WHACK BACK AT VAC

Mike Sullivan: As a Bronx-born Red Sox fan, I spent many a decade in despair. Now in my later years my Bosox are truly enjoyable to watch. If Price and Porcello have good years, the Sox will be hard to beat. For the Yankees to have a chance, their starters have to perform much better to hand off leads to their great bullpen. Vac: The rotation is definitely where the Sox have shown the most early speed. If Porcello is closer to 2016 form than 2017, that really could carry them.

Ken Schlapp: One positive if the Knicks hire Mark Jackson is not having to hear him on

broadcasts anymore.

Vac: I’ll put it this way: To me, anyway, a little Jax on those broadcasts goes a long way. @MattZemek: What the Knicks need is a fan revolt in which no one shows up to games,

humiliating James Dolan into selling the team.

@MikeVacc: Just making a dent in capacity that is still well over 90 percent for a dreadful season is the first step in that one. Jeffery Moritz: Crazy world of Knicks basketball: They race wildly to the bottom and then screw that up. Their rebuilding is like repairs on the 59th Street Bridge — perpetual and badly managed. Please freeze the envelope in the lottery basket again as we really do need another miracle.

Vac: And thus is life as a Knicks fan summarized perfectly in 46 words.