Michael Kay Rants on Yankees Getting Swept by the Tampa Bay Rays

[@jpthegr8860]

This is why I love New Yorkers. “Why are the Tampa Rays better at baseball than you?”. Just cuts through the BS and says what people are thinking. Just like my favorite New Yorker of all time as a matter of fact....

[@yoelvis2424]

Fire cashmam he's the problem 1 championship in 18 years.

[@MyTeamOnly_]

I don’t understand how is he the problem? He’s consistently brought in the best players. Aaron Boone has been awful as a manager. Girardi was much better . Boones a fucking nerd.

[@chrisweidner4768]

Savage, but seems to be close to the pulse.

[@neilalderman4372]

It’s almost like money doesn’t buy wins

[@bobhasbrouck1197]

Been a Yankee fan since I sat in the left field bleachers when I was 8. I am 66 now. Mickey stood there in front of me in center field. Cashman GONE! Boone GONE! Why not? Cashman with his rah rah BS is sickening. Cashman is loading up with everyone else's trash. Watch the Angels play. They have a manager. They play exciting baseball, and are genuinely having fun doing it. That's the real world.

[@johnnyboygold2532]

Cora is a real manager. Boone dose not know how to cheat properly. Cora knows how to cheat. The yanks could have had him. Honestly though, as a non biased Rays fan: Verdugo over Judge

[@richrucci6908]

Let's be honest its early they are 5-10 but they are poorly constructed and not winning a world series this year.

[@chrisheffernan6600]

Championships are not Won in April, but they sure can be Lost in April

[@barkerm9]

The Rays are better at baseball because they improve the players that they sign. The Yankees do not improve their players once they are on the roster, they do not help their players stay healthy, but they do sign them to long term contracts. The rays also make starting pitching a priority.

[@wlm1697]

Plus they play fundamental baseball.

[@pashanoble9359]

They want the head of the HR department as a manager. What they need is Billie Martin.

[@chrisheffernan6600]

The chemistry is terrible, no life to them. Cashman has built a lot of garbage teams since 2001. Big contracts has killed them over the years. They had two great managers, Torre, and Girardi. Letting Girardi walk and bringing Boone in was a HUGE mistake. Boone is too much of a nice guy, not tough enough to manage these egos on this team. Get rid of Cashman, get rid of Boone, get rid of Thames. Do what you can for this year, and start through attrition at getting this team turned around back the way it was in the 90's with warriors like Paul O'Neil, Bernie Williams, Tino Martinez. Clutch hitting, players holding players accountable, managers holding players accountable. I don't believe this team will make the playoffs unless these changes are made very soon. Just my opinion from a disgusted Yankee fan.

[@joekotulak7617]

I’m sorry if it clearly sounds I’m discounting everything a hitter’s does well with advanced stats (OBP, OPS, WAR), but in the end those starts matter less in the grand scheme of a shorter sample size when opportunities to score are naturally down with greater pitching in the postseason. This team simply thinks they can homer their way to a title without having a good mix of driving in runs with singles and doubles as well. Very few teams that I can think of only win titles hitting just a lot of homers with pitching. Yes teams do win titles hitting a lot of homers, but people are very flawed in their thinking that just any team that hits a lot of homers with pitching and defense can win it all when history shows it’s those teams that not only can hit a lot of homers, but also drive in a lot of runs with singles and doubles. The only team that comes to my mind is the 2008 Phillies. They however are an exception not the norm.

[@jocelyncopper9736]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁embrassing and unacceptable.

[@guidofeliz8384]

Cole cannot bring a NY championship by himself.

[@guidofeliz8384]

Hire players whose love for baseball and entertaining the fans is greater than the passion for a big check.

[@SugarRayTaylor]

You need more than 5 players to field a team.

[@quietprofessional3608]

And the best way to get there is to raise up home grown players from the farm system instead of trading all of them for the type of player that you’ve mentioned. Need hungry ball players that want millions of dollars one day instead of players that already got their millions when they get to NY.

[@SugarRayTaylor]

The guys telling you that home runs don't mean anything in today's game, are the same guys who have brainwashed these hitters into thinking that they need to swing out of their shoes on every pitch to hit a home run.

[@JuanLopez-xk7bs]

The hitting coach needs to go. Bring in a guy who’s Contact > Power.

[@Tiny_wxlf]

I understand what you are saying but Cashman is the one who brought in all of these guys so Marcus Thames is trying to work with what he has

[@guidofeliz8384]

Stop the HUGE CONTRACT deals. Paying players lots of money does not guarantee a championship.

[@fallofcamelot]

Like who? The vast majority of this team is on team friendly contracts. Only two players are on contracts worth more than $20 million annually. That’s less than the Dodgers, Phillies and Padres. The Yankees passed on Machado, they passed on Harper, they passed on Bauer. In the past they would have splashed the cash on these guys and watched as their bloated contracts were paid long after they were worth a quarter of the money (A-Rod, Ellsbury, Giambi etc.) Instead the Yankees have gone for lesser known players for the most part (Urshela, Voit, Lemahieu) or they have used their farm system (Torres, Judge, Frazier, 75% of the bullpen.) Yeah they suck right now but it’s not because they have bloated contracts.

[@rudivanrooijen7611]

Cashman has constructed a team that is injury-prone, strike-out prone offensively, mediocre defensively along the axis, with every starter other than Cole suspect. With so much money to spend the Yankees have done a lousy job.......

[@Gmoney_-ht6dp]

Beside the money offered...I have no fu@king idea how anyone can play for the Yankees. In my opinion the Rays are winning cause they are having fun. Yankees players are so much under pressure from everyone that it’s not fun it a job to them!!!🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@michaelengland3398]

Michael I appreciate your optimism and I understand you've been watching and analyzing baseball longer than me; but from what I've seen on the field for a couple years especially the start of this year; I don't feel this team presently constructed can win a division or advance in the playoffs

[@johnnycage2722]

Yankees not making the post season defense is horrible. Cole can’t pitch every day

[@ramfreak1902]

How in the world is it so amazing that stat between the Yanks and Knicks? Opening day for baseball is normally 2 weeks before the NBA season ends. Classic meaningless stat and the kid says, WOW THAT'S AMAZING! We need Mike & the Mad Dog back

[@Yankeehardcorepipebombmessiah]

I’ll try to add Mad Dog Russo on here

[@raulgongora5288]

This is not the last Yankees team from 1990 to 2009 they have to exchange for slang most or contact with the ball is most important contact with the ball antique way dosent work proof on the field manasment,very bad haven to exchange .case closer O

[@GeraldM_inNC]

I love the Noel Coward reference!

[@cosalasinaloa4067]

One of the problems is that the Yankees have too many players who try to hit home runs everytime they step up to the plate. They need to put the ball in play and hit for average to get on base. Baseball is a team sport where everyone must contribute to win as a team not as an individual. Season is still young and allot of baseball left but if players continue to swing for the fences every at bat then it’s going to be a Long season for the Yankees.

[@erminobenitez3122]

The yankees are winning first this year. They might be wild card .Cashman fault all the pitcher he got on trade are injured than filled teams with second hand players tha hit once in blue moon. LL WE HAVE CO)E CORTES STARTER THE REST CAN PITCH TO SAVE THERE LIVES THAN ONE OUTFIELD JUDGE. AND IN FIELD TORRES Rizzo. Rj. Than the rookies that they try .we have no power judge and he not hitting either. Once blue hit a homerun. We need help

[@TheMrfilmmaker]

Peter R. you sound like a fool. I really doubt that Jay Bruce retired because he thought the Yankees aren't good. Bruce retired because he realized he just was not capable playing any longer.

[@boridebrooklyn8300]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@raulreyesjesus63]

I love the show ,kay and don are to much bake the cake ,whp it , don they can't hit lol 😆,what a mess" ,but all this is true 🤣. 2023 let's see if they can hit more .

[@dlineboyz5549]

Seeing Yankees fans lose their minds right now warms my heart as a life long blue Jays fan

[@MathewPeters14]

Why isn't Didi Gregorious on the team anymore?

[@invisiblemanmusic]

The Yankees let him walk in free agency after the 2019 season. Judging by his performance in Philadelphia, they made the right decision.

[@tannerstewart5667]

What a terrible take "when are we going to hold the Yankees to a different standard?". Different standard? This is a team that goes out and continuously spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in hopes to win another ring. If you spend that much money and have that many high profile players on your roster year in and year out, people are going to hold you to the highest standard. Sorry about it.

[@alvalankerofficial]

LETS GO METS. METS RUN NYC BASEBALL

[@willburke8515]

lol what happened buddy

[@babyyoda6549]

The Blue Jays beat them in their own house at the trop

[@thedude3065]

maybe if your fans didn't throw crap at the road teams I might just sympathize

[@cpl.m9645]

Facts!

[@UchuKejiMovan]

Don is acting like 2019 didn't happen where they were 2 games from the WS when he keeps on talking about 2017

[@mhvacr_]

That’s when the BS started , they should have never taken out Chad Green in the ALCS game 2 . Since then we have been bad

[@anthonys.8569]

@@mhvacr_ Also, Stanton sitting out game 2 for a little boo-boo was the death nail in that series. I still have not let that go from him- def not a fan of his.

[@mhvacr_]

@@anthonys.8569 facts. It’s a shame what’s happening to the team right now .

[@boridebrooklyn8300]

You say 2 games ! But those 2 games are like a whole different season ! It’s 2 games that everyone knew we were not gonna win , those 2 wins were only gonna be won if we had a different line up , a line up that didn’t rely on home runs

[@UchuKejiMovan]

@@boridebrooklyn8300 speak for yourself when you say "everyone knew they weren't going to win those games" I thought they had a shot and only lost because Chapman laid a lazy slider or a batting practice fastball right over the plate to Altuve

[@DjDobleU809]

Something major needs to happen. I'm sorry to say this because this guy is cool as hell. But Aaron Boone needs to go. Fire Boone. Asap!!!

[@mhvacr_]

Maybe what is needed I know is Yankees fans don’t want to hear it but we need to stink it up for something to change . Let’s prepare ourselves for that. Maybe then the Front Office will get its act together and get with the program and build a real roster and get a real Manager

[@jaredwilliams8786]

Gooooooooose!

[@raulgongora5288]

Stil on antiques way dont doing any slang

[@freddymustafa5020]

Boone is Cashmans puppet,he's a cheap manager and they won't get rid of him they don't want a Buck Showalter manager who doesn't manage with stupid analytics but he's a good manger who plays fundamentals something Boone does not do! And it's not working! They will never win with Boone I'm sorry

[@guidofeliz8384]

Bring back Joe Torre.

[@Ok-bv2kk]

He’s in his 80’s.

[@guidofeliz8384]

Cashman must go!!

[@freddymustafa5020]

And Boone must go!

[@yoelvis2424]

1 championship in 18 years yup he gota go.

[@JMPIMP254]

MLB is just better when the Yankees suck.

[@chop3625]

All about Love & Profits. The organization as a whole “Got Woke”. Pinstripes once intimidated, no longer.

[@mellegacy30]

Too many big eggos.

[@williamm.9255]

This Isn't Yankee Baseball !!!! PATHETIC!!!!!

[@richrucci6908]

Honestly this organization has sucked since '01. GET RID OF CASHMAN!

[@richrucci6908]

Gio Urshela is def expendable