Apparently it wasn’t such a good day for a Brew and a ‘dog after all. The Brewers added to Hondo’s financial misery yesterday when they were Busch- whacked by their Arch-rival to raise the debt to 785 radatzes.

Tonight, he’ll roll the dice against Matsuzaka and the Sawx with a 10-unit play on the Rays.

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If the price of a pack of cigs keeps going up, it won’t be long before the poor smokers don’t have enough money left over to pay for their funerals. . . . Joe “The Gaffe Machine” Biden has been dispatched to Iraq to try to bring an end to the impasse between government factions. That should work. Chances are the two sides will hear so many offensive remarks they’ll be united by their thorough disgust for the bumbling Veep. hondo@nypost.com