Yankees Fans: What Questions Do You Have For ESPN Analyst Aaron Boone?

The Yankees Aaron Boone will be on hand for an interview I’ll be doing with him on Saturday afternoon in preparation for ESPN’s Sunday Night telecast of the Yankees-Cardinals game. What questions would you like me to ask him?

Former Yankees infielder and current ESPN analyst, Aaron Boone, will be answering questions about the Yankees 2017 season and the contest scheduled for Sunday night between the Yankees and Cardinals.

Yanks Go Yard has arranged a telephone interview with Boone that is scheduled for 4:00 P.M. EST Saturday afternoon.

But I thought it would be more fun to open up the questions to all followers of YGY instead of all the questions coming from myself.

If you would like to participate by asking your question of Boone, do so by email only. State at least your first name, the city you live in, and your question. Reply to stevecontursi@gmail.com before 2:00 P.M. EST Saturday. I’ll try to fit as many in as I can.

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Aaron Boone retired from baseball in February 2010 and immediately signed up with ESPN continuing his connection to the game.

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Since then, he has assumed a variety of roles with ESPN, and he is now launching his second season with the network as an analyst for their national baseball showcase, Sunday Night Baseball.

Boone spent sixteen years wearing a major league uniform, appearing in more than 1100 games, and making well over 4,000 plate appearances for six teams over the course of his career.

But no one at bat will be remembered more that the one he had in the single season he spent with the Yankees in 1997 when on October 16, 2003, Aaron Boone’s home run in Game 7 off of Tim Wakefield to clinch the ALCS over the hated Red Sox and sent the Yankees to the World Series.

And from that point on, Boone would be known in Beantown as Aaron “F_____in” Boone achieving the same heights as Bucky Dent who sent the Red Sox home in an earlier season.

The video of Boone’s home run may be ingrained in the mind of Yankees fans, but for the younger YGY audience and maybe some of us who just want to see it again, here’s the clip that gets the heart ticking a beat faster:

Video Courtesy of Major League Baseball

But, Turning The Page…….

Here are a few things I’d like to ask Aaron Boone, but I’ll defer to you if you can come up with some better ones:

**** Aaron, you played with the team in 2003 when they advanced to the World Series, losing in a dramatic six-game series to the Florida Marlins. It would be their second World Series loss in three years and last appearance in a World Series until 2009. Question: Do you have any thoughts as to why it took so long to win a title?

**** Aaron, perhaps for good reasons, no one from the top of the Yankees management has defined what the goals of the team are for this season. Question: What are your thoughts as to what the 2017 season should mean for the team and how they can measure themselves at the end of the season?

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**** Aaron, the Yankees starting rotation has been much maligned and is generally seen as the major stumbling block to the team’s success in 2017. Question: How do you view their rotation and do you foresee the need for changes during the season, and if you do, what are the changes the team should make?

These are just a few of the questions I’d like to see Aaron Boone answer about the 2017 Yankees. What say you?