The Kevin Bacon Comparison

Taking an interest in this year's World Series, Shank does the Kevin Bacon thing with the two managers:

Sox degrees of skipper separation: Yankees’ Aaron Boone and Dodgers’ Dave Roberts meet in the World Series

LOS ANGELES — The sports world is agog over this 2024 World Series. We have Yankees-Dodgers for a record 12th time (Yankees lead, 8-3) and all the major cliches — East Coast-West Coast, Larry-Magic, Sinatra-Billie Eilish — have been tossed around. Folks at Fox are happy and there’s no doubt this series will get more attention than the vaunted Diamondbacks-Rangers joust of 2023.

But as ever, it’s all about us and in this spirit we are here to talk about the managerial matchup of New York’s Aaron Boone vs. LA’s Dave Roberts.

Neither Boone nor Roberts ever played in a World Series for the Red Sox (Roberts was on the ‘04 roster, but never got off the bench in the Fall Classic) but both had enormous impact on the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry when it peaked in 2003 and 2004.