Oh No Regarding the YES Network Announcers This Past Weekend

Enduring Michael Kay, Ken Singleton and David Cone over the past weekend on the YES Network, with some of the “lowlights” cited below.

Kay, who entered major league broadcasting with no experience, (contrast that with Gary Cohen, the Mets’ fine television announcer, who toiled in the minor leagues), never has and likely never will show the proper inflection in his play by play.

Yesterday on an obvious home run blast by the Jays’ Jose Bautista, Kay’s voice remained down on impact, something I noticed years back and while he has rarely been praised for his play by play, he is still there, albeit far less offensive on television than radio.

Later, Kay stated the AL East race would be “between” 3 teams, not using among, but alas, among the weekend English/grammar horrors, that paled compared to David Cone’s “not no more.”

On Friday night, Singleton, who spent the weekend agreeing with all that emanated from Cone, stated the Blue Jays would not have won the 1992 World Series without David Cone, at best an arguable point.

Worse he talked of three regular season games in which Cone got but two runs of support as the reason. Why was that a/the reason the Jays could not have won the World Series without him?!!