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Boomer & Gio

Hour 4 - NHL Toughness Compared To MLB, NHL, Plus A Look Ahead To Knicks-Cavs

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Comparing hockey, NBA, and baseball toughness leads into Boomer’s take on football and the future of quarterback contracts. We also talk Knicks' coaching and system changes, the 3-on-3 Olympic OT debate, we hear more about the man Pete Hoffman talked off the ledge. Jerry’s covers Jack Hughes’ gold-medal OT winner, the Knicks’ weekend sweep, Mark Vientos’ defensive flexibility, and John Sterling’s heart attack news. The show concludes with Eddie’s poor dive bar etiquette as the "Moment of the Day," snow updates, and the Knicks’ upcoming test against Cleveland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN.

0:04.3

The Jack Hughes Overtime Gold, the gold winning gold.

0:08.8

Golden Gold and gold that Kenny Albert described.

0:13.9

And it was an amazing moment for all of us who were watching.

0:16.4

I think we were all collectively together as one for at least for about what three or four hours

0:24.0

yeah and then everybody started yelling at each other again yes um you know i i'm not in any way

0:29.1

defending the nba player but one thing that needs to be discussed in this so anytime that someone

0:34.9

in the nchel does what jack hughes does we take a stick to the mouth and they're spitting out to half of their teeth and then they go and finish a game and score a game winning goal, you know, people compare that. And it's generally compared to NBA players. They'll be like, the flopping, the flopping of this or the that or the injury. Like, I mean, you see some of these guys who, like, you know, whether it's, it's Anthony Davis or whomever, the, you know, injuries and they're out all the time and, you know, how are they not fighting through these injuries and the load management.

1:02.8

And which is true.

1:04.1

But the baseball players need to be brought into this discussion as well.

1:08.7

They really do.

1:10.0

They never get criticized the way that the NBA players do when it comes to toughness.

1:15.1

I mean, how many times we see this every single year?

1:18.4

What do you think would happen if Kodi-Singer got two teeth knocked out of his face?

1:21.5

He'd retire!

1:22.3

Well, they bring in a therapist.

1:24.2

I mean, my God.

1:25.8

I mean, you think about the freaking soft tissue injuries and this guy's got this and this guy's got that and Staines got two elbows and I mean, Jesus Christ.

1:34.6

And by the way, all the NHL players that did participate in the Olympics, I guarantee you all have something.

1:40.1

Yeah.

1:40.6

I mean, blocking shots, you know, taking, you know, hits.

1:44.0

I mean, Tom Wilson almost, you know, took Dylan Larkin's head off. Yeah. I mean, blocking shots, you know, taking, you know, hits. I mean, Tom Wilson almost, you know, took Dylan Larkin's head off.

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