Michael Kay to Yankees on Blue Jays conspiracy theories: 'Unless you can prove it, shut up'
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Yankees play-by-play announcer Michael Kay went on an epic rant directed at New York and their fans related to vague claims that the Toronto Blue Jays were cheating.
The Blue Jays outscored the Yankees, 23-8, in two postseason games in Toronto over the weekend and are 8-1 at home against the Yankees this season overall.
Michael Kay calls out Yankees players, fans and ESPN's Buster Olney for hinting that the Blue Jays are cheating
«Unless you can prove it, shut up,» Kay said of claims by some of the Yankees and even vague references by media members that the Blue Jays were doing something illegal or unethical.
«You got swept in July there in a four-game set that changed the whole course of the American League East,» Kay added in his rant on The Michael Kay Show on ESPN Radio. «That's where the Blue Jays took over, and they never relinquished. Figure it out. If you think that they're doing something weird or they're doing something illegal, figure it out. Don't sit back and [say], 'Woe is me.'"
Kay indicated that Luke Weaver's so-called pitch-tipping problem was somehow connected to the Blue Jays doing something illegal.
Kay even directed comments at his ESPN colleague Buster Olney for «hinting» that the Blue Jays were doing something wrong.
«Come out and say it,» Kay said. «If you think that you think that something is happening, come out and say it. Give me specifics. Otherwise, shut up and play better.»
He added: «You're insulting a team that has shown you from the entire season on, they've done a really, really good job playing baseball.
They don't strike out, they put the ball in play and they don't strike out on the road either. They put the ball in play.
They make the plays defensively. But you're going to hint and intimate that they're doing something illegal.
«That's on you. If you think they're doing something illegal, you had all year since July to figure out what it is. All year.
And please somebody explain to me how people are picking up signs when the entire game is played with PitchCom.
There's no more fingers going down with the catcher giving signs. You hit a button and that's it. What did they tap into the frequency Kenneth?
That's on you to figure it out, and unless you can prove it, shut up. Don't hint at it.
«That's not fair to the Blue Jays guys because I'll tell you one thing, if you win these two games in New York, you got to go back to Toronto, because the fact that they beat you in the regular season is why they won the tiebreaker.
You both had the same record, but they get home field advantage, and they didn't have to play in the first round because they had the better record against you.
Right now, you've played them 15 times, and they're 10-5 against you, and you're 4-2 at Yankee Stadium, and you're 1-8 in Toronto.
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