Phil Mushnick

New York

Sports Columnist at New York Post

Sport columnist for the New York Post

Articles

Sports media's phony 'perspective' is as hypocritical as it is fleeting

1 week ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

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Simone Biles refused to see common sense question before bashing Riley Gaines

1 week ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Her medals, fame and fortune won — presumably fairly — Simone Biles now has an international forum to advocate for unfair play, aka cheating. Biles last week publicly trash-tweeted unabashed fair-play advocate Riley Gaines for her front-and-center activism to rid girls and women’s sports of former males increasingly competing as women in winning formerly level-fielded competitions.
MLB’s forced ‘innovation’ is nothing more than an endless prank on fans

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

Forgive this self-indulgence, but after 20 years of trying to figure out what the heck is happening — and happened — to big league baseball, I arrived at a conclusion. Happened Tuesday. The Mets’ Jeff McNeil singled in the automatic runner — a pinch runner for the automatic runner, no less — who was automatically placed on second to give the Mets a win based on artificial additives, another reality-deprived, Rob Manfred Era “innovation” to create artificial excitement.
Painful MLB broadcasts are putting focus on all the wrong things

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

Seems every MLB telecast now comes with a dare: How many extraneous, superfluous and mindless artificial additives can we endure before we tap out? How much empty yak and phony belly laughs from the booth can we indulge? How many distracting interviews, misapplied and mindless stats? How many gambling come-ons or “first 18,000 guests” promos? How much more bad baseball can be witnessed but left unspoken by paid TV experts?
MLB’s quick-dough streaming mission is inexcusable — and it’s keeping fans away

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

Did you catch this past Friday night’s Yanks-Dodgers? It appeared exclusively on Apple TV+. Or was it Fubo, Roku, Hulu, Boo-Hoo or Bird-Flu? Amazon Prime, YouTube, U-Boob? The Gotham App? Or was it on the FanFool Parlay network? Or might it have been on NBC’s Peacock streaming operation, thus we missed another of what Mike Tirico barks as our chance “to be part of TV history!”? I missed it. I tried to find it but then quit.
'60 Minutes’ has history of cozy interviews and self-promotion

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

Beware of those who publicly declare that their stuff doesn’t stink. Recently, CBS newsman and “60 Minutes” regular Scott Pelley made news and noise when he seized the close of the venerable program to deliver an appeal, threat or whatever, depending on how one heard it, to CBS News parent Paramount, as it was reportedly preparing to settle a lawsuit brought last year by President Trump over the show’s very cozy interview with VP Kamala Harris during last year’s presidential campaign.
WFAN losing its last voice of sanity with Richard Neer’s exit

4 weeks ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

There used to be a ballpark … I suppose he lasted years longer than the game plan allowed, a split-T formation vs. an empty backfield world, but there will be no Richard Neer starting tomorrow morning at WFAN.
Copycat sports networks are spreading an ugly epidemic

1 month ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

As all sports-attached TV networks are conspicuously working off the same plan to remove the sport from our sports, we wonder: Who came up with the plan? Where was the research and surveys that told network execs that the sports-minded public prefers the worst images from games, the worst acts and actors in their sports, and the biggest jerks in the live audience to represent both the sports and what we most enjoy upon tuning in?
Copycat sports networks are spreading an ugly epidemic

1 month ago | share.google | Phil Mushnick

As all sports-attached TV networks are conspicuously working off the same plan to remove the sport from our sports, we wonder: Who came up with the plan? Where was the research and surveys that told network execs that the sports-minded public prefers the worst images from games, the worst acts and actors in their sports, and the biggest jerks in the live audience to represent both the sports and what we most enjoy upon tuning in?
MLB's arrogant 'gift' to fans is costly in more ways than one

1 month ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

Having missed two columns to my annual formaldehyde blood spins, let’s not waste time writing the pithy. Catch-up formation on “Hut.” (Hmm, wonder where “hut” came from.) Hut! It’s all a con continued: When MLB introduced interleague play, thus further homogenizing the two leagues, “Bottom Line” Bud Selig proudly boasted that “it’s a gift to fans.” And compliant media, having already rolled over, played dead.