Full Show: Chris McMonigle on Yankees Struggles and Kroenke Buying the Angels

**Chris McMonigle** (0:03)
201, straight up. It's The Carton Show with Big Mac.
And Big Mac is here, as I will be all week. Craig's still off. We got you till 7 o'clock, 888-808-1019. We got Hoff on the other side. We got Gallo on the other side. And I got to tell you, after a day of being in my Yankee fields and screaming about how they embarrassed the Red Sox, I did not love waiting up all night to watch them get embarrassed by the Angels. That's not what I was looking for. And quite honestly, as the Mets did what we talked about, we needed a favor from the Mets. And they accomplished it. Lindor tried his best to ruin it for the Yankees with one of the more, you know, just perfect double plays you'll ever see botched and led to a pitching performance that nobody saw coming from Robert Stock getting out of the bases loaded. Nobody had, I was following that game. Like, I had my headset on, listening to the Mets, watching the Yankees, pacing throughout the entire thing. I'm pacing back and forth. Bases loaded, nobody out. The Mets come through, they beat the Rays, and the Yankees go to Anaheim and get embarrassed by the worst team in the American League, and arguably the worst team in baseball right there with the Colorado Rockies. And here was my thought on it, because there's a lot of different things, and we'll get to all the different things that happened during the game. But here's the point. And like it's understandable, right? On some level, they just had the emotional series against the Boston Red Sox, right? They travel all the way in one day out to the, out to the West Coast. Tiki was just talking about what it could do for the body. It's really starting at 11 o'clock, at 10 o'clock at night for them. Their bodies are off. You know, the offense had come through and scored how many runs over the last two games. They get shut down by a really good pitcher in Walbert and Urena. He's a really good young starting pitcher you watched last night. He was dotting the outside zone. He was low in the zone. He was throwing breaking balls down for swing and miss. I thought he really looked great. So hey, you go out to the West Coast, you're coming off an emotional series where you feel like you've taken command of the top wild card over the Boston Red Sox.
You go out there to play a lousy team. You got a young rookie pitcher on the mound in Rodriguez who, you liked what you saw from the first, his most recent start last week, but you know, hey, it's one of those games, it happens. Well not if you want to win the division. And that's what, to me, that was my immediate, and I'm very positive with Aaron Boone. I still think he's an excellent manager. But I have to admit, watching that game last night, watching the sloppiness, watching them roll around and run around the bases as the Yankees are throwing it all over the place, as we watch Caballero blow an easy double play, as we watch, have to watch Bednar get lit up at the end of the game, an offense completely shut down outside of a home run from Spencer Jones, they weren't ready for that game. They came off an emotional ride that was the Boston Series. They got plenty of time to discuss everything that was said that I was talking about yesterday. Oh, they had plenty on Will Fleming. They had plenty on how Jazz was treated in the broadcast media. They got plenty. The captain makes his first reel. He won't tell us what's going on with him, but he's more than happy to defend his teammates, which that's what a captain does. And I love to hear some emotion at a judge.
They had plenty of time to react to what we reacted to yesterday about how the Red Sox handled it. Plenty of time to react on getting called out in the media. Plenty of time for all that. They just forgot to play a baseball game. And honestly, it is fine. The Yankees are going to probably still win the top wild card. Yes, the Red Sox came back and beat Seattle.
And they've already made up one game in one day off of losing 3 out of 4 to the Yankees. And look, it is understandable out to the West Coast. And you are throwing a rookie. And now you're going to see how they handle it, right? Will Warren's going to piggyback Max Fried.