Mets Show Life While Yankees Bullpen Crumbles | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Chris McMonigle is riding solo today, discussing the Mets' resilient performance in the Subway Series following a rotation injury. He evaluates the Yankees' bullpen struggles and roster gaps while looking ahead to the Knicks' playoff series against the Cavaliers.
01:03 - Big Mac Flying Solo
01:53 - Mets Subway Series Mojo
10:29 - Yankees Bullpen Meltdown
18:01 - Yankees Offensive Struggles
20:06 - Knicks Vs Cavs Preview
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah. Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's right. It's just the Big Mac show today is Craig is not with us. He's in heaven, also known as Iowa. |
| 0:16.4 | Once I said heaven, it sounded weird. So I had to follow it up real quick with also known as Iowa as his son is graduating college. So congratulations to the cartons. He's not here. He's not going to get to rub my face in it. And I know you all want to. Evan left today saying, oh, I can't wait to listen and hear all your tears. So here they are. You're not going to get any tears out of me. It's only a subway. It means nothing in this subway series. It's just a couple of games. As obviously the Mets, and we'll look at it through both ways, and we joke about the subway series not being meaningful. Well, it feels meaningful today. So we're going to start with it. We'll get to the Knicks as we finally know their opponent. They will be taking on the Cleveland Cavaliers coming up |
| 0:58.5 | on Tuesday. Can't wait to get those games started. Can't wait to get back in the groove of watching |
| 1:04.0 | Knicks every single other night. But we got to start with obviously an impactful subway series, |
| 1:09.4 | one of the more impactful ones in recent memory as for the New York Mets, I got to start with obviously an impactful subway series, one of the more impactful ones in recent |
| 1:11.5 | memory as for the New York Mets, I got to tell you, a lot of Mets were bothering me and getting on me |
| 1:17.5 | for Saturday. I don't know whether they were bothered by me, but I did the show on Saturday. |
| 1:21.5 | And I got to tell you, for a MET team that's played better in May, right? What are they, 10 and 5 now in May? |
| 1:27.4 | 10 and 5 in May, |
| 1:29.3 | 5 and 6 in the homestand, take care of the Yankees win two out of three, all that. But after |
| 1:36.7 | Friday night, I got to tell you, for this team to bounce back off of that loss. And I think |
| 1:42.8 | that's the story for me. And we'll get to the Yankees and their flaws. |
| 1:45.8 | And that's what's come out of this series is the momentum. |
| 1:48.2 | We're going to talk about the Mets and the clear issues that have almost crystallized |
| 1:53.1 | perfectly with the New York Yankees. |
| 1:56.5 | As it's come to a head in their two and seven road trip, you know exactly what the issues are. |
| 2:02.1 | They made themselves abundantly clear over these three games. |
| 2:06.3 | And you know exactly what the Yankees have to go do to make themselves a team that everyone can get behind and expect to go compete for a championship and we'll get to it. |
| 2:15.6 | But for the New York Mets to lose Friday night to get beat the way they did. |
| 2:22.7 | And overall, it wasn't a terrible loss the way they played the game necessarily. |
| 2:26.5 | But they get Schlittler absolutely shoves. |
| 2:30.6 | Pitch is another brilliant game. |
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