New York Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay is not a friendly face in New York Mets circles at the moment.
During the Subway Series last month, Kay reported that Soto, who he said looked “very, very glum” in a Mets uniform, wanted to re-sign with the Yankees, but his family told him they wanted him to go to the Mets. He said so based on the word of “people I respect” with knowledge of the star’s free agency.
Mets fans had questions about the legitimacy of Kay’s report, and when Soto appeared on camera during Wednesday’s game having some light-hearted fun in the dugout, it appears many of them tagged Kay in the clip to try and get his attention.
Well, it appears the tactic worked. Because Kay unleashed a tirade for the ages against Mets fans, whom he doesn’t seem to have a lot of fondness for on the whole.
“Mets fans cannot enjoy any kind of success,” Kay said Thursday on his show for ESPN New York. “Because they always have to have a grievance. They always have to have something to complain about. And they’re so thirsty when it comes to being right and proving somebody who said something about their team wrong. So, then they misappropriate what people do say to fit their silly little childish narrative.”
Crazy to hear from a 64-year-old man whose voice has become synonymous with baseball’s most prestigious franchise? Yes, indeed. And Kay was far from finished:
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“The little gnats that for some reason I live rent free in their mind. “The prevailing narrative, which to me is laughable, ‘Kay just made that up because his radio show failed. That’s why they took him off the radio show and he needs to get clicks.’ Well, you simpletons, that’s not the case at all. My radio show didn’t fail, it was a rousing success…
“You think I need to make up something and ruin a 39, 40-year career? Make up something for what? What would clicks do for me, you bunch of ill-informed nitwits. Please, get over me. I’m not worth your trouble. I’m the other team’s announcer…you know how silly you look…you know how small and insignificant you make yourself out to be?”
Can you even imagine what Yankees fans might be saying about Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen if the roles were reversed? We just don’t see play-by-play folks going after fan bases on such a personal level.
“I don’t let fleas go on the back of lions. And you’re all fleas…What a bunch of clowns. Nitwit clowns,” Kay concluded.
We’ll leave it up to the public to decide who the real clown is here.
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