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Ok... I get that this thread probably does not belong here per se, but I need to vent amongst a group of people who understand sports (all of you), a significant number of which are Yankees fans, Red Sox fans or Mets fans.
So, the Yankees hire a guy with no managerial experience at all... zero, zip, nada, zilch. Other than 8 years yacking like a know-it-all on ESPN, of course. And from all corners of the New York media this is being hailed as a great hire. Just one example: https://nypost.com/2017/12/02/aaron-boone-is-following-in-steve-kerrs-footsteps/
Seriously... comparing Aaron Boone to Steve Kerr? If the Mets made this same exact hire a month ago, they would have been mocked and vilified for hiring someone without any experience when there were plenty of more qualified candidates available.
Furthermore, Girardi's firing and Boone's hiring is an OBVIOUS move by Brian Cashman to take over running the team as de facto manager from his General Manager's office. This was hinted at when he led the charge to let Girardi go a month ago, but now that it has happened, barely a peep about that aspect. If it were Mets GM Sandy Alderson doing this same thing, the NY media would be killing him, and calling him a control freak and a bozo. As for the just released manager - for all of his shortcomings and supposed lack of relationship skills, Joe Girardi has proven to be an excellent baseball manager both for the Yankees and before that here in Florida for the Marlines... and other than that gaffe in game 2 of the ALDS against Cleveland, by and large he did a wonderful job getting this year's Yankee team to game 7 of the ALCS.
Being a Met fan all my life, even though I am not nearly as into it as I used to be as a kid, I am just sick and tired of the obvious double-standard that I have seen for years in the New York media between Yankee coverage and Met coverage. Although I have lived in Florida for over two decades, I still enjoy reading sports stories on the different New York teams in the New York papers... other than the continued pro-Yankee bias.
Question: how do the baseball fans on this board feel about the Yankees hiring Aaron Boone? I am interested in hearing from Yankee fans in particular, but non-Yankee fans as well.
So, the Yankees hire a guy with no managerial experience at all... zero, zip, nada, zilch. Other than 8 years yacking like a know-it-all on ESPN, of course. And from all corners of the New York media this is being hailed as a great hire. Just one example: https://nypost.com/2017/12/02/aaron-boone-is-following-in-steve-kerrs-footsteps/
Seriously... comparing Aaron Boone to Steve Kerr? If the Mets made this same exact hire a month ago, they would have been mocked and vilified for hiring someone without any experience when there were plenty of more qualified candidates available.
Furthermore, Girardi's firing and Boone's hiring is an OBVIOUS move by Brian Cashman to take over running the team as de facto manager from his General Manager's office. This was hinted at when he led the charge to let Girardi go a month ago, but now that it has happened, barely a peep about that aspect. If it were Mets GM Sandy Alderson doing this same thing, the NY media would be killing him, and calling him a control freak and a bozo. As for the just released manager - for all of his shortcomings and supposed lack of relationship skills, Joe Girardi has proven to be an excellent baseball manager both for the Yankees and before that here in Florida for the Marlines... and other than that gaffe in game 2 of the ALDS against Cleveland, by and large he did a wonderful job getting this year's Yankee team to game 7 of the ALCS.
Being a Met fan all my life, even though I am not nearly as into it as I used to be as a kid, I am just sick and tired of the obvious double-standard that I have seen for years in the New York media between Yankee coverage and Met coverage. Although I have lived in Florida for over two decades, I still enjoy reading sports stories on the different New York teams in the New York papers... other than the continued pro-Yankee bias.
Question: how do the baseball fans on this board feel about the Yankees hiring Aaron Boone? I am interested in hearing from Yankee fans in particular, but non-Yankee fans as well.