Why even bother with facts?

DRAT those stats: Elias Sports Bureau greeted Mark Teixeira’s announced retirement with word that he has never hit a “walk-off ” home run. But that regular-season stat ignores his game-ender in the 2009 ALDS. In other words, the most important is deemed unimportant.

Saturday, during FS1’s Red Sox-Dodgers, a graphic read that David Ortiz has never had a hit in Dodger Stadium.

Kenny Albert then came to our emotional rescue, saying it’s only Ortiz’s second game in Dodger Stadium.

➤ The Devils, we hear, this season will move from WFAN to WOR, 710 Radio.

➤ Having clownish Chris Berman annually host the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies doesn’t quite rhyme with the occasion. It’s like asking Mahatma Gandhi for his favorite recipes.

➤ This Alex Rodriguez the Yankees yesterday gave such a fond, respectful, special-man farewell news conference? He’s not the same lying, drug-enabled Alex Rodriguez the Yanks wanted to get out and stay out, just two years ago, is he? Nah; can’t be. Must be two different guys with the same name.