Selfish players showing no sight of the big picture

NEW COOKBOOK out: “Recipes for Disaster,” subtitled, “What If People Aren’t Bluffing?”

If even 20 percent of those who email this column to claim they’re done with sports due to all the insanity — politics, greed, arrests and absence of strong leadership — that surround MLB, the NFL and NBA aren’t kidding, and they represent a nationwide conviction of 20 percent, that’s a ton.

But they’ll still be taken for granted.

For example, is there no one close enough to

Jamal Adams to tell him that it’s not all about him? That folks have other things to worry about, especially now, than how many more millions he’ll be paid or

where he’ll next play? Does he think his public threats and gripes increase his popularity, his respect rating?

Kyrie Irving is so unhappy he provides daily updates. We have to suffer the laments of standand-pose Bryce Harper?

The public’s unconditional devotion to sports is losing out to current conditions. To continue to take that devotion for granted could be fatal.

The Cancel Culture has gotten one right. It still seems impossible, given that in 1996 she was suspended by MLB for making open-air N-worded racist and proHitler anti-Semitic remarks, but Cincinnati’s St. Ursula Academy named a science wing and a stadium for Reds’ owner Marge Schott. Her name will soon be removed.

The University of Cincinnati may be next. Led by the urgings of black UC pitcher Nathan

Moore and Jewish UC grad and former major leaguer Kevin Youkilis, UC’s “Marge Schott Stadium” also may be renamed.