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 Bill Fuller 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 Friday morning. A feel-good Friday. Boomer is with the Wasp hockey team up in Montreal. So, Boomer, how are you?
Good luck to the boys up there. Hopefully they bring back another championship. I know it's very important to them. So that means we've got Jerry this morning. Good morning, Jerry. Gee, what's going on, man? Happy Friday. How are we doing? Yes, happy Friday. Pretty good. I was pleased with the Knicks win, even though Jalen Brown didn't play. That was a good thing.
Obviously, the Mets and Yankees, annoying losses. And my first day of picks at the Masters were miserable. Absolutely miserable. And I'll talk about it a little bit more, but I did hear even Al talk about this. So there's certain guys that I just will not bet ever just because I just don't particularly like them for whatever reason.
And maybe because they're on the European Ryder Cup team or whatever it is. And two of those guys are Matt Fitzpatrick and Bobby McIntyre. So I was, like, going into this and doing the research. They were both coming up, like, I was like, man, like... I can't just hold it against these guys and I don't like these guys. I got to just go where the research brings me.
Forget your heart, bet with your head.
Yeah. So Matt Fitzpatrick, he's even and, of course, double bogey on 18 plus 2. And then Robert McIntyre, who is leading the Valero Open the previous week. You know, ends up having a really bad shot on 18, but, you know, finishes second.
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Chapter 2: What led to the Knicks' victory over the Celtics?
He'd been playing well. You know, he's won a couple of tournaments. He putted lights out at the Ryder Cup. Lefties seem to really see Augusta well, so I'm like, I'm going to throw McIntyre and Akshay and a couple different things. Bobby McIntyre, he probably got a talking to by Augusta.
Not only does he flip off the golf ball when it goes in the water, when he eventually makes a nine on a hole, a quadruple bogey, but he also slammed his club.
down on the fairway uh yes twice and uh one right on the next on the next hole so i they they hate that stuff like they they do not like that type of behavior and he's never been a guy like that but he uh he lost his mind so i was like oh great so i finally put robert mcintyre in a lineup of mine and this guy poops all over augusta but anyway uh other than that look there's that nine hung that nine up there you do not see that often with a middle finger
Not at that level.
Chapter 3: What were Mike Francesa's comments on the Masters?
I think Fred Couples also had a nine on that same hole. That's Fred Couples. He's 100 years old.
66.
He's allowed. 66. He was like 200 before that, too. I know. And it's amazing how well he plays this golf course, no matter how old he is.
But anyway, so Knicks were the big story. Knicks-Celtics last night. The big story. So the annoying part of it, quite frankly, is the fact that they weren't fully healthy because I wanted to see them with Jalen Brown in the lineup. Everybody else that was questionable, I believe, played last night but Jalen Brown. So that was a little bit frustrating.
But the way that the Knicks played was more of the same that we saw against the Atlanta Hawks, which is really, really encouraging. There was more Jalen Brunson getting rid of the ball and being a guy who was facilitating and not just isolation and chucking up shots. Josh Hart was spectacular shooting threes. And in the fourth quarter, really, really good. Carl Anthony Towns, good defensively.
I think he only had... Two fouls. It might have been three, but I think he might have only had two fouls last night, which was great. And you saw more of the action with the pick and roll with him and getting them the basketball. And they just seemed like they were rounding into shape again. So this is the team right there, the way they have played the last two games that I feel the best about.
I'm not going to say that because they beat the Celtics without Jalen Brown, I'm ready for the Celtics in the playoffs, but this was the style of play and the way that they won the game I thought was very encouraging because it was right off the heels of a very similar win against the Atlanta Hawks. Yeah, a couple things.
One, you look at that game last night, and I do agree with you. When I saw the note before 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, whatever it was, when I saw it, that Jalen Brown wasn't playing, it was disappointing as an outside observer watching the game. The game still had a really good feel to it. The fact that they applauded, I mean, give the Knicks fans a lot of credit.
I wondered if they were going to taunt him. Instead, they gave him a nice ovation. Tate, I was talking about. Yeah, Jason Tatum, which I thought was very classy in the starting lineups. So that was very cool. It definitely took away a little bit from the game that Brown didn't play.
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Chapter 4: How did Josh Hart perform in the game against Boston?
If you're going to let them play, then you've got to let them play for 48 minutes. And if you're going to swallow the whistle in the first quarter, you've got to swallow the whistle in the fourth quarter. And that's, I think, as a basketball fan, what, again, I see it at the college level all the time, where a game is officiated differently first half to second half, and it shouldn't be.
If that's how you're going to call the game, call the game that way.
Yeah. So this is going to be all about getting to the NBA Finals, and Mike Brown's either going to be lauded as the right choice for the coach if he gets into the Finals, and if they can't get over the hump or they don't get back to the Eastern Conference Finals, maybe he gets fired, maybe the roster gets blown up. I mean, it's...
They need to get to the NBA Finals or at least back to where they were and play a great series. Maybe seven games and then just be like, okay, we got beat. We've waited for this for the longest time to see where this season goes.
Just a couple of games left and now it's all about... It's amazing how when you have a team that's good in baseball and basketball that has been to the playoffs... You're reading my mind. You just don't Get the same emotions. You don't put weight on anything. It's almost like this regular season. You go through the motions.
You don't, as a fan or as excited or bummed out or anything, it's about the playoffs, it's about the playoffs, it's about the playoffs. It ruins... the regular season for you when your team's good.
You're a victim of your own success. Yeah. Yeah, there's no doubt. And, you know, I think you have to take it for what it is at that point. You know they're good. You know they're going to be in the playoffs. Just enjoy it. And don't get so crazy with the ups and the downs when you know that they are secure in their playoff position.
And then you get to the postseason like now, and now it's go time. Now you really start to emotionally get invested in what is going to become best of seven wars, you think, you know, in sports terms. But I do understand it feels a lot like what we've dealt with for the Yankees for the last 25 or 30 years that, you know, that 96 team was so much fun. 98 was wild, but then it was like 99.
Let's get to the World Series. 2000, let's get to the World Series. Then you got the Mets. Holy crap, got to win the World Series. Nobody's getting crazy. 2001, got to get to the World Series. Don't wind up winning. And every year after that, it was as if it's just to now. It's like, all right, well, they're not playing so great right now. Well, it's about the postseason.
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Chapter 5: What are the hosts' predictions for the Knicks in the playoffs?
A couple of daggers from Josh Hart, though, proved to be the difference.
Brunson looking. Finds Hart. Hart, another three.
Pucks it in!
Back-to-back threes for Josh Hart, and the lead is six, 13 seconds remaining.
Mike Green, MSG, thought we might get a bang there, but not the case. He went and puts it in. Hart scored 15 of his team-high 26 points in the fourth quarter. The Knicks win the game 112-106 to take the season series from Boston, so they're a game clear of the Cavaliers.
the two seed with two games to go they're two back of boston for the two seed and they hold the tiebreaker over both they will finish up at home they've got the raptors tonight and then sunday evening regular season finale against the hornets now back to last night mentioned the big fourth quarter from heart but after the game with msg he was assessing his performance from the earlier stages the first half i was ass uh
The second half, I knew I had to bring it. That goes over the PA system.
You hear the little murmur in the crowd there. He did bring it in the second half. We mentioned the fourth quarter numbers. Karl-Anthony Towns referring to him as the heartbreaker for his heroics in the final couple minutes there, knocking down the two big threes.
The first one was special because he had a wide open one. and then turned that one down and then shot the contested spree and made that one. True Josh Hart fashion with anyone who watches Knicks basketball. And the second one was just a contested. He felt good after the first one. No hesitation, shot the second one, made it. He's a special player.
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