Yankees announcer Michael Kay gives Blue Jays bulletin-board material

The Toronto Blue Jays moved into a tie for first place in the AL East on Wednesday, and longtime New York Yankees announcer Michael Kay has given them some added motivation to stay there.

The Blue Jays beat the Yankees on Wednesday in an 11-9 offensive slugfest at Rogers Centre. The Jays improved to 48-38 after pummeling New York 12-5 the day before, and the Yankees fell to the same record.

Even after the impressive showing on Tuesday, Kay was not convinced that the Blue Jays are legitimate. The YES Network play-by-play announcer essentially called Toronto a pretender during his ESPN New York Radio Show.

"The Blue Jays are not a first-place team, I’m sorry,” Kay said, via Brandon Contes of Awful Announcing. “If you look at the run differential, the Yankees’ run differential is +105. The Blue Jays, after a 12-5 win, finally got in the positive yesterday, they’re +4. Do you realize, they should be a .500 team because of a +4 run differential? And the Yankees should have at least four or five more wins with a +105 run differential. They’re not playing great baseball. I’m sorry, they’re not.”