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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the Yankees' opening day?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. And we're coming to you live from the Build 4 Tough Studio. Boomer Esaias and Greg Giottati. It's Boomer and Geo. On the fans, simulcast across the country on CBS Sports Network. And wherever you are, the free Odyssey app. Good Friday morning. It is a feel-good Friday.
There may be some Catholics out there that say Good Friday can't be a feel-good Friday. And that's what they believe. But here at Boomer and Gio, we are non-denominational. And we have Feel Good Fridays on every single Friday of the year, even when the Mets lose again and look worse than they have the entire year. Last night in San Francisco, David Peterson. Not great. Offense still really bad.
Yes, it's early, but it's just annoying, especially when you come off the last couple of months of the 2025 season where this team was absolutely atrocious. But we've got happiness today out in the Bronx. Yankees opening day. And that's going to be a lot of fun for Yankee fans as their team continues to roll all good vibes around the New York Yankees.
Plenty more to get to throughout the course of the morning. Good morning, Boomer. How are you? Oh, I'm doing great, G. Thank you very much on this good Friday. I would say that as a Met fan, I'm not very happy and rightfully so. As a human being, I'm sick, and I feel worse today than I did yesterday. Yeah. As you can tell.
But, you know, I'm going to power through this because it is opening day for the New York Yankees at 5-1, and they are rolling, man, and they look great. And all I can say to us Met fans is, man, it is early. We got a long way to go, and we are a long way from opening day. When we thought when we came in here the next day, wow, this is going to be some lineup when you see it in –
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Chapter 2: Why are Mets fans frustrated with the team's performance?
in real time and what they did and how they fight off pitches. But, you know, David Peterson did not have a good start last night and watched the highlights this morning. Obviously did not stay up and watch the game at all. But it just seems like they just cannot get the key hit. Again, runners in scoring position, oh, for three this time. And they only had five hits in this game.
Yeah, I mean, they get out to a lead, but obviously it doesn't last very long, and you had a combination of David Peterson getting smacked around the park and then sloppiness as well as he makes an error trying to cover first. You got the miscommunication between Luis Robert Jr. and Marcus Simeon that leads to a ball dropping that shouldn't have.
So, yeah, it was just a bad one, and it normally wouldn't matter as much if we didn't. See the same things that have befell them the last couple of games, which is bad offense after bad offense after bad offensive game. And also, it was a long offseason. It was a long June, July, August, September last year watching them play terrible baseball.
When you finally get yourself past some of the things maybe you disagreed with in the offseason, even though I didn't disagree with much, and then you come out and that first game, as we talked about, the lineup's long and it feels like this team is disciplined at the plate. Everybody's got the eye of Juan Soto.
To turn that into what we've seen here, which is just absolutely anemic offense, is frustrating. You just hope that it doesn't continue. It's not like the San Francisco Giants are some sort of juggernaut. I mean, it's also annoying that you see the Yankees essentially shut down the Giants like they were a Little League team.
And then when the Mets play them, you know, seven runs in that first game. Yeah, that's a little bit annoying as well. But, of course, I mean, all the old adages continue about April and this and that. It's just that... this is the time you're supposed to be excited about the team and it's supposed to be fired up. Like Yankee fans right now, that's what I want to be feeling.
I want to be feeling that 5-1 feeling going to Yankee Stadium for opening day and seeing this team continue to play well. And instead we got a 3-4 team that was mentally checked out two days ago, is sloppy in the field and can't get a big hit. Sucks. I would also say that a couple of these things are, you know, players have to get used to playing with each other. Yeah.
Whether it be Sibian and Robert and whether – well, you know, Vientos was at first base last night, so much for run prevention in a key situation.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Trevor Bauer joining the Long Island Ducks?
Sure.
But I don't know. These are all things that are going to have to work themselves out. I just – The fact of the matter is that they should be a much better offensive team than they are showing in the last four games. The last five games, actually, right? I mean, so after that opening day, you know, deluge of hits and walks and all the key hits and everything else, I don't know what to tell you.
I can always say that time will tell whether or not they're going to be any good. And I just... It's frustrating for them to get off a start like this, but I'm not going to just throw in the towel yet. Well, obviously not.
We know that.
We have such a long way to go.
We know that.
By the way, a couple years ago, remember, this was not a great team, and somehow they found the magic in the middle of the summer. Well, yeah. I mean, if you look back to the last two years, you got off to a great start last year, ended terrible. Two years ago, you get off to a terrible start, ended great. So, yeah, of course, we know the marathon that this is.
It's just the annoying nature of it. Especially because it's the beginning, and you felt really good about the team opening day. If the team gets out 10 games over .500, they're playing well, and then they go on a four-game losing streak or a five-game losing streak where they can't hit in June, you're like, oh, okay, I can deal with this a little bit. It's just that...
We've just had multiple games in a row that are annoying losses. And some of the most annoying baseball to watch is when your team is losing and they can't hit. Like, that's really... I mean, it sucks all the time. Like, it was bad last year when the team couldn't pitch. But it's just so annoying. Like, somebody, please, for the love of God. Get the big hit.
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Chapter 4: What makes Rex Ryan an unlikely elitist?
No, but he could be elitist because of his bravado.
There's no way that Rex Ryan could be elitist. It's just not in his being. No way. But if he tried to pull that card, would he be allowed? No way. Okay. All right. By the way, he's not going to a place where an elitist would go. All right. You tell me he's going down to a pub down in the corner, and he wants a table at the ear end or something. I'd say, yeah, sure.
He did get fake teeth and fake eyebrows. He's on TV now.
Chapter 5: How do local athletes balance elitism and public perception?
Got his face pulled back.
He did.
He did? Yeah, of course he did. You could tell. Should I get my face pulled back? No. No, okay. No, don't do that. Because we'd all know it. It would be weird. You can't. Like, if you want to do it when you're not doing this show, fine. Why would I want to do it? And if you do it, you definitely have to wait until Eddie retires. Oh, God. Yeah. Why is that? Oh, he'd be all over you guys.
Oh, yeah, he would hate that. Like, that's one of his big pet peeves is, like, when people do things to themselves, you know, to try to drum up their appearance. All right. So, Rangers, I'll leave this up to you. Allowed to be elitist. Well, I mean, that's Mark Messier. Yeah.
There's a couple in there.
Henrik can be right there, too. He's suave and he's international. Gretzky. And he's still damn handsome. There's actually more Rangers than anybody. Yeah, because the whole thing is elitist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Islanders. Pac-Man. Nice. Billy Smith. No. I would say it'd be Mike Bossy.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Trevor Bauer joining the Long Island Ducks?
Okay. Yeah.
Again, if you're talking in my ear, I can't hear you guys. They're not talking in your ear. Are they talking to you? No, they're just talking near the microphone when it goes through. Let's go to George in Stanford. What's going on, George? Hello! What's happening, Georgie? Yo, I want to do a Cinco de Bruncho.
Okay. Okay.
The top five New York athletes with the most pelts. You know what that means? Well, yeah, the women that they've banged. Yes. Yep. Jeter. Nameth. I'll put Lundquist on there. No, no, no. I don't think so. No? No. He's not married? You could make a case that he's not married. Paul Mary? What? No, he said, is he married?
Is he married? Paul Mary?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on. Let's see. How long has Henrik been married for? You know, like, we all see how great looking he is, and we all know, like, the potential. Like, you could make a case that Henrik Lundqvist, because he's from Sweden and then spent his career in New York, has seen more beautiful naked women than anybody on the planet.
You could make that case. How about the felon Sanchez?
Uh, yeah, but his reign wasn't long enough. He wasn't good long enough. How about A-Rod? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Thanks, George. I mean, I could give you a whole slew of Knicks. Yeah. But definitely Namath. Definitely Jeter. Gagarinari. Danilo Gallinari. Oh, yeah. 100%. But he wasn't here for that long. Yeah, but he... He got it done, you're saying?
Oh, he was getting it done, yeah. He was racking them up? I don't know. You just threw that out there like you knew. Yeah. How about the Nets? What, who could be elitist? Yes. Jason Kidd. Yes. Definitely Jason Kidd. I would also say Sean Marks. He can't. He's not allowed to be anything but just a terrible GM. That's the only thing he's allowed to be. How about Kyrie Irving? No. No? No, no, no.
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Chapter 7: What are the latest updates on the Mets and Yankees games?
We'll see if they can get him back to where he was a couple years ago. Mets fall under .500 at 3-4, obviously very much in the early going. Tonight, it's Nolan McClain opposed by Tyler Malley, a 10-15 first pitch. The Yankee home opener today against the Marlins. Both teams 5-1. Will Warren, Uri Perez are the starting pitchers. We've got pregame coverage at 1255.
That's after the midday show broadcast live from the Bronx. Evan Tiki and Sean will come your way coming up at 10 o'clock. Talking about the baseball locals, not a whole lot of audio for me to play otherwise, so I've got Eddie C.,
Chapter 8: What was the reaction to Trevor Bauer joining the Long Island Ducks?
Oh, my God. So good. I had this in the system as June 6th, 08. I don't know if that's just when I saved it, but it's, you know, from back in the day. He was hosting on the fan and was fed up with the local baseball callers and was not afraid to let them know it.
Listen, as I said, going back and forth, the last thing in the world I want to hear is back and forth between Yankee and Mets fans, okay? It's just music to my ears. I want to kill myself, okay? That's basically what I want to do, all right? And if I have to listen to it anymore, I'll leave early. We'll play music, okay? That's the bottom line. 718-937-6666. Your team stinks.
No, your team stinks. Okay, let's do that for the next 20 minutes, all right? Oh, what a legend. Ah, boy, Eddie.
Love Eddie. Love Eddie C. Tremendous. Yeah, I mean, he also didn't grow up in Mets or Yankees fan.
That's a factor as well.
So, yeah, hearing those things, he was like, oh, God. Just didn't want to be the referee. Two fan bases. Get me out of here. Shut up. Yeah. Oh, that's great.
Royals catcher Carter Jensen removed from the KC starting lineup for their game yesterday against the Twins after he overslept. Didn't wake up for his alarm. He slept through it. And he said, quote, don't really have an excuse, nor should I. It sucks. It happens. Feel like I let my teammates down, coaches down, so on and so forth. They ended up losing that game 5-1.
Salvador Perez, the veteran who was supposed to DH, ended up catching the first eight innings before they did get Jensen in late. Vinny Pasquantino had some, I'll call them extended thoughts on the matter post-game. After first complimenting Perez for stepping up in a pinch when he was supposed to get a half day off, he turned his attention to the youngster Jensen.
First and foremost, we're glad Carter's okay. That was kind of the initial thought when you're trying to get a hold of his parents and everything like that. Just make sure he's okay. But once you find out he's okay, it's like, all right. It's a growing moment. He's really young. There are some things that cannot happen, and that's one of them.
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