February 21, 2025

29 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Fired-up Boone signs 2-year extension with Yankees”

  2. I don’t get this “teams don’t like to have a lame duck manager” thing. That means you intend to employ the manager until he dies or retires, or failing that you fire him with (at least) a year remaining in the deal and eat the money. Teams don’t act this way about players and managers are so, so much less important

    2. I think it’s more a case of, “if the guy just goes to the World Series, you should give him an extension if he’s entering his lame duck year.” Because obviously the Yankees have been more than willing to let Boone manage as a lame duck multiple times. But they just made it to the World Series, most teams tend to reward their managers in those scenarios.

    4. They fired Torre YEARS after his last World Series. And there’s no way they would have fired him HAD he made it to the World Series in 2007.

      Girardi, for instance, likely would have stuck around for another year or two had they made it in 2017.

  3. Wow, ESPN dropping their MLB rights after 35 years. Crazy.

    It sounds like both parties wanted out, as ESPN had spent so much money elsewhere, and MLB figured it could break up the rights package and make more money splitting it between various places.

    1. As tone deaf as Manfred may be, he has generally made positive changes for baseball. And importantly, has focused on trying to make it easier to actually watch baseball.

    2. MLB, now streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Max, Apple, Peacock, Paramount, PBS, Tubi, Mubi, and Poopi.

    4. Easier to watch – you mean “all you have to do is have 17 separate paid subscriptions” easy?
      I know, of course, what you mean, but I’ll never, ever get it. Baseball ISN’T hard to watch, it’s a pleasure to watch… or I wouldn’t do it. The changes all seem geared to make sure there’s just… less of it. Again, if the goal is to spend less time watching baseball, just watch less of it. But I really don’t think that’s a baseball fan’s goal.

    5. Iirc prime is the only one that is directly licensed by baseball. All other streaming platforms are done by the teams.

      This is an issue of a money grab by the owners and MLB not being able to do much about it.

      For the broadcasts MLB does control now, they are dropping blackouts. That’s a good move.

      A great move world be clawing back all broadcast rights, but that’s an uphill battle.

    1. There were two great things about the policy:

      1.) First and foremost, beards suck.
      2.) It annoyed idiots on Twitter who love to have little groupthink pet causes despite having zero skin in the game. The same people always carping about hte beard policy are the same people weirdly invested in Idris Elba playing Bond despite maybe — MAYBE — having caught 20 minutes of Goldfinger on TNT one time.

    2. I feel like the endpoint of your arc is having to grow a beard for some reason and becoming a beard evangelist

    3. Cash has his eyes on this great Hasidic kid who’s tearing up his Williamsburg Little league team sponsored by the Rebbe. He’s already listed on the depth chart for 2035, but the beard. If they waited another five years on the beard policy it would be considered DEI. Cash is looking ahead.

    5. I have a short well groomed beard because shaving everyday is annoying and a buzzer is so much easier to me AND I think Idris Elba should be Bond and I’ve watch all the bond films.

      I will be in my Mom’s basement the rest of the day.

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