Mets voice Rose gets good news

POST-intestinal surgery exams of Howie Rose were clean. Now a long recovery begins, prognosis good.

➤ Rob Manfred’s commitment to kids as “MLB’s top priority” was on full display last Sunday on ESPN, as Yankees-Mets, an 8 ¹/2-inning, 4:06 game, ended after midnight. As reader Wayne Brown of Alabama notes: NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” telecast began after Yankees-Mets and ended with the game in the seventh inning.

➤ Florida has offered a full scholarship to an eighth grade QB, Julian Lewis. Seriously. Guess he already meets the academic requirements. Seriously.

➤ TV continues to slot nearly 4-hour college football games into 3-hour windows, regularly creating fourth quarter and overtime viewing chaos. Doesn’t help that thoroughly unintended replay rules cost most games many dead-time minutes.

➤ Reader Dave Charak asks if these league, team and network-partnered sports gambling “free bet” come-ons are “eerily familiar to dope pushers’, as in: ‘The first one’s free’?”

➤ Stu Feiner, considered among the worst of scamdicap-pers even among peers, has joined Barstool Sports as a sports gambling tout. Feiner was fined by the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs for bogus advertising.

➤ I raise, and fold: Mets manager Luis Rojas on Tuesday pulled four effective relievers in order to lose to the Cardinals in 11. He’s saving his bullpen for big games down the stretch.

➤ Colleges and NFL teams continue to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to win games lost to misconduct penalties. Mostly ignored from last Saturday’s 17-7 Rutgers win at Syracuse was the aid provided by Orange coach Dino Babers, flagged for excessive griping at officials. Rutgers, moved from the Syracuse 22 to the 11, on the next play made it 7-0.

➤ Reader Bill Hoyt writes he’d one day like to attend the funeral of one of those obnoxious, starved-for-TV attention PGA gallery clowns so he can hear the mourners holler, “Get in the hole!”