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Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

Yeah, the Yankees lost. But I enjoyed the game anyway, thanks to these cool tidbits:

• The story about Omar Vizquel, not being able to use his career-long #13 with the White Sox, respectfully approaching Luis Aparicio about using his retired #11 uniform number while Vizquel is playing for the ChiSox, and Aparicio agreeing, calling it an honor! Classy, as opposed to Ozzie Guillen who had refused to give up ChiSox #13 in the first place [can't blame him for not wanting to give up the number right off his back, I guess].
• Guillen playing with Javier Vazquez's head by making him change his glove - two colors OK but three colors not good, and umpires agreed. As if Guillen needed to play anymore with Vazquez's head - it's already messed up, given his performance so far this year (ERA 9.78 in five starts).
• Heard the frying pan man for the first time this year... all is well with this part of the world at least...
• White Sox SP John Danks trying to keep Gardner close at first, threw over there at least four times, and Kay brings up what he calls "the old saying: Nothing slows down a game like speed." Gardner is prevented from stealing, but his threat is enough to distract Danks into walking Derek Jeter anyway. Mission accomplished, and Gardner later scores.
• "Even at 43, you make mistakes" [Michael Kay on Vizquel being caught off first by Posada] Darned right, Michael, and true for a hell of a lot older than that. ;-)
• A-Rod directing a slow roller down 3B line to go foul, and the ball obeying him!
• Andruw Jones appealing to the first base umpire for a call on a checked swing. His own checked swing!
• "He's so good, he can't even watch!" Kay, getting on Jones for hotdogging it by catching fly balls while looking away at the last second as if there's nothing to it!
• LOL at this: Kay and Al Leiter checking out horse racing forms on air during a lull in the game!
• Another LOL: Kay on Danks' leap to snare a big hop grounder by Gardner: "He was totally in the air when he caught that. No part of his body touched the earth." Leiter: "Cirque du Soleil!"
• A-Rod busting his hump going down to first to avoid an inning-ending DP and allow a run to score. As much as people dump on him for being a self-centered superstar, that impressed me and my A-Rod appreciation meter ticked upward a bit.
• Yet another LOL: At the end of Nick Swisher's go-ahead home run into the Yankees' bullpen, an excited Joba Chamberlain is seen through an interior glass wall, pounding on it and yelling his head off. Kay: "Get me outta here! You guys are gonna need me now!"
• Yet, another other LOL: Leiter relaying the story on how he was called into the Triple-A ballclub office to be told that he was going to New York, responding "For what?" and being subsequently told how dumb he was. Kay: "What did you think, they were sending you to a Broadway show?"

This was a rather entertaining post, I enjoyed it. The games Michael Kay broadcast are much more entertaining then when its Ken Singleton and John Flaherty. Ken Singleton has an annoying tone at times when he is the lead man in the booth.