The New York Mets missed the 2025 MLB postseason, and they did so in spectacular fashion. And what kind of Yankee lifer would a man be if he did not take the opportunity to dunk on them for that?
Speaking on his ESPN New York radio show the morning after the Mets finalized their own demise, New York Yankees lead television play-by-play announcer Michael Kay took some time out to mock the Mets fans in his life who had been gleeful about their team’s strong first half to the season. Indeed, “mock” may be a bit generous to say, as Kay’s words had some bite on them.
“I got a lot of Met friends. Friends that are Mets fans. They’re devastated today,” Kay began. “And those are the people I genuinely feel for. I really feel for them. The people that I don’t feel for, the people that made me think that it might be fun today to come on at 1 o’clock and just giggle for two hours, you know who you are.”
“You’re the creeps that couldn’t let good enough be. You’re the ones, ‘We’re the big brother now.’ You’re the ones who kept sending those tweets out to me, ‘Oh, Juan Soto looks happy now.’ How dumb do you feel? How chagrinned are you? Are you embarrassed?”
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Seemingly not embarrassed himself, Kay let loose some of the frustration that can only build up in anyone who takes these things too seriously. Bellicose by nature, at least when he is on his radio show, Kay’s triumphal tone spoke to his feeling of vindication, and bordered on sounding like a Norwegian soccer commentator in how passionate he was with it all.
He did, however, have some points. When he chastises Mets fans for giving themselves too many early accolades after completing the lucrative free agent signing of outfielder Juan Soto last summer, Kay is right that the Mets did indeed pull off a coup with the move – and still managed to blow it anyway.
“You signed the best free agent available in a long time. One of the best players ever to become a free agent, just a smidge behind Alex, when Alex Rodriguez became a free agent at 26. That’s how valuable Juan Soto is. And you still fell flat on your face.”
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As recently as June 12, the Mets had a strong 45-24 record and a big lead in their division, standing 21 games over .500 and looking like a National League powerhouse. But after losing their next seven games in a row on their way to dropping ten of their next 11, they lost all confidence, lost some arms to injuries, over-relied on the remainder, and never had a balanced hitting line-up to begin with.
In light of their decades-long battle for subway series supremacy, words will be exchanged between Yankees and Mets fans, and bragging rights dangled as some kind of victory dance. Such is the world of sports fandom, particularly in a city as easy to get riled up as New York. Kay, though, seems particularly bothered by it all.
There is a lot of time to fill in the world of local radio, even when that locale is the city of New York. Reacting to comments from fans of the great rival team and dancing on their graves, when you yourself did nothing to cause said demise, is certainly a choice for how best to fill some of it. Certainly, Kay vented his spleen. It is however probably a bit unbecoming to be so upset by tweets of strangers. Just enjoy the Wild Card series for what it is.