Aaron Boone has a point, but...
Trades won't be what's rumored. Where will Chiefs play?
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone, perhaps feeling the heat because his team has blown a seven-game lead and now trails the first place Toronto Blue Jays in the standings, is taking some swipes at critics of his club. On the podcast Jomboy Talkin’ Yanks, Boone took issue with comments his team doesn’t try hard enough. He also bristled over comments from the Jomboy hosts, critical of how some Yankees answer their post game questions in a measured way.
…I don’t want them to just fly off the handle and be emotional. We’ve been pretty good over the years of compartmentalizing and dealing with the everyday grind of the regular season and playing in New York, and you start getting emotional and going down that road, it’s a bad trait.”
-Yankees manager Aaron Boone
The Jomboy hosts then opined some of the Yankees players may be too robotic in their answers. That did not sit well with Boone.
In New York, before social media, the gotcha crowd was the back page of the tabloids, always goading players into comments, always pitting players against players, players against the manager, players against the owner. The number one concern was to sell newspapers.
Those days are history. Newspapers are in the dumper - even in New York - and social media rules. Now it’s all about generating clicks, and it’s not just Yankees players who are measured in what they say, it is all teams. Access to players has also been restricted. Days of roaming through the clubhouse freely are gone. The environment is more controlled.
Boone and his Yankees get raked over the coals daily on the social media platforms. His shortstop, Anthony Volpe, is a favorite target. I’m among those critical of Volpe. Boone, when he is asked about Volpe’s defense and sporadic hitting becomes very defensive. But you see what you see and the questions are valid.
Reporters who get upset, when Boone backs up Volpe, are also laughable. Do you honestly believe Boone is going to throw one of his players under the bus? The days of managers publicly berating one of their players are not necessarily gone, but it is rare. So reporters who single out Boone for backing his players are running a fools errand.
We now live in a different media world, more different even than when Boone took over as Yankees manager in 2018. For example, Jomboy Media was just getting started by two high school kids in Connecticut, when Boone was named Yankees manager. Now it provides content for the Yankees, including a weekly podcast with Boone, and just cut a mega deal with MLB. But to expect softball questions is also a fools errand. Jomboy Talkin’ Yanks rightly asking pointed questions in their latest podcast with the manager. Unless his Yankees turn things around, the questions are only going to get more pointed, robotic answers or not.
Here are some other stories that caught my attention for Wednesday, July 23, 2025:
I’m guessing that if there are any major trades swung by MLB teams before the July 31 deadline, none of them will be the ones rumored by the so-called “experts.”
You knew it was going to happen. Training camps are just opening and already QBs are being sidelined. Rams QB Matthew Stafford won’t be practicing with teammates because of back soreness.
New York Jets have massive locker room renovation. Barbershop added. Does that mean shorter hair?
WNBA All-Star game ratings way down.
The Kansas City Chiefs have yet to make a decision on their stadium plans. They are doing what teams do; in this case playing one state against the other. Missouri gave the Chiefs what they were asking, and the Chiefs went back to Kansas asking if that state legislature could top it. Why do they do this? Because they can. If you ask me, the Chiefs will end up moving to Kansas and the Royals will build a ballpark in downtown Kansas City, MO.
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