Hour 4: Big Mac's Yankees Outlook

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
509, The Carton Show, Big Mac. Getting ready for, you going into these games against Atlanta or no?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:06)
No.

**Craig Carton** (0:07)
Not gonna be going?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:08)
Not planned, no.

**Craig Carton** (0:09)
All right, just checking, because I know your son's here today, typically when your son's here, one of your kids is here. Yeah, no, just... You and your father's son are not at the ballpark.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:17)
Yeah, no, just trying to give a break to the babysitters.

**Craig Carton** (0:21)
Got it, got it.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:22)
I would have brought both, but the...

**Craig Carton** (0:24)
Having a summer off's not enough of a break?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:27)
Oh, my wife works during the summer. She's at summer school.

**Craig Carton** (0:31)
You know I'm just teasing.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:32)
No, the babysitters are my mother and the in-laws.

**Craig Carton** (0:35)
Okay.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:35)
And I would have taken both today on a Friday, but Tommy has football practice.

**Craig Carton** (0:38)
Which is great.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:39)
Yeah, they're both...

**Chris McMonigle** (0:41)
He just doesn't have practice today. They're both starting tackle football this year.

**Craig Carton** (0:44)
I love it. Do they play games or just practice?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:46)
So far just practice, but they'll play games. That's awesome.

**Craig Carton** (0:49)
Awesome.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:50)
And I get to see them Sunday morning.

**Craig Carton** (0:52)
Do we know what position the boys are looking at?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:54)
I think Tommy is tall. I think they're going to do offensive line with Tommy. Hopefully offensive defensive line. Andrew hasn't really done that yet.

**Craig Carton** (1:01)
Got it.

**Pete Hoffman** (1:02)
Well, he's seven, right? Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:03)
Yeah. So they're just out there like blind kids playing kickball at this point.

**Pete Hoffman** (1:07)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:07)
Right.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:09)
Tommy's got a...

**Pete Hoffman** (1:11)
What?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:11)
I was just saying that's what it is. Playbook already.

**Craig Carton** (1:13)
He has a playbook?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:14)
They gave him a playbook, yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:15)
Really?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:16)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:16)
Good for them.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:17)
Terminology and everything.

**Craig Carton** (1:18)
And now he's probably tired. It's great.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:20)
Oh, the practices are so much different than anything they've done so far. I bet. Soccer, there's a lot of running.

**Pete Hoffman** (1:24)
Yeah. But football's different.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:26)
It is different.

**Pete Hoffman** (1:27)
Oh, I love it. They're going to be better off for it too.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:28)
Oh, it's fantastic.

**Pete Hoffman** (1:29)
I miss those days so much.

**Craig Carton** (1:30)
Pete, why'd you look at me crazy? I laughed.

**Pete Hoffman** (1:34)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:34)
Because if you've ever put a kid... If you ever put kids... It's more t-ball than any other sport, but t-ball is... It's not even controlled madness. It's just madness. Yeah, it's just madness. And I don't care who you are, if you're a great athlete, if your kid became a great athlete, when your kid's five and you take him out there for his first t-ball practice or game, it is uncontrolled mayhem, right? And the thing I love, I don't care what town I've lived in or what city I've been in, whether it's my kids, your kids or his kids, there's nothing better for me as a parent.
When the kid's up there, ball's on the tee, excuse me, and the kid makes contact and the ball's like a dribbler in the infield, every single kid on the field pile drives on top of each other, including the batter for the ball. That is always the best moment.

**Pete Hoffman** (2:37)
I love that.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:38)
And then they just show you the ball like they've accomplished it.

**Pete Hoffman** (2:40)
I got the ball.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:40)
That's it. I got it.

**Pete Hoffman** (2:43)
It's like Lord of the Flies.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:44)
There is nothing more frustrating in anything I've done. There is nothing more frustrating than that happens and then you just shout over and over, throw the ball first, pick it up, throw it to first. And the runner is standing at first. He's been standing at first. He's saved by a mile. But we're trying to get the ball, throw it to first. Throw it to first, throw it to first. And the kid's like already picking dirt on first base. And it just takes forever. It's so maddening, so maddening.

**Craig Carton** (3:12)
Baseball sucks for five year olds.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:14)
It's not fun.

**Craig Carton** (3:15)
Not at all.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:16)