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- 0:00Speaker 1: My next guest is my former midday partner at WFAN.
- 0:03Speaker 1: He's still a legend on the fan on every Saturday,
- 0:06Speaker 1: but now he contributes once a week to our show,
- 0:10Speaker 1: one of the all-time greats, my dear friend Joe Boningo. Joe,
- 0:13Speaker 1: good morning, buddy.
- 0:14Speaker 2: How are you? Sidney Arthur, first of all, I want
- 0:17Speaker 2: to congratulate you on your big meeting with J.D. I
- 0:20Speaker 2: know you're going tomorrow. You're going to see Don. You're
- 0:22Speaker 2: going to see J.D. You're going to straighten him out
- 0:24Speaker 2: about whatever issues he has with Israel. Go get him, bro.
- 0:28Speaker 1: I'm going to try, at least. I have no idea
- 0:30Speaker 1: if I'll be successful. I love all the people.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Tweeting this morning. I'm confident. I got great confidence in you, bro.
- 0:34Speaker 1: I know. Thank you. All the people tweeting this morning, J.D.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Bantz's issue is not Sid Rosenberg or the Jews. They
- 0:40Speaker 1: make up a small percentage. He's got bigger fish to fry.
- 0:44Speaker 1: So you know that the folks who don't care about
- 0:46Speaker 1: the Jews or Israel are out there saying, why is
- 0:49Speaker 1: Bantz smoking a Rosenberg?
- 0:50Speaker 2: Why?
- 0:51Speaker 1: What's the big deal? He doesn't get the Jewish vote.
- 0:53Speaker 1: He can still win. Okay. It's not just a Jewish vote.
- 0:56Speaker 1: What about some of the things that he said about
- 0:58Speaker 1: President Trump? I don't know. Calling President Trump... The Antichrist.
- 1:01Speaker 1: That may be an issue with J.D. Vance, no?
- 1:04Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean, when did he call him the Antichrist?
- 1:07Speaker 2: Did I miss something here? What was that, in the
- 1:09Speaker 2: early days before he got there? No, no, no.
- 1:10Speaker 1: That was Tucker Carlson who did that. I'm sorry, not J.D.
- 1:13Speaker 2: No, no, no.
- 1:14Speaker 1: By the way, J.D. called him a Nazi. J.D. called
- 1:16Speaker 1: President Trump a Nazi years ago.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Well, I know he wasn't. I know he was not
- 1:22Speaker 2: for Don way back when. Tucker Carlson's lost his cookies, bro.
- 1:26Speaker 2: I mean, let's be honest. We talked about this yesterday.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene. These people have
- 1:35Speaker 2: all lost their minds, these people. You've got to be
- 1:39Speaker 2: kidding me. Right?
- 1:40Speaker 1: They're traitors.
- 1:41Speaker 2: You got Tucker Carlson back in El-Sayed now? Yeah. How
- 1:44Speaker 2: is that? Yeah.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Yeah, he is.
- 1:46Speaker 2: I mean, what?
- 1:47Speaker 1: I know.
- 1:48Speaker 2: I know.
- 1:49Speaker 1: And he said that El-Sayed is right about 9-11. Look,
- 1:52Speaker 1: there's no other way to put it. They're traitors.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Trump's a liar. He's not America first. He's Israel first,
- 1:59Speaker 1: like Rosenberg. Let me just say this again for you folks.
- 2:02Speaker 1: As soon as you say Israel first, like Alex Jones
- 2:06Speaker 1: loves to do, You're an anti-Semite. That's it. That's it.
- 2:09Speaker 1: There's another way to say it.
- 2:10Speaker 2: You are a great... I know you for many years now.
- 2:14Speaker 2: We've been through... You and I went through... We did
- 2:15Speaker 2: a lot of different crap together. We had some interesting moments.
- 2:18Speaker 2: We can't get into. But you know what? You are
- 2:22Speaker 2: a freaking patriot, bro. Thank you. You love this country
- 2:26Speaker 2: more than anything. Yeah, you know... You're a serious Jew,
- 2:30Speaker 2: and I have great respect for all that. By the way,
- 2:32Speaker 2: Happy New Year, and have a good fast if I
- 2:34Speaker 2: don't talk to you next week.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Thank you. Very nice.
- 2:38Speaker 2: But anyway, you are a great patriot, and that's the
- 2:42Speaker 2: bottom line, bro. You're America first all the way.
- 2:45Speaker 1: All the way.
- 2:45Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 2:46Speaker 1: And you know what?
- 2:46Speaker 2: If you're America first, and I really believe this, too,
- 2:50Speaker 2: If you're America first, you're going to be pro-Israel. I mean,
- 2:53Speaker 2: they're our number one ally in the world. I mean,
- 2:55Speaker 2: to me, it's not– don't give me England. Don't give
- 2:58Speaker 2: me France. Certainly don't give me Canada or any of
- 3:01Speaker 2: these other freaking whacked-out places. It's Israel, and that's number one.
- 3:05Speaker 1: God, I love you. And you're a great patriot, too,
- 3:07Speaker 1: for a guy that, you know, look, for so many years,
- 3:10Speaker 1: and still, you know, everybody wants to hear Joe Benningo
- 3:13Speaker 1: on a Monday morning after a jet game. Everybody. Or,
- 3:16Speaker 1: you know, when Peter Lonzo comes to Citi Field.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Oh, my God, bro, please. And I got to, let
- 3:21Speaker 2: me just say this. I'm glad you brought that up.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Congratulations to all the great Mets fans out there, okay,
- 3:27Speaker 2: who let David Stearns and the owner hear it. the
- 3:31Speaker 2: last couple nights, hear it about the massive mistake. You know,
- 3:35Speaker 2: the only big– and the Mets have made many. I
- 3:37Speaker 2: don't have to go through the litany of great Mets
- 3:40Speaker 2: that they have either traded away or allowed to walk away.
- 3:43Speaker 2: but Peter Lonzo, only Tom Siva was worse than letting
- 3:48Speaker 2: Peter Lonzo walk. That's the only thing that has been,
- 3:51Speaker 2: the receiver trade is the only worst thing that the
- 3:55Speaker 2: Mets franchise has ever done in letting one of their
- 3:58Speaker 2: iconic future Hall of Famer walk away. 36 homers, 102 RBIs.
- 4:05Speaker 2: His OPS is about 860. He plays every effing day.
- 4:09Speaker 2: He hit that home run off Sengel last night. He
- 4:12Speaker 2: knew he was going to hit number 300 at Citi Field.
- 4:16Speaker 2: God bless Pete Alonzo. What an effing mistake.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Fire Stern. Fire Stern. Now, look, you mentioned Seaver. And
- 4:26Speaker 1: don't forget, before you were my great midday partner, I
- 4:28Speaker 1: worked with Jody McDonald. His father, Joe, he's the guy
- 4:31Speaker 1: that traded Seaver. And, you know, we know about that
- 4:33Speaker 1: terrible trade. Doug Blaine, Steve Henderson, Pat Zachary, and Dan Norman.
- 4:38Speaker 1: But I got one more for you that may be
- 4:39Speaker 1: even worse than Alonzo.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Go. Go.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi?
- 4:44Speaker 2: The only reason you can't make that worse is because
- 4:47Speaker 2: at the time they traded Nolan Ryan, nobody knew that
- 4:50Speaker 2: Nolan Ryan was going to turn into this all-time great pitcher.
- 4:54Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You didn't know it. He'd
- 4:56Speaker 2: been there a few years. He was great in the
- 4:58Speaker 2: World Series in 69. He wasn't even starting.
- 5:01Speaker 1: They were starting Gary Gentry. Let's be honest.
- 5:04Speaker 2: What's that?
- 5:05Speaker 1: They were starting Gary Gentry.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Yeah, Gary Gentry was part of the rotation in 69. Right.
- 5:10Speaker 2: But Ryan came out of the pen, man. You look
- 5:12Speaker 2: at it, in a World Series, he pitched that great
- 5:14Speaker 2: game in Game 3. I mean, you know, he was
- 5:16Speaker 2: unbelievable against the Braves in the playoffs. He pitched like
- 5:18Speaker 2: seven innings in the clincher out of the pen. But
- 5:22Speaker 2: they never knew he was going to turn out to
- 5:24Speaker 2: be that. So if you want to say Nolan Ryan,
- 5:27Speaker 2: to me it's Seaver No. 1, it's Alonzo No. 2,
- 5:30Speaker 2: and it's the dismantling of the 86 championship team by
- 5:34Speaker 2: Frank Cashin No. 3.
- 5:36Speaker 1: What about the fact... That every July 1st, even now,
- 5:41Speaker 1: Bobby Bonilla gets a million dollars.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Bobby Bonilla. Say whatever you want about Bobby Bonilla. Is
- 5:48Speaker 2: there ever been a smarter guy than this guy?
- 5:50Speaker 1: I mean, they got a million.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Dollars every year. I know. Remember when he first came
- 5:55Speaker 2: up and he said, you're never going to wipe my smile.
- 5:58Speaker 2: I'll show you the Bronx. You're never going to wipe
- 6:01Speaker 2: the smile off my face. Remember that? I do.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I know. He's getting paid, folks, just so you know,
- 6:06Speaker 1: until 2035.
- 6:08Speaker 2: One quick one. I know.
- 6:09Speaker 1: We've got to go to football, but the Yankees won
- 6:11Speaker 1: again last night. Weed looks good. They're scoring runs. Aaron
- 6:15Speaker 1: Judge is back. I'm not sure they catch Campbell. I
- 6:18Speaker 1: think they've got four head to head. Doesn't matter, right?
- 6:20Speaker 1: That's the best team in the American League, right?
- 6:22Speaker 2: No question. You know, I tell this story, and I'm
- 6:25Speaker 2: not a Yankee fan. I know you're a Yankee fan now.
- 6:28Speaker 2: I tell this to all my friends who are Yankee fans.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Just think about the Knicks, okay? The Knicks finished with
- 6:33Speaker 2: 53 wins. They were the third seed in the Eastern Conference.
- 6:37Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. The regular season, it is what it is.
- 6:41Speaker 2: You've got to play 162 games, all of that. It
- 6:45Speaker 2: doesn't matter if they catch Tampa or not. They're going
- 6:47Speaker 2: to have home field in the wild card round, and
- 6:50Speaker 2: they're going to win. You know, I love their rotation.
- 6:53Speaker 2: I'm a little worried about Garrett Cole. I mean, the
- 6:55Speaker 2: Mets had batting practice against them.
- 6:56Speaker 1: What about the Mets? They had the game before the Mets.
- 6:58Speaker 1: He started the Padre game giving up three home runs.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Right, right, right. He could give up four to the
- 7:03Speaker 2: Mets before he went out of the game. Mets hit
- 7:05Speaker 2: six in that game. But, you know, I'm a little
- 7:07Speaker 2: worried about Cole, but Schlittler is the best pitcher in
- 7:09Speaker 2: the American League in my mind. You know, you got
- 7:12Speaker 2: Max Freed. You got a pretty decent bullpen. Bednar has
- 7:15Speaker 2: really been good out of the pen. A couple other
- 7:17Speaker 2: of these guys, Weathers, Warren, whoever you want to throw
- 7:19Speaker 2: out there. I like the Yankees to win the pennant.
- 7:22Speaker 2: I really do. And I don't think the Dodgers are
- 7:24Speaker 2: coming back. They're not getting to the World Series again.
- 7:27Speaker 2: Ohtani's been hurt. And, you know, am I supposed to
- 7:31Speaker 2: be afraid if you're a Yankee fan of the Milwaukee
- 7:33Speaker 2: Brewers or even the Braves or the Phillies? No. I
- 7:37Speaker 2: think the Yankees win it this year. I do.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Wow. Well, let's hope so. Randy Levine, I'm going to
- 7:42Speaker 1: send you this later on today. Joe Beningo has the
- 7:44Speaker 1: Yankees winning the World Series. I'm a Met fan.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Randy knows what kind of Met fan I am.
- 7:49Speaker 1: He knows. He knows. All right, quickly, we've got a
- 7:51Speaker 1: couple of minutes. I want to get to football.
- 7:53Speaker 2: Yes.
- 7:54Speaker 1: The Jets have not looked better in week one in years.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Is this team primed to win the Super Bowl? No.
- 8:02Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, though. They're going to be
- 8:03Speaker 2: a competitive football team all year, Sid. I think, seriously,
- 8:07Speaker 2: they can win between seven and ten games. This is
- 8:10Speaker 2: a much better team. They're nowhere near resembles what they
- 8:14Speaker 2: were last year. You got a completely different defensive football team.
- 8:18Speaker 2: The strength of this team is the offensive line. They
- 8:22Speaker 2: got a really good offensive line. I mean, I know
- 8:24Speaker 2: Tennessee stinks. Look, I don't want to sugarcoat that. Tennessee stinks, okay?
- 8:28Speaker 2: I feel bad in a lot of ways for Robert
- 8:30Speaker 2: Sala because he's stuck with a completely garbage team. Cam
- 8:33Speaker 2: Ward is not any good. Whatever. But the offensive line, man,
- 8:37Speaker 2: these guys, I mean, they ran the ball beautifully with
- 8:40Speaker 2: Brees Hall and Braylon Allen. You know, they kept Geno.
- 8:43Speaker 2: They didn't even touch Geno in this game. And if
- 8:46Speaker 2: you give Geno time to throw, he's going to, you know,
- 8:49Speaker 2: go 19 for 24 for 200 and whatever yards. He
- 8:51Speaker 2: could throw. And tear you up. You know, Wilson had
- 8:55Speaker 2: a big game. The kid Mitchell had a big game.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I'm very happy with the team, bro. I think this
- 9:01Speaker 2: team is really going to surprise some people this year.
- 9:03Speaker 2: I think they'll at least be in the mix, you know,
- 9:07Speaker 2: for most of the season to make the playoffs. I
- 9:09Speaker 2: don't think they will, but I think at least they'll
- 9:11Speaker 2: give us a competitive season this year. And they're set up, bro.
- 9:15Speaker 2: They got three number one draft choices again next year.
- 9:18Speaker 2: This guy, Aaron Muji, has done a terrific job setting
- 9:21Speaker 2: them up. That trade, their source guard in the trade,
- 9:24Speaker 2: looks like the biggest fleecing of all time. Just think
- 9:27Speaker 2: about it. They got the Colts' number one pick next year.
- 9:29Speaker 2: The Colts look like they're going to stink.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Stink.
- 9:32Speaker 2: They may wind up with the first and second pick
- 9:33Speaker 2: in a draft.
- 9:34Speaker 1: They may. Yeah, Daniel Jones looked terrible. And, you know, look,
- 9:38Speaker 1: I know Green Bay got their clocks cleaned in Minnesota
- 9:40Speaker 1: last week. They all played it for three quarters, so
- 9:42Speaker 1: I watched the whole game. If the Jets beat the
- 9:45Speaker 1: Packers on Sunday, I'm going to buy in. I'm going
- 9:48Speaker 1: to buy in.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, buy-in. I think they're going to
- 9:53Speaker 2: at least– they've got the Packers at home. It's going
- 9:55Speaker 2: to be crazy. There will be a lot of Packer fans.
- 9:57Speaker 2: I'll be there, too. But there'll be a lot of
- 9:59Speaker 2: Packer fans there. But then they got the Lions on
- 10:02Speaker 2: the road. The Lions were fortunate to win. I mean,
- 10:04Speaker 2: the Saints went for two.
- 10:06Speaker 1: And by the way, I think the Lions get their
- 10:09Speaker 1: clocks cleaned by Buffalo tomorrow night.
- 10:12Speaker 2: I would agree with you 100%. And then they play
- 10:15Speaker 2: the Bears, who look like they're pretty good. I mean,
- 10:17Speaker 2: they put 59 on the board against Carroll.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I don't care. That happens. I'm telling you, Caleb Williams
- 10:23Speaker 1: is really good. His two running backs are really good.
- 10:25Speaker 1: His receivers are really good. They're really good.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Right. But if they're 2-2, Sid, if they're 2-2. after
- 10:32Speaker 2: the first four games, and then they got the Cleveland Browns,
- 10:35Speaker 2: they got Arizona coming up, the Dolphins who stink, they
- 10:38Speaker 2: play the Raiders. You know, if they can be 2-2
- 10:41Speaker 2: going after the first four games, I think they're really
- 10:44Speaker 2: set up to have a solid season.
- 10:46Speaker 1: By the way, Arizona may be better. Jeremiah Love, the
- 10:48Speaker 1: rookie out of Notre Dame.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Yeah, they beat the Chargers. The Chargers are a fraud.
- 10:51Speaker 1: They're a fraud.
- 10:52Speaker 2: By the way, The Chargers are the biggest. They've been
- 10:54Speaker 2: a fraud for 20 years, the Chargers.
- 10:56Speaker 1: They have since Don Correale. And the funny thing is,
- 10:59Speaker 1: the coach of the Chargers is a hardball. But that's Jim.
- 11:03Speaker 1: That's Jim. We got his brother, John, here with the Giants.
- 11:06Speaker 1: And come on, Joe Meningo. How good do the Giants
- 11:09Speaker 1: look on Sunday night?
- 11:11Speaker 2: The Giants are going to be– look, I said this, Sid.
- 11:13Speaker 2: I think the Giants win at least 10 games. I
- 11:15Speaker 2: think they're going to win. I think they clearly can
- 11:17Speaker 2: win that division. You know, look, I love the coach,
- 11:20Speaker 2: and you know I love the quarterback. I mean, you know,
- 11:22Speaker 2: I wish my team would have drafted him. You know,
- 11:24Speaker 2: we know he loves Don. That only helps it. He's
- 11:27Speaker 2: got one of the hottest girlfriends you could have. It's
- 11:30Speaker 2: good to be Jackson Dart. The Giants, I'm telling you,
- 11:35Speaker 2: and they may have a tough game against the Rams.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Miles Garrett is out now. They made him go to Australia.
- 11:41Speaker 2: What a disaster that turned out to be. I think
- 11:43Speaker 2: the Giants are primed for a big year. This Isaiah
- 11:46Speaker 2: likely is the real deal at tight end. Their offensive
- 11:49Speaker 2: line is much better. Scataboo is healthy. You got Singletary
- 11:53Speaker 2: running the ball. Neighbors look great. Giants are set up, bro.
- 11:59Speaker 1: They are. You mentioned the Ram game. So the Rams
- 12:01Speaker 1: go to Australia. They're favored to beat the 49ers. Brock
- 12:05Speaker 1: Purdy never gets the credit he deserves. When he's healthy,
- 12:08Speaker 1: he wins. Bottom line, he wins.
- 12:10Speaker 2: He goes nuts.
- 12:11Speaker 1: He throws three touchdowns. The Rams can't score. You mentioned
- 12:14Speaker 1: the fact that Miles Garrett's out for an extended period
- 12:16Speaker 1: of time. Aaron Donald's not ready to play. So I
- 12:19Speaker 1: think the Rams, Monday night, are very angry when they
- 12:22Speaker 1: host the Giants. A lot of people thought the Rams
- 12:25Speaker 1: were going to the Super Bowl. This game, too, could
- 12:28Speaker 1: be a huge win for the Giants on the road.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Look, and it really lightens up. If they get that game,
- 12:33Speaker 2: now you're looking at the Titans coming into the Meadowlands
- 12:36Speaker 2: in week three. I mean, the Giants are set up
- 12:39Speaker 2: to– I'm telling you, bro, I'm mad at myself that
- 12:43Speaker 2: I didn't bet them to win the NFC East, and
- 12:45Speaker 2: I think they got a great shot to do that.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Philly was all it could be. The Redskins, the Commanders,
- 12:51Speaker 2: whatever they are, the Commodores, they were only a two-point
- 12:55Speaker 2: conversion away from beating the Eagles in Philadelphia. Watch that game.
- 12:59Speaker 1: I'm tying them. They lost 24-22. Right, right.
- 13:00Speaker 2: They lost by two. But, I mean, they were right
- 13:04Speaker 2: there to win that game. It was a bad penalty.
- 13:06Speaker 2: And Stephon Diggs, you know, he plays with his head
- 13:09Speaker 2: up his rear end all the time. That's why he's
- 13:10Speaker 2: been on 30 different teams, as good as he is.
- 13:13Speaker 2: He gets a big touchdown. Then he gets a stupid
- 13:15Speaker 2: penalty in the end zone. And it cost them going
- 13:17Speaker 2: for two. They had to kick an extra point from
- 13:20Speaker 2: 50 yards away.
- 13:21Speaker 1: That's right.
- 13:21Speaker 2: That was a big play in that game. So, you know,
- 13:26Speaker 2: I like the Giants a lot. And I love Dart.
- 13:28Speaker 2: I can't say. He's got to stay healthy. He plays
- 13:30Speaker 2: a little reckless. We know that. Scataboo, too. They've got
- 13:33Speaker 2: to stay healthy, but I think the Giants are really,
- 13:36Speaker 2: really set up.
- 13:37Speaker 1: I love hearing that. What a great segment. I enjoyed
- 13:39Speaker 1: this immensely, I must tell you. And I will give
- 13:42Speaker 1: Vice President Vance your best when I see him tomorrow.
- 13:46Speaker 2: And Big Don, I know you're going to see the
- 13:47Speaker 2: big guy, too. Give him a little kiss on the
- 13:49Speaker 2: cheek for me and tell him, God bless you, bro.
- 13:52Speaker 2: God bless. Keep doing what you're doing. Keep taking care
- 13:56Speaker 2: of our country. Tell him that.
- 13:57Speaker 1: And you, too. You keep doing what you're doing, Joseph,
- 13:59Speaker 1: because you're still the best. I mean that, the best.
- 14:00Speaker 1: I love you so much.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy. Have a good fast next week.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Thank you. Have fun with Brandon Tunney today. Give him
- 14:06Speaker 1: my best, okay?
- 14:07Speaker 2: Absolutely. He's a good kid.
- 14:08Speaker 1: He's a good kid. Joe Benningo right there, the amazing
- 14:11Speaker 1: Joe Benningo, WFAN legend, now weekly Sid Rosenberg contributor. I
- 14:16Speaker 1: love that guy, and he's amazing on radio.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Amazing.
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