Black said last week. I told him I thought he was pretty damn good. And he says, 'Well, he'd better be. It would hard to imagine the same question being asked of Al Leiter as the Mets head to Yankee Stadium for tonight's opener. There may not be a baseball fan in the metropolitan area who cannot identify most of the Mets and Yankees starters by face, thanks to the media overkill.
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The media have it covered. The truth is, most of it is overdone, especially since television became popular in the late 1950s. The TV ratings go up , and that's where the money comes from to sustain pro sports. Not for the people in the sports business. The more that's written and heard, the more talk-radio, the more cable . . .