Buck Showalter bothered by Pete Alonso’s f-bomb: ‘I don’t think you’ll see it happen again.’
"I don’t want somebody’s day at the ballpark to be less than it could be because of something someone heard that shouldn’t hear it."
"I don’t want somebody’s day at the ballpark to be less than it could be because of something someone heard that shouldn’t hear it."
"He’s drinking his hot tea and he’s gargling and he’s giving himself a throat massage."
"It was embarrassing, it was terrible. I hated that it happened."
"People suck! Everybody is out for somebody’s throat. The world sucks!"
"After much deliberation, sleepless nights, talking with my family, back and forth, I don’t want to give this up."
"Was it weird? A little bit. Because I think it’s only human nature to go, ‘Nobody can survive if the great Joe Buck isn’t there.’ But everything moves on."
"That’s where I owe him so much. Because had he been that way, I might have retreated."
"That’s a classy moment, a classy guy, and a classless thing to say."
"And for someone to be in the business as long as he has…to pull that kind of lie and bullcrap was embarrassing"
"It was performative, because I’m such a good performer on the air"
"I am really, really sitting on the fence right now about getting you canned, opening your mouth when you shouldn’t have."
Rick DiPietro and Dave Rothenberg move to the 6 – 10am timeslot, giving ESPN New York a local show that competes directly with WFAN for the first time ever.
"If we were baseball players, we’d all know what we make and we could all go to management and negotiate based off that information"
"He’s the type of guy who stood atop the mountain and decided to pee on everybody climbing up"
"Football not only reigns over all sports as a business property. It reigns over all American entertainment"
The Nets' scrimmage was initially preempted for a Yankees game. But even after that Yankees game was postponed, YES showed a simulcast of The Michael Kay Show instead of the Nets.
ESPN New York's The Michael Kay Show handily beat WFAN's Mike's On with Mike Francesa for the first month of the autumn ratings book, even with WFAN streaming counted.
"They’re so mean-spirited and petty, to stop a guy from going on the air. If he’s that bad that you fired him, what do you care if he’s on the air for two hours with us?"
This line provoked a lot of laughter from Kay and his co-hosts.
"It’s been very scary, and at no point do I think I’m all good now. It took a long time to get back, and I didn’t rush because I want it to be right and I want it to last.'"
For the second straight quarter, ESPN PR sent out a release claiming Michael Kay "beat" Mike Francesa, citing numbers that include Kay's streaming feed and don't count Francesa's.
"You destroy him daily and defend him. Good gig."
“Good afternoon, Mr. Carton, Colleen from New York. First time, long time.”
On The Michael Kay Show, Casserly revealed that he annually trains prospects for combine interviews. That should have been disclosed when he started passing along anonymous critiques of Kyler Murray's interviews.