Deranged Aaron Boone quote after Red Sox sweep Yankees has fans on edge

What Yankees myth busters get wrong about the "June Swoon" controversy is the context. Looking at the month-to-month records does little justice. It's pinpointing when the horrible stretches begin, and it's always in June. You see it leak into July and August. That's why this phrase has been coined.

It was epitomized this past weekend when the Yankees suffered a four-game sweep at the hands of the Red Sox at Fenway Park. It was the first time Boston accomplished such a feat since 2018. We'd prefer not to recall that year.

Now, we will acknowledge these circumstances are different. The Yankees are decimated by injuries at the moment and their depth has largely done a solid job in helping them get by over the past six weeks. But the cracks have gradually begun to show, and now everything's spiraled out of control with the inability to hit above-average pitching (specifically left-handers), horrific struggles with runners in scoring position, poor defense, and mounting swing-and-miss issues. In other words, nothing new!

Boone's incessant defense of bad players (Austin Wells is the latest) and his failure to prioritize defense against less prominent offensive teams are not helping the Yankees get the most out of their curret group while guys like Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Trent Grisham, Max Fried and others are on the mend.

And then, of course, there's the overall messaging, and Boone's postgame commentary after Sunday night's gut-wrenching walk-off loss sent Yankees fans into a spiral.

Yankees fans would love to know what Aaron Boone is talking about

This man is in his NINTH year as Yankees manager and he is still so far from cracking the code with the media. It's gotten to the point where fans just start predicting what he'll say in postgame scrums before the result of the game is official. He's the voice of the most recognizable sports team in the world's largest media market and we are still subjected to quotes like these. This was his attempt at a rallying cry. Is it us, or does he kind of look like Michael Scott, too?

What are the Yankees "eating up" here? They just lost four in a row to their most hated rival, who was the worst team in the AL when this series began. When you noticed the lineups taking the field for the Red Sox, it's hard to excuse the Yankees for their injury woes. Nate Eaton, Anthony Seigler, and Tsung-Che Cheng are starting for Boston. Those are minor leaguers. Not to mention, Jarren Duran and Caleb Durbin are playing like Quad-A guys, too.

Boone was attempting to clarify that part of loving baseball is figuring out a way to embrace such horrible moments by building off of them and using them as motivation. The crazy part is that he's not wrong.

He just never articulates it correctly, and his team almost never responds in earnest. The Yankees under Boone have exclusively fallen short and left a lot to be desired. They've let losing streaks spiral. They don't rise to the occasion against their rivals as often as they need to. They don't beat non-AL Central teams in the postseason (unless it's the Athletics, of course).

It's not officially a June Swoon yet, but this sweep in Boston will be the marker if the Yankees' slide continues. They've already lost eight of their last 11, relinquished their lead in the AL East, and are showing the rest of the league that their depth may not be adequate for a deep postseason run.

Boone would be right about one thing. "That's what we do, baby" is a quote that would directly apply to every fear Yankees fans have had since things really started to go sour with this team dating back to 2020.

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