Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. And we're coming to you live from the Built Forward Tough Studio. Boomer Esaias and Greg Giannotti. It's Boomer and Geo. On the fan simulcast across the country on CBS Sports Network. And we're here on the free Odyssey app. Good Thursday morning. Mets offense really, really bad. Really, really frustrating. Another annoying loss to the St.
Louis Cardinals yesterday. in extra innings this time and you have the Yankees continue to roll so if you want to talk some positive baseball you got them Cam Schlittler spectacular Yankees offense getting it done the pitching staff has been amazing and you got the New York Knicks back in action last night on a back-to-back without Jalen Brunson playing one of the worst teams in the NBA but the
If you want to create a storyline there, you can. Because what do you get in the game where Jalen Brunson is not playing? Karl-Anthony Towns triple-double and Karl-Anthony Towns getting the ball consistently throughout the game. I'm not going to make too much of a deal out of it because I think if Jalen Brunson played in this game, they probably still would have scored.
80 points in the first half and 130 in the game because Memphis is not trying to win, but still interesting with what we talked about yesterday. Good morning, Bloomer. How are you? Yeah, I've been better, Gene. You know, I've been a little under the weather this morning, as you can hear. Thank you very much for that. I appreciate it. Sorry.
And now I'm fighting it, and before you know it, the whole staff will be fighting it. I'm sure Al will be fighting it. I don't know about CeeLo. He said he needed a hazmat suit this morning, and maybe he's right. Good for Jerry for getting out of here. And then Eddie's on this extended vacation. He's very smart for not being around here right now. Yeah, you know what, though?
Eddie doesn't get sick very much. Al does not get sick very much. Jerry's had a really good winter. I had a great winter. I was not sick the entire winter until this time. But, yeah, CeeLo is susceptible, as we know. His immune system, not the best. Yeah, well, I just, you know, look. Look.
I felt like I've had a really good winter myself, and I was thinking that, you know, this hit me on April 1st. So I made it through December, January, February, and March. Yep. And those are the, you know, those are the deadly months. Now here I start the spring off with a nasty head cold, but we'll get through it and we're going to talk a lot about a lot of different things.
The one thing that I want to start with is what Cam Schlittler looked like yesterday. I mean, that kid looks like a star. He looked like a star last year in the playoffs. He looks like a real bonafide. I mean, they got a number one in waiting. Now they got Garrett Cole coming back. And this kid just looked like it was an everyday, you know, minor league game yesterday.
And he was just throwing gas. I mean, his pitches were unbelievable. And listening to David Cohn actually talk about what he was doing and the pitches he was throwing. And I never knew this about pitching, but, you know, David Cohn said yesterday that there were times where, like, he would be warming up and he was trying to hit the plate with a curveball.
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Chapter 2: What was Cam Schlittler's performance like against the Mariners?
Oh, yeah, he didn't know what Sandy Alcantara's name was. Yeah, that's right. They are skipping. Did he call him Quintero or Contra? What did he call him? He called him Alcantara, which a lot of people do because that's sort of how phonetically it looks. And then he called him Contrara or something. Yeah, something like that, yes. But they are going because he pitched yesterday, Sandy Alcantara.
So, yeah, you're not going to see him in that series against the Marlins, but you got Will Warren on the mound tomorrow as things kick off in the Bronx in 2026. And by the way, we are a long way from opening day when we came in here the day after saying, man, look at this Mets lineup. Look how great it looks. Look at the length that they're going to have.
Look at the amount of pitches that they're going to be fighting off. I'm embarrassed by my opening day take right now because I was like, man, this is exactly what you want. This is exactly what David Stearns was talking about. You know, these at-bats and then the fouling off of pitches and look at all the walks they had. What do they have, seven walks in the game?
Maybe it was even more than that opening day, whatever it was. And here they are now, just brutal offensively. Can't get a big hit. Can't get a hit with runners in scoring position. Multiple mental errors by Francisco Lindor yesterday, which is very, very unlike him. Obviously, one coming right before Juan Soto ends up hitting that home run. Who knows if he's still on base?
You know, you don't know. You want to know why he's not the captain of the team? Because of stuff like that? Because of stuff like yesterday. I don't know about that because Steve Cohen said that as long as he's the owner, there's not going to be a captain. It seems like that's a philosophy. I don't know. That's interesting. I didn't look at it like that.
I just looked at it like Lindor had a bad day. He had a bad day. He had a bad day in the field. He had a bad day at the plate. He had a bad day everywhere. He's supposed to be the best player on the team. He's supposed to be an all-star shortstop. He's supposed to be leading the team. Yeah, but how many times are you making those mental errors, though? You know what I mean?
There's not like a history of Francisco Lindor not knowing how many outs there were. He was checked out yesterday. He didn't want to play. Yeah, it was a weird one. It was lazy, not focused baseball for sure. I mean, I'll agree with that. I'm not saying 162 games you're going to have games like this, but man. You ever see Aaron Judge get picked off like that? I mean, not off the top of my head.
Can I give you an example? No. Aaron Judge, do you know how many outs there are? Generally, yes. Yes, okay. Yeah, I mean, it was bad. I just don't think that, you know, I don't think this is... You're one of the highest paid players in the team. You've got to act like it.
Sorry.
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Chapter 3: How did the Yankees continue their winning streak?
Maybe he's willing to say to his family, hey, look, if you listen to Boomer and Gio in the morning, I'll start drilling, they'll start complaining, and you'll know it's me. Yeah. All right. I think it's, you know, we talk about people picking their spots. Yes. And the right time to join the show.
And we've gone back and forth with Paul and Yonkers trying to explain that, you know, sometimes it's a Paul and Yonkers day. Sometimes it's not. Very rarely do we take phone calls in the opening segment. But today, because he is up. It's early. Yes. You're not feeling great. I'm not feeling great. We're annoyed by the Mets. This is a Paul and Yonker spot. 100% it is.
This is where he steps up for us. Take it away. Paul, good morning. How are you?
Good morning, guys. Hey, listen, I don't want to be the bad guy. I screamed for six months about this joke of a lineup. I've seen this. They can't hit a fly ball if you beg them. This lineup is terrible, and Mindy doesn't understand what a single-heading team is. When you go nine innings with three singles, you get two leadoff walks into the seventh and the eighth. Where's the bunting over?
That's what you got to do now. You got to make runs. You got to move players. You can't sit and let the next guy get up and try to hit a 2-1 homer. There's no such thing on this team. Ghost runners. Bunt them to third. You can't sit there and be talking, well, we need more than three runs. We can't get a run. You've got to move. Where's the bunt? Show what this team is.
We're never going to hit a home run nowhere. So I've got to move players, move runners, so the next guy is going to get his single. Because that's all he's going to do is get a single. And we need multiple singles. We saw the first game. Nine walks, 11 singles, and the score was 6-4. Nine walks and 11 singles. Nobody hit the ball to the outfield. And to see it, holy mackerel, I was just kidding.
Yeah, holy mackerel, Paul. Listen, today I can't really argue with you. I will say, though, that bunting runners over as a whole in Major League Baseball is not as prevalent as it was in the days that you probably grew up watching the game. But I'll give you this. When you know that the offense is struggling mightily. You got to manufacture runs.
We can't get a run.
Holy mackerel. Yeah, so it's annoying. I don't know that this team's not going to be singles hitters the entire year. The team is minor leaguers right now. That's the mess. That's also not true, but today you've got to let him have his day. I mean, three runs in St. Louis? Come on. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's brutal.
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Chapter 4: What are the Mets' struggles highlighted in this episode?
Yeah, probably. He's probably the devil on his shoulder. Shiv spot. You can definitely see it.
Shiv spot? Oh, yeah. Six games into the season. Yeah, that was Shiv spot.
Well, I was predicting Shiv spot before the season started.
Yes. No, I understand that.
I mean, you probably get between 10 and 12 new players. You get six new coaches. I mean, there's a lot of moving parts without question.
A lot of makeover.
No doubt. But that stuff by Lindor cannot happen. Just can't happen. And, you know, Mendoza's not going to do anything about it.
Well, we'll see how it goes tonight in San Francisco. First to four against the Giants. David Peterson, Robbie Ray, the starters for a 9-45 first pitch. Keith Hernandez is going to miss the next five games at least with a bad back. When did that happen? He dealt with some pain on the flight, I guess, out there at a St. Louis.
Must have like a... Back spasms?
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Chapter 5: How did Francisco Lindor's errors impact the Mets' game?
That's Tyler Murray on MSG. Three of a game high, 25 points for O.G. Ananobi to go along with 13 rebounds as the Knicks went on to win in Memphis, 130-119. Carl Anthony Towns, 20 points, 11 boards. So we did have seven turnovers. I believe the Knicks had 19 as a team, but they do get the victory, and here was Cat afterwards on the victory.
I thought we did a great job moving the ball. I thought we did a good job moving the ball. Playing with a .5 mentality and doing everything we needed to do to be a good team and a hungry team. With a lot of guys trying to prove themselves in this league.
That's one I'm not familiar with. .5 mentality. If anyone can educate me on what that means. Don't know us.
It sounds to me like you have the ball for .5 seconds. That's what it sounds like to me. I was thinking about this watching this game last night. that going into the season, wasn't it all about getting up and down the court and shooting threes and moving the ball and getting into some sort of rhythm? Wasn't that the idea that the Knicks were going to become that type of team under Mike Brown?
They were early on, right? So last night you watch it. Alvarado, as Gio has pointed out many times, comes in. He's running the team. He's thrown to Carl Anthony Towns almost every time in the first half. And they scored, what, 79 points in the first half? Yeah. And everything looks hard for him. Cat. Yeah. I don't know why.
He's not a graceful player, you know?
There's always somebody banging into him or something. It's crazy. Yeah. I mean, he's a 6'11 guy. Yes. You know, that has something to do with it.
He's a large man.
He likes to hold that ball out there like a softball. Yeah. Listen, I don't want to make a big deal out of Jalen Brunson not being in the game and Carl Anthony Towns looking happier and more productive than he's been in a very long time. He was connected. Because it was against one of the worst teams in the league, but it does raise an eyebrow, that's for sure.
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Chapter 6: What insights did callers provide about the Mets' performance?
I just don't like the look of what that was yesterday. I mean, it's your best player make one gaffe game. Okay, I understand. You know, I can kind of get behind that. But making two and not knowing the outs and you are the shortstop, you are the most important player in the baseball field. Hey, gee, why do they always go, hey, like this? Why do they always raise two? How many outs?
Yeah, how many outs there are? Yeah, because stuff like this doesn't happen. And it's a reminder that baseball players always do it. So a center fielder will catch it. It will be the first out of the inning. He'll look over to the left fielder, go one out, look over to the right fielder, go one out. That's right. Let's say if he makes a second out, what does he do? He goes like this.
It depends on how you do it. How would you do it? Would you do this? Yeah, you shake the two like this. You shake the two.
Yeah, I do it that way as well.
Let's hang loose, Al. What's this? Yeah, it's two outs. I'm trying to think. Did you do that at third base all those years?
Yeah, definitely.
You knew what outs there were, how many outs there were. Yes. You have to. Some guys go like this with two fingers. Yeah. The umpire always goes like three and two. He does. Yeah, it's more difficult when you're doing two hands to do this, to throw up the hook of horns thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's this, because from a long way away... If you don't spread your fingers out, two can look like one.
Right. You know? So that's why you spread. You get the first finger and the pinky going. Right. Look at Al over there at the hot corner just making plays. Brooks Robinson. Man, I'm telling you. And then he's dribbling it back to the pitcher who's 20 feet away from him. Jesus. The glory days of Al Dukes on the hot corner. Yeah. Just amazing stuff to watch. You ended that.
I did, and it's one of my prouder moments, actually, to make the staff very, very happy. It really was something that needed to happen, and it did. It took a couple years of you just kind of doing everything, and then finally one day you came and said enough. With the softball, yes. That was a tough thing because nobody was really enjoying it outside of you. I thought Al was enjoying it.
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