Carton and Zach Gelb GO TO WAR Over the Patriots and Jets

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Zach Gelbin for the Big Fel today, Big Mac. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll be on after the afternoon Yankee game and before the nighttime Yankee game. Those of you that had tickets for today, you get to redeem those tickets for tomorrow night's game, which is also the big bobblehead day.
The, what was it, Aaron Judge, was it Harry Potter I said right?

**Zach Gelb** (0:18)
Yeah, I think so.

**Craig Carton** (0:18)
Yeah, Harry Potter, Aaron Judge bobblehead. So I know a lot of you ought to get that. That's tomorrow night's game.
That's the add-on game. It's a split admission, so you leave the one o'clock game, have a couple of drinks, go to Billy's, come back, get your bobblehead and call it a night. But maybe the Yankees could keep the little mini win streak now for your New Year pinstripes. I know you're not a Yankee fan.

**Zach Gelb** (0:40)
The jazz chism win streak.

**Craig Carton** (0:41)
The question now becomes, can the Yankees win a World Series if Aaron Judge doesn't come back to, let's say, the postseason?
Meaning, they're good enough to get to the postseason with Adam. I think we all agree they are. And they're a game and a half behind Tampa right now. So no reason to think the Yankees won't compete to win the division, which is obviously important when he gets to the wild card ramifications and all that. But does anybody believe in their heart of hearts that if we agree that Stan's done for the year, get nothing out of him and Judge does come back, but not until October 1, at that point, do you now believe the Yankees can actually win a World Series?

**Zach Gelb** (1:24)
I think the next two weeks will really determine that in terms of the enhancements that they make, like if they go add a Luisa Ryes and a Ryan Jeffers, that is gonna pick up this team a little bit more. But I look at the AL, the AL stinks. Like the Red Sox were dead two and a half weeks ago. Now they're in the postseason. I know it's a crazy 14 game win streak, but that team was dead. They were donezo.
I think the Yankees can get to the World Series and I think they could win it because look at the doctors.

**Craig Carton** (1:52)
You're saying without Judge.

**Zach Gelb** (1:54)
Judge needs to come back to the postseason.

**Craig Carton** (1:56)
I want to make sure that's clear.

**Zach Gelb** (1:56)
Yeah. If Judge is not there, no, I'm not going to believe that. Can they still get there? Yes. Win it? No.
But look how close the Dodgers came to losing the World Series last year.

**Craig Carton** (2:04)
Yeah, they should have lost the World Series last year. Like every team is beatable. There's none of the, even the Dodgers, they're not, oh, you can't beat them in a seven game series. Now you can beat them. Cause look what the Yankees did. I know they lost two out of three. No Freed, no Judge, no Stanton. And they're still batting like 180, right?
And two of those three games were one run games.

**Zach Gelb** (2:23)
You lose two out of three. That's what my expectation was going in. And those games were close.

**Craig Carton** (2:28)
They were all close. Well, so I don't think they win a World Series without them.
Do they get to the postseason? I still think that's a lock. The American League is not very good right now. And all of a sudden, you know, you point about the Red Sox winning 14 straight games. They're now players. By the way, the Red Sox a month ago probably viewed the trade deadline as who are we getting of?

**Zach Gelb** (2:51)
They were, I just showed up in Boston. They were automatic sellers, automatic sellers.

**Craig Carton** (2:55)
Now I think the exact opposite. They're in it. And I think one of the only four and a half games behind. So not just are they a wild card team. If the Yanks don't play better ball, the Tampa Bay Rays don't play better ball. The Red Sox now become a dark horse threat. What was the worst that just came from behind?
The female trainer won the Kentucky Derby, was in dead last.
And what was the worst that won the Derby this year?

**Zach Gelb** (3:21)
I don't remember.

**Craig Carton** (3:22)
Won the Derby and the Belmont.

**Zach Gelb** (3:23)
I was out in the Derby this year.

**Craig Carton** (3:25)
You were out in the Derby? Yeah. You could be out on the Belmont when the Derby winner doesn't ride in the Preakness, but you can't be out in the Derby Golden Tempo. Thank you, Jojo.