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Try it freeMichael Kay turned to Hollywood in his attempt to win his war with Mets fans.
The Yankees’ television voice mentioned a theoretical date with Sydney Sweeney to drive home a point in his beef with Mets fans that has intensified after the Amazin’s collapse and the Yankees making the playoffs.
“The Red Sox, if they beat the Yankees, they have the right to lord over them, they really do,” Kay said on his self-named show Thursday before the Yankees’ 4-0 win over Boston. “The thing that I don’t get is that Met fans, some Met fans, are just waiting, gleefully waiting to say, ‘Look, you lasted three more games than we did. There’s no difference between not making the playoffs and losing in the wild card. None.’
“So, my question to you would be: If you had a chance and you asked Sydney Sweeney out on a date, and she turned you down, but then she said yes to another guy, and they went out on three dates, and it didn’t work out. What guy had it better? The guy who got the three dates with Sydney Sweeney or the one that got shot down right away?”
Kay and Mets fans have been at war this season since he made comments in May about Juan Soto’s happiness in Queens after leaving the Bronx Bombers to join their crosstown rivals.
He said Soto was “very, very glum around the clubhouse.”
Soto ultimately had a tremendous first season with the Mets, and Kay alleges that plenty of Mets fans chirped him, and he later called them “ill-informed nitwits.”
Fast forward a few months and Kay had some fun at “nasty” Mets fans’ expense after they suffered the humiliation of missing the playoffs despite a costly roster.
“Again, every Met fan out there. I feel for you. I do. And I don’t rejoice in your pain at all but it’s that vicious, angry subset of Mets fans that weren’t hugged by their parents, who didn’t have any love in their family and they love to pass along hate; derisive, nasty, those I don’t feel sorry for,” Kay said Monday.
“Let me tell you a little secret: I feel glee about your pain today because you deserve it. The way you tried to make my life a living hell by all those Juan Soto tweets, when you know that I never even said the stuff you’re accusing of me saying, but you needed something to hang on the rim about and said let’s pick the guy who announces Yankees games and is also accessible on the radio show, let’s do it to him. But now, I’m the one who’s laughing at you because you couldn’t beat out the Cincinnati Reds with a $110 million payroll. You added the great Juan Soto to a team that went to Game 6 of the NLCS and you didn’t make the playoffs the next year. How do you wrap your mind around that?”
It would seem that Mets fans started blowing up Kay’s mentions after the Red Sox claimed Game 1 of the wild-card series to put the Yankees’ season in jeopardy, and they seemingly could not wait to give it back to him should the Yankees have been eliminated by the Red Sox.
The Yankees ultimately won the series in three games to advance to the ALDS, avoiding what Kay said would have been a “failure” — just like the Mets’ season, in his eyes.
“I mean, Mets fan, for the most part, what I would say: You really should pipe down about, ‘Oh, look, it’s only three more games than we played. We’re waiting for you in Cancun.’ Yeah, and your ballpark for the last three days is a Spirit Halloween. While the Yankees are pouring about 50,000 people a game into their stadium for the Wild Card. Do they want to win? Of course they do. And if they lose, the season would be a failure,” Kay said earlier this week.
“But what’s more of a failure? Adding one of the best players in baseball history to a team and not making the playoffs, or subtracting one of the best players in baseball history and making the playoffs? So I know that Met fans are going to try to change the narrative, some Met fans, and say, ‘Oh, you didn’t even last that much longer. It’s just one series.’ One series is better than none. One series is better than none.’”