Between alienating Mets fans, sparring with fellow broadcasters, and declaring the first-place Blue Jays aren’t actually a first-place team, Michael Kay is currently on a full-blown Linsanity-esque heater.

A day after defending himself against Sportsnet’s Jamie Campbell by claiming he wasn’t a “fawning fanboy,” Kay went after fawning Yankees fanboys on his eponymous radio show. Having just lost 2/3 from the New York Mets and nearly dropping the final game of a three-game Subway Series set, in which the Mets pieced together a rag-tag pitching group, Kay rebuked Aaron Boone’s claim.

That claim, of course, came amidst a brutal losing streak, as the Yankees’ manager told players behind closed doors that they were indeed the best team in baseball. But as currently constructed, the Yankees’ play-by-play voice can’t hold fast to that sentiment. But he also doesn’t adhere to the idea that means the Bronx Bombers should be sellers, either.

“What are you trading? What are you rebuilding for? You’re three games out of first place,” Kay said on his show on Monday. “So you think that’s what happened over the last week is indicative of how they’re going to be for the rest of the year? I don’t see that. I don’t see it. There are moves to be made. Brian Cashman does make moves at the trade deadline. He got Jazz Chisholm Jr. last year. And what did that do? That ignited them, and they got to the World Series.

“And I love, by the way, Yankees fans that say, ‘They should rebuild.’ ‘They should reload.’ Really? You couldn’t take losing in the World Series. You went to the World Series last year, and now you’ve had a bad three-week stretch, and you want the manager and GM fired. And you want to reload? And you’re going to be able to handle that? You can’t handle losing in the World Series!”

ICYMI on The Michael Kay Show:@RealMichaelKay has a message for anyone who wants the New York Yankees to be sellers at the trade deadline. pic.twitter.com/XsHVbtJ7Al

— ESPN New York (@ESPNNewYork) July 7, 2025

Kay’s not wrong about the inconsistency. But if this is what the Yankees look like when the wheels start to shake, it’s fair to wonder whether the ride ever really had balance to begin with.

Sure, Kay might get pegged as a fawning fanboy again, ironically, after spending most of his show doubting that the Yankees are even the best team in baseball. But he drew a hard line when it came to firing Boone or Cashman, an idea that Ken Rosenthal later endorsed.

Maybe if it comes from @Ken_Rosenthal….
But probably won’t make a difference. https://t.co/FHxPZniO8P

— Michael Kay (@RealMichaelKay) July 7, 2025

Quick fixes aren’t getting you any closer to a World Series. Just look at the Washington Nationals, who fired their manager and general manager over the weekend. But the Yankees aren’t the Nationals. They’re stuck in an uncomfortable middle ground, where they’re flawed to be championship-ready, but not broken enough to justify a full teardown.

And maybe this is Kay’s way of politely saying what Jeff Passan did, being that we know his stance on cursing.