Yankees Manager Calls Dodgers Trash Talk ‘Annoying’ After World Series
The Los Angeles Dodgers have been enjoying every second of their 2024 World Series championship this offseason, but unsurprisingly, the manager of the runner-up New York Yankees is a little irked by the continuous celebrations.
It wasn’t just the five-game Fall Classic, but a blown 5-0 lead in the fifth inning of a pivotal Game 5 was where the Yankees needed just one out to end the nightmare frame. The ensuing defensive miscues from New York and resilience of L.A. that made the Dodgers champions that night.
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Manager Aaron Boone discussed his team’s second place finish on FS1’s Breakfast Ball show while also having to deal with hearing about his team’s shortcomings all offseason long.
“I don’t know. We kind of looked at it as they beat us and we didn’t play our best. So that’s their right to say whatever they want. I think it’s annoying, I’ll say that. I think it annoyed some guys. But at the end of the day, if we want to not hear it, we’ve got to play better and be the team standing.”
Boone was correct in his assesment that watching a team celebrate to the nature in which the Dodgers did after such a brutal defeat for New York can definitely be considered ‘annoying.’ As for if this will be motivation for the team, the skipper honestly answered what it meant for the Yankees.
“I don’t know about motivation. If you need that to motivate you going into a 162-game season, I don’t really think that’s what should be motivating us. It should be to be the best we possibly can be. You go to Spring Training to start that, and hopefully we can get back there and punch through this time, and hopefully have some more respectful comments when we do it.”
A predictable jab at the Dodgers to end his comments makes sense, but it would be difficult for a team to not react the way players and fans did with as many fielding mishaps the Yankees committed on the game’s biggest stage.
With 2025 officially underway, only time will tell who is in control of the offseason comments after October.
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Boone summed it up pretty well.
“But at the end of the day, if we want to not hear it, we’ve got to play better and be the team standing.”
What was annoying is Guano Joe Kelly shooting off his mouth about the Yankees meltdown.
The Yankees were not the second best team in baseball last year. The Padres were a much better team than the Yankees. The Yankees were a poor defensive team that eventually was going to breakdown and let the other team score more runs. Their meltdown was expected. Now the Padres were a big challenge and it took a lot to beat them.
All I can say is “WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!”