Hour 4: The Cam Schlittler Debate...Should He Start Tomorrow or Not

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
This is usually where you start talking.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:01)
Yeah, yeah, I'm just reading something, that's all. Everything all right? Everything's great. Just reading something.
Just reading something at all. Yeah, there was a hit piece that Wired put out against Madison Square Garden recently. And I was just reading that, the Garden is fighting back, fired a lawsuit against Wired for defamation, and following unethical and inflammatory stuff in a recent article they put out. And good for the Garden, fighting back.
Someone puts out bogus information about you, and you've got the goods to prove that the information is bogus, and they attack your character. You should be able to fight back. I don't care how big a company you are, or how little you might be. If people put out bad stuff about you, you should have the right to fight back and clear your good name.

**Craig Carton** (0:55)
And in this country we do.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:56)
Yeah, so I'm just trying to get up to speed on what the situation was. But yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:03)
Well, while you do that, would you like to know the Yankees starting pitchers for this weekend?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:06)
Well, I would because you and I have a disagreement on this.

**Craig Carton** (1:09)
Yes, we do.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:09)
To me, if the New York Yankees want to put their junk on the table and act like the New York Yankees and send a message to the rest of baseball, we are the Yankees, we're going to act like the Yankees, Cam Schlittler should be pitching them overnight.

**Craig Carton** (1:23)
Okay.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:24)
LA Dodgers, three games set at Yankee Stadium. I don't want to dick around with, well, you know, seven days rest for six days. No, he's the best pitcher you got thus far this year. Yeah, no doubt. He should be starting game one against the Dodgers or the Yankees aren't the Yankees anymore.
So I will ask you a question. Who said that is Cam Schlittler starting Friday night? Or do I have to start rethinking who this Yankee franchise is?

**Craig Carton** (1:53)
Well, you would be happy to know that you have to start thinking.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:58)
What?

**Craig Carton** (1:58)
Garrett Cole is starting Friday night.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:00)
That's a horrendous decision by the area.

**Craig Carton** (2:02)
Cole is starting Friday night. Ryan Weathers is starting Saturday and Cam Schlittler is starting Sunday. That's ridiculous.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:11)
Huge second half series opener against the best team in baseball. Let's save our best pitcher for game three.

**Craig Carton** (2:17)
He's pitching in the series.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:18)
No, no. What's the difference? Let's save our best pitcher for game three.

**Craig Carton** (2:21)
It's not saving. It's setting up the rotation the way they want to set it up.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:25)
We don't want to pitch him on five days rest.

**Craig Carton** (2:27)
No, no. It's not five days rest.
He's pitching in the series. What's the message if they win the first game with Schlitler and then lose the next two? What's the difference? He's pitching in the series.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:37)
I'm not, whatever happens, happens.

**Craig Carton** (2:39)
Okay, exactly right.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:44)
And the best lineup right now is not Garrett Cole starting.

**Craig Carton** (2:48)
Who's the Dodgers' best starter?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:49)
It's Cam Schlitler starting. Well, Otani's not healthy. He's not pitching right now.

**Craig Carton** (2:53)
I'm just saying, who's their best starting pitcher then? Yamamoto.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:55)
Outside of Otani, it's Yamamoto.

**Craig Carton** (2:57)
Why is he pitching the third game of the series?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:58)
I don't give rats ass what the Dodgers do. I'm not doing sports talk in LA.

**Craig Carton** (3:01)
I'm not a Dodger fan. Just saying. They're throwing out arguably their worst.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:05)
Wasn't even better.

**Craig Carton** (3:06)
Rocky with 3-5 with a 5.33 ERA.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:09)
You gotta send a message.

**Craig Carton** (3:11)
They're throwing out Cole and they're throwing out Schlittler.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:14)
And you can make all the excuses you want as to show you are. Either we're the Yankees or we're not the Yankees.

**Craig Carton** (3:20)
I agree.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:21)
This is not the Yankees franchise.

**Craig Carton** (3:23)
What does tomorrow night have to do with whether they're the Yankees or not? You're putting too much importance on something that's not that important.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:29)
Guess what?

**Craig Carton** (3:30)
He's pitching against the Dodgers. He's in the series.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:32)
This Yankee team the way it's currently run? Not winning a World Series.