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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 Villefort Tough Studio. Boomer Esiason, Greg Giannotti. It's Boomer and Geo on the fans. Simulcast across the country on CBS Sports Network. And where we are, the free Odyssey app. Good Wednesday morning. The WBC comes to a close with a disappointing loss. by Team USA to Venezuela.
And, of course, Yankee fans and Met fans paying attention to what Aaron Judge does in big spots. And, of course, he does not get a hit, and he strikes out. So here we go again. Big situations, best player on the team, and everybody counting on him and not being able to get the job done. Those are facts as great as he is. One of the best baseball players I have ever seen in these situations.
Well, he's just not good. He's just never been good in those situations. Knicks were good last night as they beat up this terrible Pacers team that they should always smack around without Jalen Brunson in the NFL.
Chapter 2: What was the significance of Venezuela's victory over Team USA in the WBC?
Free agency and trade season continues to churn. Yesterday, we'll get to all of it. Good morning, Boomer. How are you? Yeah. I'm disappointed this morning, Jay. You know, I wanted to see America win the baseball classic last night. It didn't happen. It was an unbelievable crowd, mainly of, I'm assuming, Venezuelans. I don't know how many. They had to find USA fans in the crowd.
It took them a while. Which is unbelievable. I mean, I don't know how many Venezuelans we have here.
but man they all of them were there last night and they were they were rooting their team on and i'm kind of happy for them and the way that the players responded and the players did something that nobody thought that they were going to do everybody thought it was going to be either japan the dominican republic or the united states and lo and behold this is why they play the game you have a guy you have guys that you know uh came through and uh they came through big and
Each and every game was a little bit tighter for, I guess, Venezuela than the Americans for the most part. But the Americans never, ever, ever got their offense going through the whole World Baseball Classic. I mean, the Dominicans were ripping through everybody. Japanese had their day in the sun offensively.
But, I mean, the offense for the United States, if you look at it in totality, was just a struggle. Yeah, I mean, Bryce Harper was the only one who really did anything last night. He had two of the three hits, obviously the home run that tied the game. So, yeah, it wasn't only Aaron Judge we're going to focus on. Aaron Judge we're going to focus on.
Nolan McClain, who was—he was good, you know, to a certain point. Obviously gave up a couple runs, but everybody was expecting this Venezuelan offense to be much better. You know, I don't know if you got the same feeling—
But it felt to me like Joe Davis calling the game had very little respect for Nolan McClain because he kept saying early on in this game where he's saying, if you had 0-0 game into the third with Eduardo Rodriguez and Nolan McClain, well, good for you because no one saw that coming. I was like, no. I mean, Nolan McClain is a guy that is a really good pitcher.
I mean, he's someone we're really excited about. He's not some schlub. I don't know what was going on with that. But I guess a lot of people expected offense last night, and they shouldn't have because Team USA really has never hit the ball. Well, I think you expect offense because you think the batters are ahead of the pitchers at this point of the season.
And it turned out that, for the most part, the batters aren't ahead of the pitchers. I mean, these were low-scoring games. It was a tight game with the Americans and the DR. And now you have a tight game last night. All I can say is that... You got to have some offense. It was against Eduardo Rodriguez, who was a guy that last year was 9-9. He had an ERA over 5.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Jaylen Waddle's trade to the Broncos?
I'm just saying they care a little bit more in this situation. As Nolan McClain said yesterday before the game, And our judges said it. Bobby Witt Jr. has said it. They've all said it. You know, this is what you live for. This is what you play for. To be able to play for your country in these big moments. And look, it's the World Baseball Classic.
I'm not going to sit here and say that it's the Olympics, but I will say that it meant something to the players playing. You can tell. And it meant something to the fans at these games, especially the South American fans.
And I still take my hat off to the Dominican Republic team because I think the way that they started the whole thing and with all the celebrations and home runs and, you know, just the joy that they were playing the game of baseball with is what really kicked this whole thing off.
And, you know, the Americans were a little bit stayed in their celebrations, but yet they were still happy and they were still talking about it. But it was the South American teams that really just lit up this whole thing. And the way that they celebrated and the way that they just absolutely had such joy. They love playing baseball. I mean, they love it.
And I just, you know, it's disappointing you lose, but you also know that, you know, pitchers can dominate hitters in big games. Yeah, and of course, everybody talks about baseball being America's pastime and all of that and the history. But, I mean, really, as we sit here today in 2026, there are other countries that care more about baseball and have better players than we do.
For a lot of these players, it's a way out of poverty. You have to remember, this is their life. Yeah. You know, they grow up playing baseball. If they're lucky enough, they get into one of these baseball academies and they end up signing $100 million contracts and their life is completely changed. Their family's lives are completely changed.
And you just think about the joy of which they play baseball with. And it starts when they're young. It used to be that way here. I still think we have a very strong baseball support system in this country, but I think it's been overtaken by a number of other countries. No doubt. The NBA has had a huge influx of European players, and there's a lot of great ones, but still...
The USA players are better. We know that the USA and Canada, you know, Canada's always going to have an edge, but we got them in the biggest moment in the Olympics, which is great. But that's number two in the world. USA hockey in number one right now. But you know what I mean? It's still Canadians. It's still Canada's game. American football, obviously, we're always going to be the best at that.
But, I mean, it's gotten to the point now where, yeah, you look at the other countries that... play baseball, care about baseball, and it feels like it's more their thing than our thing right now. It really does. Again, especially for the players who make it out of whatever situation they may have found themselves in.
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Chapter 4: How did Josh Hart contribute to the Knicks' win against the Pacers?
I think it's... I would have to say it's baseball is their biggest thing. Yeah. Although I think Venezuela's soccer is pretty big, but... I'd have to look at that. All right, so you've got the Dominican. Obviously, Puerto Rico is a territory of ours, so that doesn't necessarily count.
Chapter 5: How did Joe Davis's commentary on Nolan McLean spark discussion?
South Korea, baseball is their number one thing. How about the Netherlands? Because the Netherlands are good in speed skating and baseball. Yeah, that's an interesting combination. It's a Dutch, it's a European and an island situation. Yeah, that's always been a confusing part of the world to me. I don't know why.
I guess I'm going to blame it on my teachers not giving me a good idea of what's going on over there and what they do. Got to watch out for the Dutch. I know, the clogs, right? That's all I really know about the Dutch. Dykes and clogs. Yes. Yeah, and dykes meaning the water dykes. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of those words that you have to explain what you're saying. Well, of course.
Yes, absolutely. Stick your finger in a dike. Yeah, that. There you go. Right, that type of dike. Not the, yes. Anyway. Okay. Yes, but the Dutch, the Netherlands. It's like the Dutch Antilles, right? Yeah. Eddie's telling me Chinese Taipei he believes baseball is the number one sport. So, I mean, okay. But it's definitely not in China. Baseball is not the number one sport in regular China. Right?
Yeah, there's no way.
Chapter 6: What are the listeners' thoughts on Team USA's performance in the WBC?
Yeah, I heard Alan. What? The Dutch are like, isn't it like Aruba, Curaçao, like that kind of stuff? Well, they're also, yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's the Netherlands. Yeah, Netherlands. Netherlands. The Netherlands. It's a kingdom. Sure. Or it was a kingdom. I don't know if it still is. But, you know, that's, you know, Amsterdam, that whole, that's like what you think about is up there.
Did you remember St. Martin? You got the French side and you got the Dutch side. Yeah, of course. I heard Alan Jerry talking about Maduro and, you know, whether or not he was watching a game. Yeah. And I was, I bet you he was. He's in, for people who don't know here, he's in Brooklyn. Yes. I mean, he's right here. So, which is fascinating to think about.
I know we have a colleague who drives by that jail every single day and says, I think about that guy sitting there every single day when I drive by it. But, yeah, I wonder what he's thinking. I mean, just think of the joy in the streets of Venezuela right now. Somewhat freedom getting there. And your team won the baseball classic. Yeah.
There was a lot of turmoil that was happening there, and now they have something to celebrate, right? The key part of that is oil. Yeah, right, but they got something to celebrate. But it's funny, you came in, you're like, I was happy for the Venezuelans, but you would not have come in and say, I was happy for the Canadians if we didn't win the gold medal, right?
There's something different about that. Well, I mean, if the Canadians won the gold medal in baseball, I wouldn't be happy. Look, if you're supposed to win, like the Americans had a roster that was supposed to win. The expectations were, we are winning this. And they did not win it, so they failed. But Venezuela was not that they were an overall doormat underdog coming into this.
They had a good team. They had Major League Baseball players. They had a passion about their team, about the sport. I just think that I'm happy to see somewhat of an underdog. What were they, ranked fourth or fifth in this? Yeah. Definitely was in top three, that's for sure. Yeah. You see the manager crying. You see what it means to the players. That kind of stuff I like.
I got to tell you, I am thrilled that this is over, though. I am absolutely. Now we can start focusing in on opening day, which is, what, 10 days away? Yeah, I am thrilled. Well, yeah, I guess. Right, yeah, 10 days since it's March 18th. You excited? Yeah, of course. That a boy. Everyday baseball. Yeah. See this Mets team, see the Yankees. Of course. Last time we see baseball for a long time.
That's right. Better soak up every game of this 162 because you might not see it next year. But I'm thrilled that it's over. There weren't any major injuries for the local guys. It's not something that I was particularly into, so I'm thrilled now that it's over. We're closer to the end of March, closer to opening day, and all of those things.
And Nolan McClain got an experience last night that he really hasn't had yet in his career, and hopefully he's got a lot of them coming up this season and postseason starts. You can tell he's jacked up. Even John Smoltz was saying he's hitting 99. Yeah. And so that tells you that those guys, everybody who pitched last night was jacked up. Yeah, I don't know. Joe Davis was pissing me off, though.
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Chapter 7: What confusion did Mike Francesa have regarding Joel Embiid's college career?
He's going to say, man, look how many I score and you're not playing. You hold the ball. He's going to say, oil check. You know, Breen was thinking that when Clyde said that. I was going to do it to him tonight. Only in your butt. Well, that's four in a row now. That is. Here was more of these two. Look out, JB. You know he's going to give it to his roommate after this proliferation.
There's no doubt about it, Clyde. Topping his third foul. Yeah, he's going to get Brunson good tonight. You know what they're thinking. Yeah. Here was Hart on MSG. So he was 12 of 13 from the floor for 33 points, 5 of 5 from 3. He had 7 rebounds. 5 from 5 for 3. That's amazing. Alan Hahn asking him, so where'd that come from? How about that game?
When did you know you were going to have this kind of night? When I knew Jayla wasn't playing, so he wasn't going to hog the ball. So I know they'll get some shots up. Wow. I mean, it's amazing. When they're winning, they're fun. They're fun to hear that kind of stuff. But Joe, they took 100 shots last night. They had 100 attempts. A lot of shots. It's unbelievable. A lot of shots.
Here was Carl Anthony Towns, solid all around because he had a double-double, 22-11, and OG Ananobi was 10-13 for 26 points. You know what I loved about our team today? It was really great, you know, just seeing that kind of... Togetherness, us coming together, and the ball movement was spectacular. I was going to say, this is their franchise record 14 straight loss. Yeah.
They beat them last time, though. They did, which was terrible. I remember coming in that next morning, we were disgusted. Yeah. Didn't make a whole lot of sense, that's for sure. Nets home for the Thunder tonight. That's on the fan at 7.30. The two games, the playing games real quick. Howard beat UMBC 86-83. Howard plays Michigan next.
And Texas got a late basket from Tremont Mark to beat NC State 68-66. They will play BYU next. Tonight you've got Prairie View and Lehigh. Those are two 16-seeds. And then the two 11s tonight. SMU taking on 31-1. Miami of Ohio. I got a weird one. This one to me doesn't make any sense. Let's see if I put it in the system. I did. So you got St.
John's playing Northern Iowa this week, and Mike's doing his podcast. I don't know if he lost his mind momentarily here or not. He's talking about Zuby Echefor. And what a great player he's been for St. John's for the last three years. And he's referencing why he left Kansas three years ago. Not 13 years ago. Three years ago. Remember, he left Kansas, but that's a long time ago.
And he left Kansas because of Embiid. And Embiid's a different player than Zuby. I mean, Embiid, when he's healthy, is a guy who can score 50 points in the NBA. He's a big-time talent. That's no big deal that Embiid was over him. I mean, that happens. I don't understand. What does that mean? I don't know. I think he got... Clearly, he got confused.
He knows... I'm trying to think of who he's talking about. So I went... I looked at the roster. Yeah. I can't, that 2022-23 Kansas roster, I don't know exactly. Clearly, there's someone that was playing at him. He was a freshman. Makes sense. He left because of Embiid. But yeah, someone, somehow, someway, he got very confused there, which was very odd. And of course, it was everywhere.
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Chapter 8: How are the Yankees and Mets preparing for the upcoming MLB season?
It was very, very strange. And then one other one, speaking of him, only I was telling Eddie this this morning, maybe even Al, I was on Spotify looking for different songs, and a suggestion came up, a podcast suggestion. And it was FAN put out Mike and the Mad Dog best ofs. You're in one of them.
When you called in to congratulate them on their 10 years, you actually sat in with them for a little while. So that was kind of cool. So I listened to that. But the one that I couldn't turn off because it was hilarious, they had John Minko's 50th birthday party trip. Maybe you remember this, Jay. He went on a Yankee road trip with two of his best friends. They stayed in the same hotel rooms.
50 years old. Three men, two beds. Oh, man. Hey, guys, mind if I take a poop? Make a huge deposit in the Family Fun Bank. Maybe a little of that going on too. But it was really funny, and Minko sounds so spry and young, and you could hear it in his voice, but he was so embarrassed when they found out that he was sharing a room with his two friends. It's party time! It was very funny.
The Islanders beat the Maple Leafs 3-1. Braden Shenna, power play goal. Matt Barzell with three assists in this game. And a game that, when the season began, we thought might have been a big one tonight. The Rangers home for the Devils. It is not, but it's still Rangers-Devils this evening.
it's the boomer and geo podcast from wfan all right boomer and geo on the fan and cbs sports network on this wednesday morning with the wbc over venezuela beating team usa last night and we said 10 days away to opening day it's actually seven days away uh from yankees opening day and then eight with the mets opening up at city field the next day on thursday for some reason march 28th was in my head that might have been last year's opening day but
March 25th for the Yankees out in San Francisco. The 26th, obviously, for the Mets at Citi Field. Let's go to Paul in Woodbridge. What's going on, Paul? Hey, how we doing, fellas? Good, Paul. What's up today? Listen, I don't know, man. I think this is what's coming down. Judge, I'm having flashbacks as a lifelong Yankee fan to Don Mattingly. I think he's just a Jonah. The guy's the best.
I love him, but it's not going to happen. The year he leaves and retires, the Yanks will probably win. I could just see him in that dugout even losing the World Baseball Classic. I mean, the guy's great, but he don't have the Jeter. He don't have that Eli Manning. He don't have that factor. I don't know how he's ever going to win.
Yeah, I mean, up until this point, I mean, it's hard to argue that because it's been put in many, many situations. And there's been more negative results and positive results for a guy of his talent. I mean, it's tough. You know, his entire career is not going to be defined in these moments, the entire one, but it's going to be a huge part.
There was a lot of guys, though, who had bad postseason numbers for a long time and then turned it around, Barry Bonds being one of them. So there's still many, many opportunities for him to do it. But, yeah, up until this point, you're expecting failure as opposed to success.
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