You know I may be willing to admit that I may be a little
bit of a homer and a little bit of a bias Yankees fan, sue me. I can hide that
in my writing if I have to but when I am on the blog I let my passion and my
fandom show so you have to excuse me when I say that Michael Kay is the best
play-by-play announcer in the league. I love his voice, his knowledge and the
way he and the crew over at the YES Network calls the game. I can’t help it.
One call I will always remember is the call he made back in the World Series of
2001 after the clock struck midnight on November 1st.
Game 4 of the 2001 World Series was pushed back due to the
September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States and for the first
time in major League Baseball history a World Series game was played in the
month of November. The Arizona Diamondbacks had closer Byung-Hyun Kim on the
mound and the Yankees had Derek Jeter at the plate in a series that they
trailed 2-1 in.
Jeter fought off eight pitches before hitting a home run on
the ninth pitch to walk off and give the Yankees the lead. What did Michael Kay
call Derek Sanderson Jeter after the home run? He called him “Mr. November.”
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)