Hour 3: Should Aaron Judge Lead the Yankees from the Dugout?

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Good afternoon, everybody. As you start your trip to wherever it is you're going, nobody working them hard, it seems like.
Travel's starting to pick up. Got to the Hamptons and Montauk and down the Jersey Shore to LBI. You have a favorite shore destination? I know Warwick's not a big shore town.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:17)
No.

**Craig Carton** (0:18)
But if you guys are going to the beach for a day, are you like a Maniloking guy? A Manahawking guy?
Is there a lake nearby in Warwick where you guys can go out there and maybe...

**Chris McMonigle** (0:29)
There's a couple of man-made lakes.

**Craig Carton** (0:30)
Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:31)
That's kind of embarrassing, though.

**Craig Carton** (0:33)
Like, what's the area we live on? How long a drive to water is there?
Like, naturally occurring water?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:40)
Oh, naturally occurring water? Yeah, I mean, there's...

**Craig Carton** (0:42)
We have to go to Detroit?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:43)
No.

**Craig Carton** (0:45)
You're like Lake Placid?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:46)
Just to see water, not like, you know, there's Greenwood Lake, which is a legitimate lake.

**Craig Carton** (0:50)
Normal lake?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:51)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (0:52)
Fishing lake or just a...

**Chris McMonigle** (0:53)
Derek Jeter had a house on Greenwood Lake for a long time.

**Craig Carton** (0:56)
Oh, is that right?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:56)
I sold it, but...

**Craig Carton** (0:57)
Nice. Is that a fishing lake?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:58)
Yes. And some boating and stuff, but yeah, like, you know, Greenwood Lake is nice.

**Craig Carton** (1:02)
Nice.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:04)
Not that you would go there for vacation.

**Craig Carton** (1:05)
Yeah, so you're kind of like a landlocked part of Orange County.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:09)
I went to LBI once. I'm not really a...

**Craig Carton** (1:11)
You're not a beach guy, you said?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:12)
No, I'm not a beach guy. I'm much more a pool guy. Yeah. All right.

**Craig Carton** (1:15)
All good.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:16)
I'm a Disney dad.

**Craig Carton** (1:17)
You are a Disney dad.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:18)
I'm a Disney dad.

**Craig Carton** (1:20)
And you're not a big book reader, you're a book listener.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:22)
Correct.

**Craig Carton** (1:22)
So you're not the kind of cat that would even with the nice big umbrella, sit on the beach and read a book.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:26)
No, I absolutely would. I just like reading and stories so much that I try and squeeze them in and reading just as an, I don't have the time, Craig. So I listen. You're so busy.
I'm so busy.

**Craig Carton** (1:38)
Those Sunday Night Channel 11 appearances have really changed your life.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:42)
Sunday Night Channel 11, I'm doing the podcast.

**Craig Carton** (1:44)
Do you still do the Channel 11?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:46)
Yes.

**Craig Carton** (1:46)
It's every Sunday?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:47)
Every Sunday.

**Craig Carton** (1:48)
It's great.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:48)
I haven't missed the Sunday yet.

**Craig Carton** (1:49)
Is that right?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:50)
Yes.

**Craig Carton** (1:50)
Oh, they're like really, really brow-beachy, huh?
What have you said? I can't do it this Sunday. It's July 4th weekend.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:58)
Well, this Sunday I'm doing it. Father's Day, I've done it. Mother's Day, I've done it. The two, I'm skipping two weeks when I go on vacation.

**Craig Carton** (2:04)
Got it.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:04)
Like everything else.

**Craig Carton** (2:05)
Yeah, the vacation's really, really... I wonder what Channel 11 is going to do without having you.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:11)
I don't know.

**Craig Carton** (2:12)
Pete, you want to fill in for him?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:14)
I would love to.

**Craig Carton** (2:14)
Well, you're a med fan, though. It's a Yankee.

**Clem** (2:16)
I could be a Yankee shill.

**Craig Carton** (2:17)
No, no, I'll get someone else for it.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:19)
I'm very critical of the team on that show.

**Craig Carton** (2:21)
Are you?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:22)
No.

**Craig Carton** (2:22)
Where do you think you're most critical of the team? On the Go Get It podcast?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:25)
Yes, absolutely.

**Craig Carton** (2:26)
That's where you attack?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:29)
I would say 75% of the podcast last night was attacking Aaron Boone's decision making.

**Craig Carton** (2:34)
Oh, you do it after every series, right?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:35)
Yeah, I do it after every series. And I would say most...

**Craig Carton** (2:39)
Do you do emergency ones ever?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:40)
Occasionally, now I'm going to, yes. I think my gut is I'm going to do one on most nights of the Tampa Bay series.

**Craig Carton** (2:47)
Got it. Let me quickly, just quick Yankee thought then we'll get back to all your calls, I promise. But it's something I just think we need to address you and I real quick.