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Boomer & Gio

David Bednar On Adjusting To New Life As Yankees Closer | 'Baseball Isn't Boring'

Boomer & Gio

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): Bradfo catches up with Yankees reliever David Bednar to discuss his mid-season trade to the Yankees, adjusting to life as a Yankee, 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

Yeah, there should be some passion.

0:01.6

This doesn't have to be boring.

0:02.7

Boring, boring.

0:04.3

You don't get bored, my baseball.

0:05.5

Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you, you, you, you. Still have grown men, run around tight hands. It's Mookie Betts. Daniel Bard. Steve Aoki. Here's Salt Alamacia. This is Brockhole. Hey, this is John Lester. Baseball isn't boring. Baseball isn't boring.

0:01.6

Welcome to baseball isn't boring.

0:04.1

Here's your host, Rob Radford. Hey, this is John Lester. Baseball isn't boring. Welcome to baseball isn't boring.

0:22.8

Here's your host, Rob Radford.

0:25.2

David Bednar, but David has always been a favorite of ours, a great personality,

0:30.8

had basically become a staple in the Pittsburgh sports scene, not only with the pirates, but obviously he's a big fan of the Steelers. Now, he's with the Yankees and enjoying what it's like to go through a pennant race and be on a team that actually is playing for something in late August and September. He deserves it, man. He's good. And he's got a great personality. All right. At BB isn't boring. At BB isn't boring. Hope everyone's well. How about everyone's having a great week or to keep on marching on, keep doing our thing. Here you go. Here's David Bednar. There's no human being on the planet I'd rather be talking to right now than David Bednar.

1:11.2

Are you Rich Hill?

1:12.6

Well, okay. So we were just talking about this. I don't know if you saw this clip about him talking about the old-time baseball or the old-timers baseball game.

1:21.1

I didn't get just to see it.

1:22.5

So he said, we said there's no more old-timers baseball games because mariano ripped his

1:29.4

Achilles right and Rich said no that's what you want to do you feel alive so so you as

1:39.2

someone who played with him can understand the mentality without a doubt doubt. Mentality. But also I was like, you are actually next to Paul Blackburn, two guys who are both

1:52.0

published authors in a damn near perfect game, the book, yeah.

1:57.0

So I don't know if you ever got, I don't know if you read it but it's like very you're in it so

2:01.0

but anyway congratulations on everything and um so just take me through if you can like this is

2:06.8

obviously a new experience and now that you've sort of a couple weeks in what it's been i know

2:13.1

this is a big broad question of what it's been like. Has it been what you expected, I guess?

2:18.5

Yeah, no, it's, it's been awesome.

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