Take into account that the fans are just unhappy knowing that they have to pay exorbitant fees for entry, concessions, etc to have a crappy product on the field for this long, I'd be upset too.
@@3773dc It's unrealistic. Teams are getting more competitive especially in the AL East. You cannot expect an automatic World Series championship when teams around you are just as hungry for the same championship and constantly improving their team.
Fans keep baseball a sport,living their emotions thru the team while unfortunately knowing it's a business too. From the emotional point of view fans are expressing their disapproval and from a business point of view players are overpaid . Tell me what company pays an employee $15-$20m plus a year,guaranteed, regardless of performance ?
This is only further proof how soft this organization is. There is no hope left. There just isn't, if players making millions are crying because the fans don't coddle them for their mediocre, soulless performance.
It's not just the organization that is soft. Our culture has been softened by the fruit loops on the left and we've allowed that to happen. However, the push back has begun.
As George Steinbrenner,the boss would say,he didn't pay players extra for the playoffs because he paid them very well for the season with the expectation they were going to win the world series every year.
People keep talking crap about the fans. Everyone needs to sit down and shut up. Realize our anger have been brewing for years. For years we get to the postseason and our team or our star players just give up or just forget how to play. We are sick of it already.
As a yankee fan yes we were spoiled but at the same time these guys are millionaires. I pay 100.00+ for a bleecher seat and 20 bucks for A beer I want to see you guys busting your butts. Not Donaldson pimping a single or gleyber not running hard to first.
Not a Yankee fan, but I don't understand the constant reinforcement of this belief that Judge should be immune to being booed. The moment the postseasons starts, none of the accolades from the regular season matter anymore. The reality is Judge carried the team for most of the year and disappeared when it mattered most. Now, will booing help him play better? Who knows, but booing is definitely deserved for what was expected. Like isn't the ultimate goal to win the World Series? Why should someone be immune to boos because of some regular season accolade when he was a liability in the postseason(what actually matters)?
Honestly, he disappeared in the regular season when it matter most as well. I understand people who don’t watch the games just see his numbers and think he’s awesome. The truth of the matter is Judge can’t hit under pressure. The majority of his HRs were 1st inning solo shots or when they were already up 3+ runs. When he came to the plate and it was a tie or they were down a few it’s an almost guaranteed strikeout. When these situations came up is when I’d get up and take my dogs out or do whatever I had to. When I came back? Yup, strikeout. I couldn’t take watching it anymore. It was consistent too: someone else on the team would get a hit and put them ahead and then guess what? Judge’s next at bat…yup, he had a homer. It was so lame. So of course it was all about his homerun and not the player who actually put them ahead. I can’t stand the dude. He needs to go back home to SF.
Not a fan of booing but players need to understand and let it go. All performers need support at their down times. Astros fans didn’t boo Altuve at 0 for 25 in the playoffs. But in the end if you want to boo, fine. The booing against the Astros helped them support each other and helped them win. Boo if you want but realize the results might not be what you want.
Stunning! To be a fan and watch that many strikeouts is not easy. I wish the players could have heard my sighs, my rants, my screaming and finally my disappointment from my couch. Was Gio that bad they had to get the ultimate douche Donaldson?
Don is 100% correct. This has always been the culture in yankee nation. That is no secret. We live in a time where players have thin skin. JETER used the boos as fuel to his fire and improve. These young players are so soft just like the citizens in this country.
Sad but true, the fans are the same but the players have become more entitled. I don't understand how grown men could whine and cry about getting booed, especially when they are living more luxurious and lucrative lives than any of the fans could ever hope for. I mean when the Yankees strike out 17 times in one game in the ALCS what do they want us to do, cheer? If anything that seems patronizing and worse than just booing and being honest.
The problem isn’t that the Yankees lost. The problem was that they didn’t compete. The pitching was decimated but they managed to keep the Astros in check. The batting with their billion dollar payroll got clobbered.
New York fans are knowledgeable, tough, and don't sugar coat anything. It doesn't matter who you are--you underperform and you'll hear about it!! And at times it does it seems unfair. But Michael Kay is 100% correct--you win in NY and you achieve Godlike status!! David Cone said that NY is the greatest market to play in for ANY sport--and winning in NY is the pinnacle--no place else comes close!!
This is why Aaron Boone went off on that reporter when she said something about being “Too home run dependent”. The Astros knew how to pitch to them in the regular season and they continued in the post. Theu got lucky with that Aaron Hicks three run shot.They need a different system.
I have to say there are good points on both sides. However, I feel that the Yankees put in a solid effort this season. They didn't have the best last game but these things do happen. It is part of life.
I been a Yankees fan since I was 5, when I could decide for myself who to like, especially in a family that is composed of Yankees fans. I don’t like it personally that the fans boo like they do but it’s been that way for 60 + years when they booed Maris and sent him hate mail, but that’s the way they are. I can understand the players can be upset over it, I mean we’ve seen many good players decide not to play for the Yankees, because of the fans and how fickle they can be.
How dare you boo me for playing miserably!!! Do you know who I am??? ^^^This right here is the problem^^^............It's a typical mindset of entitlement. A person that's "made" correctly and not think they're deserving of something, would say......yeah, I performed like dog shit and earned the reaction I got.
@@xcwilliams7980 They pay the extremely generous salaries of those who believe they are above being booed for miserable performance. Try years of miserable performance when it matters most at your job and see if you're LUCKY enough to only be booed by your "entitlement" infested boss. Let's see what delusional really looks like.
@@bobtrambley6210 It could happen but I only see it happening if the stars align perfectly and everything comes together for them to make a run. I'm thinking like the 2015 Mets or the 2022 Phils. The team just isn't good enough.
Who leaked this from the Yankees organization? To me, it shows they are still making excuses for their poor performance. First it was the exit velo, then it was the wind and open roof, now it is the fans booing them. What a joke. Btw Cleveland fans burned LeBron jerseys after he went to Miami so let’s not pretend stars in other cities are immune from fans’ ire.
NYCFC fans back in May had a brutal and honest conversation with James Sands at the end of the 3-1 loss game vs FC Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium This happened when they weren't winning games since April And there were mix reactions about it for how it was received because everyone saying that they were trying to be Curva Sud (AC Milan Ultras group) since they did that this past season in Serie A and they got to the semifinal of UEFA Champions League And those types of conversations do always happen in soccer So what I'm getting at here in the case of the Yankees getting booed by fans, there should be a conversation between fans and the players but I know it's going to turn ugly but these type of conversations needs to happen if they want to win. My advice for these players, be in the shoes of the players playing European soccer either in the English Premier League, Serie A, Bundesliga, etc and they'll know what's like to have passionate fans cheering screaming and booing at your face
For the players that felt bad because us Yankees fans booed and want to go, Sayonara! We fans pay big money to see them play, the players get millions.
I think Yankee fans were just expressing their growing frustration and resentment with the Yankee's continued post-season failures, employing the same flawed hitting approach, and certainly their disgust with Cashman's inability to construct a roster that has a realistic chance of post-season success. Cashman has to go, too little real success, if we measure success as WS championships, in 20+ years at the helm, absent the aberration in 2009 when he was allowed to outspend every other team in MLB by close to 60 million and dole-out 500 million in free-agent contracts. But Hal is a money man, with his eye on the bottom-line and profit margins, and he is not obsessed with winning at any cost. Maris and Mantle were booed, so if these current players can not handle the heat in the kitchen, leave.
Michael says he gets it but he doesn’t judge had a great regular season. Everyone starts fresh in the postseason and judge has shit the bed every year in October not just this year. You can’t ask for 300+ million and you can lead or be productive in October that’s not a captain not a 300+ player that’s the next brewers RF
Arod is The Best. World of knowledge and several MVP's. Oh wait he took a PED. Well, Jim Bouton in Ball Four speaks of The Black Beauties being eaten like candy. A black beauty is an anphetamine. That enhances performance. Rules that only count for some show the illegitimacy of the institution.
How does Michael Kay's explanation account for why Bruce Harper plays in PHILADELPHIA which is known for the worst fans in the world in treating their own players? Aaron Judge is a great player. But he also spit in fans ' faces when he said that $213 million dollars is not enough money to play for those same fans. Mattingly re-signed with the Yankees when they sucked. That's called loyalty. Judge showed before the season he doesn't have it to us, but now expects it from us. And he got booed by people who will struggle to pay Bill's all their lives and who can be fired from their jobs.
Exactly. Judge lost me as a fan this year when he rejected the Yankees’ offer but supposedly wanted to stay a Yankee 😒. Yeah ok. It’s really just an ego thing for him to demand to be the highest paid player…he ain’t worth it, never shows up in the postseason (also usually doesn’t show up in the regular season when it’s needed: when they’re tied or down a couple, he typically strikes out. It’s just more noticeable in the postseason with his 15 strikeouts and no one bailing him out) and then what about the rest of the team if he gets the pay he thinks he deserves? We know Hal is cheap, he ain’t putting THAT much money out there. I don’t want a team of just Judge. I don’t understand why so many people love this dude. IKF hits much better than he does in situations when it’s needed yet people consistently talk sh*t about him. I don’t get it. And Judge is NOT a leader. Doesn’t seem like he has any fire in him. He’s lackadaisical when losing and smiling shortly after. Didn’t stick up for Donaldson with the Tim Anderson crap. Judge is all about himself and not worth it. Good riddance, I pray he’s gone 🙏🏼.
No you blame the person who keeps acquiring bad players you can’t expect players who suck to be good it doesn’t work that way Michael but brian cashman can definitely stop acquiring bad players
Yankees fans chanted MVP for 5 months to aaron judge... JUDGE..grow some balls... ALSO...Yankees fans have to sit threw Aaron hicks.. Joey gallo.. Josh donaldson... strikeout 3 times a night... night after night after night... THERE FRUSTRATED....
It's fucking unbelievable how delusional these players are. I don't want a player for 40 million that gets upset when he strikes out 20 times during an ALCS sweep. Give me a fucking break.
Yankees have always been a colossal franchise. the stripes have always been heavy. its just that now its 2022 and everybody is considerably softer than 30 years ago. but also to play devils advocate, Fans have been getting out of hand over the past few years. in every sport. Fans are entitled. if you think you can go better then go play yourself. why do i have to be the bigger man when a building of 20K+ is being a complete asshole to me. i hate the fact that fans get to do whatever they want but the players are not allowed to respond whatsoever. thats entitlement at its best.
18:05 The Astros stadium is louder than Yankee stadium and you’ll never hear them boo their own players. The reality is that your coping with the fact that your fanbase is toxic and it’s ruining the franchise.
Even if Judge got booed, that's good👍 Because we fans expected at least to be consistent, be competitive, we never showed up and were swept. We were totally invisible. Didn't seem like a Yankees team 😕
So we are supposed to clap and cheer cause he hit HRs in the reg season and cant hit a watermelon when it counts in the post season? So he gets a free pass?? No! Fuck no! He wants 50 mil a year, to do what? To strikeout in the post season?
I am really sick of hearing anyone is surprised by boos from Yankee fans this past postseason when it's been like this for 50 years. And, hey, if you can't take booing, you should be ashamed. If you suck, do you want to be treated with kit gloves? Please, give me a break!
Let's get something straight... we support our team, but we pay our money to see the Yankees play bad or good we have the right to show our displeasure. Without us you have no team it's not our job to rally the team. Nobody was hitting and our pitching was awful. As you so called analyst now.. pitching and timely hitting wins games.. we had none of that. ZERO. Arron judge 100% helped his team make the playoffs with one hell of a season. Now on subject of Arron Judge.. he will be leaving NY. The Yankees will NOT give him 10 Yeats 400M not happening. The absolute best I think the Yankees will do is 8 years 320M.... he will probably turn it down. Why? Because the average annual salary won't be as much in NY with taxes. So say goodbye people. Thanx for a great season
You're either a fan or you aren't. If you aren't, great. On you go with your life. But if you _are_ then you have to ride out the bad times. Poor form, expensive everything, shitty front office, even cheating. As an Astros fan, I can tell you that it's virtually impossible to support a side that cheated. It's way harder to do than suffer through a 15 loss streak during a 51-111 season (2013). But you don't boo. Well, _I_ don't. The alternative to being a fan is not to be one anymore. Not claiming to be one while shitting on your team.
Don't boo you own warriors! Positivity is always more powerful than negativity and anyone that says that it doesn't affect players is only fooling themselves. Or if this still doesn't make sense to New York "fans": it is already difficult to face the enemy before you but to also have an enemy at the rear and them being your own people is almost an impossible battle. You can't fight two fronts like that. When the Astros were losing consistently I just didn't watch the games! I didn't boo them if I saw them in person. There was always hope for the best. Y'all don't deserve any teams with that attitude, I don't care how much money you spent or how long it took you to get to the stadium. Stop being assholes and maybe, just maybe you might see your players do better!
If players don’t want to play in NY because of the fans, you can insult those players all you want, but you’re reducing the size of your possible roster, and that seems bad.
So which is it? They’re gods because they play there or they’re not above getting boo’d? Either they are so beloved that they can never be held to ordinary standards, or they are just like everyone else.
Yeah, that's Kay's point. Athletes don't have to go to NY to make their names. You can keep that NY attitude, but maybe free agents don't have to put up with it.
So you want to be applaud when your not performing. We gave judge all the love during the regular season. But he didn't perform so he got booed. That's life wish people would start to grow up. Judge isn't any exception to other players. Don't perform you get booed like gee
Mantle was booed. Judge is a great player, maybe he’ll be one of the best, but so far he’s not Mantle. Maybe we will look back once his career is over and say he was almost as good.
WHAT PROVOKES THE “BOOING” … the UNPRODUCTIVE performances of the PLAYERS in any level of Sports! “TO WHAT END” you ask, MICHAEL! As opposed to criminal behavior, foul language, racial slurs at players, … the “end” is no more than to express their discontent. Fans seem to care, NOT about what players have done in the past (yesterday, last month,malst Season, BUT MOR3 ABOUT .. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY … CASE … 2022 Playoffs.
NY sports has been for over 20 years. If not for jeter, you guys would be worse than Cleveland. You have more teams than city and they all lose consistently. (other than the yankees)
To What end? The answer is obvious: it releases frustration. Every fan base around the country boos when their own players screw up. I don't get Kay and that story about the knick is BS. Duke players love MSG and they would love to play in the big apple. Moreover, bringing up Cleveland is silly. Brown fans in the stadium were wearing bags last year and years before that.
I watched every post season Judge at bat. Did he ever seem bothered by the strike outs? Was he upset? Did he seem to take it personally? Not from what I watched! Don't you dare offer him more than 5 years. He will deteriorate and he will be injured. Finally, spoiled? Spoiled by winning nothing in 13 years?
Enough with “the yankee brand” should be revered. No. not the last 13 years of it. No one should want to admire that, with all of their organizational issues we all know about. The yankee brand is a brand of losing baseball the past 13 years. Most young players coming up today probably barely remember the yankees being on top of the league as a teams other teams strive to be. And those quotes kay read are such a joke. Give me a break already. Like don said more joke statements from people that wont put their name on it. Whoever said that must be as lost as any casual fan would be seeing this team win a good amount of games most years and getting sucked into thinking the old yankee way is the standard. The fans that follow this team day in and day out know this team better than those on the outside. The people that run the yankees must just put up a hell of facade to that exec bcuz all i hear about their decision makers is a joke. And Of course rival executives would probably will say good things anyway. If i was another executive i would say the same to keep cashman and boone in their job so you can keep beating them and passing them by. Plus they aren’t working in the same situation with the same resources that the yankees do in new york. And just STOP IT already with idea that they fans and writers shouldnt be mad or want changes made bcuz if boone or cashman were fired theyd be a top target for other teams. We hear it all the time. WHO CARES. They cant do it here, in this situation. Get someone who can. Care about your own organization and not what other organizations are worrying about. I could careless if they left and were winning elsewhere. Just figure out your own problems. If the yankees are actually letting things like that influence their decisions lord have mercy us fans are gonna be disappointed for a long time. That would just tell me hal has absolute zero confidence or belief in himself to hire someone else who is “family” or isnt someone he already knows to the job better. (Thats why i think jeter would be hals pick if cashman ever left, another guy with a connection again. And i like jeter and think he would be great and a huge upgrade, but it would still show how much hal really doesnt know what hes doing when he cant sepedate business and family in any hiring) What terrible business running would that be. Franchises whos owners dont hand pick their own executives usually hire a firm to do it. Why not do that. I think other teams actually think the yankees today are a joke and behind the times in every facet of todays game and of a sports organization in 2022. How can they not think they are an embarrassment when you see the kind of bs excuses and tactics they try to spin to the media year after year of losing with their payroll.
Cashman has 1 ring in 20 years, despite the deepest pockets in baseball. Yankee fans are not spoiled, especially when you look at the Red Sox with 4 rings in 20 years. Cashman has been outperformed by multiple franchises over two decades.
Yankee fans are some of the worst in sports. Disrespectful is an understatement. They use racial slurs and disgusting personal trash talk about players dead relatives, Family, etc.. opposing players talk and when Yankee fans throw balls or trash at players it makes other players not want to come. Yankee fans need to take a page out of Dodger fans book.
The Yankees sucked in the second hand half of the season and did not show up in the playoffs! And LeBron James is hated in the NBA! ITS because of his ignorant politics!
MK is only right about Judge. it's unfair to boo him after the year he had. the rest of the team deserves boos. everything shouldn't be about money. but in this soulless country, it is. the players want the underserved incredible rewards and accolades, but not the ire. sorry.
