{"id":66922,"date":"2025-07-08T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=66922"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:34:39","slug":"michael-kay-scoffs-at-yankees-fans-calling-for-rebuild-you-cant-handle-losing-in-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=66922","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kay scoffs at Yankees fans calling for rebuild: &#8216;You can&#8217;t handle losing in the World Series!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article id=\"main\">\n<div><main role=\"main\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.thecomeback.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-07-at-5.29.00-PM-scaled-e1751923812289-832x447.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Kay scoffs at Yankees fans calling for rebuild: 'You can't handle losing in the World Series!'\" width=\"832\" height=\"447\" \/> Photo Credit: The Michael Kay Show<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Between alienating Mets fans, sparring with fellow broadcasters, and declaring the first-place Blue Jays aren\u2019t actually a first-place team, Michael Kay is currently on a full-blown Linsanity-esque heater.<\/p>\n<p>A day after defending himself against Sportsnet\u2019s Jamie Campbell by claiming he wasn\u2019t a \u201cfawning fanboy,\u201d 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\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<p>That claim, of course, came amidst a brutal losing streak, as the Yankees\u2019 manager told players behind closed doors that they were indeed the best team in baseball. But as currently constructed, the Yankees\u2019 play-by-play voice can\u2019t hold fast to that sentiment. But he also doesn\u2019t adhere to the idea that means the Bronx Bombers should be sellers, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you trading? What are you rebuilding for? You\u2019re three games out of first place,\u201d Kay said on his show on Monday. \u201cSo you think that\u2019s what happened over the last week is indicative of how they\u2019re going to be for the rest of the year? I don\u2019t see that. I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I love, by the way, Yankees fans that say, \u2018They should rebuild.\u2019 \u2018They should reload.\u2019 Really? You couldn\u2019t take losing in the World Series. You went to the World Series last year, and now you\u2019ve had a bad three-week stretch, and you want the manager and GM fired. And you want to reload? And you\u2019re going to be able to handle that? You can\u2019t handle losing in the World Series!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN New York (@ESPNNewYork) July 7, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kay\u2019s not wrong about the inconsistency. But if this is what the Yankees look like when the wheels start to shake, it\u2019s fair to wonder whether the ride ever really had balance to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Maybe if it comes from @Ken_Rosenthal\u2026.<br \/>\nBut probably won\u2019t make a difference. https:\/\/t.co\/FHxPZniO8P<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Kay (@RealMichaelKay) July 7, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quick fixes aren\u2019t 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\u2019t the Nationals. They\u2019re stuck in an uncomfortable middle ground, where they\u2019re flawed to be championship-ready, but not broken enough to justify a full teardown.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe this is Kay\u2019s way of politely saying what Jeff Passan did, being that we know his stance on cursing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"author-box\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b7978a88d7cdad438c95db5bef79a3f3?s=96&amp;r=pg\" alt=\"Michael Kay scoffs at Yankees fans calling for rebuild: 'You can't handle losing in the World Series!'\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Sam Neumann<\/h2>\n<p>Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. 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