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Hour 3: Big Mac and Craig: Yankees Can't Win Without Aaron Judge

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

July 13, 2026

Craig and Chris McMonagle evaluate the Yankees' aggressive trade deadline strategy and whether the team should bother making moves if Aaron Judge's imaging shows no progress.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle, Anthony Gallo
**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Four o'clock Carton Show with Big Mac. SNY joins us. Always good to see you guys in SNY. Well, by the way, I was told we have to pick a met game for the second half to watch from the SNY Suite.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:13)
Fantastic.

**Craig Carton** (0:16)
You know what, we have to.
It's part of the contract. I mean, so, no, no, it's a great suite, by the way.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:21)
Oh, beautiful suite.

**Craig Carton** (0:22)
And they go out of their way to make me happy, getting me Grand Marnier.
So I'm looking forward to it. It's just like of all the years, yo, to have to go to a Met game in August. Seems like this would be the year we can raise our hands and say, like Dider said, white flag it, white flag it.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:41)
There's got to be a game. We'll go to the Pete Alonso game.

**Craig Carton** (0:43)
Oh, okay.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:45)
Let's go to that in September. I don't know if they're looking for a summer over the summer.

**Craig Carton** (0:47)
I don't think, I don't think they're pretty ambivalent towards.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:50)
We'd have to run out of here. Anything. Yeah, we'd have to run right out of here and go there.

**Craig Carton** (0:53)
September, I can't do that.
No, sorry. No running out here early in September.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:58)
Not early.

**Craig Carton** (0:59)
Can't we just pick, shoot, that's a good point. Maybe we can do the show from Citi Field.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:04)
For the Pino Lanzo game?

**Craig Carton** (1:06)
Well, any game, just stay there, watch the game. I'll leave in the third and call it a day. You know what I'm saying?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:11)
I'll do a show for you.

**Craig Carton** (1:11)
You came with us when it was me and Evan, right? Did you not?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:14)
To the suite?

**Craig Carton** (1:15)
Yeah. Yes. Yeah, that was great, right?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:17)
Yeah, it was awesome.

**Craig Carton** (1:18)
As I'll say, as to why, they do the suite invitation. Perfect.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:23)
Very nice.

**Craig Carton** (1:23)
They're very, very, very, very generous in that suite. So we do have to pick a day where all of us are going to a Met Game to sit in the SNY suite.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:32)
Sounds good.

**Craig Carton** (1:33)
So you guys check your busy calendars. I'm always available and you just let me know.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:37)
Is that if you're here from now on, rest of the summer?

**Craig Carton** (1:40)
I'll probably take a couple of three-day weekends.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:41)
Yeah, yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:42)
Then I got to deal with here three weeks off in August.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:44)
It's not three weeks.

**Craig Carton** (1:45)
Yeah. I wonder if they're just going to call it The Carton Show without Big Mac on digital. We did get to the bottom of it.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:52)
Yes.

**Craig Carton** (1:52)
They have not told me the name of the culprit, and I respect that because I don't believe in snitching nor do I like rats on our staff.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:59)
But we've gotten to the bottom of it.

**Craig Carton** (2:00)
But they tell me that they collectively know who did it, that person should not have done it, and that person now knows in the future.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:09)
Not to do it again.

**Craig Carton** (2:10)
Keep your fingers off things. And I'll accept that as an answer. Okay. Because if they tell me the person's name, then they're just rats.
So they dealt with it, they promised me, and I'll accept that. No rats allowed on this show.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:23)
I think it's fair. There you go. Just to let them know, from now on, the show, it stays the same.

**Craig Carton** (2:28)
Brian's in Jersey on the fan. Brian, how are you today, buddy?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:31)
Very good. Great. How are you guys?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:35)
We're doing great.

**Craig Carton** (2:35)
Doing great. Great.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:37)
Just great.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:37)
I just have a quick question. Craig, when you were away all week, and Chris was on all week, why did he allow the name of the show to continue all week? Why didn't he stop it right up Monday?

**Craig Carton** (2:48)
It's a great question. Because if I could speak for him, he probably liked it.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:52)
I think so, too. I think he was totally in on this.

**Craig Carton** (2:55)
I'm sure I was.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:57)
I didn't see it. It was just on the digital. I didn't see it. I'm doing the show.

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