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He will be 90 in October and his speech is impaired, but if you donat stretch a bit to hear what Ralph Kineras saying, youare making a mistake.

Thursday afternoon on SNY, Kiner said David Wrightas extraordinary hitting this season is the result of standing closer to the plate, thus Wright is far more likely to identify low, outside breaking stuff that he fished for and missed in the past.

And, not that Kiner was going to tell us, but he is an expert on the subject. Consider:

With Pittsburgh in 1946, his rookie season, Kiner led the NL in home runs (23) and in striking out (109).

The next season, Hank Greenberg, his Hall of Fame career with the Tigers over a four seasons lost to WW II military service a was sold to the Pirates. Greenberg, who would become best man at Kineras wedding, began to mentor Kiner.

That year, 1947, Kiner went from 23 HRs and 109 strikeouts to 51 home runs and 81 strikeouts. He more than doubled his homer output while significantly reducing his strikeouts.

In 1949, Kiner led the league with 54 home runs, striking out only 61 times. In 1951, he hit a league-leading 42 homers and drove in a league-leading 124 runs a striking out just 57 times, half as many as his rookie season.

Wright is hitting .411 with 21 strikeouts this season, which puts him on pace for just 89 Kas in 150 games. At this rate, he will have his fewest strikeouts by far a fewer than his career-low 97 last year, while playing just 102 games.

Kiner also three times led the NL in walks, and a as he suggested during Thursdayas Reds-Mets, vis a vis David Wright, reaching first base a even when theyare pitching around you (Kiner, like Wright, rarely had a fearsome hitter batting next) it is preferable to striking out.

So when Kiner speaks, stretch a little. With all the nonsense now regularly pumped into our sports broadcasts, he knows what heas talking about.

aYankeeographya should be more well aReda

One more for old timeas sake:

Though we understand why YES predicates its aYankeeographya series on both the availability of footage, preferably color, and recent popular subjects, the positioning of YESa latest honoree, David Wells, as a Yankees great a ahead of so many from the distant past a should gnaw at fans with a genuine sense of team history.

For example, Charles Herbert aReda Ruffing, 1905-86, may be the most forgotten or ignored of Yankees greats. He not only was a superb pitcher a as a Yankee from 1932-46, missing three years to World War II, his pitching record was 221-117 a he was a tremendous hitter, six times hitting over .300 for the Yankees.

As a Yankees pitcher, he hit 27 home runs. In Game 2 of the 1937 World Series, Ruffing beat the Giants, 8-1, and went 2-for-4 with three RBIs. In 10 World Series starts for the Yankees, he was 7-2 with a 2.63 ERA.

He also became a Hall of Famer a and entered the Army at age 37 a despite losing four toes on one foot in a mining accident when he was a young man.

Yet, YES seems to have never heard of him. There is footage of Ruffing, photos, newspaper clippings. His son Charles, who lives near Philadelphia, is available to tell his fatheras story.

Wells twice became a Yankee, and pitched very well, but totaled just four seasons as a Yankee. Ruffing won 20 or more games for the Yankees in four consecutive seasons.

* Reader Matt Costello, Hartford, Conn., was in the gym Wednesday morning where, sans audio, he watched ESPNas Top 10 Plays from the night before, which included three Heat scoring plays/slam dunks. Not yet knowing who won Game 2 of Pacers-Heat in Miami, he reasonably concluded the Heat won.

Only later did he learn the Heat lost.

He had forgotten that on ESPN, context counts for nothing. Had the Heat lost, 125-6, but all six points came on reverse slammer jammers, those three baskets would have made the Top 10.

* Nets point man, marketing strategist and part-owner Jay-Z last week said he fully supported President Obamaas reversal to support same-sex marriages. Discriminating against gays, Jay-Z told CNN, is ano different than discriminating against blacks. Itas discrimination, plain and simple.a

Agreed.

Of course, CNN didnat dare ask Jay-Z why his rap songs have included hateful, vulgar references to homosexuals, including a Spanish slur for gays (not to mention violent, unprintably crude slurs of blacks and young women).

Yeah, I know, itas acultural.a Good for business, too. But be assured: Despite all the hateful lyrics he raps about women, gays, African-American men a how he makes his living a Jay-Z stands strongly against all forms of discrimination.

Nike was right for Pryce

Canat Make It Up Quote of the Week comes from ex-NFL defensive end Trevor Pryce, Clemson man, who appeared on Dan Le Batardas ESPN2 show. Asked what he most misses about football, Pryce said:

aThe thing I miss most is my Nike deal.a Freebies from Nike ais the greatest perk of the NFL. Forget the paycheck, free Nike stuff … Nike will give you a secure website and you get to pick whatever you want.a

Pryce added that every time his team lost aand I was depressed, Iad just get like 10 pairs of sneakers and some socks, and Iad feel better about myself.a

After retiring, Pryce said he was denied access to that Nike site. aThe saddest thing Iave ever seen in my life.a

* With Jays on first and second Thursday, none out, Jose Bautista batting, a 3-2 count, John Sterling went into a spiel as to whether the base runners would be off on the pitch. Next heard from Sterling was, aStrike three, swinging!a Were the runners going? He never said.

* Monday, here, I wondered why FOX play-by-player Rich Waltz, during Mets at Marlins, would report, aAnother big crowd here on a Saturday afternoona when it was obvious that so many of the better (expensive) seats were empty. Readers provided the answer: Waltz also calls Marlinsa telecasts.

* Obviously, James Dolan and John Tortorella attended the same charm school.

* Stanley Cup Lookalikes: Seth Jonas submits Devils coach Peter DeBoer and the late Andy Kaufman.

* Good question from reader Mitch Bompey: If that was a live, overhead view of Times Square NBCSN presented during Game 2 of Devils-Rangers, where were the 4-year-old pedestrian plazas? Or did they roll them up for the night to again allow vehicular traffic?

* No matter what you may read on Twitter under my name, or whatas Tweeted in response to something Tweeted under my name, I do not have a Twitter account. Never had one, nor have I ever Tweeted.

phil.mushnick@nypost.com

Itas pay-per-spew.

A vendor in the heart of Midtown Manhattan is selling bootleg anti-Semitic movies a with titles like aThe Synagogue of Satan: The Secret History of Jewish World Dominationa a for $5 a pop.

The cover of that hateful DVD a depicting a bleeding Star of David a and of another, with Jewish symbols imprinted on $100 bills, mimic book jackets. The discs inside are just as hateful as their covers.

aRothschildas Choice: Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the Plot to Murder Americaa is produced by Texas minister Texe Marrs, who has spouted his theories of aJewish influence and government controla with Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Marrs rants in the film about the influence of the Rothschild family extending ato the metropolis of Chicago in the state of Illinois where, incidentally, the ZIP code is 60606.a

The other disc contains a videotaped speech by the late, controversial Catholic priest John OaConnor, who preached that the antichrist would present himself to the Jews as the messiah.

aThis man will come out of Europe and will be Jewish, very intelligent, and the incarnation of Lucifer himself,a he said.

The 34th Street vendor (right), who identified himself as Ade Onabajo, was unapologetic about his offerings.

aPeople buy anything controversial,a he said, pointing to the $5 aBin Laden Killed Complete Season 2.a

And he will continue to sell them, he said.

aItas America. First Amendment. Freedom of speech,a he said.

It is a clichA(c) to say America is polarized, but that doesnat make it any less true. While there is no shortage of examples, the cultural divide over shame may be the most revealing.

Those aiming to take the shame out of accepting government handouts are represented by The New York Times editorial page. On Friday, it praised Gov. Cuomoas decision to prevent New York City from fingerprinting food-stamp recipients with its usual farrago of ideological assertions masquerading as facts and a demand that he do even more to open the entitlement floodgates.

Channeling the philosophy of Mitchell aCome And Get Ita Ginsberg, a 1960s welfare commissioner in Fun City, the Times turns shame upside down. It believes there is something wrong with any eligible American who doesnat grab all he can. It also argues that saying no to Uncle Samas handouts is a dereliction of the duty to turn other peopleas money into a permanent stimulus.

Citing Cuomoas claim that there are 1.4 million eligible New Yorkers not taking food stamps, the paper says, aThat leaves more than $1 billion in federal dollars unclaimed for people who would spend that money in the state.a

Notwithstanding the rise of obesity, the Times sees an epidemic of hunger. A stroll on any street suggests that hunger is hiding under layers of fat.

On the other side of the fault line, those who believe old-fashioned shame still plays an important role in fostering individual responsibility often find support on The Wall Street Journalas opinion pages. So it was Friday with author Warren Kozakas column headlined aFood Stamps and the $41 Cake.a

In a coincidental rebuttal to the Times, Kozak described standing behind a woman in an expensive store who used food stamps to pay $41 for an ice cream cake. aI quickly calculated that the womanas cake was eight times more expensive than the kind I make at home to celebrate birthdays,a Kozak wrote.

There is no dispute that America should take care of those who canat take care of themselves. The argument is about whether the handouts are too freely dispensed and what impact they have on society and individuals.

Some 46 million people now get food stamps, or 15 percent of the US population, up 5 percent in the last year. Arizona is the only state that requires finger imaging.

The numbers in the city are even more dramatic a 1.8 million people on the rolls, about 22 percent, even as the city alone in New York requires finger imaging.

City food-stamp recipients have increased by 600,000 in four years. Part of the spike stems from the recession, but also from an Obama administration decision to waive asset limits. You can be a millionaire and get food stamps if your actual income is below the limits, which go up to $45,000 for a family of four with child-care expenses. The average monthly food-stamp benefit for four is $624.

The growth of the rolls earned the city a aHunger Championa award from the White House. Yet Cuomo ordered the end of finger imaging because it is a astigmaa and a abarriera to others who might be deterred by the anti-fraud measure.

It is a measure, by the way, required of government employees and, increasingly, of workers for private companies, too. Somehow, job seekers overcome the stigma.

Mayor Bloomberg, noting the acceptance rate among eligible people is higher in the city than elsewhere in the state, says finger imaging acertainly hasnat pushed people away.a

He added that aestablishing who you area is not demeaning, and said the program saves federal taxpayers $5 million a year; he predicts abuses will grow when the program ends.

Under Cuomoas plan, that will happen in July. Already, he is being pushed to go the next step and remove finger imaging for welfare recipients, a program started by his father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, a liberal lion of his era. If nothing else, the demand shows the leftas gains in the war against shame.

Warren Kozak identifies the damage of those gains. He asks in his Journal essay how America went from being the worldas greatest engine of upward mobility to being trillions of dollars in debt.

He answers his own question: aOne $41 cake at a time.a

Wright and wrong

For those scoring at home, hereas the latest evidence of a double standard in the presidential race.

Itas fine and dandy for The Washington Post to plaster on its front page a 50-year-old Mitt Romney high-school prank, and itas kosher for Team Obama to focus on an isolated steel-plant closing during Romneyas private-equity days to argue heas a greedy job killer.

But any plan to drag the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the mix would be ahatefula and adivisivea and stir up racial animosity, even though Wright was Obamaas pastor, mentor and spiritual leader for 20 years, until 2008.

So it goes in the boiler rooms of the Obama protection racket.

Of course, just because something is legitimate doesnat mean itas advisable, and so an outside group supporting Romney rejected a proposal to make Wright the focus of an ad campaign after Romney strongly criticized the idea. That was probably the right call, because Obamaas record as president is more relevant and what the military would call a atarget-rich environment.a

Still, it rankles that Wright should be off-limits because any use of his ties to Obama would be automatic proof of a racial attack. A ban effectively says his race confers immunity, even though their association goes to a non-racial issue a the character of the president. All the more so because Wright recently told author Ed Klein that he was offered $150,000 by an Obama friend to remain silent in 2008.

As a test, flip the situation. Imagine Romney had a religious mentor who cursed America and said 9/11 was a case of aAmericaas chickens are coming home to roost.a After the media floored Romney for not protesting, do you think it would ever let him get up?

Me neither.

Crossing the Del-O-ware

President Obama as the new Zelig? Thatas how one reader sees him after reports the White House inserted notes on Obamaas policies in the bios of former presidents. aIam really surprised the pundits have not linked Obamaas latest escapade with Woody Allenas great movie aZelig,a where he inserts himself into every great moment in US history,a William Firshein writes. aIt would be laughableif it werenat so narcissistic.a

One for the abook

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a college dropout who, at the advanced age of 28, is worth about $20 billion. Not to be jealous or anything, but isnat it all downhill from here?

Wed and let wed

My teenage daughter cleverly spots the best slogan of the moment: aIf you donat like gay marriage, donat get gay married.a

It is a clichA(c) to say America is polarized, but that doesnat make it any less true. While there is no shortage of examples, the cultural divide over shame may be the most revealing.

Those aiming to take the shame out of accepting government handouts are represented by The New York Times editorial page. On Friday, it praised Gov. Cuomoas decision to prevent New York City from fingerprinting food-stamp recipients with its usual farrago of ideological assertions masquerading as facts and a demand that he do even more to open the entitlement floodgates.

Channeling the philosophy of Mitchell aCome And Get Ita Ginsberg, a 1960s welfare commissioner in Fun City, the Times turns shame upside down. It believes there is something wrong with any eligible American who doesnat grab all he can. It also argues that saying no to Uncle Samas handouts is a dereliction of the duty to turn other peopleas money into a permanent stimulus.

Citing Cuomoas claim that there are 1.4 million eligible New Yorkers not taking food stamps, the paper says, aThat leaves more than $1 billion in federal dollars unclaimed for people who would spend that money in the state.a

Notwithstanding the rise of obesity, the Times sees an epidemic of hunger. A stroll on any street suggests that hunger is hiding under layers of fat.

On the other side of the fault line, those who believe old-fashioned shame still plays an important role in fostering individual responsibility often find support on The Wall Street Journalas opinion pages. So it was Friday with author Warren Kozakas column headlined aFood Stamps and the $41 Cake.a

In a coincidental rebuttal to the Times, Kozak described standing behind a woman in an expensive store who used food stamps to pay $41 for an ice cream cake. aI quickly calculated that the womanas cake was eight times more expensive than the kind I make at home to celebrate birthdays,a Kozak wrote.

There is no dispute that America should take care of those who canat take care of themselves. The argument is about whether the handouts are too freely dispensed and what impact they have on society and individuals.

Some 46 million people now get food stamps, or 15 percent of the US population, up 5 percent in the last year. Arizona is the only state that requires finger imaging.

The numbers in the city are even more dramatic a 1.8 million people on the rolls, about 22 percent, even as the city alone in New York requires finger imaging.

City food-stamp recipients have increased by 600,000 in four years. Part of the spike stems from the recession, but also from an Obama administration decision to waive asset limits. You can be a millionaire and get food stamps if your actual income is below the limits, which go up to $45,000 for a family of four with child-care expenses. The average monthly food-stamp benefit for four is $624.

The growth of the rolls earned the city a aHunger Championa award from the White House. Yet Cuomo ordered the end of finger imaging because it is a astigmaa and a abarriera to others who might be deterred by the anti-fraud measure.

It is a measure, by the way, required of government employees and, increasingly, of workers for private companies, too. Somehow, job seekers overcome the stigma.

Mayor Bloomberg, noting the acceptance rate among eligible people is higher in the city than elsewhere in the state, says finger imaging acertainly hasnat pushed people away.a

He added that aestablishing who you area is not demeaning, and said the program saves federal taxpayers $5 million a year; he predicts abuses will grow when the program ends.

Under Cuomoas plan, that will happen in July. Already, he is being pushed to go the next step and remove finger imaging for welfare recipients, a program started by his father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, a liberal lion of his era. If nothing else, the demand shows the leftas gains in the war against shame.

Warren Kozak identifies the damage of those gains. He asks in his Journal essay how America went from being the worldas greatest engine of upward mobility to being trillions of dollars in debt.

He answers his own question: aOne $41 cake at a time.a

Wright and wrong

For those scoring at home, hereas the latest evidence of a double standard in the presidential race.

Itas fine and dandy for The Washington Post to plaster on its front page a 50-year-old Mitt Romney high-school prank, and itas kosher for Team Obama to focus on an isolated steel-plant closing during Romneyas private-equity days to argue heas a greedy job killer.

But any plan to drag the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the mix would be ahatefula and adivisivea and stir up racial animosity, even though Wright was Obamaas pastor, mentor and spiritual leader for 20 years, until 2008.

So it goes in the boiler rooms of the Obama protection racket.

Of course, just because something is legitimate doesnat mean itas advisable, and so an outside group supporting Romney rejected a proposal to make Wright the focus of an ad campaign after Romney strongly criticized the idea. That was probably the right call, because Obamaas record as president is more relevant and what the military would call a atarget-rich environment.a

Still, it rankles that Wright should be off-limits because any use of his ties to Obama would be automatic proof of a racial attack. A ban effectively says his race confers immunity, even though their association goes to a non-racial issue a the character of the president. All the more so because Wright recently told author Ed Klein that he was offered $150,000 by an Obama friend to remain silent in 2008.

As a test, flip the situation. Imagine Romney had a religious mentor who cursed America and said 9/11 was a case of aAmericaas chickens are coming home to roost.a After the media floored Romney for not protesting, do you think it would ever let him get up?

Me neither.

Crossing the Del-O-ware

President Obama as the new Zelig? Thatas how one reader sees him after reports the White House inserted notes on Obamaas policies in the bios of former presidents. aIam really surprised the pundits have not linked Obamaas latest escapade with Woody Allenas great movie aZelig,a where he inserts himself into every great moment in US history,a William Firshein writes. aIt would be laughableif it werenat so narcissistic.a

One for the abook

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a college dropout who, at the advanced age of 28, is worth about $20 billion. Not to be jealous or anything, but isnat it all downhill from here?

Wed and let wed

My teenage daughter cleverly spots the best slogan of the moment: aIf you donat like gay marriage, donat get gay married.a

Itas pay-per-spew.

A vendor in the heart of Midtown Manhattan is selling bootleg anti-Semitic movies a with titles like aThe Synagogue of Satan: The Secret History of Jewish World Dominationa a for $5 a pop.

The cover of that hateful DVD a depicting a bleeding Star of David a and of another, with Jewish symbols imprinted on $100 bills, mimic book jackets. The discs inside are just as hateful as their covers.

aRothschildas Choice: Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the Plot to Murder Americaa is produced by Texas minister Texe Marrs, who has spouted his theories of aJewish influence and government controla with Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Marrs rants in the film about the influence of the Rothschild family extending ato the metropolis of Chicago in the state of Illinois where, incidentally, the ZIP code is 60606.a

The other disc contains a videotaped speech by the late, controversial Catholic priest John OaConnor, who preached that the antichrist would present himself to the Jews as the messiah.

aThis man will come out of Europe and will be Jewish, very intelligent, and the incarnation of Lucifer himself,a he said.

The 34th Street vendor (right), who identified himself as Ade Onabajo, was unapologetic about his offerings.

aPeople buy anything controversial,a he said, pointing to the $5 aBin Laden Killed Complete Season 2.a

And he will continue to sell them, he said.

aItas America. First Amendment. Freedom of speech,a he said.

Itas pay-per-spew. A vendor in the heart of Midtown Manhattan is selling bootleg anti-Semitic movies a with titles like aThe Synagogue of Satan: The Secret History of Jewish World Dominationa a for $5 a pop. The cover of that hateful DVD a depicting a bleeding Star of David a and of another, with…

Itas pay-per-spew. A vendor in the heart of Midtown Manhattan is selling bootleg anti-Semitic movies a with titles like aThe Synagogue of Satan: The Secret History of Jewish World Dominationa a for $5 a pop. The cover of that hateful DVD a depicting a bleeding Star of David a and of another, with…

Itas pay-per-spew. A vendor in the heart of Midtown Manhattan is selling bootleg anti-Semitic movies a with titles like aThe Synagogue of Satan: The Secret History of Jewish World Dominationa a for $5 a pop. The cover of that hateful DVD a depicting a bleeding Star of David a and of another, with…

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