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Boomer & Gio

John Franco On Mets & Subway Series

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We first asked him about his terrible first pitch the other day at Citi-Field. He just had total shoulder replacement. We talked about the young guys on the Mets and the energy they bring.

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0:00.0

John, let's get it out of the way.

0:01.3

What happened with the first pitch?

0:02.7

Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. I mean, I said, look, didn't you just have shoulder surgery? What are you doing? Shoulder replacement surgery? Yeah. Next month will be a year. So why'd you do with them? Why not? Because of this. So what? Who cares? I care? I remember Harvey Dorfman, a great sports psychologist. He was like, what do you care what people think?

0:22.5

You know, so it's like, I had fun with it. Dude, they're comparing you to 50 cent. Yeah, but I didn't hit nobody. He did. I mean, I felt so bad for you. All those years watching you just, you know, work this way, work that way, work this way, then now you throw it over the backstop.

0:39.0

Anybody could do it. Anybody could throw it down the middle, you know. Not too many guys could do what I do. It is a good point. Yeah. That was hard. If you tried to do that, you would be able to do it. You know, usually I stand on top of the mound, so that time, I figured, you know, Let me stand in front of the mound to make it easier.

0:54.6

Yeah.

0:54.8

I should have stood on top of the mound.

0:56.1

So they did a total shoulder replacement

0:58.9

total shoulder replacement it was that bad huh i had bone on bone couldn't sleep couldn't hold my

1:03.7

grandkids my dog anything so how's it feeling now feels great it feels great dr lauren scolada did it at

1:09.4

hs s right there you go hour surgery shoulder. It's an hour surgery? That's it? One hour took. He did amazing job. So what it, I'm trying to think, how do they do this? They obviously have to cut some... Well, I got a nice scar right from here to here. Okay. And they just took the old ball. Like my, my ball was bull joint, whatever, in the socket was down.

1:30.2

Okay.

1:31.0

There's no, nothing in between.

1:33.1

What did they do with your old bowls?

1:34.5

They just threw it away, man.

1:36.3

They took it to the spurn bank.

1:39.9

But you're good now.

1:41.3

Oh, yeah.

1:41.7

I feel great.

1:43.0

I'm golfing now, so it doesn't bother me.

1:45.7

The other thing that bothers me is throwing a baseball the other day.

1:48.7

That was unbelievable.

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