This World Series was the absolute worst – and it’s finally over

It’s not too early for MLB and its partner TV networks to start working on next season.

First step: Change the in-game disclaimer from “Any rebroadcast, rebroadcast, or account of this game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is prohibited” to be more realistic, as if someone is stealing what MLB , ESPN, TBS and Fox did it with these playoffs.

So MLB should borrow from the drugs announced during games, specifically for the treatment of Acute Spinratis Smoltz: “MLB advises that you first consult with your healthcare provider. . . Depression and suicidal thoughts may occur.”

Thank goodness the worst-played, worst-managed, worst-televised, worst-talked-about and worst-attended playoffs have reached their maker. An institutionalized freak show that senselessly appropriated the worst of our aggravation to culminate in a requisite riot and looting in LA by those who wear their licensed MLB caps as a pledge of allegiance to their street gangs.

Call it Fallen Classic, surrounded by the American flag.

The games themselves were diminished to a state of malnutrition to the point where they saw World Series batters which has never been fought beforethe elimination of new, significant extra inning rules that have resulted in teams making the playoffs, pitchers failing to cover runners and first basemen and first basemen, not knowing how many are out.

And the media who complain about it or simply point it out are put on the defensive, lest they be condemned as old and cranky for espousing 100-year-old sense.

Consider Fox’s Derek Jeter after Game 1 of the WS, when Aaron Boone, at his usual six-year strength, gave the Dodgers as much help and comfort since Benedict Arnold said, “They went that way.” After ripping off Gerrit Cole after just 88 pitchesostensibly to save Cole for a big game, Boone did what he does: used and abused his bullpen.

Jeter: “I don’t want to be one of those guys who says, ‘Back when I played…’ but I was talking about how when I played with the Mets in 2000, Al Leiter pitched Game 6 and threw 140- something leans.

“Cole dominated this game. And if you take him out after 88 pitches for I don’t know what reason, it’s a domino effect on not only this game tonight, (but) tomorrow’s game and the rest of the series. I think when you have somebody who’s doing the way Cole did tonight, you leave them there as long as you can.”

No, Derek, never apologize for making baseball sense. There is nothing wrong – quite the opposite – to be Old School when Old School is Smart School. “Back in the day”—even if only 24 years ago—made more sense and winning baseball than what baseball has been allowed to become, neglecting anything more noteworthy than home runs and strikeouts- the hours.

Boone is doing as most do now: out of fervent but foolish desire. It is Aaron’s Psalm: In every game and half-time line, he will be blessed with a staff that comforts him.

The lack of respect for rank that Rob Manfred, the Dodgers and the Yanks showed the World Series and The Game wasn’t shocking considering Manfred allowed the Dodgers to turn a Gay Pride game into an invitational demonstration . bearded drag queen slobs dressed as nuns knocking on the church. What did they have to do with baseball beyond pandering to the hungry disruptor?

They had the same thing to do with the World Series as the Dodgers’ WS opening act – do the World Series now need the firsts? — Ice Cube, a vulgar, woman-degrading rapper whose posting of anti-Jewish cartoons and content has now been ignored by both Roger Goodell and Manfred.

Goodell proudly donated NFL money to Ice Cube’s noble-sounding organization. I’d suggest Manfred and Goodell team up to rap one of Cube’s numbers, say “No Vaseline.” Run, media! Run away!

In Fat Joe’s case, chose to sit senselessly on the mound at Yankee Stadium while shouting/rapping indecipherably into a microphone before Game 3, forget his nasty, N-word lyrics and go straight to his arrest record and his uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time during street crimes.

Reader Billy Nolan represented about 200 e-mailers to this column when he wrote, “I’ve watched the Yankees all my life and I’ve never been more embarrassed for them.”

Fox, who once again spent the World Series focused on the crowds rather than the games, found two young women dancing to Fat Joe’s obnoxious grunt. Everyone else looked confused, like they’d been redirected to Karaoke Night on Rikers Island or Super Bowl halftime.

Why would MLB be so eager to attach the World Series to these two? Who would watch now who wasn’t going to watch? Would Manfred rap the lyrics to the children and women in his life?

And just as relentlessly annoying were Fox’s over-excited Joe Davis — as they sang on the old “Patty Duke Show,” “a hot dog makes her lose control” — and John “Spin Rate” Smoltz, who he did not allow three consecutive seconds of silence over 16 hours, Fox gave them plenty of side dishes in the form of ESPN-esque statistics meant to recite and fuel hype among the uninitiated.

Thus, Fox was eager to report statistics that Bernie Williams is ahead of Mickey Mantle in the “postseason” batting categories. Williams played in 121 postseason games. Mantle played in the 65 – known only as the World Series.

“When will Fox learn!?” asks reader Mark Rottenstein.

It won’t be. Nobody will. It’s like waiting until after kickoff to come off the field to show the starting lineups. It will always be done wrong because that’s how it’s always been done. Smoltz was first stamped with Fox’s approval in 2014.

But my favorite stat was Tommy Kahnle’s 60, 70 or so “consecutive innings.” As reader Jerry C. asked, “If all he does is change, how can there be change? A change from what? If he threw a fastball, that wouldn’t be his changeup.”

But it’s over. We can come and get some air, again. It’s all over but the applause, the complaints, counting the looting and burning, the loss of Los Angeles stock and revenue, and Fat Joe playing in the “Pride of the Yankees.”

Bet on the NFL’s gambling hypocrisy

CBS’ Ian Eagle on Sunday during Eagles-Bengals noted that Philly CB Isaiah Rodgers was signed “after being suspended for gambling.” Hmm. Can the NFL suspend fans for not playing?

Get Off My Infield Lawn: In August, Aaron Boone beat Gleyber Torres for not moving. And such minimal play had to stop. But as reader Saul Mishaan notes, not only has Torres been resurrected, but the Yanks’ ceiling has been posing throughout the season.

Among the NFL’s most underrated: Ravens TE Mark Andrews. Be your own analyst: follow him every moment until he leaves the frame. QB Lamar Jackson knows where to find him after that.

Sorry, but after Sunday’s loss to the Pats, the Jets are out of options. They need to fire Robert Saleh. . . . what is this