The Best New York Sports Homecomings Ever: Cinco de Luncho

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Evan Roberts, Tiki Barber and Shaun Morash debate the most memorable return homes in New York sports history, sparked by Odell Beckham Jr. rejoining the Giants. From Andy Pettitte’s Yankees comeback to Mark Messier’s Rangers return and Roger Clemens’ dramatic Bronx reappearance, the conversation turns into a spirited ranking of which reunions actually mattered.

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0:00.0	It is Sinko time.
0:03.0	Muresh in the booth somebody hide the castle!
0:07.0	Hot tics flying phones ringing Evans yelling no!
0:11.0	Tiki's laughing chaos cracking nobody's in control!
0:19.0	It's Cinco de Roncho.
0:21.6	Bam!
0:22.4	Crunch!
0:23.1	Let's go!
0:24.9	Let's go!
0:26.1	Cinco Day luncho is brought to you by GILIX Wireless, connecting everything everywhere.
0:31.5	In honor of Odell Beckham Jr. re-signing with the New York Giants yesterday.
0:35.9	Okay there, I'll cough.
0:37.0	All right. I'm here to give you the most memorable five return homes in New York sports history. Okay. All right, and I am sure I missed plenty, so save you So why make a list then, if you already know before you announce it that you're going to get crap for screwing up and being lazy. Because I didn't screw up. I searched every single team.
0:55.6	I trusted AI, didn't trust AI, searched everything. And I, just like anything, like I do every time, I'm going to get crap. Okay. So before you say anything, did you put a timestamp on this or is it of all time? I want to make that clear. My lifetime. Your lifetime. Yep. So before we get started, George Thomas Seaver, the great Tom
1:12.3	Severs return. No. Is not going to be included. Not in my lifetime. I'm just asking before
1:18.0	you get yelled at. No. Okay. I'm a year away from 40. I think it's a fair lifetime. All right.
1:23.9	Here we go. Tom Severs return does not count. All right. Here we go. Just saying.
1:28.4	Here we go.
1:29.6	Number five. What about Jose Reyes? 2016, 17, 18. He actually had a good 2017. Yeah, and then we were screaming at DFA. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, again, these guys are, a lot of these don't end to great. It was also brought amid controversy because remember, he was released and DFAed because of horrible accusations against him. Uh-huh. And there were a lot of people in the fan base, myself, one of them, who did not want to bring them back for that reason. So it was not a universal homecoming. But memorable, nonetheless. Here we go. Number four. How could it get more memorable than this?
2:01.4	Roger Clemens returning in 2007 in George Steinbrenner's box.
2:06.2	He was steady all year before ultimately getting hurt in the postseason.
2:10.1	Yeah, I think it's most memorable for Susan Waldman getting very excited about it.
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