The 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame class was formally announced on Tuesday evening and based on the results, former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was the only person on the ballot to surpass the 75% vote threshold needed to be inducted.
On Wednesday’s edition of Boomer & Gio on New York’s WFAN, co-host Gregg Giannotti made it clear the topic was something he had absolutely zero interest in talking about in-depth or taking callers on to discuss.
“It’s just so stupid that we care what a bunch of old baseball writers that didn’t get laid until they were in their 30s (think and) what they care about,” he said to the laughter of co-host Boomer Esiason. “Who cares?! It’s a museum in Upstate New York. Why are you wasting your breath?”
“Get a hobby, will ya? You losers!” Giannotti added. “What does it matter? I can’t stand it. It’s the worst topic in sports talk.”
Esiason said he was kind of surprised his colleague was so fired up about this. Obviously, whether players in the steroid era of baseball belong in the Hall of Fame is a highly-debated subject. But Esiason said he didn’t expect Gio to begin their show on edge.
“I just saw you like 25 minutes ago, and you seemed like you were in a good mood,” Esiason said. “All of a sudden, you come right out of the gates screaming about something stupid.”
Gio said he just wanted to get the whole thing out of the way first thing so it wouldn’t come back up later.
“There’s some guy that’s 95 years old that’s starting to dial the number. Stop,” said Giannotti. “All right, Maury? Stop! Don’t do it, don’t call us, I don’t want to hear it. I can’t take it anymore!”