Hour 2: Craig and Big Mac Debate MSG Blockades and the Wemby No-Call

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
The woo at half time tonight.
There you go. Carton Show, Big Mac, James Dolan coming in in just over an hour. Discuss this crazy shutdown of New York City from 29th to 35th Street, so 6th to 8th Avenues, much like we did for Monday night and how that impacts people. And also shutting down the garden-led watch parties. The mayor claims that he tried to get cute about, in my opinion, Hey, I've saved the watch parties for everybody. But now it's going to be for a max of a thousand people. And you have to get a ticket for it.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:35)
And how do you get?

**Craig Carton** (0:36)
I'm not sure how you get the ticket.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:38)
That's something we got to ask James.

**Craig Carton** (0:40)
I don't think he would know either, because it's no longer a garden run thing. It's now a city run watch party.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:46)
I thought so if I wanted to get one of those.

**Craig Carton** (0:48)
No, it's not a garden run.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:49)
Well, I thought the mayor just made it clear that they applied for 1,000 persons.

**Craig Carton** (0:55)
But the mayor said, I'm saving the watch party, and we're going to do it as a ticketed event, meaning the city is going to do it as a ticketed event, is how I understand it. So it's a good question for Dolan, I'll ask him that.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:07)
Who's selling the tickets?

**Craig Carton** (1:08)
Who has tickets, right?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:10)
Yeah. Who has a lucky 1,000?

**Craig Carton** (1:12)
I'm not even sure if you have to buy them. Now when the Knicks were on the road, I think it was 10 bucks to get into the Garden or Radio City where we had those two indoor watch parties. I think it was $10.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:23)
On the street, you shouldn't have to pay.

**Craig Carton** (1:24)
Streets should be free.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:25)
Streets should be free.

**Craig Carton** (1:26)
As it always has been when the Garden ran it. But I don't think tonight's thing is a Garden run party. I think it's a city run party.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:35)
I don't know.

**Craig Carton** (1:36)
Cause it's the mayor that's trying to take ownership of it, which is what politicians do obviously.
He also said, to be fair, he referred to Madison Square Garden as a stadium on Monday. So when it comes to sports, he may not be the guy. But Gallo, you just did a research on it. What do you have there?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:54)
Yeah. So the link I went to brings you to an nba.com site. And it's like all the block parties, watch parties around the city. For this specifically, it's already done. It's sold out.

**Craig Carton** (2:05)
But was there a cost involved?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:07)
I don't know. I can't even see.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:08)
Because it's got it through the NBA.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:11)
It's an NBA website. They have Brooklyn Bowl, Wolfman's Rink, or Roman's Rinks.

**Craig Carton** (2:16)
Yeah, that's Central Park.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:17)
And then he said Wolfman.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:19)
Sorry, I wouldn't know.

**Craig Carton** (2:21)
Tell me you don't live in New York City without telling me you don't live in New York City. Wolfman's Rink.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:25)
I hang out in Central Park.

**Craig Carton** (2:26)
Yeah, but maybe you should. Yeah, maybe you should leave Brooklyn once in a while.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:29)
I go painting with Wendy once in a while in the building.

**Craig Carton** (2:33)
Yeah, hopefully, hopefully. And who do you have to thank for that?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:36)
You.

**Craig Carton** (2:36)
That's right. You have to brag about it. I got you the pass.
He's like bragging about something I gave him.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:44)
Oh, he's going to be in the building, you're not.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:46)
Yeah, no, because I chose not to be.

**Craig Carton** (2:49)
Yes, I was offered an opportunity to be there tonight. But I'm a family man. Now, I'll tell you this, though. Game six comes rolling around and I might have to do do do.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:02)
I think we have to send out another email about doing the show from Madison Square Garden.

**Craig Carton** (3:06)
So they got back to me about that.
So the place that we would normally do a show from, the NBA controls that. It's no longer a Nick-controlled building. It's an NBA-controlled building for that part of it.
And while they would have loved us to have been there, and they got back to me to their credit, they don't control that part of the building when it comes to media pregame. Because if teams or the halftime show or the anthem singer want to do walk-throughs at any point prior to the doors opening, they get first crack at that. So if you and I are sitting there doing a show, and they decide, like, for example, they had the crew from Hamilton out there the other day, and they were doing a whole thing, right? Well, if they're going to do a rehearsal there, and you and I are sitting there trying to do a radio show, they take precedence, because they're part of the entertainment for the game. That's the only reason we are not live today at Madison Square Garden, because the NBA controls and dictates that, and we're not rights holders currently of the Knicks, but the Gardeners would love to have us there, just make it a regular season game, we're in. Okay. So we'll do that for next year, okay? Here's Gene in the East Village on the fan. Gene, what's going on, kiddo?