YES Network, the flagship station of Yankees baseball telecasts, offered a somber remembrance of longtime New York media member Bob Trainor on Sunday.
Rumors of the reporter’s death circulated on social media over the weekend, and YES announcer Michael Kay eulogized Trainor as “part of the fabric of New York sports” during Sunday’s Yankees-Rays broadcast, according to the New York Post.
“Sad news, if you’ve ever been around a major league ballpark or any sporting events in New York—football, basketball, hockey—you saw Bob Trainor there,” Kay said, per the Post. “Forty-year fixture in all of the clubhouses.