A Jew celebrates Easter

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March 23, 2008 - 1:05 p.m. ET
McKechnie Field, Bradenton, Fla.
Play-by-Play : Bob Lorenz. Again!
Color: Ken Singleton

Well, Michael Kay couldn't be bothered to make the 38-minute trip to Dunedin, so why should he be expected to travel the 54 minutes to Bradenton?

That's right, Bob Lorenz is back at the mic for the Yankees. Under other circumstances, we might understand Kay taking this game off. It's Easter Sunday, after all. Only problem is Kay is Jewish.

We don't know the exact particulars behind Kay's absence this afternoon, but would it have really killed him to have gone out of his way to make the hour trip to Bradenton and given a goy like Lorenz the chance to spend Easter Sunday with his family? Apparently the answer to that is yes. How are we not surprised?