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Sorry, fellas, but Im tired of turning on ball games and being lied to. Many of us get enough of that elsewhere, as in everywhere. So as far as Im concerned, David Cone and Paul ONeill were lying to us Tuesday during YESs Yankees-Mets telecast. I cant believe that they believe what they told us. Thats why exce sive pandering telling TV audiences that wrong is right, that they (and we) absolutely love what, off the air, they dislike is helping to bleed baseball dry by 1,000 self-inflicted cuts. The Mets led, 6-0, when Juan Soto homered to make it 6-1. Soto, who by now needs no introduction hes never shy to demonstrate his immodesty exchanged a leaping high-five with third base coach Luis Rojas before reaching home to trade a flamboyant, rehearsed, lengthy handshake with Aaron Judge. Juan Soto exchanged a leaping high-five with third base coach Luis Rojas. Robert Sabo for the NY Post Juan Soto greets Aaron Judge after Sotos home run against the Mets on Tuesday. Charles Wenzelberg If we didnt know five runs better, we mightve thought the Yanks had just won the game, thus this wasnt beneath Judge Quinn Cook Jersey s in-game, profe sional dignity. But ONeill and Cone were thrilled, or pretended to be thrilled. More From Phil Mushnick ONeill: You like that bat-flip, huh Coney!? Cone: Wow! O: Almost went into the Mets dugout! C: Big league style points! And then a slow-motion replay of the bat flip appearing to Cones and ONeills continued merry approval. I was convinced theyd fail a polygraph test; convinced they were full of it, insulting to YESs respect-the-game audience. Cone, who pitched 18 MLB seasons, wouldve been good with Sotos response to one of his pitches? Hed have given him a smile and tug on his cap in salute? Or would there be a knockdown pitch brawl on the boil? ONeill, who had anger management i sues as a big leaguer, would have enjoyed Sotos display had his slumping team been losing, 6-1? As Sotos opponent, he would have benignly suffered Sotos repetitive, no-context act? Or would he have been instantly infuriated? David Cone said that Juan Soto gets big league style points after his bat flip Tuesday. AP Cone and ONeill would encourage the kids in their lives to exploit any sport to perform a self-impre sed, me-first and me-only public demonstration? Not a chance. Are both Cone and ONeill unaware that theres a nationwide shortage of youth league umpires and on-field game officials due to the exce sive misconduct of kids and coaches who were raised on bad is good images, provocations and consequences as invited by commercial and TV-delivered pandering? Kids league umps are daily a sailed, then a saulted as per new-normal rotten sportsmanship. And replacement officials, if found, are short on rules knowledge, thus breeding even more ha sles. Paul ONeill seemed to approve of Juan Sotos bat flip following his home run Tuesday. USA TODAY Sports Hey, Coney, would there be anything more hand-me-down sad than a 12-year-old performing an MLB Network-sold all-about-me bat-flip with his team down five runs? Yet those who would preach civility are ridiculed as backwards get off my lawn relics. So keep pandering, fellas. They thought Sotos act was great, worthy of big league style points? Those who know better, know better. And I think they knew those guys were lying. ESPNs Kay makes mountain out of molehill Even when hes marginally correct, Michael Kay has the ability to talk us out of it. Wednesday on his ESPN-NY radio show, Kay characterizing SNYs Mets booth as the best in the busine s. I can see Kays point, not about the Mets having the best broadcast crew what did Kay expect the ad to include, Theyre the sixth- best in the busine s? but about the promotion of a local TV competitor within a local ESPN show. So he went off, again placing himself on a public psychoanalysts couch to declare that his YES Yankees crew is the best there is. He even fed his own everyones-out-to-get-me paranoia with, Do you just expect me to take that lying down? I think our booth is the best in baseball. Thus Kay seemed to suspect that SNYs ad copy was designed to target and attack him. Off the air, Kay mightve brought it up with management. Or, on the air, feigned emotional distre s with a brief, Ouch, that hurts. He even could have had fun with it, especially since his three-man radio show is bereft of legitimate humor and burdened beneath serious and insufferable personal insecurities. And so Kay saw to it that what couldve been a legit point if handled correctly and, better yet, privately, became another se sion stuffed with self-afflicted, self-defeating, filter-le s, ti sue-thin skin and in-the-wrong-busine s sensitivity. If Kay believes, Theyre all out to get me!, it starts with Kay. Despite the YES and SNY crews claim that Yanks-Mets hasnt lost a drop of its fan appeal, TV told a different story in the form of empty expensive seats behind the Citi Field backstop. Wednesdays game, start to finish, couldnt hide scores of empty up-close seats. Or werent we supposed to notice? This hide-and-seek TV baseball season continues. Wednesdays Yanks-Mets YES telecast was hidden behind an Amazon Prime subscription paywall, a waste of greed as it also appeared on SNY. While Yanks Friday night games are regularly hidden on pay-more streaming networks, tonight the Yanks are on YES at Toronto while the Astros are in to play the Mets but only on Apple+, which so poorly produces MLB games that only money could serve as Rob Manfreds and team owners defense. Priorities: After , Bryson DeChambeau, the Saudi government money-summoned PGA Tour expatriate, embraced the trophy on the 18th green, but not before he took care to milk every nickel out of the scene. Reader Dom LoVarco noted, via photos, that DeChambeau played without a watch on his wrist. But he wore one while posing with the trophy. DeChambeau has an endorsement deal with Rolex. Bryson DeChambeau wore a watch while posing with the trophy after winning the U.S. Open. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con USMNT must keep Pulisic in middle The U.S. mens national soccer team that , on Sunday it easily could have been 5-0 was led by left-side midfield star Christian Pulisic, who mostly played toward the center of the field. And thats where he belongs all the time. Playing the left side, as too often instructed, diminishes his advantages of foresight to anticipate the forward runs of teammates, his goal-scoring angles and his ability to use both feet as he can be more easily pinched toward his left foot. In fortuitous fact, Sunday he twice took right side corner kicks, thus using his right foot. Pulisics conspicuous skills as both a scorer and distributor are maximized from the middle, not on the left. Christian Pulisic celebrates after scoring a goal for the USMNT against Bolivia. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con While Fox busies itself pitching itself as the top network for international soccer, it should back up a bit to learn the spelling of the games No. 1 star and attraction. In a large graphic, Lionel Me si was identified as Lional Me si. Even the non-sports fans in the room were blown away by the relentle s gambling ads that surrounded the Yanks-Mets series on SNY and YES. At least once, gambling come-ons appeared simultaneously. One co-starred family man John Legend to the tune of the Beatles Come Together. Its lyrics include: Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease. Devontae Cacok Jersey |
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