WELCOME TO STUPIDVILLE, CHEERING NOVAK & BULLYING IN GOLF...

Whatever Belichick says, Cam Newton at least partially lost his job with the Patriots because he’s another bonehead in sports who hasn’t been vaccinated.

So pro sports continues to be a capital of Stupidville on the subject of COVID and vaccines.

Now John Smoltz and Al Leiter represent the Stupidville district as they’re not allowed inside the studio of the MLB Network because they’re anti-vax guys.

You’d say that on and on we go and where we stop, nobody knows, except we do know:

This particular train stops in the place where the slow-thinkers reside.

The Yankees might ultimately lose the AL East because some of their stars – and they know who they are – haven’t been vaccinated.

The Red Sox, who can’t even hit that 85% threshold for vaccinated personnel, might miss a Wild Card by a game or two because of the guys they’ve lost to the sport’s protocols lately.

The Knicks and Nets could face a reality of having any of their starts who won’t get vaccinated miss home games in the upcoming season.

But the Walking Deadheads don’t care about the science.

They don’t care about what the doctors say.

Or how many unvaccinated people in this country are dying on a daily basis.

They want to make this an issue of personal choice.

Right.

Like ignoring traffic signals. Or driving drunk. These people act like they’re the ones who are drunk.

There has never been a dumber American moment than this.

Wait, you mean we don’t have to run Javy Baez out of town?

Tennis fans at the Open have to appreciate the kind of tennis Novak Djokovic can play, and this shot at the Grand Slam, and get behind him the second week, and the fact that he’s as tough a player as I’ve ever seen.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was absolutely right to threaten to boot any future morons in his galleries bating Bryson

DeChambeau.

It was also a very good thing that Rory McIlroy, maybe the best guy out there, to tell fans to cut it out.

That happens to be something Brooks Koepka, who thought it was funny at the start for guys to taunt DeChambeau by calling him “Brooksie,” needs to do in a much more forceful way.

Have athletes heard worse? Of course they’ve heard much worse, and taken it, all the way back to Jackie Roosevelt Robinson.

It doesn’t change the fact that what is going on with DeChambeau, whatever the percentage of people in the gallery doing it, is a form of bullying.

The Mets sure can pick ’em when it comes to general managers, can’t they?

I wrote about Theo Epstein last Sunday, in this space, before it became all the rage, and said that some owner is going to throw money at Theo when he’s ready to run a team again, and that owner might as well be the one with the most money:

Steve Cohen.

He ought to offer Theo the same kind of deal

Micky Arison once gave to Pat Riley, even if it does involve an ownership stake.

That ownership stake won’t affect another day of the rest of Cohen’s life.

But might change the course of Mets history.