NEW YORK — Stumblebum that I am, I have stumbled across a situation whose level of egregiousness falls somewhere between Bernie Madoff and Bernie Goetz.

I haven't been this outraged since the dawn of self-service at the gas pump and the coffee counter, provoking an embargo of both.

But at least now we know the identities of the Hall of Fame committee members who annually stiff Dennis Johnson, Jamaal Wilkes, Red Kerr and Richie Guerin: