Lou Di Pietro

“There’s always needs to address, but in the end, you never know if trades come into play, or what ends up making the most sense,” Boone said. “Certainly aware there was a special pitcher coming this way.”

“It’s hard because I do know him, so certainly, the idea is to let the meeting be organic and go where it needs to go,” Boone said. “Maybe he’ll have questions or want to address certain things, but I’ll go in there and be myself.”

“I mean, here I am,” Boone said Monday when asked if he’s okay with not having an extension past 2025. “The reality is a ton of people go to work every day with that existence, of it being year to year - I just had that reality.”

Juan Soto, Gerrit Cole, Roki Sasaki, Caleb Durbin, Jasson Dominguez: two are Yankees, one was, one could be, and one’s a dream…but Aaron Boone’s thoughts on the five during a Monday presser underscored how wild this winter could be in the Bronx.

“You know he’s gonna roll, so you’re having a spy that’s gonna follow him,” Batch told BMitch & Finlay. “They were gonna make him one-dimensional by taking that away and forcing him to throw the ball down the field.”

“It’s mind-boggling with all the money that’s out there, that they can’t figure it out,” Gruden said when Rooster asked him how we don’t have technology on the field to help with spotting the ball.

“You drop a punt, jump offsides on fourth and one, those are things you can’t do in competitive situations, especially coming down the stretch when you’ve got Philadelphia and Dallas twice and all the rest of the teams,” Gruden said.

“Pretty impressive, and I think that you’ve hit on the major parts of why the enthusiasm should remain; he’s set a standard already, and a bar, in a very short amount of time. He does some veteran stuff that is just off the charts,” Davis said.

“You have to think about your fans and the standings, and get better as a team, especially now that you’ve got all these young core players,” Bish said. “It can’t be Joey Gallo or Nick Senzel – you’ve got to go out and get impact players.”

“Leave us alone, and solve the problems that the people who elected you here are actually striving for the government to be of assistance in solving,” Craig said. “Stop wasting your time on this and holding up land in our city you don’t care about.”