Meow, Baby: A Jim Kaat Tribute + Video

Links to the YES Network's Jim Kaat Tributes:

Jim Kaat Video Tribute

Kitty's Top 5 Yankee Broadcasts

Singleton:  10 Years Flew By

Calling It a Career, and more

• When the YES Network booth crowds up with Kay, Kenny, and Oh-Mercer, and you can't figure out how you could possibly be missing anyone's voice, it will be Jim "Kitty" Kaat's that you are straining for.  His sharp, well-timed explanations of pitching strategy and execution has reminded us that baseball is a skill and an art to be appreciated, and that we "pay" all these people because they have specialties the others do not know about.

• Time to make it formal.  Turn the TV volume off.  Turn on John and Suzyn on WCBS AM.  The timing will be a little off, but we will know the score and get some analysis at least.  Suzyn lacks the insight of a player and could use a mentor like Mr. Kaat.  Meantime, she out-schools the bunch in the big Yes broadcast box in the sky.

• We'll miss you, Kitty.  Meow, baby, as Kojak would say.  Good luck, and please do not be a stranger.  Stop by the WCBS booth if you get a chance.