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This is the Michael Kay Show podcast. I got to get more K. Listen live weekdays at one on the ESPN New York app and your smart speaker.

What is going on, everybody?

Happy Thursday.

9th day of April, 2026.

Yanks are playing, so you know what that means.

Michael's got to do the Yankee game.

Big rubber match in the Bronx against the formerly Oakland, now Sacramento, soon to be Las Vegas A's.

But I guess they're just going by the good old athletics this year. Nevertheless, they got a game.

Michael will be on it. So he got me and the way I sound for the next two hours. And I apologize in advance.

I'm just getting over being sick horribly,

but I feel fantastic. As I was telling the guys, I might not sound it, but I feel a million bucks

right now compared to how I was over the last week. But grass with you for the next two hours here

at 800919-3776. That is the telephone number. We got our guys, Joe Leo, Jacob Perry. They are producing

the program this afternoon. It is good to be back. It is good to be with you. And we got a lot of

things on the docket today because I don't know if you've heard this. There's a pretty important

basketball game tonight at Madison Square Garden. An important basketball game in the sense that an important game with three left in the regular season can be.

Now look, anytime Knicks and Celtics get together, even when one of the teams are bad, there's at least a scintilla of juice that is injected into the matchup just because of the rivalry

and who the teams are and the longstanding traditions. Okay, that's without saying. But now when

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