Michael Kay reveals plan to cut back on Yankees games

Michael Kay would prefer to say “See ya” fewer times during the course of the Yankees season.The 64-year-old television voice of the Yankees revealed he would like to cut back on how many games he calls for YES Network each year while discussing whether he would leave the media business.“I don’t know.Again, I don’t know.

Let’s put it this way: I do 135-140 Yankees games on YES, and if they want me around, I could see myself staying around awhile,” Kay said on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand” podcast Thursday, as transcribed by Awful Announcing.“But, I’m not going to go at that pace.If somebody says, ‘OK, you want to do 100 games?’ That would be much more palatable, but we’ll see.

Again, never say never because that’s stupid, and I never want to have somebody say, ‘Oh, you said this,’ and I never want to go back on something.“But I do enter the ‘twilight years’ with some trepidation because what do I do if I retire? I don’t have any interests.I read.

I don’t play tennis.I don’t play golf.

I mean, I would probably be boring as hell.I’m not sure what I’d do.”The 2025 season marks Kay’s 24th calling Yankees games on their television network, in addition to other media gigs including his “Michael Kay Show” on ESPN Radio.Covering a baseball team on a full-time basis is a grinding job from February until possibly November, requiring plenty of hours away from family and plenty of early-morning and late-night flights.Kay already scaled back his radio duties, moving from the afternoon slot to a solo show from 1-3 p.m.

ET.He told The Post’s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman in March on “The Show” how beneficial that move has been for him, especially with two young children in Charles and Caledonia.“It was starting to get to me physically, the 3-6:30, and I knew I had to stop” Kay said.“I also have young kids that I want to be part of their life.

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