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Boomer & Gio

Reminiscing About John Sterling

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We talked about the passing of John Sterling and all the great calls over the years. He also got to host a show on WFAN not that long ago and he got so many calls where people talked about how great he was and he really seemed to enjoy it.

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0:00.0

It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN.

0:04.3

All right, Boomer and Geo, coming you live for the build Ford Tough studio on the fan and CBS Sports Network.

0:12.4

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0:13.3

We'll get some calls in this segment at 8888-80-80-1019.

0:16.7

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0:22.3

A lot about the Knicks today is they continue to crush this postseason, beaten the Sixers badly.

0:29.6

We had a Mets win, and the Yankees did a phenomenal job with John Sterling yesterday.

0:34.3

It was a couple of calls that I had forgotten about that I liked,

0:38.7

because we were talking about a bunch yesterday with Jerry when the news broke.

0:42.5

And remember Gio Urchella, the most happy fella?

0:47.1

I forgot about that one, and I heard that one yesterday.

0:50.9

And then Melky Cabrera, the Milkman Delivers, was another one I had forgotten about

0:55.6

that I always liked. So a lot of those were coming out. And then the digital team did a great job

1:01.5

of posting some of the Sterling Cam stuff. And also, he had hosted a show not that long ago within

1:07.4

the last couple of years. And the signoff to that show was was great because he was

1:12.7

talking about how during that hour he had so many calls of people saying so many nice things

1:18.6

about him he goes how wonderful is that how many people get to get to sit here and experience

1:23.5

all of these compliments of these nice things and and it's true i mean it's like when you can perform at your job at a high level for that long, and then you'll live long enough to hear the nice things about you, it's as good as it. Wow. That sound is just the worst, by the way. If you can't hear that on the air, it's just buzzing again. but when you hit to hear those things, like the worst thing would be, you know, when people, you know,

1:47.9

you know, when people, you know, you pass away, then you finally, you know, say the nice things about somebody, they didn't get a chance to hear. John Sterling heard all of it. He heard all the love that people had for him before he passed away. And it was very, it was great that he was on for that hour and people were able to do that.

2:03.9

And also, Al was saying we had the one story yesterday of a caller who called up and said he got

2:09.3

John Sterling's phone number and he would call him from time to time.

2:13.4

And John wasn't even a friend of his and they would like workshop different home run and they would talk, and John would take the call every time. And Alza, there was like a couple other callers who said the same thing that they somehow got John's cell phone number, and they would call him, and he would pick up and talk to people. I had a guy who direct the message, and they said that he had John Sterling's phone number, didn't do

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