Aaron Boone was born into the game

Among the many intra-Boone exchanges that went over the transom Friday was one from the new Yankees manager’s father to his nephew.

“Aaron’s got some tickets,” Bob Boone, a Nationals vice president and senior adviser to general manager Mike Rizzo, informed his grandson, Jacob Boone, a baseball player for Princeton. “You’re probably going to be a really popular guy.”

Bob can boast of 2,264 major league games as a player and another 815 as a manager. Aaron Boone’s older brother, Bret, Jacob’s father, played 14 seasons in the majors and earned selection to three All-Star Games. The late Ray Boone — Bob’s dad, Bret and Aaron’s grandpa and Jacob’s great-grandfather — played in an impressive 1,373 games, to boot, and spent some time with the champion 1948 Indians.

As they hope to build another dynasty, the Yankees found themselves a new manager who’s part of his own baseball dynasty: His family.

Surely, the Yankees hope that osmosis can be a secret ingredient in this high-risk, high-reward hire.

“Absolutely, it helps that your daddy was in the game, but it has nothing to do with where you’re headed in the game,” Bob Boone told The Post in a telephone interview Friday night. “It means you’re not awed by the game. When you’re around [Steve] Carlton, [Pete] Rose, [Mike] Schmidt, [Greg] Luzinski, [Larry] Bowa, growing up and around them every day, you think, ‘The big leagues, that’s where I belong, I can play here.’ It’s the same way from a managing standpoint.”

Bob Boone, the catcher on the championship 1980 Phillies team that featured all of the aforementioned players, stopped playing after 1990. He managed the Athletics’ Triple-A Tacoma affiliate in 1992 and 1993 and served as Davey Johnson’s bench coach with the 1994 Reds before getting his first managing gig with the Royals. He took a more traditional path than his son, whom the Yankees will hire even though he has been only an ESPN broadcaster since his 2010 retirement.

Nevertheless, Bob Boone said he believes strongly enough in his son that he lobbied for him to get a chance in Washington with his own employers, who instead selected Dave Martinez to replace the fired Dusty Baker.

“It takes some time to learn how to be the boss and the leader, there’s no question,” Bob Boone said. “I think he’ll fall into it.”

He added: “I thought Aaron had a great shot, because I know him, and I know those other names they were throwing out.”

We chatted as Bob Boone watched his alma mater, Stanford, take on Aaron Boone’s alma mater, USC, in the Pac-12 championship game; Aaron was at the game in Northern California, Bob said. Bob vowed that his son will be a success because of his tremendous people skills, which you see if you have as much as one conversation with Aaron, and because of his knowledge of the industry’s player personnel thanks to the ESPN job.

“I think the way the game has changed, has gone through all of the stats stuff, the big job of the manager is really bringing your team together. I think that’s something that Aaron is spectacular at,” Bob Boone said. “He is so loved by so many people. He’s nothing like his dad.

“He’s smart. He has a great feel for people. People love him. I think his players are going to love him.”

Aaron’s dad marveled at the news he had absorbed in the last 24 hours: “For someone with no résumé to get the Yankee job, that doesn’t happen anymore. But the baseball world has gotten a little kooky.”

For sure, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman made clear from the outset he would be thinking out of the box on this hire. In ignoring one tradition of experience, Cashman tapped into another of the game’s grand traditions: Family. Can Aaron become the third Boone to get a ring? Will he procure Yankees tickets for the Princeton team?

His first assignment, though: Turn the Yankees’ roster into even more of a family than it was under Joe Girardi.

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Twitter defends its decision not to take down Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim videos

President Trump shared the videos posted by a far-right British activist this week, drawing fury from the British prime minister and others. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock )

After President Trump shared three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos on Twitter this week, the social media company defended it’s decision to leave the posts online, saying Friday that the commander in chief’s retweets did not violate its media policies.

The videos — whose authenticity could not be independently verified — were originally posted by a far-right British activist, Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First. The organization bills itself as a political party but has been widely condemned as an extremist group that targets mosques and Muslims. The videos drew a swift backlash from across Britain, including a sharp rebuke from British Prime Minister Theresa May, who said that Trump was “wrong” to retweet the messages from a “hateful organization.”

Britain First has posted a number of misleading videos on Twitter, and the three that Trump shared were titled “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!,” “Muslim destroys a statue of Virgin Mary!” and “Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!”

Earlier this week, a Twitter spokesperson told CNN, “To help ensure people have an opportunity to see every side of an issue, there may be the rare occasion when we allow controversial content or behavior which may otherwise violate our rules to remain on our service because we believe there is a legitimate public interest in its availability.”

The spokesperson said that each situation is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

But on Friday, Twitter appeared to alter its justification for not removing the offensive videos, which Trump shared with his 43 million followers.

“Earlier this week Tweets were sent that contained graphic and violent videos,” Twitter said in a string of posts on its safety account. “We pointed people to our Help Center to explain why they remained up, and this caused some confusion. To clarify: these videos are not being kept up because they are newsworthy or for public interest. Rather, these videos are permitted on Twitter based on our current media policy.”

Twitter declined to comment on the matter to The Washington Post.

Chief executive Jack Dorsey said on Twitter, “We mistakenly pointed to the wrong reason we didn’t take action on the videos from earlier this week. We’re still looking critically at all of our current policies, and appreciate all the feedback.”

Twitter’s media policy states, “Some forms of graphic violence or adult content may be permitted in Tweets when they are marked as sensitive media.” By the end of the year, the company said in its policy statement, the policy will be updated “to include hate symbols and hateful imagery.”

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