Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Craig Carton | Sports Radio Personality | 05-05-26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: While the entire stadium standing.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Jeter singled cleanly between third and short his first time,
- 0:07Speaker 2: so he is one hit away. He is at two thousand,
- 0:11Speaker 2: nine ninety nine as he stands in and there's the
- 0:15Speaker 2: chant which you can hear in the background, Derek Jeter.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Here comes the three to two from Price, swung on
- 0:22Speaker 2: at head of.
- 0:23Speaker 3: The air to deep left, hit balls, high, hit us far,
- 0:26Speaker 3: it all gone. He's homered, Derek Jeter. Homer's to tie
- 0:33Speaker 3: the game. And there it is hit number three thousand.
- 0:39Speaker 4: Derek Jeter has achieved another milestone in his Hall of
- 0:43Speaker 4: Fame career. Fifteen playoff appearances, twelve All Star Games, five
- 0:49Speaker 4: World Championships, and now the first Yankee to amass three
- 0:54Speaker 4: thousand hits, the Captain Derek Jeter.
- 0:59Speaker 5: If you were looking for drama, if you were looking
- 1:02Speaker 5: for the moment, if you were looking for entertainment.
- 1:05Speaker 6: That's what he gave you.
- 1:06Speaker 5: And I think there were people who were critics, severe critics,
- 1:09Speaker 5: and there were people who loved it. And I'll tell
- 1:12Speaker 5: you this, as the years went by, I think the
- 1:15Speaker 5: fans really grew to love the home run calls. Yankees
- 1:19Speaker 5: hit a million home runs every year. They love the
- 1:21Speaker 5: entertainment value of it, and they started to appreciate that
- 1:25Speaker 5: and not worry too much about the descriptive analysis of
- 1:29Speaker 5: the of a certain play.
- 1:30Speaker 7: The other thing that was funny about stuning with my
- 1:32Speaker 7: old partner here about the passing of John Stunning, legendary
- 1:35Speaker 7: Yankee broadcaster.
- 1:36Speaker 1: As Mike said, never missed a game in his life.
- 1:37Speaker 7: He wouldn't want to dare miss a game in case
- 1:39Speaker 7: he got replaced by somebody that.
- 1:41Speaker 5: He didn't want somebody else to do a game.
- 1:42Speaker 1: He definitely did. Why anybody else working but him.
- 1:45Speaker 7: But the one thing about him, he used to whine
- 1:47Speaker 7: a lot when the Yankees weren't playing well, and you know,
- 1:50Speaker 7: and you never could argue with him because they had
- 1:52Speaker 7: the guts to act. The Yankee got a little Harry
- 1:54Speaker 7: carrying him.
- 1:54Speaker 8: Sorry is Mike and the med Dog Mike branchessor Christopher
- 1:58Speaker 8: mad Dog Russom the afternoon show when I was there
- 2:01Speaker 8: all those years at the fan and again those guys
- 2:04Speaker 8: are done. Mikey does his podcast, and Chris is on
- 2:06Speaker 8: Sirius XM. In my opinion, the best sports talk guy
- 2:12Speaker 8: on radio, it's not even close anymore, is the afternoon
- 2:15Speaker 8: host Harmonica Like Mike and Chris were on FN right now,
- 2:18Speaker 8: Craig Carton, he's the best. Craig's a Hall of Famer,
- 2:21Speaker 8: also a Box Sports one television guy on this show
- 2:25Speaker 8: quite a bit. And I said yesterday, I said, listen,
- 2:28Speaker 8: I'm not saying John Sterling was Vince Scully. Okay, I'm
- 2:31Speaker 8: not saying that, But in terms of pure entertainment value,
- 2:36Speaker 8: he was better, better than all those guys. Now, it
- 2:38Speaker 8: depends on what you prefer me. I understand that baseball.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Yes, winsor losses matter. They get billions of.
- 2:45Speaker 8: Dollars, but baseball is still a form of entertainment. So
- 2:51Speaker 8: give me an entertaining guy, and I'll take that guy
- 2:54Speaker 8: eight days a week. And John Sterling, I believe, was
- 2:57Speaker 8: the best when it came to keeping the Yankee fan entertained.
- 3:02Speaker 8: But I'm out of the business. Craig Caughton is still
- 3:04Speaker 8: the best. You tell me, Craig, When does John Sterling
- 3:08Speaker 8: belong in the pantheon of all time greats?
- 3:11Speaker 6: Yes, Look, I think he's one of those guys like
- 3:15Speaker 6: Harry Carrey in Chicago, Harry Colson Philadelphia, Vince Sutley in
- 3:20Speaker 6: Brooklyn in LA. And part of that's because of his longevity.
- 3:24Speaker 6: Part of that's because even the mistakes he made became
- 3:27Speaker 6: must listen to radio, and he's part I just a
- 3:31Speaker 6: bad way to put it, But to those guys are
- 3:33Speaker 6: dying breed. You know, guys that stayed with one team
- 3:36Speaker 6: for thirty forty years. I'm not sure how long those
- 3:40Speaker 6: guys are going to exist anymore because of the travel,
- 3:43Speaker 6: because the money, because of their consolidation, because some teams
- 3:47Speaker 6: don't send guys on the road anymore. But John Sterling
- 3:51Speaker 6: was uniquely ours and even in the last five or
- 3:54Speaker 6: six years of his career where his mistakes became fodder
- 3:58Speaker 6: for talk show radio. Just don't think there's a lot
- 4:01Speaker 6: of guys like him left. And I think John Sterling
- 4:03Speaker 6: and the tribute he got yesterday, we're very well deserved
- 4:07Speaker 6: to think about this In an error where guys don't
- 4:11Speaker 6: like to go to work, you know, five days a week,
- 4:14Speaker 6: let alone seven. He did more than five thousand consecutive games.
- 4:19Speaker 6: And if you put that in context to the twenty
- 4:22Speaker 6: year career of Derek Jeter, and who just played Garret
- 4:25Speaker 6: Jeetter's three thousand and said, you know, the home run,
- 4:29Speaker 6: just for context, john Sling called it every single pitch
- 4:35Speaker 6: of Derrek Cheeter's career.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Wow.
- 4:37Speaker 8: No, that's that's amazing. That's a great, great job, Craig,
- 4:41Speaker 8: You're right, and he was special. You know, you talk
- 4:44Speaker 8: about the mistakes, and you know, Lou you remember this.
- 4:47Speaker 8: We had a guy at Wupen years ago. His name
- 4:50Speaker 8: was Jonathan Grunfast. He mostly cut tape. He went on
- 4:53Speaker 8: to become an update guy from me in Miami, believe
- 4:55Speaker 8: it or not, Craig. So, long story short, at the
- 4:58Speaker 8: end of Bob Murphy the hale of being announcer for
- 5:00Speaker 8: the Mets at the end of his career, he effed
- 5:03Speaker 8: up all the time. He would call Keith Hernandez Keith
- 5:05Speaker 8: Bernandez sid Bernandez sid Hernandez. He just, you know, he
- 5:08Speaker 8: would talk about Pee Wee Reese. He just he got
- 5:11Speaker 8: rough for Bob Murphy at the end. And grunt Bast
- 5:15Speaker 8: made a tape of all of his mistakes. And one morning,
- 5:19Speaker 8: you remember this, on Imus, after Bob Murphy died and
- 5:22Speaker 8: everybody was doing the Bob Murphy tributes, I decided on
- 5:26Speaker 8: my sports report that morning for Imus to play the
- 5:30Speaker 8: Bob Murphy mistakes. So I Misco, you bet that's not
- 5:36Speaker 8: nice and all kidding aside turn Off.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Was furious, Eric Spitz was furious. Mike and Chris.
- 5:43Speaker 8: Mike and Chris were pissed. The Mets were pissed. And
- 5:45Speaker 8: I say this to you, Craig, because if given the
- 5:48Speaker 8: opportunity to do it again.
- 5:49Speaker 1: I would do it again tomorrow.
- 5:51Speaker 6: Ah.
- 5:55Speaker 1: I know. That's why I love you.
- 5:56Speaker 8: That's why I say you're the best in the business
- 5:58Speaker 8: because on a serious note, you understand and this is
- 6:02Speaker 8: why you're great. You know your sports, but you're entertaining.
- 6:05Speaker 8: That's why John Sterling was great. Entertaining that's the key word.
- 6:10Speaker 6: No, Yeah, he looks. He was a showman. He understood it.
- 6:15Speaker 6: You know. I'm not sure if he would have embraced it,
- 6:17Speaker 6: you know, earlier in his career, but I think as
- 6:20Speaker 6: he got older and people started to talk about his
- 6:23Speaker 6: legacy more, I just think he liked being talked about. Now,
- 6:27Speaker 6: Susan yesterday, I thought did a great job kind of
- 6:30Speaker 6: eulogizing him at our midday show when Evan Robertson Sean
- 6:34Speaker 6: Morass cheeky was off yesterday.
- 6:37Speaker 8: And I actually, actually I have that cut. Well, I
- 6:39Speaker 8: have that cut right now. Let's play this. This is
- 6:41Speaker 8: Craig referred to it. Here's a chance to play Susan
- 6:44Speaker 8: on the show cut number ten and she talks about
- 6:47Speaker 8: to craigs point.
- 6:47Speaker 1: The first time she met John.
- 6:48Speaker 9: Stoning, I was his update person on wf AN in
- 6:52Speaker 9: nineteen eighty seven and he was doing a talk show
- 6:55Speaker 9: and he came up for All Star Week and he
- 6:58Speaker 9: did the week and I remember he in and I
- 7:00Speaker 9: was the upgrade person and he stood up and he
- 7:02Speaker 9: cupped his hand over his ear and he talked standing
- 7:05Speaker 9: up for four hours. And I said, this must be
- 7:07Speaker 9: a really interesting person. And he could talk about anything.
- 7:12Speaker 9: He could talk about any sport at any time, and
- 7:15Speaker 9: so his his callers were The exchange between him and
- 7:19Speaker 9: the callers was unbelievable. He also was a pretty nasty
- 7:22Speaker 9: talk show host.
- 7:22Speaker 2: People think it was.
- 7:24Speaker 9: Nasty then John would really yell at people and she
- 7:27Speaker 9: called them stupid.
- 7:28Speaker 6: But I thought, this is quite a.
- 7:29Speaker 9: Fascinating person he had. And that's when we became friends.
- 7:33Speaker 9: And we found out we had the same taste for music.
- 7:35Speaker 9: We had, you know, we read the same books. He
- 7:37Speaker 9: was a voracious reader. I don't know if people knew
- 7:40Speaker 9: that in between innings John would be reading.
- 7:42Speaker 6: He would and he would come right.
- 7:43Speaker 9: Back into it because that was his life, was baseball.
- 7:47Speaker 9: But he could turn it off, read a couple of pages,
- 7:51Speaker 9: and now we're in the bottom of the seventh, then
- 7:53Speaker 9: he'd come right back.
- 7:54Speaker 1: It was extraordinary, nice job there by Susan Right. Craig, Yeah,
- 7:58Speaker 1: it was great.
- 7:59Speaker 6: You know, they were to other longer than anybody, right,
- 8:02Speaker 6: so she would know the kind of piccadillos about you
- 8:05Speaker 6: know him off the air as well. I've heard that
- 8:07Speaker 6: story before that he would spend the pregame reading whatever
- 8:10Speaker 6: novel he was reading, a book he was reading, and
- 8:12Speaker 6: then as soon as the producers said go to Evan,
- 8:16Speaker 6: write until you go go mode, which I think is
- 8:19Speaker 6: a great gift that he had. But you know, she
- 8:21Speaker 6: did say something it made me think, you know, I've
- 8:24Speaker 6: tried to have a little more empathy my second and
- 8:27Speaker 6: third iteration. I'm not sure if I'm going to successfulther
- 8:31Speaker 6: or not. But she did make the comment yesterday that
- 8:36Speaker 6: he didn't quite understand or at some point earlier in
- 8:39Speaker 6: his career when people would take shots at him like
- 8:42Speaker 6: he didn't get it. And I think there came a
- 8:45Speaker 6: point late in his career where he enjoyed being talked
- 8:48Speaker 6: about even for his people, you know, playing like you
- 8:51Speaker 6: did for Imus, you have some of the mistakes he made,
- 8:54Speaker 6: and I think he became a larger than life figure,
- 8:57Speaker 6: almost a caricature of himself, in the last couple of years. Buddy.
- 9:01Speaker 6: I think the fact that so many people across the
- 9:03Speaker 6: country are playing his calls and mimicking his calls now
- 9:07Speaker 6: tells you about his legacy. That's one of the great
- 9:09Speaker 6: radio play by play guys in baseball history.
- 9:12Speaker 8: Bottom line, this is the Hall of Famer, the great
- 9:14Speaker 8: Craig Carton we day afternoons on WFB end. There's a
- 9:17Speaker 8: great podcast too in the mornings for his guys over
- 9:19Speaker 8: at Fox Sports one which we play here.
- 9:21Speaker 6: Sid. Really it's bad to have a thirty hours coke
- 9:24Speaker 6: slushy and a bag of Twizzlers and a box of
- 9:28Speaker 6: Ticktacks for breakfast.
- 9:30Speaker 8: I mean, it's probably not as bad as a line
- 9:32Speaker 8: of cocaine and a hippa bottle of scott but it's
- 9:34Speaker 8: not great, all right.
- 9:37Speaker 6: So you in.
- 9:41Speaker 8: You know what's funny about you is I know you.
- 9:43Speaker 8: You're in good shape. You're a very good looking guy.
- 9:45Speaker 8: He used to be a very good ballplayer. I'm not
- 9:47Speaker 8: sure if you still all. You probably are, but you
- 9:49Speaker 8: don't eat healthy, do you? You don't need healthy?
- 9:53Speaker 6: Well, it's a thirty ounce coach slushy from quick Jack
- 9:56Speaker 6: at Twizzlers and Chickjack is a unhealthy someone healthy. But
- 10:01Speaker 6: I'm glad you brought up my ball playing skills. Yeah.
- 10:04Speaker 6: I don't care anybody else, says ws An on here
- 10:09Speaker 6: WABC on the softball fields, go Suton Island out fort Charity.
- 10:16Speaker 6: Are you in or are you out?
- 10:19Speaker 8: I gotta tell you the sun Island Ferry Hawk management,
- 10:21Speaker 8: the great Gary Parone who loves you. He was in
- 10:24Speaker 8: these studios just last week as the Ferry Hawks opened
- 10:27Speaker 8: up their home schedule at that beautiful stadium last week.
- 10:30Speaker 8: He is so excited Craig about this opportunity now for
- 10:34Speaker 8: your WFA and baseball team to take on my team
- 10:37Speaker 8: at WABC chat.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Lotez is in. Chris Olavero was in. Here we go.
- 10:41Speaker 8: We're gonna kick your ask Craig. We got we got
- 10:44Speaker 8: I don't know who we've got. We got Tick Morris shortstop.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:49Speaker 6: By the way, you have Brian Kilme playing second base
- 10:53Speaker 6: right when.
- 10:56Speaker 8: Well, one of the things you have to talk about
- 10:57Speaker 8: though the rules, like you can't be bringing in on
- 10:59Speaker 8: you guys like to do your sports station, your friends
- 11:02Speaker 8: with everybody. Craig, I get it. You can't have Plexico
- 11:05Speaker 8: Boris and Derek Cheeto and all those guys playing on
- 11:07Speaker 8: your team. But I'm gonna be playing, you know, my
- 11:09Speaker 8: my weekend crew like Cindy Adams.
- 11:11Speaker 1: You know you can't do that.
- 11:13Speaker 6: Yeah, you're gonna have Bodinot first base, Joe Jack and
- 11:16Speaker 6: Peena pitching. You're gonna have Bruce Bruce Blakeman playing right field.
- 11:20Speaker 6: You're gonna have I said, kill Me's playing second. I'm
- 11:24Speaker 6: gonna have Plexical person. Right, I got Ticky Barber and
- 11:29Speaker 6: left center. Oh my god, I've got right a third.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Bad good luck.
- 11:34Speaker 8: Tiky's a great shorts up to what I may do,
- 11:37Speaker 8: just to really make sure that the fans love us,
- 11:40Speaker 8: I may put President trumpet third.
- 11:42Speaker 6: How about that, Craig, you think he's going by the way.
- 11:45Speaker 6: I was told that there's a video that came out
- 11:48Speaker 6: maybe over the weekend that President Trump was a decent
- 11:53Speaker 6: high school baseball player.
- 11:54Speaker 1: That's true. He was actually even better than decent. He
- 11:57Speaker 1: was good. Yes, he was actually good, even better than
- 11:59Speaker 1: the sin. He was good. And you know he's yeah.
- 12:03Speaker 6: I think I saw a video of him having a
- 12:05Speaker 6: catch and he looked like he knew how to throw baseball.
- 12:08Speaker 8: Oh yeah, no, And he loves the game. You know,
- 12:10Speaker 8: he's very very close with Wendy Levine and the Yankees.
- 12:12Speaker 8: He was in a box last summer hearing rumors about
- 12:15Speaker 8: him coming back to the Yankee Stadium again this year,
- 12:18Speaker 8: and he loved the Willponds. I'm much sure we go.
- 12:21Speaker 8: I guess along with Steve Cohen. But he in fact,
- 12:23Speaker 8: when he first won in twenty seventeen and did his
- 12:27Speaker 8: first interview with me and Bernard god Rest, Bernard Soul
- 12:30Speaker 8: and we talked about all the important stuff at the time,
- 12:32Speaker 8: same thing, you know, China, White House Correspondence Center. This
- 12:35Speaker 8: is nine years ago. We ended the interview with me
- 12:38Speaker 8: asking President Trump missed the President if opening Day is
- 12:42Speaker 8: the same day in Queens in the Bronx and the
- 12:45Speaker 8: Steinbunners offer you tickets in the Bronx and the Wilpons
- 12:49Speaker 8: offew tickets and Queens, which game would you go to?
- 12:52Speaker 8: And he said, oh, I said, that's a tough question.
- 12:54Speaker 8: Don't ask me that. I love both those guys. But
- 12:56Speaker 8: he made it very very clear that he was very
- 12:59Speaker 8: close with all those guys and both organizations.
- 13:02Speaker 6: Jimmy, are you stroud do if he's the president? You
- 13:05Speaker 6: just tell Rob Manfred Yankees in one medicine foreign do
- 13:08Speaker 6: bot I got pident.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Yeah he would.
- 13:12Speaker 8: You probably would do that, yes, But at anyway, I'm
- 13:15Speaker 8: glad you popped on this morning.
- 13:16Speaker 1: You're beautiful, You're great, and you're right.
- 13:18Speaker 8: Everything you said about John Sterling Craig, you nailed it,
- 13:21Speaker 8: especially just his his he professor.
- 13:24Speaker 1: He just want to do every game. The guy never
- 13:26Speaker 1: wanted to miss a game.
- 13:27Speaker 6: You never wanted to take a day off. He's I
- 13:29Speaker 6: think he's one of those guys where taking a day
- 13:31Speaker 6: off would have meant you know, he was in trouble.
- 13:34Speaker 6: You know, we all live in this world where as
- 13:36Speaker 6: much as uh you talk about how great joy every morning,
- 13:39Speaker 6: I talk about great I have the afternoon. There's an
- 13:42Speaker 6: insecurity to this job.
- 13:44Speaker 1: There is oh no quay.
- 13:45Speaker 6: And I think you know him never wanted to take
- 13:48Speaker 6: a single pitch off. I think played into the insecurity
- 13:52Speaker 6: of the job. And you'll hear the Yankee play by
- 13:54Speaker 6: play guy, there's no job that's more talked about, and
- 13:57Speaker 6: there's no job you would think with less urity in that,
- 14:01Speaker 6: and I think, you know, I think that's what John
- 14:03Speaker 6: was kind of talking about without actually saying the words.
- 14:06Speaker 6: God forbid, I missing that bat. The guy that replaced
- 14:09Speaker 6: me might be better. So I never want to take
- 14:12Speaker 6: a day off at all. But can I just bring
- 14:14Speaker 6: up a quick thing out of left field for you?
- 14:16Speaker 6: Sure you said earlier this morning that it took you
- 14:20Speaker 6: a half hour to shave in the morning because you
- 14:23Speaker 6: gotta shave your neck, right, that's disgusting.
- 14:27Speaker 8: What do you mean it's disgusting underneath my chin, your neck,
- 14:30Speaker 8: you don't change it, but you shave your face and
- 14:32Speaker 8: you let the hair.
- 14:33Speaker 6: Grow sbaka, I get the head. That's a quick top
- 14:39Speaker 6: of mom in the face. Mom, how hairy is your neck?
- 14:47Speaker 9: No?
- 14:47Speaker 6: I do.
- 14:47Speaker 8: I get very hairy, and I gotta shave my head,
- 14:50Speaker 8: my face, my neck. It's a whole process, Craig, it's
- 14:53Speaker 8: a hole. One of these days I'll videotape it and
- 14:56Speaker 8: you can watch it at home.
- 15:01Speaker 6: Fine, nine ninety five, it's like next shaving fetish videos.
- 15:10Speaker 1: You get big money for that, big money. Yeah, well,
- 15:12Speaker 1: we'll do a whole new toil on that.
- 15:14Speaker 8: Maybe before the game when ABC takes on that end,
- 15:16Speaker 8: but thank you for another amazing appearance. You're funny, You're great,
- 15:20Speaker 8: You're terrific. Craig cart and I love you, buddy.
- 15:21Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
- 15:23Speaker 6: Take your Saturdays to the game because I'm starting to
- 15:25Speaker 6: worm warm up. You better get his as out here too.
- 15:30Speaker 8: No Lou plays, Hey Lou remember, Thank you Craig. You
- 15:33Speaker 8: were great when we had our band softball team. You
- 15:36Speaker 8: were out there a couple of times with me. Yeah,
- 15:37Speaker 8: you played second base.
- 15:39Speaker 1: He's old now, we're all old. Now, who's young? Nobody
- 15:42Speaker 1: got younger in the last twenty years. Who is older?
- 15:45Speaker 9: Yeah?
- 15:45Speaker 7: So one?
- 15:46Speaker 1: You can still play?
- 15:47Speaker 5: Okay, sure, I'll play fine.
- 15:49Speaker 1: You played second base? Yeah, yeah. You want our team though,
- 15:53Speaker 1: on Craig's team. I know, but you both just said
- 15:55Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah you got to be there. Well,
- 15:57Speaker 1: you were a draw.
- 15:58Speaker 8: That's why Craig wants you out there, because the ladies
- 16:01Speaker 8: love you. You're famous, Jo, I miss.
- 16:05Speaker 1: There.
- 16:06Speaker 9: You go.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Okay, how about that?
- 16:07Speaker 5: Ladies love cool.
- 16:11Speaker 1: Graig. Thank you brother.
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