Jeremy Lin, Explained

It’s pretty simple, actually:

“Whenever there was a Knicks game I would switch the channel because they were so bad,” [a Chinatown restaurant owner] said.

“Then, all of a sudden, there was a Chinese guy, and I flipped to the MSG channel and he’s playing so well.

“I put the game on every time they play now.”

Message To The Creepy Guy Living Off Of The Ditmars Stop Who Orders Victoria’s Secret Catalogs . . .

Councilmember Peter Vallone, Jr. has looked through your garbage and is so on to you:

Last week, the infuriated lawmaker took photos of the jammed can outside his office and posted them on Facebook.

Vallone and a staffer then donned plastic gloves to check the bag’s contents in an attempt to identify the culprit. They discovered a Victoria’s Secret catalogue with a man’s name and address on it.

“I have your last name and address. Expect a visit from Sanitation to your pigsty,” Vallone posted on his Facebook page.

What’s That Again About New York Being A Great Sports Town?

Then again, The Situation has had a better year than four-fifths of the Yankees’ starting rotation:

Despite a red-hot battle with the Red Sox for first place and the playoffs looming, viewers in the New York City TV market overwhelmingly prefer fist-pumping to foul balls, according to Nielsen ratings.

A look at the latest available local ratings found that from Aug. 8 to Aug. 11, Yankees baseball averaged 506,000 viewers with two games on YES and one on WWOR/Ch. 9 against the Angels.

The same week, Snooki & Co. snared about 848,000 viewers for MTV.

Hex Reduction Power: How Else Would You Explain C. C. Sabathia’s 1-3 Start?

The curse on the Yankees, previously thought to have been reversed, is apparently still active:

It has been more than a year since the team extricated a Red Sox jersey maliciously entombed in the new stadium’s concrete by a Boston-loving hardhat — yet the hole remains unfilled, and officials have no clue what to do with it, The Post has learned.

The Yankees were quick to shell out $50,000 to remove the David Ortiz shirt when word of its burial surfaced in April 2008 — yet all they have done since then is surround the now-empty 2-by-4-foot gap with railing and a piece of Plexiglas.

The team refused to discuss plans for the hole — which was dug into a service tunnel behind home plate and is not accessible to the public — but sources said a decision has still not been made.

A cop patrolling the corridor Friday said the team may turn the spot into some sort of exhibit.

Location Scout: New Yankee Stadium.

Oh Well . . .

. . . it was fun while it lasted:

The Yankees officially reversed the jersey curse yesterday — extracting from the new stadium’s concrete a David Ortiz shirt planted by a Red Sox-obsessed hardhat hoping to hex his team’s arch rivals.

Then they warned the traitorous construction worker, Gino Castignoli, to watch his back, saying criminal and civil charges could be on deck.

“I spoke with a [prosecutor]. There may be criminal issues,” Yankee Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost said.

. . .

Yesterday’s excavation alone cost the team $50,000, Trost said, even though the actual digging took two workers just 15 minutes.

The jersey was partially unearthed Saturday after five hours of digging at the site near a planned restaurant behind home plate.

It had been buried two feet beneath the surface.

. . .

Yankee President Randy Levine yesterday proudly held up the tattered shirt, which he said would be donated to Boston’s Jimmy Fund for auction to raise money for cancer treatment and research.

“We turned this dastardly act into a positive one,” Levine said. He lavished praise upon The Post for bringing it to the team’s attention.

“We want to thank The Post for raising this issue,” Levine said. “Two heroic construction workers gave us a tip where the shirt was, and we acted immediately.”

One of those workers, Frank Gramarossa, who led the removal, said: “I’m glad we got it out. I was angry and upset and wanted to find the jersey.”

Castignoli, a self-professed Yankee hater, yesterday said he had spent just one day on the site, working strictly to plant the jersey. “A lot of my friends work there, and they said it was easy work,” he said outside his Bronx home. “I told them I wouldn’t work there, but then one day a few months later, I said, ‘I could just go and jinx that stadium.'”