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Boomer & Gio

Best of Interviews on WFAN: July 14 - 19

Boomer & Gio

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News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Hear the best interviews of the week on WFAN. David Wright joins Sal Licata to discuss the Mets retiring his No. 5 this weekend. Plus, Sal talks Mets and more with Terry Collins; Joe Torre joins to talk All-Star Game and Yankees stories, MLB trade deadline talk with SNY’s Andy Martino, Knicks talk with John Starks and an entertaining chat with comedian Andrew Dice Clay.

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0:00.0

We've had almost everybody on that you could possibly have except the man himself until now.

0:05.4

David Wright joins us, David.

0:07.2

We know it's an extremely busy week.

0:09.2

We appreciate it taking a few minutes.

0:10.7

How are you feeling with the big day tomorrow?

0:13.1

My man, thanks for having me.

0:14.8

Is that a, is that your ringtone that we came into?

0:18.9

Yeah, I used to go to sleep to that in 06 at 07. No, it's, what a wonderful weekend. I mean, I appreciate you having me. You know, you're the best. So this is the cherry on top. Oh, yeah, okay. You're too kind. And now I like Brass Monkey myself, but I figured, you know, with the number five being retired, that was more appropriate for today, no?

0:40.2

Right. Agreed. Agreed. But I also like Brass Monkey better.

0:45.7

Yeah. That was kind of the OG. And we kind of played around with some things.

0:48.7

You know, but, you know, I appreciate the look.

0:54.1

All right. So has the magnitude of what's going to happen tomorrow sunk in yet? Absolutely not. And that's kind of, that's been the toughest question is that whether it's family or friends, you know, like, how do you feel? And it's so, it's such a hard question because it's like, I don't know how I'm going to feel until you get in the moment. I mean, there's part of me that, you know, I'm incredibly nervous. I'll say that.

1:11.7

And it kind of takes a lot, you know, to get me nervous. I've been in some kind of pressure-packed

1:17.5

situations in my career, but this is, you know, beyond my comfort zone. So incredibly nervous,

1:23.7

incredibly excited, I think would be, you know, the second feeling and then humbled.

1:30.1

I mean, it's just a, it's crazy to think that when I look up there, that number five will

1:35.3

be next to Keith Hernandez and Mike Piazza and Darryl Strawberry and Doc Good.

1:41.4

I mean, these are guys like, I used to try to emulate Darrell's swing in my backyard. I used to sit on getaway days when we'd travel during the season and talk shop with Keith Hernandez about what he saw from the booth compared to, you know, what I saw from the playing field. And then, you know, obviously being a teammate and a friend of Mike's, and then to cap it all off next to, you know, Mr. Siever.

2:01.9

I mean, it's just like, it's this crazy moment where, you know, I think I mentioned this before that, you know, I think it's, I feel like it's going to be like one big prank, like where, you know, how he's up there about to introduce me, then he'll look at me and be like, got you

1:57.3

know, and everybody

1:58.3

laugh

1:58.8

and,

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