29, 2024

Now I’m sorry but why are you rooting?  

Look, the broadcast BS doesn’t help, but back to our weak leader in Aaron Boone.  This note’s to Hal Steinbrenner….

Dear Hal,

We have tried it your way for a few years now.  It’s clear that Daddy Boone made a phone call to someone in the Yankees front office to get Aaron Boone a job.  And we tried it, but it’s not working.  Aaron Boone is a guy that hit a home run against the Red Sox in 2003 and everyone seems to forget that we actually LOST that World Series and then he broke his leg in the offseason and violated his contract. So, he is hardly a noble, hardworking and smart individual capable of managing the biggest franchise in baseball.  But what’s worse is the fan base has been telling you this for years.  Fire him.

Thank you.

Fondly,

Casey 

The Yankees can win the World Series, but obviously the percentage is very low.  But if they do not we can blame this entire World Series on one play.    

Aaron Boone not bringing in Tim Hill into the game in Game 1 and instead going to a guy that hadn’t pitched since September 18th.  If Freddie Freeman doesn’t hit that Grand Slam, we are in a much different situation today.  Why?

Momentum.  

Momentum is a very powerful thing and much of the momentum that surround teams comes with a subtle move made by their leader.  It could be a fired-up speech in the clubhouse before the game. It could be a last-ditch effort of putting Wade Boggs in to work a really good at bat.  It could be a moment in time where a pinch hitter bunts in a suicide squeeze.  And it could also be a guy named Tim Hill coming in in that inning with that sick windup and hopefully shutting Freddy Freeman down.  

But Boone didn’t make the right decision.  He chose the friend zone, not the must win. He chose Nestor at the worst possible time and that moment killed the Yankees, brought momentum to the Dodgers and will ultimately (hopefully not) cost the Yankees the World Series.

And after this season, win the Series or not, Aaron Boone MUST BE FIRED. Because he is not a manager, he is not a General… he’s a hack.  That’s the bottom line.