Hour 2: Mike Lupica

The Michael Kay Show

ESPN

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4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Should Yankees players be allowed to want an alternate road uniform? Mike Lupica says he wonders how much longer Steve Cohen will deal with losing while spending so much money. Plus Mike Brown needs to get the Knicks winning in a desperate way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	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. All right. Yankees win their fourth in a row. They're in first place in the American League East. They won 4-0 over the Red Sox. Red Sox just looked so flat. Now that's unfair because if you don't score, you look flat. I've always said that, and they're not scoring. And you look at the Red Sox lineup.
0:55.6	It's a different breed. Do you know that the combination of Judge and Rice have 17 home runs,
1:04.8	those two guys? Do you know how many home runs the Red Sox as a team have? The 26-man
1:10.5	roster? 13 home runs. They Red Sox as a team have, the 26-man roster, 13 home runs.
1:13.6	They have four fewer home runs as a team than Judge and Rice combined.
1:20.2	And when all the simulations that were run before the season on the Red Sox,
1:30.9	this was expected.
1:33.3	The top home run hitter on the Red Sox is supposed to have 18.
1:36.7	This is a team that plays at Fenway Park,
1:39.7	and their top home run hitter is expected, projected to have 18.
1:45.9	I don't know what's going to go with this Red Sock team.
1:48.9	The crowd is angry all the time, booing all the time, sell the team.
1:54.5	Now, they did win a World Series in 2018, but I guess they look at the way John Henry is running the team and not spending the money
2:01.8	that he used to.
2:03.8	I mean, Yankee fans, they say, well, the Yankees don't spend the money they should spend.
2:08.3	The Yankee payroll this year, I think, is like $70 million more than the Red Sox.
2:15.6	And the Yankees never drop in their payroll.
2:17.6	The Red Sox have dropped considerably.
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