Boone gave a good press conference. What else do you want?

"In his rookie season as a manager, Aaron Boone's Yankees won 100 games.

And we still don't know if he can really manage."

That's an attention-grabber.


"But we do know this: He’s got guts. Either that, or the people making his decisions for him do."

That's what I was thinking.

The rather absurd notion that Boone made this decision.

This sentence kind of puts the brakes on the rest of the article.

The only interesting insight that could be provided by a sports journalist is whether or not Boone made this decision himself.


"Because by choosing Luis Severino to start Wednesday’s one-and-done Wild Card game against the Oakland Athletics, Boone has put himself directly in the crosshairs in what will essentially be the first important game he has ever managed."

1. But we don't know if he chose Severino in the first place.

2. You just dismissed the entire regular season as unimportant.

"But of all the rookies and second-year players on the Yankee roster, none will be under a more unforgiving microscope than the first-year manager. And if the Yankees fail to get past Oakland, Boone will be easy to convict in the court of public opinion.

That is ridiculous, of course."

Ridiculous.

Yet, the central theme of my column.