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Boomer & Gio

Yesterday's Shooting Discussed; Jerry With Mets, Yanks, Doncic; Your Calls (Hour 1)

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Boomer and Gio discuss a tragic Manhattan shooting linked to NFL CTE grievances, where an off-duty NYPD officer and three others died, and an NFL employee was injured. They agree athletes understand football risks. Jerry's update is coming, but Gio hints at a big decision. The Mets lost in San Diego due to errors by Soto, Brazoban, and Montas, snapping a 7-game streak. Bryce Harper's Rob Manfred rant leaked. The Yankees lost to the Rays, with Boomer criticizing their play. Boomer also commented on Luka Doncic's fitness. The final segment features a caller sharing their Las Vegas shooting experience and encouraging help for those affected by yesterday's shooting, and another caller noting Joe Benigno's mispronunciation of "Brazoban" as "Barbizon," a modeling school.

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0:00.0

It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN.

0:04.8

And we're coming you live for the build for tough studio.

0:07.7

Boomer Assize and Greg Gianotti.

0:09.2

It's Boomer and Gio on the fans, simulcasts across the country on CBS Sports Network.

0:14.3

And wherever you are in the free Odyssey app.

0:17.5

Good Tuesday morning.

0:19.3

We are back together again. Unfortunately this morning we are opening with a tragic story that touches not only local New York City but also the NFL and the NFL offices. And of course, if you were paying attention, you saw that there was an active shooter situation in

0:38.1

Midtown yesterday. Unfortunately, four people lost their lives, including an NYPD officer.

0:45.7

And as the story unfolds, and this morning in the New York Post, they have an exclusive

0:49.8

that the gunman who killed an officer and three other people in Midtown was carrying a note that offered clues into his possible motive.

0:58.6

Sources told the post, Shane Tamora 27 cited the NFL in the writings, which were found after he turned the gun on himself,

1:08.4

on the 33rd floor of 345 Park Avenue, a skyscraper that houses the football

1:14.5

league's headquarters. He also, in the note, which was several pages long, Tamara blamed football

1:22.0

for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease CTE law enforcement sources said. He shot himself in the

1:31.0

chest, also asked his brain be studied in the note according to the sources. So of course,

1:36.7

the first thing you think about is the innocent lives that were lost for absolutely no reason.

1:42.6

And then you now fold in this story and something we've been talking about for a very

1:46.9

long time, you know, the NFL and concussions and CTE and this and that.

1:51.8

And I don't know how much football contributed to this man's issues.

1:58.0

I have no idea.

1:58.8

I don't know if we're ever going to find that out. If the brain

2:01.4

does get studied or not. But I mean, this was just a pure tragedy that hit a lot of the things

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