Some controversy over the weekend, as Staten Island’s team coach at the Little League World Series, Bob Laterza, said Aaron Judge didn’t acknowledge his team enough at the Little League Classic?
“Hey Al, do you remember this whole thing about acknowledgment? Didn’t Carton just say something about acknowledge me? There was a whole argument about being acknowledged?” Boomer asked. “I kind of feel like we went down this road with somebody else before, that felt like they were not acknowledged in a case like this, and it sounds idiotic.”
Gio read Laterza’s quote from SILive.com about the situation, and what seemed to have happened with the Yankees and the team over the day Sunday…and Boomer just isn’t having it.
“I guess Gerrit Cole and DJ LeMahieu and Aaron Boone aren't enough? We have to have more, like we don't get the ice cream that we want, we want more ice cream? What are we doing?” Boomer asked. “This just sounds so pathetic.”
“I was surprised to see that the guy was as old as he was, because generally you hear things like this from younger people, where this guy would be like, ‘hey, you get what you get fine,’” Gio said. “Usually guys who look like Bob Laterza that are from Staten Island are like, ‘so what, let's go out there and play the game.’ But for whatever reason, he had to crush the Yankees.”
Boomer’s biggest problem was that he didn’t just crush the Yankees, he called out their biggest star by name.
“I thought ESPN did a great job presenting the game, showing how the players were interacting with all the Little Leaguers, and by the way, Bob, if you're Aaron Judge and you get off that plane, you get swarmed like Locusts,” Boome said. “You think it's easy to deal with everybody and to meet everybody and to see everybody? It was interesting listening to Jazz Chisholm talking about how one kid waited all the way until he got to the end of the line, and Jazz was his favorite player – and I'm just thinking, man, those players got off that plane and were hounded, got off the bus at the stadium and were hounded again, made their way through the field and were hounded again. They should have been because they are the idols to all these young men that are playing Little League baseball, but for this manager to say this about Aaron Judge, I mean that to me that is like the ultimate insult.”
“Yeah, it's pathetic, and good for the Yankees putting out a statement wishing Staten Island luck and saying they intend to invite them to Yankee Stadium,” Gio said, before reading the hammer:
“However, it would have been much better if Staten Island's coach called us to understand the facts before bitterly reacting in such a public fashion. Reaching out to us would have been the prudent way to act, and would have set a fine example for his young players. Aaron Judge always acts with kindness and respect, the coach could learn a lot from him.”
“Good for them, I love that, I mean, it's just pathetic and silly, and sounds ridiculous,” was the consensus of the guys, with Gio incredulous that Laterza had no idea who David Cone was?
Perhaps we needed that famous one word drop from Jerry? Or this from Boomer:
“To question Aaron Judge in any way, shape or form, at this juncture, with the way that he's carried himself sounds and looks idiotic, and it's embarrassing.”