Three games, 47 runs? Is it the wind?

The new Yankee Stadium may be an aesthetic gem, but it appears the architects may have created a jet-stream effect because of the new seating arrangement.

It’s either that or the Yankees’ pitching staff is really, really bad.

After Cleveland scored 14 runs in the second inning en route to a 22-4 victory over the Yankees, the New York Post called the home team “Stinkees” on the front cover and added the following: Stadium: 1.5B. Payroll: 200M. Team: Worthless.

Wrote New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica: “Yankee pitchers gave up 15 runs to the Rays Monday, 10 to the Indians Thursday, 22 [Saturday]. You do the math, I need to lie down.”

Trivia time

Felix “Doc” Blanchard, who died Sunday, won the 1945 Heisman Trophy. How many games did he play in the NFL?

No rematch

When they were young, Reggie Miller and sister Cheryl would play one-on-one basketball, a series Cheryl eventually had to call off.

“When he got up, he kept getting up,” Cheryl told Sports Illustrated. “And up and up. All of a sudden he was 6-6.

“We went outside for our usual head-to-head game. I took first outs, blew by him like always and sailed in for the layup. As I was running under the basket, I heard this noise. Clang. I looked up, and the ball was still up there. So was Reggie. He had pinned it.

“I stopped in my tracks. ‘Uh, Red,’ I said, ‘How about a game of H-O-R-S-E?’ ”

Proposed ‘0-16’ logo

was turned down

The Detroit Lions unveiled a new logo and uniforms on Monday -- one week after being scooped by a toy truck.

Last Tuesday, a photo of the truck, stamped with the new logo, appeared on the website nflshop.com, at least for a brief period. By the afternoon, however, the new logo was replaced by a truck bearing the old emblem.

The new logo features a more menacing lion leaping into action. The team has also leaped into action, holding a clearance sale of old-logo merchandise -- merchandise only, not players -- on its online store.

Trivia answer

None. Blanchard was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1946 NFL draft but instead chose a career in the Air Force.

And finally

From Tony Augusty of the Detroit News, on Oscar De La Hoya’s retirement from boxing: “For now, De La Hoya said he plans to spend more time with his fists, which retired in 2007.”

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mike.penner@latimes.com