Sure sounds like Michael Kay revealed private Jack Curry info on Yankees, Juan Soto

When Jack Curry speaks, Yankees fans listen. As we learned on Tuesday night, that goes for when Curry speaks through Michael Kay's mouth as well.

About 24 hours after Curry's much-anticipated appearance on YES Network's Hot Stove show, in which he confirmed the Yankees' strong willingness to swim in Soto's deep waters, Ken Rosenthal and The Athletic reported that all remaining bidders had eclipsed $600 million in the offer stage, and that Soto would begin eliminating teams soon. Yankees beat writer Brendan Kuty, who collaborated on the report, quickly confirmed that New York was among those still-active $600 million clubs.

Though Steve Cohen is thought to have all the financial might in the world, making the Mets the consensus favorites for Soto, Tuesday's news certainly made it sound as if all five remaining teams had reached a similar pedestal, evening the playing field a bit for the Yankees and Red Sox. In fact, most reports seemed to favor the Toronto Blue Jays as the eventual highest bidder -- though that may not make them the winners.

Curry's optimism on Monday's show certainly doesn't make the Yankees a lock. It does mean, though, that Randy Miller's report claiming they were essentially uninvolved was a stretch (generously). In a Tuesday night radio appearance, Michael Kay took aim at the rumor winds that swirled both before and after that report dropped, polluting Twitter with toxic sludge (or, at least, slightly more toxic sludge than normal).

Mid-rant, Kay appeared to reveal a piece of insinuation that Curry had not dropped on air. While dissecting his thoughts on Gleyber Torres, Anthony Rizzo, Cody Bellinger, and Soto, Kay claimed Curry pegged the Yankees as "60-40" favorites over the Mets to nab the slugger.

While Curry did narrow the bidding down on Monday's show to that pair of teams (in his estimation), he didn't mention anything about odds or a favorite. Did Kay draw that conclusion himself, or did Curry tell him something off-air?

Yankees Rumors: Juan Soto "60-40" to choose Yankees over Mets?

Is 60-40 any more comforting than a coin flip? Only slightly, but it's certainly revealing, given that the internet is currently muddled with a whole mess of pessimistic pie charts.

The Mets are the "industry favorites," according to Rosenthal's latest. Like every report we've gotten so far, though, that perception seems to be based only on the idea that Cohen will blow the world out of the water to get what he wants. If he does? It's over. But we haven't seen much evidence of his close-to-the-vest plans yet, and everyone assuming he pushes his chips all in is basing that on conjecture.

Hopefully, this coin stops flipping soon, and we can all get clarity rather than parsing Kay's rants for previously unspoken tidbits.