Bettor believe they eye your $

WHAT? You don’t bet? Then get lost. Until further notice, you can’t be a sports fan, whatever sport is left in the sports, unless you risk and, by design, lose your money betting on them. Here, there, everywhere. Late Saturday morning, I had to make a short car trip, a time for habitformed sports-talk radio.

On WFAN, the sports talk was about NFL fantasy football: who to buy, who’s hurt, who to dump, how to cash in. On ESPN Radio-NY, the sports talk was all about gambling against the points on NFL games.

Then I passed an electric billboard — advertising a new sports gambling operation.

Once home, I turned on the TV, which had been left tuned to SNY. There stood SNY’s DraftKings shill identified as Jay Sinatra. He looked and sounded, perhaps intentionally, like half a wiseguy, a fast-talker behind sunglasses.

He touted three NFL games against the points. He went 1-2, which, not that he had any say in the matter, was good for DraftKings and bad for the young and vulnerable — clear targets of such enterprises — who bought in.

I hit the “last” button on the remote, which brought me to ESPN2, where Hannah Storm — Hannah Storm! — was co-hosting a gambling show with a tout giving his picks against the spread in that day’s college football games, most, if not all, to appear on ESPN.

At no point along any of these stops was the indisputable addressed: All betting operations, legal and illegal, are predicated on people losing their money, quickly or eventually. Bad odds and payoffs ensure it.

But if you don’t take the plunge, you’re no longer the kind of sports fan that’s worth the time or a dime.