Criticizing players when they make a lot of money, Should All-Stars be required to be in the Home Run Derby? And, meeting the intern (Hour 3)

Boomer & Gio

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Sports, News

4.4 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We talked more about criticism of players, particularly when they are making an insane amount of money. We expect them to make every play, especially in big spots, but that’s impossible. We talked about the upcoming Jets and Giants seasons with Aaron Rodgers coming back to MetLife in week one. C-Lo returns for an update, but first Jerry and a caller argue about ‘shutting up’. Evan Roberts recorded a Rico Brogna podcast, live from Paris. Evan was scoring the game while in line at the airport. Pete Alonso will be in the all star game, but he will not be in the HR derby. In the final segment of the hour, Jerry has a post from X that he wants us to guess who posted it. Jerry and Willie talked to the new intern.

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning, 804.
0:01.4	It is our number three.
0:02.9	Willie and Jerry in for Boomer NGO.
0:06.5	Bill Ford Tuft Studio 888808-101-1-9 is the number.
0:10.7	A lot of conversation this morning about the Mets, the Yankees, the Anthony Volpe's situation.
0:15.3	And we were talking about attaching.
0:18.0	I was bringing up the fact that as fans, you know, it's hard to disconnect the salary to the player.
0:25.0	Now, Volpe is a different scenario because he's a young kid not making a lot of money, so it doesn't apply there.
0:29.4	But in a lot of cases, it does.
0:31.5	I would certainly make the case that someone like John Carlos Stanton, when he has had his struggles in the race,
0:37.6	and he's been a fabulous postseason player for the Yankees,
0:40.4	will never take that away from him.
0:42.1	And he's been a good Yankee,
0:43.9	but he has had his struggles in the regular season.
0:46.5	And I think a lot of fans, they get annoyed when a guy's making $25, $30, $35 million a year,
0:52.9	and they don't perform as such.
0:54.4	I think a lot of the, a lot of Met fans were patient with Juan Soto were in the early
0:58.9	going, but there were some that, you know, right out the gate, hey, you want $765 million,
1:03.2	damn it, hit the baseball.
1:04.5	And it brings me to the NBA from this standpoint.
1:09.4	And they won a championship, so all power to them.
1:12.6	But these contracts and these salaries are getting to,
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