NFL determined to drive away fans

The NFL and its blind addiction to TV money continues to make it clear to season-ticket holders that they’re taken-for-granted, moneywasting suckers.

This past Super Bowl’s teams, the Eagles and Patriots, though both play their home games outdoors in northern climates, this year will be late afternoon or prime-time night-game teams. And their few 1 p.m. home starts could be “flexed” to late or later games.

Once again, the only teams assigned logical, customer-sensible 1 p.m. start times are smaller TV-market teams coming off rotten seasons.

To think that before

Roger “Good Investments” Goodell and PSLs, the Jets and Giants had years-long waiting lists to buy season tickets. But the NFL continues to beg its fans and customers to live without it. And once you learn how to do that — saving lots of time, energy and money — there’s little chance of returning.

Save of the Week goes to Mariners reliever Edwin Diaz. Against the Rangers he pitched 1 ¹/3 innings, allowed one earned run, one hit, three walks and a wild pitch. He threw a 40-pitch save.

Then there was Astros 7, White Sox 1, a game that included, good grief, 11 pitchers. The loser was, we kid you not, reliever Aaron

Bummer.

On the subject of silly stats, if only Michael

Kay would pass on half of those he speaks. That hard-hit line drives have “exit velocities” that exceed high fly balls is not surprising.