The Best in Sports News and Analysis, from Danielle McCartan · Danielle McCartan

December 25, 2024

·2 hr 26 min·4 clips

Key insight from segment 5

Danielle McCartney opens the night with Christmas greetings and a live invitation to call in. She jokes about Santa and the Norad tracker, then moves right into the Yankees and says Brian Cashman is crushing this offseason after Juan Soto bolted to the team with the highest offer. The mood is sharp. She keeps pointing out that the roster still has plenty of holes, and she treats the winter as a real test of whether the front office can keep moving after that loss. Then the show drops into a brutal quarterback stretch. A second-half pick-six lands right away, and she uses a conversation with her dad to make the collapse feel even more absurd. That is the kind of night it was. The Rangers get the next broadside, with McCartney calling their season a nosedive and tying some of the damage to the way Chris Drury handled the Trocheck situation. She says it was a bad read. In her view, the move fractured the room and left the team without a clean voice on the ice. Too many people are trying to lead. Trocheck gets some credit for trying to fill the gap, but the larger problem stays put, and the show keeps that pressure on while callers jump in. The callers matter here. They keep the pace moving while McCartney bounces from game details to memory to holiday chatter without sanding down the edges of the conversation. She never sounds detached. By the close, she is still pushing for a coach who can pull the pieces together. And she is still refusing to give up on the season entirely. That stubborn finish fits the whole show, which keeps its holiday warmth but never backs off the argument.

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Christmas Day sports talk that runs from Yankees offseason chatter to Rangers turmoil in a loose, callers-first flow.

Danielle McCartan keeps Christmas Day moving with a fast New York sports call-in show that opens on Brian Cashman and the Yankees after Juan Soto left for the highest offer.

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You want a live Christmas-night New York sports check-in with callers, heat, and no polished filter.

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