It’s one wacky world of sports

EQUAL TIME

Once again, two-plus-two doesn’t add up to what it used to.

In his last two years in the NFL, Jets linebacker Bart Scott was perhaps the most media unfriendly athlete in any town. He was lewd, crude, threatening. In November he even tried — unsuccessfully — to lead a boycott of all media who covered the team.

This week, CBS, the NFL’s AFC network — that’s the conference in which the Jets play — announced it has hired Scott to be a panelist on its four-hour NFL pregame show on CBS Sports Network.

That’s right, the same guy who nine months ago encouraged the Jets to cease cooperating with the media is now a member of that media, eligible to carry the same credentials as those he so recently tried to prevent from doing their jobs.

JOINING THE CLUB: Bart Scott, who last year tried to get the Jets to boycott the media, was hired by CBS Sports Network to be a panelist on its four-hour NFL pregame show.

But what the heck, we just work here. Ask the manager when he comes in.

More math:

ESPN’s coverage of the Little League World Series — an event in which 12-year-olds are exploited to promote ESPN — recently noted one kid’s “Favorite Baseball Player” is Nomar Garciaparra, who, chance would have it, is working the LLWS telecasts!

Given that Garciaparra’s last full season in the majors was 2007, when the kid was six, reader Tim Fleming of Hicksville wonders if maybe the kid pulled a reverse and was playing ESPN for the fools.

The Eagles this week had some exciting news: Their website included, “EXCLUSIVE: A one-on-one interview with Eagles starting QB Mike Vick.” That’s right, it landed an exclusive with their quarterback!

Of course, as sports fans, simple math — all numbers — escape us. We’re to believe only what we’re told.

Late Sunday night, after Alex Rodriguez belted one over the wall in Fenway Park, a slow-mo of his swing was accompanied by this analysis from ESPN’s John Kruk: “This is why the guy has 600-and-sumthin’ home runs.”

Got it? It’s his swing. Really, John? We’re that stupid?

On Monday from Minnesota, roving SNY Mets game reporter Kevin Burkhardt delivered a lengthy ode to the late Twins star Kirby Puckett as one of the all-time great humans, especially to teammates.

Simple addition and subtraction tells us that had Burkhardt added that Puckett was exposed as a serial woman abuser, his tribute to a great humanitarian might have lost some of its luster.

More numbers: Sunday’s nine-inning Yankees-Red Sox game, one of Bud Selig’s “anything for TV money” numbers, ended at 12:15 Monday morning. The Red Sox had to travel to play in San Francisco that night.

Yet, that such greed-based scheduling stands in steady defiance of common decency, makes neither news nor noise among a sports media that just plays along. But ignoring or indulging the preposterous — especially among those otherwise easily outraged — is bound to happen when so much local media double as ESPN and ESPN Radio employees.

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