The Pirates were heroic for Hondo last night, rallying beautifully in Arizona to sail past the Diamondbacks and elevate the earnings to a crisp 95 sotos.
Today, Mr. Aitch, working the day shift, will open with Bailey and the Reds over their arch-enemy in St. Louis. Next comes an afternoon delight, Moore or less, with the Rays. And finally, he is figuring on Zito to stone the Rockies. Ten units all.
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The “Cookie Monster,” aka Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez, was arrested in Times Square Monday for shoving and cursing out a two-year-old. Word is he was trying out some moves he saw on the Mike Rice video … Cops say there isn’t much they can do about the proliferation of marauding cartoon characters. Their only hope might be to catch them committing some heinous crime such as using too much salt or ingesting some trans fats … Speaking of SuperNanny Bloomberg, yesterday he drew some sort of convoluted parallel between the cartoon characters and the ’Crats and Republicans. Hondo hears the fuzzy fiends may sue him for slander.