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The New York Yankees are below .500 and sitting dead last in the AL East.
An organization that expects to be in the World Series picture every year has turned into an average-ass baseball team with no real direction or long-term plan.
Michael Kay—the voice of the Yankees broadcast who also hosts an ESPN radio show where he often talks about the Yankees—has the best job on the planet.
He was born and raised in the Bronx and gets paid an exorbitant amount of money to talk about his favorite baseball team. What a life.
This week, he and his co-host, Peter Rosenberg—the corny white guy on the Hot97 radio show—got into a heated argument on the Michael Kay radio show after Kay attempted to explain why the Yankees front office allowed this team to get this bad.
Michael Kay defending this front office is absolutely embarrassing. This isn’t even shilling. This is flat out lying. We’re smarter than this. You can’t gaslight us any longer
— Chris (@Chris_NYY28) August 16, 2023
Michael Kay lists off terrible, non-sensical reasons behind the Yankees “plan” and then flips out when Peter Rosenberg implies Kay is making excuses for the team.
Sure, the 2022 season failed because Andrew Benintendi and Matt Carpenter got hurt. And then the 2023 season started and the Yankees didn’t even replace them with anyone. Ok.
I am fascinated by this radio show. It’s hosted by a Yankees team employee who has admitted to being friends with the manager, Aaron Boone but then also has to sit in front of a microphone for 4 hours a day and pretend to criticize an organization that feeds his family.
But Michael Kay knows that everyone listening knows he works for the team. So he uses that relationship to then mask all of his own personal feelings under the guise of “I’m just telling you what the team is thinking” thus shielding him from any sort of accountability for his own opinions and no one can attack him.
He has the freedom to tell Peter that he’s reacting like an emotional fan when in reality, he’s the biggest fan in the room.
This is the best media gig ever. Michael Kay is a millionaire and can never be criticized because we don’t know what he thinks and feels. No, he’s only telling us what he thinks the Yankees are doing. He’s only here to explain it all to us, guys. He’s not actually sharing himself. Wink wink.
Now I want Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone to keep their jobs after this disaster season solely to hear Michael Kay attempt to explain that decision to us as if he’s being an impartial observer even though he’s actually just shielding his buddies.
Oh, and then he gets a six-figure direct deposit at the end of the month.
King shit.
Pay me millions of dollars and Deadseriousness will become the Yankees propaganda hub.
I will North Korea this shit.
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