Don’t You Know Who I Am? I Pitched In 78 Games For The Yankees In 2002 With An ERA Of 4.38!

It’s not so much the fact that this guy impersonated one-time Yankee Steve Karsay* as it is an indictment of the culture that affords special treatment to one-time Yankee Steve Karsay:

A waiter at a Midtown restaurant helped cops nab a con man who has been impersonating a former Yankee pitcher at eateries across the city, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

The man, who was not immediately identified, has been pretending to be former relief pitcher Steve Karsay for at least two years, authorities said. He was arrested at the Bryant Park Grill last night after the eagle-eyed server spotted the grifter.

“[The restaurant] was a favorite place of his and it finally caught up to him,” the real Karsay told The Post. “The staff was on to him for a while.”

The con man had tarnished the ballplayer’s image by impersonating him at various hot spots in the city, such as the posh Midtown eatery Tao, and at charity events, where he got drunk and started shamelessly hitting on women.

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The bogus ballplayer was spotted last winter at the Stand-up New York Comedy Club on the Upper West Side, where he interrupted the show by hopping over the bar, making out with a randomly chosen woman, and skipping out on his $100 tab, authorities said.

*Another first-round pick with so much promise that went so unfulfilled.