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I’d love to forward it, but would anybody really be listening? With Lupica, it’s a case of “it sells newspapers.” Besides, if the sportswriter thing craters, he’s always got a career as a writer of children’s books.

Lupica used to be somebody. He used to be brash, unsparing, unafraid, an “angry young man” sort of writer. He was engaging, on the money and entertaining. Lupica was like Dick Young before Young became convinced he was better than the people and the game he wrote about. As with Young, Loopy now believes he is better than the people he writes about and, what’s worse, he feels he’s bigger than sports. Now he’s Mr. Hamptons, Mr. Politics, another superficial lefty who has memorized the bumperstickers and slogans. He’s angry about what’s going on in this country, damnit, and he’s not going to keep quiet anymore. Who asked him?

Johnny Carson used to observe about performers that comedians all want to sing and singers all want to tell jokes. Maybe in Lupica’s mind if he can write passionately about sports he thinks he can turn to politics. I can see Lupica mouthing these words to himself in his mirror: “now more than ever this Country needs a voice like mine.” It’s a lesson to us all. Don’t forget where you came from and who you really are.

Dear Loopy Lupica: Trust me on this. You’re nobody, just another curious outsider with his nose pressed up against the window as far as the pols, the old Knickerbockers and the corporate bandits who run this town are concerned. Leave the politics to the other hacks and try to focus on sports again. If you’re burned out, just admit it and take some time off.

At this point, his Sunday column is no better than a parody of a Larry King column from the USA Today. With his shout outs to his family every week (anniversaries, birthdays, someone got a tooth pulled) to his plugging authors like he’s some kind of Oprah. There’s very little sports left in his “Shooting from the Lip” column and I think that’s how he likes it.

I think he fancies himself a bit of a Costas, hoping to shed the idea that he’s merely a sportswriter (I say merely because it’s he looks down on it, not sports fans) and he wants to become an authority on everything from politics to Paris Hilton.

I honestly haven’t read a full column of his in years. I usually check out about half way through it when you can decipher what his real agenda is.

Don’t know why he’s still a fixture in NY, but at the price he’s paid and the fact that newspapers are quickly dying off and becoming less profitable, it’s no long before he gets the axe.

Does anyone even read him? I look at his headline, snicker, and turn the page.