HE'S CHANGED! Craig Carton Calls Out Big Mac’s Massive Ego Over Yankee Stadium Prank!

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Here's Matt in Staten Island on the fan.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:03)
You getting fixed?

**Craig Carton** (0:03)
Matt, what's going on, buddy?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:06)
How you doing, Craigy? Listen, I'm a principal in Brooklyn, PS209.

**Craig Carton** (0:10)
There you go.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:13)
I called the Mets today because I like to take my students on a camp trip every year.

**Craig Carton** (0:17)
Great.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:18)
Looking at the camp game is against the Braves. I think it's July 29th, one o'clock game.

**Craig Carton** (0:23)
Okay.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:25)
We're a title one school, so that means our kids are not financially off, so we supplement it. The Mets told me, this guy, Nate, told me $18 a ticket for 100 campers.

**Craig Carton** (0:39)
For 100 campers?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:40)
You can look up the gate. Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (0:42)
Okay. And they want to charge you $18 a ticket?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:45)
You can look up the getting price.

**Craig Carton** (0:46)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:47)
Right. $18 a ticket, which is a lot more than I would pay normally.

**Craig Carton** (0:52)
I got you. But the getting price is $9.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:54)
$18. And then he told me, it's a divisional game. I said, what does that matter? He told me it's a playoff race.
That's a direct quote from me to ticket rep. It's a playoff race, Craig.

**Craig Carton** (1:11)
What game are you looking to go to tonight?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:12)
Tonight?

**Craig Carton** (1:13)
Well, it's not a divisional.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:14)
It was end of July against the Braves.

**Craig Carton** (1:16)
Sorry.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:17)
End of July against the Braves.

**Craig Carton** (1:18)
End of July against the Braves.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:20)
They probably have pricing, but I mean...

**Craig Carton** (1:22)
Dynamic pricing for a team that's...

**Chris McMonigle** (1:24)
In your division, yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:25)
12 games under 500 and in last place?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:30)
I understand dynamic pricing, but shouldn't it work reverse if your team sucks?

**Craig Carton** (1:36)
Yes.
Obviously. Now, I mean, I'm assuming they can accommodate 100 kids, 10 adults, 110 people total. I'm sure there's a section in the 400 levels where they could have put your crew.
I'm sure there is. Now, it's not Nate's fault, whoever Nate is. So let's give that kid a break. He's reading from a script. He's saying to you what he's been told to say to you.
But I would guarantee you, because I will say this about the Mets. Let me say something nice about the Mets. The Mets, like I think every other franchise in this town, are incredibly gracious and generous when it comes to our Title I type schools, which are basically schools that are low-income students, who don't have a lot of extra money to go to a ball game. There's not a franchise in this town that is not very generous to groups like that, including the New York Mets. So I want to be fair about that.
I would say to you that if you called up the New York Mets and asked to talk to either a ticket supervisor, someone in the marketing department, I could probably even connect you to somebody there, because they're all really good people.
So I guarantee you that I'd be able to get you a better price and a group price that you guys would find acceptable. So I appreciate that you had a tough experience with a random ticket seller on the phone today. That is not, to be fair, the normal route that the New York Mets take when talking about groups like yours. They're very generous. So again, you just might have gotten the wrong kid or the wrong guy on the phone today. If you cold call them, I would be happy to connect you to the Mets. And I'm sure that the Mets can do better than 18 bucks a ticket for a group like yours. So let's be fair at least, okay?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:26)
I don't think 18 is that bad.

**Craig Carton** (3:27)
But again, the price for tonight's game is nine.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:29)
For tonight, against the Braves, it might not be that bad.

**Craig Carton** (3:32)
How many more games are the Mets going to be out of first place come the end of July? You know what I'm saying?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:36)
Yeah, but.

**Craig Carton** (3:36)
I just think you talk to the wrong person, that's all. Like I'll connect you to the community events person.
They have a community events person, which is how all the other camps get tickets, obviously for less than what you and I would pay for a ticket. So I'll bag on the Mets all day, I will, because they deserve it. But when it comes to charity, when it comes to doing right by groups like yours, schools like yours, camps like yours, the New York Mets are always on the right side of that ledger, always. So that's not, again, you had a bad experience, I respect it, but we can do better.