Girardi Steps Into The Batter's Box To Defend Boone & Strikes Out Looking!

File this story under “you just can’t make this sh*t up!” Seriously. It’s bananas. It’s hard to find Aaron Boone defenders (especially on this site), but at least one does exist! It’s a unicorn ladies and gentlemen!

Yankee fans are sick of Baboonie. He sucks, there is no sugar-coating this one. He’s soft, can’t manage a team and is the exact opposite of a leader but Joe Girardi defends him. There’s no logical explanation to this but, Girardi says this was this was Baboonie’s “best year of managing” and he’s serious while the rest of us are laughing our asses off, you can read more HERE.

Maybe it was his best year of managing failure and chaos. I’ll give him that. He had a lot of adversity to deal with but you know what….so does every manager! He doesn’t get a high five for that. Injuries are a part of the game and they’ve been an obstacle since the beginning of baseball as we know it. Injuries are not the reason for the Yankees failure.

The lack of fundamentals and playing smart baseball is the reason for the Yankees failures. They do the same thing year after year. We’ve had nine years of this team living and dying by the long ball. They lack fundamentals. They can’t play small ball, and they can’t play smart baseball. How many stupid Jazz Chisholm quotes did we have to listen to after he botched a play that little leaguers can do? He was a disaster all season. Did Baboonie fix that? NO. He may have talked to Chisholm about it, but it certainly didn’t work. It’s a lack of accountability no matter how you slice it.

So this is my problem. Look at the pattern with Chisholm this season, how the hell is that his best year of managing? This failure falls on Baboonie. He’s not solving the problem, he’s trying to cover it up in hopes it won’t show up again. Interestingly enough, Girardi does say that the Yankees have a culture problem, read more HERE. So who exactly is the one that cultivates culture? It’s not the bat boy, it’s the manager! How can you possibly be a good manager when you have a culture that lacks accountability? You can’t! A good manager knows how to help their team thrive. That’s not what Baboonie is doing. If he is going to argue the Yankees need a culture change, no one is going to disagree with him there. However, arguing for a culture change that includes keeping Baboonie is the dumbest thing he could ever say.

So basically Girardi is talking out of both sides of his mouth. He stepped up to the plate, tried to make a case for Baboonie and boy did he swing and miss. Epic failure…..just like another Yankees season.

–Jeana Bellezza-Ochoa

BYB Senior Managing Editor

Twitter: @nyprincessj