MLB

Hondo’s chalking up

The Angels were of no help whatsoever to slumping Hondo Monday night, getting beaten in Cleveland to push his skid to 1-for-11 and his accounts payable to a whopping 1,555 crosettis.

Tuesday night: Mr. Aitch will play his aces — 10 units on Tanaka to smoke the Jays and 10 on sure as shootin’ Scherzer to be a Royal pain.


It was a double victory for the U.S. at the World Cup Monday. Not only did the Americans beat Ghana, but, in an even bigger upset, Joe “The Gaffe Machine” Biden was in attendance and made it through the entire game without causing an international incident … Iran’s battle with Nigeria on Monday in the World Cup was the Billy Preston Game of the Day — Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

Obama, will be in the city Tuesday night for a fund-raiser, which is coming on the heels of his weekend in California, where he attended another fund-raiser and played golf. Not to worry, though, he is being kept up to date on the crisis in Iraq by National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who says both sides are serving with “honor and distinction.”