The emails arrived consecutively, Friday.

The first was from Dave Kaplan, curator of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center on the campus of Montclair State University.

Kaplan wanted to spread the word that the Yogi Museum, this Wednesday, will host its second seminar for parents, coaches, college and high school players on “Why Sportsmanship Matters.” Among those scheduled to speak are former Devils captain Bryce Salvador, Giants linebacker Devon Kennard and author, editor, sportsmanship advocate and son-of-Bob, Rick Wolff.

Good stuff.

The next email was like having your team’s 80-yard TD called back — upsetting but hardly surprising. TV had done it yet again:

Turner TV has hired recently retired Kevin Garnett, one of the most vulgar, antisocial, bottom-feeding NBA players, to serve as a “Special NBA Contributor.” No doubt he’ll use his richly undeserved forum to distinguish for us good from bad, and what’s wrong with the world, sports and otherwise.

Garnett’s résumé as a professional lout is extensive. He has been involved in unprovoked highly personal, cruel and crude name-calling hassles with many players, including teammates. Joakim Noah, Carmelo Anthony and even the most gentlemanly of NBA gents, Tim Duncan, were among his selected targets.

Dallas forward Charlie Villanueva, afflicted with alopecia universalis, which causes full body hair loss, claims Garnett tried to provoke him by mocking him as looking “like a cancer patient.”

Nine times TNT’s newest hire was ejected from games — not disqualified with six fouls, but ejected for acting like a creep. Nine times.

But this is the bag we’re in; no better ideas, no sense of responsibility or accountability to the sports TV purchases and a fan base that’s presumed to prefer the malevolent.

And we can run, but we can’t hide.

On a United flight back from Chicago, Tuesday, the in-flight airlines feature — a tour of United’s hangar facilities — starred FS1’s Katie Nolan, host of the appropriately titled “Garbage Time.”

Perhaps Nolan was chosen because of her vulgar tweets and smirking, look-how-low-I-can-go eagerness to attract the desensitized young males by rhyming Mets with “Tourette’s.”

Anyway, this Wednesday at the Yogi Museum, a seminar on sportsmanship. If it ain’t over ’til it’s over, it’s very close.

What game are Buck and Smoltz watching?

What can I tell you beyond repeating the absurd canard, “The game has changed”? I know. I saw it, too. How could you miss it?

At 1-0, Cleveland, Game 3 of the World Series, two out, no one on in the bottom of the seventh, the Cubs’ Jorge Soler hit a high fly down the right-field line, then stood, watching. Next, beginning to suspect that the ball just might be in play, Soler jogged to first.

Even if FOX’s Joe Buck and John Smoltz didn’t fully grasp it or hoped that we didn’t, you know the rest. Soler wound up on third, with a two-out triple. Might he have scored to tie the game had he run all the way? We’ll never know. But it was certainly possible. Anything was possible, including a wild, whirling relay to the plate.

And so the Cubs lost, 1-0.

The insults to the good senses were staggering. Soler was seen standing on third smiling! Buck suggested Soler might’ve scored had he run all the way, but then excused Soler on the preposterous grounds that he was “surprised” the ball wasn’t foul. Smoltz, the analyst? He said nothing, nothing!

Two things taken from this postseason.

1. Joe Maddon, heralded as a peerless manager for pulling the most from his players, hasn’t. At least nine times this postseason, Cubs have foolishly languished near the plate to gauge if it was worth their time to run to first.

2. Those “edgy,” unfunny promos for FS1’s Skip Bayless-versus-Shannon Sharpe debate show seem to advise that anyone with anything better to do — rake leaves, leave rakes — avoid it.

Having watched Curtis Granderson before games willingly and pleasantly engage fans, home and away, as a Yankee and then as a Met, his Roberto Clemente Award for doing right by The Game brings added honor to the honor.

Working radio of Game 3 of the World Series, ESPN’s Dan Shulman had to stop what he was calling to tell listeners that the half-inning before Jorge Soler’s throw to third to nail Rajai Davis was commercially sponsored and arrived at 93.3 mph.

Game 3, two out, bottom of the ninth, Cubs down, 1-0, runners on second and third. Buck alertly notes Cleveland’s outfield is playing deep when “a base hit out of the infield likely wins it for Chicago.” Why? Analyst Smoltz says nothing.

College telecast slipping into parody

Saturday’s West Virginia-Oklahoma St. FOX telecast was so overwhelmed by genuine, new-age pigskin gibberish — so bereft of sensible, applicable plain talk — it seemed like satire.

With OSU third-and-6 on the WVU 30, play-by-player Joe Davis: “Let’s see if the Mountaineers can figure a way to get off of the field.” Of course, he could’ve gone with “stop them” or, better yet, given the self-evident, chosen silence.

And why say “first down” when you can say, “moves the chains”? A needs-no-explanation straight-ahead run? That became “They run it straight downhill!”

A WVU end-around for 21 yards was explained by analyst Brady Quinn: “They’ve been setting this one up all day.”

Fascinating. Having baited OSU all day, WVU waited until it was down, 27-17, with 10:45 left, to spring the trap!

Play-by-player Beth Mowins, during Penn St.-Purdue on ABC/ESPN, first noted that with WVU losing, Baylor would be the only unbeaten team in the Big 12. Next, she reported Baylor’s staggering admission that 17 women have alleged to be victims of sexual assaults, domestic abuse and gang rapes by Baylor football players since 2011, with this:

“Of course, the off-field issues continue to swirl around the Bears as they try and [sic] move forward.”

And that was that; she covered it all! Now back to more college football, Baylor-Texas to follow, right here on ABC!

Sunday during Jets-Browns, CBS’s Kevin Harlan noted that Cleveland running back Isaiah Crowell played at Georgia “before transferring to Alabama St.” He left out the part that Crowell was thrown out of Georgia after he was arrested on felony weapons charges.

Big Ten Network’s Dan Kelly, Friday, at the end of a field hockey telecast: “Northwestern, a convincing 4-3 win over Michigan State.” I’m convinced!