Phil Mushnick
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"Alex, as I'm sure you know, recently was investigated by MLB for gambling."
Another one of those weeks, ya know?
Friday's Yankees-Red Sox was such a can't-miss, according to YES, that it stuck to its come-hell-or-high-water script, turning the visitors' half of the third inning into the Kim Jones I'm Over Here Stadium Report. Did it matter that the Yankees and Red Sox were tied for first in the AL East and the game was 0-0? Well . . . nah.
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EPA (above); N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg (inset)
MISSED IT! Anyone tuning in to watch Mark Teixeira and the Yankees play Carl Crawford and the Red Sox on Friday had to sit through Michael Kay's (inset) annoying, YES-approved schtick.
Jones -- and she's as much a victim of this system as we are -- reported no decision had been made on Ivan Nova, Phil Hughes was scheduled to start Tuesday, but not if he was used out of the bullpen in Boston, she's not sure why Joe Girardi would use Hughes out of the bullpen, and A.J. Burnett was not going to the bullpen.
So, with the biggest game of the season going on, no score, YES had Jones report three "not sures" and one "definitely not" -- all of which could have been said at any time from the booth.
To this Michael Kay responded, "Fascinating stuff, Kim."
But Kay is easily fascinated. There is no statistic he won't recite as significant, as if, writes reader Bud Musso, "He just found a pearl in his oyster."
In Friday's opening, Kay gushed that this was the first time the Yankees opened a series against Boston while on a seven-game winning streak since 1963!
Something like that can be found about every team -- "First time since 1978 the Orioles have come into Kansas City after splitting a series with Oakland" -- but not everyone would consider such things wow-worthy.
Friday's Yankees-Red Sox, a 3-2 final, ran 3:26. Rome was built faster. This was one of those drag-ons that Kay used to lament as "unmanageable." Funny, when umpire Joe West took a shot at the Yankees and Red Sox for stretching games, he was pounded. But he was right.
In Kay, those who wanted to see some pace restored to games had a steady advocate. For years, Kay jabbed MLB on the air for serving tryptophan-laced baseball. Right on, Mike!
But then one day, on YES, Kay said the opposite. He not only claimed he has no problem with games that run 3:30 and longer, he ridiculed those who do. What the hay?!
He performed this stunning 180 without providing even the slightest hint he ever had held the reverse view. He spoke as if YES's viewers would be too stupid to know or recall better.
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