Are you ready for some football? Apparently some of you aren’t. Nothing lasts forever and that includes the NFL’s ratings, which fell 8 percent from last year’s Thursday night opener and to their lowest level in 10 years. Is it the national anthem? Eliminating tackling from the game?

Gerry from The Bronx, in response to Nike researchers, reasons maybe “old angry white guys are the ones laying out the loot for their young happy dreamers.” … Turns out Serena Williams/Naomi Osaka was a better fight than Nicki Minaj/Cardi B.

Dodgers, Rockies and D’backs are in a three-way fight at the top of the NL West. L.A. is in Colorado. Rich Hill, consistently great last year, has been quite ordinary (7-5, 3.73). Tyler Anderson throws for the Rockies after allowing three runs to the Giants depleted lineup. 20 units on the Dodgers.

Wild thing. You make my heart sink. Marcell Ozuna’s homer tied the game in the top of the ninth for St. Louis, but Bud Norris threw a wild pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom and the Tigers dealt the Cards a 4-3 defeat. Wild “L” leaves us at -1,191 gibsons.