The New York Yankees season came to an end over the weekend, and many are now looking to assign blame for where things went wrong. Many targets have been acquired, but Yankees television announcer and radio host Michael Kay wasn’t thrilled with how some media members acted as the season came to a close.
Kay took issue with the Yankees “mental skills coach” putting together a video of the 2004 Red Sox coming back from a 3-0 ALCS deficit. The 2004 Red Sox accomplished that feat against the Yankees.
“How in baseball God’s name can you be so tone deaf as an organization as if to do that?,” he asked during The Michael Kay Show Monday. “How can you be that tone deaf? Talk about bad optics, are you out of your mind? I talked to three players from the ’04 team, they were outraged by the fact that their failure was being used as motivation for the 2022 team. How could you do that? It would be like somebody from (Abraham) Lincoln’s family and you’re trying to teach them about shootings in theaters, and you use their dad as an example of how to avoid it. I mean, are you out of your mind?!”
Kay then turned his attention to the actions of ESPN Radio analyst Eduardo Perez for facetiming Red Sox great David Ortiz during a production meeting with Boone.
“I know Eduardo Perez tried to walk it back about how they were joking around about the Philadelphia Eagles or whatever — Aaron Boone has to say to David Ortiz or Eduardo ‘thank you, but no, we’re not going there’. And here’s the amazing thing, Don (LaGreca) and Peter (Rosenberg): They told the media! They told the media!” Kay reiterated. “Aaron Boone told the media, ‘Oh yeah, we put together a tape of the ’04 Red Sox.’ Oh my goodness. I hate to do it! I hate to do it, I hate to do it because I don’t want it done on the show: if George Steinbrenner were alive today, somebody would be fired.”
