New York ? Some Yankees fans aren’t worrying about Roger Clemens’ hand injury or Jason Giambi’s slow start to the season. They have a bigger concern: the cable TV business.

Three million customers in the nation’s largest TV market have not been able to see the Yankees on television because the team’s new cable network cannot reach an agreement with the area’s biggest cable company.

The YES Network will carry 130 of the team’s 162 games this season, and the dispute is enraging Yankees fans who are customers of Cablevision.

At WFAN, the all-sports radio station, more callers have been talking about “premium-tier” cable prices than upper-deck home runs.

“We even made a joke on the air this morning: ‘Maybe we can get a couple of calls about the game,”‘ program director Mark Chernoff says.

YES, owned mostly by George Steinbrenner and his partners, insists on being carried as a basic cable channel, which probably would mean a $2 monthly increase for Cablevision customers. Cablevision insists on selling YES as a premium channel like HBO, charging considerably more $8 to $12 but only for those who sign up for YES.

YES is losing $5.5 million a month in potential income, and Cablevision is losing customers to satellite TV. Cablevision’s stock has plummeted to a three-year low, trading at around $28 Thursday, compared with a 52-week high of $71. The battle seems to be at a stalemate, with no talks scheduled.