Forgive me for what I’m about to do to you. But I did it to myself first. If you want out, now is the time. No hard feelings. Here goes:

Surrounded, we’ve already surrendered. So why do the beatings persist?

With so much good lost to baseball by systematic design, we now have the obsession — the compulsion — with identifying the type of pitch just thrown even if it defies conditioned good senses and no one, other than the silence-forbidden TV broadcasters, gives a rat’s rhomboid.

So we set sail, today, on the Salvation Navy’s SS ’NuffAlready! and issue our own replay challenge following Wednesday’s Angels-Mets game on SNY, whose voices declared at the start it was a perfect afternoon for baseball!