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Silence may be best alternative to ESPN’s empty baseball talk

In THE 1932 Marx Brothers movie, “Horse Feathers,” Groucho, as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, during a chaotic scene turns and speaks to the audience:

“I’ve got to stay here, but there’s no reason why you folks shouldn’t go out into the lobby until this thing blows over.”

Thus, despite readers’ kind suggestions that I should do as they do — watch ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” with the mute button engaged — I’m stuck. “I’ve got to stay here.”

Sunday from London, the Red Sox led the Yankees 4-2 after three innings, when Brett Gardner made a weak swing, missing an Eduardo Rodriguez pitch that broke low and inside.