Hondo, whose debt dropped to 1,300 after Thursday’s Oakland win (not 1,350 as was reported), was done in by the Pirates’ bullpen Friday night, which caused the dirty digits to climb back up to 1,350 andujars.
Saturday: Mr. Aitch will go right at ’em with Adam — 10 units on Wainwright and the boys from Busch to chug past the Brewers.
“Clinton,” a musical satire of the 42nd President, will be part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival from July 18-26. Hondo isn’t sure what songs are used in the production, but suggests the following would be appropriate: “Easy To Be Hard” (from “Hair”), “I Hope I Get It” (from “A Chorus Line”), and Pink Floyd’s “Have A Cigar.”
BarkingMut of SoBe, the frequent contributor to Mr. Aitch’s weekly pigskin column, is wondering which team in the World Cup finals the surviving 90-year-old Nazi rats who fled Germany and took up permanent residence in Argentina will root for on Sunday.