I'm Responsible For Yesterday's Win!

Well, maybe not but cause and effect, yo!

I listen to most if not all Yankee games, occasionally watching on TV. I'm no fan of the Giant Head (though I can tolerate him when accompanied by Coney or Flash) but my default, my go-to, is always the "radio," which means streaming on my phone. I'm "out of market," so I even paid $3 a month for the MLB.TV audio, despite finding a rogue streaming station that flouted (or flaunted — not sure which applies; maybe both) the rules and streamed the games anyway. I decided to pay because $3 was worth it to not hear a certain commercial campaign on that station. And where else can you hear Suzyn say "Isah-ER Kina Falefa" and John's obsession with the freakin' loss column but the radio?

Anyway .... (I digress), after Friday's debacle, I decided I couldn't bear listening to another Yankee blowout against the Tampons — at least for that day — so since I'd been up at the crack of Dawn (and no, that's not my girlfriend's name) and was groggy, I turned on the white noise machine, put on my sleep shades and decided to snooze instead of tuning in.

Before jumping into the arms of Morpheus (no, not my boyfriend), I checked the score: Six-nothing Yanks in the first inning! 

Clearly, I was the problem. My incessant listening jinxed the Bombers and since I wasn't tuned in, they scored. Or maybe I had no effect whatsoever and they just decided to be the Yankees again. Or something. Not sure. But still ... Dare I listen today and for the rest of the season? Probably ...

 

Michael Kay To Report From Boston

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Kay plans to leave Thursday for an ambitious reporting trip to Boston — the YES anchor's first trip to the war zone since early June — in anticipation of a crucial development on progress of the Yankees effort.

Kay will anchor the games from Boston Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

YES would not reveal many specifics of his plans in advance because of competitive and safety concerns. The trip, in the works for six weeks, anticipates the late-season Yankees surge that is expected in the last two weeks of September.

"You can't help but get a very detached perspective when you're not there and you're not witnessing things firsthand," Kay told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I'm curious about very basic questions regarding living conditions, about how much fear there is in the street, about how the players really are doing."

Kay and his traveling partner, WFAN correspondent Sweeny Murti, were fitted with 30-pound body armor vests in Brian Cashman's office on Tuesday. Both needed to send theirs back to add extra protection to the sides.

"Obviously, safety is a concern," said Kay, 46, who had suggested last year that being the last of his bloodline might make him think twice about such trips. "I'm not being cavalier about it. I think I feel comfortable with the measures that are being taken."