Don’t get me wrong. This article is not about asking mercy for my team. And I won’t give any to any of the players or teams I can’t stand either. I’m looking at you, A-Roid.

This is a direct request to the “big” networks that cover sports after reading ESPN’s Le Anne Schreiber’s billiant article about the excesses of sports news coverage.

I’m a Red Sox fan. I make no effort to hide the fact, and I’m thrilled at seeing a Sox-Yankee game on a national network, because I live in Southern California and don’t get them locally. But at the same time, I understand the fans of other teams are puke-tired of looking at my boys. If you’re a Giants fan, or a Twins fan, or god help you, a Royals fan, I get that.

I’ve written a number of articles about the nauseating propensity of the sports networks to pick out a media darling and cram them down our throats. You can prop up Danica Patrick with as many lame bikini shoots as you want; she’s not hot, compelling, or a very good driver. You can announce that Favre is coming out of retirement yet again to shoot a commercial for JC Penny while actually throwing a completed pass; no one cares any more. I have so much Peyton Manning coverage/fawning in my frontal lobe, I feel like a turducken. And some of my own guys are the cause of this same angst for other people: Manny (Red Sox or Dodger), Tom Brady and his foot, etc.

My point is, I’m a Red Sox fan, and even I have had enough Red Sox-Yankees coverage. Enough. And we all get that the network is a business and the business relies on the ratings. . . yeah, heard that one.

There are 28 other professional baseball teams other than the fabled rivalry between Sox and Yanks. Would it kill a national network to put on a Cards game? It’s not that it’s bad to cover the Red Sox or one of the New York teams. . . what makes me mental is that it’s done to the exclusion of all the other teams.

I love baseball. And if its a good game, I’ll watch.

What about the rest of you?