Don’t know if nearly 50 years on this job qualifies me as a sportscasting historian, but I do know this:

There has never been a time in my time when televised sports have been worse, more excessively senseless and for no good reason other than negligent or dopey execs who think that we neither want nor deserve better than stupid.

And it perfectly mirrors the pathetic, untreated state of our “sports culture.”

But why, after 12 years of destroying baseball telecasts with inapplicable, far-flung and drearily repetitious assertions, would we have expected better from Fox’s No. 1 baseball voice, John Smoltz? And what he did to the Jays-Yanks series qualified as telecide.