New York Post

Urine trouble if nature calls at wrong time

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IT HAS to happen, right? So here’s the plan: One of the local TV stations should place a news crew outside a Yankee Stadium men’s room in anticipati­on of someone on the inside missing Aaron Judge’s next home run.

Chances are, after that home run, some grumbling young father will emerge with his kid who couldn’t hold it in.

What an angle! What an interview! What a scoop!

➤ Wednesday on ESPN’s “Around The Horn,” panelist Frank Isola noted that the excitement attached to Judge’s home run season has been diminished by the steroids era “accomplish­ments” of Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa — a pall cast because of the bottom line negligence of foresight-barren former commission­er Bud Selig.

Agreed. Though Bonds, McGwire and Sosa have not been voted into the Hall of Fame, Selig, was inducted just two years after his retirement.

➤ The NBC team of Jac Collinswor­th and Jason Garrett that called the Cal-Notre Dame game on Saturday should try plain English. Plays weren’t called, they were “dialed up.” Quarterbac­ks didn’t run, they “used their legs.” Running backs ran “downhill.” Both offenses tried to create “positive plays.”

Incidental­ly, a reader asks if players can still run downhill after the teams have switched sides on the field. Answer: Yes, but only if the game is played at the North Pole.

➤ SNY’s Steve Gelbs, running out of the 2 hole in Milwaukee as the Polish Sausage, won the Sausage Race on Wednesday, proving that hams are eligible to run as sausages.

➤ Any stats any time: At halftime of PanthersGi­ants last Sunday, Fox posted a full-screen graphic giving the game’s three “Top Performers.” One was Carolina receiver Robbie Anderson : “3 catches, 32 yards.” Not much. And one catch ended with a fumble that led to the Giants taking a 3-0 lead.

➤ Wednesday in Milwaukee, the Mets’ Jeff McNeil, hurt his hand trying to make a catch against the left-field fence in front of a billboard advertisin­g, “Injury Lawyers.”

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