Craig Carton GOES OFF on Yankees Fans: "These AREN'T the Dark Days!" artwork

Craig Carton GOES OFF on Yankees Fans: "These AREN'T the Dark Days!"

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

July 2, 2026

With the Bronx Bombers in the middle of a brutal losing streak, Craig Carton and Chris McMonigle tackle the biggest question in New York: Has the Yankees standard really fallen?
Speakers: Chris McMonigle, Craig Carton, Ronnie, Pablo
**Chris McMonigle** (0:02)
It happens, you know. It happened Lionel Richie. It happens to the best of us.

**Craig Carton** (0:05)
Lionel Richie, I will never forgive you, Lionel Richie. Well, by the way, he's back at The Carton coming up, as a matter of fact.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:11)
I think he is.

**Craig Carton** (0:11)
I'll never forgive you, Lionel.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:14)
Well, hopefully Don Tolliver will be there and be caller number one right now at 866-540-WFN. That's 866-540-9326. For your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Don Tolliver at Barclay Center on September 6th from our friends at Live Nation to purchase tickets visit livenation.com.

**Craig Carton** (0:31)
There you go. I'll never forgive you.
Walking in, he cancels the show and our efforts are supposed to start Lionel Richie. Matter of fact, I should make Lionel Richie have to come into the studio and do a sit down with us till we can move past that. Because I love Lionel Richie. I love the Commodores.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:48)
Yeah, I'm sure you do.

**Craig Carton** (0:49)
I do. But I want to go see him.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:51)
Before you know it, five minutes in, Big Mac singing Dancing on the Ceiling. You know, I know how it goes.

**Craig Carton** (0:55)
Dancing on the ceiling.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:56)
I know how it goes.

**Craig Carton** (0:58)
If I was going to have you sing a Lionel Richie song.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:00)
Hello.

**Craig Carton** (1:00)
Would it be hello?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:01)
That's what I would do, yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:02)
How could you not, right? Is it me you're looking for?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:13)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:13)
Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:14)
Didn't see it that night, no.

**Craig Carton** (1:15)
Lionel Richie, dead to me. Until he apologizes.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:19)
So personally to you.
Yes. He needs to personally apologize to you.

**Craig Carton** (1:24)
Matter of fact, he's going to be at the Garden. Can you check the date? I know he's coming up soon. He's going to be at the Garden, I think, with... I want to say Earth, Wind & Fire, whatever's left of them.
Fact check me on that. Anyway, I'd like him to go on stage and say, look, I know a year ago, a year and a half ago, I kind of blew you guys off and screwed you, but I want to let you know to Craig Carton. I'm sorry.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:47)
Lionel Richie with Earth, Wind & Fire, Madison Square Garden, Saturday, July 11th, next Saturday.

**Craig Carton** (1:51)
July 11th?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:52)
Next Saturday.

**Craig Carton** (1:52)
All right. Well, there you go.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:54)
And then he'll be at UBS.

**Craig Carton** (1:55)
Got it. Yeah, but I only care about the garden.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:58)
Well, I'm just telling you, he'll be at UBS.

**Craig Carton** (2:00)
Yeah, but I'm not going to go see the UBS. I'll see you at the garden.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:02)
I'm just giving information to the people.

**Craig Carton** (2:04)
Yeah, but he didn't blow off the people at UBS.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:06)
He blew off the people at the garden.

**Craig Carton** (2:08)
Oh, all right. Three days later. I wonder when Lionel's going to get into town.
He didn't get into town on the 11th.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:16)
Well, he'll be in Hartford on the 10th. Oh, that's a garbage day.
He'll be in Boston on the 8th. He'll be in Canada for the 4th of July.

**Craig Carton** (2:23)
Is that right?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:24)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (2:24)
That seems un-anti-American.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:26)
He'll be in Toronto on July 4th.

**Craig Carton** (2:27)
You have big July 4th plans, celebrate our 250th?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:30)
We go to a buddy's house. We've been doing it the last three or four years.

**Craig Carton** (2:32)
That's nice.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:33)
He's got a nice pool. He's got two young sons like mine.

**Craig Carton** (2:35)
Is it a potluck thing, like you and Sarah have to bring something?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:37)
Sarah's a big pie person. We always bring...

**Craig Carton** (2:40)
Just for July 4th or just any time?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:41)
If we go places, she usually brings pie. There's like a good, very pie place. No.

**Craig Carton** (2:46)
I'm sorry?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:47)
No, she doesn't make the pie.

**Craig Carton** (2:48)
So she's not a pie person. Well, she's a pie purchaser.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:50)
She's a pie bringer.

**Craig Carton** (2:51)
She's a pie purchaser person.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:52)
She's a purchaser of pie. Yes. And she's a bringer of pie.

**Craig Carton** (2:55)
Yeah, but that's said to me...

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