Craigie and Big Mac Expect Yankees Sweep; Volpe Hires Scott Boras

Craig Carton (0:00)

Kyle Card, he's already served a pretty close game on the National League side as the Phillies blow lead in the eighth inning, give up a three-run home run, and lose game one on the road to Atlanta. Meanwhile, the White Sox have a three-nothing lead right now in their game.

Chris McMonigle (0:16)

Over the Astros.

Craig Carton (0:17)

Over the Houston Astros. What do you think is that giving, bud?

Chris McMonigle (0:20)

Top of the third.

Craig Carton (0:21)

All right, so plenty of baseball left there. Yeah. And then, of course, tonight, eight o'clock.

Chris McMonigle (0:24)

I want the Astros to win that series.

Craig Carton (0:25)

You've got yourselves the Yankees and the Red Sox as you're now making your way into the Bronx and down to Yankee Stadium. We'll take all your calls, 888-808-1019. And then coming up in a few minutes, you have the last stop of the Carton Show exclusively with Big Mac up until the Yankee pregame.

Finally made it, Biggs.

Chris McMonigle (0:45)

We made it.

Craig Carton (0:46)

Predictions coming up shortly. Predictions.

Chris McMonigle (0:48)

Coming up shortly.

Craig Carton (0:49)

You're going to make me predict this series? How did you do last night on the Bears-Eagles game?

Chris McMonigle (0:53)

I was so tempted to take the Bears, but I took the Eagles.

Craig Carton (0:56)

Who did Pete take last night? We all took the Eagles. Everybody took Philadelphia.

Chris McMonigle (1:00)

At least two things I did that I feel one really good about and one bad about. One, I referenced it as Thursday Night Football and said on a short week twice, so I feel good about that, considering it was Monday Night Football and it was a long week, so I feel good about that. And then the other thing is, I made it very clear that I hated saying it.

Craig Carton (1:20)

So people shouldn't follow your picks.

Chris McMonigle (1:22)

I called Monday Night Football Thursday Night Football and referenced twice on short weeks, the home team tends to do better. I mean, that's okay, though.

Craig Carton (1:29)

That's a simple mistake.

Chris McMonigle (1:31)

So I was singing the praises of the Bears and I thought Case Keenan would do well, but I thought the Eagles would have to have a good performance.

Craig Carton (1:37)

That would have been a tough pick, by the way. Yeah, I thought the three and a half day would be a good take. Because Case Keenan hadn't started in two and a half years. No, I know.

Chris McMonigle (1:44)

But Hoff was like, oh, I would take it if it was eight and a half.

Craig Carton (1:46)

Yeah. Well, let's get back to the topic at hand and the only game that matters tonight.

Chris McMonigle (1:50)

The only game that matters.

Craig Carton (1:51)

And that's the New York Yankees, of course, and the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox are in the field right now. Taking in field practice at loose turning up, a little long toss in the outfield.

Chris McMonigle (2:01)

And they look awful. I gotta be honest.

Craig Carton (2:02)

Terrible team. I mean, they look terrible team.

Chris McMonigle (2:04)

They could barely field it. It's embarrassing, quite honestly.

Craig Carton (2:08)

I don't know.

SPEAKER_3 (2:09)

I wish I could think right there.

Chris McMonigle (2:11)

I mean, I'm not sure IKF was even on second base turning that double play, quite frankly.

Craig Carton (2:16)

Here's Bill in New York on the fan. Bill, what do you got, kiddo?

SPEAKER_3 (2:22)

Boys pumped for the game, very pumped bringing the boys to football practice. Craigie, just a little disappointed in you. Why?

I didn't hear the pastor come out this year and start the church and I was a little disappointed. I thought we would start getting this church going.

Craig Carton (2:42)

Ladies and gentlemen, because I am nothing more than a jukebox, apparently, to our listeners.

I present to you Mets fans for Yankees. There you go. The church is back open, everybody.

Chris McMonigle (3:03)

Nobody wants to see the Red Sox.

Craig Carton (3:04)

If you're a long-suffering Mets fan, pissed off at, by the way, the worst quote I've ever heard from a general manager after a losing season is, and I'm paraphrasing here, we allowed for an uncapped amount of losing.

Chris McMonigle (3:19)

Yes, pretty much.

SPEAKER_3 (3:20)

What?

Chris McMonigle (3:21)

We built the roster in a way where if things went poorly, we had no way to stop it.

SPEAKER_3 (3:26)

That's right.

Chris McMonigle (3:28)

It was just, if it went down an inch, we had no way to stop it from rolling a mile.