Aaron Boone 'gonna get fired' by Yankees: Curt Schilling
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Curt Schilling still can throw some chin music at the Yankees.
The former Boston Red Sox ace this week used his podcast, “The Curt Schilling Baseball Show,” to predict the Yankees will fire Aaron Boone, then made the case for why the manager deserves to keep his job.
“I’ll say, and you heard it here first, and I don’t want to be first, but Aaron Boone is gonna get fired, and that’s gonna suck because none of this is his fault and every player in Yankee pinstripes, and these guys know Aaron, I promise you, they care very deeply about this guy,” Schilling said.
“He’s that kind of guy that warrants that kind of emotion. Every one of them should feel like crap because it’s their fault. He’s gonna get fired. Period.”
Boone’s Yankees sit in last place in the AL East with a 60-65 record, and are 10 1/2 games back in the AL wild card race.
The 56-year-old Schilling, who retired after the 2007 season, continued to praise Boone, saying: “You couldn’t ask for a better, more calming influence. I guarantee you there’s no panic in his voice.
“As a player, it always felt like Yankees fans wanted to see panic when they were losing. They didn’t just want to panic. They want the organization to panic.”
The time for panic has come and gone for Boone, 50, who’s in his sixth season as Yankees manager and is under contract through 2024.
Schilling and Boone were MLB contemporaries in the 90s and 2000s but were never teammates.
His glass-half-full approach to the team’s struggles is wearing thin with fans who haven’t smelled the World Series since 2009.
While the enduring image of the season could be Boone’s Laz Diaz impersonation after getting ejected, that kind of fire and emotion have been missing from his media availabilities.
So now it’s up to owner Hal Steinbrenner to decide the fate of Boone and general manager Brian Cashman and whether they deserve another season.
The Yankees have all but raised the white flag on the season, calling up top prospects Everson Pereira and Oswald Peraza on Tuesday to give them a new look.
Despite their arrival in the Bronx, the Yankees lost, 2-1, to the Nationals.
It was the Yankees’ ninth straight loss. The last time New York dropped nine in a row was in 1982.
The Yankees will try to avoid a perfect 10 Wednesday against Washington.
New York’s last 10-game losing streak was from May 21 to June 6, 1913, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, when the team was in the first year of being known as the Yankees and shared the Polo Grounds with the Giants.
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