* In allowing Opening Day to be postponed, the Yankees have once again made it clear they couldn’t care less about their fans. It did not rain Monday, it was misting at most and when they postponed the game the mist had already completely stopped. What an absolute joke! All of us who play this game have played hundreds of games in weather that is way worse than what was out there Monday. Just like the 2006 ALDS when they canceled Game 2 after making everyone wait two hours for the announcement (and their decision was based on a weather forecast that turned out to be dead wrong, because there was no more rain that night), they had another 56,000 fans spending their money on tons of merchandise and unbelievably low quality food and not even getting a game to enjoy in return. It’s pathetic to be treated like this repeatedly.
GEORGE MARC-AURELE
Manhattan
* The Yankees and their management deserve to be ripped for the way they handled Opening Day. A slight mist, and a rain delay, and then they postponed the game? From the time they called the game, it did not rain one drop! How about the poor slobs who drove three hours up and three hours back home just to sit in the rain for two hours.
JAMES SWISHER
Tinton Falls, N.J.
Trading down
* In response to Mike Vaccaro’s column on trades the Mets have made [“Mets fans drool at trade market,” The Post, April 3], while I agree to some extent that you have to take the bad trades with the good ones, it bears mentioning that Mets have dropped the ball more than once on trades fans will never forget. Sure, we can speak of the Gary Carter for Hubie Brooks, etc., and the Keith Hernandez for Neil Allen swaps, but let’s not forget the midnight massacre on June 15, 1977. That date is the worst of the worst, the day time stood still for all Mets fans. Tom Seaver was dealt to the Reds for Steve Henderson, Doug Flynn, Pat Zachry and Dan Norman. I still haven’t recovered from that debacle. If that wasn’t enough, how about these disasters: Lenny Dykstra and Roger McDowell for Juan Samuel, and Ron Darling for Tim Burke. It goes on and on.
KENNY CULLEN
Franklin Square, N.Y.
Melky masterpiece
* Very nice column by Joel Sherman on Melky Cabrera [“Melky leads the way,” The Post and nypost.com, April 2]. I watched the game on TV, but the comments about how many pitches Melky saw and the Bleacher-Creature note were very interesting in a well-written column. Nice job!
BOB BLUM
Syracuse, N.Y.
Bush league move
* It’s one thing for President Bush to throw out the first pitch at the Nationals’ Opening Night on Sunday. Presidents have been participating in Washington, D.C., season openers for decades. But with all the problems facing our country, and with friends of mine being shot at in Iraq, President Bush had absolutely no business yucking it up in the broadcast booth, during the game. It was ludicrous for baseball to allow itself to be co-opted as a partisan commercial, and disrespectful to the serious business of our nation.
JIM BURNS
Valley Stream, N.Y.
Jo-say what?
* Is anyone besides me getting sick of Jose Canseco and his slandering mouth? This guy is not just a disgrace to baseball but to society as well. Canseco didn’t write the book for the good of the game, but for the almighty dollar. I guess that’s our society giving this slime the right to make a living. And to make maters worse, the media continues to give this guy all the exposure he needs to endorse and sell his book.
TIM FARINA
Plantation, Fla.
Winning move?
* The Knicks hired a new team president to change the team’s culture. Well unless the new culture means winning championships on a regular basis, who cares? Save the ticker-tape parade until the Knicks can get the major talent they need to be a winner – but don’t hold your breath. The purpose of the salary cap is to see that that can’t happen.
PATRICK GRANT
Brooklyn, N.Y.