Difference in start times is night and day

GIVE the Mets credit for raw nerve. During Thursday’s fiasco on SNY, ads appeared for Sunday night’s NationalsMets, a “Family Day” that just two weeks ago was moved to an 8:10 p.m. start as per ESPN’s purchased authority.

Those ads invited viewers to buy tickets to a “Family Evening” game. It’s not a night game, it’s an “Evening Game”! The only family that would attend a Sunday, 8:10 p.m. game would be the Addams or Manson Family.

Not that Rob Manfred cares any more than did Bud Selig, but as of Friday, we had heard from seven families who in total purchased more than 40 tickets to attend “Family Day” when it was a 1:10 start.

All of them would have passed on a latenight Sunday start as absurd, out of the question. Tonight — er, this — they’re unlikely to be awake to see the game’s end on ESPN.

One wonders what was going through Sheldon Richardson’s collegeman (Missouri) mind as he was headed out, shortly after he was suspended for four games, having failed NFL drug tests multiple times.

“Let’s see, I’ve got my stash, my loaded semiautomatic, a 12yearold passenger, and my Bentley’s all gassed up. Ready to roll!” At 143 mph, chased by cops.

But he left for the NFL before this new “thing” began, the one in which SEC schools now will try to educate recruits to the basics do’s and don’ts of legal behavior, starting with beating women. That, SEC schools will now tell those recruits, is “a don’t.”

Can hear it now from an ingame network commentator, capturing Richardson’s “How I spent My Summer Vacation” with, “His offthefield problems have been welldocumented.”