Hondo plunged deeper into the abyss last night when the Royals’ bullpen gave it up in Baltimore to inflate the deficit to 405 hutchinsons.

Tonight, Mr. Aitch will try again with Harang, even though he was bothersome to HondoNation last week. Ten units on the Reds.

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Connecticut Senate candidate Richard “Lying Dick” Blumenthal, who now admits he misspoke when he talked about serving in Vietnam, must have attended the George O’Leary School of Creative Resume Writing . . . Lying Dick and Ex-Blue Jays manager Tim Johnson might want to join forces and merge their imaginary foxholes . . . Say what you will about O’Leary, but he remains Notre Dame’s only undefeated football coach . . . Ind. Rep. Mark Souder, an advocate of abstinence, has resigned after admitting he had an affair with a young staffer. In fact, he was so pro-abstinence that he abstained from it.

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