T-Mac: Anthony Volpe Slams "BS" Rumors of Refusing Position Change

**Chris McMonigle** (0:00)
Yes, sir! Yes, sir!

**SPEAKER_2** (0:03)
201 straight up.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:05)
It's The Carton Show with me, Chris McMonigle, riding solo yet again. We'll be for the rest of the week. How we doing on this beautiful Wednesday after a bunch of rain? Now there's more flies than it smells in here because Evan rides his bike, but he doesn't care about me and we'll move on from that quickly. As we hear on this beautiful Wednesday after a bunch of rainy days and another miserable loss, really just awful baseball in general around here lately. I mean, you watched last night, you see the Mets invent ways to lose. You see little league home runs from the other team, still not good enough to get a win, 12 runs still not good enough to get a win. Night story, a local boy make good first career appearance in the major league level, just an abomination, just everything that could go wrong for the Mets. Then you look at the New York Yankees and last night, a brutal loss and yes, yes, it's a big game and they lost it. And it was ugly and I know we're all focused on the strikeouts. And I don't know if you heard me last night on the Go Get Em podcast, but I got to tell you, I know we're going to get wrapped up in strikeouts and it's disgusting. Nobody likes to see strikeouts and I'm actually going to ask a question at some point today and we'll get to it about whether or not, because I always hear about, oh, some of the way the Yankees lose and the no hitting, oh, it's not even just losing, it's just impossible to watch. I'm curious to see if you had more fun watching the game last night with the Mets and all the runs. Was it fun, because I think there's no fun way to lose a game. I've always felt this way. Is there a fun way to lose a baseball game? Was it fun last night when you had a 9-4 lead and you watch your team spit it up and you think the Soto home run is going to carry you and then you watch your bullpen implode? Was that fun? Was it fun to watch the Yankees strike out 17 times for the second consecutive night? There is no fun in losing! And we have had no fun around here. And last night for the Yankee fans specifically, we'll get to the Mets as well at 888-808-1019. But I know we got to talk about Anthony Volpe. And we're going to talk about Anthony Volpe. And I'm sick of talking about Anthony Volpe. And that's probably going to be my main take on Anthony Volpe is I can't stop saying Anthony Volpe. And I don't want to say Anthony Volpe anymore. Anthony Volpe doesn't want to say Anthony Volpe anymore. But last night, the Yankees do set the record for strikeouts in back-to-back nights, 34 strikeouts in two games, the most in the American League history for back-to-back nights. And we're going to yell and scream. And yes, it is a problem that this Yankee lineup strikes out this much. They're in the bottom five in strikeout percentage in Major League Baseball. And if the goal is to win a championship, no team in the last 25 years, this is credit to Chris Kershner of The Athletic who put this stat out there, no team in the last 25 years has won the championship while being in the bottom five in strikeout percentage. So the Yankees, which I do think the lineup will change eventually, hopefully. But this team right now strikes out way too much to be a successful team. But having said that, if you watched the game last night, the strikeouts were about fourth or fifth on the list of why they lost the game. There were no, there were two instances where a strikeout would have been worse than a normal out, two instances where you said anything, just put the ball in play. And in both of those times, one was a strikeout from Goldschmidt, but he got picked up by Rice on the three-run home run, and the other was a sack fly from Sanchez. There was not another situation where you could have moved the runner over, there was not another situation where you could have scored on a sacrifice fly. They scored three runs off of the starting pitcher Seymour, three runs and five and a third. Yes, 12 strikeouts. If any Yankee pitcher went out there, if last night, Will Warren or tonight, Garrett Cole goes out there and throws five and a third and gives up three runs. Nobody's talking about what a great performance it is, no matter how many strikeouts he has. And they've scored six runs in the last two games off of the starting pitchers. And they had 11 hits last night. The problem was, Will Warren couldn't get out the lousy left handed hitters at the bottom of the raise order. He's giving up home runs to lousy catchers who had one home run prior and hit 210 That's why they lost. Will Warren sucks. The strikeouts are something we'll get all hyperbolic about because we hate this team and they strike out too much. And certainly they do. But if you watch the baseball game, Bellinger being in no man's land trying to do too much because he's been killing this team is a bigger problem.