Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005.
Last week at this time, we had a baseball season and a football season. This week, we have . . . Islanders vs. Rangers, Thursday night at the Garden.
That’s not a consolation prize for the puckheads among us, but for the rest of you, it’s quite a downer. And it happened abruptly.
If the Mets had solved Madison Bumgarner last Wednesday, we would be looking forward to Game 4 of the NLCS (if necessary) at Citi Field Tuesday night against America’s darlings from Chicago.