Under Aaron Boone, the New York Yankees do not emphatically respond to adversity, trash talk, or disrespect. Instead, they take their helping of it and swallow it begrudgingly, like an infant in a height chair getting their first taste of broccoli. Actually, the infant might put up a better protest.
For the eighth year in a row, Yankees fans were reminded of that unfortunate reality when the Toronto Blue Jays dispatched them from the postseason. There is no love lost between these two sides, but there was a high-profile spat about a month before they faced off in the ALDS.