It's Not Good (A Collection of Twitter (X) Posts)
- Paul Semendinger
- Aug 11
- 1 min read
August 11, 2025
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Take all of this for what it might be worth, maybe nothing - in addition, maybe some of the quoted stats are incorrect, maybe some people's perspectives are off, but, together these (and so so so many more) seem to tell a compelling story regarding the state of the Yankees and the way the fans are reacting to the team. .
In short, it is almost impossible to find any fan or writer or anyone at all saying good things about the Yankees or their manager.
The big point - a very strong argument can be made that the Yankees are beginning to completely lose the support of their fans. They have witness this team play this way for years and years with seemingly no accountability.
(Of course, I didn't copy any tweets with profanity, inappropriate comments, and such - which wasn't actually easy. This is true even on the Yankees own pages.)
Boone will not get fired for the remainder of the season. Hal would never under cut Cashman and Cashman is not firing Boone this season. Cashman gave Boone a three year extension before this season. Maybe Boone gets fired in the offseason IF the Yankees miss the playoffs. Maybe. Slight possibility. If the Yankees miss the playoffs and ticket sales start to decrease and tv revenue for 2026 declines , the Yankees will appease the fans and will announce an independent consultant to blunt the fans demands of firing the manager (heard this tune twice before) . Yes, the Yankees will be embarrassed for missing the playoffs and they will lose playoff money. But this will be weighed as well…
I agree that Boone's performance (or more correctly, lack thereof) warrants termination. The issue is timing. There is only one example of a managerial replacement after Game #100 that has ever succeeded in inspiring a team to reverse it's demise so late in the season to even so much as capture a playoff spot. That solitary example has an interesting NYY-tie.
In 2008, the Milwaukee Brewers were managed by Ned Yost, a post he'd held since 2003. This was Yost's first gig managing a MLB team. His only prior experience managing a team at any level was 13 years prior when he concluded a 3-year run at the Class "A" level in the Atlanta Braves system. Now in his 6th…
The big point - a very strong argument can be made that the Yankees are beginning to completely lose the support of their fans.
not really all that strong.
the argument might be that the Yankees are being criticized for failing to win at the fabulous rate of earlier times, failing to give the fans the style to which they've grown accustomed.
but times are not always constant and results vary,
fandom varies less.
some self-professed fans only show up for the high times
the summer soldiers and sunshine patriots might be gone with the wind. the fans will stick.
the Yankees of DiMaggio,Berra, Mantle and Maris did not appreciate the Yankees of Hector Lopez and Roy White and little…
Posada has it right.
Every sports organizations no matter the Sport actually do have people that read blogs like this one. Granted, there are many business things most of us don't even think about when we make our comments, so that stops certain things from happening, no matter how smart a move it would be. But my question is, with many of us, not just here, talking big picture, not just about a player or a coach, or even an in-game strategy, at what point does Hal, or the Steinbrenner Family as a whole actually have the big picture conversation?