Michael Kay is happy Craig Carton got a second chance, but he’s still bothered by the way his radio-ratings competitor spoke about him on-air. 

“That’s the only thing that bothered me about Craig Carton is how nasty he was toward me when I never did anything to him,” Kay said while a guest on “The Show” podcast with The Post’s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman. “Never fired back at him.” 

Kay, 62, the voice of the Yankees for YES and host of ESPN’s “The Michael Kay Show,” has been in constant competition with WFAN over radio ratings and with “Carton & Roberts” for the past two-plus years. 

Carton’s show on WFAN has repeatedly topped Kay’s in the ratings.

January’s ratings book showed Carton and Evan Roberts posting a 7.7 to 3.1 victory in the males 25-54 demographic over Kay and his crew. 

Carton, 54, addressed the win on-air in February. 

“Can you come up with something that can compete? Just so they can write our names in the paper again? Our dominance is so continual, our names don’t exist any more. … That must suck if you’re on the other side of that,” Carton said, according to Elite Sports NY. 

“When your numbers are that low, it’s almost like you don’t exist. It’s like the wind blowing sometimes. Here’s the best part: Our commercials beat their best hour.”

Following Carton’s 2017 arrest on fraud charges, Kay gave him an hour platform on his own show to tell his story.

That’s part of the reason Carton’s words rub Kay the wrong way, he said. 

Carton is on the way out of WFAN, to focus on his morning TV show on Fox Sports 1. 

Kay, surprisingly, wishes he would stay. 

“The narrative is Kay’s probably thrilled. No. I’d rather continue to get my butt kicked and try to win,” Kay said. “Let’s say we beat Tiki and Roberts, it’s still going to be ‘Well, you didn’t beat Craig at the end.’” 

“I wanted him to stay, I wanted to continue to try to beat him.”