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Boomer & Gio

Caller Knows Ventura Plus 1999 & 2000 Mets Remembered

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.4676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A caller is close friends with Robin Ventura so Gio asks him a few Ventura-related questions. He is so close with Ventura that he believes Robin won his famous fight with Nolan Ryan. We reminisce about the 1999 and 2000 Mets.

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0:00.0

Hey, Tom, I got a couple of questions for you before you go here.

0:02.8

Because if you're friends with Robin Ventura, one, if you're good friends with them,

0:07.8

do you bust his chops about getting punched in the head 10 million times by Nolan Ryan?

0:12.0

Yeah.

0:12.5

So good question.

0:13.9

So I'm such good friends that I think he actually won the fight.

0:17.4

Wow.

0:18.1

I think he actually won the fight. Well, in the beginning, everybody just watches the beginning of that, though. He just grabs his head and just pounced it on him. And the other thing is, I'm kind of bummed out. He didn't say Piazza. I thought that, you know, him and Piazza were close, and he said Jeter instead, which I can understand. But, like, where does he put Piazza in that ranking of players as players? I think he'd probably put Piazza too, honestly. I met Mike

0:43.0

a couple of times, and I think he would put Mike probably too, but he just, I mean, he's

0:51.3

playing right next to Jeter, and he just didn't hesitate.

0:55.4

Derek Jeter, hands down.

0:56.9

Wow.

0:57.4

He was the guy.

0:58.3

Yeah, all right.

0:58.8

Because you know that Derek's not going to the old-timers game.

1:01.1

Yeah, right.

1:02.1

Tell Robin that if he doesn't know already.

1:04.5

He's not going to Old-Timer's Day for the celebration of the 2000 World Series

1:09.9

where he beat the Mets and Robin Ventura.

1:14.5

Right, exactly.

1:18.2

Yeah.

1:19.4

I mean, they should do.

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