Yankees Manager Aaron Boone: 'We're Playing Like Sh**'

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone couldn't hold his frustrations in any longer as he uncharacteristically ripped into his team in front of reporters Wednesday night.

"We gotta play better, okay? We have it right in front of us. We're a really good team that has played sh**y of late. We need to be better… Whether you call [us losing] a stretch, a slump, recent - I don't give sh**. It's ‘We need to play better the rest of the way," Boone said as he pounded the table. 

The move was a rare one for Boone, who clearly must be hearing Yankees fans' calling for his job as the team continues its downward spiral. Wednesday night's 12-3 loss to the crosstown rival New York Mets was the one that finally did it for Boone, who up until now has been perceived as painting a phony, ‘Everything is fine!' picture of the team.

YANKEES HAVE LOST 22 OF LAST 32 GAMES

Boone finally acknowledged the quiet part out loud - the Yankees straight up stink. 

Since June 15, the Bronx Bombers have been duds and have put together the second worst record in baseball, only behind the Chicago White Sox. During that stretch, the Yankees' record has been a pitiful 10-22. For a team with MLB's second highest payroll at $307 million, as well as the demands and high expectations of fans simply because they are ‘The Yankees’ and their ‘ World Series or bust’ mantra, their recent struggles have been less than ideal.

Watching the Yankees has gotten so bad that it's more exciting watching the fans get in fights in the stands these days. 

YANKS NEED TO COME UP BIG AT TRADE DEADLINE

It didn't help that Yankees ace and last year's AL Cy Young Award winner Gerrit Cole didn't have anything Wednesday night, giving up six runs on eight hits in 5.2 innings. Perhaps that's the most frustrating part for the manager, who is clearly now on the hot seat - when Cole or their All-Star outfielders Juan Soto and Aaron Judge don't perform to their caliber, the game is being viewed as almost an automatic loss because of the rest of the team not stepping up. The fact that the New York Yankees starting left fielder Alex Verdugo is ranked 168th out of the possible 169th eligible MLB players in batting average since June 15 tells fans (and opponents) all they need to know. 

And although Aaron Judge does have 35 home runs this season, teams are going to start doing what the Mets did to him during Tuesday night's close 3-2 victory over the Yankees: walk him. Rather than dealing with Judge potentially hitting one over the outfield walls, the Mets pitched around him and walked him FOUR times - including one intentionally! Talk about taking air out of a locker room that is desperate for any sort of good news. 

We'll see if the Yankees make any major moves to help propel their roster, because God knows they and manager Aaron Boone's job status need it. Until then though? At least we get some hilarious freak outs from my fellow Yankee fans: