METS HIT ROCK BOTTOM!

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Two o'clock straight up!
It's The Carton Show with Big Mac! On a gorgeous Monday afternoon in New York City, we got plenty of great stuff for you today. Phone number to join, as always, 888-808-1019.
We are now at the unofficial halfway point of the Major League Baseball season, the All-Star Break. I remember as a young child growing up on the mean streets of the Bronx and the nearest shell, how important the All-Star game was to me then. Not anymore. Gotta be honest with you. But I'm also happy to tell you as I return from a weak vacation that this is no longer Yankee Central. This is no longer 24-7 Yankee, Yankee, Yankee, Yankee, Yankee, Yankee, Yankee talk till we make your ears bleed. We're now a full service radio program for you again and happy to bring in my partner, Mr. Big Mac. Good afternoon, Big Mac. How are you? I'm doing great.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:55)
You're opening with the Mets? Yankee, Yankee, Yankee, Yankee, Yankee. That was the biggest series of the year.

**Craig Carton** (1:00)
My God, man.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:01)
Biggest series of the year. That was the story this week.

**Craig Carton** (1:04)
Yankee, Yankee, Yankee, Volpe, Volpe, Volpe.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:10)
You did Volpe before.

**Craig Carton** (1:11)
We did the wheel.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:13)
I improved and fixed the wheel.

**Craig Carton** (1:15)
You did the wheel?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:15)
I did the wheel.

**Craig Carton** (1:16)
What?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:17)
I fixed the wheel on Friday.

**Craig Carton** (1:18)
What do you mean by I fixed it?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:19)
Well, I changed it up a little bit.

**Craig Carton** (1:22)
Like it wasn't working.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:23)
It wasn't working. I had to try and make them less stupid. Guess what?

**Craig Carton** (1:26)
It didn't work.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:28)
I was playing it like the actual game was played where it's amount of clues. So I had an actual answer to an actual question and it was how many clues do you need to get the answer. So I was like, I can name that in six clues. I can name that in five clues. So I changed it up a little bit for some of the categories.

**Craig Carton** (1:44)
It didn't help. It did not help?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:46)
No, it didn't help.

**Craig Carton** (1:47)
I'm looking at the wheel here. You left it here.
86 movie?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:52)
That was the number one movie. It was Mets Red Sox coming up. That was the number one movie October 27th, 1986, when the Mets won the World Series. Do you want to know what the movie was?

**Craig Carton** (2:03)
The number one movie in 1986?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:05)
Yes, October 27th.

**Craig Carton** (2:06)
In the fall of 86

**Chris McMonigle** (2:07)
Yeah, I'll give you the clue.

**Craig Carton** (2:09)
Is it for the year or just for that period of time?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:11)
Just that weekend.
That moment in time, October 27th, 1986 Fish Out Of Water story.

**Craig Carton** (2:18)
Fish Out Of Water story.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:20)
I got you, I got you. Takes place in New York City.

**Craig Carton** (2:24)
Michael J. Fox?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:25)
No, the actor is only known for this. Pretty much, he might have done some other things but he's only known just for this.

**Craig Carton** (2:31)
New York City movie Fish Out Of Water. Actor, the star is known for this specifically.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:37)
And the final clue was Down Under.

**Craig Carton** (2:40)
Oh, is that right?
Huh. Crocodile Dundee.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:44)
Crocodile Dundee.

**Craig Carton** (2:45)
There you go. That's not a knife. This is a knife.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:48)
I was thinking about using that as a clue but I thought it would give it away.

**Craig Carton** (2:50)
Yeah, it would give it away. Tom Hanks movies?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:53)
Tom Hanks movies.

**Craig Carton** (2:54)
Okay. Which Beetle?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:56)
Which Beetle.

**Craig Carton** (2:56)
Spelled wrong.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:57)
Another one.

**Craig Carton** (2:58)
Checking on that one. Here's the good news about...

**Chris McMonigle** (3:00)
Beetle or which?

**Craig Carton** (3:02)
You spelled Beetle wrong. Yeah, and for a Beetle guy, spelling Beetle's wrong is interesting.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:07)
B-E-A.

**Craig Carton** (3:08)
You used one T, dude. Yeah, that's not how Beetle's spelled. But it's okay. I mean, for a big Beetle fan, to get the spelling of Beetle's wrong is interesting to me. Here's the good news for today. Now that we're all back here, and you know the phone numbers, the good news for me about today and tomorrow and Wednesday. And I think it's good news for everybody, more for some than others, but no matter how you want to look at it, it's either great news if you're in this group, or it's solid good news if you're in that group. But no matter how you want to color it, it's still good to great news.