Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata welcomed New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone as an in-studio guest to the Tuesday edition of their midday radio program. Boone, who used to broadcast games for ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball over several years, was back behind the microphone on Tuesday where he discussed matters surrounding his managerial tenure and the Yankees organization.
Furthermore, he competed against the co-hosts in their signature baseball card game, in which they need to guess what team players were on in a given year based on the assortment within a given pack. As the segment got started, Licata, who is an avid fan of the crosstown rival New York Mets, remarked how the dynamic of the room had shifted.
“The Yankee bromance has already started here,” Licata said. “Booney’s in studio – he’s ripping on me for being short. Him and BT are talking shop, the Yankee love. Aaron Boone live in studio with us. Booney, thanks for coming in!”
“Hey, thanks for having me,” Boone replied. “I can’t believe you guys got me in, but I’m so excited to be here. It’s cool to see the studio, your little digs here. Fired up to be here.”
Ahead of the baseball card game, Tierney and Licata had the chance to ask Boone about a variety of topics, the first of which was surrounding the World Series. The Yankees lost the Fall Classic in five games to the Los Angeles Dodgers this past October, a defeat that Boone does not believe he will ever get over.
“It’s kind of one of the first things when you’re talking with the team after the game, and it was obviously pretty emotional,” Boone said. “A lot of people got up and spoke. It’s going to hurt forever. The 2019 walk-off, that, really every end to the season, but when you’re close in a lot of different ways, the ending sticks with you forever.”
Boone has been a guest on The Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata Show before, but he had not appeared in studio with the duo. Tierney and Licata first started hosting the midday program in the summer of 2023 after WFAN changed its weekday lineup following the departure of Craig Carton. Carton joined FS1 on a full-time basis to host a morning television program. Aside from discussing other matters that occurred last season and during the offseason, Boone responded to prior criticism from Licata regarding the use of data applicators in constructing his lineup.
“Obviously, a lot of people have been, ‘Oh, he’s going to data applicator this,’ so it pissed me off last year when you said that because it’s nonsense, but at the same time, there’s some truth. The teams that aren’t applying some data to what they’re doing are behind and trying to catch up, and are, in a lot of ways screwed. There’s always a balance, and that balance exists every single day, and it does with me, it does with us, but you’d be foolish to not look at a lot of the information that’s been available to you.”
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