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Yankees announcer Michael Kay takes concern with Mets’ community contemplating itself ‘finest sales space’ in MLB

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The Subway Series rivalry has prolonged to the published groups.

The New York Yankees and Mets are ending up a two-game set at Citi Field Wednesday, and it is the most well liked ticket in New York.

The rivalry formally started in 1997, when interleague play began, and the 2 groups confronted off in 2000, bringing it to a brand new stage.

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Michael Kay
Michael Kay throughout the seventy fifth New York Yankees Old Timers Day Sept. 9, 2023, at Yankee Stadium within the Bronx, N.Y. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)

Two years after that, the YES Network (Yankees Entertainment and Sports) was born, whereas SNY (SportsWeb New York) turned the published dwelling of the Mets when it was based in 2006.

The SNY baseball sales space of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez is broadly considered the most effective within the sport, they usually promote it that manner.

Kay disagrees.

“I believe our sales space is the perfect sales space in baseball. … I’ll take [Paul] O’Neill, [David] Cone and me over Gar, Ron and Keith. I might. I imply, they’re nice, however so is our sales space. The manner you need individuals to look at is to say, ‘Join the perfect sales space in baseball?’ I’m sorry, I believe we’re the perfect sales space in baseball,” Kay stated on his radio show Tuesday afternoon.

Michael Kay at podium

New York Yankees tv broadcaster Michael Kay speaks throughout the crew’s 63rd Old Timers Day earlier than a recreation towards the Detroit Tigers July 19, 2009, at Yankee Stadium within the Bronx borough of New York City.  (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

SNY’s “finest sales space in baseball” advert ran on his personal radio present, and Kay was not afraid to go after higher administration.

“I believe they need to really feel that manner. And I really feel that manner [about the YES booth]. But you additionally should be considerably out of a mindset of being utterly clueless to run that on ‘The Michael Kay Show,'” he stated.

“Does it make sense for them to have the host of the present retort what they stated? And I’m an enormous fan of Gary, Ron and Keith. I believe they do a terrific job. But to say ‘finest sales space in baseball’ when one of many hosts of the present that you just’re operating it on is within the different sales space.”

Michael Kay in dugout

New York Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay earlier than a recreation towards the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium April 20, 2024, in New York, N.Y. (New York Yankees/Getty Images)

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Kay has been calling Yankee video games since 1992, spending his first 10 years on the radio earlier than leaping to tv. Cohen has been the voice of the Mets since 1989 and has known as some faculty basketball.

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