Sports fans keep getting taken advantage of and in more ways than one

Tough 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.EXHIBIT A: Hey, you Jets financially faithful fools, how are your “good investment” PSLs doing under the buy-’em-or-get-out stewardship of Roger “It’s All About Our Fans” Goodell?Between now and Dec.

1, the Jets are scheduled to play only one Sunday home game in either the 1 p.m.or 4:20 late afternoon slot.Goodell and his minions of TV money droolers have determined that Aaron Rodgers, bless his anticipated shelf life, has established the Jets as a prime time team, thus ticket purchasers, and especially the double-suckered who bought Jets PSLs (long-term timeshares), can, again, go to hell.Yep, once you’ve exited around the NFL stadium-requisite drunk and disorderly — another profit center — enjoy the weeknight rides home after midnight.And then wake up to the compliant, bashful silence of a sports media that once was relied upon to protect fans from the likes of a Goodell.Or you can call Goodell in his office Sunday morning.

Offer to take, say, 25 cents back on every dollar you still owe on those “good investment” seat rentals.EXHIBIT B: Someday, and I hope it’s sooner than later, our sports commissioners are going to be subpoenaed to testify as co-conspirators in some of the deals they’ve certified and profited from.Last week, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection’s Gaming Division — “gaming” can be used as the honest title as in consumers being “gamed” by bad-odds gambling, or as a term of obfuscation as if bad-odds gambling is no different from playing no-risk Parcheesi — fined TV-saturated DraftKings $19,000 for what reasonable people would rate worth many more thousands of dollars in punitive sanctions.Here’s the deal: More than 500 Connecticut customers playing a DraftKings online slot machine tried roughly 21,000 spins for a payout of exactly zero...

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