It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. Oh, Avril Levine on a Friday morning. Bill Ford Tuft Studio 888, 808, 101-9 is the number. It is Willie and Jerry in for Boomer and Geo. The guys are going to be back on, well, next week. We'll just say Monday or Tuesday, something like that. So we sit in for another hour. And, you know, Willie, we have been all over the place today. We started with heavy football in the

first hour, obviously, a little bit about the WBC as well. So I'm going to hit you with a couple of

things here to kick off the 9 o'clock hour, kind of like hit and go, hit and go, hit and go.

Number one would be Carlos Beltran. It looks like the Mets are going to be

retiring his number 15 this year at City Field. And I'll take it from this angle. He really was a

great player for the Mets. You look at his time here. 2005, his first year, I think it was 05. Not

so great. Really started to play well in 06. 150 home runs, almost 600 RBIs, 550 runs scored. So great player, good for him. I take it from this angle as a former pro player yourself. What that would mean to have that honor after your career is over?

I mean, it's, obviously, it's, it's, it's, it's everything for a ballplay to get your number retired. I just, am I wrong, Jerry, for thinking? I just don't have any, and I'm not a Mets fan. I'm saying this. I just, I just think about him being the face of that whole Astros cheating skin. Yeah, I don't, yeah, see, you're talking to the wrong person because I never, I wasn't one that got all hung up in that like a lot of people did. I will always, I'll always come back to, you know, when you don't score runs, it's going be really hard to win. Like the Astros beat the Yankees, you know, there was one game. I think they beat them one nothing or two one. And if it had that much of an impact, I'm sure it had an impact, I'm not saying it didn't, but if it had that much of an impact, maybe they would have won the game, I don't know, 17 to 1, but he's fair. And I'm sure there's a lot of people that do think of him as such.

The problem I have, though, with that is, you know, the manager at the time of the Astros, whose name's escaping me at the moment, has gone on to manage elsewhere. A lot of people have moved on with their lives. And, you know, Carlos Beltran is the one. Remember, he was supposed to be the manager. You know, that was a very real thing and that was taken away from him.

So I feel like he paid the price.

And I personally have moved on from that. I don't think that way, but I totally understand that you would. Do you think about, do you also think about his, his at-bat game seven? We've got frozen all that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and he plays it all the time. Yeah. There's no question about it. I mean, if you want to, you know, I can sit there and give you all the great numbers.

And he, not to mention, he was a great player. Like, I don't mean just a hitter. Like, as a fielder, he was a great player. So there's a lot more to it than that. Some people that frown it, because didn't he only play five years there?

It was six, I believe.

I got to double check that.

I think he played six.

But you're... without frown it because didn't he only play five years there it was uh six i believe i got to double

check that i think he played six but you're you're not wrong he wasn't here for 15 years right um

and that's a different conversation should they or shouldn't they i was taking it from you know

what that's got to feel like to have your number be retired i know i. I'm just, like I said, I get it.

I just think about some of those other, like to get, you, I'm trying to be fluid with

my thought process here.

But, um, I just think.

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