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Boomer & Gio

Is the media too hard on players like Anthony Volpe?

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Th media has been tough on Anthony Volpe who is struggling. We talked about the media being critical of players and Willie talked about his experience with the media when he was with the Jets and in Pittsburgh.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I literally put this down for 7 o'clock because I thought the perfect person to ask would be someone like yourself or boomer.

0:06.5

That kind of understands what the player is going through and how real, you know, things like what we do are in the locker room.

0:14.4

And it is magnified. I don't even think 10fold, but 100 fold now with the social media.

0:19.9

You know, it used to be they booed Mickey Mantle.

0:23.0

They booed Joe DiMaggio.

0:24.2

And yes, you might have a columnist that might write a bad article.

0:27.4

But, like, that was it back in the day.

0:30.0

Then WFAN is born.

0:31.4

And now you've got not only hosts, but fans screaming and yelling.

0:35.8

And that's really all you dealt with pretty much, right?

0:37.6

Was the sports radio aspect of it?

0:39.5

Sports radio, obviously the beat rider.

0:42.1

And the newspapers.

0:43.0

And then the avid fan.

0:44.2

That was it.

0:44.5

Newspaper, of course.

0:45.4

But your career ended before social media really took off to where it is now, which is just a cesspool.

0:52.2

Yeah, I wrapped up in 16.

0:53.3

So it was kind of, it was really, really starting to take off.

0:56.5

But it wasn't what it is now.

0:58.1

Right.

0:58.6

In just nine years, I mean, it's through the roof.

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