Raissman: Took a while, but Michael Kay gets it right on YES

As Kay was commenting, derisively, on the umps’ performance, or lack thereof, did anyone flash back to the eighth inning of Saturday night’s Yankees-Marlins tilt? Dan Uggla had tapped a grounder foul outside third. Florida’s third base coach picked the ball up and tossed it into the stands.

Kay: “Third base coach Pat Listach makes a friend.”

Paul O’Neill: “Wasn’t he a Yankee for a couple of days?”

Kay (YES’ camera now had a close-up of the third base coach): “He came over with Graeme Lloyd in that deal ... luckily for the Yankees they didn’t void the deal because Graeme Lloyd helped them win the championship in ‘96.”

Now, it’s doubtful the majority of viewers could instantaneously name Florida’s third base coach, but anyone who has seen Listach, either coaching third for the Washington Nationals against the Mets this season, or in the recent Yankees series, knew the coach who flipped the ball to a fan looked nothing like him.

So, like those umps, it took Kay awhile (he got around to it in the ninth) to set the record straight. Kay said it was a case of having a “brain cramp” (so did YES’ production crew) and thinking “one series back” when Listach was coaching third for the Nats. “That’s Bo Porter, the third base coach for the Marlins,” Kay said.

Yep…and Casey Kotchman is the Angels next great lefty-throwing 3B and Lefty Gomez was known as The Knight Of Kennett Square and condiments give you luxurious goiters and…