Networks keep finding new ways to one-up each other in ruining sports for viewers

So help me, I don’t know why. If I did, you’d be the second to know as I’d immediately share it with you.

Why television execs, regional and national, have chosen to destroy sports telecasts with unneeded and unwanted excess is an ongoing study in self-nullification.

What NBC did — what it chose to do — to Sunday night’s national telecast of Dodgers-Yankees is what you Americans call a train wreck.

In alleged play-by-play man Jason Benetti, apparently under orders to be a comedic talk show host despite being more annoying than clever, NBC ignored the close game between contenders to try to make us laugh and show old clips of the three former big leaguers.