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That's Boomer and Gio and you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. It's an annual tradition around here. Five, six days. After the Yankees get eliminated, we either get the news that the manager's coming back, the manager's gone, and then we all argue with each other should the manager come back.

I do want to be fair and take you back to last year. Halloween, 2024, what did Tiki Barber want to do with Aaron Boone after the Yankees lost the World Series in five.

Here's how it sounded.

To me, it's not about firing Aaron Boone.

I'm not calling for Aaron Boone to get fired.

I know some people want to.

I know that people want their pound of flesh right now, especially after some of the mismanagement.

But Aaron Boone is a good manager, and he's good with that clubhouse.

And now, does he need to self-evaluate and go take some, I don't know, professional best practices classes?

Probably, especially when it comes to the most critical moments in games or in phases of seasons,

how you can best get the most out of your team, sure. But I like Aaron Boone. I think he's a good manager. But there's a difference between being a good manager and a great manager and a great managers win World Series. And we saw why he's not a great manager. It was right in front of us. Oh, it's very interesting. So let me ask you. First of all, I'm correct to myself that because you did say you didn't want him fired. I remembered incorrectly. So L for me. But do you think a year later, Aaron followed those best practices that you suggested? Unfortunately not, because he kept making excuses. And it's one thing to make an excuse for your player to protect them.

It's another when you're enabling incompetence because you're doing that.

And that's what it felt like for so many weeks this year, in particular around Anthony Volpe,

but there were just other instances of that.

And I play football, so it's a different mentality for me, where if you are consistently

inconsistent, you're getting, you're getting cursed, right? You're getting made an example of.

You're sitting down. Someone else is going to do your job. And I guess it's, look, baseball

players may be more sensitive, and at least that's how managers treat them. But I think it's, look, baseball players may be more sensitive and at least

that's how managers treat them. But I think it's a cop-out. I don't think that any athlete,

I don't care what sport you play, wants an excuse made for them. I don't think they want to

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