Michael Kay Is No Shakespeare Scholar

“My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,….” -William Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra, Act I Scene v lines 73-74 With the American League champs enjoying a day off, I flipped on YES to catch the beginning of the Red Sox-Yankees series, and to my surprise heard great tweeter/bad announcer Michael Kay dropping a Shakespearian allusion.  And then naturally botching the interpretation thereof. Enjoy the transcript: MICHAEL KAY: Now when he [John Smoltz] was in his salad days, he was 95/96. He was just dominating. KEN SINGLETON: Was it salad, or steak and potato days? KAY: It was good, good food. PAUL O’NEILL: I was just trying to — I never heard that. When he was “in his salad days?” KAY: Salad days. That...