Hour 1 - Yanks Opening Day Preview, Knicks Beat Pelicans, Levonte David Retires
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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. Cybercast across the country on CBS Sports Network. And where we are, the free Odyssey app. Good Wednesday morning, the morning of opening night for Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees. You, of course, can listen to the game right here on the fan. It will be on Netflix for the first time ever. And the Yankees, the phrase all offseason has been running it back. And this is as close to running it back as you could possibly run it back. There's three games. Guys who were not on the roster last year starting on this opening day roster.
That is it. And they're not all that much of impact players. I mean, hopefully they all become impact players. But you're talking about Ryan Weathers, the trade that they made.
What are the key highlights of the Yankees' opening day matchup?
You're talking about Cade Winquest in the bullpen. You're talking about veteran outfielder off the bench, Randall Gritchuk. After that... The Yankees are the same Yankees. And that doesn't mean that they can't go win the division. That doesn't mean that they can't go win the World Series. But they're going to have to get exceptional pitching from the guys that are coming back from injury in Garrett Cole and Carlos Rodon. That has to happen along with Max Fried and Cam Schlittler. But here we go. So much baseball ahead of us. Good morning, Boomer.
How are you?
Yeah, a lot of baseball ahead of us for sure. You know, and the good thing for the Yankees is that yesterday Garrett Cole looked pretty good. You know, I wanted to see what it looked like, and then I wanted to listen to him after the game. And, you know, he's talking about coming back from this injury, and he's trying to, you know, temper everybody's enthusiasm because he hit about 96 on the gun yesterday. And, you know, he did give up a home run. But the point being is that I was thinking myself as a guy who made a living throwing the football. and throwing every single day, how difficult it is for these guys to come back from Tommy John surgery and the things that they have to go through and the lonely days that basically has gotten Garrett Colt to where he is right now.
And, yeah, you know, you're excited. You see him throwing 96, and you're saying, you know, why isn't he on the team? Why isn't he on the roster right now? Well, I mean, you know, your body takes time to heal, and it's not just physically heal. He's got to mentally heal. He's got to feel really confident that he can go out there and give an 85-pitch performance with all of his arsenal of pitches. And he's got to be able to let it go mentally. And I don't necessarily know he's there yet. I don't feel like he's there yet. I feel like he's getting close. And it's probably going to be mid-May. You know, again, that is going to be a shot in the arm when you get your ace back, and then all of a sudden they become the healthy pitching staff that I think Brian Cashman thought they would be when he added Max Freed, and away you go.
So they should have one of the top pitching staffs, let's say, starting in June. If they're all healthy, if they're all here and Gary Cole doesn't have any setbacks between now and when he does come back. And I would say that, again, you want to be really, really careful with this, especially at his age. That's the other aspect of it. And I give him a lot of credit. I give all these guys a lot of credit that come back from it because I – I just think about the rehab, the surgery, the initial, like, you know, month out of surgery and then moving and stretching the arm and going through all of that. And those are lonely days, man. And spending all that time with a therapist and then, you know, the first time you pick up a ball and you go to throw it and what it feels like.
And you're talking to other players who have been through it, and you just want to make sure, especially at his age, that maybe you can preserve the next three to four years of his contract.
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