Michael Kay doesn’t think he’s “close at all” to starting to think about his broadcast future, though he joked in a phone interview with The Post on Thursday that “when you reach a certain age, people are going to wonder.” Kay, 65, has started to hear speculation and the retirement of Mets broadcaster Howie Rose … Read more
The voice of the Yankees is feeling more and more like an Old Timer. Michael Kay, 65, revealed that he doesn’t expect to be calling games as he moves deep into his golden years, even wondering about how long he will be around anyway. “You know what? I always use this line,” Kay began in … Read more
There are a lot of ways to describe when a baseball team drives in a few runs in an inning, and Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay certainly found a unique way to do it after a three-run third inning for the Yanks. José Caballero, Ben Rice and Heliot Ramos all brought in runs during the third … Read more
The Yankees broadcast took quite the turn on Tuesday night. And it wasn’t even related to baseball. While YES network was showing Gerrit Cole walking in the dugout in the fifth inning, former Yankees manager and current analyst Joe Girardi ripped into broadcaster Michael Kay. It was because Kay was stirring his tea with the … Read more
Everything is O-Kay. Yankees play-by-play announcer Michael Kay responded to rumors that he had a hand in longtime YES colleague John Flaherty’s exit from the network. “I had never had friction with John Flaherty in my life, ever,” Kay said on his “The Michael Kay Show” on Wednesday. “That was not anything that I wanted … Read more
David Cone left it up to your imagination and Paul O’Neill apparently knew the cheeky response that his colleague and ex-teammate withheld. Monday’s YES Network’s broadcast took a slight detour when Cone noticed Blue Jays outfielder’s Yohendrick Pinango neck tattoo of a pair of red lips and said how he wished he has the same … Read more
The announcers who shared a booth with the great John Sterling, and the players and manager who became the main actors in his theatrical telling of the game, arrived at Yankee Stadium on Monday to celebrate a life well lived, and lived only the way one man could. Sterling, the legendary and longtime radio voice … Read more
Michael Kay broke down on the air as he opened up about the death of his former radio partner John Sterling on Monday. Sterling, who was 87, had open-heart surgery after suffering “so many heart attacks that it would’ve killed most people,” Kay explained on his ESPN NY Radio show. And while Sterling got through … Read more
Michael Kay is saying “SEE YA!” to the Yankee fans who cursed out former Bronx Bomber Juan Soto. The YES Network broadcaster and sports talk radio host chastised Yankees fans who chanted “F–k Juan Soto” during the eighth inning of Sunday’s loss to the Marlins. The chants at Yankee Stadium apparently bled onto the broadcast … Read more
Michael Kay and David Cone are back to their normal banter. During Sunday’s Yankees broadcast on the YES Network, a picture of a grandmother — listed as Rebecca on the on-screen graphic — and her granddaughter Hannah was shown on the screen to highlight fans at the games. Kay had another thing on his mind. … Read more
In order to represent so many fans’ sentiments about the rising difficulty in finding where to watch MLB games, the Yankees found the perfect complainer. YES Network released a new commercial Friday featuring “Seinfeld” mastermind and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Larry David in order to show how easy it is to watch games on their … Read more
Throw away all of those good times and laughs – Michael Kay is done. The voice of the Yankees fired off a wild text message to his former ESPN Radio co-host Peter Rosenberg, which included telling him, “you’re dead to me,” Rosenberg revealed on “Don, Hahn & Rosenberg” this week. The apparent issue between the … Read more
Michael Kay took exception to some of Pat McAfee’s criticisms of traditional sports journalism during his radio show, pushing back on the popular ESPN talk host’s comments, calling sports journalists “curmudgeon bums” who hate sports. All of it stems back to the viral moment between Jaguars head coach Liam Coen and the Jacksonville Free Press’ … Read more
Michael Kay turned to Hollywood in his attempt to win his war with Mets fans. The Yankees’ television voice mentioned a theoretical date with Sydney Sweeney to drive home a point in his beef with Mets fans that has intensified after the Amazin’s collapse and the Yankees making the playoffs. “The Red Sox, if they … Read more
Michael Kay took some extra glee in saying “See ya” to the 2025 Mets. The Yankees’ television announcer and ESPN radio host took a dance on the grave of the Mets after their historical collapse following what he believed to be bush-league antics by certain fans throughout the offseason and during the season. “Again, every … Read more
Michael Kay does not believe he was insulting the Blue Jays when he said they were “not a first-place team.” But because of the controversy his comments sparked, which included a back-and-forth with Sportsnet broadcaster Jamie Campbell, Kay, the voice of the Yankees on YES Network, reached out to Yankee great and current Blue Jays … Read more
Michael Kay simply can’t help himself. The YES Network Yankees play-by-play announcer feuded with Blue Jays announcer Jamie Campbell this past week, and admitted to The Post’s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman that his argumentative style is simply his nature. “I always find myself in these situations and I’m damaged,” Kay said on Monday’s episode … Read more
In his first season with the Yankees, a heated Jim Abbott confronted then-New York Times reporter Jack Curry over an article that labeled the pitcher as something he’d never been called before. Underachiever. The tense exchange — revisited in ESPN’s new E60 documentary “Southpaw: The Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott” — served as one of … Read more
After being taunted with a broom, Michael Kay dropped a hammer. Kay, the Yankees’ play-by-play voice on YES Network and a talk-show host on ESPN radio, reacted Sunday to being called out by Jamie Campbell of Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto after the Blue Jays swept a four-game series from the spiraling Yankees to overtake first … Read more
Sportsnet host Jamie Campbell wasn’t going to let Michael Kay get away with his Blue Jays jab. After the Blue Jays completed their four-game sweep of the Yankees on Thursday, Campbell threw some shade during the postgame show toward Kay — while not referencing the play-by-play announcer by name, but referring to him as a … Read more