The World Series is Over.

I have never in my life witnessed a game like that. You'd be hard-pressed to find a decent little league team blowing a game like this, much less a team in the World Series.

You couldn't dream of a better scenario for Game 5: jumping out of the gate 5-0 so there's no doubt what's about to happen and the life is sucked out of the Dodgers, the Stadium is rocking, Judge comes alive and Cole is putting on the performance of his lifetime. Suddenly on the flight back to LA it's the Dodgers who start feeling the heat and it's the Yankees with house money and once you get to a Game 7, anything can happen. After the relentless shitstorm thrown at Judge because of his shitty start, suddenly the media will have to start noticing that Ohtani has been an absolute no-show, and Betts barely did much more. And it's not like the Dodgers had blown the Yankees out either, the Yankees could've EASILY been the ones up 3-1.

And here we are.

Blame whichever terrible play of the 5th inning you want, it doesn't matter. This could've turned into one of the greatest sports stories of all time; instead Aaron Judge is gonna hafta spend his off-season not getting to enjoy going around collecting awards for his crazy unbelievable season and staring at the ceiling watching the ball bounce off his glove over and over.

I've never been a "the coach has to go!" guy but it's time for Boone to go. I'm not saying he's a crappy manager, I'm sure there's 30 teams that'll love to have him and he’ll do fine, but we've seen this unbelievably bad/sloppy fundamentals show for 7 years now; if Yankees fans are being honest right now they'd admit that more than anything they're surprised the Yankees even woke up to put up such a fight after 7 years of "oh gee we're down in the 3rd inning so let's just sleepwalk through the rest of the game and try again tomorrow", knowing Boone will stand there after the game telling the press how everything's fine. They got rid of Girardi because he wasn't enough of a sweetie-pie best friend to the players and they wanted sweetie-pie big brother Aaron Boone and here we are 7 years later, with Girardi still having more World Series rings than Boone. And it can all be traced back to a relay throw not being fielded cleanly in Game 1, which sums up the Aaron Boone Yankees era perfectly.

Terrible. 😢