ESPN New York’s Michael Kay all however mentioned “see ya!” to a radio manufacturer he threatened to get fired at the air. (Watch the video beneath.)
Kay was once website hosting his ESPN radio display Friday afternoon when he heard Ray Santiago, a manufacturer of ESPN New York’s “DiPietro & Rothenberg,” snipe that Kay’s display was once at the downswing.
“I were given to throw this in the market. Is it the worry that this display is now on the upward push, and that display’s kinda going within the different course in recent times?” Santiago mentioned within the clip.
Kay ― a outstanding voice in New York sports activities recognized for his “see ya!” house run name in broadcasting Yankees video games for the YES Community ― looked as if it would demolish the ESPN systems’ continuously playful competition with a venomous rant.
“Ray Santiago made a remark about rankings? Do you know, Ray, that each one I’d need to do is make one telephone name, and you’d be at the unemployment line” Kay snapped. “You may have the nerve to mention one thing like that about this display? One telephone name, which I’m bearing in mind making, and you’re going to be fired!”
Kay advised “control” he would by no means cross-promote Santiago’s display once more, then endured his menacing.
“Have in mind Ray, I’m actually, actually sitting at the fence at the moment about getting you canned, opening your mouth while you shouldn’t have.”
The New York Put up reported that Kay’s display has been shedding within the rankings to rival station WFAN in the similar time slot.
An ESPN spokesperson mentioned the sports activities community and Kay “aren’t going to supply a remark right here presently.”
Sports activities communicate displays had been house to volatility of overdue. The connection of Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe seems strained after the “Undisputed” hosts quarreled once more ― this time over an insensitive tweet despatched by means of Bayless after Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest.