It’s an old business adage: “Don’t ask me to do for you what I wouldn’t do to you.”
Yet, if only the media had gone to bat for baseball’s suckered customers, the past 18 years, as it did for the Yankees last week.
The recent imbroglio — no relation to Ernie Broglio — over the bait-and-switch scheduling of July 8’s Sunday afternoon Yankees-Blue Jays to a late Sunday night as per ESPN money was met with the Yanks’ howls of “No fair!” The Yanks are scheduled to play a rainout-forced doubleheader the next day in Baltimore.