Mushnick called Carton's account of the incident — in which Carton claimed he nearly punched Mushnick at a dinner last year and had to be physically separated — a lie.
"I’m walking in, and I was gonna punch him in the face and had to be separated from him"
"On the air, off the air, his house, my house, your house, I’ve said yes to that, 20 times over"
"You don't carry the torch for Michael Jordan. You don't carry the torch for Magic Johnson. You don't carry the torch for Larry Bird."
"We don’t need to invent things that didn’t take place to make the Jets look worse"
"All of a sudden, this story has crazy legs like the Jets are offering people jobs, and they're being told no. That never happened."
"That we would still light up the Empire State Building in Patriot colors irks the hell out of me."
On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews Craig Carton, host of The Craig...
"He can't say you replaced me with a young white guy or a pretty blonde girl. He’d have to eat it because you’re replacing him with a black guy.”
"If I could partner with Barstool, I would, if I'm a network."
"We were this close to having Greg Olsen as a host on the FAN"
"The most important thing for fans is it's certainly my goal to make sure that we play 162 games next year."
"I think the difficulty to accomplish those sort of in-season events, you almost inevitably start talking about fewer regular-season games."
"As soon as he found out Craig was involved, he was like, 'Hey, I'll do anything for you except that.'"
Craig Carton defended his tenure at FS1, claiming ratings dropped 40% after his name was removed and another 60% after he left Breakfast Ball.
"It made no sense. It meandered. It was awful."
"Let me get a couple air swings in while the anthem is being played because I don't play good basketball anymore, I got to work on my golf game."
"Maybe I was naive and foolish about it, but yeah, obviously it hurts because I gave so much of my life to that place."
"I recognize that my coming back means they no longer have on-air jobs at WFAN, and I'm very sensitive to that, I feel for those guys."
"Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata are made to be talk radio guys"
"If he never left, we’d still be together making beautiful music. Which, not my fault."
"We’ve been in the loop, this is not a surprise"
Craig Carton is finalizing a deal to become the station’s afternoon drive host beginning next year
"Maybe we haven’t really investigated why he has the interpreter...when he clearly understands English"
"You can't have it both ways."