Hour 3 - Russini Suspended, Bad Weekend For Local Baseball

Boomer & Gio

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4.2 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic sidelines Dianna Russini pending an investigation, sparking Gio’s theory that a team complained about her sourcing through Mike Vrabel and her history with the Jets. Jerry recaps the Yankees being swept in Tampa and Aaron Judge’s offensive woes, followed by the A’s sweeping the Mets and the origin of their elephant logo. We hear from the Masters before closing with news on Keith Hernandez’s back surgery and both New York clubs mired in five-game losing skids.

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0:19.9	So originally when this Vrabel Diana Rusini thing
0:24.0	comes out, the athletic is standing by her a couple days ago. They changed their stance on that
0:31.8	as they have sidelined her and they're going to do an investigation into this relationship. Now, I guess the
0:41.9	question that I have, and yes, I'm going to speculate here, and I know that's not necessarily
0:47.1	the smartest thing to do all the time, but you tell me if I'm off base on this. Okay? Yeah, sure.
0:53.4	So why would they change their tune?
0:57.0	This is how I think this could happen.
1:00.0	A team who has gotten negative coverage by Diana Rusini could reach out to the athletic and say,
1:11.0	we believe that due to her relationship with Mike Vrable,
1:17.0	that these stories came out and made us look bad or whatever.
1:23.7	And then the athletic has to be like,
1:26.3	I mean, if we have a reporter who's in a relationship with a coach who's giving her information,
1:33.9	and we have NFL teams that we cover mad at that, we got to do something about that.
1:40.0	And I can guarantee you, not that I actually can, but I feel very good about this,
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