OK. The Giants were quite ugly last night. They were so bad, I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes. They just looked like they were jetlagged or something. I don’t know. When the entire football world is watching and then you lay a huge egg like the G-Men did last night, the Giants better come back on Sunday with an equally decimating victory or no one will be worried when they have to play the team from the Meadowlands.

Oh, one of the teams from the Meadowlands (I forgot that the Titans, no, the Jets play there, too).

But the Rangers won and are now 5-0. They beat the Devils at the Garden 4-1. While I am thrilled that the Broadway Blues are 5 and zip, that little sports devil in my head keeps reminding me, “Anthony, it is not how good they play when the season starts; it’s how they play at the end of the season that counts.”

The Phillies beat the Dodgers out in LA last night and now are one game away from the World Series.

Who would have thunk it? The Phillies, who nearly everyone here in the tri-state area wrote off months ago, are 9 innings away from making it to the Series. Mets fans aren’t happy.

What got to me in this series? No, it wasn’t the baseball acumen of either team.

It was seeing Don Mattingly in a Dodger uniform.

I wanted to puke.