What a hack, why mad for Max, and here’s to the Knicks fan ....

Hacked Hollywood moguls begging Al Sharpton for forgiveness is so amusing on so many different levels you barely know where to begin.

Atleast Woody said something the other day, when Gary Myers of The News caught up with him at the NFL owners’ meetings in Dallas. He didn’t say a lot. And a lot of what he said was obvious.

But when he said that he expected his team to be good this year, and added “It shows how much I know,” it was one of his better moments as the Jets’ owner.

And one of his most human at the same time.

It doesn’t change the fact that he thought John Idzik was the end of the star search, it doesn’t change that he forced Rex Ryan on Idzik, a marriage that was more doomed than a Kardashian’s.

It doesn’t change the fact that Woody’s Jets are still so far south of the salary cap.

At least he didn’t wait until the end of the season to speak directly to his own fans.

At least he stopped hiding behind Idzik and Ryan for a few minutes. You can see why people think

Max Scherzer is irresistible for the Yankees, and also why the Yankee media might die of heartbreak if the guy doesn’t end up in pinstripes. He is an over-30 starting pitcher. He is a Scott Boras client. He wants way too much money and way too many years.

And, to make him not just irresistible but almost perfect . . . the Yankees would be bidding against themselves to sign him!

By the way, you know one of the reasons the people running the Yankees are being told in the media it’s practically their civic duty to sign Scherzer to be their ace?

Because the over-30 ace they signed five years ago — CC Sabathia — looks the way he does at the back end of the same kind of deal Scherzer is looking for.

So it goes.

Matt Kemp would have looked pretty nifty in the middle of the Mets’ batting order, if you ask me.

And not so terrible holding down one of the outfield spots at Citi Field.

The team from the Jersey Institute of Technology now has as many big basketball wins this season as the Knicks do.

The only thing Phil Jackson has been right about so far is with the coach — Steve Kerr — who didn’t want to come work for him.

One of the single dumbest crusades in the history of politics in this city is Bill de Blasio’s against horsedrawn carriages.

And his vision of replacing them with those idiotic electronic cars. It is still early for Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers, but there are some Rangers fans I know worrying that last June was as close as the King is ever going to get to the Stanley Cup.

Wouldn’t it be something to see the Sea hawks have to go to Lambeau for the NFC Championship Game?

You know who Carmelo would probably love to have passing him the ball? Somebody like Kyle Lowry. Oh, wait . . . Who has more mobility off what you’ve seen so far this season, Samuel Dalembert or the statue of George M. Cohan in Times Square? Woody Allen used to do a joke about having his life flash in front of his eyes and then realizing it was somebody else’s life. And I’m just wondering if when

Geno Smith talked about those Pro Bowl flashes he thinks he’s shown if he might have been talking about Russell Wilson’s.

If Colin Kaepernick doesn’t stop going in reverse this way, he’s going to finish this season somewhere near Tijuana.

Has there been a worse agenting job in recent memory than the one Scott Boras has done for Stephen Drew?

Maybe Boras thinks it’s genius for Drew to sit out the first couple of months of this season, too.

The Red Sox seem to be putting together an entire rotation filled with No. 3 starters.

We are discovering with the Brooklyn Nets what happens when a win-now team doesn’t. All those obsessed with what Bud Selig didn’t do in baseball instead of what he has done over the past 20 years are watching the wrong movie.

Somehow, after all the years and all the games, another season in the AFC will run through Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. How often do you suppose Brian Cashman daydreams about shooting Alex Rodriguez out of a cannon?

You got the idea watching another stinker of a Thursday night game, this one between the Cardinals and the Rams, that there was more scoring last summer in World Cup games. And a lot more action. You can never go wrong picking up anything written by the late, great Donald E. Westlake, whether it’s the Dortmunder books or the Parker novels that he wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Stark.

It continues to be sort of heartwarming that a career draft dodger like Dick Cheney loved torture to the extent that he did. You know who never exercises their no-trade clauses? The Knicks fans who keep coming to watch their team play, through it all, and who keep caring about it.

The place isn’t a mecca of basketball.

They are.

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