If The Yankees Only Fire Boone, It Doesn't Fix The Problem!

The “FIRE BOONE” chants are at an all-time high (as they should be). Even though BOONE PREDICTED TO BE TOAST BY SEPTEMBER would make most of Yankeeland happy when it happens….it’s not enough. 

That should only be the start. I say should because I don’t think Hal Steinbrenner will be smart enough to do what is REALLY needed to fix the organization. He just doesn’t have the knowledge (or I would argue desire) to start a new legacy. Firing Baboonie is only step 1 in this gigantic mess of a franchise. The manager is only a small biproduct of the real problem.

Mickey Mouse could be the manager of this team and it wouldn’t matter. Until Brian Cashman is gone the identity of the manager is irrelevant. Cashman is the puppet master and even if Aaron Boone is fired, Cashman is just going to bring in a clone of Baboonie. It will be someone else that Cashman can control. The reality is until the ENTIRE organization is stripped down and rebuilt from the top all the way down to the bottom nothing is going to change. I do mean everything. From the coaching staff, medical staff, training staff, scouts, analytics team and contributors in the front office. Burn the whole thing down and start over! As painful as that may sound to some people, it would not be an addition by subtraction.

Unless Cashman and his crazy ideas on how to construct this team are gone this team will not evolve or win. Cashman’s ideas are crazy. The rosters he has built over the years are insanely stupid and some of the contracts he’s given are certifiably stupid. Some of his most criticized moves include the signings of Jacoby Ellsbury, Kei Igawa, Carl Pavano, and the trade for Javier Vazquez. We can’t forget about the extensions given to Aaron Hicks and Aroldis Chapman. I still think about all of these….and Giancarlo Stanton isn’t going to be pretty when that is said and done. The list is quite lengthy, he’s been screwing up since 1998.

It’s painful to think about how we went from a real thinker in Gene Michael who understood that the farm system is meant to develop good talent to benefit the Yankees to Cashman who only values the farm for trade chips. He cant draft the best pieces for the Yankees to develop in the Bronx….they have to be used as trade chips. It hasn’t worked out well for us considering we haven’t won a championship since 2009.

If the Yankees miss the playoffs for the second time in three years firing Baboonie isn’t enough. It’s not even a band-aid fix. It’s an embarrassment. It’s time to strip it down. Time to fly the “Fire Boone” and “Fire Cashman” banners together!