The Post’s TV/Radio columnist since 1982, Phil Mushnick joined the newspaper in 1973. He’s covered the Nets, Rangers and New York Cosmos.
It brings to mind those experiments conducted on mice to determine how much a rodent can endure before it starts walking sideways and trying to eat through its ears. Since the new Yankee Stadium, the new "cathedral...
July 18, 2011 12:00 AMThere was a sign stenciled to a windowless metal door deep in Detroit’s old Briggs/Tiger Stadium. It read: “Visitors Clubhouse No Visitors” All I did, Friday morning, was what ESPN, for the last two weeks, had urged...
July 17, 2011 12:00 AMMoney-ugly. Everything has turned -- soured, spoiled -- to money-ugly, a relentless aggravated assault on the better senses. If right is right and wrong is wrong, here's what Derek Jeter and his image-molders...
July 15, 2011 12:00 AMThe commonly held opinion that the perjury trial of Roger Clemens is a waste of time, money and our legal system is both understandable and more than a little sad. It's an extremely important prosecution. For...
July 08, 2011 12:00 AMWhat happened around here? Did we pull a Rip Van Winkle? Was it all just a dream sequence? Three months ago the Mets were financially dead in the water. The only question was whether the ship would be repossessed...
July 05, 2011 12:00 AM
Every Fourth of July it has become ritual here to remind New York that George Steinbrenner, now deified in death, was born on the Fourth of July. Yup, a real live nephew of my Uncle Sam. Recently, The New York Times...
July 03, 2011 12:00 AMCry me a water hazard: The recent, widespread laments about the downturn in American golf and tennis talent -- not sure if that's true, but only that it coincides with upturns from those born in other parts of the...
July 01, 2011 12:00 AM
The problem with Craig Carton is radio, not vice versa. Consider this past Friday morning, while working without Weekday Boomer, three consecutive segments on his WFAN/MSG simulcast. The first was a long riff...
June 27, 2011 12:00 AMIt's not just that Joe Morgan was such a load to endure, Bobby Valentine would be an interesting analyst under any circumstances. If you appreciate and support baseball that's played to win, Valentine thus far has...
June 24, 2011 12:00 AM
Not since Woodstock have we been subjected to a more repetitive theme. But instead of "Three Days of Peace and Music," this U.S. Open brought "Four Days of What Rory Learned at the Masters." Rory McIlroy, the...
June 20, 2011 12:00 AM
CBS Sports Network has hired Rich Rodriguez as a college football game and studio analyst. The same Rich Rodriguez who regularly recruited and indulged criminals and assorted bad boys as the head coach at West...
June 19, 2011 12:00 AMHow can you call yourself a big baseball fan when you just sit there with a blank look as Bud Selig and his puppeteers continue to disfigure The Game? I know, most sports media are no help; they're compliant and co...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
One of modern sports' more unfortunate credos is, "It ain't bragging if you can back it up." Wrong. Bragging is bragging, regardless. Perhaps that's why Shaquille O'Neal was and likely will remain a unique...
June 06, 2011 12:00 AM
One of these days, ESPN is going to do the smart thing and attach itself to a Secondary Audio Program (SAP) that taps into a laugh track. Thursday night at halftime of Game 2 of the Mavericks-Heat finals on ABC/ESPN,...
June 05, 2011 1:18 AMMany of us grew up with uniform numbers inextricably attached to players. Inextricably, as in still and forever. Most numbers were seasonally shared. To me, No. 8 was/is Yogi Berra, and even after they were traded,...
June 03, 2011 12:00 AMCould you imagine having been Keith Hernandez's roomie on road trips? Geez. He'd have been like something out of a Jackie Mason routine. "I don't care if the thermostat reads 72, it feels like 71 in here!" . . ....
May 29, 2011 12:00 AMThat the Mets' ownership group has for years been sustained by batting cleanup in a colossal Ponzi scheme, this week rather suddenly meant less than the irrelevant declaratives of Fred Wilpon about some of his bigger...
May 27, 2011 12:00 AM
Are the baseball media oper ating under orders or under a spell? The biggest stories are either politely ignored or politely forgotten. Last week during TBS' Phillies-Braves telecast, Bid Selig, er, Bud Selig, said...
May 23, 2011 12:00 AM
This is one of those dirty-job columns. Dick Ebersol, big-shot head of NBC Sports since 1989, abruptly resigned Thursday, a story that’s impossible to ignore. Equally impossible to ignore is that though others quickly...
May 22, 2011 12:00 AM
It's one of those modern media mysteries. If Michael Kay hates to be called a shameless Yankees shill, why does he go to such extraordinary lengths to be one? Friday's Red Sox-Yankees game on YES, start to finish,...
May 16, 2011 12:00 AM
What generously is referred to as “social media” too often shows up as antisocial media. For example: Mets catcher Josh Thole, who has shown himself through interviews and acts of one-on-one kindness toward fans and...
May 15, 2011 2:14 AM“Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.” – from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.” The GusJohnson saga continues ... In an era when national and local networks...
May 13, 2011 1:27 AM
If you set aside a technical disaster — NBC’s call of Saturday’s Derby collided with Churchill Downs’ call, making both indecipherable — the telecast included one highly remarkable sight and sound. Certainly, no...
May 09, 2011 2:13 AM
In recognition of finally getting something right, the NFL Network last week took a hammer and broke it. In hiring Bob Papa three seasons ago to provide an immediate fix for a serious, self-inflicted wound — Papa...
May 08, 2011 12:11 AMBased on past performances, NBC's Kentucky Derby telecast tomorrow will not include the odds posted at all times. Forget the fact that those at the track will frequently and reflexively refer to the latest odds...
May 06, 2011 12:00 AM
One of the simple seasonal pleasures of American life is listening to a ballgame on the radio. The companionship of a baseball game while in the car, on the deck, the porch, stoop, fire escape, the beach, at the lake or...
May 02, 2011 12:00 AM
During Monday’s Yankees radio broadcast, Suzyn Waldman ran down the day’s NL schedule noting that “old friend, Ian Kennedy [ex-Yankee]” was starting for Arizona, and “old friend Dustin Moseley [ex-Yankee]” was starting...
May 01, 2011 1:07 AM" ... And they all lived together in a crooked little house." Even by modern media standards, this one made the arrow on the Deceit Detector do jumping jacks. Tuesday on YES, top of the first inning; the White...
April 29, 2011 12:00 AM
Had to enjoy that Wonder-bread sandwich NBC served Saturday. The Rangers-Capitals telecast came in the middle of two slices of preposterous. The game began 20 minutes after NBC advertised it would, an old, dishonest...
April 25, 2011 12:00 AM
A man walks into Moe’s, the seedy bar owned and operated by Moe Szylak on “The Simpsons.” The man orders a scotch and water. “All our scotch,” growls Moe, “has water in it.” In a big-league baseball world predicated...
April 24, 2011 12:16 AM
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