New York Post

Morning duo lay ‘Boom’ on a caller for no reason

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WFAN’s Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti have met every modern requisite of a morning radio drive team. They’re smug, crude, cruel and rude.

Monday, a man who sounded elderly and slightly impaired, called to discuss the close of Sunday’s PGA tournament. He reminded all that had winner Jon

Rahm signed for the wrong score, he’d have been disqualifi­ed. He smartly noted such rulings have been made off tips from TV viewers.

The man got off to a struggling start as, with many callers, he didn’t know if he was yet on the air. Giannotti seized that to belittle the man and never cease. Then, disallowin­g the man to speak, he was yanked from the air. Giannotti then declared the man “a douche.”

And how did Weekday Boomer respond to that classlessn­ess? He laughed. Couple of champs.

➤ If, at 8 years old, you gave the same answer as famous thoroughbr­ed trainer

Bob Baffert on NBC on Saturday, you may have been sent to your room.

Before and after Baffert’s heavy favorite, Authentic, won the Haskell Stakes at Monmouth, NBC interrupte­d its 90minute worship service of Baffert to ask about a 15-day suspension he’d just been issued for two horses that had won their races in Arkansas for a total of $336,600, but were then drugtested to be way over the limit on the pain-killer lidocaine.

Baffert explained that his assistant, Jimmy

Barnes, was wearing a lidocaine patch for a bad back, and somehow the lidocaine must have made its way, in abundance, into the systems of the two horses. Yet, such patches for the back are worn on the back.

He kept a straight face.

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