Boomer & Gio
Hour 4 - Stanton's Health, Spring Training, NFL Prospects & Thanksgiving Eve Game
12 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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All right, final hour. It is the Boomer and Geo program on the fan and CBS Sports Network. Willie and Jerry in for the guys. Coming to you live from the Built Ford Tough Studio. Willie in the New York Built Ford Tough Studio. I'm in the Chicago Built Ford Tough Studio. 888-808-1019. I'm in Chicago with Rutgers, who did win last night.
As they beat Minnesota, they will take on UCLA on the Fan 660 AM tonight with pregame coverage at 845. A couple of things, Willie. Just, well, really one specific thing, I suppose, before we get back into a couple of other things that we've gone over through the morning. And that is Giancarlo Stanton and the Yankees from this standpoint.
By no means what John Carlos Stanton does in spring training doesn't mean anything at all. John Carlos Stanton here is essentially, at this point in his career, you hope to get 100 games out of him. I don't even know if that number is enough, but you hope to get 100 games out of him.
You hope he can stay healthy enough to compete, and you hope that he can be that postseason-dominating player prior to last season that he has been. That having been said, though... Dealing with what he's dealing with in the arms, to see him hit a baseball yesterday, twice, the way he does, it reminds you. He's had a great spring, again, for whatever it's worth.
It reminds you, though, of, God, how good this guy, when he's at the top of his game, is and can be. And when you think about the years we've watched with him and Judge, at times it's been unbelievable, at times it's been underwhelming. But man, the ceiling, even at this point in his career, is still pretty high.
And I guess my question to a former athlete like yourself, or an athlete like yourself, what is it about... the grind of the baseball season do you think that keeps some guys from being able to play every day and whereas others like a Francisco Lindor is out there for 162 of them what do you think the grind on the body is you know for why it's so different for from guy to guy basically
I think it pretty much comes down to your ability to manage pain, right? Like you talk about staying last year and missed two months last season, rather the first two months of the season. And, you know, he's opted out of surgery because he realized it is what it is. This is where I am in my career. And as a ballplayer, when the older you get, the more
You know, sometimes you realize, whether you realize it or not, things become fleeting from your game. It really comes down to, all right, what can I manage? What can I control in my day-to-day where I can still show up and be effective and have an impact? And I think that's where Stanton's at right now.
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Chapter 2: What are Giancarlo Stanton's prospects for staying healthy this season?
And if I have trouble opening a bag of chips, so be it. But I have to attack, I have to show up each and every day and do the necessary rehab and the things I need to do so I can at least have some type of impact. And it's tough. And it's tough because I think obviously when you see him hit the ball and you see the way he, what he can do, it just makes you dream.
It makes you dream of what the season can be and how much he can help this ball club. But it comes down to his pain management. And right now things look up and up
Yeah, for sure. And you're right. I mean, when he gets going, it's home runs that are just majestic. And you think about him and Judge, as we've seen for the last several years, the thing about opening up the potato chip bag and the injury, and trust me, at this point in my life, I am no athlete. Matter of fact, I am big, sloppy, and messy at this point, and it has not gone well for me.
You're still golfing, Jerry.
I mean, you're out there. You're moving.
So I am, and I haven't been because the stupid weather stinks, but I will be soon. But on that note, so I have the issue in my right elbow, which I think he's gotten both of them, which is what we're talking about. And I will tell you, you talk about pain management. That is certainly an issue, but I also think at that level, whether it's pain management or is it a confidence thing,
to where he doesn't feel he can do what he needs to do to be the best version of him. For me, just hacking it around on a golf course, you pull a shot, bad shot, a little bit of pain on that shot, all right, I'm not playing for millions of dollars.
This guy's playing for tens of millions of dollars, and I wonder if it's more about confidence, as crazy as that sounds, than it would be pain management at this point.
No, I think his confidence is still there. I think it's just... he understanding that this is where I'm at, acknowledging it, realizing that he also has to attack it each and every day different from what he probably didn't have to do a couple years prior. And I think right now Stanton's at the position where, you know, because of the chronic elbows and I think because of
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Chapter 3: How do pain management strategies affect athlete performance?
We're not saying that. Al has talked about jujitsu.
doing jujitsu for about 10 years at least yeah so he has been saying he's too old from the moment he said he wanted to start taking it and my point is you're 42 soon to be 43 and if you go back al probably around that age maybe maybe 44 was so into wanting to learn jujitsu but he would always come back with the excuse but i'm too old and i would keep telling him no like you're never too old
I used to go with guys in their 50s.
I forgot you did tell me you did it. I did.
My wife did it too for a while. I did it for about seven years, I would say. And I was in very good shape and everything was really good until I stopped going and got fat and sloppy and out of shape. You're way too hard on yourself.
Not so much.
But I do understand the getting banged up and hurt and all that. My point is Al should have done it now at 50, whatever he is. He'll never get into it. But I commend you because you're a former athlete rolling around with other men and sweaty and disgusting and getting all banged up, and here you are. You'd be better for it.
Well, this is the problem too, Jerry, and I know you want to pivot out of this, and I apologize. I find myself going against people like, oh, man, I don't want to do this. I don't want to roll with this big fella. And then I roll with some people who have bullies revenge because they're adults now.
They want to kick your ass.
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Chapter 4: What lessons can be learned from jiu-jitsu training experiences?
I don't need to be in the room with Jerry and Sean T doing up-downs and burpees and push-ups.
I'll make a deal with you.
What's that?
We do a Sean T workout, and you can get through it. I'll do jujitsu with you three rounds.
Do you know how many points I will lose with my homies if this is a real situation? I'm not going to tape it posted online. I would get roasted. I will have to report back. My cousin just called the show. People are listening to this. I have to sit down in front of my family. They consider me an alpha male. I'm the lion, the headline of my family.
And if they would have thought that I was doing a Sean T. Insanity workout with Jerry. It's a tough workout. Doing up downs. Fine. I invite all of them to try it with us then. Everyone wants to talk, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, you do it. It's hard. First of all, I'm not saying it's not hard. I'm just talking about the pure optics. It just doesn't do for the brand.
It doesn't do well for the brand. You know what I mean?
I like the optics. I hate that. By the way, my cousin Phil did reach out, wondering why people are texting him that he didn't call. I said, because you didn't call. Willie's cousin was Mike. Cousin Mike. Yeah, cousin Mike calls. My cousin Phil. I get nothing. Hey, Frecko, you stink. And his brother Gregory watches the show. But that's okay. Anyhow, we'll take a break.
When we come back, more on Sean. No, I'm just kidding. When we come back, we will get CeeLo in one more time. A lot more to do, including you. 888-808-1019 is the number. It is Willie and Jerry in for Boomer and Geo on the Fan and CBS Sports Network.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of Vinny Pasquantino's message to Team USA?
I was. And I completely forgot. So, Jerry, in addition to that, I went back in the archives looking to see... I was looking for mink updates from that day just to see as the news broke if he struggled with it at all. He didn't. He did a great job. But I did stumble upon, I completely forgot that minutes after the news broke, I called Joe and Evan and did a live hit from them.
And Joe, of course, was like, oh, what a disaster. Calling IK an idiot. So hard being a Jet fan. And they had me on for a good 20 minutes or so. And it's amazing. It's 10 years or so, but I sounded significantly younger back then than I do now. Did you? Yeah. Maybe the cell phone didn't help. Oh, you're smoking a lot these days. Yeah, right. Yeah, chain smoking, a lot of whiskey, bourbon.
But, yeah, kind of an interesting walk down the road. You mentioned, Joe, I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when that came across the bottom of the screen that the Jets acquired.
Right. It's one for me to be in the locker room and witness and kind of be a part of that moment. But for the news side of things, the media side, where you guys just like eating and then dropped forks and ran to, like, what were you guys doing?
Who they ran to. No, again, that was the wild thing, and that was what Bowles was so disarming about it. When we walked into that media room, nobody knew. It was just like, hey, Coach Bowles has an announcement to make before practice.
I thought you guys were walking into the room knowing what happened, and you guys were ready to eat.
Nobody knew. It was completely out of left field to the point where he was like, Costello even said, hey, should we tape this? Oh, you're going to want to tape this one.
joking around that's the backstory we've never heard because we the perception like you guys i told you on the air yesterday did you say it yeah i did oh boy well that's i apologize that's all right listening has to be jerry i think better i think evan used the let me see if this is the right one this might have been uh when they cut cut off a collar joe and evan to get to it let me see if this is the right thing
Do me one favor. I got to put you on hold because we have breaking news from my boy, Salo, at Jet Camp. Uh-oh. Crystal Presti. What do you got, Lo? I hope this is good news, Lo.
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Chapter 6: How does Aaron Nola's attitude reflect team dynamics?
So the Jets have, uh, More concerns with the quarterback position, though it's going to be Ryan Fitzpatrick for right now. They have not ruled out. Anyway, you get the drift. There was more from Joe, but I can't sift through the audio right now. You sound the same. Yeah, I guess probably just the cell phone.
I mean, again, I think we walked out of the room, and I must have probably just ran outside to place the call, and it was such a wild story that I was probably caught in the card a little bit. Yeah. In any event, that's water under the bridge now. Let's go back to the World Baseball Classic. Three Vinny Pascantino home runs sent Italy past Mexico 9-1 and into the quarterfinal round.
Result of that game brings Team USA into the quarters as well. We heard this from Vinny last hour.
You're welcome, USA. We were thinking of you guys over at your hotel. We were thinking of you guys, so I'm glad you guys could join us in the party.
Well, maybe he was thinking about them, but Aaron Nola certainly wasn't, specifically his Phillies teammates Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber.
He says he didn't hear from them yesterday, and moreover... I don't think anybody in the clubhouse was worried about USA getting in or not getting in. We were just focusing on the game. We're not going to go out there and... try to score a certain amount of runs or do this and that just because another team.
I did see the opposite of that. There were at least a couple people I saw yesterday. Do you think Italy and Mexico are going to collude to kick the U.S. out? I think Craig and C-Mac talked about that.
Did they?
Okay, yeah. I think so. I don't think it's a bad thought, actually. Yeah, I mean, the only thing is one of them, how they would have assigned who was going to quote-unquote win versus lose, because that obviously then would affect who you're going to face in the quarterfinal round.
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