‘Damaged freak’ Michael Kay reveals why he fired back at Blue Jays announcer

Michael Kay simply can’t help himself.

The YES Network Yankees play-by-play announcer feuded with Blue Jays announcer Jamie Campbell this past week, and admitted to The Post’s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman that his argumentative style is simply his nature.

“I always find myself in these situations and I’m damaged,” Kay said on Monday’s episode of “The Show” with Sherman and Heyman. “I wish I didn’t act like this. I wish I didn’t have to react, but you know, I know you (Sherman) come from the same sort of humble beginnings as I do and there’s a lot of street in us and we want to fight back, especially when we feel that we were wronged.

“I am a damaged freak. I wish that I could simply be a guy who does the game and just [doesn’t] have Met fans coming at me and Blue Jay fans now … It wears on you, it really does.” 

The Bronx native’s latest drama came after he slighted the Blue Jays a bit last week, saying they’re “not a first-place team” because of their weaker run differential in comparison to the Yankees’.

Toronto then completed a four-game sweep of New York to take first in the AL East, which led to Campbell and the Blue Jays broadcast to troll Kay by waving a broom and saying, “I can think of a certain Yankee broadcaster, in fact, who is gonna have to go on his show tomorrow and admit that the Blue Jays are a first-place team, because the standings prove it.”

Kay couldn’t resist firing back at Campbell.

“What I would say to Jamie is I can easily say the Blue Jays are a first-place team because I’m not a fawning fanboy. I’m a broadcaster,” Kay said. “Imagine if (YES Network studio analyst) Jack Curry was waving a broom on the Yankees postgame show, he would probably be called into the office and shortly fired after that.

“You shouldn’t hang on the rim three minutes into the third quarter of a basketball game … Let’s hang on the rim in October. That’s when you hang on the rim.”

Kay, who also does an ESPN radio show, noted on the podcast with Sherman and Heyman that he wound up exchanging a message with Campbell after the Toronto broadcaster had later said that he had much respect for Kay.

Kay told Campbell he looks forward to seeing him in Toronto when the Yanks and Blue Jays are back at it for a three-game series beginning July 21.

Just last month, Kay took on the entire Mets fanbase as he called them “ill-informed nitwits” for challenging his stance that Juan Soto was unhappy with the Mets.