Michael Kay defends Dominguez take, challenges Yankees fans in delightfully unhinged rant

You! Hey, you, out there! Do you believe that Michael Kay, the voice of the New York Yankees, is controlled and operated by GM Brian Cashman? If you can find concrete proof of your fever dreams, there's a lump sum of cash in it for you, courtesy of Kay himself.

As fans are wont to do, they collectively happened to pick up on an offhanded Kay statement during Tuesday's disappointing loss. With nothing else to fixate on as the Yankees let an AL East clinching opportunity slip away, Twitter chose to dissect Kay's assertion that Jasson Dominguez had a "rough road trip" while they tried to make sense of Alex Verdugo's Tuesday start.

Dominguez scalded a few homers on the west coast, but defensively, he was ... well, not fantastic. And reading a laundry list of NSFW online screams that refused to acknowledge reality tied Kay in a tight knot in the hours preceding his radio show. He, predictably, unleashed that fury Wednesday afternoon.

Yankees announcer Michael Kay takes aim at fans who believe Brian Cashman told him to ding Jasson Dominguez

Never mind that Kay bashed Verdugo himself not three weeks ago, when he dogged a grounder in Texas while mired in his worst slump of many this season. He called out the team multiple times during that span, in fact. At that moment in time, Dominguez was still a Scranton Twinkle in the Yankees' eye. Now, he's a genuine postseason option, and will probably get the vast majority of starts before getting subbed out for defense/rollover grounders to second in the late innings. Not so bad.

Instead of recalling all the way back to early September, though, it's a better idea to make assumptions about Kay's words (while failing to acknowledge that Dominguez's defense out west was, in fact, quite poor). The Yankees have a choice to make: potential sparkling offense and iffy defense, or fine-not-amazing defense and an empty bat. It's an easy one to us! But that's all Kay was saying, and that's why he reached a fever pitch in calling fans "mouthbreathing lowlifes" and offering them a huge bag of money.

Dominguez deserves the final five starts of the regular season for the Yankees as Aaron Boone and Cashman try to get their house in order (and rein in Kay, who apparently CANNOT be bribed). The sooner New York gets back on a winning streak, the better, given the untethered fan criticisms that resurfaced halfway through a singular loss on Tuesday.