Phil Mushnick
Background
Phil Mushnick has been the New York Post's television and radio columnist since 1982. His Equal Time column runs twice a week, on Fridays and Sundays. A native of Staten Island, Mushnick joined The Post in 1973 as a copy boy before being promote💯d to a reporter and covering the New York Cosmos and New Jersey Nets. Mushnick's no-holds barred commentary has taken on some of the biggest individuals, teams and companies in the sports world, most notably Vince McMahon and the WWE and Phil Knight and Nike.
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♍Clueless TBS has made ALCS unwatchable 🍰
Today we pause to give our eternal thanks to TBS for allowing us a few brief, presumably live moments of the last can’t-make-it-up inning of Thur𒉰sday’s Yankees-Guardians playoff game.
Vin Scully would be dumbfounded by today’s MLB broadcasters’ incessant sc♑reaming🅘
🌳 The legendary Dodgers broadcas💛t now must look down from his ethereal, misty broadcast booth to ask, “What the heck happened?”
MLB's abysmal playoff coverage somehow finds a way to hit a new low
Taking their best customers fo💞r drooling, money-to-burn saps and gawkers of product logos attached to every sight has become MLB’s business model.
Playoffs can't keep MLB, networks from insulting their viewers
🥀꧒ This was a particularly difficult week to suffer what TV has become.
🙈 Greed has made a mess of MLB playoffs
�🍰� This time MLB, with its glut of follow-the-money qualifiers, seems eager to do it again unless the biggest-market Mets or Dodgers and/or Yankees, survive their managers.
There was nothing redeeming in Pete Rose's character
My only conve🌊rsation with Pete Rose came in the early 1980s, when he was with the Phillies. And he started it𒊎.
Ho𝓀w to fix insufferable NFL pregame shows
I harbor a desire to produce an NFL pregame show, one different from all the others as it would be — get this — interesting and entertain🐼i🍌ng.
Shohei Ohtani's historic season enabling MLB's money-first con
Unlike MLB, I’m not financially bound to believe aꦗnything declared by Manfred’s office.
NFL's mistreatment of fans creating once unfathomable ticket reality
There it was, last Sunday on Fox, during the Commanders-Giants game: an advertisement to purchase this season’s Giants tickets!𝐆 ꦫ
Sports world already has moved on from past concern for athletes' health
The “Never🅷 Forget” vow is tossed around quite a bit. In spor♔ts, however, it takes minutes — until the next pitch, punt or power play.
Uncivilized be🎀havior only making national referee epidemic worse
So give it some notice and thought Sunday, as you watch what TV and its NFL and MLB business par⛄tners continue to do to our sports.
Penn State, Notre Dame got just desserts🧸 ꦗfor taking on cupcakes
🦋A school and its money are soon parted. ﷽
Spo💖rts fans keep getting taken advantage of — in more ways than one
TV judge Simon Cowell was seen in a commercial during Friday’🅰s Yankees-Cubs on YES endorsing Domino’s Pizza. As if ... What money can’t do, it will.
♎ Sports TV keeps disrespecting viewers and 💙this week is no exception
💜 I had a sense of confusion over the weekend when CBS roll🐎ed out promos for its “new” NFL pregame show.
Rise of legal gambling helping fuel fans' ugly behavior toward athletes
What do you suppose has driven the escalation ඣof “social” media put-downs, threats and unfettered hatred that has been aimed at pro tennis players?
Sports TV remains bereft of dignity and common sense 🅷
Yes, I’ve become a grumpy old man. But what made me grumpy at 32 makes me grumpy at 72. There’s just now a lo🍬t more stuff to make me grumpy.
T👍oo many broadcasters have too much fluff rather than opting for silence
Ever con🌞sid💜er whether game announcers return home after games to review their recorded work?
ESPN's disgusting influence is infiltrating Little League World Series
It was revolting yet not surprising given that ESPN has so assiduously tried to devalu♛e and diminish the LLWS since it first aimed a speed gun at 12-year-old pitc🍬hers after...
What made 'Hawk Tuah Girl' first pitch for Mets even more shameful
It waꦍs Camp Day at Citi Field ꦺon Thursday afternoon, thousands of kids in the ballpark, So the Mets invited "Hawk Tuah" girl who had found sudden fame and following...
ESPN takeover sadly 🌟buries iconic radio network
Since I was a kid, we’d gone everywhere together. Camp, college, Cross Bronx Expressway. And I have no doꦗubt that WCBS News Radio 880 played a role in my desire...