The impurrfect Tigers gave up a late 5-run lead yesterday in Minnesota, choking like a kitten on a fur ball and causing Hondo to cough up some of his hard-earned disposable income.

Today, with 220 brobergs in hand, he’ll tap into the Brewers’ hot streak with a 10-unit Gallardo play.

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Aptly named Kimberly Shanks has been indicted in Dallas for shanking her husband Charles to death last year because he turned up the volume during an NBC telecast of Football Night In America. Some suggest it may have been the shrill and obnoxious voice of gasbag of all gasbags Keith Olbermann (aka Uberdork) doing the day’s highlights that drove her to do it … Nancy Pelosi has a good excuse for denying she was told back in ’02 the U.S. had used enhanced interrogation techniques on prisoners, even though several reports have contradicted her. Word is, on the day she was informed, she was extremely groggy from a procedure in which a surgeon used enhanced lifting techniques on her face.

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Hondo’s picks for the Preakness can be found a few furlongs away on Page 87.

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