Watching local MLB telecasts takes too much irk

LOCAL baseball telecasts seem to have grown downright annoying.

During Mets games, we now regularly hear Keith Hernandez whine, groan and moan when something cataclysmic befalls the Mets, such as a bloop single.

Still, who can’t sympathize with Hernandez when a slow-moving game (aren’t they all?) delays his return to Sag Harbor to sip wonderful wines? Cry me a river of 2016 Château Pape Clément Pessac-Léognan cabernet.

Yankees telecasts, if you can watch them, continue to be insulting. Less-is-less Aaron Boone Baseball, followed by look-away passes or excusing the inexcusable with excuses morons wouldn’t buy.

Tuesday, at 4-4 against the Pirates in the seventh inning, indolent Josh Donaldson, with a runner on first, grounded to shortstop Oneil Cruz, a likely double-play ball. Cruz muffed it, thus no play at second, but he threw out Donaldson. YES then showed Donaldson. initially, in no particular hurry, even carrying his bat toward first.

David Cone: “It’s hard to fight that initial disappointment when you don’t make contact. Carry the bat with you a few steps.

“And we see that so much in today’s game. It’s not that players, today, are dogs. It’s just that they expect to get a hit. And when they don’t they’re disappointed, and sometimes a full step or not running out of the box can cost ya.”

Huh? Donaldson made good contact. And when batters averaged .260 instead of .240 they didn’t expect to “get a hit”?

Paul O’Neill: “It’s not intentional, it’s just a habit.”

It was 4-4, bottom of the seventh, man on first, no out! Habit? Disappointment? Stop! Donaldson dogged it. Again. If it’s a “habit,” Boone, the last five seasons, has fed it.