Sorry to bring this up, again, but no one said it better than the early 1960s TV beatnik/philosopher Maynard G. Krebs (the G., he explained, stood for Walter) who would exclaim, “What an age we live in!”

We live in an age of high-def, slow-mo, “get-it-right (or wrong)” non-instant instant-replay challenges, enlarged freeze-frames, multiple-angle perspectives, live action competing with digitized graphics for space, and invites to watch postgame shows on which experts “will break it all down for us.”

And statistics? Whoo, boy! Enough to make the MIT faculty lose its faculties.

But that doesn’t mean anyone actually “gets it.”

Left grossly but predictably unreported, this weekend, was one of the most colossal game-changing blunders in MLB big-game history.

In Baltimore, the Tigers, down 1-0 to the Orioles in the ALDS, led 5-3 in the eighth inning Friday. Torii Hunter was on second, Miguel Cabrera on first, none out, when Victor Martinez doubled off the wall in center. Hunter scored to make it 6-3.

And then, third-base coach Dave Clark did the unfathomable, the unthinkable: He waved Cabrera — molasses-slow and an annual leader in grounding into double plays — home. Not even close. Out at the plate.

Instead of second and third, no out, up 6-3, Detroit had a man on second, one out. The Tigers didn’t score again. They lost, 7-6.

By the time the game and weekend ended, such a senseless, thoughtless decision — a stunner that “didn’t appear in the box score” — was widely forgotten, ignored or otherwise went unreported, unworthy of consideration. The game’s pitching stats, on the other hand…

More baseball: Fox’s Sports 1’s Nationals-Giants series coverage has included graphics giving pitchers’ “hold” totals. Seriously. There is not a more worthless new-age stat than the hold. Providing a pitcher’s second favorite color would be more revealing.

Fox hipster Matt Vasgersian apparently wanted to be the first. With Giants-Nats entering the bottom of the 16th, Saturday, he twice said that Washington “has a chance to walk this win off.” He simply could have said, “a chance to win,” but that’s so passé.

Regardless, what we need from all of MLB’s partners are more crowd shots!

College Football: For starters, what if we told you, six weeks ago, that Rutgers would beat Michigan — and not cover?

Anyway, no matter how good Stanford-Notre Dame might be, we knew from the start of Saturday’s telecast it would be a tough watch.

Before kickoff, Dan Hicks and NBC graphics supplied some terribly misleading, no-context (Wow!) stats: 3-1 Stanford “had allowed only 26 points this season.”

Yes, Stanford has a strong defense, but two of its four games had been we’ll pay-ya-for-the-privilege, non-conference home mismatches: 45-0 over UC Davis, 35-0 over Army. But stats are stats!

Saturday, on the first play from scrimmage, Stanford dropped a lineman into its offensive backfield. Mike Mayock jumped Mayock at that. Speaking for Stanford in addressing Notre Dame, he said, “Guess what fellas? We’re going right at ya — physically.”

Physically, eh? Not socially?

After Stanford’s offense was flagged for its third first-quarter penalty, Mayock, who has a Mike Francesa Complex, went into his God’s Voice of Football mode: “This is not Stanford football” — as if it’s distinguishable from other schools’ teams.

Then he bestowed both absolution and his blessings upon Stanford coach David Shaw: “I have as much respect for him as I do any coach in the country.” That’s more than enough to earn Coach Shaw a premium lot in Heaven! Tell Him Mike Mayock sent you!

CBS’s Alabama-Mississippi pregame included former Wisconsin and current Arkansas coach Bret Bielema as a guest panelist. In previewing Nebraska-Michigan State, he suggested the Cornhuskers would be disadvantaged by “the worst visiting locker room in the country — they don’t even have doors on the toilet stalls.”

Ole Miss over Alabama was a good watch — even if it did include the standard stomach-turner of a kid trying to turn a win into a loss by being penalized for showboating after a TD.

Why, at such a late stage, don’t these high-priced, big-stakes coaches demand that their student-athletes cut it out? Or at least coach them to demonstrate gross immodesty in a more dignified manner?

Reader Pete Dibiase tuned to ESPN Friday “to watch the Louisville Cardinals play the Syracuse Orange, but based on their new uniform colors, I didn’t recognize either.”

NFL Home Teams: CBS analyst Trent Green, throughout the Jets-Chargers game Sunday, continued to avoid the pop culture-parroting pressure to speak games in neo-slick code, instead choosing applicable, see it/say it plain talk. And, no speechmaking!

He even succinctly explained Philip Rivers’ high percentage pass-completion rate as a matter of throwing so many short passes.

Earlier, Fox was unable to provide an isolated look of former Giants star Osi Umenyoira’s second-quarter sack. But it did provide a comprehensive, slow-motion, close-up recording of Umenyoira’s sack dance.

You can tell new Fox play-by-player Kevin Burkhardt needs help. During a promo for this Saturday’s Oregon-UCLA telecast, he ad-libbed that both lost their last game. Such candor is commercially unacceptable.

Fox analyst John Lynch is another who feels it essential to tell/remind us that the football game we’re watching is, well, a football game. “He made a good football play,” “A good catch of the football,” “The New York Giants football team.”

What used to be standard as a matter of common sense and decency instead of TV money — the Jets and Giants both playing on Sunday afternoons, one the early game, the other the late — yesterday happened by accident.

Jay Bilas’s ESPN contract has been extended through 2023, which promises college basketball fans another 10 years of all-knowing, condescending, sometimes contradictory and occasionally correct analysis and observations.

No shortage of fresh ideas: As seen and heard last week, if doo-doo jokes, flatulence gags and sounds, crude sexual objectification of women, and obligatory, sophomoric wise-guy “comedy” is your thing, we recommend SNY’s Covino & Rich Show (Steve Covino, Rich Davis). SNY airs it late on weekday afternoons — to capture that after-school, “sports fan” crowd.