Hondo’s usual gloom and doom took a back seat to his broom Tuesday night as he swept with the Tigers and White Sox to reduce the IOUs to 1,085 hutchinsons.
Wednesday: Mr. Aitch, aka The Road Worrier, is counting on Fish to flog the Nats, Stauffer to cook the D’backs, and Bailey and the Reds to get their Irish up and cream the Dodgers. Ten units apiece.
Obama announced Tuesday he will keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after this year’s drawdown. The number would have been far less, but at least that many will be needed to protect the CIA station chief, whose name was released by the unnamed knucklehead in the White House. … If you get a chance, check out the video of 50 Cent throwing out the first pitch at Tuesday night’s Mets-Pirates game. It was either the worst throw since one of Obama’s weak attempts or he was working on his pickoff move to first. … Hillary writes in the author’s note in her book, “Hard Choices,” that she is “proud of what we accomplished” during her time as Secretary of State. She doesn’t say what the accomplishments were, so the mystery lives.