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The Michael Kay Show

Hour 2: The Preferred Path

The Michael Kay Show

ESPN

Sports

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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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.

0:41.5

All right, hour number two on this busy Tuesday afternoon, 2 o'clock hour.

0:47.6

Dan Grass is sitting in from Michael here on ESPN, New York.

0:50.8

Michael heading out to the West Coast with the New York Yankees as they're going

0:54.8

to begin the season, Moniana, against the San Francisco Giants, Max Fried getting the baseball

0:59.5

because Garrett Cole is still on the comeback trail. So, Yanks, Giants, very curious to see

1:04.1

the Giants this year, because they've undergone some changes, as we know, most notably

1:10.5

in the dugout with Tony Vitello, who has the same

1:14.2

amount of major league coaching slash managerial experience as you and I do, because he came right

1:20.4

from the college ranks. He was the skipper at the University of Tennessee, and now he's being

1:24.5

entrusted with his relationship with Buster Posey, certainly, the guy who's calling all the shots out there with the Giants to now run the club. So we'll see how he's being entrusted with his relationship with Buster Posey, certainly,

1:28.0

the guy who's calling all the shots out there with the Giants to now run the club. So we'll see how he fares. Giants have some talent. Yeah, they spend a little bit of money here, but it's a tough division, obviously, with the Dodgers. I think the Padres take a step back. I don't love their starting pitching whatsoever. and given the fickle nature that the Padres are experiencing right now when it comes to the ownership situation, I don't know if they're going to be looking to unload some parts during the season, which, you know, will diminish their chances of contending.

1:57.0

It's a very, very slippery slope, and that's why, you know, if I'm one of these other clubs, you know, I don't know if David Stearns is listening, I keep absolutely just calling up the San Diego Padres and seeing if A.J. Preller is going to be any more receptive to maybe unloading Mason Miller. Because, and look, you say, why would you? Right? Because he's still under team control for a few more years. You're paying them next to nothing. But my gosh, I mean, if you have a bountiful farm system, that is a guy that you exhaust resources to go get. Because, I mean, let's put it this way. If you ever get your hands on a Mason Miller, it'll make you forget that Edwin Diaz was ever your closer really, really, really quick, because that dude is the future of the closing hierarchy as far as Major League Baseball is concerned.

2:41.4

800 919-19-37-6, that's the telephone number.

2:44.2

So as Jorge said, you know, I'm in lockstep with him.

2:47.7

You know, I had to sit there and file the predictions last night and, you know,

2:51.9

I tried to, you always try to, like, talk yourself out of things, right? To come up with the reasons

2:55.5

as to why you think a certain thing. That's how I go about it, right? But I still kept coming

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