Michael Kay stood up for Rob Manfred’s “golden” concept that has risen to prominence over the past week.
Feedback by the MLB commish concerning the “buzz” across the “Golden At-Bat Rule” on “The Varsity” podcast launched final month have garnered loads of headlines in current days.
The potential concept, which continues to be within the “conversation-only stage,” would permit a crew to choose one at-bat in each sport to ship up its greatest hitter even when it was not their flip to hit.
It has additionally drawn the ire of baseball traditionalists who bemoan even the slightest trace of change to the sport of baseball, or at the least that was the purpose Kay gave the impression to be getting at throughout a rant on his ESPN New York radio present on Tuesday.
Kay had taken discover of a number of the responses — together with from fellow broadcaster Howie Rose — on social media and fired again throughout his present.
Rose, this week, known as out the thought on X as a “joke.”
“Is it perfect? No. Would I sign off on it? I probably wouldn’t. But imagine the outcry because a guy is trying to do something to juice a game that is trying to be juiced,” Kay stated. “And all of the people who say this is like sacrilege… Guess what? We’ve got you. It’s the young people, we don’t have them. So we have to turn the ninth inning into an event where your best player is going up against the closer. And you see no value in that because nothing can change in baseball because it’s not a sport, it’s a religion.”
The baseball broadcaster didn’t cease there and continued to take goal on the baseball purists that don’t need to see something change across the sport.
“You all have to get your heads out of your butts. To jump a guy for trying to make a legitimate change,” Kay continued. “For enthusiastic about a reliable change. Even a man I like, Howie Rose. ‘This has got to be a joke.’ No, the lack of baseball eyeballs. That’s a joke, Howie! There has received to be one thing to cease the erosion of this nice sport. You’ve received to make an attraction to extra folks. Youthful folks. These are the folks we do not need.
“And you’re gonna crucify Rob Manfred because he is thinking outside of the box. You all have to grow up. And you all have to open your eyes and see what’s happening with the game.”
