Gonna need lots more intentional walks to shorten games

MLB’s GENIUS in instituting automatic intentional walks to cut the lengths of games has done wonders!

Wednesday alone we had the following nine-inning games:

Orioles-Nationals, 3:47; Cardinals-Marlins, 3:46; Mariners-Phillies, 3:40; Giants-Mets, 3:33; Indians-Blue Jays, 3:31.

From Wednesday’s 8 ½-innings games, there was Red Sox-Brewers, 3:37; and Padres-Rangers, 3:24.

The Padres-Rangers played a 4-3, 8 ½-inning game in just 3:24 — thanks to Texas’s Nomar Mazara receiving an automatic, time-saving base-on-balls.

Game 7 of the Yankees-Pirates 1960 World Series,

Bill Mazeroski’s home run ending it, 10-9, for Pittsburgh, ran 2:36. Mike Francesa doesn’t get enough credit for so much of what he does best.

For example, with the Bulls up, 2-0, in their series against the Celtics — the Bulls won both in Boston — Francesa declared the Celtics kaput.

So, spotting himself a 2-0 lead and the Bulls’ home-court advantage for the next two games, Francesa boldly said the Celts were done.

The Celts won the next four to eliminate the Bulls, and the recording of Francesa’s tout immediately was shipped to the WFAN Warehouse of Lost Francesa Tapes.

Only the all-seeing, allknowing Francesa has the ability to be so colossally wrong so often. Thus, I wish for you what I wish for myself: Francesa to predict our sudden, grinding poverty.

He doesn’t get enough credit as a comedian, either. Tuesday he claimed Matt Harvey has a bad attitude in need of adjust- ing. Maybe Francesa — such a warm, amiable, sincere sort — can work with him on that.

After all, no one knows Harvey better than Sitting Bull. In 2013, when Harvey looked great, Francesa claimed he was among the first to know he was special. Previously, he trashed Harvey as just a load of “Mets’ hype.” More lost tapes.