Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Craig Carton | Sports Radio Personality | 06-11-26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The Mayor's office and I'm sorry the commissioner or two
- 0:03Speaker 1: write do not have the experience to do this right.
- 0:06Speaker 2: That's ma'am mc donne and Jessica tissues the police commis.
- 0:09Speaker 1: I mean, they have never managed anything like this before.
- 0:13Speaker 1: And it's like peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's coming
- 0:16Speaker 1: out the sides, and you know that's I think that's
- 0:20Speaker 1: part of We're seeing a lot of fear from that
- 0:22Speaker 1: from the Mayor's office, a lot of anxiety. They're sitting
- 0:25Speaker 1: there trying to say, well, well, we're big Knicks fans,
- 0:28Speaker 1: but this isn't They're not.
- 0:29Speaker 2: He called the Gardener Stadium. How big a Nick fan is?
- 0:33Speaker 3: He's not a well winning all right. That was part
- 0:36Speaker 3: of the interview that my man Craig Carton did with
- 0:40Speaker 3: Nick owner Jim Dolan, Nick n Ranger owner Jim Dolan yesterday,
- 0:44Speaker 3: Craig and Seemac on the band and I texted Craig
- 0:48Speaker 3: about ten times. I thought he did a magnificent job.
- 0:51Speaker 3: And we are honored for the second time this week
- 0:53Speaker 3: to have the aprementioned the Hall of Bame. Radio voice
- 0:57Speaker 3: Craig Carton with us on WABC Morning.
- 1:00Speaker 4: Craigi good morning, how are you.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Yeah, not much of her voice flashed after last night
- 1:05Speaker 2: and probably in my lifetime, your lifetime gotta go down
- 1:10Speaker 2: as arguably the single greatest sports moment we've had.
- 1:14Speaker 4: No, it's right there.
- 1:15Speaker 3: Like you know, I said this morning, I was in
- 1:18Speaker 3: the stadium after Whitney Houston sang the national anthem and
- 1:21Speaker 3: nor would miss that field goal. Super Bowl twenty five
- 1:23Speaker 3: Giants Bills. Certainly, the ground ball that Mookie Wilson hit
- 1:27Speaker 3: that went underneath Bill Buckner's legs, those are all part
- 1:30Speaker 3: of it. But this one, David Tyree's catch. But you're right,
- 1:32Speaker 3: this one twenty nine point comeback. But I want to
- 1:35Speaker 3: start before we get back to the game with your
- 1:37Speaker 3: conversation yesterday.
- 1:38Speaker 4: First of all, I know Dolan likes you. That's a
- 1:41Speaker 4: great get, Craig.
- 1:42Speaker 3: You're the only guy that can get Dolan in New
- 1:44Speaker 3: York on game day, So congratulations. The only part of
- 1:47Speaker 3: the interview which I thought was magnificent, You did an
- 1:50Speaker 3: amazing job. What I really couldn't figure it out is
- 1:52Speaker 3: I'm not exactly sure if you guys are watching the
- 1:54Speaker 3: news or not, but this idea that Nick fans have
- 1:58Speaker 3: been good and be and.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Deserve outdoor watch parties.
- 2:02Speaker 3: They've now been arrests three consecutive game nights, and it
- 2:06Speaker 3: doesn't matter whether they win or lose. Two of those
- 2:08Speaker 3: nights Game two, San Antonio, Game four, New York, the
- 2:12Speaker 3: Knicks one, and there were still people getting arrested. So
- 2:14Speaker 3: I hate to break it to Jim Dolan, but I
- 2:17Speaker 3: said this yesterday. They should cancel these parties. New York
- 2:20Speaker 3: is on looked like Los Angeles and Detroit or Uganda
- 2:23Speaker 3: or Gaza. We don't deserve it.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Craig, I'm sorry.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Look, they've been obviously issues at watch parties, not just
- 2:30Speaker 2: to watch parties of Guard and the one and Brian Park.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Obviously a couple of nights ago it was hard to
- 2:34Speaker 2: look at and the behavior of you know, a couple
- 2:37Speaker 2: hundred people were discussing in a bad luck for New York.
- 2:41Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's what Jim was talking about yesterday.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Where we're staying about yesterday was kind of twofold one.
- 2:48Speaker 2: The fact that they continue to have basically a frozen
- 2:52Speaker 2: zone in New York City where they close off the
- 2:55Speaker 2: city from twenty ninth Street up to thirty fifth Street
- 2:57Speaker 2: North and South and sixth Avenue to eighth have you
- 3:01Speaker 2: know east and west now, when they did that on
- 3:03Speaker 2: Monday night, the reason they gave us was because the
- 3:06Speaker 2: Secret Service wanted it for the protection of the president. Well,
- 3:10Speaker 2: while none of us may have wanted it, we could
- 3:13Speaker 2: certainly respect that to be an assassination attempts on the president,
- 3:16Speaker 2: and it's every city's duty to make sure when a
- 3:20Speaker 2: visiting president comes into town that he's safe. But then
- 3:23Speaker 2: we find out yesterday that the Secret Service never requested that,
- 3:27Speaker 2: and it came from the mayor's office. So I think
- 3:30Speaker 2: the first thing that Jim was concerned about, it pissed about,
- 3:34Speaker 2: was that why are we shutting down the city again
- 3:37Speaker 2: with such a wide swath of the shutdown when the
- 3:42Speaker 2: president's out in town and this city has in the
- 3:45Speaker 2: best showing ability to protect its citizens when there's large
- 3:49Speaker 2: gatherings of people. The second part was this specific watch
- 3:53Speaker 2: party at the garden. Mayor Mum Donnie is not a
- 3:57Speaker 2: fan of the next and he is not a fan
- 3:59Speaker 2: of these gatherings of Knick fans. He's trying to stop it,
- 4:03Speaker 2: much like he's trying to replace Jessica Tiss as a
- 4:06Speaker 2: complice commissioner, and probably will before the end of this year.
- 4:10Speaker 2: So the question became, yes, we've got some misdemeanor arrests,
- 4:14Speaker 2: we've got some property damage. It's not a good look.
- 4:17Speaker 2: But he's talking about the breath of how many people
- 4:19Speaker 2: were gathering versus how many of these knuckleheads are causing
- 4:23Speaker 2: a problem. Why did the mayor try to take credit
- 4:27Speaker 2: for a one thousand person watch party that's now out
- 4:31Speaker 2: of the blue required a ticket to attend when Madison
- 4:35Speaker 2: Square Garden has had thousands of people there at every
- 4:40Speaker 2: single Nick game this postseason. And yes, some small incidents
- 4:44Speaker 2: for sure, but not when we saw in Brian Park.
- 4:47Speaker 2: So I think there was a conflation of two different
- 4:50Speaker 2: issues on the show yesterday.
- 4:52Speaker 3: Fair enough, that's a very good explanation. Great job, Craig,
- 4:54Speaker 3: Thank you for that. Jim Dolan with Craig Carton yesterday,
- 4:58Speaker 3: and you mentioned the fact that he he's not a
- 5:00Speaker 3: Nick man. I've been railing about this since Atlanta Hawks series.
- 5:03Speaker 3: I've been tweeting every time the Knicks win. This moron who,
- 5:06Speaker 3: as you said yesterday to Jim Dolan, thinks we played
- 5:09Speaker 3: basketball games in stadiums. No, Dick base, we played basketball
- 5:12Speaker 3: games in arenas and the governor, that idiot though we
- 5:15Speaker 3: want a championship in nineteen ninety three, and it was
- 5:17Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three, both of them. And I do hope
- 5:20Speaker 3: I wasn't mentioned yesterday with you and Dolan, but she's
- 5:23Speaker 3: every bit as guilty as the mayor. She goes on
- 5:25Speaker 3: Twitter away to go New York where fighters shut up.
- 5:29Speaker 3: You think either one of them ever heard of Rory
- 5:31Speaker 3: Sparrow or Eddie Lee Wilkins, or Mike Nolan or Johnny Newman.
- 5:34Speaker 3: I am so sick and tired, Craig of the mayor
- 5:38Speaker 3: and the governor there liars. It was so great to
- 5:41Speaker 3: hear you and Jim both called out the mayor for
- 5:43Speaker 3: not being a Knick fan.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Well not just that. Look, you don't have to be
- 5:47Speaker 2: a Knicks fan. I don't think he's a basketball fan.
- 5:50Speaker 2: I've been people you high up in the administration and
- 5:53Speaker 2: with the police department tell me he hates basketball. I
- 5:56Speaker 2: think you're going to see a much different mayor now
- 5:58Speaker 2: that the World Cup starts today, because he's a huge
- 6:01Speaker 2: soccer fan, and I think you'll see that his tact
- 6:04Speaker 2: when it comes to watch parties for the World Cup,
- 6:07Speaker 2: which is not a single game being played in the
- 6:09Speaker 2: City of New York or any one of the five boroughs.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I think you see a much diifferent city hall when
- 6:14Speaker 2: it comes to that. But politicians do this all the time, right,
- 6:18Speaker 2: I mean, whether it's the governor, whether it's the mayor.
- 6:21Speaker 2: All of a sudden they recognize that there's an opportunity
- 6:24Speaker 2: to try to reach potential voters down the line by
- 6:27Speaker 2: pretending to be into a major sporting event. Now, I
- 6:31Speaker 2: can tell you in my lifetime or recent lifetime, Governor
- 6:35Speaker 2: Patterson was a legitimate met fan and he would go
- 6:38Speaker 2: to med games. Rudy Giuliani was a legitimate Yankee fan.
- 6:42Speaker 2: He was a fixture at the Yankee Stadium. Mayor Devoser
- 6:46Speaker 2: was not a sports evan, didn't go to many sporting events.
- 6:49Speaker 2: So I think for us as New Yorkers like we
- 6:52Speaker 2: get spot a fraud a mile away. There have been
- 6:55Speaker 2: some politicians, governors and mayors who are huge sports fans.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Wear it on the sleeve. You know, my dear friend,
- 7:02Speaker 2: I know you're not a big fan. Chris Kurssy dieard
- 7:05Speaker 2: sports fan.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, by you may may be a diehard, you
- 7:09Speaker 3: may be a diehard sports fan, but good old fats
- 7:11Speaker 3: old there's in New Jersey. You should know he's not
- 7:13Speaker 3: be willing for the you're moaning for the Dallas Cowboys.
- 7:15Speaker 4: I mean, what are you doing? I mean, come on,
- 7:17Speaker 4: what is that all about?
- 7:18Speaker 2: But the point is his phandom is legitimate, true, and
- 7:22Speaker 2: we know we didn't question whether not he was a
- 7:24Speaker 2: fan and knows the sport. But you have a politician
- 7:28Speaker 2: and chams to jump into a good time, they'll find
- 7:31Speaker 2: a way to mess it up.
- 7:33Speaker 4: You make a very good point there too, and it
- 7:36Speaker 4: is about the boarders.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Will you one other things? So I'll get a call yesterday.
- 7:39Speaker 2: There's a pizza shade in New York City called Bravo Pizza.
- 7:42Speaker 2: There's about six or seven of them throughout Manhattan. I
- 7:45Speaker 2: get out about the other bars, but I know they're
- 7:47Speaker 2: in Manhattan, and there's a Bravo Pizza on thirtieth and eighth.
- 7:52Speaker 2: That place was counting on last night to do two
- 7:55Speaker 2: or three ex their normal business and pay their rents
- 7:57Speaker 2: for the next couple of months. Nobody went in last
- 8:00Speaker 2: night because of the lockdown. And somebody needs to explain
- 8:04Speaker 2: to the Yorkers why we are loching down six city
- 8:08Speaker 2: streets and three city avenues when there's no reason to
- 8:13Speaker 2: shut them down. I don't understand that at all.
- 8:16Speaker 3: Ohight, I want to go back. It's fair question. I
- 8:18Speaker 3: did not like the fact that he went after Jessica Tish.
- 8:21Speaker 3: I think she's doing the best she can. Like you said,
- 8:24Speaker 3: the mayor doesn't really like her, but he knew that
- 8:26Speaker 3: he needed her to try to keep a semblance of
- 8:29Speaker 3: safety in this city. Plus it looks good that a
- 8:32Speaker 3: jew hating low life like him actually has a Jewish
- 8:34Speaker 3: police commissioner. But I think she's doing the best she
- 8:37Speaker 3: can of the very difficult circumstances. So I thought Dolan
- 8:39Speaker 3: was a little tough on jess But I do want
- 8:41Speaker 3: to play this cut too.
- 8:43Speaker 4: Your money, creg you're trying to get my guy Trump
- 8:46Speaker 4: in trouble here.
- 8:46Speaker 3: This is Craig Caughton with Jim Dolan yesterday on the
- 8:50Speaker 3: Van and Craig brings up President Trump.
- 8:53Speaker 4: Lewis Cut number one.
- 8:54Speaker 2: May have looked like he shut his eyes for a
- 8:56Speaker 2: long period of time during one part.
- 8:57Speaker 1: I get it against I was with him the whole time.
- 8:59Speaker 4: He's not asleep, we were talking the whole.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Time he was sleeping.
- 9:04Speaker 4: He was he was very much awake.
- 9:06Speaker 1: He's very much engaged, right the Look, that's the first
- 9:11Speaker 1: sitting president of the United States to ever go to
- 9:15Speaker 1: an NBA finals. That is a huge honor, right that.
- 9:19Speaker 1: The and he's a New Yorker, and whatever you think
- 9:23Speaker 1: about him, he's a Knicks fan. And you know, people
- 9:26Speaker 1: on his I think he's a great guy. They and
- 9:30Speaker 1: I love him a long time. I've known I've known
- 9:33Speaker 1: him for over thirty years and and uh so, but
- 9:36Speaker 1: I'm not going to go on this show and start
- 9:38Speaker 1: espousing the President. I'll just say that that, you know,
- 9:43Speaker 1: having him there was was a great honor, right and
- 9:47Speaker 1: the and I enjoyed sitting with him, right, And he
- 9:50Speaker 1: asked me a lot of questions talking basketball. Yeah we're
- 9:55Speaker 1: talking basketball.
- 9:57Speaker 4: To be a flyer, that loll He knows basket play.
- 10:00Speaker 3: All right, So, no, he wasn't asleep. And you know,
- 10:03Speaker 3: of course you heard all the ridiculous and these guys
- 10:05Speaker 3: are being serious, at least they claim they were. You know,
- 10:07Speaker 3: I mean, I think Stephen A. Smith got the attention
- 10:10Speaker 3: he garnered because President Trump. President Trump called him a
- 10:13Speaker 3: box of rocks, said his zc Q was so low
- 10:16Speaker 3: he could never run per office. And Stephen A. Smith
- 10:18Speaker 3: was so happy the President mentioned him. He didn't care
- 10:20Speaker 3: about the content, but whether it was Stephen A or
- 10:23Speaker 3: Max Kellerman or Spike Lee. They blamed President Trump with
- 10:26Speaker 3: the Game three loss, and Stephen A texted me, Craig,
- 10:29Speaker 3: I swear to you two hours before the game yesterday
- 10:32Speaker 3: and said, if we lose tonight, it's still Trump's fault,
- 10:36Speaker 3: which was some of the dumbest and silliest commentary ever.
- 10:39Speaker 3: But it was nice to hear Jim Dolan say nice
- 10:41Speaker 3: things about the President.
- 10:43Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, you know how here's you, dude, every single day.
- 10:46Speaker 2: I don't you want from a talk show standpoint. You
- 10:49Speaker 2: can't talk politics in this country. You can't talk about
- 10:51Speaker 2: Trump good or band in this country. But yet a
- 10:54Speaker 2: lot of these guys and I think we probably do
- 10:57Speaker 2: it in a different way. It's all performative. There's nobody
- 11:00Speaker 2: that can come out and say that a human beings
- 11:03Speaker 2: sitting in a luxury suite one hundred and fifty feet
- 11:06Speaker 2: away from the court to play is now singularly responsible
- 11:09Speaker 2: for the outcome of a game, like what are we doing?
- 11:13Speaker 2: But I also respect it if the idea is to
- 11:15Speaker 2: get attention for yourself and get clicks to maybe get
- 11:18Speaker 2: more viewers. We all try to do it, and that's
- 11:21Speaker 2: what Stephen Addy's great at it. But it's performative, like
- 11:24Speaker 2: you're fandom, in my opinion, is performative. But as the
- 11:27Speaker 2: guy that performs, I respect it. He gets, he moves
- 11:31Speaker 2: the needle, so all I'm good. But you know, the
- 11:33Speaker 2: focus today, in my opinion, should not be about what
- 11:37Speaker 2: the mayor did, or the police department, or even the
- 11:41Speaker 2: lockout of that part of New York City. It should
- 11:43Speaker 2: be the fact that we are all blessed, blessed not
- 11:47Speaker 2: to be in Siin Rosenberg's that company, which I know
- 11:49Speaker 2: is an amazing gift that we all get every day,
- 11:52Speaker 2: but we should feel blessed that we got to see
- 11:56Speaker 2: one of the most amazing historical sporting events in the
- 12:00Speaker 2: history of this great city of Bars. You talked about
- 12:03Speaker 2: eighty six, Game six, a night that they did not
- 12:06Speaker 2: win the World Series, and obviously because they needed Game seven.
- 12:10Speaker 2: I think that's the best comparison. Because the Mets were
- 12:13Speaker 2: left for dead, there's no chance they're going to come back,
- 12:16Speaker 2: the Red Sox are gonna win the World Series, and
- 12:18Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Gary Carter with a single Keith
- 12:22Speaker 2: Kevin Mitchell and Ray nine and Mookie Wilson with the dribbler,
- 12:27Speaker 2: and we all sat there and Gary Thorn, I thought
- 12:32Speaker 2: set of best of that broadcast, stunned disbeliefe with this
- 12:37Speaker 2: call when he interrupted the great Bob Murphy. And that's
- 12:40Speaker 2: how he's last night.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. One more for you, and a very
- 12:43Speaker 3: good point in that. You know, the Mets did not
- 12:45Speaker 3: win the World Series that night. They had a beat
- 12:48Speaker 3: on a Monday night the Red Sox in the Game seven.
- 12:50Speaker 3: And I know that because I was in my basement
- 12:53Speaker 3: in Brooklyn and at the time I had a nine
- 12:56Speaker 3: inch black and white Sony Watchman. You can't make this up,
- 12:59Speaker 3: and I was watching Mets Game seven and the Giants
- 13:02Speaker 3: and the Redskins on Monday night football.
- 13:05Speaker 4: That was the year.
- 13:05Speaker 3: The Giants went on and beat John Away in the
- 13:07Speaker 3: Broncos in the Super Bowl, and don't beget the Mets,
- 13:10Speaker 3: but behind three nothing to the Red Sox in Game seven,
- 13:13Speaker 3: they still win. Is there any scenario, Craig, any scenario
- 13:17Speaker 3: where the Knicks don't win any of these three but
- 13:21Speaker 3: gets that ball three remaining games.
- 13:24Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. And look, they've played like crap.
- 13:26Speaker 2: That was the worst half of basketball they've played in
- 13:28Speaker 2: a very, very long time. But this team's got something
- 13:32Speaker 2: that championship teams have, right and something that we've never
- 13:35Speaker 2: seen before from the next or any team in the
- 13:39Speaker 2: last twenty five years. I thought last night was the
- 13:42Speaker 2: single most important and Vegas, New York City sporting event
- 13:46Speaker 2: this century. Because the Yankees, of course, of the World
- 13:50Speaker 2: Series in two thousand and nine, which shaven is the
- 13:54Speaker 2: Yankee stadim that year was like this. They weren't any
- 13:56Speaker 2: The New York Giants super Bowl run in twenty elevenly
- 14:00Speaker 2: had home games YO that postseason, And I think last
- 14:04Speaker 2: night's o Gananoby tippin' ranks right up there with the
- 14:08Speaker 2: Jim Layer's home run, with the Mukie Wilson dribbler, with
- 14:12Speaker 2: the David Tyree catch, and I think there's gonna be
- 14:16Speaker 2: about fifty million people that'll claim to their grandkids. I
- 14:21Speaker 2: was in the building the night they know Giananoby chipped
- 14:25Speaker 2: that Jailer Brunston miss in and got the next one
- 14:27Speaker 2: step away from a championship, And I'm loving it. We
- 14:31Speaker 2: deserve it. It was awesome and I feel blessed have
- 14:35Speaker 2: been alive to witness it. Myself.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Well, said jim laylet's listening right now. He's driving to
- 14:39Speaker 3: O J. Anderson's golf tournament. He's thrilled that you just
- 14:43Speaker 3: mentioned him, and.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Because he texted me, he said, don't forget that. He goes,
- 14:50Speaker 2: he texted me a half hour ago, and I love
- 14:53Speaker 2: Jimmy and I've played that golf, Hurta. It's a great
- 14:55Speaker 2: tournament as well. He goes, He goes, oh, Jananobe, you're
- 15:00Speaker 2: in the club, right, go I go what club? He goes,
- 15:04Speaker 2: my club? Right?
- 15:06Speaker 3: And then they want out to mention David Tyree right
- 15:09Speaker 3: and all that that is hilarious. Hey, listen, I know
- 15:12Speaker 3: everybody wants to talk to you today again, Craig. Congratulations.
- 15:15Speaker 3: That was a really great interview you did with Dolan yesterday.
- 15:18Speaker 3: And I appreciate you coming out of me not once
- 15:20Speaker 3: but twice this week. Like I say, I mean this,
- 15:22Speaker 3: You're the best in the business. So thanks for this morning.
- 15:25Speaker 3: You were terrific, Craig, Thank you so much.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Sayre a lot of fun for all of us. So
- 15:29Speaker 2: let's enjoy the win and out let all the other
- 15:31Speaker 2: negativity around it. You know, color what is a great
- 15:34Speaker 2: New York moment And hopefully we can just all enjoy
- 15:37Speaker 2: it in peace. But say the day, where's shary fun
- 15:40Speaker 2: coming into New York City today? Now I'm on, I'm
- 15:43Speaker 2: right at to Lincoln TNTAL right now, say sree a
- 15:45Speaker 2: fun day.
- 15:46Speaker 3: I agree the great Craig Carton. That's why he's a
- 15:48Speaker 3: hall of fame for folks afternoons on w AN with Siemac.
- 15:52Speaker 3: Great guy, tremendous talent, Craig, Thank you so much. I
- 15:55Speaker 3: love your pal.
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