Legendary MLB Announcer Michael Kay Gets Brutally Honest About Retirement

Michael Kay has been calling New York Yankees games for YES Network for the past 24 seasons. Although his status for the rest of the 2025 season isn't in jeopardy, there's nothing guaranteed after this year. 

Earlier this week, Kay appeared on "The Main Event with Andrew Marchand" podcast to discuss his broadcasting career. The 64-year-old voice of the Yankees made it clear that he's not ready to retire just yet. 

"I mean, I want to live forever, but I’m not sure I want to go [forever]. I mean, I don’t know. I see the value in what Al Michaels is doing. I see the value in John Sterling staying around until he was 86," Kay said. "Do I want to get out then, when the kids are out of the house in college? I don’t know. Do I want to get out now? No, I mean, I’ve gotta pay the bills."

That being said, Kay is more than ready to lighten his workload. 

"I don’t know. Again, I don’t know. Let’s put it this way: I do 135-140 Yankees games on YES, and if they want me around, I could see myself staying around awhile," Kay said. "But, I’m not going to go at that pace. If somebody says, 'OK, you want to do 100 games?' That would be much more palatable, but we’ll see. 

"Again, never say never because that’s stupid, and I never want to have somebody say, 'Oh, you said this,' and I never want to go back on something. But I do enter the ‘twilight years’ with some trepidation because what do I do if I retire? I don’t have any interests. I read. I don’t play tennis. I don’t play golf. I mean, I would probably be boring as hell. I’m not sure what I’d do."