Shut the bunt up!

THE TWINS’ griping over the Orioles’ Chance Sisco bunting a single past an inviting extreme shift with a 7-0 lead is another indication of modern baseball having lost its mind to its own excessive devices. Sisco was up there to get a hit, right? He got a hit. Now be quiet and play ball.

YES’ David Cone, during the Yankees’ Tuesday home opener, said Didi Gregorius was seen throwing crazy Wiffle Ball pitches on some social media site. Minutes later, YES found it, showed it. Gregorius can play on my dorm hallway Wiffle Ball team starting next semester.

Mark Ruckhaus, a longtime New Jersey high school baseball umpire, has sadly noticed something in recent seasons: An increasing number of schools that no longer have freshmen and/or JV teams.

The bag we’re in: The second game of the Final Four on TBS tipped off a half-hour earlier on a Saturday night than the Villanova-Michigan final, which began at 9:21 on a Monday night. What TV money can do, it always does. What now goes on at spring training that so many players, the first week of the regular season, become disabled?

Duke fans became enraged, even threatening at the suggestion here that in recruiting Marvin Bagley III sainted coach Mike Krzyzewski had landed a one-and-doner for this past season. Bagley has declared for the NBA, with more headed for Duke likely to do the same.

When I saw Michael Conforto, then 24, take that swing last season, his arm hideously unhinged, flapping like a bed sheet rippled by the wind, I was convinced he’d never play again. It’s good to be wrong.

A Tradition Unlike Any Other: Reader David Brooks writes that the Masters just isn’t the same without tuning to WFAN to listen to Mike Francesa watching it.