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Hour 4: Imaginary Golf Punishment for a Failed Fantasy Football Draft

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

August 25, 2026

Craig Carton and the crew detail a hilarious punishment for a lost fantasy football draft involving playing nine holes of golf with an imaginary ball. They discuss the specific rules, such as dropping marshmallows as decoys and faking sand trap shots to confuse onlookers.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle, Pete Hoffman, Anthony Gallo

Topics: Sports

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Coming up on 5 o'clock, Carton Show, 888-808-1019.
Dolly Parton passed away today. 80 years old, I thought she was older, to be honest. But 80 years old. No word yet on Ja'Marr Chase, but they're concerned it's a knee injury. And what else I got for you? Low hanging fruit, I think. We take some phone calls here. Just double checking what I got on the handy dandy notebook.
Evan Roberts called his partner Sean Marash a fat slob and unhinged today, which is aggressive and a good way to break up a partnership. Odell Becker made a one-handed catch in the back of the end zone today, so that's good there. And LeBron James Barth, $300 million from a couple of insurance companies associated with Mark Walter, the owner of the Dodgers and the Guggenheim partners, who had to sell the Lakers because he might have committed fraud. So we'll keep an eye on that as well. What do you got, Gallo?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:02)
Ja'Marr Chase, I don't know how to take this. He said he was a he's good and it was a hyper extension. He said that on the radio.
Oh, is that right? OK.

**Craig Carton** (1:11)
So that's great.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:12)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:12)
I mean, you're a Bengals fan, I guess that's great. It didn't look great. I can tell you that.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:17)
He said if he if there was a game tomorrow, he'd play. OK, it does. I don't believe I got to be honest. I don't believe him.

**Craig Carton** (1:25)
It did not look like he'd be ready to play tomorrow. No, he couldn't walk off the field and there's some power.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:30)
The limp was fine, but when you go down like that.

**Craig Carton** (1:32)
Yes. Yes. Let me a quick check out line of what's going on.
It sucks that Craig tells you he's objective when he's not being objective. I'm 70 years old and I challenged him to both a golf match and a basketball game. Why would I play an elderly person in basketball? What's the win there for me?
He goes by the name Old School Nose. Always right. Let me take a look at Mr. and he follows me. I never get that either. Hates me so much, he follows me. Old School Nose. Let me take a look at Old School Nose. It's a picture with James Gandolfini. There you go. I love when 70-year-old men want to challenge me to athletic endeavors. Knowing full well, and I'll just say this out loud. Number one, I would never play you in basketball. There's nothing for me to win. If I win, which I would, I'll live in nothing. I took advantage of an older man. If I lose, I get embarrassed because I lost to an older man. What's the win there for me? I don't get the win there. So I would suggest this, Mr. Always Right, Old Underscore, School Underscore knows, be a good boy, listen to daddy when he comes on the radio, like you do every day, and be happy that I acknowledge your presence once in a while. Outside of that, feel free to unfollow and go follow someone else that you also can't stand. So that's one treat for you. Let's see.
Any more moron tweets here today? I got an FU Craig. No, I got that. I got that. Craig's show is the best on the fan, but that's saying a lot concerning the morning show only talks about their own golf games for four hours. So what's the real competition? It's a shot of both of us. By the way, he just took a shot of both shows.
All right, there you go.
Evan is in the story of the fan. Evan, good afternoon. How are you?

**Pete Hoffman** (3:41)
What's up, fellas? How's it going?

**Craig Carton** (3:42)
Great.

**Pete Hoffman** (3:43)
Well, I gotta tell you, before I go, senior citizens on the internet are usually pretty concise and adept. I'm really surprised to hear someone act like that.

**Craig Carton** (3:51)
Say that again?

**Pete Hoffman** (3:53)
Senior citizens are usually pretty straight shooters on the internet. I'm surprised to hear that kerfuffle.

**Craig Carton** (3:58)
Here's what's fascinating to me, that a 70 year old man is on Twitter, challenging people half his age to one-on-one basketball games. That's the crazy thing.

**Pete Hoffman** (4:08)
The Venn diagram of senior citizens on Twitter and also capable of basketball is two separate circles.

**Craig Carton** (4:14)
Yes, exactly right. Exactly right.

**Pete Hoffman** (4:17)
So it's been an hour since the draft, but I saw a couple of premium sausage vendors that are going to have more points than that Washington guy. You guys are going to be in another thing.

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