Buck Martinez, the silver-haired broadcaster of the Toronto Blue Jays, was a popular man while wheeling his luggage out of Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night.
As Martinez made his way toward the bus, team staffers were hugging him and congratulating him as if he had just blasted a couple of home runs to send Toronto to the ALCS.
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“You were proven right, Buck,” one shouted.
“They f—– it up, didn’t they?” Martinez responded.
Yes, the New York Yankees did all of that on their way out the October door.
An old-school major-league catcher from the 1970s and ’80s, Martinez had made this declaration about Toronto’s divisional rival on a broadcast last month: “They’re not a good team.” Boone contested that claim before the Division Series, maintaining that his Yanks are “a really good team.” He said of Martinez: “He’s wrong.”
As it turned out, Boone was the one who was wrong.
“I never said it for any satisfaction other than I just thought (the Yankees) made a lot of mistakes,” Martinez told The Athletic.
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