Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. And we're coming to you live from the Built Ford Tough Studio. Boomer Esiason, Greg Giannotti. It's Boomer and Geo on the fan simulcast across the country on CBS Sports Network. And where we are on the free Odyssey app. Good Wednesday morning. We have made it through January, February, and March. Those are tough months in the Northeast.
April 1st really is one of those significant days, and we've got so much going on in New York sports. The good was the New York Yankees as their impressive start continues. Out in Seattle, another shutout, another great victory for the Yankees. The bad was the New York Mets getting shut out themselves.
And the bad and the ugly was the New York Knicks, certainly, as they get smacked around by the Houston Rockets. You called it yesterday. You had a bad feeling about the game. You had a bad feeling about... Durant playing well against the Knicks. All of that happened. Also, the bad was the New York Islanders again last night losing to the Sabres.
But you got yourself a victory over the Devils, and you had a goalie fight. So we're going to get to all of it. Good morning, Boomer. How are you? Yeah, it was a ton of things going on last night, but today is a big day, as it is April Fool's Day, by the way. And I know you're not going to fool me or anything, but today is also the first day of Medicare for me. Wow. Welcome.
We've just crossed the red line now, and yeah. So it's a big day. It's a big day, and I wake up this morning with a cold that you finally gave me. Oh. So I appreciate that. So here we are, first day of Medicare and first day of a cold along with it.
Yeah, well.
It's a very exciting day for me. I apologize for that, but good thing you've got great coverage now to go and get yourself some antibiotics or whatever you need. We will find out as we go along with this. Yeah. And I'm not worried about it, so I feel pretty good about it. But anyway, yeah, last night was kind of an autopsy-turvy night. The Yankees were great, and Max Freed was awesome last night.
And you see he only gave up three hits. Conversely, the Mets only got three hits. The Knicks basically laid an egg in Houston, which I knew. To me, that is right now the story. And I know Islander fans have their issues right now, but they're still in the playoff spot in the Metro. But I'm just saying the Knicks are a mess, and they're basically telling you this.
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Chapter 2: How are the Knicks performing against the Rockets?
Jalen Brunson's telling you this. Josh Hart is telling you this. And this is what I was afraid of about three weeks ago because they had played all these bad teams leading up to this little stretch in their schedule. And this little stretch in their schedule, unfortunately, may have revealed who they are. And that's the bad thing because I go all the way back to the beginning.
when they decided with their eighth pick that they were going to take Mike Brown as their head coach and that they were going to bring a head coach in to turn things around and make things different. And I don't necessarily know that they're any better than they were last year now all of a sudden. And I know two weeks ago you asked me about the championship wins at their back.
But watching how they've played these last three games against really good teams, and I was reading in one of the articles this morning, they haven't beaten a winning team in 25 days. That is an indication, and that, unfortunately, is a bad indication of where they are right now.
And I think you and I kind of believe that they are a playoff battle-tested team, and maybe that's what they're waiting for. But these last three games were... really a disaster for them. And I got to wonder where their confidence is right now against these good teams. Yeah, I mean, especially when you're talking about the confidence of Carl Anthony Towns because you see him last night.
He looked a little bit disengaged when there was a huddle going on and he was outside of it. And I've been all over his case, but it's not all about him. It really isn't. It's about the utilization of him. And Mike Brown's biggest failure has been trying to figure out how to get the best out of Carl Anthony Towns. And this was not a bad game for him last night.
He wasn't getting the basketball at all in the first half when they're getting smacked around. He's not taking any threes in the first half. You need to use every part of this guy's game if you're going to win a championship. And I'm being fair. There's a lot of things that he does that drive me crazy.
But I truly believe that the reason why he's having a subpar year for him has more to do with the fact with the head coach than it does with him. And Jalen Brunson is doing what Mike Brown is asking. And I don't know if the trust is there with Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns.
But if you watch, the second that Jose Alvarado gets in the game and Carl Anthony Towns is there, feeding him the ball, feeding him the ball, feeding him the ball. Doesn't happen. When Jalen Brunson is out there, it doesn't happen enough. So whose fault is that? By the way, Jalen Brunson is an offensive powerhouse when he's on. He didn't shoot well last night, of course.
Nobody shot well for that matter. And, of course, they ran right into a buzzsaw. And defensively, they were terrible.
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Chapter 3: What are the concerns about Carl Anthony Towns' role?
I don't know what to tell you. I mean, their last three games have been horrific. And it's obvious to, I think, most Knick fans that there are... And I think you've laid them out pretty good. I think there are major issues, and there's major issues between their stars. And for some reason, all of a sudden, they've lost their way. When you think about... the way they started.
You remember for the first couple weeks they kept talking about, and even Carl Anthony Townsend, I'm not really sure about the offense yet. I've got to figure it all out. We're still in the process of figuring it all out. And then we wanted to give them some kind of leeway. Okay, new coach, we understand, new system. And then they found their rhythm there for a while.
And then, of course, they beat all those bad teams prior to these three losses. And that was a little bit of a camouflage spot, if you ask me.
Because now when you start playing against really good teams with big star players, all of a sudden those players go off on your team because your team in those particular situations aren't playing defense on the other team's best players or trying to play defense but can't. That is a red flag, a major red flag.
Yeah, I mean, there's nothing worse in the NBA, or, you know, football too is another one of these sports where you feel like you're the older, slower team. And both Charlotte and Houston made the Knicks feel like that. And that's not something any of us want to see going into the playoffs.
I don't want to feel like the bad, defensive, slower team against some of these real contenders that we have seen. And, you know, it's not like they haven't, beaten any good teams, but it's just been a really long time, and they just... The issues... I know what teams are trying to do against the Knicks, and it's working. And that's the thing that really concerns me about the postseason.
Because I don't know that they can be much better defensively with their best players on the court. And if you're not going to be better defensively with your best players on the court... You better be maximizing every bit of offense that you have. And that's one thing they're not doing. Because remember that, what was it, the Shaq interview with Carl Anthony Towns?
He's like, you got to be great. You got to be great. He's like, well, I'm trying to get better. No, no, no, no, no.
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Chapter 4: How do the Yankees and Mets fare in recent games?
You got to be number two. You got to be great. 1A, 1A. Simplistically, that's what it is. He has to be, we have to come in the next day like, this guy's a wizard. The days we come in with Jalen Brunson and go, oh, my God, he's one of the best players, one of the free agent signings we've ever had, oh, my God, he's great.
Quarter guy takes over the game. All that stuff.
We've got to have four, five, six of those games where we're talking about Carl Anthony Towns in the same way for this team to make it to the finals and try to win a championship. I don't know if collectively this team can get that out of him. I know he didn't have a double-double last night, but according to Jerry, and rightfully so, because... The statistic will tell you this.
He's a double-double machine. The question is, when and where, how is it happening? Well, yeah, I mean, this is a beyond-the-numbers type of thing. And if you've watched this team throughout the entire year, the most confusing...
thing to me is why this guy is not getting the basketball in positions for him to succeed every single game, multiple times a game, throughout the game, not just all of a sudden waking up in the fourth quarter, we got to get him the ball. That's the most confusing thing. And honestly, this is why I keep blaming Mike Brown. It's almost as if
And I don't know this is the case, but it feels almost as if Mike Brown has given up on Carl Anthony Towns being that unbelievable superstar. Just gets like the minimum out of him and thinks that if the rest of the team plays great and we just kind of keep him in the game, that's a better situation for us. Where I totally disagree with that.
So was Carl Anthony Towns better under Tibbs or is he better under Brown? Yes. Oh, he's much better under Tibbs. And they brought Carl Anthony Towns here because Tibbs was his first coach in Minnesota, wasn't he? Yeah. I mean, yeah, they, they, yes. So, I mean, and they also remember they looked into, they, they asked for permission for the Carl Anthony Towns coach in Minnesota, Finch.
And they also asked for permission from one of the guys off his staff. Well, this was after they fired Tibbs. After they fired Tibbs. To be fair, they asked for everybody in the world during that time, but there were guys that were tied to Carl Anthony Towns that were asked to come in and interview, and a lot of them were denied the interviews. Let me just say, so the impetus for all of...
the beginning of the Knicks or the end of last season, the impetus for all of this were supposedly these player exit interviews. Yeah. This is why you don't listen to the effing players. Well, right now – You don't listen to them. You tell them we are paying you a hell of a lot of money, and you are working for us, and you are wearing our uniform, and we run the organization, not you. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What reality show drama is mentioned?
Probably. Like the Vanderpump issues that they had, it's definitely a home run for the show. The Vanderpump rules had a whole thing like this. It was a huge deal. But Dave Portnoy gets in the middle of this, too. Well, that's even better for the show, then. So Portnoy gets in the middle. He doesn't care about any of it. He goes... He puts out... This is old news.
Because I was told about this at the Super Bowl.
Chapter 6: How are the Knicks performing this season?
So then everybody starts freaking out about that. Wait a second. They just said they started getting... This was happening at the Super Bowl, and then Dave had to do a video from his Florida Keys house, sitting in a beach chair with the water behind him and his big beard going like, ah, I don't know, what's the big deal? So everybody was flipping out. So now he's involved. He's involved now.
That's great. That's exactly what the show wants. Yeah, damn right.
Chapter 7: What are the concerns about Karl-Anthony Towns?
The reality show. So it was everywhere. So there you go. Boomer and Geo's closest affiliation with a reality show. Update. Summer House. Ended up being the talk of the world yesterday.
The talk of the social media world.
Is Summer House still going on? It is.
Chapter 8: What is the latest on Tiger Woods' health?
I don't know how the hell they're doing it. Now, is it in the Hamptons or where is it? Yeah, it's in the Hamptons. It's in the Hamptons. It's a good Montauk. I ended up stop... I stopped watching it because... I just got to that point where they were so annoying, and I just couldn't consume it any longer. Like, I used to like it because I felt like I was more connected to it.
It's like, oh, yeah, you know, when I was younger. These people are working in the city. They go out to the Hamptons house. They're having a good time, whatever. We actually talked about it. We got an invite, by the way. Yeah, I know we did. We got an invite out there, and we never went because I was like, there's no way we're going to just roll up there. With 50 SPF on our faces. Golf hats.
Yeah, right. What's going on, guys? Fucking hats. Right. Shot a 102 out there today. We're in a different part of our life.
Right, right.
Right, exactly. But we did get an invite out there. Probably should have taken advantage of that at the time. Looking back now. Was that pre-COVID? No, it was post-COVID. I think we ended up... Talking to them during COVID. Oh, during COVID, okay. And then we got invited post-COVID. Okay. And we just didn't end up going. See, that's the demarcation point right there.
It's, you know, pre- and post-COVID, right? Pre- and post-COVID. Yeah. Pre- and post-COVID is right. Billy's calling from Five Towns. What's going on, Billy?
Yeah, good morning, guys. Hey, man. Yeah, listen, I want to talk about this stupid thing, friends, girlfriends. Yeah. And ex-girlfriends, ex-wives. Yeah. Back in the 70s and 80s, I was basically a man whore. And I thought nothing of it. Yeah. So...
I just wanted to put that out there that this is nothing new. Well, it's not. We understand. It's nothing new. I'm so glad that you put that out there. Yeah, that you were a man-whore. Did you lose a lot of relationships with friends during this whole thing? No.
Maybe one or two. Oh, okay.
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