Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone have explained that because New York could become particularly harsh in the worst of Yankees times is why the manager does not go publicly negative and potentially worsen the mental anguish for besieged players.
Cashman likened it to avoiding being akin to a WWE star and using a “power drive to finish off the victim.”
And, look, the last thing I want to do is suplex these poor $300 million-plus lads when they are down, so I figured I would try to channel my inner Boone after another Yankee humiliation against the Red Sox by emphasizing that the rest of this column is all out in front of me.
So friends, New Yorkers, countrymen, I come to praise the Yankees, not bury them. Thus, I want to apologize for stating over and over this year that the Yankees are good at only one thing — hitting a ball over a fence. Because they also are experts at throwing to the wrong base. Anthony Volpe and Jasson Domínguez did so in the same inning Friday night.