The New York Yankees have been brutally criticized by a former candidate for President of the United States after a dramatic collapse in Game 5 of the World Series.
Ralph Nader – a former Green Party, Reform Party, and Independent candidate for President – posted his thoughts on the team after they allowed a victory to slip through their fingers with a number of errors in the fifth inning of the game.
With the Game 5 victory, the Dodgers won the World Series for the second time in five years.
The 90-year-old Nader, a Connecticut native, has been a lifelong fan of the Yankees and didn’t let up in his assessment of the team.
‘The Yankees collapse in last night’s 5th game of the World Series was a long time coming,’ Nader posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader called Yankees leaders ‘relentless losers’
Manager Aaron Boone is already believed to be coming back to the Yankees dugout for 2025
‘The Yankees have been mismanaged or poorly managed since their last World Series in 2009. Loaded with money, they make the wrong choices in buying athletes from other teams.
‘They’ve weakened seriously their farm system and the owner, [Hal] Steinbrenner, is not that ambitious for a winning team because he’s still making a lot of profit.
‘Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman and Yankee team manager Aaron Boone are relentless losers. Yankee fans should demand their replacement. The only thing going up at Yankee Stadium are the prices, not the World Series wins.’
Cashman has been the general manager of the Yankees for 26 years – the longest active tenure of any baseball executive – but has not fielded a team that has produced a championship in over 15 years.
Boone, on the other hand, has been the Yankees manager since 2018 and has a postseason record of 22-23.
With fans having grievances against both men over the course of multiple seasons, Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner would have plenty of reasons to send off either Cashman or Boone.
But it’s not likely that he’ll do either of those things. In fact, according to reports that came out seconds after the Yankees’ World Series elimination, Boone will be staying in his position as New York’s manager.
After leading 5-0, the Yankees gave up five runs in the fifth inning off three errors that brought the Dodgers back into the game. LA would later turn that into a lead and never looked back.
