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Billy Wagner On His Long, Winding Journey From 10 Years On The Ballot To HOF Induction | 'The Bret Boone Podcast'

Boomer & Gio

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4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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From 'The Boone Podcast' (subscribe here): In this segment, Billy Wagner discusses his preparation for his Hall Of Fame speech, when he realized he had a chance of making it, and much more! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The seven-time All-Star, and later this week, he'll be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame.

0:06.2

Pretty awesome.

0:06.9

Ladies and gentlemen, Billy, thanks for coming on. And Bernie, it's always good to see you, man. It's been a while. It's been a minute. I'll tell you. I still haven't gotten a hit off you. you know it's a big you know the talk you know, and just when I go to the ballpark, people are talking, you know, the induction's coming up and, you know, who's going in this year? And it's Ichiro and it's Billy and the late Dave Parker. There's a few more going in, Cathia but they always say wagner what was it like

0:38.6

what would you like boone he had you do against wags i said you know what i still haven't gotten

0:42.8

to hit off and guys are looking it up guys on the rangers looking it up yeah you were old for nine

0:48.4

punched you out five i said the thing was i saw it big i couldn't hit it i could see his heater and I'd foul it off and I'd foul it off and uh your brother didn't uh your brother didn't did he do all my god the first two times he first two times they were facing me took me deep really and so oh yeah and so uh it was funny, you know, Osmus is now his bench coach, right?

1:13.7

Right.

1:14.1

And so the third time I'm facing him, Cincinnati comes into town and they bring up their talk.

1:20.5

They go, okay, Aaron Boone, I'm like this.

1:22.4

I'm like, oh, yeah, this guy.

1:24.2

I want his brother.

1:27.2

And listen, he goes, and Osmiss goes, listen, I'll take care of it.

1:32.1

And I'm like, okay, source could be.

1:35.4

Aaron steps in, ninth inning.

1:37.2

He's up there.

1:37.9

I mean, he's so excited.

1:39.4

You can say, he's like, I'm going to take this guy a shit deep again.

1:42.5

I go up there and all of a sudden I throw a first pitch fastball right down the middle. He takes it. You know, I end up like striking him out. I don't even think he swung. Osmond says back there going, fastball, here comes a fastball. He's throwing it right down the middle and he couldn't believe it and i think he struck you

2:01.7

and that's and from that point on i don't think erin got a hit because i think osmyss got into his head

2:06.3

just going he's telling me what he's going to throw so it's funny yeah right and it's do i believe

2:11.4

him or i don't believe him the cat mouse uh anybody that knows brad osmiss also knows that he's he's dry sense of humor that if you go out there, you know, he can hurt your feelings with words.

2:23.2

He really can't break bones with words.

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