THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: Answers to your burning sports questions

Yep, I’m wondering about all manner of things.

You, too?

There are a million puzzles on the loose right now — one of which is the looming Super Bowl — and that signals my yearly bout of confusion.

Readers are invited to suffer gift-wrapped headaches, as well.

Let’s trip over a few items while we wait for some drama and screen passes, shall we?

I’m baffled by voting for baseball’s Hall of Fame, as usual.

Someone please explain the logic.

OK, I can live with Carlos Beltran, Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent as our new inductees —although Beltran was a ringleader in the Astros’ 2017 cheating scandal.

Kent wasn’t voted in by the writers, whom he treated like a bunch of dirt sandwiches, and needed one of several committees to earn a plaque.

But that’s only one of my beefs.

Tell me how a candidate’s percentage of votes changes so dramatically.

It’s crazy.

Dan Gartland of Sport Illustrated followed Jones’ path to Cooperstown, and it makes no sense at all.

“Jones very nearly missed his window to get elected by the writers. Support for him was minimal when he first appeared on the ballot in 2018.

“He received just 7.3 percent of the vote, clearing the 5 percent threshold necessary for inclusion on the following year’s ballot by just 10 votes.

“It was a similar story in ’19, when he appeared on 7.5 percent of ballots.”

Jones crawled up to 66 percent last year, and finally made it to 78 this time around (75 percent is the cut-off).

My question: How does a player get so much better in retirement?

Of course, this is the organization that is welcoming Beltran — a proven cheater — but won’t find room for Barry Bonds.

See you next year.

I do this column about senseless items around Super Bowl time because once we get close, silliness runs wild.

This year’s candidates are the Rams.

Los Angeles safety Kam Curl just couldn’t help himself. He left that little box of humility in the trunk of his car.

“We don’t think about that last game (Seattle’s 38-37 stunner for the NFC West title) too much.

“They got lucky and won it in the end. I feel like we’re the better team.”

Quotes like that one routinely come back to bite the author.

Deion Sanders is the only player who could make his boasts stand up.

Kam Curl has never been mistaken for Deion, as far as I know.

Meanwhile, L.A. wide receiver Davante Adams decided to chip in.

“We’re the best team in football when we’re doing what we gotta do,” Adams said.

“We just gotta go out and handle business.”

Anyone else have a thought?

Speak up, gentlemen.

Will the Mariners do it again?

Yes, we’re talking about Eugenio Suarez, the beloved (but unemployed) third baseman who remains available on the free agent market.

The M’s acquired Suarez as a throw-in when trading for flop Jesse Winker three years ago, let him shuffle off to Arizona and — who can forget? — traded for him again during last year’s pennant race.

Suarez and his booming bat (49 homers last year, including that dramatic grand slam at T-Mobile Park) change the dynamic of a lineup, but Geno is striking out more each year.

He can still play third and crush mistake pitches, so the Mariners MUST be thinking that their crop of kid infielders can maybe wait one more year.

Former Seattle manager Scott Servais once insisted that Suarez, despite the strikeouts, would be the guy he wants at the plate with a game on the line.

I agree.

Go ahead and pull the trigger, guys.

Geno could be your ticket to the World Series.

Were you guessing that Ismaila Diagne might be the key to Gonzaga’s bid for the Final Four?

Sure.

Same with Davis Fogle, and Mark Few’s cast of thousands.

Here’s the truth: If the Zags make the Final Four, Mario Saint-Supery will be leading the parade.

(Plus, Graham Ike and Braden Huff will be back in uniform.)

Duh!

Finally, can it get any crazier than Buffalo?

The Bills fire coach Sean McDermott after a 33-30 playoff loss in Denver.

So, would he still have a job if they’d won?

McDermott’s record (since you’re going to ask) was 98-50 with the Bills over nine seasons.

He inherited a team that hadn’t made the playoffs in 18 years and did it five times.

Explain it to me again.

Josh Allen lost the ball in overtime, meaning that McDermott forgot how to coach.

Proof from that one play.

Disgraceful.

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Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns appear in The Press three times each week, normally Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday unless, you know, stuff happens.

Steve suggests you take his opinions in the spirit of a Jimmy Buffett song: “Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On."