The Yankees broadcast took quite the turn on Tuesday night. And it wasn’t even related to baseball.
While YES network was showing Gerrit Cole walking in the dugout in the fifth inning, former Yankees manager and current analyst Joe Girardi ripped into broadcaster Michael Kay.
It was because Kay was stirring his tea with the arm of his glasses.
Kay said that while Jennifer, the Yankees stage manager, was nice enough to get him tea, she didn’t provide him with a stir, making him use his glasses.
Girardi took issue with that.
“Let’s talk about what you did last half inning,” Girardi said. “You ask for tea, hot tea. Not sure why, I don’t know if you’re cold. And Jennifer was nice enough to give you your tea and your Equal. You steeped, and then you added your Equal. That dissolves, that dissolves! And you stirred it with your glasses.”
Though Girardi argued that the sweetener dissolves on its own and that Kay didn’t need to use his glasses, Kay disagreed.
Girardi then jokingly asked Kay if he took science classes in school, and Kay said yes, despite Girardi saying that the laws of physics don’t exist in Kay’s house.
“That’s a first for me, I’ve never seen anyone do that,” Girardi said. “That’s why I was taken aback.”
“If we work together for another 10 years, you’re going to see it a lot,” Kay replied.
After spending four years with the team as a player, Girardi managed the Yankees from 2008-17, helping the team win its 27th World Series in 2009.
Before his final season with the club in 2017, Girardi made the playoffs five other times.
He then became the Phillies manager in 2020 but was fired early in 2022 after a slow start.
Girardi has worked with the Yankees broadcast team since 2024, and was on the call with Kay for the Yankees 3-2 win over the White Sox Tuesday night.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
