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Boomer & Gio

Yankee Legend Roy White Calls In

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.4676 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Former Yankee Roy White called in to tell Boomer & Jerry it’s not so easy playing left field. He said center field was much easier and felt like a day off.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's not often that we get like celebrities and great players calling us.

0:06.0

Well, I'm glad that this great player and this celebrity is calling us because he would know better than we would.

0:12.3

And I would like to hear from him.

0:14.4

So I think we should go to him.

0:15.9

We are told that Roy White is on the phone for us.

0:19.3

Is this the real Roy White? That's me. Wow. How are you doing, man? And we're doing great. And thanks for calling in, Roy, and it's great to talk to you again. And, you know, we've been talking a lot about retirement. What are you doing in retirement? Taking care of my grandson most of the time. He's a 14- a 14 year old and he's at home for the summer

0:40.6

so I have to have something for him to do every day that's driving me crazy

0:45.2

all right so you're just like the rest of us okay great all right so it's interesting so

0:52.2

I'll put up on our call screener here that it's tough playing left field in your eyes,

0:57.3

I guess at Yankee Stadium.

1:00.1

Yeah, you know, when I played center field a number of times,

1:05.8

maybe probably 30 or 40 games in my career, and that was like a day off.

1:10.3

Center field really dead off.

1:12.1

Really?

1:12.6

Yeah.

1:13.4

In center field, you can see where the pitches are from the pitcher.

1:18.3

So you get an easy read.

1:19.9

You can see when the ball's in and the guy is going to probably pull the ball,

1:23.3

right hand a hitter or left hand a hitter.

1:25.6

Plus the balls come at you straight, basically. When you play a corner, all of a sudden, you move to left, the ball's hooking, left-handed hitter slice the ball, and you don't see the ball right off the back from a right-handed hitter. All of a sudden, it's on you. The ball's coming out there. So it's a big adjustment, really.

1:44.4

So this goes back to our discussion about Jason Dominguez out in left field. Yeah, out at

1:51.3

left field, as opposed to center field. Exactly. So he had it easy playing center. He could see the

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