Yankees manager Aaron Boone gave the impression to be prepared for the whole lot during spring training, aside from the incontrovertible fact that YES broadcaster Michael Kay was growing a beard.
The longtime Yankees play-by-play man caught the skipper off guard through the postgame news conference after their 9-2 Grapefruit League win over the Twins at Steinbrenner Field on Monday.
“He can pitch up together with his fastball, and I believed he threw some good cutters in there… and does Michael Kay have a beard?” Boone said with shock as he was speaking with reporters, in accordance with MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch.
“The Michael Kay Show” account on X had some fun with the situation by quoting the post by the MLB.com reporter and responding with a waving emoji.
“Yes he does,” the show also said, responding to the query about Kay’s beard.
The Yankees got here away with a win in a game that saw offseason acquisition Juan Soto double in the underside of the third to tie the rating before the Bombers added seven more unanswered runs.
Jorbit Vivas hit a three-run homer in the underside of the seventh inning to make it 9-2.
Kay made headlines last week when he eviscerated the Mets for what he described as an offseason where management was “derelict of their duty.”
“It is a man [Steve Cohen] who bought the team and said he was going to win a championship inside five years,” Kay said. “That is 12 months 4; they ain’t winning a championship this 12 months, and everybody keeps [going], ‘Well, there’s a plan.’ Well, what’s the plan?”
The longtime Yankees broadcaster did acknowledge that he would likely be labeled as “Yankee Boy” before he went on his rant against the Mets.
Kay has been a part of the YES Network broadcast since 2002 and was a part of the Yankees radio broadcast team from 1993-2001.
He began hosting a drive-time radio show on ESPN Recent York in 2002.
