{"id":390795,"date":"2022-01-07T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-to-team-up-for-espn-manningcast\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:26:55","slug":"michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-to-team-up-for-espn-manningcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-to-team-up-for-espn-manningcast\/","title":{"rendered":"#Michael Kay, Alex Rodriguez to team up for ESPN Manningcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Michael Kay, Alex Rodriguez to team up for ESPN Manningcast<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/21318-andrew-marchand-nyp-headshot.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Andrew Marchand\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/21318-andrew-marchand-nyp-headshot.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/21318-andrew-marchand-nyp-headshot.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/21318-andrew-marchand-nyp-headshot.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/21318-andrew-marchand-nyp-headshot.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/21318-andrew-marchand-nyp-headshot.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kay-Rod!<\/p>\n<p>The complete shake-up of \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d will end with the TV voice of the Yankees, Michael Kay, being a part of the Alex Rodriguez \u201cManningcast\u201d on ESPN, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of Kay-Rod means that Rodriguez will not be on weekly \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d telecasts anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The new SNB team will consist of YES\u2019 David Cone and Eduardo Perez as analysts, while Karl Ravech will be the play-by-player. Cone is expected to stay at YES, though his schedule will be reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, longtime ESPN SNB reporter Buster Olney\u2019s role on the main telecast is in question, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez favored working with Kay over Ravech and his new ownership role atop the Minnesota Timberwolves made his preference to not work SNB every week, according to sources. Rodriguez spent four years in the main SNB booth.<\/p>\n<p>The exact format of the \u201cKay-Rod\u201d broadcasts has not been finalized, but presumably will include guests, just like Peyton and Eli. ESPN has been doing alternative \u201cMegacasts\u201d for years, so it has a wide variety of choices to pick out of its bag.<\/p>\n<p>The Kay-Rodriguez duo will do somewhere between 10-12 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s. ESPN has about 25 weeks of \u201cSunday Night Baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-manningcast-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Michael Kay and Alex Rodriguez \" class=\"wp-image-20745927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-manningcast-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-manningcast-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-manningcast-espn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Michael Kay and Alex Rodriguez will come together as the hosts of a Sunday Night Baseball alternate broadcast.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images; AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ESPN also could have the new first round of the playoffs, if that is agreed upon between the players and owners in a new collective bargaining agreement. Presumably, Kay and Rodriguez would call a playoff <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kay will continue to call his full slate of Yankees games on YES.<\/p>\n<p>        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/the-marchand-and-ourand-sports-media-podcast\/episode14-whathappenedbetweenkenrosenthalandmlb-?accentColor=2a2a2a&amp;bgColor=f6f6f6&amp;font-family=proxima%20nova&amp;logo=false&amp;secondaryColor=cc3333\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n        <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Action Network\u2019s Darren Rovell first tweeted that Kay will be Rodriguez\u2019s partner.<\/p>\n<p>As for Olney, he has been an MLB fixture for nearly two decades for ESPN. While he ceded the breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> space to colleague, Jeff Passan, his best role at the network was the dugout reporter on Sunday nights, where he would nearly always add insightful content.<\/p>\n<p>He may still contribute to SNB, but he could be shifted to a variety of roles. ESPN\u2019s Marly Rivera is one potential replacement for Olney, but ESPN may use more of a committee <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The complete shake-up of \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d will end with the TV voice of the Yankees, Michael Kay, being a part of the Alex Rodriguez \u201cManningcast\u201d on ESPN, according to sources. The creation of Kay-Rod means that Rodriguez will not be on weekly \u201cSunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/michael-kay-alex-rodriguez-manningcast-espn.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[123330,25871,2837,42879,70433],"class_list":["post-390795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-6-22","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-espn","tag-michael-kay","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}