Will the real Fake Michael Kay Twitter feed please stand up?

With 100 games on the books, the New York Yankees boast a 61-39 record and are in first place in the American League East. After having missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 1993, the Bronx Bombers look poised for an October run, as long as Mariano Rivera's cutter holds up. Still, much of the joy of fandom lies in the schizoid compulsion to carp about everything that's even tangentially related to the hometown team––there've been times I've wanted to murder throttle octogenarian pot-banger Freddy Sez—and perhaps nothing excites that sort of ambivalence quite like the booth jockeys. Which brings us to Michael Kay, the Tariq Aziz of the YES Network. While I won’t go into a Mushnickian rant about how much of a homer Kay is––he works for an RSN that is owned by the Steinbrenners, for Jeter’s sake, so it’s no surprise that he’s not going to take shots at the team––I must admit that there are moments when the play-by-play guy is just a little insufferable. Apparently, at least one fan has even less tolerance for Kay's chatter, and by way of voicing his (or her) disdain, has presented the world with the hilarious Fake Michael Kay Twitter. Each Tweet leads off with the salutation Kay deploys whenever he segues into a promo ("Hey Fans!"), and from there spirals off into inspired lunacy. Fake M.K. particularly likes to lampoon authentic M.K.'s long-standing habit of insinuating that David Cone is a shiftless drunkard, and shows no mercy for the incessant "Who But W.B. Mason" promos that make every telecast a primer on office supplies and coffee inventories. Funny, brutal stuff…although its hard to imagine that YES won't lobby Twitter to pull the account or sign him up.

—Posted by Anthony Crupi