More boring baseball is on the way

DIDN’T see anything in preseason games to indicate interest in curing what last year so badly afflicted MLB. Looks as if this season again will be a home run-or-strikeout slog. Even with this new extra-innings rule of starting with a runner on second, I didn’t see anyone working on bunting or shortening up to make contact on 0-2 and 1-2 pitches.

In fact, MLB Network has resumed its assault on modesty and sportsmanship with its latest instructional for kids on how to flip your bat then pose long before you know you’ve hit a home run. Winding up on first instead of third is fun!

It’s unfathomable that adults working for MLB are trying to exploit baseball — a team game — to turn kids into conceited creeps. Next week: How to jog into double plays.

➤ Gee, the Washington Football Team. That should reduce some of the confusion.

➤ TV still treats golf audiences as fools with its transparent Tiger Woods treatment. Saturday, after three rounds, CBS listed Woods in first place — among those 3-over and 12 back!

➤ My advice for those NFL’s Washington team employees accused of sexual misconduct is to hire Louis Farrakhan. He’s very influential and, to applause, declared, “When a Sister says, ‘No,’ she really means ‘Yes!’ ” He certainly sounds supportive of sexual assault. Of course, his hate-filled ignorance is ignored by his NFL, NBA, BLM and female political supporters.

➤ Follow the TV money: First the Mets eliminated Saturday afternoon games, now no scheduled games on local over-theair-TV, cable only, no Ch. 11.

➤ LeBron James will open the NBA season with the singing of the Red Chinese national anthem. Translated, it begins, “One nation, under Nike ...”

➤ Reader Jack Shoemaker on the NCAA’s decision that major college football teams can claim two automatic victories over canceled games against paid-to-lose teams: “Is the reverse true? Can Bowling Green now claim it lost nail-biters to an Alabama and a Clemson?” Sure! Who can forget!