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Aaron Boone (Consummate Professional & Manager of NY Yankees)

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BuckinMichigan said:
From tonight's (May 28th) game.

"Boone was booed after each of his at-bats. He struck out twice and went 0-for-4 to drop to .157 overall"
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he also had an error that led to a run scoring in the first, however, elarton was getting smacked around at that point and the A's ma have scored regardless.
 
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BuckeyeTrail said:
i can see the two of them laughing it up with their wives as they sit in a salarium.
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Possibly the greatest contextual "major league" reference ever seen in message board history. HILARIOUS. I've read that post two or three times now and every time I crack up at something different.
 
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What a classy move by Boone, eh? This is the kind of thing a consummate professional would do. :wink2:


CLEVELAND (AP) -- Aaron Boone remembers the low point.

"May wasn't very good," he said, smiling.

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On Wednesday, the club announced it has restructured Boone's contract for 2006 and had exercised their $3.75 million option for next season. The new deal also includes a mutual option for $3.75 million in 2007.

"This is where I want to be," Boone said. "I want to be part of this team. It's a good ending."

The start couldn't have been much worse. Boone's first two months with Cleveland were "the lowest points of my career." After missing all of 2004 while recovering from two surgeries on his left knee, Boone batted only .123 in April. He followed that up with a .188 average in May.

"There were some tough days," Boone said.

But it was during those bad times that Boone made his biggest impression on the Indians. He continued working at his game, and kept an upbeat attitude in the clubhouse. And finally, he turned his season around.

In 47 games since June 1, Boone is hitting .298 with six homers and 23 RBIs. He has raised his average to .226 entering Tuesday night's game against the New York Yankees, who released Boone after he injured his knee while playing a pickup basketball game in January 2004.

"He was always the guy we wanted," Indians general manager Mark Shapiro said. "Now he's the player that we wanted. We appreciated the way he handled the adversity and the way he has played in the past two months.

"You find out about the essence of a man when times are tough."

Shapiro said the club's decision to restructure Boone's deal had more to do with his character than anything. But Shapiro, too, acknowledged finances were a factor. If Boone had reached 500 plate appearances this year, his contract for '06 would have been guaranteed at $4.5 million.

So by redoing the deal, the Indians are saving money while keeping a player with greater value.

"We're going to need people like Aaron Boone to win championships," Shapiro said.

Earlier this season, Boone was regularly striking out and flailing at outside pitches. As he struggled, Cleveland fans turned on Boone, booing the former All-Star who couldn't seem to do anything right.

Boone did all he could to work his way out of the slump. The 31-year-old tried a new batting stance and consulted with his father, former major league manager Bob Boone, looking for answers to why he was struggling.

Despite Boone's lack of production, Indians manager Eric Wedge stuck with him and played him nearly every day. That patience has been rewarded by Boone, who has been solid in the field while providing leadership to Cleveland's young team.

"They stood by me," Boone said. "I'm sure I toed the line where they thought about not standing by me."

Wedge said Boone's positive attitude rubbed off on everyone around him.

"I've never seen anybody handle adversity as well," Wedge said. "It was incredible."

Boone, who signed a three-year, $3.6 million deal with the Indians in 2004, said there some days when it was difficult to be upbeat.

"But that's when you need to step up," he said. "No one likes anyone who has sour grapes when it's going bad."

Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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BuckeyeTrail said:
please, just dissappear. go away. i hate you, fox, joe buck, tim mccarver, and bret boone. you are all connected into an irrational ball of hatred for me. sean casey called you a consummate professional. what the hell does consummate mean anyway. i looked up consummate professional in the dictionary and it had a picture of you, aaron boone, sitting at a table with a bunch of other genteel motherfuckers as you discuss how appalled you are at the fact that manny ramirez admires his home runs, while you go out and hit .160 or whatever and are TWICE unable to execute a single sacrifice bunt in the late innings of a close game. the next time he comes up late in a game in an obvious bunting situation, we should just put a pitcher in for him as a pinch-hitter. they can stroll up there, still wearing their jacket, lay down the bunt, and sit their ass back on the bench.

i hate everything about aaron boone. when we signed him last year, i was opposed. i didn't see where we'd put him, and how he was any kind of an upgrade over anyone else we had. the whole allure of the indians was that the team was a bunch of young boys developing and getting good together. if you are going to bring in a veteran, bring in a grizzled (preferably hispanic, because they are the most grizzled) one. what the hell is aaron boone going to teach these guys. how to be a consummate professional? you need a crazy motherfucker like a tony pena or a ivan rodriguez.

i hate the entire boone family. i remembber when bret boone somehow hit like .360 in 2001. then when we played him in the playoffs, he looked just like aaron boone (swinging ridiculously hard on every pitch, his head jerking way to the side, looking like a stupid little kid).

i hate their name. i hate the way it sounds when you say it. i hate how people praise him for being a conssummate professional. i hate how when he blooped that hanging knuckler over the fence to win the pennant, fox glued the camera to his brother, who stood there watching like an idiot. how about showing the winners celebrating, or the pain in the faces of the losers? no, let's show bret boone staring like a consummate professional, because apparently it was really touching that a lousy commentator's brother hit the big home run. there are fat people in beer softball leagues that could have hit the pitch over the fence. wow, he hit a hanging knuckleball that was travelling at 50 mph, let's sign that guy! he's clutch, not to mention, he's a CONSUMMATE PROFESSIONAL!!!

i just know that they all hang out. joe buck, tim mccarver, the boone brothers, and sean casey. talking about how the country has gone to hell in a handbasket, back in the good ole days there were more consummate professionals, now we have that devil-child manny ramirez who has the AUDACITY to somewhat admire a clutch home run.

does anybody have his address? i'm not going to murder him, that would be letting him off too easy. i want to torture the bastard. i want to take a bag of poop, light it on fire, ring his doorbell, then run away laughing like a hyena. when it snows, i want to take a leak on his yard spelling out "aaron boone is a consummate professional...AT SUCKING DICK!!!"

i realize that my post makes little sense, and is probably needlessly vulgar and uncouth and will probably get deleted. but aaron boone is the biggest motherfucker on the entire planet, and just thinking about his stupid face makes me clench my teeth in raging anger. i hate everything about him. it's a toss-up as to who i hate more, him or joe buck. i can see the two of them laughing it up with their wives as they sit in a salarium.

i'll leave this post with a question for the audience: who would you rather punch in the face, aaron boone or joe buck? the answer, for me, is complicated. i would rather punch buck in the face, but it would just be one good punch. boone, on the other hand, i would pummel mercilessly untill all his teeth were knocked out, then i would take a hammer and bash his forehead in.

it's late, and i'm angry. and it's all because of aaron fucking boone.

i want to be reading the sports page tomorrow and see written in the transactions, "The Cleveland Indians have traded Aaron Boone to the New York Yankees for George Steinbrenner's jockstrap"

RGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Found this gem while searching back pages for the Washington Nationals thread.

How can I upvote this piece of classic literature?
 
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