Here’s the worst part, if you think about it:

At least when Los Angeles stole the Dodgers away from us, there was rejoicing in Tinseltown. There were parades held to commemorate the arrival of Major League Baseball on the West Coast. At least when Los Angeles stole the Rams from Cleveland, they created one of the more glamorous love affairs in sports, turning Sunday afternoons at the L.A. Coliseum into a genuine red-carpet, go-to-be-seen events. At least when Los Angeles stole the Lakers from Minneapolis the Angelinos were so happy to have them they built the Fabulous Forum, which was part arena, part discotheque.

Now, the Chargers head two hours north up I-5, and they weren’t so much stolen by L.A. as foisted upon L.A. They arrive with a new logo that’s really just a mashup of the Dodgers and Tampa Bay Lightning logos. For now they will play in a 30,000-seat soccer stadium before moving into someone else’s stadium, where they will forever be a second banana.

The great Bill Plaschke in the L.A. Times summarized it perfectly the other day, after the Chargers move became official:

“Every relationship is built on honesty, so the San Diego Chargers should hear this as their moving vans are chugging up the 5 Freeway on their noble mission of greed.

We. Don’t. Want. You.”

Yes. It would appear even the larcenous sporting burg of Los Angeles has had its fill when it comes to the Chargers, who were actually born in L.A. the same year the AFL was before quickly finding paradise in paradise. The Chargers may never roll off the tongue among historic football franchises the way “Cleveland Browns” or “Green Bay Packers” do, but they had their iconic moments, from the old powder blue home jerseys (still the best) to Air Coryell to the thousand and one ways Norv Turner invented to lose unloseable games when he was the coach there.

Look, it was hard to feel all that terrible a year ago when the Rams high-tailed it back to California after 20 years in Missouri. Oh, there were plenty of St. Louis fans who wrung their hands and spoke of grave injustice, and that might even have been relevant if not for the fact St. Louis stole the Rams in the first place. Also, the Rams are just supposed to be in Los Angeles. Face it: Warren Beatty never would have lobbied to come back to life in “Heaven Can Wait” if it was the Edward Jones Dome he was returning to and not the Coliseum, if he was going to spend the rest of his days in the shadows of the arch rather than Venice Beach.

Oh, it’s easy to make jokes when it’s been 60 years since we last went through this. This is, after all, the anniversary year of 1957, the last time New York had three baseball teams, the last season of the Giants at the Polo Grounds and the Dodgers at Ebbets Field. It’s a sobering number, a reminder we are rapidly approaching a year when the notion of Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants are mere facts in history books — like Antietam and the Boston Tea Party — than the products of memory.

Still, there are plenty of area octogenarians and septuagenarians who remember precisely what Chargers fans are feeling like now. Heck, there still are plenty of Jets fans who gripe about the drive to Jersey, plenty of Giants fans who yearn for the days of Yankee Stadium, even five or six Nets fans nostalgic for the days they would butcher basketball seasons in the Meadowlands rather than Barclays Center.

And that’s what’s really awful about this. Plaschke said it: L.A. doesn’t want the Chargers, certainly doesn’t need the Chargers. L.A., in fact, did OK for itself for the 20 years it endured without an NFL franchise, even as the NFL kept trying to remind it how badly is should be missing it.

There is already talk of plenty of empty seats at the soccer stadium, of resounding apathy, of total disregard for the Chargers. That would be delicious. For decades Los Angeles has been a city easy to hate for sports fans of other cities because it has been a mercenary from the start, poaching other cities’ teams and showering them with unbridled affection and unceasing sunshine. Not this time. God bless their apathy on this one. Even if it won’t make San Diego feel one iota better about any of this.

For those of us who remember well the ’80s, NYPD Det. Steven McDonald (above) was a hero for all times. And after hearing Sgt. Conor McDonald elegantly eulogize his father on Friday, it is clear his legacy is in excellent hands.

If you’re a baseball fan and you never have been to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America dinner, think about next Saturday night. In addition to the usual star-studded dais, one of our most cherished awards will be rechristened the Joan Payson-Shannon Forde Award for Humanitarian Service. For ticket information go to BBWAA.com and click “awards dinner.”

Hey, have the Nets won that title their owner guaranteed a few years ago? I haven’t been paying close attention.

Is it me or does the countdown to pitchers and catchers feel more urgent this year than in a long, long time?

Louis White: Congratulations to Alex Ovechkin for reaching 1,000 points in “just” 880 games. I say “just” because Wayne Gretzky reached that milestone in his 424th game. As time goes by it just becomes more and more evident that The Great One is, in fact, the greatest statistical athlete who had ever lived.

Vac: Some of Gretzky’s records are so over-the-top absurd it almost feels impossible that they could be real.

Gary Levick: I still can hear Bob Sheppard’s voice now … “Coming into the game … number 42 … Mariano Rivera … number 42 …” As “Enter Sandman” played in the background.

Vac: Far and away this was the song cited as the biggest omission from last week’s column about stadium anthems.

@Yoplin: Watching the Knicks feels like watching Nicolas Cage drink the whole vodka bottle in “Leaving Las Vegas.”

@MikeVacc: I suggested it was like the bottomless pit Catwoman fell into on the old “Batman” TV series, but I like this one much better.

Dan Perez: I don’t want to pile on Phil Jackson, but the best move he did this year was holding on to the number one pick. Now, forget Derrick Rose getting a big contract with Knicks, but can a trade for the guard bring back a nice pick before Feb. 15?

Vac: Let’s just say the Knicks don’t exactly lead the league in leverage after the last week.