Aaron Boone messaged Carlos Mendoza after Luis Severino’s ‘two good hitters’ Yankees jab
NY Post
MIAMI — Carlos Mendoza heard from his old boss following Luis Severino’s recent comments about the Yankees.
The Mets manager wasn’t about to divulge what Yankees manager Aaron Boone conveyed to him in a text message but seemed amused by the entire episode as his team beat the Marlins, 1-0, Saturday.
A day earlier, Severino said he responded to taunts by former Yankees teammates in a group chat by saying: “Right now you only have two good hitters,” referring to Aaron Judge and Juan Soto.
The Mets will play two games at Yankee Stadium beginning Tuesday and Mendoza is savvy enough to know Severino’s comments have become a storyline that may persist through the Subway Series.
“I know, obviously, the way it came out, but look: I know that lineup,” said Mendoza, a former Yankees coach. “I know those guys well and that is a deep lineup there.”
Severino said his former teammates in The Bronx have “talked s–t“ about him being afraid to face the Yankees.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.