ARLINGTON, Tex. — After getting ejected from a game for the first time as a manager, Aaron Boone woke up Wednesday morning to a string of jibing texts from his “humorous knucklehead” pals back home in Arizona.
Asked if he was aware that the off-color language he was using with umpire Pat Hoberg had been caught on camera — the New York Daily News back-page headline was “F-Bomber” — Boone blushed.
“It was that bad, huh?” he asked.
A moment later, Boone sighed. “This job’s got me swearing again,” he said.
The ensuing hours surely did little to cleanse Boone’s mouth.