ANOTHER GREAT U.S. OPEN STORY, STUPIDVILLE MEET SELFISH TOWN & NOTHING WILD ABOUT YANKS ...

We sure were missing big stars at this Open.

Then along came Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu.

Fernandez just turned 19 this past week.

Raducanu, a qualifier, is 18. No Fed ,no Rafa ,no Serena at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center this time.

We had Djokovic’s quest, you bet.

But we also had these two amazing kids, writing one of the best tennis stories of them all.

And I know, because I got to write an awful lot of them for the New York Daily News.

Still big fun, by the way, to have the McEnroe brothers do big matches at the Open.

Pete Alonso is the best ballplayer in town.

It’s really not going to be a happy-making day for Jets fans if Sam Darnold lights it up on Sunday, is it?

What never changes?

That the Bills got Josh Allen five picks after the Giants took Saquon Barkley at No. 2.

You know I have been talking about Stupidville when it comes to the unvaccinated in sports.

But MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle reminds me that the next town over from Stupidville is Selfish Town.

Because the most selfish people in sports are these unvaccinated players.

They’re the ones who give you a lot of hoo-ha about TEAM, and then don’t care enough about their teams to get vaccinated.

I know who some of the unvaxx guys are on the Red Sox.

A lot of people know.

And those guys are probably in the process of contributing to the Red Sox not getting a wild card this season, just because of the way positive tests have ripped through the Red Sox clubhouse lately, now clipping Chris Sale, who has come all the way back from Tommy John surgery.

The president talked about the pandemic of the unvaccinated again the other day.

There’s another pandemic going on in sports, with the selfish, and with the ignorant.

What if the replacements that the Yankees got at the trade deadline to fix a flawed team aren’t enough?

What if the Yankees have spent all that money — again — this season to either just get a wild card, or fall short of a wild card? Then what?

And how is that the manager’s fault?

I was lucky enough to be a part of a really fun event at the Hamptons Doc Fest on Friday night, along with Dwight Gooden and Nick Davis, the producer/ director of the new ESPN “30 for 30” documentary about the ’80s

Mets.

It’s called “Once Upon A Time In Queens,” and it had its premiere (first two episodes) Friday, and, trust me, it won’t be just Mets fans who love it, because it is such a fine piece of filmmaking.

That trade for Edwin Diaz and Robinson Cano, it’s the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it?

Through Friday night’s loss to the Jays, Joey Gallo had played 38 games for the Yankees.

And had 18 hits.

And was hitting a fancy .136. He’s worked out as well for the Yankees, so far, as Andrew Heaney has.

On the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, it is always worth remembering the way sports, in its own small but important way, tried to heal a wounded city at that time.

I remember taking my sons down to old Shea one Saturday afternoon, so we could all become a part of the relief work the Mets and Bobby Valentine were doing.

I remember Mike Piazza’s home run, what will always be the most famous home run in Mets history and one of the most famous and memorable in baseball history, on the night baseball came back.

And no one who was at the old Stadium the night the clock turned November will ever forget how Derek Jeter made our wounded city cheer with that walk-off, Game 4 home run against the Diamondbacks.

I had heard the Stadium loud before, in those years when 50,000 or more showed up every night.

I had never heard it sound like that.

Can actually hear it still, as a matter of fact.

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