Hondo’s unwavering faith in the Pope’s teams, which was tested after Wednesday and Thursday’s 1-for-3 outings, was rewarded last night when the Pontiff clicked with the Angels and Cardinals and clunked only with the exhausted Padres.

Today, with 505 alous in the account, His Aitch ness will stick with His Holiness – 10 units apiece on the Cardinals, Padres and Angels.

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Edward Lorenz, the father of the chaos theory, died Wednesday. The 90-year-old scientist pres ented a study in 1972 called “Predictability: Does The Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” A more appropriate title today would be “Predictability: Does a Woman in a Double- Wide Pantsuit Desperately Stumping for Votes in Pennsylvania Set Off an Earthquake in the Mid west?”

Apparently so.

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