No exoneration for Mike, Mad Dog

LAST week a tape of the Mike and The Mad Dog show from the day after the 9/11 attacks was revealed as evidence that my accusation of the blatant anti-Jewish session that I heard and have written about was exaggerated if not fabricated, thus Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, at last, have been vindicated.

That 9/12 show was not the one I heard nor wrote about. If it were, WFAN would not have subjugated its recording for over 16 years.

The show I heard and have written about was several days later, and included Francesa’s and Russo’s claim that the 9/11 attacks by Islamic radical terrorists were to be blamed on U.S. support of Israel, which they called “a failed experiment,” and Francesa’s claim that American Jews would fight for Israel but not the United States.

And if Francesa’s on-air claim that the Anti-Defamation League “cleared me” of the charges I made in print is true, why not produce that evidence?

How bad would jail be if you were sentenced to watch six-plus hours of Saturday’s Stanley Cup games, Blues-Wild then Habs- Rangers, on NBC? What intense, riveting, all-in sport — even with just a stale cheese sandwich and a cup of water in between? Book me!

So if Yoenis Cespedes again chooses to rehab a bad leg by playing golf, Sandy Alderson and Terry Collins again will say they’re good with that, it’s just “a bad optic”?

During Tuesday’s White SoxYanks, Suzyn Waldman: “This Speed Report is brought to you by [so-and so].” She next said there have been no stolen bases, tonight. Reader David Distefano: “Once again, nothing was sponsored by something.”

Steve Albert, 35 years here as a call-everything play-by-play/ blow-by-blow man, has retired, having spent his last five years as the TV voice of the Phoenix Suns.

Mets tickets last week were pitched on SNY at “65 percent off.” Does that mean they’re priced 65 percent too high?

Whattaya say, Commissioner Manfred; wasn’t yesterday another beautiful Sunday afternoon in New York for a ballgame?

The first batter in Monday’s Padres-Braves was called safe at first on a bang-bang play. Predictably, that triggered a delay for a replay challenge, the call eventually sustained. First batter!

As reader Mark Morley suggests, why not cut to the replay rule chase: “Anytime there’s a close play at first, the first-base ump just shrugs and gestures for a replay review.” Perfect! The “Leave me outta this” replay!

Reader John Wolosz asks what’s taking pro wrestling so long to add replay, “in case the shoulder came off the canvas before the ref counted three.”