Aaron Boone has finally managed the New York Yankees into the World Series. Since taking over as the skipper in 2018, he led New York to the doorstep twice but could never manage to get past the ALCS until Saturday night, when his team beat the Cleveland Guardians in extra innings to take the ALCS four games to one.

The Yankees secured a spot in the World Series for the first time since 2009 after a 5-2 win in Game 5 of the ALCS against the Guardians. Here’s what Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Game 5. Transcript courtesy of MLB.

Perhaps you wonder how it can be, all these years later, that Aaron Boone, now the manager of the Yankees, can be so relentlessly positive even during stretches of seasons when his players can