The Yankees Aren't Doing Much Right

Bad game again.  They all seem like bad ones lately, don’t they?

The Red Sox are good.  Very good, but they aren’t as good as the Yankees all the time. Lately however, they are making us look like a BAD high school team.  And I don’t mean all high school teams are clueless and without baseball I.Q.  I’m saying really, really bad high school teams are. And the Yankees look a few steps down from the major league level lately.  A lot of it is energy. A lot of it is just bad play… oh and pitching.  And yes, it does come from the top.

I like Aaron Boone. I believe a change in the Yankees managerial ranking was a good thing.  I think Joe Girardi got complacent and that a change of the guard was good for the team. I really do.

But I am sick and tired of hearing people say that Aaron Boone grew up in baseball… like that means something. I’m sick of hearing that his grandfather played and his dad played and was a manager… and his brother played and Aaron played at the major league level.  Let me be crystal clear when I say this… and get a pen and paper and write this down… SOMETIMES IT DOES NOT TRANSLATE.

Aaron Boone is a big contributor to these losses.  I don’t care what people say… he is.  He is in charge. He makes the decisions.  It really doesn’t matter the personnel he has in the dugout, he needs to navigate wisely and put the best team on the field.  AND THEN… they need to play the damn game HARD.  We look like this…

(What movie?  Day of Thunder. That’s right, I’ve been dying to use that in a post…)

The point is we need to reel in the sloppiness, get down to business and beat this team that we are so good at beating, because right now… we are not.

AP writes this:

“Porcello pitched a one-hitter, retiring his final 21 batters and striking out a season-high nine in leading the Red Sox over the New York Yankees 4-1 victory Friday night.”

1 hit.  Porcello 1 hit the Yankees. Now, Porcello is good, but not 1 hit good. There’s inconsistency in this guy… he’s off one year, on the next.  You don’t know what you’re gonna get sometimes.  But there is one thing he IS… that’s confident.

We don’t look confident.  We look worried.

There is no rivalry folks. None.  And now we put all this pressure on a kid like Chance Adams that the organization once touted the next big thing… UNTIL,  he came out in spring training, got his tits lit up and suddenly he disappeared into the abyss until this moment happened.

This isn’t “Hey, we need you to pitch today, you earned it.” No… this moment is “Hey, we need arms and we’re desperate.” I hope Chance kicks butt today!!!

The Yankees shouldn’t be desperate… they should be dominant. This isn’t a weekend to be unsteady. We knew it was coming, it was on the calendar. We needed to be prepared.  We are not… again, what is Yankee brass and Aaron Boone doing? It’s like tip-toeing through a field of landmines.  Not cool and unfair to us fans that pay their hard earned money to see victory… ESPECIALLY IN THIS SERIES.

When the game happens today, I will be front and center rooting for my guys like I always do, but we are disgusting right now.  Blame is all over the place.

Come on Yanks… Turn this around.