Michael Kay to star on YES Networks Bronx Buds…
Like numerous other youngsters in the Sixties and 70s, Michael Kay spent his Saturday mornings glued to the TV for weekly showings of his favourite cartoons, “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons.”
That made it an straightforward reply for the Yankees broadcaster when inventive administrators at YES Network approached him about showing on Season 2 of “Bronx Buds,” the baseball-themed animated youngsters’s collection that streams on the Gotham Sports App.
“I mean, Saturday was like a big deal,” Kay told The Post. “That’s why I love what YES is doing, bringing this back…to give a new generation of kids something to watch, this one baseball-centered, which is two things I love. I think it’s gonna be great.”
Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay on Aug. 19, 2019. AP
Kay will play a vital function in the upcoming season alongside a number of fellow YES Yankees voices: analyst John Flaherty, clubhouse reporter Meredith Marakovitz and studio host Nancy Newman.
The show, which returns for Season 2 on Aug. 9, follows the adventures of a Bronx-based youth baseball workforce called the Bronx Buds, that includes main characters Riv, Bash and Oscar.
Kay was tapped to play a heroic character who saves the Bronx Buds, while Flaherty acts as a baseball legend and Marakovitz and Newman are reporters.
Kay joked he was a “little jealous” the producers didn’t faucet him for the first season — particularly because studio analyst Jack Curry received a cameo — but that it was “pretty cool” when he was requested this time around.
Bash (left), Riv (center) and Oscar (proper) are the main characters of “Bronx Buds.” YES Network
The animated portrayal of Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay in “Bronx Buds.” YES Network
Kay, the Yankees broadcaster since the community debuted in 2002, did his voiceovers from the community’s studios in Stamford, Conn. in March, working with a producer and director remotely over a Zoom call.
For Kay, it was a foray into a new facet of the media industry — even if the 64-year-old talks into a microphone for a residing.
The director and producer didn’t transient Kay on the plot, but they might have the broadcaster read his strains over the Zoom call, telling him when to be more demonstrative, or goofy, or critical.
“You look at it on the TV and see, ‘Well, it’s a cartoon,’” Kay said. “But it’s really detailed, how much effort and time they put into it. And obviously the people that are doing it, it’s a labor of love, so they want to make it just right.”
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