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Boomer & Gio

Your Calls & Joe Benigno: Pied Piper Of The Neanderthal Fan

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We take your calls on the Mets and such. Plus, Gio says when it comes to the old Mets or Jets fan, Joe is their voice. That's the nicer way of putting it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Max in Pennsylvania.

0:01.0

What's going on?

0:02.0

Max.

0:03.0

Hey, Boomer and Gio, good morning. Good morning, Max. What's happening, brother? I have a lifetime Mets fan, and I have a very positive outlook unlike the last guy in this whole thing. So, 2024, Stearns came in, and all the Mets fans who were trying to rebuild from the bottom up from the farm system, bringing Stearns in, helping out. and out,

0:21.7

2024.

0:22.8

Magical run

0:23.5

threw a soft

0:24.5

course

0:24.8

a little. we were trying to rebuild from the bottom up from the farm system, bringing Stearns in, helping out

0:21.3

2025, magical run, threw us off course a little bit. And then all of a sudden, 2025,

0:28.1

all in on Soto, try to win a Quick World Series, didn't happen. And now I think right now,

0:32.9

this season, we're just going right back to Stern's plan, trying to rebuild and trying to start

0:37.3

this season off on the right foot and trying to get the next five years going so going well for them. Yeah, I mean, Max, David Stearns. It's a measured take. Yeah, I mean, David Stearns isn't letting these guys go because he thinks that they're going to be championship players and go down the canyon of heroes, you know, pop and champagne. He doesn't believe that they are good enough to do that, and he's making moves to... He thinks that Edwin Diaz is good enough to do that. Well, yes, but I mean, not Alonzo and not Nimmo. Now, and those guys, they're not going to be one of World Series this year either. Hmm. Andrew in Woonicue, New Jersey.

1:12.4

What's up, Andrew?

1:13.8

What's up?

1:14.6

I was telling how two years ago I met you at the Marconi Awards

1:18.6

and we were BSing about sports and everything

1:21.5

and we were watching the Phillies game on the phone

1:24.6

and we were talking about the Mets and everything

1:26.4

and you actually predicted Pete Alazzo going to the Orioles when we were BSing at how bad the Mets have been. So I just want to say you threw that team out there. Yeah. Well, you know, that's what I am. Right about everything. Andrew, thank you. Never gotten a prediction wrong in my life.

1:46.6

So it's just commonplace for me.

1:49.7

No, you were right with the Sam Darnel prediction.

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