If you miss the baseball playoffs, catch the Times Square shuttle the next day instead.

In an advertising first for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, TBS is paying to air video clips from its Major League Baseball broadcasts in shuttle train cars….

Other straphangers said they’d tune the clips out.

“I’m not interested in baseball, so it doesn’t really mean anything to me,” Linda Stephens, 57, of Jamaica, Queens, said. “I just hope they don’t take this too far and bombard commuters with more advertisements.”

– Phil Corso and Pete Donohue, N.Y. Daily News.

You know, usually I think people should be entitled to their opinions even if I disagree with them, even if I think they’re wrong, even if they’re patently absurd. But if you’re not interested in baseball I’ve really just got no time for you at all.

And you, Linda Stephens, 57, of Jamaica, Queens, you’re just embarrassing yourself. Here’s a good idea, a way for the MTA to help keep fares low and provide straphangers with entertainment, and you’re poo-pooing it? For shame. For shame.

Also, who decries subway advertisements? I mean, I’ve never even considered complaining about that before, and I complain about lots of stuff. Do people really yearn for the halcyon days when subway cars had no ads? I always find them a reasonable last-ditch option for something to stare at on the subway if I don’t have anything to read, plus sometimes they actually inform me of stuff I might not have been aware of otherwise, like The Tudors or the existence of Miss Subways.

Thanks, Dr. Zizmor!