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

WFAN June 29, 2025

·2 hr 8 min·5 clips

Danielle McCartin opens with a rough baseball night. She frames the show around the Yankees and Mets, starting with Marcus Stroman's return for New York and Frankie Montas' second start of the season for the Mets, then widening the talk into what those outings say about both rotations. Stroman gets the first praise. After some nervous buildup, she says his first start since April went about as well as anyone could have hoped and notes that even the rehab work had not looked encouraging. Montas does not get the same treatment. McCartin says the Mets' starter looks bad enough that almost any better internal option would be an upgrade, and she uses that contrast to argue that the club's pitching choices have become untenable. The callers keep the temperature up. As phones open, she takes on the idea that the Mets are drifting toward seller territory, but she pushes back hard and says a team that spent big cannot simply accept that result. Her focus is on action. She says the Mets need a move now, not later, and complains that the same names keep getting run out there while better options sit untouched. The National League context matters too. McCartin points out that the race is deeper than expected, with Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, and even Cincinnati all complicating the path that many people assumed would belong to Arizona and Atlanta. That makes the deadline talk sharper. She argues that the Mets should not hide behind a soft reset and should instead tell fans exactly how they plan to fix the roster before the market tightens. The Yankees get their own turn. McCartin says the Bronx club should be looking at a short-term infield answer like Eugenio Suarez or a longer-term piece like Matt Chapman, and she says doing nothing would be the worst outcome. The pacing stays quick. The show moves from game reaction to lineup critique to trade deadline argument without losing the feel of a live radio room, with small jokes, caller interruptions, and a steady sense that the next move matters. Even the lighter moments stay in the same rhythm. McCartin mentions being off from school and starts to set up a story from the last couple of days, which keeps the monologue personal without letting the baseball argument drift.

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A sharp New York baseball segment that turns two starts into a broader roster argument.

Danielle McCartin uses a baseball-heavy WFAN hour to set Marcus Stroman's first start since April for the Yankees against Frankie Montas' second start of the season for the Mets.

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You want a blunt New York baseball hour with Yankees, Mets, and trade-talk names.

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