Memories of Jimmy Piersall running the bases backwards in the Polo Grounds came to mind. That was 1963. I was a kid. Piersall, playing for the Mets, had homered off the Phils’ Dallas Green.

Even then, though, I knew it was nuts.

Tuesday, my undivided inattention made for a similarly weird day in latter-day local baseball TV viewing.

First, both the Mets and Yanks were on pay cable as opposed to pay-pay-streaming, the wave goodbye of the future as the Bud Selig/Rob Manfred Era takes its orders from team owners wedded to unneeded and premature economic destruction.