Cashman magic, Trout puts one out, the ‘D’ in D’Antoni and backwards NFL ....

The beauty of the trade that brought Gleyber Torres to the Yankees – for Aroldis Chapman, to the Cubs, a rental in 2016 – is that on Friday night Torres won the Angels game with another home run and then Chapman closed it out. Yeah. That was some trade Brian Cashman made.

Like, maybe as great as he might ever make. That kind of trade. Put me down as somebody who doesn’t want to see Shohei Ohtani anywhere near the Home Run Derby.

You sort of new that a Jersey kid like Mike Trout was going to come to Yankee Stadium and commence hitting home runs, right?

The shame of Trout playing Out There and the way the schedule is set up in Major League Baseball is that unless something happens in October, these are the only three games Trout will play in New York all year.

It’s like when the Garden would only get to see Magic or Kobe Bryant once a year.

One of the remarkable sights – other than Quinn Cook somehow taking what felt like the biggest shot of the Warriors season at the time, forty-seconds left in Game 5 — of the NBA postseason was how panicked the defending champs of the world look with 6.7 seconds left at the very end of that game.

They weren’t running a play; they were running a fire drill.

And playing scared. The Red Sox better be right about Hanley Ramirez. Everybody involved said that it wasn’t about the money, after the Sox DFA-ed Ramirez, a guy who had a vesting option for $22 million next season if he made 475 plate appearances this season.

But the wisdom on this always goes back to the great Giants general manager George Young, who once said, “When they say it’s not about the money, it’s always about the money.” For a guy (and a really good guy) like Mike D’Antoni who’s only supposed to be interested in coaching fast offense, his team sure has played some pretty fancy defense against the Golden State Warriors.

When Chris Paul gets hurt again, the way he got hurt in Game 5, you start to wonder if maybe he’s playing out a star-crossed career after all It is amazing that NFL owners clearly continued to buy into the cockeyed notion that ratings were down last season because of anthem protests. Sure they were. Had nothing to do with as much mediocre football as we saw Sunday after Sunday, and across the board.

Had nothing to do with big stars like Aaron Rodgers and Odell Beckham, Jr. getting hurt.

Had nothing to do with a lot of Sundays when if Brady and the Patriots weren’t playing you wondered who you really, really wanted to watch. No. It was the handful of guys the president of the United States called “SOBs” doing this kind of damage to that shield Roger Goodell is always saying he has to preserve and protect. They did it. I keep waiting for these same owners to blame all of this on Hillary Clinton, too.

Here is the real bottom line on what happened this week with an anthem policy for the league that seems to have been written out on a cocktail napkin:

Goodell and his owners took a bad situation and made it much, much worse. By the way? The NBA has its own policy, and it says that its players have to stand for the anthem.

But the NBA’s policy was collectively bargained for.

It doesn’t work that way in pro football, which got way more blowback – and properly so – than it ever bargained for this week. Every once in a while when Rudy Giuliani is on television I expect him to stop and ask what happened to the mariachi band.