Chapter 1: What sports books did Gio bring into the newsroom?
I saw Steve Apria, one of our great engineers. He was cleaning out one of the studios, the former CBS slash Infinity Sports Radio studio. And he came out with all these books that are in there, and he put them out for people to take. So I'm asking you, and I want honest answers here, because I know Al would never read any of these. That is true. You are someone who loves sports.
You've always loved it your entire life. Yes. Be completely honest with me out of these 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 books here.
Okay.
Which one you'd actually be interested in?
Fair enough.
That got sent here over the years. I've been sitting in a studio that nobody has touched.
Okay. Can I ask you to read one, too? I know. Not one of these.
Okay.
Al, can you go on my desk? There's a big book that I think you'll like. It's bigger than you would think. It doesn't look like one of these. You'll know when you see it. All right. I'm ready.
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Chapter 2: Which sports books are actually worth reading?
No, I'm going to say no to this. No, no, no. Probably a great book. No. All right, here we go. No, no, no, no.
The idealist. Jack Trice and the battle for a forgotten football legacy.
No. No.
No. Thanks, Eddie. No.
0 for 2.
Chumps to champs. How the worst teams in Yankees history led to the 90s dynasty. No.
No. All right. No.
I don't think so. No. No. I think you're going to say no to this because I know how you feel about this guy. Okay. Showboat, the life of Kobe Bryant.
No, no, no, no. I would say no.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the USFL in sports literature?
Your mind wanders. But it takes way longer than it needs to take. And it's funny because I could read an entire page, like read every word and then not know what I read. And have to go back and read it again. It's ridiculous. All right, so you're losing focus very quickly. Like most people these days.
Sometimes I read out loud a live read, but I'll be thinking about something completely different. And I think to myself, did I read that properly?
So you're like on cruise control. Yeah. Well, I think too, though, and this goes back to the whole Kelsey thing and the Kevin Hart thing. you were talking about, or you brought up, and I know Alan and CeeLo talked about this earlier, I think that's where all this crap comes from.
You know, like the Netflix thing, when Al Dukin said, we got the baseball fan, we're trying to get... The baseball curious. Right. I think that's what they're trying to do because the younger generation's attention span is so incredibly short. Like, to the point where... And I know Al doesn't, I know he doesn't believe me when I say it.
I've told my wife, you got to put a camera on me once on a football Sunday. You probably don't believe it either. I don't look at my phone when I put a game on. I don't text. I don't scroll. Yet I will look at my son who's 21 and he can't get through a series without looking at the phone and the notifications and who scored and who did what.
And I'm like, well, I mean, do you have, do you have, you know, are you betting or you've been fantasy football?
I don't bet.
No, I don't bet. So that's, that's why, you know, Let's go to Bob in Summit. What's going on, Bob?
Hey, good morning, guys. Great, great show again. Happy Friday. Hey, Jerry, I think you mentioned that Motley Crue book. The Cocaine Diaries is an amazing read. The stories about, like, Nikki Sixx and Tom Lee and Vince Neil. It's just crazy. I think I read it, like, nonstop and couldn't put it down.
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Chapter 4: How do personal biases affect book recommendations?
Anthony, Garden City wants to talk some Mets. What's going on, Anthony?
Jerry and Gio, feel good Friday.
Oh, yeah. What do you got for us?
Gio, I know you're a big TV guy. You've seen Ted Lasso, yeah? Yeah, absolutely. So what I think of, and when I thought of this, when Juan Soto went to the Mets, it kind of reminded me of when Zava joined the team and Ted Lasso, the big star, paid a lot of money and kind of threw the chemistry off.
I felt when he went to the Mets, I felt like the chemistry was instantly taken away from what they had the previous season. And I don't know if they're going to find that with him in that lineup.
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Chapter 5: What are the most interesting sports biographies available?
It doesn't feel like Like Jerry said earlier, it doesn't feel like the team's really going anywhere with this collective group that they've kind of just shuffled around. I don't know. He gives a different feel. I don't know. It's not working.
Yeah, I mean, he seems to be a little bit of a loner. When he was with that Dominican team, you could definitely see a different vibe around him. Those are all his buddies. I hope he gets there with this particular group. But, yeah, I mean, there was obviously the 2024 Mets had all this incredible stuff going on, these special things, and you haven't seen that since.
It's not all as a direct result of Juan Soto, though. I mean, also, you know, you had Jose Iglesias and that whole thing, and he wanted to come back, and he didn't come back, and who knows if that season would have changed just because he was in the clubhouse. I have no idea. But, yeah, he's a... He's not like a guy like Sean Casey or David Ortiz. He's just not that type of guy. He's a loner.
Yeah, very much so. And I think we've learned that over the last year and a half. It's interesting that a lot of that, and maybe because they won so much and they went to the World Series, I don't remember that narrative when he was here with the Yankees at all. Maybe because it just fits so well and... The chemistry with him, it worked. And I certainly wouldn't say it's not working yet.
I wouldn't do that because you've got a long way to go. But it has been a very strange year and a month with him in a Met uniform.
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