For the 15th straight year, the Yankees season has ended in failure.
I don’t care that they won the AL East.
I don’t care that they had the best record in the AL.
I don’t even care that they made the World Series.
As George Steinbrenner said, any season that doesn’t with a championship is a failure.
And we’ve now had 15 failures in a row.
This isn’t VCU making a Final Four.
This is the fucking New York Yankees.
And I’m not expecting to wineveryyear.
But I do just want to winoneyear.
The Yankees are officially in a championship drought, and there’s no way around that.
WE WANT TO SEE THE YANKEES WIN A WORLD SERIES.
That doesn’t make us spoiled or bad fans.
They have to earn it.
The defense is terrible.
The base running is awful.
The mental mistakes are abundant.
Bad fundamentals have been a staple of Aaron Boone teams all seven seasons he’s been manager.
Aaron Boone has breaded a losing culture inside the Yankees clubhouse of excuse-making and zero accountability.
That’s just not how you answer questions after your defense literally cost you a World Series.
I don’t give a fuck.
you might still have a group chat with him if he gets fired.
He’s not supposed to be your friend.
He’s supposed to be your manager.
I’m glad you made a bunch of friends this season.
But we don’t hang banners that say “2024 - Had A Really Close Locker Room.”
And that all starts with Aaron Boone.
Boone should be out as Yankees manager, but he won’t be.
Aaron Judge will go to bat for him once again and Hal and Cashman will listen to him.
But I’m not sure why we have to take whatever Aaron Judge says as the word of God.
He hit .184 this postseason and now has a .205 lifetime postseason average through 58 games.
It’s a long track record of playoff failure.
But until that happens, all his regular season accomplishments will feel hollow.
It’s unfortunate, but it’s true and deep down I’m sure he knows that too.
It was an organizational failure.
And that’s the root of the issue.
The Yankees keep assembling teams that are just good enough.
Just good enough to make the playoffs.
Just good enough to maybe make noise in the randomness of the playoffs.
Just good enough to maybe make a World Series and hope things go their way.
But they ran into a team who doesn’t believe in just good enough.
They ran into an absolute powerhouse Dodgers team that operates the way the Yankees used to.
Just going 110% all out to put together the best roster in baseball every single season.
A team so good that if you make mistakes against them, it will cost you.
And the Yankees just don’t do that anymore.
It was good enough to win the AL East.
It was good enough to be the best record in a weak AL.
And deep down, we knew that as fans all season long.
We saw the prolonged stretches of horrible baseball they played and could see all the flaws that plagued them.
And those same flaws are what cost them in the end.
An inability to get the big hit when it matters most.
You just can’t beat the Dodgers when you’re too busy beating yourself.
Get rid of Boone.
Sign or trade for another impact bat, another frontline starter, and multiple bullpen pieces.
But I just don’t have faith in all or even most of that happening.
And the AL will only be better next year.
And the Dodgers will also be healthier.
It’s not good enough to just be good enough anymore.
There needs to be accountability.
But there won’t be.
