Eye on Torres, that Gsellman & McCown . . .

Come on, it’s not just that the Yankees don’t want to rush

The Yankees don’t want to start the clock on Torres’ service time five minutes before they have to. You know what I remember about I remember the night he got thrown into that game against the Cardinals last season because

decided he couldn’t pitch, and got taken out of the yard almost immediately by

and then stood in there the way he did the rest of that night.

So if another guy who looks like he belongs in a garage band is back in rotation, I’m good with that. I just received an advanced copy of big New In the four seasons since the Celtics, with Ainge picking the players and making the kind of deal he made with the Nets for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett — the gift that just keeps on giving – and Stevens coaching Ainge’s players, the Celtics have gone from 25-57 to 40-42 to 48-34 to the record they had after Friday night’s games, 47-26, only a half-game behind the Cavaliers for the top spot in the East.

The Knicks have gone from 37-47 to 17-65 to 32-50 to 27-46 over the same period. The Celtics, who are about to go get another high draft pick because of the Nets deal, maybe even the first overall pick in the draft, have York City cop novel, “The Force,” scheduled for release in June, and so I’m going to be kind of busy for the next several days.

All did, after reading his own advance copy, is call it “The Godfather, only with cops.” Do you think that’s a good blurb? Because I sort of do. When we get to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, always take note of how many of the teams left are from great, big state schools. Say it again: The job

has done with the Utah Jazz is one of the stories of the year in the NBA. When I was talking to the great

on my podcast the other day, and asked him about the current practice of NBA coaches even for the Garden. Before that, you look at the very first decision he made after becoming Chief Operating Savior at the Garden: He got rid of Woodson, the only coach who has won anything for the Knicks in the past 16 years, and replaced him with Derek Fisher.

Once there was a time when it felt as if baseball didn’t really start in New York until the Knicks played their last playoff game, even if they played it in June. Now you can’t wait for baseball to start next week as another dreary Knicks season mercifully ends. As it does, the face of the franchise isn’t the kid, Porzingis. It isn’t Carmelo. No. It is a 71-yearold team president, who is more famous than sitting down their stars, here is what he said: “There’s a danger for us in allowing coaches to make these decisions.” Just because the Jets have decided that can’t play anymore doesn’t mean that Kaepernick can’t play anymore.

Especially when you know that Kaepernick, even at this stage of his career, is 10 times the quarterback that is. You know who McCown is?

just older. On a good day. Here is what noted Jets fan

said in a text the other day: “McCown?!! Maybe it’s a blessing in that we’ll finally get the 1-15 season we’ve been craving.”

Well, there’s your slogan to get people to buy Jets’ season tickets right there! I just always worry about

when Trumpcare creates this kind of unhappiness at the White House.

I think I’ll be able to clear time for Kentucky-Carolina today.

If you’re listening to these NCAA games, you know the great Verne Lundquist has lost nothing off his fastball. We heard for seven years about how all these Republicans were going to repeal and replace Obamacare and the way things are going, it really does look like the ones who need to be replaced are the replacers. This television judge, currently in the penalty box at Fox because of his own, well, fake news – If there’s a draft of all the other TV judges, he wouldn’t even go in the first round, right?

You know, if you don’t count the travel ban getting slam-dunked twice by federal judges, the Russian investigation, and health care, the new administration is going great.

Maybe it would help, just in the whole crazy cockeyed grand scheme of things, if Knicks fans would pick one home game between now and the rest of the season and just stay home.

Now that UCLA is out of the tournament, it becomes a

zone, right? on Alex Rodriguez: “I was just a really big jerk.” I always thought he’d need GPS to find his way to a truth like that.