LLWS backup: cage fights

WHY DO media ask what makes today’s kids so frighteningly desensitized — as if media play no role?

A rain delay during an ESPN Little League World Series telecast last week was filled with kick-’em-senseless, bloody cage fighting.

Commercials repeatedly seen during Mets and Yankees telecasts for an R-rated movie about sixth graders consumed by sex, included urinal scenes and one with a ceiling-fastened sex swing. Charming.

I’ve never seen an important professional position player demonstrate such little interest in his position than Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez does. In fact, I’ve never seen him show interest in anything other than hitting home runs, even on 0-2 counts and sucker-punching an opponent who was trying to break up a hassle.

Do Adam Silver and NBA players really expect us to call team owners “governors”? If Jimmy Dolan were a governor, he’d have been voted out 20 years ago.

It’s now obvious MLB players spend more time practicing elaborate home run dances than bunting or otherwise hitting away from the shift.

Reader Rich LePetri asks what FanDuel means in advertising first-time “riskfree” bets. Well, Rich, that’s like when the drug dealer says, “First one’s free!”

Checkout Counter: Neil Scherer’s fascinating photo exhibit, “Home Plate: A Celebration of the Polo Grounds,” opens Aug. 22, 6-8 p.m., at the historic — as in 1765 — Morris-Jumel Mansion in Northern Manhattan.

I put a spell-check on you: PIX11, the Mets’ companion to SNY, in a large, one-word graphic last week, spelled Mickey Callaway “Calloway.” Still can’t compete with TBS’s 2012 playoffs graphic identifying Willie “Mayes.”