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

WFAN November 2, 2024

·2 hr 48 min

Danielle McCartan opens the night live from the Mike Francesa studio in Lower Manhattan. She says she has four hours on the air and starts taking callers right away. The first major topic is the Yankees' collapse in the 2024 World Series chase. She goes straight to the fifth inning that ended the season. Aaron Judge's dropped pop fly sits at the center of the loss. McCartan treats it as the kind of mistake a franchise does not shake off easily. The tone is raw, immediate, and unsmoothed. She keeps returning to accountability. The show also circles around the idea that mental mistakes matter more than physical ones. She says there is zero tolerance for that kind of error, and neither should Aaron Boone moving forward. A long caller exchange shifts the discussion to payroll structure and deferred money. That segment gets into luxury-tax numbers and what the Yankees are carrying on the books. Another caller asks about bonuses and how those might count. The conversation does not act like every answer is settled. It stays conversational and a little improvised. From there, the focus moves to Jazz Chisholm Jr. and where he fits. McCartan sounds skeptical about him in one spot and makes room for Oswaldo Cabrera as a player she likes. She says Cabrera deserved more of a look. The counterpoint is that Jazz brings speed and havoc once he gets on base. Third base, second base, and center field all come up as possible puzzle pieces. Gleyber Torres is treated as unlikely to return. The final stretch brings the show back to responsibility and what the Yankees should fix next. McCartan closes by thanking callers and the production crew. The whole show feels like a live New York sports room working through a loss together.

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A hot, caller-driven Yankees postmortem that keeps the collapse at center stage.

Danielle McCartin spends the hour on the Yankees' World Series collapse, treating the fifth-inning season-ending meltdown and Aaron Judge's error as a fan-level postmortem.

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You want a live Yankees collapse argument, not a polite recap.

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