Michael Kay gets why fans are frustrated with the New York Yankees. The team, which came into the Major League Baseball season with high expectations, is off to one-game-over .500 start through its first 31 games. That doesn’t mean the voice of the team is going to sit idly by and let unfounded accusations be levied against him.
During the Yankees’ extra-inning win over Cleveland on Wednesday night, a Twitter user that goes by the name @PlayoffBader accused Kay of mindlessly defending embattled general manager Brian Cashman.
“You watch every game, right?” read the message, which has since been deleted. “Explain to me how you could possibly defend Cashman.”
Kay did not put the fan on blast publicly. Instead, he reached out via direct message and issued a challenge.
“Okay, let’s do this,” Kay wrote. “You give me a quote, or a sentence where I defended Cashman on the air tonight, any proof you can come up with, and I will make a sizable donation to your favorite charity. Again, any instance of me defending the Yankee GM during tonight’s broadcast, and I will gladly make the donation. And if you can’t come up with proof, and you will not be able to because it doesn’t exist, I want nothing back from you, other than you gaining the knowledge that what you and others hear is that when someone isn’t bashing Cashman who think they’re defending him. I will patiently await the proof. Thank you for watching the game on Prime.”
In another tweet that has since been deleted, @PlayoffBader posted a screenshot of the exchange. If it was an attempt to shame Michael Kay or make him feel backed into a corner, it did not work.
