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Chapter 1: What are Boomer's thoughts on turning 65 and joining Medicare?
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: What went wrong for the Knicks in their loss to 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: How did Giancarlo Stanton perform in the Yankees' recent game?
Now, the four seed may not be a bad thing because they'd end up playing Atlanta in the first round. Yeah, four or five, yeah. If they stay at the three seed, then they're probably going to get Charlotte. That will be interesting. That would be interesting. So it's just one game in the loss now with the Cavaliers, right? Charlotte's at number 10. Raptors are at 6 right now.
But there are a lot of crazy things that can still happen here. I mean, there's still a lot. So Toronto's at 42-33. Charlotte's at 40-36. Charlotte's in the play-in round. And the question is whether or not they come out of that, or does Toronto fall into it? You know what I mean? Sure, of course. I mean, Charlotte's played really well.
There's only, what, six games left at this point for most of these teams. If the Knicks get to stay at three and the Raptors get to stay at six, I'll take that. Yeah, I would take that, too. But then again, I'm with you. I'm not disagreeing at all. But the first-round matchup is not supposed to matter with the Knicks this year.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Mets' loss in St. Louis?
It's not. Whoever they're supposed to get, they're supposed to kill. And the fact that we're talking about that, what the better matchup is for them in the first round, means that we're very concerned about where they can go. 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. 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.
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Chapter 5: What does the construction noise signify for the podcast?
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. This is why you do that. And I know it's the NBA, so you might as well forget it. That's not going to happen. But, you know –
if you listen to the fans or you listen to the players and you don't make... And by the way, Leon Rose, for the most part, has done everything pretty good. I think we're all pretty happy with where the Knicks have been over the last three or four years under Leon Rose's stewardship. Absolutely.
Now, we have talked before, and one of the age-old adages, if you're going to get rid of a guy as a head coach, you better know who you're replacing him with. And there are times where I'll push back on that because... Sometimes you don't know who is out there. You haven't talked to everybody.
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Chapter 6: How is Karl-Anthony Towns being utilized in the Knicks' strategy?
And you've made a decision on a head coach where, like, this guy isn't the right guy to get us over the hump, so we have to go out there and have a search. So that's normally my response to that take. But when it comes to this Tibbs situation... it's exactly the opposite of what I believe. Because they didn't have a plan. They didn't have someone to replace him.
And it was the only real thing that they were changing in this offseason. And they went out and they asked every coach that was successful in the NBA who was under contract if they could have permission to talk to him, which was just one of the dumbest things in the world. And they ended up with Mike Brown.
So I'm not... Like, if they really believe that Tibbs couldn't get them over the hump, fine. But to just kind of go out there blind and then end up with Mike Brown and then think that that is going to be the hire that gets you to the finals, that whole situation might be the reason why they don't get there.
Now, I'm not saying they would have gotten there with Tibbs, but they fired him and then really didn't have any idea what they were doing when it comes to replacing him. All right, so let me ask you this question. Would this team be any better? And I think... given if you could replace Karl-Anthony Towns with Giannis without losing any of the other starting four.
Well, I don't think that's possible. I know. That's why I say that. It's not possible. So they can straighten all this out and we can stop all this discussion if they go to the conference finals and they win and then they make it to the NBA finals. This discussion then stops. We don't have this discussion about Mike Brown. We don't have this discussion about firing Tom Thibodeau.
And we don't have this discussion about possibly adding Giannis to the mix. But what would it take to add Giannis to the mix? And what are you losing? What are you having to let go of? And what does the team look like next year?
Because if they get knocked out in the second round, which is very likely, if they end up with a fourth seed, it's very likely that they're going to end up seeing Detroit in the second round. Yeah, I mean, at that point, if they get knocked down in the second round, it's more than just the coach that's going to be under fire. There's going to be major roster things.
So, yeah, I mean, Giannis will be right there. I mean, that will be the discussion point. You don't think Giannis, at his age, is going to be able to play with these teams that you just – per you just perfectly characterize them younger, longer, faster. Yeah. I mean, do you think adding a older Giannis is going to like to me, the championship window has been the last couple of years.
Well, that's the thing. You've got to try to capitalize. You just basically... You still have Giannis at a point in his career where he's not washed up at all. He's still got a lot left.
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Chapter 7: What are the concerns about the Knicks' playoff readiness?
Because that just shows you how quick the ABS system is because the reason why they make it so quick is they don't want some sort of communication saying, ba-ba-ba-ba-boom. And hence why if it isn't called and the broadcast then goes back to a replay of it, it can't be changed. Right. You know what they did in the – I'm sure you guys noticed it too.
I had to get Schlittler and George Kirby on the fan at 4.10 p.m. as I transitioned to the Mets. Did you notice watching the game at all? There were many points in that game where they took the box off the screen. Yeah, I think they're experimenting with that. Love it. Well, with the ABS system, I love it. Yeah. Because you find yourself – going, are they going to challenge that?
Are they going to challenge that? Well, that was off the plate. I wonder if they're going to do this. And it screws up. I mean, it makes you a little bit more engaged with every pitch, I guess, but it's not in a way that you want to be engaged with every pitch because it's frustrating. I thought we talked about this before the season started that they were going to remove Fox.
Well, see, I think there was... I think it's in stadium they're not showing it. Okay. That's what I think it is. But it's been on every broadcast. Yes. You know, until you saw it a couple times not be yesterday. So, very interesting. Now, anyway, the Mets were in St. Louis again for the second of three. And I know Al was very unhappy with Luis Robert Jr.
yesterday in the third inning as that inning was not set up well for him. Scott leads off against Kodai Saga. Drives one out to center. Luis Robert giving ground. Got a late start and beats him. Scott can fly, hits to second, and they'll pull in there with a leadoff double. That ball fooled Luis Robert. That's lined in the center field. Weatherholt has a base hit.
Scott to third is going to be held up there as Robert misses the cutoff man, and Weatherholt will go to second. Oh, boy. Two mistakes in this inning by Luis Robert in center field. That's Gary and Keith on SNY. Jerry, it never fails. So, yesterday... Before I said I am a huge Luis Robert Jr.
guy, I prefaced it by saying I'm reluctant to say this because every time I put my full support behind a guy, things go horribly wrong. I swear to God. And the next day, here he is defensively bungling two critical plays that lead to a loss. I didn't realize that.
Oh, yeah.
No, it happened. Yeah. I mean, I just got to say, I mean, I don't know what it is, why. It doesn't make any sense. I don't believe in any superstitions. But for whatever reason, when I really start liking a player, something goes haywire. That is pretty funny. Says something stupid, gets hurt, ends up sucking. I don't know what it is.
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