Comparing Yankees' Championship DNA to the Knicks' Winning Standard artwork

Comparing Yankees' Championship DNA to the Knicks' Winning Standard

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

September 1, 2026

The Carton Show analyzes the New York Yankees' organizational philosophy following a frustrating loss to the Angels. They compare the Yankees' DNA to the New York Knicks' recent success and debate whether 95-win seasons satisfy the franchise's championship expectations.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle

Topics: Sports

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
You guys are both nodding like this is your favorite song. I have no idea what this is. I'm just gonna come over. It's like a Rainy Day song, I'll give you that. It feels like a little bit of a...

**Chris McMonigle** (0:08)
It's got a drive to it though.

**Craig Carton** (0:10)
I could see this being like in a movie, as the guy's like on a bus thinking while it's raining outside.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:15)
I don't know if the guy's thinking on the bus.

**Craig Carton** (0:16)
No, he's thinking.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:18)
He's thinking, looking out the window.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:20)
Doesn't know what to do with them.

**Craig Carton** (0:21)
See, dripping wet was just in the lyric.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:24)
You really don't know who this is? Being from Long Island, you don't know what this is.

**Craig Carton** (0:31)
What, 311?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:33)
No, like a Long Island band.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:39)
He just got fired from his job at the photocopy place.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:41)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (0:42)
Who's the Long Island band?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:43)
Brand new.

**Craig Carton** (0:44)
Oh yeah, I don't know.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:45)
You don't know brand new?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:46)
I don't know brand new.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:47)
Brand new, okay, whatever. I'm not going to get into the music facts. I know that it's not 1970s or 1980s, so you guys don't know it, but brand new is a very well popular rock band in the early 2000s.

**Craig Carton** (1:01)
Yeah, I mean, I've heard the name, to be fair, but I don't know any of their songs. I've heard the name brand new.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:07)
If you play...

**Craig Carton** (1:08)
My sister, I think, listened to brand new, but I don't know any of their songs.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:10)
Your sister definitely did.

**Craig Carton** (1:12)
Well, you know my sister.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:13)
No, but especially if you're a Long Islander and a girl from that era, you definitely listen to brand new, Taking Back Sunday.

**Craig Carton** (1:21)
Taking Back Sunday, cute without the E.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:23)
Taking Back Sunday, a Long Island band?

**Craig Carton** (1:25)
Yeah, it was. I actually worked at the Guitar Center with their original lead singer. Are you serious? They used to claim that.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:31)
Name drop. Gelb's not here until Friday.

**Craig Carton** (1:33)
Yeah, no, no, no.
I already spoke to Gelb. He's like, you want me to get some good guests? I'm like, yeah, we'll talk. But yeah, we have Gelb on Friday. Looking forward to that. Nick Costos on Thursday. Looking forward to that. We're trying to get Gallo to actually sit in here with me for a little bit tomorrow.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:51)
Ooh, ooh.

**Craig Carton** (1:52)
Trying to work on that as opposed to this dynamic, which is very uncomfortable because you know who you look like, honestly, a little bit right now? It's going to be a weird reference. I don't know if you've ever.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:01)
If it's Al Pacino.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:02)
No.

**Craig Carton** (2:02)
Especially with the way he's wearing the headphones right now. He looks like, I forget his name, but he looks like the main character from Teen Wolf 2 What's his name? Famous actor.
Ozark.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:19)
Just Jason Bateman.

**Craig Carton** (2:20)
Jason Bateman.
He looks like Jason Bateman when he wolfs out as the box. He's a boxer.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:26)
I think it. I've been called first.

**Craig Carton** (2:28)
Yeah. You look like Jason Bateman in Teen Wolf 2

**Chris McMonigle** (2:31)
He definitely doesn't sound like Jason Bateman. The voice is way different.

**Craig Carton** (2:35)
Way different.
But look it up. It was a terrible movie. It was boxing. That was the sport. You ever see Teen Wolf, the original Teen Wolf, with Michael J.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:42)
Fox?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:42)
The greatest movie basketball player ever.

**Craig Carton** (2:44)
Oh, it's phenomenal. And a great soundtrack. We're playing Win in the End when we come back next break.
Love Teen Wolf. They made a sequel with Jason Bateman. It's horrendous. And the sport is boxing. He's like on a boxing team in his school. It's bad.
Just a bad sport to do it. Boxing can make great movies, obviously.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:02)
Rocky, you know what I mean?

**Craig Carton** (3:03)
But like, it just didn't work. It didn't work.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:06)
Yeah, somehow I missed that one. I watched a lot of bad movies. Somehow I missed Teen Wolf 2

**Craig Carton** (3:12)
Yeah, it was bad. Not a great one.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:14)
Was Chris McMonigle like a star then? Or no?

**Craig Carton** (3:17)
I think he was emerging. He was in TV. He was doing TV. I think he actually credits or blames Teen Wolf 2 for like the long absence of his career until Arrested Development.

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