Craig Carton Reveals Aaron Boone’s Secret Message to Him

**Craig Carton** (0:06)
Three, 18, Carton Show with Big Mac. Big Mac's on that Disney Cruise still.
Emmanuel Barbarino's here, one of the voices of the New York Yankees, and a rising star in the broadcasting world. Gallo, obviously Conner here as well. All right, so you want the Boone story first, or you want to get into the Alonso hit down the left field line first? Your call.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:29)
Oh, Boone.

**Craig Carton** (0:30)
Boone, all right. So for those of you, especially the guys at Jumbo, you do a great job talking yanks with Aaron Boone. He will not reveal to them exactly what he's doing, but we've all seen it. After a game, it kind of turns into the dugout. Some people think it might be the stands, and he does the point, and does a weird thing with his fist, right? Right.
And I'm just going to show you, there's a private text I'm going to show you. So you know I'm not B.S.ing you, okay?
All right. So you see the first blue thing there? Don't say it out loud.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (1:02)
Oh, yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:03)
And he says, he basically gives me permission to share, correct?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:05)
Complete validation there.

**Craig Carton** (1:06)
Okay, there you go. Aaron Boone and I, before the season began, decided to do that to see how long it would take people to ask him to do it.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (1:17)
Wow.

**Craig Carton** (1:17)
So what Aaron Boone is doing when he turns to the dugout and points is what he's saying is, that's another one, Craig.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (1:26)
Wow.

**Craig Carton** (1:26)
It's a private little message to me that, see, I want another game, Craig.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:32)
That's remarkable.

**Craig Carton** (1:34)
Okay? And if anybody wants to ask him that before the Oriole game tonight or at any point the rest of this season, you have my permission, not that you need it, to ask him. He will confirm that's what he is doing.
It's a little private joke between me and him. It's him saying, because we always talk about Boone should get fired, Boone's not a good manager, and he and I have discussed that a lot offline. Because I think he's a terrific manager.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (1:59)
Very underrated.

**Craig Carton** (2:00)
I think this year actually belies the fact that Aaron Boone gets more out of less than most managers in baseball. I think the stats we talked about yesterday, where when the Yankees have six hits or less, you know, oh no, six hits, six hits or more.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (2:16)
Fourty games over 500

**Chris McMonigle** (2:17)
Oh, it's unbelievable.

**Craig Carton** (2:18)
Right.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:19)
And five hits or fewer, they've won 12 out of 34, which is hard to do.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (2:22)
Right, a third of those games. Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (2:23)
Right. So it's a little joke between he and I that, hey Craig, for all the people that say I can't manage, there's another one, Craig.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:31)
So you have 71 of those this year.

**Craig Carton** (2:32)
So is that how many it is now?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:34)
71 and 55

**Craig Carton** (2:35)
So you like that, Gallo? I got 71 of those little private messages from my guy, Aaron Boone.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (2:41)
You think Big Back's punching the air right now at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique hearing that?

**Craig Carton** (2:46)
Hopefully he's not listening right now because he's on vacation. He should enjoy vacation because there's a lot of people that want me to replace him with Bart Scott right now.
And he should enjoy what might be his last vacation before he goes back to overnights. But outside of that, yes, I think he's like, son of a gun, I thought I had a relationship with Aaron Boone, but now you know.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:05)
Go get him.

**Craig Carton** (3:07)
Well, that's his podcast.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:08)
That's his podcast.

**Craig Carton** (3:08)
That's not my podcast.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (3:09)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (3:10)
My podcast is called The Joint Venture with Little Wayne. We smoke weed. Yeah.

**Emmanuel Berbari** (3:14)
Wow.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:14)
I like that name.

**Craig Carton** (3:16)
All right.
Blind eye yesterday. Naked eye yesterday. Home run, not a home run.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:21)
Home run.

**Craig Carton** (3:23)
Really?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:23)
I thought in the moment the Yankees caught a massive break.

**Craig Carton** (3:26)
You thought it was a home run?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:27)
Home run.

**Craig Carton** (3:27)
Okay. Today, what do you think?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:29)
Today, I saw another angle that was circulating social media. I'm like, maybe it's not as conclusive, and you need conclusive evidence to overturn.