Yankees manager airs frustration after club is swept by Mets

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports

Yankees' Aaron Boone airs frustration after club is swept by Mets

By Aaron Case | Last updated Jul 25, 2024 7:57 PM ET

After watching the New York Mets steamroll their team this week, even the most optimistic Yankees fans must be fearing the worst for the remainder of the 2024 MLB season. With many viewers likely hurling curse words at their TV screens, Yankees manager Aaron Boone apparently decided to fight expletives with expletives to let fans know the anger is mutual.

“… We're a really good team that has played s---ty of late,” Boone said on Wednesday evening, per ESPN’s Jorge Castillo. We need to be better. I'm not going to define stretch, this or that. We got to go win, right? And we're right there. We're watching other teams struggle around us. We know we got to be better. We're p-ssed off in there. We got a lot of pride in there. We got a lot of expectation in there. So, stretch, slump, recent, I don't give a s---. It's we got to play better the rest of the way.”

"We gotta play better, okay? We have it right in front of us. We're a really good team that has played s--tty of late. We need to be better."

- Aaron Boone pic.twitter.com/qR3s0yaKZN
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) July 25, 2024

Boone may not want to quibble over terminology, but one fact is certain: The Yankees' recent slump has stretched across an alarmingly large chunk of the 2024 calendar.

Since the beginning of June, the Yankees have gone 20-25. Zoom in a bit closer to the last four weeks and the Bombers are an abysmal 8-14.

This week, the struggling club punctuated its slide by losing two games to its crosstown rivals, including a 12-3 embarrassment on Wednesday.

The Yankees’ shortcomings have even inspired former star David Wells to question the team’s passion. The elder statesman also expressed doubts in Boone’s ability to light a fire under his players.

Perhaps Boone went into Wednesday’s news conference to prove Wells wrong. Maybe Boone described his squad’s failures with extra colorful language to show that he’s willing to call out his players — or at least make it look like he is.

If only those curse words could take the field and string a few wins together. They can’t, though, so Bombers fans will have to just keep hoping the Yankees players can get inspired to turn this thing around — preferably before the club is no longer “right there.”

Aaron Case

Aaron Case is a die hard Yankees fan from upstate New York who fuels his writing with too much coffee. When he's not riding the emotional roller coaster that is the MLB season, he's probably daydreaming and doodling or making beats. Follow him on X @AarontheCase1

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