Hondo’s financial foray into the All-Star Home Run Derby ended in misfortune last night when he whiffed with Hart and Wells to nudge the nasty number to 1,120 callisons.

Tonight, recent history suggests the Junior Circuit might be the way to go in the annual Mid-Summer Flaccid Classic — 10 units on continued domination.

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Good news for soccer lovers: 700 million tuned into Sunday’s final between the Netherlands and Spain, making it the most watched World Cup game in history. On the down side, it also set the record for most fans bored to tears by a sporting event . . . A group of linguists have voted “Vuvuzela” as the Word of the World Cup. Hondo would have voted for “nil” . . . The Swiss yesterday denied the United States’ request to extradict Roman Polanski, which wasn’t all that surprising. If they were neutral on the Nazis, what were the chances they’d get tough on a guy who committed statutory rape? hondo@nypost.com